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Madkal posted:I was getting some serious "Iron Giant vibes" off that. I know it isn't a panel but when I get Iron Giant vibes I just have to see this again. It is one of the saddest things ever (involving a Superman reference even) and if you don't find it touching at all, well you are just dead inside. I just had to go click that link, didn't I?  You loving bastard...
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Not to ruin it or anything but I'm pretty sure Mano Negro (the Black Man) is an avatar of Nyarlathotep there. 
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Madkal posted:I was getting some serious "Iron Giant vibes" off that. I know it isn't a panel but when I get Iron Giant vibes I just have to see this again. It is one of the saddest things ever (involving a Superman reference even) and if you don't find it touching at all, well you are just dead inside. But...he survived?
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DarkCrawler posted:But...he survived? But Juston and Sentinel didn't 
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Flesh Forge posted:Not to ruin it or anything but I'm pretty sure Mano Negro (the Black Man) is an avatar of Nyarlathotep there. La Mano Negra means The Black Hand. It was a name given to a few terrorist groups in the early 19th- 20th century. He could still mean The Black Man, the translaters english is pretty bad. I love how the mistranslation of 'The Covenant made Flesh' as 'The Confirmation made Meat' gives the story a much more sinister twinge.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:La Mano Negra means The Black Hand. It was a name given to a few terrorist groups in the early 19th- 20th century. He could still mean The Black Man, the translaters english is pretty bad. I love how the mistranslation of 'The Covenant made Flesh' as 'The Confirmation made Meat' gives the story a much more sinister twinge. It's Mano Negra (Black Hand) because he has black hands (and face, and torso, and legs, etc..) 'cause of his wounds. Or it could be another literary reference. Trying to get more info on it I read that Alta Vista is filled with those. Also, while trying to find the page in spanish, I came across this:  Doctor Doom gets a gig south of the border.  From now on I will always refer to Galactus as El Loco Rojo (The Red Madman). Apparently this came about because Promotora K (the company that owns Kaliman) was sued by Marvel for the use of "El Hombre Increible" (The Incredible Man, as Hulk came to be known in Central and South America, since the word Hulk means "Mole"...which is the name they gave The Thing.) Anyway, after Promotora K won, they started using some Marvel characters in their covers, because one lawsuit is never enough apparently)
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Vincent posted:"El Hombre Increible" http://vimeo.com/20616652 "¡EL HOMBRE DE LOS MOLECULOS!"
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Vincent posted:It's Mano Negra (Black Hand) because he has black hands (and face, and torso, and legs, etc..) 'cause of his wounds. Or it could be another literary reference. Trying to get more info on it I read that Alta Vista is filled with those. You know the way that some actors would go over to Japan, particularly in the 80s/90s, to do a bunch of ads since they got good money and figured that no one would ever see them? I guess it's the same with Marvel Super Villains and Mexico.
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DarkCrawler posted:But...he survived? But you didn't know that when he uttered the name "Superman".
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The Question IRL posted:You know the way that some actors would go over to Japan, particularly in the 80s/90s, to do a bunch of ads since they got good money and figured that no one would ever see them? Lost In Translation, starring Victor Von Doom
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TwoPair posted:Lost In Translation, starring Victor Von Doom Doom: At Last, Doom shall win the Oscar he so richly deserves for his poignant film exploring how different individuals are capable of connecting through the shared experiences of exploring a foreign land together, and draining the Power Cosmic out of the Silver Surfer! Announcer: And the Award for Best Picture goes to, the Lord of the Rings! Doom: JAAAAACKSON! And, no doubt, RICHAAAAAARDS! 
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Bill and Ted's Excellent Comic Book #5. Death has moved to a new place and being part of human civilization means that for the first time ever, he needs a paying job. He's been having a hard time holding one down and is struggling to make rent. Luckily his landlady, who doesn't seem to really acknowledge what he is, is very understanding. In #9, Death is fired because having a second job causes him to fall behind in reaping souls. He's replaced by Morty, who is a complete rear end in a top hat and tends to berate and laugh at all of his victims. Death makes a plea to the powers that be to get his job back.     The whole series is solid.
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Gavok posted:Bill and Ted's Excellent Comic Book #5. Death has moved to a new place and being part of human civilization means that for the first time ever, he needs a paying job. He's been having a hard time holding one down and is struggling to make rent. Luckily his landlady, who doesn't seem to really acknowledge what he is, is very understanding. And is ripped off wholesale from Mrs Gunderson, the landlady in Judge Death: Boyhood of a Superfiend who also has no idea who her lodger is. 
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It's kind of a...well, I dunno about 'standard' but it comes up a bit. I cite Terry Pratchett's Reaper Man, where he ends up working for Miss Flitworth as a farmer.
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Bloodly posted:It's kind of a...well, I dunno about 'standard' but it comes up a bit. I cite Terry Pratchett's Reaper Man, where he ends up working for Miss Flitworth as a farmer. True, but in Reaper Man it's not just the landlady - nobody lets themselves accept who "Bill Door" really is.
