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soranatus · 2 years

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Exclusive Interview with “My Adventures With Superman” Animated Series Co-Producer Josephine Campbell

Q: Clark and Lois are described as being in their 20s in “My Adventures With Superman,” how new are they to their jobs at the Daily Planet?

A: Clark, Lois and Jimmy are interns just starting at the Daily Planet – so they are incredibly new! We wanted to play with our characters’ origins, showing them at a stage of life most “Superman” media hasn’t fully explored. Plus, we love the idea of watching these three learn and grow to become the icons we all know.

Q: If you had to compare “My Adventures With Superman” to any previous version of the Superman story, which would you say it’s most like or draws most inspiration from?

A: Our North Star was the 1978 “Superman: The Movie,” especially the interplay between the incredible Margot Kidder and Christopher Reeve. We loved their chemistry; we loved how smart and feisty Lois was, and loved the heart and altruism of Reeve’s Superman/Clark Kent. The movie was clever, fun, and modernized Superman in a way that felt organic to the time period, while also respectful of what came before. It truly is one of our favorite pieces of Superman media.

Outside of the classic ’78 movie, I and Co-EP’s Jake Wyatt and Brendan Clougher are all kids of the ’80s/’90s, so we’re also influenced by John Byrne’s “Man of Steel,” as well as the work of Jurgens, Bogdanove, and Simonson.

Q: What age group is “My Adventures With Superman” targeted at?

A: Much like the original 1978 film, we’re aiming for a wide co-viewing audience, where kids, teens, and adults can all sit down and watch together.

Q: What can you tell us about Jack Quaid’s interpretation of both Superman and Clark Kent?

A: Jack has been absolutely phenomenal to work with! He’s got great comedic timing as Clark, but he is also able to sell the kindness, strength, and dignity of Superman. It’s been a real privilege to work with him – and it’s also very funny to watch “The Boys” after a record. I really can’t look at Clark OR Hughie the same!

Q: Michael Emerson revealed that he’s voicing the role of Brainiac for the upcoming animated series, how much will we see of Brainiac? Will he play a large role in the series?

A: Michael is an incredible actor who we are excited to work with – I can’t say anything more outside of that!

Q: I believe a certain criminal “gang” will play an important role in the first season of “My Adventures With Superman” with a bit of a twist on the villains involved. Did you make a conscious decision to put your own spin on the villains who would show up on the series?

A: I can’t confirm what villains or characters people should expect to see. All I can say is that, overall, we were looking to modernize Superman while keeping true to the core of the characters, and we hope we’ve done that.

Q: With all the turmoil and upheaval at Warner Bros. Discovery in recent months, how concerned were you about “My Adventures With Superman” possibly being canceled?

A: We were very fortunate to learn early on that “Superman” would still be coming out on Cartoon Network and the app as planned. Mergers are always tumultuous, but we’re glad that we still get to bring our love for Superman to fans old and new.

Q: When will the series premiere on Cartoon Network?

A: No date has been announced as of yet, but stay tuned!

Q: What are you most excited for fans to see in “My Adventures With Superman”?

A: There’s a lot I’m excited for fans to see! I can’t wait for fans to see the relationship between Lois, Clark and Jimmy – these three are the heart of our show, and their friendship and adventures together drive the series and the character arcs for both season one and two.

I’m also especially excited for fans to see the romance between Lois and Clark unfold! Alice Lee and Jack Quaid have fantastic chemistry, and they bring so much humor and warmth to their characters. Lois and Clark/Superman are one of our culture’s most iconic and enduring love stories, so it was deeply important to us to give that part of the Superman mythos a lot of love and attention.

I’m excited for you guys to see the incredible action – we have a LOT of fun with Superman, his powers and his rogues gallery, and we went all out, 110% on every single fight in the show.

Lastly, I’m excited for the show to come out because I’m a huge Superman fan too! Working on Superman has been a dream come true, not just for me but for every single member of our crew. People came into work with their favorite Superman comics and movies to share with each other, screened the Fleischer Studios cartoons during lunch, and dug up the audio of the original Superman radio show from the ’40s to listen to as we wrote and drew. I and everyone on the show adore Superman in all his forms, and I can’t wait to share with you our version of the Big Blue Boy Scout.

Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, “My Adventures with Superman” introduces us to twenty-somethings Clark Kent, the bright and driven Lois Lane and their best friend Jimmy Olsen as they begin to discover who they are and everything they can accomplish together as an investigative reporting team at the Daily Planet. Promising a mix of action, comedy and romance, the new series is expected to premiere some time in 2022.

Described as a serialized coming-of-age story, “My Adventures with Superman” will follow Clark as he builds his secret Superman identity and embraces his role as the hero of Metropolis—and perhaps the world. Lois, now growing into a star investigative journalist, takes aspiring photographer Jimmy Olsen under her wing. All the while, Clark and Lois are falling in love, sharing adventures, taking down bad guys, stumbling over secrets and discovering what it means to be Superman and Lois Lane.

Source: Superman Homepage!

#dc comics #dcau #animation #cartoon #superman #clark kent #lois lane #jimmy olsen #news #my adventures with superman #maws #long post

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romancomicsnews · 1 year

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Who should play Lex Luthor in the DCU?

With the DCU casting its red caped hero last month as David Corenswet in Superman Legacy, the Man of Steel's archenemy feels just around the corner.

While nothing is confirmed, names like Nicholas Hoult, Alexander Skarsgard, and Bill Skarsgard have been rumored for the role.

While I have no problem with any of these actors or these Luthors, I feel we can do better.

So before James Gunn throws out a name that will likely break the internet, I thought I'd pitch my three ideas for The DCU's Lex Luthor. Unlike my last fancast (shameless plug for My Flash Fancast Article), I have one actor who I think truly stands beyond the rest.

But first, as always, let's answer a few questions:

What performances are we looking to emulate?

Much like the Man of Steel himself, Luthor has a number of appearances across DC media, including animation, film, and live action television. So unlike my Flash article, I will not be going through all of them, even the main ones.

While I don't think any performance has been perfect, I think there are several we can draw from to create a better Lex.

I'm going to try to remain positive and only look at performances I appreciate, so instead of dunking on Jesse Eisenberg for 45 minutes, I'll just say quickly: He's doing a real good Mad Hatter in Batman vs Superman.

1. Michael Rosenbaum - Smallville

There's a lot to love from this one.

Unlike most iterations of Luthor in media, Rosenbaum begins the series an ally to Clark, even a friend. Luthor is confident, smart, but has a likeability to him I think we have lost in more recent interpretations. All those aspects should be brought over to the DCU.

We need someone who you could believe the city loves almost as much as Superman.

Rosenbaum also had a physical presence and voice to beat. He projected strength, and felt like someone who could throw hands if he needed to.

Finally, his anger and rage were bubbling just beneath all that. He could snap at a moment's notice, and in those moments is where you see the villain. That's what I want from my Lex, someone who mastered masking his demons.

2. Clancy Brown - Superman the Animated Series, Justice League & Justice League Unlimited

If it wasn't for Rosenbaum, this would be my definitive Lex Luthor.

Clancy Brown has never misunderstood the assignment, as he plays a much more aggressive and fiercer Luthor in the DCAU.

What I love about this Luthor is his ability to become a bigger threat from season to season. Making deals with Darkseid, giving speeches to Amazo, and even fusing with Brainiac, this Luthor could hang and outsmart the best of them.

While he was a little quick to anger in my opinion, this Luthor had that same strength and confidence I absolutely love in Rosenbaum.

Something inbetween these two may make the perfect Luthor.

3. Jon Cryer - Arrowverse

While there is a huge gap between two and three, I think there is a lot to love about Cryer.

While he is harder to take seriously than the other two, he does show off one thing the others don't, the fun of being the richest, smartest person in the room.

Cryer always felt like Luthor was having fun toying with heroes. Only when he dealt with the Girl of Steel did he really go off the rails.

Do I want a performance as hammy or out there as Cryer? Not necessarily, but someone who can do a little comedy may be fun here.

What ethnicity is Lex Luthor?

This one doesn't have a definitive answer.

While in most iterations of the character he appears to be white, in Justice League/Justice League Unlimited, some fans speculate he is a person of color, specifically black.

I have mixed feelings on changing a villain into a person of color, as that can have its own implications, especially when their hero wears Red and Blue.

I do think leaving Lex Luthor as an only white character can take away from the depiction. Luthor sometimes is a self made man, and making him a person of color who clawed his way through oppression only to be seconded by another white man could be an interesting take.

Again my feelings are mixed, but for now I'm going to say either way works.

Any other stipulations?

Yes, a few.

For one, I will not bring back an actor who played him before, so I'm sorry Rosenbaum fans, maybe next time.

My Luthor will be either A) a friend to Superman of the same age or B) a mentor like figure, still a friend though, at least for the first movie. So age range is anywhere between 30-50.

Unlike Superman, Luthor's are usually played by actors with a name. Jesse Eisenberg and Gene Hackman both are heavy hitters, so I will be looking for actors of similar caliber.

I also don't want to go with actors who have been or are known for different superhero roles. That doesn't mean they can't have ever been in a superhero movie (hint hint) but we're not getting Downey Jr.

If they are bald that is a plus, but not necessary.

Again I think these picks all can do it, but I really love my number 1 pick.

3. Jason Bateman

This one will probably take the most convincing but think about it.

Known for his wide ranging work such as Ozark, Arrested Development, Game Night & Air, Bateman is a comedic and dramatic force.

At 54, Bateman is my oldest Luthor, but I think he can emulate better than anyone else on this list the fun of Cryer.

I have a few problems with this casting. While he has a great calming voice, I don't know if it's Luthor. It can be sinister, and it can be friendly, but I don't know how confident it can be.

My other main problem is this Luthor doesn't seem like he can fight. I think this Luthor would feel more like someone who needs the mech suit.

