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King Baby posted:Gordon is the best part of Harley Quinn for me. I love how his big plan is just to drive around town with a “Come Back Batman!” Banner. Then he freaks out when he sees Batman sitting because “Batman never sits!” A throw back to that old meme from years ago… I thought it was a bad WB/DC policy, not a meme Then again it could easily be both
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OnimaruXLR posted:I thought it was a bad WB/DC policy, not a meme It wasn't really a policy. It was a callback to when Paul Jenkins received an editorial comment writing New 52 asking him to rewrite a scene where Batman was sitting down on a roof next to an injured person, and the comment was something to the effect of "As everyone knows, Batman never sits." which is wrong on its face. It wasn't something that came down from on high as policy for DC, it was just an editor being a loving idiot.
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Don't think anyone's mentioned it here yet, but we've finally got a John Stewart Green Lantern movie premiering at SDCC next month https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW3AlcgUENE As someone who always liked him and Hawkgirl in JL it's nice to see em working together again 
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Teen Titans Go continues to be very weird with a recent episode that basically becomes the movie The Grey.
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That sounds amazing. Does Robin tape broken shooters to his hands?
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Due to a conflict over competing ice cream parlors Robin ends up freezing the world. Then wolves show up, Robin fights them by putting ice cream cones between his fingers and breaking them while the rest of the Titans are picked off one by one by the wolves.
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muscles like this! posted:Due to a conflict over competing ice cream parlors Robin ends up freezing the world. Then wolves show up, Robin fights them by putting ice cream cones between his fingers and breaking them while the rest of the Titans are picked off one by one by the wolves. Bless this show.
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Jun 30, 2022 18:22
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In this episode: A TITAN DIES
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Jun 30, 2022 18:41
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They also did an episode where the Titans try to make a cartoon where they talk about how much of the pipeline was down to complete chance. Also that even if you make something that is a success all that happens is that you make someone else a lot of money.
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So I haven't watched Batman Beyond (the show) in a long time. I haven't met anybody who disliked it in a while but the last person I did wasn't exactly wrong in their critique of the rogue gallery. I thought of this because, when you get down to it, the premise of Return of the Joker is pretty weak. Joke's dead but a magic gizmo lets his personality take over Tim Drake after god knows how many decades. The movie is a 10/10 in execution but if it wasn't, that premise would bury it 6 feet under. And many of the best episodes in the actual show involve returning Batman villains like Ra's or Freeze. So it's like, what cool bad guys did BB have? I remember Inque, Blight, and Curare. I remember the person I argued with just instantly dismissed Inque as a Clayface 2.0 due to their powersets. I don't think I'd agree with that but I'm still struggling to think of anybody who stood out like Batman's rogues. Maybe Mad Stan but he wasn't a villain, he was a prophet. NikkolasKing fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Jul 7, 2022 |
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NikkolasKing posted:So it's like, what cool bad guys did BB have? I remember Inque, Blight, and Curare. I remember the person I argued with just instantly dismissed Inque as a Clayface 2.0 due to their powersets. I don't think I'd agree with that but I'm still struggling to think of anybody who stood out like Batman's rogues. Yeah Inque and Blight are the only two really standout villains imo. I remember Spellbinder because he made it into the intro, and Shriek for having the episode where he tries to convince Bruce he's going crazy, but that one I remember more for Bruce than Shriek (straight up had to Google the name typing this post) Blight does have one of the all time great reaction gif/videos on the internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5tzi4xvt9Q
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It’s definitely an outlier in Batman media in that Terry and Bruce are the most interesting characters and the most compelling part of the show. I think that’s a strength.
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TwoPair posted:Yeah Inque and Blight are the only two really standout villains imo. I remember Spellbinder because he made it into the intro, and Shriek for having the episode where he tries to convince Bruce he's going crazy, but that one I remember more for Bruce than Shriek (straight up had to Google the name typing this post) Spellbinder was kind of just like Scarecrow but Scarecrow is cool so Spellbinder get by on that. I also quite liked Shriek, I thought his design was great.
