Also Harvey Keitel is going to be in it. Dudes, you were both in Tarantino movies. You can't seriously need money that bad.
I think there's an argument to be made that the Tarrasque, which was one of the deadliest creatures in old DND, is an inspiration for the Deathclaw, especially the later designs in Fallout 3 and New Vegas.
There's something cool about a nobleman who grows up outside the confines of their lineage and learns to fend for themself and about the plight of common people, which then aids them when they finally return to reclaim their title.
King Arthur: Bat Themed Men. Arthur is the bastard son of Uther Pendragon, raised and taught by Merlin until he is ready to ascend the title of King of England. The OG boy King.
Aragorn (LOTR): Based on Arthurian Myth, Aragorn, son of Arathorn, is the last descendant of King Isildur of Gondor. Of the line of Numenor, Aragorn is blessed with a long lifespan, being 80 something during the main books. I kinda prefer the movie version where he's more hesitant to take the throne and has a more pronounced character arc.
Simba (Lion King): Probably everyone's go-to. Framed for his father's murder by his uncle, Simba is raised on an insectivorous diet by his adoptive dads and instructed in the deep philosophy of Hakuna Matata.
Martin Septim (Oblivion): The bastard son of Emperor Uriel Septim the VII, Martin is hidden by the Emperor's bodyguards, The Blades, and raised on the outskirts of society, briefly joining the cult of Sanguine in his youth before joining the temple of Akatosh. His destiny finally came for him when his birth father and half brothers were assassinated, leading him to meet the Hero of Kvatch. Martin is a learned and kind man, who sadly did not get to be emperor long, sacrificing himself to defeat the demon god, Mehrunes Dagon.
Touchstone (Sabriel): Another bastard. Touchstone was more or less forced into being the heir when his half brother murdered the rest of their family and became an undead monster. Touchstone, driven mad by grief and rage, had to be turned to wood for the intervening years until his mind was healed. When he returned, he met with Sabriel and helped destroy his brother once and for all, before finally ascending the throne.
Without getting too political, the common belief is "prison should be reformative, not punitive". Bad people are still human. Justice shouldn't be torture. Even if they're cold and remorseless monsters, we need to go through due course and try.
McMurphy (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest): One could argue that McMurphy's fate is his own fault, feigning insanity to get off a battery charge, but that doesn't excuse how he was tortured and eventually lobotomized by the Sanitarium. Granted, Ratched is the main reason for his suffering, but ultimately it was a systemic issue that let her be in power and allowed him to fake an illness. But at least Chief made it out.
Alex Delarge (Clockwork Orange): Alex may be one of the most evil characters put to film. He's a rapist, a murderer, a psychotic teenager who drinks drugged milk. When he is finally arrested, he does spend some time in prison and is treated relatively ok, but he later is experimented upon and programmed to be averse to violence. The system then kicks him out and lets him get abused by society. Granted, Alex did volunteer for the program, and honestly, programming empathy into a sociopath is a noble goal, but they had no plan in place for helping Alex adapt to life on the outside with this constraint on him. They didn't even contact his parents and ask them to take him. And then it ends with the government undoing his conditioning to use him as some kind of agent I guess. So we're right back to square one. Also worth noting his equally culpable droogs are all pieces of shit who should have been arrested too and not only do they escape consequences, one ends up as a cop.
I grew up with Tim Curry. From Home Alone 2 to Muppet Treasure Island, he turned up everywhere.
My favorite weirdly isn't even a performance per se, it's his narration of the Old Kingdom books (Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen)
Listed are King Arthur from Spamalot, Long John Silver from Muppet Treasure Island, Nigel Thornberry, the guy from Home Alone 2, and Pennywise
I don't know why, but some characters in movies will just use full names as if they were cuss words.
Kelly Clarkson (40 Year Old Virgin): I've never seen this movie but this scene lives rent free in most people's brains because of the trailer. Steve Carrell plays the eponymous virgin and while trying to make himself presentable, they give him a hot wax and the intense pain causes him to randomly shout the American Idol darling's name. Allegedly this scene was almost all improv as they actually waxed Carrell on camera.
Barbra Streisand (South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut): Cartman is curtailed from swearing with a V-chip that shocks him when he curses. Toward the end of the film, the chip begins to malfunction and he's able to project his shocks like force lightning. The more he swears, the higher the voltage. So he kills Sadam Hussein (again) by chaining together a long list of potty language but for some reason, the button on it is the beloved star of stage and screen, Barbra Streisand. That gives him enough energy to save the day.
It's funny to see a character who cannot possibly develop a habit still partake in said habit.
Nick Valentine (Fallout 4): Nick is a Gen 2 Synth. The memories of a Pre-War detective mapped onto an android brain. Said memory must be a powerful thing, because despite being unable to get the dopamine high of smoking tobacco, he still smokes cigarettes. Another similar thing is gen 3 Synths (basically clones with cybernetic implants) love snack cakes, despite being unable to retain sugar or get fat.
Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama): Bender needs a constant stream of alcohol to keep his fuel cells powered... But he literally just smokes to look cool. He is unable to taste or process the smoke in anyway. He just does it for love of the game.
Android 15 (Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13): Android 15 is a pure machine. He doesn't even require alcohol to function the way Bender does... And yet for some reason, he is compelled to imbibe liquor. This isn't mentioned in the original film, but the Abridged version does poke fun at it.
"Does that even do anything for you?"
"Not anymore."
