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I watched the DVD commentary (god I miss those) for World's Finest and I guess Tim Daly (Superman) recorded his dialogue, at least in the scenes they shared, along with Kevin Conroy and Bruce Timm said he thought working with Conroy really elevated Daly's game. He's nowhere near as iconic as Conroy's Batman, but Daly is still the Superman voice to me. To the point I had a hard time getting into Justice League at first.
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Speaking of, is there any difference between the movie and TV versions of World’s Finest besides the latter being split up into parts?
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In technically-DC animation news, I'd like to recommend Phantom 2040. Sure, I can appreciate that a 1994-96 animated series based on a fairly obscure comic character might not be instantly appealing but hear me out. It had a good budget, which combined with character designs by the same person who did Aeon Flux, it's going to look good. The voice acting talent is stellar, Margot Kidder, Ron Perlman, Pamela Adlon (Bobby from King of the Hill), Leah Remini (Carrie from The King of Queens) and a bunch more people with really solid resumes. Oh yeah, and Mark Hamill in one of his craziest roles. The show runner is probably best known for the Flash Gordon animated series, so I don't know how he managed this. The series tag line is "In the year 2040, one hero fights to save our dying planet". A powerful megacorp is plotting to destroy the environment, withdraw into a protected enclave, and then take over once the dust settles. It's amazingly cyberpunk; cloned organs, androids on the verge of self-awareness... and over it, cops in powered armor, ongoing ecological catastrophe and breakdown of society, computer hacking in VR, AI assistants, sentient programs, and of course a megacorp bent on loving over the planet for a profit. It's also not afraid to go over the top and play it straight; if you want to hear Margot Kidder make a Ren and Stimpy reference, step right this way. The writing is actually really solid, there's some great characterizations and episode plotlines. The whole thing is on YouTube in good quality, check it out. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgkKj2n1LjA_VzcrpMQ8l_NszGmxAA1d0
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Air Skwirl posted:I watched the DVD commentary (god I miss those) for World's Finest and I guess Tim Daly (Superman) recorded his dialogue, at least in the scenes they shared, along with Kevin Conroy and Bruce Timm said he thought working with Conroy really elevated Daly's game. Daly's Superman is good but I think Newbern gets the juicier material on account of Superman getting into all those hijinks in Justice League stemming from the massive chip on his shoulder from the events of Legacy Also Newbern was Sephiroth for a long time, which I continue to be amused by, despite the role being recast to some other guy who is also Superman sometimes
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Jul 17, 2023 06:56
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Defenders of the Earth is probably not as good as Phantom 2040, but Stan Lee wrote the lyrics to the very literal theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nblpob8gyzs
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Jul 17, 2023 13:59
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Harley Quinn Season 4 trailer: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZQIznYOb2uI How is the show out of curiosity? I was thinking of finally checking it out
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Jul 20, 2023 22:31
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Jul 20, 2023 22:46
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It's legit funny and goofy. I had no expectations about liking it, and just watched the first couple episodes with my wife and was hooked. It's also a delightful rom-com.
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Jul 20, 2023 23:30
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WHERE'S MY ELECTRIC CAR, BRUCE?
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In related news apparently the Kite Man series got renamed from "Noonans" to "Kite Man: Hell Yeah!"
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So it’s (Haley Quinn) primarily a comedy series featuring Batman characters then?
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Larryb posted:Harley Quinn Season 4 trailer: Holy poo poo, it's Snowflame!
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Larryb posted:So it’s (Haley Quinn) primarily a comedy series featuring Batman characters then? Yeah. I think the first season is kind of rough personally, but it gets better.
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Larryb posted:So it’s (Haley Quinn) primarily a comedy series featuring Batman characters then? Its a comedy about Harley deciding to break away from the Joker and become her own woman and also trying to figure out if she's a hero or a villain.
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muscles like this! posted:Its a comedy about Harley deciding to break away from the Joker and become her own woman and also trying to figure out if she's a hero or a villain. Works for me then
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muscles like this! posted:WHERE'S MY GODDAMNED ELECTRIC CAR, BRUCE? FTFY But seriously I use that frequently to my wife to make her laugh
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And in the latest My Adventures episode Lois has already figured out Clark’s secret and she’s not happy about it
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Larryb posted:Harley Quinn Season 4 trailer: First 2 seasons really good. 3rd season lost a step.
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MAWS This could be Lex 
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MonsterEnvy posted:MAWS I’d say he has too much hair but then again there have been other incarnations of Lex in the past that weren’t bald Also he looks like Seto Kaiba Larryb fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Jul 21, 2023 |
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Also wigs
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Larryb posted:I’d say he has too much hair but then again there have been other incarnations of Lex in the past that weren’t bald He needs to lose his hair and blame it on Superman. Although classically he was supposed to have bright orange hair.
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Jul 21, 2023 18:44
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SlothfulCobra posted:He needs to lose his hair and blame it on Superman. Where did the whole Bald Lex trend start then?
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Jul 21, 2023 18:46
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SlothfulCobra posted:He needs to lose his hair and blame it on Superman. It looks more red in other lighting.
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Larryb posted:Where did the whole Bald Lex trend start then? He was originally bald without explanation and later in the 50s his revised origin story was that he was friends with Superboy until he performed a risky experiment that Superboy had to rescue him from, and he went bald as a result and swore revenge on Superboy because of it. Sometimes he’s balding but not there yet, like in Byrne’s Man of Steel. Gene Hackman showed the world that there could be a Luthor with hair.