Overall I think this is a fun cast and would be a little unexpected, and a challenge for Bateman. But one I think he could nail.

2. John David Washington

If we want a cool, strong, and same age Luthor to befriend Superman, I think John David Washington slides into this very well. At 38, Washington still looks like a passable 30.

Known for his roles in Tenet and Malcolm and Marie, Washington I think is our best bet at emulating Rosenbaum. The swagger, the look, and the dangerous presence bubbling beneath the surface.

My main problem with casting Washington is always the same, does he fit better elsewhere?

Washington is such a versatile actor, he sometimes feels like a blank slate. Would he better suited for Cyclops? Green Lantern? An older Firestorm? Who is to say.

In any case, I'm sure he'll be casted in one of these sooner or later, but Luthor may be an example of right place, right time for Washington.

1. Sterling K. Brown

Several years ago, I saw an episode of Brooklyn 99, which to this day is my favorite episode, where Jake Peralta and Captain Holt try their absolute best to get this killer to admit his crime or slip up.

He is so intelligent, suave, and calm, that they are unable to break him, until they hit the right nerve, and the bubbling anger boils so hot, he admits everything.

That is Lex Luthor.

And that is Sterling K Brown.

Known for hit shows like This is Us, The People vs OJ Simpson, the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and movies like Black Panther and Waves, Sterling K Brown may be the most underrated actor working today.

Brown has an intensity about him that screams Luthor. He can play likeable and caring like Rosenbaum, he can reach that rage and intensity that Clancy Brown nailed, and have the fun of Jon Cryer.

Brown also has a kindness that reads extremely genuine. You'd get the sense in another world, this Luthor would be a hero.

At 47, he's old enough to be a mentor to Clark, but still feel formidable, especially with his current physical build.

Brown's Luthor I can see as a staple character for the DCU, appearing as an overarching puppet master, leader of villainous teams, tormentor of many heroes, or even uneasy ally when greater threats emerge.

No matter where they take Luthor as a character, Sterling K. Brown is the right pick to menace the DC Universe for years to come.

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d-criss-news · 2 years

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Jensen Ackles Returns as Batman in Legion of Super-Heroes' Trailer

Jensen Ackles and Darren Criss return as Batman and Superman, respectively, in the first trailer for the DC animated film Legion of Super-Heroes.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has released the first trailer for Legion of Super-Heroes, featuring the returning voices of Jensen Ackles and Darren Criss as Batman and Superman, respectively.

The trailer focuses on Superman's cousin Kara/Supergirl (played by The Winchesters' Meg Donnelly) struggling to adjust to her new life on Earth after the devastating loss of Krypton. This leads Criss' Superman to suggest that she leave their space-time to train with the Legion Academy, "the future's Justice League," in the 31st century. The Legion of Super-Heroes' official synopsis adds that Supergirl will make both "new friends and a new enemy: Brainiac 5" while contending "with a mysterious group called the Dark Circle as it searches for a powerful weapon held in the Academy’s vault."

Legion of Super-Heroes will be the sixth entry in the Tomorrowverse, a collection of animated DC films sharing a cohesive animation style and continuity. The shared universe began in 2020 with its namesake Superman: Man of Tomorrow and has continued with Justice Society: World War II, Batman: The Long Halloween, Parts One and Two (all 2021) and Green Lantern: Beware My Power (2022). The franchise is the successor of the DC Animated Movie Universe, which launched with 2013's Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox and ended with 2020's Justice League Dark: Apokolips War.

Uniting the Tomorrowverse's Justice League

Legion of Super-Heroes will mark the first time fans get to see Ackles' Batman and Criss' Superman interact following their respective Tomorrowverse debuts. Although unconfirmed at this time, both actors are expected to return for Justice League: Warworld, the seventh film in the new DC animated timeline, which is expected to release in 2023 after Legion of Super-Heroes. While plot details for the upcoming crossover film are under wraps, Warworld will presumably see the DC Universe's greatest superheroes fight Mongul, the ruler of a planet-sized satellite known as Warworld.

The Legion of Super-Heroes voice cast also includes Matt Bomer as The Flash, reprising his voice roles as the Justice League member from previous DC animated films, Harry Shum Jr. as Brainiac 5, Cynthia Hamidi as Dawnstar, Gideon Adlan as Phantom Girl, Ely Henry as Bouncing Boy, Yuri Lowenthal as Mon-El, Victoria Grace as Shadow Lass, Daisy Lightfoot as Triplicate Girl, Jennifer Hale as Alura and Eric Lopez as Cosmic Boy and Chemical King. Darin De Paul, Ben Diskin, Zeno Robinson and Robbie Daymond also star.

Jeff Wamester (Green Lantern: Beware My Power) directed Legion of Super-Heroes from a screenplay by Josie Campbell (Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous). An exact release date is not yet available for Legion of Super-Heroes, but the animated film is expected to hit digital and home video in early 2023.

#darren criss #cbr.com #jensen ackles #meg donnelly #harry shum jr #matt bomer #dc's legion of super-heroes #tomorrowverse #press #nov 2022

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dragon-snoots-a-boopin · 6 months

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In a back to back sense, I also recently played Injustice 2. As always, please remember that everything here is my own opinion based on my experience playing the game. Disagreeing and discussion is welcome, just be kind about it.

As with the first game, the story is very well written and very well told and, again, is the entire reason that I wanted to play the game. I am not going to go into spoilers here but it does continue pretty much where the first game leaves off. Worth it to play and experience the story if you ask me. With that, Injustice 2 is a definite graphics upgrade from the first and definitely looks a lot more cinematic over the first game.

A minor thing that does bug me is the two voice actor changes in The Flash and Green Lantern but, Green Lantern is the most noticeable and bugged me the most. GL in this game is voiced by Steve Blum and, as much as I love that VA (Transformers Prime Starscream), his voice just doesn't fit GL if you ask me.

Speaking again on difficulty here and I don't know what happened in the four years between games but I found this game a lot more difficult than the first, even on the same difficulty. I played both games story mode on very easy and there were some fight in this game I had to do multiple times before getting through them. I know this will be a slight story spoiler and I'm sorry but I have to say that the two times I had to fight Brainiac was not easy, even on very easy. As Superman, I didn't beat him until the third attempt and as Batman, I didn't beat him until the second attempt and that is super frustrating.

Injustice 2 has about 33 characters that are new and not in the first game. Those are:

Supergirl

Reverse Flash

Jay Garrick's The Flash

Poison Ivy

Starfire

Black Lightning

Atrocitus

Gorilla Grodd

Blue Beetle

Deadshot

Black Canary

Swamp Thing

Cheetah

Vixen

Scarecrow

Doctor Fate

Firestorm

Captain Cold

Mr. Freeze

Enchantress

Hellboy

Atom

Darkseid

Red Hood

Power Girl

Sub-Zero

Grid

All Four Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

I am going to be honest, some of these do not make a lot of sense to me. Injustice is a DC Comics thing. Now, like with the first game, I understand the addition of MK characters like Raiden and Sub-Zero. But, what I don't understand is the inclusion of Hellboy and the Ninja Turtles here. There are 14 characters that are only in the first Injustice that don't appear in this game so why not include some of them? Instead of Hellboy, why not add Raven and then you could have almost all of the Teen Titans in the game? Instead of the Ninja Turtles, why not grab Scorpion, Batgirl, Zatanna & Doomsday?

Okay, to explain my next point, I have to tell you that unlike in the first game, Injustice 2 uses Motherboxes of varying rarity as means to get gear for your characters. Yes, gone are the days where I can just select a character, press Y and select an alternate costume for them. For Injustice 2 character have head, leg, arm and something unique to each character, like for Robin, is his sword. You also have two ability slots, an augment slot and the shader slot. So, in keeping with my example, if I want Cyborg to look different, I have to play modes that reward me with Motherboxes to open and hope that I get gear for Cyborg and that's not something I am a fan of because it's not guaranteed. Yes, there are augments that will increase the rate of reward geared towards your equipped character but, it doesn't increase the rate all that much. Either way, I much prefer the more simple way that the first game deals with alternate costumes for characters.

Something I don't get is why some characters are like hidden away under the shader slot for other characters. What do I mean? This:

Reverse Flash is a shader for The Flash.

Jay Garrick's The Flash is a shader for The Flash

Vixen is a shader for Cheetah

Mr. Freeze is a shader for Captain Cold

Power Girl is a shader for Supergirl

Jon Stewart's Green Lantern is a shader for Green Lantern

Black Lightning is a shader for Raiden

Bizzaro is a shader for Superman

Grid is a shader for Cyborg

This really doesn't make all that much sense to me. The only ones that I think this would make sense is in the case of Green Lantern, Jay Garrick's The Flash, Bizzaro and Grid. Otherwise, Reverse Flash, Vixen, Mr. Freeze, Power Girl and Black Lightning should be their own characters on the roaster and not as shaders for other characters.

Still on the topic of characters and also about the fact that Injustice 2 also has a very bad grind to it that the first game did not have. See, in the first game, you just had your profile level that would increase with each fight won. For Injustice 2, not only do you have you profile level, but each individual character has their own level and can be leveled up to 30. When I looked this up, I found that you'd have to do over 100 fights per character to get them fully leveled up. Given that Injustice 2 has around 38 characters, that's anywhere between 3800 & 4000 fights that one would have to do to get every character fully leveled up. That is just insane and I really don't think that anyone would do that. Pretty sure most people would only fully level their favorite character they main so but, either way, the grind is pretty bad.

A really minor thing is that the first game actually has more stages than this one. Injustice: Gods Among Us has 15 stages where Injustice 2 has 12 stages so, that's a little disappointing. Something I wonder is like, if they're going to include character from MK and other characters like Hellboy and the TMNT, why not make some unique stages for those characters? Would have been a cool idea.

