Besides the obvious outcome that if these two characters ever met they’d fuck. Let’s say Black Lagoon and the bebop crew end up on each others hit list. Spike and Revy pick each other out as the strongest and have a shootout. Who wins?
You could argue very few characters didn’t deserve their whacking, afterall they’re all cheaters, beaters, murderers and robbers. But who were you most satisfied to see go because they absolutely deserved it?
In 1993 recently elected Sheriff of Maricopa County Joe Arpaio announces the grand opening of tent city. Joe Arpaio was quite the character. He was a Korean War veteran, police officer and DEA agent who told wild fabricated stories of murdering drug dealers in the alps. He thought the answer to crime was to eliminate it with brutality. Create a police force and jail so brutal no one would ever commit crimes again. As expected, this is a horrible philosophy and Arpaios time as sheriff is more comparable to a military takeover.
Tent City was a structure that encapsulated Arpaios world view. The Maricopa County Jail had a massive outdoor area installed where inmates were forced to live outside in the 120 degree heat. He legalized chain gangs again and forced inmates to walk around town picking up litter until they gained news coverage. Arpaio wasn’t much of a sheriff but he was a master at working the media, and he knew how to sell the image of toughest sheriff in America. He bragged about guard beatings, taking away inmates books and forcing them to eat 30 cent grool. Reminder that this is a jail not a prison, almost everyone at tent city are nonviolent offenders or are awaiting trial and not found guilty yet. Hundreds over the years would die because of the heat and because Joe Arpaio restricted access to medicine. Worse yet, in 2000 he launched a website live-streaming cameras from the jail. Cameras in all the cell blocks and areas for the world to see, including the juvenile detention center bathrooms that kids used. As expected, almost none of this was legal and the jail violated dozens of human rights and health and building codes, but Joe had politcians fawning over him for support. Tent City wasn’t closed until 2017.
https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/marty-atencio-1967-2011-another-victim-sheriff-joe-arpaios
The Astroworld festival was created by rapper Travis Scott known for his reckless endangerment of his crowd during concerts. When he crowd surfed and got his shoes stolen he called out the thief and told the crowd to 'fuck em up'. Travis had been arrested and fined for instructing audience members to climb over security barricades, causing several injuries to his staff and audience. In 2017 he encouraged fans to dive into the crowd from a balcony causing a teenage boy to paralyze himself. At the 2019 Astroworld fans were injured from the surge of people entering the venue. While promoting Astroworld, Travis posted videos online instructing fans how to sneak in without tickets, when already they were expecting 50,000 people crammed into a small area. Live Nation's security team was not licensed to operate in Texas and was untrained for a crowd surge. Ontop of all this, the concert set up required Travis to move across 3 seperate stages, meaning the crowd in the center would be moving back and forth to see each stage. In other words, they had created a giant stampede of people
On November 5th, early morning a crowd has gathered outside NRG Park and began breaking barricades and fences to get in. By the time they opened the gates people flood in and began crushing against each other, struggling to breath and getting trampled. The mosh pit in front of the stage became a death trap and trigger warning because this is some of the worst shit I've ever read about. Early into the performance, 2 people have already died, including a 9 year old boy who had fallen off his fathers shoulders and was crushed to death. In videos and interviews after the concert, survivors of the mosh pit recall struggling to move their arms or even expand their lungs to breathe, one lady curled into a ball on the ground crowd crying, accepting she was going to die. Another woman was saved by the crowd surfing her unconscious body out of the pit. One marine began performing CPR on any unconscious people he could save, resuscitating 2 people. He was stumbling over bodies on the ground, either unconscious or already dead having to leave them to escape the mosh pit himself. When he reached security covered in blood and bruises trying to explain to them that people were dying they laughed at his injuries saying it looked like he had a fun time.
Travis started performing at 9 pm and despite the houston fire department calling Live Nation to cancel the event because people were dying, they continued it for 37 minutes, no one is coming on stage telling Travis to stop. During his performance, Travis stops several times to acknowledge ambulances and fans passing out, only to continue right afterwards. After pointing out an ambulance(which fans climbed on top of to dance) Travis told the crowd to make the ground shake. Meanwhile people are climbing on stage, camera towers and trees to escape the mosh pit. The ones who reach the stage urge Travis to stop the show, as hundreds in the crowd are shouting for help but Travis continued performing. The camera operator who had a teenager climb his tower to get help for his dying friend, told him to go away. In total, 10 children and young adults died at Astroworld, hundreds were injured and Travis Scott mustered an insincere apology video refusing to acknowledge responsibility. Travis girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, posted edited or out of context videos online, making it appear Travis stopped the show way earlier to help fans. They threw an Astroworld-style birthday for their kid called "stormiworld" mimicking the same gates of the concert that had killed multiple children the year prior.
https://www.businessinsider.com/astroworld-security-inexperienced-rushed-into-job-report-2021-11
https://people.com/music/man-who-administered-cpr-at-astroworld-festival-recounts-horror/
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/07/us/victims-astroworld-houston
Halloweens coming up and I was curious. If Robert ever decided to do holiday themed episodes, who would be Halloween themed bastards? The ones I can think of are Ed and Lorraine Warren, the pedophile ghost hunters who contributed greatly to the satanic panic, scammed families for exorcisms where they mentally tortured kids and interrupted actual murder investigations. Who would you pick for a Halloween themed episode?