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Shriek is definitely my favorite supervillain design, but other villains that always stand out to me are the prince of the dino-worshippers, the guy entombed in radioactive waste who controls golems made of dirt, the Fantastic Four, the weird sewer-dweller kid who commands giant man-eating rats, Mad Stan, the millionaire who attempted to digitize himself to be brought back to life in the future, and the nerd who gains power to control construction equipment and later telekinesis. There's definitely some that aren't very memorable like...steroid-abusing gym coach, but there's a lot of hits even if they seldom get a chance to make a second appearance. One one-off probably less memorable villain is Armory, but I actually thought about him a lot in my rewatch of Danny Phantom, because he seems a lot like the inspiration for Valerie. A guy working a fancy security firm running on hard times and has to resort to using high-tech stuff to do crimes, but also his kid is at the high school with the main cast. I also constantly think of Blight and his son, Paxton Powers, when real-life supervillain at large Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton comes up.
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I really like Babel, the Shriek-centered episode where he gets the city to turn its opinion on Batman and all of Terry's allies (even Bruce) tells him to just not go to the final showdown and Terry just is like Batman wouldn't do that. In the end, he saves the day, and a firefighter tries to help him up and Terry is like nope edit: realizing my favorite episodes deal with Terry questioning his abilities as Batman I also recommend "Lost Soul" and maybe "Mind Games" hiddenriverninja fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Jul 7, 2022 |
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Ten was a good villain, though I guess she technically wasn't really bad. But I liked the relationship with her and Terry.
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Shriek, Inque, the Royal Flush Gang. I think Shriek's underrated - Babel is a great episode and has some really creepy moments with Shriek and his crew. Curare's almost cool but falls short of depth. Mad Stan is great but he's only actually the main villain in maybe one episode, and it's not very good - he's more setting texture than headliner. Big Time in the later seasons is moderately interesting but he's also super goofy. There are a lot of excellent one off villains, though - Ian Peek, the mud dad from Earthshaker, animal splicer cult guy, etc. Then there are the really bad villains, like Kobra and the guy who definitely isn't Kraven the Hunter. That said, if you reduce a lot of Batman's rogues to two or three stories each, probably we wouldn't rate characters like Mr. Freeze or the Riddler particularly highly either. If you gave Curare ten episodes there would probably be a couple of all timers in there.
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Mad Stan is an extended cameo and reference to Henry Rollins role in the hit 1995 cyberpunk classic film Johnny Mnemonic, and that's really all it needs to be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOovtZXYqj4
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Codependent Poster posted:Ten was a good villain, though I guess she technically wasn't really bad. The original B:TAS had a ton of flings that never amounted to anything, but for Terry he had one steady girlfriend throughout the series, and he wasn't as slavishly dedicated to the general principle of being Batman, so it really meant something for him to risk throwing everything away for the sake of Ten. It's also a lot more real and relatable for her to just be a troubled kid from a bad family as opposed to like a glamorous wealthy burglar.
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The disparity of quality between the show and the advertising for it is truly amazing
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Sockser posted:The disparity of quality between the show and the advertising for it is truly amazing Honestly that’s not even a Harley Quinn problem but a general “Marketing for Comedy” Problem. You always want to choose the best moments in your promo, which out of context become the worst moments. I can think of one other comedy (Good Place) who’s early promos were just rough
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Tisk tisk. You guys talking about Beyond villains and don’t mention the ensemble beauty that is Bonk, Ghoul, Dee Dee, and Chucko. True, I think they only show up like once in the show, proper, but their appearance in the JLU crossover was fantastic. Do you know what killed the dinosaurs? Uhhhh. No…sir. Well, Chucko does! 
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AlternateNu posted:Tisk tisk. You guys talking about Beyond villains and don’t mention the ensemble beauty that is Bonk, Ghoul, Dee Dee, and Chucko. You forgot Woof the Hyena Splicer.