I managed to get exactly what I wanted from this game and that is a really good and well told continuation of the story from the first game. Yes, this game is a lot more difficult, it has loot boxes and the grind is bad but the game is graphically way better and it has more characters. Injustice 2 is a good and enjoyable game that, like the first one, I recommend getting this game only when it's on sale for like $5.

#the dragons speaks #video games #DC #DC Comics #dcu #dc universe #justice league #injustice gods among us #injustice 2 #netherrealm studios #fighting games

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bearpillowmonster · 9 months

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I was trying to think of what DC characters I would have the Smallville characters play if they were to ever reappear. I'm all for new actors to portray them but I started to like some of these ideas.

Tom Welling - He played Supes so it's kind of hard given that he's the lead role, even Henry Cavill I can't see playing another character in Marvel or DC, so what about a villain? What if he was like Brainiac or someone he would've fought against in his old show. Court of Owls would be nice for him on the opposite side of the spectrum though.

Kristin Kreuk- I really want to say Martha Kent just so we can keep the the "Old Lana Lang plays Martha" like Annette but as old as Cornswet is, I'd say it's improbable. Phantom or Saturn Girl could work, she'd be involved with the Legion that way.

Jon Schneider - Edit: I found one. Pariah!

Annette o Toole - I could see her being Lara as a bit of a twist or maybe even like the Wonder Twins' mom on Exxor. (not to typecast her as a mom though)

Michael Rosenbaum - He's played the Flash as well as Lex so he has enough range, but I don't see him in either of those roles now. I'd like for him to be the glasses guy but- wait! The Atom!

Erica Durance- Whoever she wants. Hippolyta? Maybe be Tom Welling's partner in crime like a Mercy type character?

#smallville #dc #dcu #cinematic universe #fancast #recast #not that i want all the old actors

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owtfg4ia · 10 months

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The moral bankruptcy of this generation brings me great despair. Despite the great amount of information out there, never have the highly educated appeared more idiotic. Instead of reading reliable sources of history and seeking to discover truth, many are happy to just jump on the misinformation bandwagon perpetuated online. Maybe books are too thick, too dry to sustain these dumbed down pretend brainiacs who are only used to TikTok, YouTube shorts— their primary source of information.

Spend time reading and you’ll see how history itself doesn’t support the rhetoric pushed by one group against another. It isn’t rocket science. It just requires a real desire to see for yourself what has been recorded for our reference and understanding. However I guess whilst it has become morally affront to question the gender claims of a men who claims he is a woman, it has become morally affront too to call Hamas a terrorist organisation. We can see this from the rush by key news outlets refusing to call them terrorists, choosing instead to call them ‘militants’ or ‘freedom fighters’…

We all know from reading the mission statement of these brutal men who are extremists, that they want to establish an Islamic Caliphate where Jews and Christians have no part in, and anyone who does not accept Islam as their religion will be targeted. Not sure about you, but whilst I’m ok about living with moderate Muslims, one cannot possibly tolerate the hate and threats voiced out by their extremist brothers and sisters of the faith.

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Listening to the heads of some of the most prestigious universities in America speak about how calling for the genocide of Jews is only considered harassment based on context is RIDICULOUS. The word GENOCIDE and that it targets a specific race of people (it could be blacks, whites, asians and it would just be as appalling) is already context enough, intention enough.

In their rush to please the woke masses, in their fear and perpetuation of the most ridiculous cancel culture, the heads of the universities and the heads of states in many countries are afraid to call what is wrong. Nothing can justify rape. Absolutely nothing.

Freedom fighters, that is what they claim to be, should not even be raping anyone since their priority should be military. Yet we read accounts of pelvis shattered by brutal gang rape, sexual assaults, subjecting young hostage victims (young boys) to watch over and over again the massacre and rape that took place on Oct 7. How does one justify this act of cruelty and evil as being acceptable?

Fight if you must, but this is dirty, cruel, vile, vicious, corrupt… and done in the name of their religion? I have Muslim friends in my part of the world and I’m thankful that is not what they were taught, but I wonder if they struggle with reconciling the truth that they have been told and the actual truth that is coming out from hostages right now… or perhaps they are susceptible enough to believe all the world is a stage, and the victims are all actors.

This whole war plays out like a larger version of the court room drama between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp. The Amber Heard of Gaza gas lighting the Jewish Johnny Depp.

The brutal rape and gang rape of innocent civilian women and girls who are murdered before, after or even in the midst of the act itself sickens me. Some pregnant women had their stomachs cut open, their babies torn out of their wombs and shot… these scenes remind me of the atrocities of WWII. Read what the Japanese did during the Japanese occupation… this is basically history repeating itself today…

#thoughts

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monstermaster13 · 2 years

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Personal Character TF Moods: Tim Burton, Horror characters, Dan Aykroyd characters, half-human-half-non-human characters.

Favorite TF Mood: Tim Burton characters and horror characters but Aykroyd characters too.

Most Cursed TF Mood: Donald Trump, okay it's not actually THE Donald Trump but a fictional version of him as a monster who is one of my character's evil sides, but besides Trump…Smithy from Gavin and Stacey because well…James Corden, although I am working on a Peter Rabbit tf and that character is also a James Corden character and I did Biggie from Trolls. I did Tom Everett from Caddyshack II and Vic Frohmyer from Christmas With The Kranks when I did some of my Aykroyd-verse ones, both movies they're from are awful but Everett isn't the worst part of Caddyshack II (yes I HATE the character's stupid voice) but I have forgiven him as opposed to Vic Frohmeyer. I did a Mr Bean tf once but that was mainly based on a weird dream and also it wasn't actual Mr Bean himself that was the villain of the story but a twisted version of him.

Most Beloved TF Moods: Celebrity tf moods, and the Aykroyd-verse. The Aykroyd-verse very much takes characters that Dan Aykroyd has played and gives a new spin on them

TF Mood I Wish I Could Write About: Biker Mice From Mars..i've done Vinnie and did a couple of plutarkian transformations and have been wanting to do Lawrence Limburger but he's a tricky character, he's a plutarkian disguised as a human so unless I make it so his human disguise form the show is an actual humanoid form for him I don't think i'd be able to do him justice. I really wish I could do Pete sometimes since I did work on an idea for a Pete transformation, I wish I could do Buzz Lightyear but the problem is well I don't know if it would be inanimate if it was the in-universe toy version from the Toy Story movies, if it was the tv show version maybe I could do it, and maybe if it was the version from Lightyear I could see it. Weyoun…I don't know why, but I just seem to have fallen in love with the character Weyoun, maybe it's because he's a charismatic character, maybe it's because of his eyes, or maybe it's because he's Jeffrey Combs but I love Weyoun and I could do a tf into him, since I saw a picture of Jeffrey Combs in the Weyoun costume and makeup looking at himself in the mirror and thought 'what if that was someone who transformed into Weyoun or became a new Weyoun clone?'), and also lots of Tim Burton characters (I did several a long time ago but they have since been deleted, and I never followed up on ones I promised that i'd do like for example the Mars Attacks aliens or Danny Devito's Penguin, and I haven't done Tarrant yet even though I did Chessur previously, and constantly have Otho on that list of ones to do, maybe I am bit bias on that because I love Beetlejuice in general and I happen to love Otho a lot as a character because of how he's written and also…well the late Glenn Shadix, one of my favorite character actors ever was fantastic in the role. Otho's a character who if written today would have been made an insulting stereotype but the fact the character isn't written like that, he's a gay character who isn't a walking stereotype or a 'Sissy Villain', I know some say Otho is a villain in the movie but I don't think so, yeah he does steal the handbook for the deceased but he doesn't come across as malicious or evil given he's polite and friendly, even towards Lydia but he isn't evil. Yes he did nearly get the Maitlands killed…again, but he didn't know the spell was an exorcism spell. Nonetheless I hope to do him sometime).

Most Obscure TF Mood: I did a Doodles (the dog from the CBBC children's show Tweenies) once and also Bumble from the NZ kids show of the same name, but definitely the Christopher Walken Brainiac from the cancelled Superman project that Tim Burton was oging to do, or as I call him…'alien-robot-spider-Walken'.

TF I Was Hestitant To Do Initially: John Candy. In the past I had very much been made fun of for liking John Candy, why? I don't understand, I love John's movies. I was hesistant to do fiction about a deceased celebrity because of how I got treated for doing fiction about John Candy, and yes…I have done pairings where I ship Akasha from Queen of the Damned with a vampire version of Michael Jackson, and I did the whole idea of Elvis Presley's family as a supernatural family but John Candy was one celebrity I was hesitant to write about despite me being a huge fan of his movies.

#Monstermaster13 #tf moods

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behind the scenes: it's a mess

featuring. the main cast of attack on titan contents. movie stars!au, fluff, comedy, insanity???

track. none word count. 1607

note. in short, if the entire thing was a movie and the actors were messing around behind the scenes! #traumatized #ineedcomfort don't ask. this is for who now relies on me for fanfics in this fandom. imagining that this didn't happen makes me feel better about myself too. if it makes it better I feel highly embarrassed about this too :D

This PC > USB (D:) > SHINGEKI BEHIND THE SCENES :")

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[ruining badass captain imagery.mp4]

"What a lovely bunch," Levi mutters, locking in on the two huge Titans in his way. The manic laughs of Hange echoes off the streets, but he pays no attention to that, landing swiftly, walking towards the monsters with all the grace of a man walking into a party.

"You sure have interesting faces, don't—oh my god!" he loses his footing just then and nearly falls the full ten meters down. "Jeez, why is it so damn hard walking on these?!" he yelps, having caught himself by grabbing onto the surface below him.

"Maybe 'cuz they're shingles!" Hange yells from somewhere below.

"Cut!" the director shouts. "Are you okay? Your hand isn't scraped up?"

"Just a little bit," Levi slowly regains his footing. Technically, he wouldn't have been a whole lot injured if he did fall, but it's not a nice feeling, anyway. Somewhere across the studio, he hears one of the kids laughing hysterically at his fall. Really, sometimes it's a good question to ask why he joined this set; besides the money benefits and the awesome role he gets to play. "I'm fine to keep going."

