u/MICKTHENERD

As one, when you beat Gnasty he turns into gems like the other monsters, and two in the apparent epilogue no 10 year old child knew existed because skill points were impossible to get shut up, Gnasty Gnorc and Ripto are seen having a summit about "The Spyro problem" implying both are clearly alive.

Ripto I'm MORE surprised about being alive on the subject, Gnasty pulled a Houdini, Ripto...he fell in LAVA, like WHAT?!

Look at the little guy, he went to therapy, got a degree, now he's just hanging out in his library with a nice water fall feature!

And then CRASH COMES IN to just knock him around, something that's obviously triggering to this guy whose only had a YEAR of therapy, so he resorts to old habits of jumping on explosives leaving himself open to attacks!

I know Crash was going the double agent/prisoner route in this game, but still, poor blue kangaroo with magic explosion powers.

Like, I know Sly was the ORIGINAL main character, but by Sly 2 it became a multi-character campaign, TELL ME about the magic hippo and science turtle's past!

ESPECIALLY Murray, both his childhood backstory, AND how he went from goofy driver character in Sly 1, to the BAD ASS hippo of destruction who was the FUNNEST to play as lets get real here!

I'm just saying, where did Murray get the potato gun as a kid, you know?

And then BENTLEY, like what was KID BENTLEY'S deal?! Orphaned kid, stuck in his computers, what HAPPENED to this non-ninja version of Donatello?!

Seriously while I get "Thieves in Time" literally going into the Cooper's past, we also basically SAW IT all ready in Sly 1 AND Sly 3 through story, Bentley and Murray we know NOTHING about!

Just saying, I think it'd be cool.

I don't know how that would translate to gameplay, but I still think it'd be cool.

They might as well put plants in there, brighten the place up at least.

Classic case of "Just because we serve you, doesn't mean we have to like you."

Like, the Miller run right? Its just weird because I've been flipping between Silver Age and modern stuff, and this ish reminded me of his later retconned origin where he lost Battlin' Jack as a child, and was then trained by the Stick.

Not saying I don't mind the later origin and new mentor Stick as it indirectly lead to the creation of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but still the dissonance can hit you if you're reading it non-sequentially like a lot of modern comic readers like me do.

I feel it'd be a bigger twist if he wasn't, secret relative comes out of the woodwork, but ISN'T a supervillain or tied to anything shady?! THAT would be a surprise!

Sometimes the parody of a character or story can end up oddly overshadowing the original, and its...REALLY funny when it does! More often than not, these series go through MASSIVE Cerebus Syndrome where a parody/comedy becomes more grounded, but often not in a bad way!

1.) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Both the team being a parody of Daredevil, AND their antagonists the Foot Clan who were a parody of the Hand. Be honest, you knew about the Foot Clan WELL before even learning about the Hand, they even have deep intricate lore that RIVALS that of the hand! And hell, the TMNT weirdly became on of the most profitable media franchises of all time, as while Daredevil gets his time in the sun mind, he doesn't have NEARLY the same success that the turtles do.

2.) Kinnikuman: To think this series started out as just a humble parody of Ultraman, where main character Kinnikuman was even supposed to be the bastard son of Ultra Father from the Ultra series(this would obviously change due to copyright). After several story arcs though, the series went from being a gag series parodying superheroes, to a more serious series focusing on "Choujin Wrestling", where superheroes and supervillains would battle in the ring in a mixed martial arts version of wrestling.

The series is so popular, the main character's signature move "The Kinniku Buster" inspired a real wrestling move in "The Muscle Buster". Said move in real life is NO WHERE near accurate to the manga nor anime, but to attempt to do be more accurate would...probably kill the recipient of said buster, so I give it leeway. Not to mention it has several video games based upon it, and a popular line of rubber eraser figurines known as "M.U.S.C.L.E" in the States (which was weirdly the first release of the series to even before BOTH anime).

3.) Son Goku and VARIOUS characters from Dragon Ball: Technically more of a comedic pastiche, but still I feel it counts. Dragon Ball is one of the most impactful media franchises to come out of Japan, manga, anime, video games, horrible live action movies, the WORKS! And weirdly enough, its become just as if not more iconic than the original novel its based on "Journey to the West", especially with Goku being a BIT different than his name sake Son Goku(known as Sun Wukong in the original Chinese). While I love both Dragon ball and Journey to the West, more kids will be yelling KAMEHAMEHA in the future than pretend to bash people's skulls in like the original Monkey King (for real, Sun Wukong was BLOODTHIRSTY, I love it!)