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Murphy Brownback posted:I also hate how in movies/tv shows where they build up to some intense showdown between two really powerful things and they settle it with...a fist/knife fight, not even bothering to use the full extent of their powers we spent all movie/season hearing about. I'm looking at you, Supernatural. Then, when they eventually meet up and have a fight, we don't get to see any of it (other than some flashes of light) because "our" camera is in another room and those two are behind a loving door. Which, one of other characters - who at the time has no superpowers - manages to hold closed despite the presumably apocalyptic fight taking place on the other side of it.
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GazChap posted:Season 1 of Heroes was the loving worst for this. The entire season we see Peter Petrelli absorb everyone else's powers (in a harmless way) to become basically a literal God, and we also see Sylar murder his way through tons of powered people and steal their powers straight out of their brains. Really, I can understand and even appreciate, in a way, the former. You probably can't make something that matches up to what people are vaguely imagining, so just let the details remain unknown, and only show who comes out of it the victor.
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At that point, they were in the future and it was implied they were saving the real fight for the present, in the finale. But it ended up being a boring fistfight.
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Yeah at the time the implication was that the real fight would be shown later (probably a bet to get more budget?)
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Completely irrational: I think Jakku is a really loving stupid name for a planet. The same goes for Naboo. They both sound like ridiculous planets for babies, in addition to Jakku sounding vaguely filthy. Also, Snoke is a dumb name that makes me think of the Snorks.
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Beachcomber posted:Completely irrational: I think Jakku is a really loving stupid name for a planet. The same goes for Naboo. They both sound like ridiculous planets for babies, in addition to Jakku sounding vaguely filthy. Also, Snoke is a dumb name that makes me think of the Snorks. Somehow I don't think you really get Star Wars.
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Esroc posted:Somehow I don't think you really get Star Wars. I love Star Wars, I just really hate those names.
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Tatooine is also ridiculous. Plus it's full of sand which is coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
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Jerusalem posted:Tatooine is also ridiculous. Tunisia doesn't agree with you.
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Wouldn't be the first time, won't be the last 
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There is a dude in Star Wars named Sleaze Baggano. I think Licas wanted one of the bad guys in KOTOR to be named Darth Villanous. Names aren't Star War's strong suit. VVVV yeah that's it . Your Gay Uncle has a new favorite as of 04:20 on May 9, 2016 |
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quote:“The team threw a Hail Mary to George, saying the game would have more credibility if the apprentice had a ‘Darth’ title,” a Force Unleashed team member says. Lucas agreed that this situation made sense for Sith royalty, and offered up two Darth titles for the team to choose from. “He threw out ‘Darth Icky’ and ‘Darth Insanius.’ There was a pregnant pause in the room after that. People waiting for George to say ‘just kidding,’ but it never comes, and he just moved on to another point.”
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If George had wrote the sequels I'd fully expect one of the Sith to be called Darth Badguy.
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Yeah but there's also Darth Andeddu. Guess what, he's a skeleton.
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There's a Jedi called Ima Gun Di. He dies. Also they later smartly made Sleaze Baggano a nickname.
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Aphrodite posted:There's a Jedi called Ima Gun Di. He dies. lmao That's amazing. Sinestro is probably the closest non-Star Wars example I can think of.
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The long biography might make it seem like he was around a while, but that's all just one episode.
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Away all Goats posted:lmao That's amazing.  Comic book names are awesome. My favorite is still Mr. Miracle, who is an escape artist. His real name is Scott Free. Roy G. Bivolo, The Rainbow Rider, is also a good one. Push El Burrito has a new favorite as of 06:04 on May 9, 2016 |
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Darth Insanius is legitimately a way better name than COUNT DOOKU
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One thing that bugged me in Captain America: Civil War. So in Ant-Man's film, they described the Pym Particle as changing the distance between atoms/molecules, which is why even when Ant-Man is the size of, well, an ant, he still has the power of a 200 pound man. In fact they hit home pretty throughly that his mass is constant regardless of his size, which means he has to be careful not to kill a man with a punch to such a concentrated area. So when Ant-Man shows up and grows to four stories tall, wouldn't he still have the mass of a 200 pound man? A stiff breeze should knock him over at that point, he'd be like a giant balloon animal. Also why the gently caress didn't he actually use the ants he trained so hard to control in his movie? That was like half of his gimmick. I'd think filling Iron Man and War Machines' armor full of bullet ants would take the fight out of them a lot faster than throwing a giant toy truck at them.