"Okay, if you insist..."

***

"Stay still," Levi sniffs distastefully, perched with extreme agility atop the Titan's head, like it's nothing for a seasoned veteran like him. "Otherwise, I'll never get a clean cut of your flesh."

Slicing blades through Titan flesh feels so good.

[discussing war and hate crimes: the queen and the rogue.mp4]

"Wait, wait, gimme a minute," Armin fumbles with the camera for a minute. "Okay, I'd rather not play with all these settings—"

"You play a brainiac," Eren points out. "You should be confident about this."

"You're on camera now," Armin says. "Better keep the snark to a minimum."

"Yeah, be professional!" Historia makes a point of elbowing Eren very pointedly. "Let's begin, shall we?"

"I'm editing this out later, but..." Armin clears his throat, and puts on a presenter-style tone of voice. "Now here we are with the stars of episode ten of Attack on Titan's fourth season, Eren and Historia! Thank you so much for fitting this interview into your busy schedule!"

"Thank you for having us!" Historia beams, a natural at this, while Eren flounders for a good minute as Historia goes through with the usual pleasantries one would normally see in an interview with superstars.

Then, "so, Eren!" Armin smirks at him from behind the camera. They really aren't being too serious about this impromptu interview, but true to the character he plays, Eren is a truly competitive person, so it doesn't take much to push the right buttons. "Tell us! What does this episode entail?"

"Well..." he visibly blinks confusedly. Historia nudges him, which seems to get him to wake up and take it more like the way they want him to. "Well, in this episode, we'll see more about what happened in the four years since the end of the third season. We'll be meeting with...uh...Kiyomi Azumabito, who interestingly hails from the same land as Mikasa is supposed to be from! And—uh—she has something to reveal, doesn't she?"

"Yes, she does," Historia winks at the camera, "as viewers will come to know!"

"And we'll be seeing a diplomatic meeting of sorts between the Paradisians, and Kiyomi Azumabito as well as the Volunteers," Eren continues, seeming to get a hang of it. "Of course, the subject being aid, and, well, war. As well as...plans regarding Historia which Eren is very vehemently opposed to."

"But!" Historia grins. "You'll see more of that when the episode airs! Make sure to catch the episode on time when it airs~"

"And...cut!" Armin lowers the phone, grinning. "Honestly, Eren, you were more than just taken off-guard just now."

"Yeah, that was worse than actual interviews with actual TV stations," Historia giggles.

"I usually have more time to prepare—" the video cuts in the middle of Eren's whining.

[pre-exercise to a genocide warning by 2 idiots.mp4]

"What is this?" Eren blinks at the speaker set being hauled in by a stagehand.

"It's for your scene where you tell everyone that they're gonna die," the director says in a perfectly cheery tone, as if he isn't talking about one of the darkest scenes in the entire show. "It adds to the effect."

"Effect? I thought we were just editing my voice later, though."

"Like I said, effect," the director nods. "We will be adding some minor effects here and there, but this'll most likely boost the creepiness effect."

"Huh." Eren picks up one of microphones attached to it. "Hear me, Subjects of Ymir," he tries, brightening. "Hey, I like it! My name is Eren Yeager. I'm using the Founding Titan's power to address all Subjects of Ymir. I've undone the hardening of Paradis Island's walls—"

"Okay, enough," Mikasa cuts in, wrapping her arms around herself. "I'd rather not hear that monologue unless I absolutely have to. Jesus, that's so creepy."

"It's not that bad," Jean insists. "If we think about the dork behind the creepy genocidal voice issuing a deadline of life to people."

"Oh, haha, so funny," Eren deadpans. Somehow, the dynamic between him and Jean's actual personalities as opposed to the characters they portray...isn't that different, but it's lighter, in a way. Probably because they don't have death hanging over their heads. "Anyway, this is a good addition to the set! I like it!"

Ymir, who'd been standing off to the side, seeing as she isn't part of this scene, comes closer and picks up the mic. "Wonder what it'll sound like if I just..." she takes a deep breath. "Is this the day? Are you the way I finally find out why~"

"Really?" Armin pinches the bridge of his nose, already foreseeing the result of this. "A Frozen parody. Okay, sure."

Ymir pays no mind. "Show yourself! I'm no longer trembling! Here I am, I have come so far!"

Which, of course, prompts Eren to start belting out lyrics, too, because ever since Ymir Fritz was introduced onto the set the two of them have done nothing aside from causing mischief (which isn't to say they don't contribute greatly to the show). "You are the answer I've waited for all my li-i-i-fe! Oh, show yourself, let me see who you are!"

"Show yourself!" Ymir is grinning so widely that Armin can't bring himself to stop them.

"Step into your power! Grow yourself into something new!" Eren somehow keeps a tune while essentially hollering the lyrics.

"I don't know why neither of them have matured," Connie hands Armin back his phone (evidently having recorded the whole exchange), "but hey, at least it's free comedy."

"Free comedy, indeed," Armin echoes, watching Eren's voice crack and break on one of the higher notes, making Ymir dissolve into hysterical giggles.

[consequences of hiring trained dancers.mp4]

"What are you guys doing." Mikasa deadpans, watching Reiner and Eren twirl around.

"Practicing our fight sequence, duh!" Eren yells over his shoulder, dipping Reiner down as if they're ballerinas. Which, technically, they are. They just never pursued a career for that, even though they totally could have.

"All I see is ballet routines," Mikasa sighs. "Please, be serious. As much as the fans seem to love crack edits, right now we very much need to get ready for the epic showdown between you both. Okay?"

"C'mon, relax!" Reiner laughs, coming to a halt. "We've got it down pretty good."

"Yeah?" Mikasa fixes him with the cold stare that her character is known for. "Show it to me, then. Let's see it."

"Sure!" Eren grins, tugging Reiner into the formation. "We've got this choreo down to the T, you'll see."

***

"That's—good enough—for you?" Eren gasps, down on the floor. Pieck hurries over to them with bottles of water. "Mikasa?"

"...fine," she grumps. "But no more doing dumb things!"

"Yeah, yeah."

[a #real confession.mp4]

"Oh my god this is so romantic," Sasha whisper-yells, angling the phone camera just right.

"They're just like us," Eren says, and in that voice, there is so much hatred and anger—so much resentment and pain. "One day, their regular lives just ended, and everything was taken away from them. They were deprived of all their freedoms."

Mikasa stares at him. The weight of his words is tremendous, but this is so different in a fundamental way from the Eren she has come to know and love. The distant, detached boy she adapted to these past four years has become this, and she hates it.

"Mikasa." He looks at her, eyes full of emotion. "Why do you care so much about me?"

...

...what?

"Huh?"

"Is it because I saved you when we were little?" Eren asks. He's direct and to-the-point in a way he has never been before. It's Eren, but he's begging for an answer right now...it seems surreal, the way his viridian eyes latch onto Mikasa's onyx and holds fast. "Or is it because I'm your family?"

"Huh?" a fiery blush takes ahold of Mikasa's cheeks. Is he—is he asking—

"What—what am—" Eren pauses, breaking character with a frown. "Uh, what was my line again...?"

"Are you serious?" Mikasa bursts into laughter, which makes Eren and everyone around them start laughing, too. "This is like, a monumental scene!"

"I'm sorry!" Eren snorts. "It was just too much! I'm not emotionally built for this!"

"Sorry, but you're in for the long ride," Mikasa giggles. "Let's try that again. And don't forget—your line is 'what am I to you?'"

"I know," Eren shakes his head. "I won't forget again."

yes this was kind of unhinged. I meant to include more but I lost inspo halfway through, so here's a few takeaways from this:

- armin won an oscar for best actor. there was a lot of sobbing to go around.

- aot itself won best original score because sawano hiroyuki is a #genius

- some of them livestreamed their first-time reaction to the last ep of the entire thing and NO it ENDED ON THE SCARF.

the inspo for this was a bunch of videos I watched on youtube :") lol bye

#fanfic #fanfiction #attack on titan #aot #shingeki no kyojin #alternate universe #eren yeager #mikasa ackerman #levi ackerman #hange zoe #sasha braus #connie springer #jean kirstein #ymir fritz #historia reiss

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if-music-be-the-food-of-love · 2 years

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Sneak Peek of "Do You Quarrel, Sir?"

Fic Summary:

When the all girls school pulls out of their combined production of Romeo and Juliet, St. Lawrence’s Academy must scramble to decide how to proceed. Sander, last year's lead, is a shoo-in for Romeo, but little do they know that Robbe, a transfer student on scholarship, has dreams of being an actor. Suddenly the stage is full of sound and fury, signifying…everything. Personal insecurities and misunderstandings abound and what should be a fun, enjoyable extracurricular turns into a passive aggressive battlefield of sniping and bickering. Will they be able to get it together before Opening Night?

The play may be the thing, but what happens when Romeo and Juliet don't get along?

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Excerpt from chapter 1:

Robbe stared at the excessively large, alarmingly pristine glass doors waiting for him at the top of the red brick stairs. He was here. It was time. When he walked through the doors of the historic Steinway building, he’d be a St. Lawrence Academy student. There’d be no going back. Those doors represented two years of study and heavy testing; they represented a bright future; they were the proof that all of Robbe’s hard work had paid off. More than anything, though, they represented freedom.

He sighed and pulled his maroon and gold striped tie out a fraction more so that it dangled loosely from the collar of his white shirt, indifferent enough, he hoped, not to draw the negative attention of his peers but not impertinent enough to earn the ire of his teachers. He’d never be able to hide the fact that his clothes were hand-me-downs, unearthed from a musty, forgotten cabinet in the janitor’s closet, the unclaimed remnants of ‘Lost and Found’ now repurposed as free uniforms for students in need.