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I AM GRANDO posted:He was originally bald without explanation and later in the 50s his revised origin story was that he was friends with Superboy until he performed a risky experiment that Superboy had to rescue him from, and he went bald as a result and swore revenge on Superboy because of it. Also I believe him being bald was actually due to an artist mistaking him with Ultra humanite
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Larryb posted:Where did the whole Bald Lex trend start then? As previously mentioned, in most versions he used to have red hair but then lost it in a lab accident. And that's where we get into the always tricky comic book problem of alternate universes and continuities. Sometimes the accident is vaguely Superman related, sometimes not.
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TwoPair posted:As previously mentioned, in most versions he used to have red hair but then lost it in a lab accident. And that's where we get into the always tricky comic book problem of alternate universes and continuities. Sometimes the accident is vaguely Superman related, sometimes not. Did STAS use the lab accident story out of curiosity? I know he was already bald when he first met Superman at least
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Yeah Luthor originally had Red Hair in his early appearances, and an artistic error made him bald which just stuck. It was guessed he was mixed up with Ultra Humanite the first supervillain who was a balding elderly man. This is what Luthor looked like in his first two appearances.   Also fun fact, Luthor did not get his first name until 20 years after he first appeared. MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Jul 21, 2023 |
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Isn’t the modern explanation that he had hair and wearing a kryptonite ring over time gave him cancer, and then his hair fell out from chemo? Imagine hating a guy so much it gives you cancer.
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There’s also the fact the new guy’s name is Alex (Luthor’s full name is Alexander Luthor) and as mentioned in another thread he’s also shown assisting in active supervillainy (and enjoying it): Ivo usually works for him as opposed to the other way around though Larryb fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Jul 21, 2023 |
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I think it was the newspaper strip that forgot that Lex had hair first, and then Superboy put in the origin. Nothing is ever really "canon" in Superman because there's been multiple continuities from the start and the comics have had multiple big complicated multipurpose retcons, but it's a fun bit. I hope he steals some pies.
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Nanigans posted:Isn’t the modern explanation that he had hair and wearing a kryptonite ring over time gave him cancer, and then his hair fell out from chemo? Nah, he was bald before that. It gave him cancer and then he lost his hand and then he faked his death and came back in a clone body and pretended to be his own son
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Larryb posted:There’s also the fact the new guy’s name is Alex (Luthor’s full name is Alexander Luthor) and as mentioned in another thread he’s also shown assisting in active supervillainy (and enjoying it): Yeah. That's Luthor. In a lot of recent continuities, Ivo has been older than Luthor. And considering the main characters are all in the early 20s, it makes sense that Luthor is working for Ivo this time. I have to say, though. That character model just looks like they designed Lex and slapped a wig on it. 
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Don't forget the period in the 90's where after getting cancer from wearing a Kryptonite ring for a while he transferred his mind into a fresh clone body(that had not only a full head of hair but also a beard), let everyone think he died and in his new body pretended to be his own long lost son from Australia and was loving Supergirl* for a while *mind you because of a policy the comics had at the time Clark was the only living Kryptonian allowed to be around so this Supergirl was instead a shapeshifter created by the Lex Luthor of an alternate pocket dimension, she later on would merge with a teenage girl and become an Angel because comics
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I wish they'd have found a role for the Humanite. He deserves acknowledgement as the first true supervillain ever.
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Nodosaur posted:I wish they'd have found a role for the Humanite. He deserves acknowledgement as the first true supervillain ever. Yeah outside of the DCAU using him a couple times and some Elseworlds uses like The Golden Age or Batman & Superman Generations, he pretty much only ever shows up these days for them to do cheesy brain swapping stories
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catlord posted:See, I saw The Batman when I was a bit too old for the toys so I only vaguely remember seeing ads for them and I have no idea how they worked. I'm curious what specifically activated them. My wife won one of the Batmobiles randomly and we had fun seeing when it activated during the shows. It added "villains" to the roster of games or activity things the led game screen thing had which was cool but stopped working once it was in syndication or rebroadcast or something. SlothfulCobra posted:It was a weird thing to stick into a cartoon, but the episode is also all about trying to exonerate somebody else being threatened with the death penalty. Re: the cartoon ending. It seems like a lot of 90s TV wanted to have a kind of twist/cliffhangery ending to make the end of an episode feel more abrupt and less closed off. Tons of the S1 episodes of Buffy have a weird twist (leftover lizard eggs in the pool, Invisible Girl classmate recruited into Evil Government X-men). And the X-files had a few episodes that didnt quite resolve. It comes back big in Batman Beyond, with really gruesome or unsettling ends to people's stories. Maybe the popularity of The Outer Limits remake having an influence?
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They probably take those ultrasonic signals out for rebroadcast because they have no way of knowing whether it will mess with some piece of future technology and make the recliner crush grandpa in 2043 or something.
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FilthyImp posted:Re: the cartoon ending. It seems like a lot of 90s TV wanted to have a kind of twist/cliffhangery ending to make the end of an episode feel more abrupt and less closed off. Tons of the S1 episodes of Buffy have a weird twist (leftover lizard eggs in the pool, Invisible Girl classmate recruited into Evil Government X-men). And the X-files had a few episodes that didnt quite resolve. It comes back big in Batman Beyond, with really gruesome or unsettling ends to people's stories. Maybe the popularity of The Outer Limits remake having an influence? I think that was more a function of how shows were funded, never knowing whether they'd get another season. Being more episodic than serialized even if the better shows had serialized elements.
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