#Prince Vultan

[chernobog13]

The always entertaining Brian Blessed as Prince Vultan, leader of the Hawkmen (no, NOT them guys from Thanagar) in the 1980 film Flash Gordon.

Blessed's over-the-top performance, and the overall costume design, were the few bright spots in this otherwise dreadful film.

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Flash Gordon (1980)

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One Dress a Day Challenge

August: Fantasy & Sci-Fi

Flash Gordon / Brian Blessed as Prince Vultan

You've got to hand it to Brian Blessed and the other Hawkmen actors: this is the sort of costume that can't be worn timidly. It must be worn with gusto or else it will utterly defeat its wearer. And they pull it off, wings and all. Interestingly, they're actually wearing slightly more than their comic counterparts (see below).

Prince Vultan's costume has some extra features that denote his rank. He has a fancy helmet with the badge of the hawkmen, showing crossed wings inside a star, and two tall horns? lightning bolts? stylized feathers? He also has a more substantial breastplate with another variation on the badge (crossed wings in front of a beaming sun). The breastplate appears to be made of leather, with overlapping scales in gold and deep brown.

[deadbeatescape]

pokemon types the flash gordon characters would have

flash gordon: normal + electric

dale arden: normal

dr. hans zarkov: psychic

prince vultan: flying + fighting

prince barin: grass

ming the merciless: fire

princess aura: dragon

general klytus: steel

general kala: dark

[thetownsendsw]

Been looking through Spelljammer since last night and had a few space-appropriate character race reskin ideas: Kindori Aasimar, Gray Alien (w/ Vedalken stats) Space Clown Tiefling, Aarakocra inspired by Flash Gordon’s Prince Vultan, Murder Comet Genasi, and Lunar Dragonborn

[supermaurice]

With Brian Blessed as himself.

[unforeseen-idiot]

Prince Vultan

My boys

[marzena-doe]

The Royal Five don’t want to endanger Earth and want to go back to Mongo. Vultan agrees but he wants to help Castra. She is supposedly to have died.

April and Krotan are falling in love and yet April realizes that something does not feel right. Meanwhile, Jedda decides Krotan can only ever be a friend to her.

Aura and Barin say their desperate goodbyes. April’s boyfriend contacts the Royal House of Ming. Ming sends his troops to Earth. The Royal Five show up and Hadea uses her mind control to suggest Castra got killed. Vultan escapes with Castra. The Royal Five get imprisoned but Ming doesn’t stop his troops. He wants Earth anyway.

April’s boyfriend realizes what he has done. Amy tells Rick the truth. Phantom, Mandrake and Flash and their families decide to join Barin in the fight against Ming’s army.

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Okay Queenies! All 88 91 polls are up now! They're each open for one week, so by this time next Sunday (3/3) Monday (3/4), they will all be closed. Here's the list of all Round One polls. Now's the time to spread the word, scatter them to the tumblr winds. Feel free to argue your choices' cases in the meantime!

Great King Rat / It’s A Beautiful Day (Reprise)

Crash Dive On Mingo City / Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon

Who Wants To Live Forever / Let Me Live

Stone Cold Crazy / Fight From The Inside

Escape From The Swamp / In The Lap Of The Gods

My Life Has Been Saved / I Want To Break Free

Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy / Hang On In There

We Are The Champions / Friends Will Be Friends

I Was Born To Love You / Cool Cat

Princes Of The Universe / The Night Comes Down

The Ring (Hypnotic Seduction of Dale) / Don’t Try Suicide

Arboria (Planet Of The Tree Men) / Brighton Rock

Keep Passing The Open Windows / The Invisible Man

Under Pressure / Calling All Girls

Crazy Little Thing Called Love / The March Of The Black Queen

Dreamer’s Ball / Tenement Funster

You’re My Best Friend / Flash To The Rescue

Don’t Lose Your Head / Seven Seas Of Rhye

I’m Going Slightly Mad / Get Down, Make Love

In The Lap Of The Gods… Revisited / Spread Your Wings

Funny How Love Is / Fun It

Misfire / All God’s People

Action This Day / These Are The Days Of Our Lives

Sheer Heart Attack / God Save The Queen

The Hero / Body Language

Ride The Wild Wind / In The Space Capsule (The Love Theme)

Made In Heaven / The Loser In The End

‘39 / Modern Times Rock ‘N Roll

Sweet Lady / One Year Of Love

I Can’t Live With You / Leaving Home Ain’t Easy

Need Your Loving Tonight / Delilah

Pain Is So Close To Pleasure / Las Palabras De Amor (The Words Of Love)

Jesus / Chinese Torture

Football Fight / Save Me

In The Death Cell (Love Theme Reprise) / The Kiss (Aura Resurrects Flash)

One Vision / The Miracle

Father To Son / Don’t Try So Hard

Fat Bottomed Girls / Liar

Who Needs You / Marriage Of Dale And Ming (And Flash Approaching)