No, he couldn’t hide his faded and frayed uniform or his scholarship status, but he could reinvent himself. No one knew him here. He didn’t have to be Robbe the brainiac or pretend to like girls, video games, and football just because his friends did. His life no longer needed to revolve around the skatepark and increasingly distasteful parties. He could choose who to be here. It was a relief, almost as much as it was terrifying. Would he choose to be himself? Was he brave enough?

He readjusted his backpack where it hung off one shoulder and willed himself to move. The future awaited, or his doom. Either way, he needed to get to class.

***

Fic posts July 13th 🙌

#wtfock #wtfam #one week countdown #skambigbang2022 #sobbe #r+j sobbe fic #rosander #skam big bang 2022

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thealmightyemprex · 2 years

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DC villains Christopher Lee couldve played

SoI was watching the documentary Necessary Evil the other day ,a documentary on DC villains narrated by Christopher Lee

Now Christopher Lee was a phenomenal actor .....Who nearly played multiple DC villains

He nearly was the Kryptonian criminal General Zod in Superman The Movie and Superman II.....But he couldnt film in England at the time,so they got Terrance Stamp instead

He was considered for the Penguin in Batman Returns....But they went with Danny Devito instead

And he was almost Ra's Al Ghul in Batman The Animated Series...But it wouldve been to expensive ,so they got David Warner

Now while I think he would've been an odd pick for Penguin(I still wouldve wanted to see it ) ,Lee would've been perfect for both Zod and Ra's (Though I think Stamp and Warner are equally perfect )

Now for fun I wanna show some other villains I think he wouldve been good for

Sinestro: Former Green Lantern and friend of Hal Jordan turned fear inducing terroist

Mr Freeze: A tragic villain who has grown cold both physically and emotinally due to the loss of his wife

Hugo Strange:A psychiatrist/mad scientist obsessed with Batman

Vandal Savage:A immortal conqueror whose aliases are the most infamous dictators of history

Brainiac : A cold machineobsessed with posessing all knowledge in the univers

Darkseid:A god who thrives on misery and fear

@ariel-seagull-wings @metropolitan-mutant-of-ark

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moveobjectsonblogs · 4 years

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Zodiac Challenge

Welcome to the Sims 4 Zodiac Challenge!

This idea came to me in a dream after a month of um-ing and ah-ing over whether or not I should start my very own Sims inspired Youtube Channel.

This is also inspired by the Not So Berry Challenge over on my queen, lilsimsie’s page, since I recently started playing that myself and found myself engaging with aspects of the game I never used to before.

SO, the Zodiac challenge... It’s a legacy challenge inspired by Zodiac traits*, aspirations and careers with a little extra spice to keep the story moving along.

*Please keep in mind that this is not a direct reflection of Zodiac traits, but merely an inspired challenge based on some common information surrounding each sign and a need to make a workable legacy challenge. I love all you little start signs out there equally and I believe we all have some positive influences on society as a whole.

Okay, okay, cut to the chase already. Here are the rules of the challenge:

No excessive money cheats (freerealestate is acceptable, as well as moderate transfer of household fees when a sim moves out)

You have full control over CAS for your sims/partners/children, however traits are to remain according to challenge

The color attached to each generation/sign needs to be visible on all sim outfits as well as in household, but you can decide to what degree

You can create looks inspired by the signs, but again, you can decide to what degree

Make it your own! Where a generation requires pack-specific traits, aspirations, careers etc which you do not own, please substitute and come up with your own unique spin on it!

If a skill, aspiration, or career is listed, the expectation is to MAX IT OUT!

Please tag me! I want to see your videos, characters and creations on this

Generation 1 - Aries / Red - The Go-Getter

You start out as a runaway teen, trying to make it in the Big City. You believe you have what it takes to be the next National Leader, and the City is the place to be! You have a quick temper and a fiery personality, so in order to appear calm in the public eye (everyone wants a piece of you!) you need to practice Wellness every day. You don’t have time for marriage, but your PR Manager advised you it would look good for your political career to adopt!

Traits

Hot Headed

Self-Assured

Ambitious

Aspiration

Leader Of The Pack

Career

Politician (Politician branch to become National Leader)

Skills

Charisma

Wellness

Additional Requirements

Reach Level 3 Fame

Must have no biological children, only adopt

Don’t have a good relationship with child/ren

Never marry

Never retire

Generation 2 - Taurus / Dark Green - The Loving Nurturer

All your life you tried to get the approval of your always-too-busy presidential parent. You were pawned off to day-care, baby-sitters and after-school activities to fill your time and never knew what a parental figure or family time was. You were told to always appear perfect in terms of good grades, a good university degree and a stable career but in your heart all you ever wanted was love! You spend quality time with your children and your greatest pleasure is helping them grow and succeed in life. You believe in taking the time to grow your own produce in order to eat only the healthiest food and other sims would describe you as ~earthy~.

Traits

Foodie

Family Oriented

Romantic

Aspiration

Big Happy Family

Career

Freelancer (any branch you want)

Skills

Parenting

Gardening

Additional Requirements

Marry your High School/University sweetheart

Have minimum 3 children

Work part time in order to help children with meals & homework everyday

Generation 3 - Gemini / Yellow - The Open-Minded Adventurer

You loved your cozy (some would say sheltered) and unconventional upbringing with your earthy parent and many siblings; however, you want to see the world and all it has to offer for yourself! You love people, creativity and being busy and you want to see it all, try it all and be it all. Thanks to your loving mom, you were always made to believe you can be whatever you want in this world. You can never sit still. Due to that, you have many different careers, many different worlds you live in and many different lovers...You’ll try anything once!

Traits

Outgoing

Adventurous

Creative

Aspiration

Renaissance Sim

Career

Any 3 (as per Aspiration)

Skills

Flower Arranging

Video Gaming

Fitness

Additional Requirements

Have a love child before marriage

Have 3 failed romances before marriage

Move to 3 different worlds in lifetime

Generation 4 - Cancer / Grey - The Intuitive Gossip

You want a nice and normal life, no surprises, everything as it should be and in the right order. You want to settle down, and live an uneventful life. But when do plans ever work out like that? You earn a university degree in something sensible, and you follow that route with determination; however, you’ve always been described as psychic by those who know you, and you always have the dirt on the town folk. Finally, late in your life you understand that this ability can bring in some serious cash. You switch to the social media career and always work from home to protect your identity from those who’s secrets you spill. Who would ever suspect you, the nerdy Brainiac who barely speaks up? xoxo, Sims Girl

Traits

Neat

Unflirty

Materialistic

Aspiration

Academic

Career

Initially something connected to Degree, but switch to Social Media (Internet Personality Branch) in late Adult Life Stage

Skills

Logic

Writing

Media Production

Additional Requirements

Attend university (Business or History degree)

Change careers when in Adult life stage to Social Media Career

Always work from home

Marry for convenience and not love (not attracted to partner)

Have no relationship with child/ren

Generation 5 - Leo / Gold - The Romantic Star

Your life growing up was boring. Your mom and dad were the least romantic people ever and everything was cookie-cutter perfect (and devoid of any emotion) growing up. So, from a young age, you throw yourself into movies and get lost in the romantic, passionate and fairy tale aesthetic of it all! You move to Del Sol Valley straight after high school to try and make it as a big star and start your own fairy tale! But it turns out not all fairy tales are perfect, and you have to kiss a few frogs to find your prince/ss!

Traits

Cheerful

Self Absorbed

Romantic

Aspiration

World Famous Celebrity

Career

Actor/Actress

Skills

Acting

Singing

Additional Requirements

Move to Del Sol Valley straight after high school with very little money (10K max)

Cheat on 2 different partners

Date both genders

Generation 6 - Virgo / Beige - The Critical Perfectionist

Owing to your famous parent, you always attended red carpet events with the best food imaginable. Let’s face it, you always thought your taste was just a touch above everyone else. And when you’re good at something never do it for free! Your dream is to criticize others and earn a pay check for it.For you, life is about experiences, perfection and having something to show for it in the bank account. You want to wear and eat the finest things!

Traits

Perfectionist

Genius

Snob

Aspiration

Fabulously Wealthy

Career

Critic (Food)

Skills

Gourmet Cooking

Mixology

Additional Requirements

Marry a famous sim or a sim at the top of their career

Have a house worth over 100K

Have 1 child

Generation 7 - Libra / Pink - The Classy Advocate

You grew up in a very classy home, with only the finest things. You believe in the value of beautiful art, intellectual discussions and physical beauty. From behind the thick, gilded window panes in your childhood mansion, you always witness the injustices of the world and felt a calling to help those without a voice.

Traits

Materialistic

Art Lover

Outgoing

Aspiration

Party Animal

Career

Law (Any Branch)

Skills

Charisma

Violin

Additional Requirements

Attend university, join the debate guild

Marry a sim you find extremely attractive

Volunteer weekly

Own art pieces worth over 20K

Generation 8 - Scorpio / Black - The Beautiful Empath

You’re a sweetheart deep down and you find beauty in all things physical. Where your parents saw beauty in materialistic things, you see beauty in yourself and others. You always dreamed of perfecting your own body as a testament to your intense passion towards your goals. You meet a beautiful partner along the way and together, you create a perfect image of love, beauty and emotional intensity.

Traits

Jealous

Active

Romantic

Aspiration

Soulmate

Career

Athlete (Bodybuilder career)

Skills

Fitness

Mischief

Additional Requirements

Marry a sim seen as extremely attractive

Have 1 child minimum and encourage active side (from toddler to teenager)

Go on a date night with your partner every weekend

Generation 9 - Sagittarius / Purple - The Traveling Spy

You’re fun to be around and can never sit still. You’ve used this to your advantage to lure people into trusting you, and you have friends all over the world! Little do they know, you’re a secret agent with some top-tier missions to accomplish. Your passion for love and romance means you have a few slip ups and made some (unexpectedly great) mistakes along the way. You can’t ever be tied down. Keep it moving, blend in with the locals and you’ll never get caught!