Amethyst (Steven Universe): Gems are sentient crystalline entities that bend the light refractions going through them to create humanoid bodies. They don't need to eat or breathe. They can just exist. And yet, Amethyst loves food. I don't even know if she can taste.
I'm getting Dragonology
I'm not sure if ERB meant for that to be a bad interpretation, but it is.
Frodo basically dies at the end. He is suffering severe PTSD from his journey and has to go to the undying lands to be healed.
Like, LOTR is not allegorical to the world wars, but it definitely has the knowledge of what happens in war. You don't come back unchanged.
Seems that, especially in comics, it's easy for your name to be stolen by someone for something completely unrelated. Granted, I don't think anyone INTENDED to steal names (that could be a whole other list), it's just lateral thinking.
Starfox (Marvel): Eros seems cursed. His brother is Thanos. His super power is making people horny. And his hero name referring to how he's a sexy person (a fox) in space (star) was taken by a literal fox in space. He predates the game by 20 years.
Deathstroke the Terminator (DC): Iconic Teen Titans villain. Part time Batman Rogue. Possible statutory r*pist (I don't consider it canon but many do), Slade Wilson is THE Merc of DC... And then four years later, some movie starring an Austrian who barely speaks English steals his title of "the terminator".
Black Panther (Marvel): This is gonna be weird because I would argue more people think of Black Panther the marvel character now than the political organization, but for a time, I think you'd probably be called a radical if you had this dude's comic. However, strange as it is, both the character and the organization debuted the same year, just months apart, with T'challa just barely eking out the win. And both are actually named after all Black Tank battalion.
Captain Marvel (DC): This one feels almost intentional. Twenty years before Mar Vell, there was Billy Batson saying Shazam to turn into Captain Marvel. Now his superhero name is his word of power. If you get him to say his name, it'll just turn him normal again. Hardly sporting. He needs a better name like... Captain Sparkle Fingers.
So, I've been using the word "vampiricy/vampiracy" as my noun for the curse of the vampire since I was a child, only to find out that isn't even a word.
Well, the good thing about being a writer. I don't have to care what the proper terminology is. It's my book consarnit.
I wish you could cure every vamp in Skyrim like Serana.
Sometimes, you gotta compromise on how much swearing and gore you can show. That doesn't mean you can't embrace how insane or whacky a character is.
Lobo (Superman: TAS): Brad Garrett as the Main Man is a pretty left field pick, but it works with him as a grody space bar traversing bounty hunter. He stays true to the ultra violent comics he comes from without even getting eviscerated once (or eviscerating someone else).
Deadpool (Ultimate Spider-Man): While I think we all know Drake Bell was not a great pick for Spidey (for reasons I won't go into), Will Friedle KILLED UNALIVED it as Deadpool. Wade realizes he's in a cartoon and is trying to tone it down, but still is the whacky and zany Merc with the Mouth we all love.
Wolverine (X-Men Evolution): While we all know Steve Blum is THE wolverine, I think he works better when he can swear, so for a good PG adaptation of the character, I'm going with Scott McNeil as the best kid version of Logan. A great version of the character, and I'm saying that as someone who wasn't even a huge fan of the show. He manages to bridge the gap between the Hugh Jackman wolverine of the movies and the comics version.
Big Head (The Mask): Honestly, I prefer this version to the gorey one from the comics. I think Ipkiss as a nobody learning to stand up for himself is a much better arc than the asshole in the comics who gets killed by his girlfriend.
It's fun to see an inhuman creature be personified with human characteristics. Here we have various characters who don't have traditional hair, but have various growths/appendages that simulate it.
Bender's rust beard (Futurama): Bender Bending Rodriguez has to drink alcohol to power his fuel cells (and smokes to look cool). When he doesn't drink, he ironically starts acting drunk. Slurred speech, poor motor functions, and the metal around his mouth begins to rust, forming a five o'clock shadow.
Eda's Leg Feathers (Owl House): Eda is a witch, an elf like humanoid species that are so like humans that they can easily crossbreed. Eda has, unrelated to that, a curse that transforms her into an owl beast. Even when she has the curse under control, her owl form leaks through. She's attracted to sparkly things, she sleeps in a nest, and she grows feathers that she prunes, emulating leg shaving. It's literally what inspired this post.
Celia's sneks (Monster's Inc): There is shaky ground on Medusa, seeing as an argument could be made that her snakes aren't hair, but a part of her actual body that she uses to see. Hence why her snakes are usually splayed out, almost like they're looking for prey. Celia, who takes design cues from Medusa, conversely clearly styles her hair and mentions cutting it short (to the horror of her snakes). This implies that she does just view it as hair and not a body part.
Jones' Calamari Beard (Pirates of the Caribbean): Davy Jones does actually use his tentacles in the movies. He hides a key, he plays the organ with them, he even kills a man with them (in the most disturbing kill across the franchise). However, I am willing to grandfather them in because he has a beard in his mortal form and they turned into tentacles.
I wanted to do a top characters trope of characters treating things that aren't hair as hair like Bender's rust beard and Eda's leg feathers.
Feels like there's always a character running around the house and giggling in every ~~ season ~~ series and they are always a delight.
Infinite opens with you being dropped off at the Columbia lighthouse and finding this poor sod having been tortured to death.
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Given what we know about the ending, who did it?
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Not the Founders. Why would they kill their gatekeeper?
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Not the Vox. They're already in Columbia.
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Not the Luteces. They don't seem the kind to.
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Booker is an unreliable narrator with a history of bloodshed. It's very likely that he is the one who did this and just doesn't remember.