So there’s this group in Destin Florida called Reef Wranglers who build artificial reefs. I’ve never heard of them but apparently they had their own tv show. Last year they announced they’re building an artificial reef structure they’re gonna sink off the coast of Florida. Yachting companies are even offering people front row seats to watch it descend. In death, Charlie Kirk has finally made an improvement on society. A dead weight at the bottom of the ocean that algae and barnacles can grow on. Yes I’m aware that artificial reefs are actual helpful things, but it’s still funny and true to say they built a monument to him they’re just gonna dump in the ocean that no one can see.
Catch Me If You Can is an obvious one where the entire story is made up. Frank abagnale was in and out of prison the entire time he claimed to be evading the FBI. Not only that but his actual crimes were stalking women, sexual assaults and robbing middle class families and small shops.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/07/27/provo-canyon-school-appeals-utahs/
While abusive teen rehab center is being ordered to shut down(yes the same one Paris Hilton went to), YouTuber Reckless Ben made a video documenting how easy it was to sneak into the facility and uncovered several illegal things. His friend was hired and allowed to interact with kids before any background check was done and not fired after they found he had a criminal record. Ben was accepted pretending to be 17 despite being 30 without any birth certificate. Ben escaped the facility, which gave up looking for him in 2 days and refused to tell the parents the details.
In Jojo Rabbit if you zoom in on the details of Captain Klenzendorfs uniform you can see he has an iron cross, a second class iron cross, a bronze close combat clapse, a silver tank destroyer badge and a gold wound badge. Implying he’s basically a super soldier with dozens of confirmed kills.
Pearl Harbor(2001) fucking sucked, and by now it’s common knowledge that almost nothing in the movie is accurate. Easily the worst inaccuracy is when they show the Japanese bombers target the hospital at Pearl Harbor. Except in real life, they avoided bombing the hospital, only one staff member was killed and the only damage was a bomb that landed in the courtyard that was most likely a misfire.
Even as a small kid before I understood was politics were, I knew who Larry King was. He was all over the news as a go to reporter. His popularity died out before I got into politics and he died in 2021, so I never knew about the man beyond the mythos. Looking back, boy there’s some iffy shit he did.
Larry King described himself as a pro Zionist, culturally Jewish man. Larry played a massive part in Israel’s international propaganda machine to portray the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as defense against antisemitic terrorists. Larry was instrumental in platforming Benjamin Netanyahu as the face of Zionism, allowing him to dress up genocidal policies to an American audience.
It’s a pattern that Larry’s strategy to getting close to so many presidents and world leaders is by kissing ass and humanizing them in news interviews. He described himself as close friends with Nancy Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton. While Larry criticized several of their policies, he continued providing them a platform for them. These same right wingers he spoke against on tv would go out to dinner with him the next day.
They say you never lie to yourself, your doctor and your lawyer. The third one didn’t go well for thousands of clients of barrister Nicola Gobbo. While working as a defense lawyer, Nicola was simultaneously a registered police informant for decades. When she was in school to become a lawyer, she turned informant after a series of drug arrests. Her name in files was known as “witness f”, “informant 3838” and “Lawyer x”. After defending drug kingpin Tony Mokbel in 2002, (who she was also a registered informant of) Nicola rose to celebrity status. Law enforcement praised her work ethic at calling out corruption and claimed she’s on her way to the Supreme Court. All the while for over 20 years, she stole the right to a fair trial of hundreds if not thousands of her clients by repeating and recording private conversations to police who used it during trial.
After this was made public in 2020 ruining Nicola reputation, she fled Australia. She had surgery, went by different names and rented a series of houses in locations still sealed by the court.
Him going from universe to universe finding an anchor being was hilarious, but also makes it seem like other wolverines are villains. They all try to murder Wade over just saying hi.
Joshua Norton was born around 1818 in England, his family later moving to settle South Africa and immigrating to the United States in the 1840s joining the first wave of gold rush pioneers to settle in San Francisco. He was a wealthy real estate speculator and business owner who attempted to price gouge the rice market in 1851. A famine in China diminished the supply so Joshua spent all his fortune on a rice shipment from Peru. By the time it reached California, the rice trade was back in full swing and Nortons shipment was worthless compared to what he paid for it. He declared bankruptcy and was left homeless on the streets.
Years in poverty may have driven Joshua mad because in 1859 he declared himself emperor of the United States sending letters to newspaper publications declaring his legitimacy. The bizarre story of a riches to rags homeless man was intriguing enough that Nortons declarations and laws made were regularly published in the papers turning him into a local celebrity. He began going around town in an emperors uniform inspecting streets and attending town hall meetings and wrote letters to world leaders(not sure how many were ever sent). He outlawed the slang word “frisco” to refer to San Francisco, printed his own currency and people would salute him on the street.
Beneath this eccentric persona was the genuine activism and fight against racism Norton used his influence for. He published a ban on slavery in 1859, documents show he was signing petitions for women’s suffrage later publishing their rights to vote in the papers, he supported the 15th amendment and black newspapers. One of his most famous moments was when a working man’s union held a meeting where they planned to vandalize Chinese buildings. Emperor Norton during the meeting stood on a box and began reciting bible verses and urging the crowd to treat their neighbors equally and the meeting ended with the hate mob cancelled. Norton died in 1880 with thousands attending his funeral.