Traits

Non-Committal

Adventurous

Cheerful

Aspiration

Serial Romantic

Career

Secret Agent (Any Branch)

Skills

Comedy

Photography

Additional Requirements

Live in Mt. Komorebi and Sulani in lifetime – dabble in local culture and activities

Have children from both of the above worlds with one of the locals

Never marry

Generation 10 - Capricorn / Brown - The Idealistic Pragmatist

You’re smart – scary smart. You are a quiet, intelligent soul and you love to lose yourself in the mountains when life gets overwhelming. You approach life with military intelligence, routine and perfection and never thought you could meet someone who cracked through your tough exterior. When you do meet them, you marry them after the first few dates and start your family. Your partner adores you and your family and quits their career to take care of the large brood of kids and animals in your rustic, outdoorsy home.

Traits

Loner

Genius

Loves the Outdoors

Aspiration

Extreme Sports Enthusiast

Career

Military

Skills

Pet Training

Logic

Additional Requirements

Marry a spouse after a maximum of 3 dates

Have spouse quit job to raise children

Have 4 children minimum

Go Climbing/Hiking or do Snow Sports every weekend

Generation 11 - Aquarius / Blue - The Outspoken Activist

You grew up with nature and animals taking preference over technology and humans. Therefore, you are sickened by the state of the world that humans have created and you decide to pursue a green future. You are all for eco living, off the grid lifestyle and conserving the environment for generations to come.

Traits

Vegetarian

Green Fiend

Creative

Aspiration

Eco Innovator

Career

Civil Designer (Green Technician)

Skills

Fabrication

Logic

Additional Requirements

Live in Evergreen Harbor (all 3 neighborhoods) and convert all to Green Eco Footprint

Live off the grid at least once

Adopt children and animals until household limit of 8 is reached

Generation 12 - Pisces / Light Green - The Creative Overthinker

You’re a dreamer and you want to heal everyone. Due to your parent’s ideals growing up, you want to make a difference... but you also want to create art and move souls. You tend to internalize your dreams and fears and as a result often feel misunderstood. You move around as a doctor trying to heal the world and as a result, love is last on the list of accomplishments.

Traits

Creative

Gloomy

Loner

Aspiration

Painter Extraordinaire

Career

Doctor

Skills

Painting

Baking

Additional Requirements

Have no friends apart from future spouse

Gain fame through paintings

Marry for the first time as an elder

Never have children

Live in all worlds through lifetime

#sims4 #sims 4 legacy #sims4 challenge #zodiac challenge #ts4 legacy #aries #taurus #gemini #cancer #leo #virgo #libra #scorpio #sagittarius #capricorn #aquarius #pisces #lilsimsie

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angerydj · 4 years

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How do you feel about the Jim Carrey Riddler? Are there parts you would keep or change? Or do you want to see another actor play him?

I hate Mobile tumblr I respond to this and I did post 😩

And I said some really good fucking shit too

((Also I have not seen every versions of him so some of my point could already exist))

It was something like I really loved how he played him and how more riddlers should express the over dramatic attention seeking personality Jim displayed

Really push this narrative of this dramatic annoying psychopathic brainiac who wants to be the smartest person in the room and always stand out

Like I love my 04 edgy Eddie and I think BTAS did a good job in making Eddie very extroverted and over dramatic but I feel like some people are afraid to make Eddie act more childish, even all the rouges.

Eddie was someone who grew up to quickly and didn’t get to enjoy the things most kids did and when he did enjoy something or accomplished something he was accused of being wrong and called a moron. He spend too long trying to prove himself he didn’t get to grow up and some of his more childish bratty traits should be included a lil more, besides his tantrums.

We do get to see some scenes of Eddie loving himself, acting childish and just being over the top in some scenes

AND no to mention how much more interesting it would be deep diving deeper into his character like his mental disorders like his BPD. Jim’s Eddie being totally ecstatic one moment then absolutely emotionless or even furious it’s perfect. Eddie has triggers he doesn’t need to act as some sophisticated smart ass. I’d love to see this goofy man bouncing around and nearly give you whiplash when he revels his intellect.

I think giving him more Energy would make him more unsettling and giving him more confidence on his own he can act like this cause he knows he’s the smartest mf in the room

Anyway,, rant over 😅 my old post was much better 😖

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Chip ‘N’ Dale Rescue Rangers: Rescue Rangers to the Rescue! Review: Acceptable in the 80s (Comissioned by WeirdKev27)

Hello all you happy people! Some times, some crimes slip through the cracks. But these two Gum Shoes, are pickin up the slack. With the pilots for DuckTales, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop and Tailspin in the rearview, it’s finally time to finally call C-c-chip N Dale, the last pilot between me and reviewing the epic crossover “Legend of the Chaos God” for my good buddy @weirdkev27.

Does that mean with all the pilots I have to do covered, that i’m done with doing the Disney Afternoon Pilots?

For one thing i’ve still never covered Gargoyles on this blog much less watched the series in full.

There’s also Gummi Bears, Quack Pack, Bonkers, Aladdin, Snookums and Meat, Timon And Pumbaa and the Mighty Ducks. About half that list fills me with a dread the likes of which the world has never seen, but I’m still gonna do it. Especially Gargoyles.

Still this is the last of the first batch of The Disney Afternoon I hadn’t covered, the first few shows picked after DuckTales proved to be a success. This one was co-created by Tad Stones, the same genius behind darkwing duck and the same weirdo who continues to assume Darkwing Duck and Ducktales are not in the same universe. Yes Tad came up with the show, originally starring a mouse named Kit Colby. The Execs really liked the idea... just not the lead and Micheal Esiner suggested making Chip and Dale the leads to give it some classic disney groudning. Now as i’ve made clear in the past my opinon on the classic Chip N Dale Shorts and the Classic version of them in general can be summed up as...

They often rely on the two bullying an innocent victim wether it be Donald, Pluto or the concept of comedy, arne’t funny and their voices annoy me.

So you’d understandably assume I went into this with pure dread... and you’d be wrong. Yeah while I hate the shorts the idea of rescue rangers slaps. The dynamic duo, now given contrasting personalities with Chip being more cautious and Dale being a bit of a goof off. So basically Peraltoiago if they werne’t a couple and were instead siblings. Add in a cute quirky genius, a cheese loving aussie, and a fly because why not, have them solve crimes and battle a gangster cat, and you have my attention.

So the question left is simple :Does the show hold up? Do Chip And Dale Still never fail or is this one thing our rangers can’t rescue? Join me under the cut for a full recap and review of the pilot to find out!

Voice Actor Roundup

Just doing this at the top this time. But this series is STACKED with some of the best and most storied va’s in the business.

First off we have voice acting legend and superstar of the 90′s, Tress Macneille, who voiced both Chip and Gadget. She SHOUDLN’T need an introduction but since you insisit, she’s voiced Daisy Duck, Dot Warner, Bab’s Bunny, Agnes Skinner, Lunchlady Doris (Taking over for doirs Grow), Dolph (Aka the bully you forget exists half the time) , Charlotte Pickles, Hello Nurse, Humphrey the Hippo, Pookie and Queen Oona among MANY more. She’s a legend and rightfully sits at the top of this list.

Next up is the likewise prolific corey burton adsDale and Zipper, aka Ludvig Von Drake. IN addition he’s been G1 Shockwave, The Narrator for both Disney’s Goofy Shorts and Dexter’s Lab, The Timmverse Brainiac, Metallo, Toymaker, Transformer Animated Shockwave, Megatron and Ratchet, V.V. Argost (God I both miss the secret saturdays, want a reboot and need to cover it at some ponit), Red Tornado (BBATB) , Malware, Monster Arm and Cad Bane. ANd given a credits sheet like that i really should’ve known who he was by name sooner than this review.

Next up to bat is Jim Cummings as THREE diffrent roles. This is truly Cummingsamania. It’s something my good friend @jess-the-vampire, who saw the pilot with me noticed as did I as while he has a few set voices, he’s still very distinctive. He plays Fat Cat, Professor Nimul and MOntery Jack, so the series two main antagonists and one of it’s main characters, and if your wondering “wait is there a section of this pilot where it’s only him talking for about two minutes” then yes, yes there is. He’s that good. He needs no real introduction as i’ve played him up enough over the years and he also has shown up in EVERY one of my reviews of the disney afternoon pilots. No really he was El Capitan in ducktales, Don Karnage in Tailspin, Pete in Goof Troop and of course Darkwing Friggin Duck in do I really have to say it. I wasn’t kidding in the tailspin review when I said it felt like he had a rider in his contract with disney that stated they had to put him in every show they made. And i’m still not kidding when I say he should get that rider back.

Another voice that really needs no introduction, because i’ve done it enoguh, is Rob Paulsen. If you don’t know who he is, I can’t help you. He plays Detective Drake.

Finally we have Alas Oppenhimer, a vetran actor whose STILL GOING, as he showed up in Toy Story 4. He was also MOTHERFUCKING SKELETOR. While i’ll cop to never having watched the original he man (nor either of this years reboots, i’ve been busy), I know that gloriously hammy neying voice anywhere. So the man’s a legend in my book and does a great job here as the pilot’s main antagonist Clordaine and Plato, Drakes dog. Now we’re all settled up on with the show!

Part One: Catsino Royale

I”m giving the episodes my own names because their literally just “Rescue Rangers to the Rescue Part X” and I felt something was missing when I didn’t do this for Tailspin, which has the same problem. And it being part of a tv movie is no excuse: Ducktales gave each part of it’s serials their own episode name, and came before this, the reboot did the same for each of it’s hour long episodes as well as it’s movie length finale, and even non-disney shows like Craig of the Creek get you can’t have a five part episode and not give it names. It’s just cumbersome. Two or three parts I can abide it’s why i’m not chewing out darkly dawns the duck, but when you have 5 parts put in some subtitles.