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Bloodly posted:It's kind of a...well, I dunno about 'standard' but it comes up a bit. I cite Terry Pratchett's Reaper Man, where he ends up working for Miss Flitworth as a farmer. And is also replaced by a new Death, that he ends up beating at his own game.
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Bloodly posted:It's kind of a...well, I dunno about 'standard' but it comes up a bit. I cite Terry Pratchett's Reaper Man, where he ends up working for Miss Flitworth as a farmer. I'm guessing Pratchett's comes first chronologically. Pratchett's had a pretty wide influence, it would not surprise me if it inspired similar takes. e: actually it seems the Bill & Ted comic started around the same time Reaper Man came out so no idea.
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Robert Redford was the best Death in the Twilight Zone episode Nothing in the Dark. Was Neil Gaiman's Death worth a read? A kindly reaper is something most people want to believe in, I think.
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I liked the first Death miniseries more than the second, but they're both quite good.
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Die Laughing posted:Robert Redford was the best Death in the Twilight Zone episode Nothing in the Dark. Gaiman's Death is amazing and it's not just goth girls who think so. Honestly, give the first mini a read (Death The High Cost of Living). The sequel was rather meh though.
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Zorak posted:I'm guessing Pratchett's comes first chronologically. Pratchett's had a pretty wide influence, it would not surprise me if it inspired similar takes. They were both published in 1991 and the Judge Death story was originally published the year before but I'm wondering if there wasn't a similar situation in an old movie like Death Takes A Holiday or On Borrowed Time that was the inspiration for all of them. There's been personifications of Death having holidays on Earth for decades and decades.
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Die Laughing posted:Robert Redford was the best Death in the Twilight Zone episode Nothing in the Dark.  Love that episode.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:They were both published in 1991 and the Judge Death story was originally published the year before but I'm wondering if there wasn't a similar situation in an old movie like Death Takes A Holiday or On Borrowed Time that was the inspiration for all of them. There's been personifications of Death having holidays on Earth for decades and decades. I'm pretty sure one of the 1001 Arabian Nights was an early version of "Death Takes a Holiday" (Later remade as the Matt Damon vehicle Meet Joe Black).
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Skwirl posted:I'm pretty sure one of the 1001 Arabian Nights was an early version of "Death Takes a Holiday" (Later remade as the Matt Damon vehicle Meet Joe Black). Brad Pitt vehicle actually.
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Bloodly posted:It's kind of a...well, I dunno about 'standard' but it comes up a bit. I cite Terry Pratchett's Reaper Man, where he ends up working for Miss Flitworth as a farmer. A favourite of mine was the early 80s UK weekly, Eagle - one of its strips had an all powerful alien sent to carry out judgement on humanity. He ends up lodging with a widow and her son and regularly sitting down to watch Corrie with them when he wasn't off saving the world.
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General Bort posted:Brad Pitt vehicle actually. Matt Damon plays the car that runs Brad Pitt over.
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Sentinel Red posted:A favourite of mine was the early 80s UK weekly, Eagle - one of its strips had an all powerful alien sent to carry out judgement on humanity. He ends up lodging with a widow and her son and regularly sitting down to watch Corrie with them when he wasn't off saving the world. Doomlord! Quality....
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Chupe Raho Aurat posted:Doomlord! Doomlord....it's okay to depict people's graphic deaths in a children's comic, because it's in black and white.
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Jerusalem posted:Matt Damon plays the car that runs Brad Pitt over. The first one or the second one? 
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Phy posted:The first one or the second one? It was a Matt Damon/Ben Affleck double team.
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Madkal posted:It was a Matt Damon/Ben Affleck double team. Oh you've seen the unrated cut of Good Will Hunting too?
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Jerusalem posted:Oh you've seen the unrated cut of Good Will Hunting too? How do ya like dem apples.
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Jerusalem posted:Oh you've seen the unrated cut of Good Will Hunting too? The one with the alternate killing spree ending.
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Madkal posted:The one with the alternate killing spree ending. You know, the only good part of the Jay & Silent Bob film is that scene. "It's Hunting season."
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Rhyno posted:You know, the only good part of the Jay & Silent Bob film is that scene. I completely forgot about that movie (really I can't recall anything about it). I was referencing this: 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnESedN4vSI Edit: Jesus Christ that movie sucked.
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You know seeing the amount of Sandman in this thread, no one has posted Fiddler Green's death in the Kindly Ones and his refusal to come back in The WakeRhyno posted:You know, the only good part of the Jay & Silent Bob film is that scene.
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I actually liked Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back(although it's not as good as his other movies)
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drrockso20 posted:I actually liked Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back(although it's not as good as his other movies) Still better than Zack and Miri. From Donatello # 1 Donnie meets April's tenant, Kirby. He's found something that lets his drawings come to life and he and Donnie go through a portal and poo poo happens.     
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Action Tortoise posted:Still better than Zack and Miri.
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