Khashoggi’s Ship / You Don’t Fool Me

Bicycle Race / Battle Theme

Vultan’s Theme (Attack Of The Hawk Men) / Dear Friends

Tie Your Mother Down / It’s A Hard Life

I Want It All / Flash’s Theme Reprise

White Man / Dancer

Radio Ga Ga / Bijou

Gimme The Prize / Bohemian Rhapsody

Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To…) / Dead On Time

Scandal / I’m In Love With My Car

Back Chat / Tear It Up

Some Day One Day / More Of That Jazz

The Millionaire Waltz / Breakthru

You Take My Breath Away / My Melancholy Blues

All Dead, All Dead / Man On The Prowl

Untitled / Now I’m Here

Jealousy / Flash’s Theme

Somebody To Love / You And I

Sleeping On The Sidewalk / It’s A Beautiful Day

The Hitman / Execution Of Flash

We Will Rock You / In Only Seven Days

Another One Bites The Dust / Staying Power

Too Much Love Will Kill You / My Fairy King

Is This The World We Created…? / Don’t Stop Me Now

Seaside Rendezvous / Machines (or ‘Back To Humans’)

Sail Away Sweet Sister / Keep yourself alive

No One But You (Only The Good Die Young) / Teo Toriatte (Let Us Cling Together)

Love Of My Life / A Kind Of Magic

Party / Headlong

Rain Must Fall / Mustapha

Ogre Battle / I Go Crazy

Mother Love / Doing Alright

Put Out The Fire / The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke

Nevermore / Lily Of The Valley

Procession / White Queen (As It Began)

Hammer To Fall / Seven Seas Of Rhye [unfinished]

Bring Back That Leroy Brown / The Wedding March

Was It All Worth It / Killer Queen

It’s Late / If You Can’t Beat Them

Flick Of The Wrist / Play The Game

Rock It (Prime Jive) / Innuendo

Thank God It’s Christmas / The Prophet’s Song

Long Away / My Baby Does Me

Coming Soon / Son And Daughter

A Winter’s Tale / Heaven For Everyone

The Show Must Go On / Ming’s Theme (In The Court Of Ming The Merciless)

Life Is Real (Song For Lennon) / Drowse

Dragon Attack / Let Me Entertain You

Good Company / She Makes Me (Stormtrooper In Stilettos)

Mad The Swine / Soul Brother

Hijack My Heart / A Human Body

Lost Opportunity / Stealin'

[beardedmrbean]

Square-Enix's translation of Tactics Ogre is usually really good, but there's one noticeable error. The Vartan class, only available to the winged race, should be Vultan. It's named after Prince Vultan from Flash Gordon, who is a bird-man.

I don't know that I'll ever be able to properly express how much I love Brian Blessed.

This is a man who belongs on the stage at the Globe theatre in London doing every high Shakespeare play that has ever existed and we get him playing Prince Vultan, King Richard IV on Blackadder, and voicing Boss Nass.

Also Queen didn't need to go as hard as they did on the soundtrack for this one, but I'm glad they did.

[gurumog]

Flash Gordon (1980) Columbia–EMI–Warner Distributors / Universal Pictures Dir. Mike Hodges

Max von Sydow as Emperor Ming Timothy Dalton as Prince Barin Brian Blessed as Prince Vultan Peter Wyngarde as Klytus Adrienne Kronenberg as Vultan's Daughter

[chernobog13]

Vultan (Brian Blessed), Prince of the Hawkman, from Flash Gordon (1980).

I very strongly dislike this film, but I will admit that some of the casting was spot on (even if the actors were given crap to work with), and the costume design is phenomenal.

[achillestickler]

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Last week, I broke out the Humiliator for yet another pop star: Shawn Mendes. His sensitive bare feet are tickled until he’s in...”stitches”. Get it? On a side note, I think this is the best hair I’ve ever drawn. Also that week, a look back at “Thrown to the Wolves” which was a request from a friend who wanted to be tickled BY furries. A gang of anthropomorphic wolves tickles him into a frenzy!

This week I drew one of the reasons I become a bear chaser: Prince Vultan. The winged warrior is trapped in Klytus’ dungeon and is wickedly feathered on his big bare feet by his own feathers! Will Flash arrive in time to stop “Vultan’s Torment”? Also this week, a drawing I did for a friend who was a big fan of Daniel Dae Kim on Lost. Jin is bound in the jungle and left to be tickled by the wispy tentacles of the “Smoke Monster”. 

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[RERUN] FLASH! AH-AHHHHHHHHH! (conclusion)

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PREVIOUSLY ON...

Flash Gordon, Dale Arden, and Hans Zarkov have traveled to the planet Mongo to attempt to save the Earth from Ming the Merciless, who will crash the moon into  the  Earth in (by Zarkov’s estimate) about 14 hours. Prince Barin of Arboria has joined Flash in his quest, and together they defeated Ming’s chief advisor Klytus. In retaliation, Ming has imprisoned Dale, Zarkov, and Barin. He then made an offer to Flash to join him to save the Earth, but...well, the clip that begins the conclusion of our story will explain the rest.

(Thanks to Fandango Movieclips)

(Was there any doubt he’d escape?)