Before we get to the episode, we have to talk about the theme song. Unsuprisingly for the Disney Afternoon it freaking slaps and was a joy to hear multiple times throughout my binge of this pilot mini-series. It just has a great flow to it and that synth at the start is damn good. It’s only real failing.. is that it ONLY mentions chip n dale despite there being 3 other main characters, and while I could get neglecting the pet sidekick in zipper, Gadget is the reason they surivive half the time and Monty .. well he has character at least.

So this is one of those pilots that slowly introduces the main cast across a few episodes. It’s a common trait for these Disney shows, only Darkwing Duck had all the leads in the first episode, the rest took a few episoides before everyone was together, though no more than three. It’s a nice way to ease into the cast and let everyone get settled as a character.

So here we’re introduced to our brothers from the same mother who we’ll never meet unless that happens to be a plot point in the live action film.. which i’m actually excited for, if for nothing else than the pitch perfect casting of John Mulaney as Chip and Andy Samberg as Dale. I swear if the DT2017 versions actually talked, that’s what they woudl’ve gone with and we all know it.

Their your classic odd couple: Chip is a bit neat and cautious, and Dale slacks off and has the attention span of.. well a chipmunk. Still the two do love to goof off together and clearly love one another. Their also both big fans of Detective Donald Drake and his canine sidekick Plato and thus follow the two when they see them fly by. If your thnking those names are awfully familliar, your not wrong as it’s clear the two are homages to Chip N Dale’s most recurring screen partners, my boy Donald Duck and the other major disney star I can’t stand Pluto.

Surprisingly though the Donald Stand in.. is the worst part of this pilot. He’s a bland, stertoypical detective whose about to retire and has a personal grudge with the thought dead by everyone but him crime boss whose naturally alive Klordane. He has no personality: he just wants to stop klordaine and while the Chipmunk Bros and Drake’s Dog Plato hype drake up.. he comes off as just some schumck. This wouldn’t be bad.. but the pilot spends a good chunk of it’s running times on scnees focusing on this schmuck instead of any of our main characters. The first episode is a slog for the first half because after Chip and Dale’s introduction we spend about 8 minutes mostly focusing on this guy with the occasional interlude from our two gumshoes and their mentor plato.

Plato, much like his boss is an inversion of his classic disney counterpart... in this case h’es actually interesting. Plato is a well worn police hound with the voice of a poet who looks after the boys like a father, mentors them well and reluctantly lets them go into danger and clearly loves these kids. He’s a character I honestly wish carried over into the series proper unlike his master and is the only reason drake is remotely tolerable.

But the pilot’s main focus is around drake himself for some reason: After a shot up at a warehouse we absoltuely did not need and if trimmed along with a rather terrible part of next episode, would make this pilot movie a far more resonable four parts, Drake is framed for the theft of a rare ruby by Klaudaine, who has his cat Fat Cat put gambling slips and the ruby in drake’s pocket. I just spent about two sentences describing about EIGHT MINUTES OF screen time, your welcome. Chip and Dale get a bit fighting one of Klaudaine’s thugs that’s all you missed.

So Drake gets thrown in jail because the cops are suddenly brain dead despite this very obvious frame up and make zero attempts to actually clear drake despite one of them OUTRIGHT SAYING I’TS AN OBVIOUS FRAME JOB.

Oh and it gets DUMBER, somehow. Plato acts up a bit, because you know even if he talks when the humans aren’t looking he’s still a dog.. and they THROW HIM IN DRAKE’S CELL TO SHUT UP HIM .

Oh and the cherry on top? Despite this asinine half of the episode... this ISN’T the worst one of the pilot episodes. It’s close.. but the next episode is so much worse in a very familiar way.

Thankfully we get back to the show actually being good for a moment, as Plato berates himself for his impulsiveness and that now he can’t clear Drakes name. But the boys point out THEY can, and while Plato’s reluctant to put the lads in harms way, he agrees to let them go after the amulet

So they do.. and while Klordaine goes to bed, we find Fat Cat is himself a crime boss complete with minions and takes the ruby out to go have some fun at his casino, or if you will, Catsino. If the show isn’t going to use that pun I sure as hell am.

So we get a fun bit as the boys go undercover, with Dale’s impulsivness getting on Chips nerves. I do like this though: in the classic shorts the two basically shared a brain. While “one’s kinda straightlaced and the other’s a goofus” isn’t ORIGINAL, persay, it’s still more interesting with both complimenting each other and the full team once it’s assembled: Chip is the leader the team needs, a strategic mind, while Dale can think on the fly better and both are more grounded than their future teammates.

So things go how you’d expect: Chip is all sneaking and Dale.. wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

We also get a musical number... which I was not ready for but damn is it fun. Jim Cummings knows how to do a villain song and do it right and this is his SECOND. I’m honestly shocked Negaduck never sang, and i’m certain the reboot would’ve let him.. if we got a fourth season. And yes i’m still on that, let shows actually last Disney.

Naturally Dale blows it for them by dancing with Fat cat, our heroes try to run, they get caught and Fat Cat gets the Ruby Back, and we end on a cliffhanger as our heroes are dangled over a roof.

Part 2: The Shockingly Racist One So yeah as you can probably guess by the title, this one started with a content warning from Disney+, so me and Jess spent the first 6 minutes or so wondering when the shoe was going to drop and if so just, HOW racist. As you can probably gather from the title, VERY , but we’ll get to that in a moment.

I won’t make you sweat it as long though. Our heroes survive, I won’t bore you with the miraculous details of their escape. While they do Fat Cat prepares to head to Chinatown, and has a clever means of transit: he calls a pizza boy, has a pizza delivered to his hideout and stows away in the back while the PIzza Boy angrily stomps on it and goes to Chinatown. Chip N Dale follow in the wheel of the delivery scooter thing, and arrive in Chinatown, where said Pizza Boy promptly rage quits over another prank order. He can do better and if that car is his, he’s already got a sweet ride. That’s most than most fictional non-pornographic pizza boys have.

So with that.. Fat Cat goes into meet the twins, two Siamese Cat Sisters and crime lords clearly modeled in part off the Siamese cats from Lady and the Tramp. But first.. their greeted by a buck tooth, stereotypically accented siamise cat working for them.

And it somehow gets worse from there: Not only do the sisters have an ARMY of Buck Toothed cats, not only are both voiced by Tress, who is white, but are also steroyptican and have an EQUALLY sterotypical fish named Juice lee that Fat Cat is buying off them. This leads to our heroes eventaully being chased by an ARMY of stereotypes due to Dale’s shenanigans.

Do.. do I REALLY need to explain why NONE of this, even by 1980′s racisim standards, is okay? Even for the 80′s/early 9′s when we got things like Long Duck Dong and... this.

This is still REALLY bad. Just wave after wave of oh my fucking god. I’ve seen PLENTY of old school racisim from Ducktales 87 but I have to admit.. this is worse. This is just worse in every way. IT’s longer, even more offensive and even more tone death. It’s probably the second most racist thing i’ve reviewed for this blog and lest you think that lets it off the hook...

IT is just mind bogglingly bad and while I”m VERY glad things have MASSIVELY improved, with works like Shang Chi, Amphibia, Big Hero six and so much more giving Asian People from all backgrounds a voice, it dosen’t change the fact that disney shoudln’t of been THIS far back. And I know i’m screaming at a 31 year old episode of television, I know.. but it shows that Disney’s problems with dragging their feet with progress are baked into the companies dna. If they were having stuff THIS bad on their kids shows in 1989, it’s no wonder it took them this long to have a queer lead in a children’s show or that their trying to bury said show because they haven’t learned their lessons.

Okay so thankfully we’re onto the second half of the episode which aisde from the racist fish, is just your standard cartoon plot. Fat Cat wants to steal a bunch of fish, because cat using a hose because wacky cartoon shenanigans, our heroes want to stop him because good guys and end up in the hold because they need to introduce our next lead characters.

Said characters are Montery Jack, or Monty for short, and Zipper. Monty is, as Allison Pregler would say, Australian but Incomptent while Zipper is his voice of reason and gets Monty to not bullshit so much, which is a pretty funny running gag: Monty will make a bold face dlie, and Zipper will make a few noises at him till Monty finally tells the truth.

Anyways Monty happens to be living in the cargo hold of the ship Fat Cat has stolen... which leads me to wonder if Garfiled’s ever stolen a boat and if so why not? He’s been seen swimming so the cat sterotype that he dosen’t like water dosen’t apply to him..

And Boats combine everything he loves, eating, lounging, and being away from people. Except John, John would obviously be required to captain the boat because Garfield don’t put in effort unles he has to, but he would for a boat. And imagine what kind of shenanigans Garfleld could get up to on a boat. He could sail out to international waters and sell leftover car cling things of himself, go to italy and conquer it so he can rule it like an angry but lazy god and have all the lasanga he wants, or go to france and pick up some of those washed up garfield phones, or go to my boy Bill Murray’s house and smack him upside the head for refusing to do a ghostbusters III but doing both live action garfield movies. WHat i’m saying is this shoudl’ve been the sequel movie instead, this needs to be in the new show nick’s doing, and I’d rather talk abotu garfield stealing a boat than this episode but i’m not getting paid to talk about garfield stealing a boat, yet, so let’s get back to the episode.

Our heroes and Monty get into a classic let’s you and him fight sorta deal and spend about two minutes fighting, which is two minutes I won’t get back but is still better than the time spent with drake or 1930′s racisim today, so i’ll take it.

So anyways Fat Cat makes a horrible mistake

Thankfully Skinner’s back on shore but he also destroys monty’s house unloading the cargo. So Monty agrees to team up with our heroes as he goes on a rampage. Our heroes get on the boat and successfully foil Fat Cat’s plot, but he and his minons book it out of there as it’s about to be hit by another boat!