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AlternateNu posted:Tisk tisk. You guys talking about Beyond villains and don’t mention the ensemble beauty that is Bonk, Ghoul, Dee Dee, and Chucko. And the reveal at the end of ROTJ that the Dee Dees were Harley's grandkids was nice
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Green Lantern: Beware My Power leaks have apparently revealed that we're getting an Emerald Twilight adaptation
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Oh hey Marvel's still making that Moon Girl show huh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO8YxaqvVlY
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https://twitter.com/RottenTomatoes/status/1550561714206150656
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What If Season 2 features a 1602 episode! Also Marvel Zombies is confirmed TV-MA. That's kinda shocking.
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https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1550563543266762754 https://twitter.com/rachmeetsworld/status/1550563501785026561 https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1550565818278330369 lomzus fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Jul 22, 2022 |
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loving hell. https://twitter.com/Scarlet_Kahnum/status/1550566253743464450?s=20&t=mw_zG3ia93Sgn2PnqQ3Whw We have failed this generation.
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https://twitter.com/Borys_Kit/status/1550568056719437824
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Marvel zombies is probably the first MCU thing I have no interest in watching
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I mean that’s fair the Marvel Zonbie comics kind of suck already
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A bit odd that they're going with a sort of pseudo-mohawked Storm. But otherwise, I'm not sure I even fully believe the project is coming until they have some animation to show. Also I'm really conscious these days about new incarnations of Spiderman that give Peter a bunch of friends and a whole social group to hang out with, since it definitely makes sense to create more interesting stories, and it's what so many teen heroes who have otherwise followed the Spiderman model have done, but back in his original comics, Peter Parker was a lonely antisocial nerd (and honestly? Kind of a jerk), and that informed a lot about how his character ended up shaping up. Skwirl posted:loving hell. I haven't really read all the 90s comics, but I get the impression that even in the comics Jubilee wasn't really as big of a character as she was in the cartoon. I think she didn't even get to be a proper member of the team, they shoved her into Generation X instead, and certainly in the later comics she got forgotten a lot more, writers feel the need to throw weird gimmicks into her character to make her work, like adopting a baby she found in the middle of nowhere or becoming a vampire. The cartoon kinda gave her Kitty Pryde's role from the 80s comics as the young kid being brought into the mutant world and the token student for Professor X's "school", as opposed to her comic origin of being a mall-rat orphan-runaway who followed them home while they were hiding out in Australia and at the time unaffiliated with Xavier's Institute (I think Storm resented the fact that Magneto was running it at the time). And I guess at the end of the 90s comics went through a whole collapse where the industry collapsed from being in a bubble that popped, but also there was a big backlash by the audience to what the comics themselves had become at the times, so when the industry crawled out of the crash, it buried most of what happened in the 90s, while at the same time writers came into the comics who were kids in the 80s and brought back the sympathetic child-viewpoint character from back when they were reading 24 years earlier, Kitty Pryde. So she got put back on the team, got a cameo in the movies, and a big part in X-Men Evolution, and Jubilee got forgotten.
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SlothfulCobra posted:A bit odd that they're going with a sort of pseudo-mohawked Storm. But otherwise, I'm not sure I even fully believe the project is coming until they have some animation to show. To be fair the whole Vampire thing happened because Jubilee had been one of the characters that got depowered after House of M and then someone wanted to bring her back to the X books but they weren't allowed to give her back her mutant abilities so they just had her become a vampire instead cause for some reason the X-Men deal with Vampire stuff a lot
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CharlestheHammer posted:I mean that’s fair the Marvel Zombie comics kind of suck already The Ultimate FF arc that spawned them and the first mini were pretty good imo but let's be honest they definitely went a lot harder/were more hosed up than Disney's ever gonna make a show out of on its platform where some kid's definitely gonna run across and a parent will throw a fit.
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