Meanwhile, Vultan and the Hawkmen have retreated to Arboria. (you’d think the Arborians would be pissed at them, given how Vultan captured Barin, then allowed him to be imprisoned by Ming...) Vultan is wishing he’d have saved Flash and the others in hindsight.

Naturally, that’s when Flash contacts Vultan and lets him know what happened. Vultan agrees to pledge his people to help Flash defeat Ming.

Meanwhile at Mingo City, Dale is being prepared for her wedding (hopefully under armed guard, given how she skipped out on Ming’s last booty call) when for some reason Aura is tossed in the room as well. (shouldn’t she be in a cell somewhere?)

After a brief pillow/cat fight, Aura convinces Dale that she’s a prisoner as well, and tries to convince Dale to murder Ming on their honeymoon, but Dale takes the high road (despite the fact that she knows Ming will go back on his word to spare Barin and Zarkov if she cooperates)

Outside Mingo City, Flash approaches on the rocket cycle (is he lost?), prompting the city’s weapons to open fire. Fortunately, they have the accuracy of “elite” troops from a certain other Empire.

Flash retreats as General Kala orders the military to send out one or their warships, Ajax, to kill him and bring back proof it actually happened this time (making her the smartest member of the Mongo military)

Ajax chases Flash to a large cloud. Ajax then charges the cloud with enough electricity to kill him...

...if he was actually hiding in the cloud and not on the other side of it with the entire Hawkman army. Finally, the captain of the Ajax is tired of waiting and goes in after Flash. I’m sure he wasn’t too pleased when he saw what was on the other side.

(Thanks again to Fandango Movieclips)

With the main hull now breached, Flash and Vultan easily take the rest of the ship.

Back and Mingo City, Aura manages to escape (because Ming’s soldiers are idiots) and free Barin and Zarkov.

She then rushes back to the wedding so as to not arouse suspicion from Ming as Zarkov and Barin work to take over the military command.

Back at the Hawkman horde, Flash has taken command of Ajax. Vultan reveals his plan to use Ajax as a flying bomb to destroy Mingo City’s defenses so his army can fly in unmolested. 

Flash sets a timer with how much time Earth has left (is there really anything left worth saving at this point?)

Once again, I’m gonna set a real-time timer to see exactly when Earth dies as opposed to when it’s “saved” (I mean, even if Ming is defeated, how are they getting the moon back into orbit? Who’s gonna pay for all the restoration that will need to be done? This and more will be revealed...wait, never mind. There’s no cliffhanger this time, since Sam Jones walked out and all plans for a sequel were scapped as a result) on-screen. My handy-dandy run-time meter has the movie at...

...which means the Earth dies at 1:40:14. So let’s get this final battle started!

Back at Mingo City, the wedding ceremony has started. Who knew “Here Comes the Bride” was the traditional wedding song across the cosmos?

(Flash’s timer says 15 seconds have passed, but my timer says 27 seconds...)

Imperial shuttles have a banners that read...

That Ming really knows how to host a shindig!

In the Command Center, Kala suspects something is amiss as Ajax approaches (again, smarter than the entire Imperial army) and immediately orders all defenses to shoot down Ajax.

The defense field covering the city is keeping those at the wedding from seeing what’s happening, so Kala lets everyone know nothing is wrong...move along.

Vultan tells Flash to set the auto-pilot so they can get out in time. Unfortunately, Flash realizes the enemy fire is too heavy and the only way Vultan can bail out and lead the attack is for him to stay at the controls to provide cover for Vultan.

Back at the Command Center, Barin and Zarkov gain control, killing Kala in the process.

The pair learn that Ajax is about to be destroyed against the city’s defense field and that Flash is aboard, so Barin heads to weapons control as Zarkov tries to do something from there.

(It should be noted that my timer says the Earth has been dead for about a minute)

Finally, Ming makes his appearance and the ceremony can commence. Ming utters vows that clearly show what Ming thinks of the sanctity of the institution of marriage.

Back on Ajax, Zarkov’s timer says the Earth has been dead for over a minute a minute and 47 seconds remaining...

At weapons control, Barin takes over and shuts down the field. You can imagine the look of shock and horror on Ming’s face when, from at least a mile away, he somehow sees Flash at the controls bearing down on him.

In fact, let’s see the 4 minutes or so after the Earth’s death Flash save the Earth at the last second...

(Once again, thanks to Fandango Movieclips)

The escort bot (remember that from Part 2?) informs Flash that the Earth is saved (well, the moon didn’t crash on it anyway...

...although by my timer that happened 5 1/2 minutes ago)

Vultan unilaterally declared Barin the new ruler of Mongo. Seeing as he has an army to back up his words, no one argues. Barin orders an end to all the fighting between the Kingdoms.

From there, we reach the end of our story...

...though there’s a hint that it might not be over. (Given that Jones walked out before shooting ended, I would say yes, it’s over.)

Even (Especially!) with effects that were cheesy back then, the film is a fun ride, especially with von Sydow and Blessed completely going over-the-top in their roles (then again, Brian Blessed is always like that...)

I hope you enjoyed!

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Brian Blessed as Prince Vultan - Flash Gordon (1980)