Part 3: A God Is Born So our heroes naturally surivive this via some clever thinking, but didn’t get the medallion back yet. It ends up back with Klordane as he’s preparing for the next part of the plan in the arctic and let’s fat cat come along because he’s a good pet owner. Fat Cat puts the jewel back via some shenanigans, and instead of gettnig mad at his cat for acting up, Klordane pets him gently. Are.. are we sure Drake’s REALLY the good guy here? I mean sure Klordane framed him and calls him just to taunt him, but he also has an actual personality while Drake is supsiciously bland. Plus he’s you know a a white vetran officer in the 1980′s so there’s a 99.9% chance he stopped a black guy just for being black at some point so i’m only not on team Klordane because team chipmunk is about to get gadget.

Our heroes can’t stow away on the plane in time, but Monty happens to know a friend named Hackenwrench who can help and so takes the guys to his friends Lair. I haven’t really stopped to talk about Monty yet: He’s an okay character but has a BAD habit in this pilot of being unlikeably impulsive. With Dale i’ts just clear he has a short attention span: with Monty it’s all ego and temper and thus it’s hard to root for him when he ruins their plan and charges in because “I knows better mate!. The fact he can’t be around cheese without having a cheese attack and snarfing it does not help, though loving cheese myself I get it I just have an ounce of self control. It’s just an ounce but still.

Dale slowly gets fed up with these two idiots, but puts up with them because he has no other options and they make their way into Hackwrench’s lab.. and find it armed to the teet for the most classic of reasons

No really the lady of the house had been getting too many door to door salesmen. So after some death defying we meet said lady, Monty’s old friends daughter, about 80 thousand people’s furry awakening, and the god of her own cult, Gadget Hackenwrench.

I mean that jumpsuit alone Kim you gotta give me that... oh wait it’s the cult thing. Yeah long story short for those who didn’t know, and before doing my research for the review I was one of ya:, yes, this is absolutely true.

There is a cult in russia that worships Gadget and feels if they prey hard enough they will make her real. It grew out of a fanpage where some of the fans decided “No this isn’t enough WE HAVE TO MAKE HER OUR GODESS AND SPILL BLOOD IN HER NAME” Okay i’m not sure if any of them HAVE spilled blood in her name but I wouldn’t be surprised. My point is this is very real and be doing you and Kev, the guy who commissioned this a diservice if I didn’t at least mention it. The fact there was a CnD episode about a cult yet they started one anyway is not lost on me either, nor is the fact their goal is noble if batshit insane. So I got nothing against them, if they want ot make a sexy mouse come to life, they do them. Frankly I wish all cults were as harmless.

So as it turns out Gadget REALLY did set up the gadgets for solicitors as she’s gotten a LOT since then.. including for her own religion which is really confusing. She’s been all alone since her dad died. This seemingly leaves our heroes up shits creek without a plane but naturally given this is the 80′s and soon to be early 90′s, the name isn’t just for show and not only does Gadget have her old father’s plane, she knows how ot use it.. kind of. She nearly gets them killed because she’s a classic absent minded professor type: she has a LOT of intelligence and is very kind.. but also forgets simple things like breaks or making sure everyone dosen’t go up in a fireball.

Gadget i’ll admit is easily my favorite of the main characters. Tress does a wonderful job with her, and while it’s VERY weird to hear her using what would be her stock voice for children out of an implicitly grown woman, it still works

As Klordane meets with the series second major antagonist, Professor Norton Nimul, who was modeled after Disney Animator Bruce Talkington. The guys look exactly alike it’s eerie. Nimul is a mildly egotistical genius, sore Klordane is considering everything his plan when it’s NImul’s genius that makes it possible. This really dosen’t go anywhere, but i’ll take the plot going nowhere over the animated equilvent of breakfast at Tiffany’s any day.

So while Klordane goes to do things and stuff, Nimul is left cat sitting Fat Cat and spots SOMETHING coming up and thus attacks the rescue rangers, shattering the steel eagle. Our heroes still press on, going up against Fat Cat who now mutually hates the rangers.. well The Boys anyway, Gadget only just met the guy.

So we get our requisite cliffhanger with an avalanche a comin on our heroes.

Part 4: Que Sera? Sera

Our heroes naturally survive that...because kids show, and it turns out Gadget fixed the Steel Eagle into it’s more blimp like shape we’re more familiar with.

So while our heroes make their way back, Nimul breaks out Drake and everyone assumes he escaped and...

Back with our heroes, who are back in town, Chip wants to make a plan to go after Klordaine, while Monty.. just wants to dive in head first. Which caused the avalanche last episode. And in general has screwed them over. So he decides to split from the team, and Dale says “but what about what we mean to each other.

You.. you guys just met a day ago. I mean it FEELS like a thousand years have passed in this pilot but it’s only been two days at most.

So Monty bails.... honestly they can do better in the sidekick department.

I mean he can still lift stuff for them. Also if your wondering how the heck these two are in the same universe despite Rescue Rangers using humans.... I assume this version of the rescue rangers, the same one from legend of the chaos god, just have ducks, dog faces and what have you instead of men.

So our remaining heroes go to talk to Plato and find out about the whole Drake thing. Klordane sends Fat Cat to make sure the dog stays out of it as he’s figured out by now that Plato is the only competent officer in the precinct and thus the only one who can thwart his plans.

So we get some more stupid as Plato obviously takes the bait, and is made to look rabid and thrown in a pound via shaving cream. You know if this were ANY other prisinct i’d call them out for this but at this point why bother? It’s like screaming at the sun.. all it does is get it to chase you till you throw a block at it.

So our heroes end up in the pound to spring Plato and meet the Pound Underground, a very french poodle voiced by Rob Paulsen, and an unidentified lump of hare named Que Sera voiced by Tony Jay of all people who responds to his name iwth Sera. A cute bit.

Gadget is also REALLY into that Dog, though the boys quickly break it up. Guys you’ve known her only slightly longer, let her make up her own mind. If she wants to find some way to make love to a dog that’s on her.

So our new heroes, who shockingly given this series debut queue attitude aren’t part of the main team, help get to Plato whose given up because he’s tried nothing and he’s all out of ideas. The Twins rightfully call him out on giving up, telling him Plato taught them better. Plato gets the hint, and our heroes go to help him escape now he’s got his fire back only to run into an angry guard dog. Thankfully Monty changed his mind kid, helps save them and the underground finish the job allowing everyone to escape.

With Klordane’s plan ticking down, our heroes rush to stop him, now joined by Plato.. who I REALLY wished had either been a recurring character or full member of the group after this. He’s charming, makes a good mentor, and is just a joy to be around. We didn’t NEED Drake to come back. Just leave the bull dog.

So our heroes head into Klordane’s lair for the final show down as we enter our finale

Part 5: Jelloquake

So it’s time for Klordane’s plan.. see if you can follow this: He’s going to have Nimul use the laser to quick start some gelatin, so he can shake the national gold reserve loose and rob it with no one having ever known he was there. Why dosen’t he just use the laser for the same thing?

So our heroes head in to stop Klordane and the quake, and plan to remove the ruby... only to encounter Fat Cat. One Climactic Showdown later, our heroes successfully stop the laser, and free drake, without him knowing, and allow him to run up top and out Klordane’s plan.

But while Klordane has been outed as the bad guy he still plans to escape on a train and does so, chaining up Plato when he follows him. Our heroes follow with Gadget’s help, if barely surviving because she didn’t think STOPPPING would be something they’d need to do, and try to use the blow torch that powered her improvised thing to free Plato. Plato instead passes the torch, dubbing them a bunch of things and saying they could be a true team. Chip takes this to heart and thus the Rescue Rangers are finally truly born and head to the top of the cabin, beating Klordane by using their size against him , with a then freed Plato getting the final blow. Klordane confesses and gets taken to jail and the day is saved!

I did breeze over this part.. but it is really good, a tense tightly packed finale, it just didn’t give me a ton to recap.

So with that we have our ending: Drake retires, no one cares, Plato prepares to leave, not a dry eye in the house and Plato urges the team to stick together as both Monty and Gadget make plans to leave. It’s only after overhearing a girl who lost her dog do the two realize their calling and set out on their first true case. A team is born, and some crimes.. will no longer slip through the cracks.

Final Thoughts: The Rescue Rangers Pilot is the weakest of the five pilots thus far, but it’s still not bad. The characters are set up well and while the Big Bad of the five parter is ONLY there for the five parter, more focus is given to his sidekicks, who will quickly take his place. The animation, as always for disney at this time, is drop dead gorgeous, the voice cast is super talented, it’s not bad.

What makes it the weakest though is a combination of racisim, which while present in the ducktales premier is more blatant here, and poor pacing. We get too many scenes of Drake which I naturally skimmed over because that’s not what anyone’s here for, that just reiterate “He’s in jail”, not helped by the rest of his presicnt being somehow LESS competent than Hitchcock and Scully.

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I mean how do you even.. never mind, almost done Jake, almost done.

So yeah that combined with the shocking racisim really drags the pilot down. Had they cut this down a bit , i.e. cut out most of the stuff with drake in the first episode and ALL the racism from teh second, this could’ve and should’ve been four parts. As shown with TaleSpin the pilot dosen’t HAVE to be five parts and frankly the best pilots so far have been the shorter ones, with TailSpin’s tight four episodes and darkwing merely being a two parter allowing for a much quicker, more cohesive story. I still say the pilot is worth a watch though, it’s weirdly buried in the episode order.. to the point me and jess watched ENTIRELY diffrent episodes for the first one, but it’s still worth watching first as it is good setup and still not half bad.. just.. maybe fast forward through the racism. For your sanity’s sake.

So with the five original Disney Afternoon Pilots all covered there’s only one thing left.... so come back Friday for LEGEND OF THE CHAOS GOD, to see all five sets of heroes battle overwhelming evil. And come back before that for more reviews. And if you really enjoy this review consider doing a commission yourself or joining my patreon! Thanks for reading.

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