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Blast Fantasto posted:Darth Insanius is legitimately a way better name than COUNT DOOKU Wouldn't it be Darth Sanius, though, since the In is always silent?
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Wild T posted:So when Ant-Man shows up and grows to four stories tall, wouldn't he still have the mass of a 200 pound man? A stiff breeze should knock him over at that point, he'd be like a giant balloon animal. I took the whole "I did it in a lab, once" explanation to mean that Lang/Pym were working on a way to for Lang to become a giant four-story man without the downsides of being a giant four-story man you mentioned. I mean, poo poo: if you've realized that you can reverse the shrinking process and make yourself into a giant, you'd totally want to try and make it useful, right?
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MisterBibs posted:I took the whole "I did it in a lab, once" explanation to mean that Lang/Pym were working on a way to for Lang to become a giant four-story man without the downsides of being a giant four-story man you mentioned. I mean, poo poo: if you've realized that you can reverse the shrinking process and make yourself into a giant, you'd totally want to try and make it useful, right? Only if by useful you mean figure out how to make a condom out of Pym Particles, because heyyyyyy.
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Wild T posted:One thing that bugged me in Captain America: Civil War. So in Ant-Man's film, they described the Pym Particle as changing the distance between atoms/molecules, which is why even when Ant-Man is the size of, well, an ant, he still has the power of a 200 pound man. In fact they hit home pretty throughly that his mass is constant regardless of his size, which means he has to be careful not to kill a man with a punch to such a concentrated area. The same reason they can shrink a car down to a few inches but still be light enough to carry - pym particles do whatever the plot requires.
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In the first movie an adult male was carried by an ant. Mass is obviously plot determined. If they had just said he could change size and mass it would have been fine. Suit now has two buttons for each size transition.
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Gorilla Salad posted:In the first movie an adult male was carried by an ant. Mass is obviously plot determined. Marvel and DC probably leave some ludicrous stuff in because (a) why not and (b) it gives nerdlingers poo poo to argue about for years afterwards, helping to keep the brand in people's minds. See also : Superman reversing time by orbiting the Earth
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BROCK LESBIAN posted:
Since watching the Flash series I've started noticing that DC is way more on-the-nose about these sorts of things. Roy G. Bivolo bothers the poo poo out of me.
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BROCK LESBIAN posted:
I'm partial to Edward Nigma.
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Henchman of Santa posted:I'm partial to Edward Nigma. Didn't they go back and change that one? Fake Edit: Yeah, wiki says they revised it to Edward Nashton. gently caress knows why, dude wears a bright green suit covered in question marks, who cares that his real name is dumb?
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They usually save that kind of thing for gadget or technology based characters though. So the logic is frequently that they chose that name on purpose. Like Rainbow Raider doesn't coincidentally have some kind of rainbow powers, he specifically builds a rainbow device because that's his name. Victor Fries decides to make himself Mr. Freeze because that's already his name.
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Aphrodite posted:They usually save that kind of thing for gadget or technology based characters though. So the logic is frequently that they chose that name on purpose. Like Rainbow Raider doesn't coincidentally have some kind of rainbow powers, he specifically builds a rainbow device because that's his name. Victor Fries decides to make himself Mr. Freeze because that's already his name. You say that like Roy G. Bivelo isn't a ridiculous name for someone to have.
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Jerusalem posted:If George had wrote the sequels I'd fully expect one of the Sith to be called Darth Badguy. IT'S TWO WORDS, GOD!
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It's actually hyphenated. Darth Bad-Guy.
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Henchman of Santa posted:You say that like Roy G. Bivelo isn't a ridiculous name for someone to have. If your last name is Bivolo and you don't name your son Roy G., you have no sense of humor.
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I bet there's a printing villain called Etaoin Shrdlu somewhere.
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BROCK LESBIAN posted:
If this is the kind of stuff that passes for comic book writing these days, it's no loving wonder DC's brand is swirling down the tubes. This reads like something Brian Clevinger would have rejected from 8-Bit Theater.
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I thought the TV show Gotham did a pretty good job with Victor Fries' name. While they had characters saying it like "freeze" he says the correct pronunciation is more like "fries" as in the food.
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That's probably from the $1 video-game tie-in Injustice comic.
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