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openFilm about infected people living in a non-infected society.
Have anyone see or heard this film? The film about a guy, who along with others is a infected zombie, tried to live in a normal life in a non-infected human society after been reconcile. There's also a woman and a boy she's looking after living in the same area as the protagonist, and another infected, who want the protagonist join his rebel against the people who treat them terrible. Does anyone know the name of this name?
openStrange Radio Song I Heard Music
During a road trip in 2023, I tuned in to All India Radio and came across a segment on 'Western Music'. There was a song playing that had a refrain that went something like "You don't play at night". Although I don't remember all the lyrics, I recall that the second half of the song had a pseudo-rap form and incorporated some disco(?) music.
openIssue of Captain America/TheAvengers
I'm looking for the issue/character that this example I found on Born-Again Immortality comes from:
openShow about (Mexican?) bugs living in a desert. Western Animation
I vaguely remember there was an animated show in the 90's about bugs living in the desert with a Tex-Mex feel. It is NOT Santo Bugito, because the colors used in the show were more neutral and natural and it didn't have singing in it. Does anyone else remember it?
openmale artist in movie backlot? Music
I'm trying to remember a pop/dance music video - Male singer - Could be a band, but only one artist is featured in the actual video - He's dancing and interacting with movie props and equipments in a movie backlot - E.g. artificial rain, camera cranes etc. - The actual decor seems to be mostly a western movie of some sort - Actors in costume and movie technicians are constantly moving in and out of the picture - This is NOT the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot (i.e. not Why don't you get a job)
openBook with humans using crab-like tanks/mecha to fight winged humanoids Literature
Fantasy type book set in a world where humans use crab-like tanks/mecha to fight winged humanoids
- Main character is a girl who works on tanks/mecha that have crab-like legs that are used a mobile platforms against a race of Winged Humanoids (possibly other races but they main featured ones)
- Main character is daughter of sort of government approved prostitute who soldiers are encouraged to use in order to have more more babies to replace the population losses caused by the war. Mother is obese as she has a lot of children and the government rewards her large amounts of chocolates and alike. Main character is embarrassed about this.
- Government agent approaches the main character about discovering why their tank/mecha keep getting ambushed. She discovers that the Power Crystals are giving off detectable radiation and that it can be hidden by covering it in tar.
- A rival girl talks a guy into getting rid of the main character under the auspices that main character could be government spy monitoring them. After the Main character is captured by the winged humanoids, the government agent tells them that the real spy was a man posing as a homeless Peeping Tom who was camping outside the showers of he facilities.
- The winged humanoids take the main character to tower of iron that was naturally formed from a volcanic eruption.
resolved I can't find the main anime page for Nijiiro Days Anime
I don't know what the dub name is but I saw a clip for the aforementioned anime on youtube but tvtropes doesn't appear to have a main page for it. Is this the right page to ask about this?
openSome fantasy film I saw in serbia. Film
So there's this boy and there's this goblin-liek creature. The boys parents are arguing with some guy with glasses who has some kind of business with his father. The goblin-like creature takes the boy through some kind of magical door that brings them to some worlds, there's a cave full of skeletons, a hostile jungle, and a peaceful valley or cliff (I don't remeber) the boy's parents, and the guy with glasses, follow him and the goblin through these magical doors and when they're all at the valley/cliff, the guy with glasses shoots the boy's father for some reason and runs away but the goblin-like creature heals the father and the guy with glasses ends up in the hostile jungle and whatever hostile in the jungle basically gets him. Anyone know what Im Talking about?
openSci-fi book with digital copies of ancestors Literature
Chapter book for younger audience that I looked over in a library in the 00s
- Starts of the main character, a boy, dirt biking and crashing
- His mother so upset that she takes him to a place where they have digital copies of the minds of their ancestors to talk with a grandfather or older generation male relative.
- The people who looked after the place were called something like geeks or nerds and wore rainbow suspenders. Despite the name, they where honored for their role.
- The grandfather/past relative gives him a cheery speech and winks at him. The protagonist finds a message hidden the a frame of the wink.
- The protagonist recruits a computer savvy friend to help him and makes contact with the grandfather/past relative who tells him that the guy set up the digital copies of the minds has set so it edits the responses
- They confront the guy and he says that says he did it to stop "Clan Wars" and his actions were necessary to stop the cycle of violence
- The grandfather/past relative and the guy try to get the protagonist to decide who take control of the system with grandfather/past relative arguing for free speech and the guy arguing that it would lead to war.
- He puts them in a platform game-esque arena with whoever reaching the end gets control then deciding that neither should have control and putting them into a loop by sending them back to beginning when they reach the end.
- Then it turns out that it was All Just a Dream that the protagonist was having while unconscious after the biking crash at the beginning.
- After the protagonist wakes up in hospital he talks to computer savvy friend who exists in non-dream world where they make videogames suggests they could make a level that sends the player back to the beginning when they reach the end as reference to above plot point.
openBook where books travel through a wormhole to parallel world Literature
Chapter book for younger audience that I looked over in a library in the 00s
- The book starts with some boys try to make an aircraft and launch themselves over some powerlines
- They crash and somehow separated with one being taken to hospital where they are shocked he doesn't have a special "insurance".
- Other boy makes contact with a guy who tells him the that in their universe they discovered naturally occurring wormholes and the boys passed through one in into the parallel world.
- Wormholes go in time as well, there is mention of wormhole that drops into the middle of a tickle fight with The Spice Girls which has a waiting line. (thought this a pretty dated reference, even back then)
- A scientist had found a wormhole to the beginning of the universe and found that god doesn't exist. That wormhole was mentioned as being guarded so no one else which to me like trying to cover in case religious folk objected.
- Since there was no god and therefore no afterlife the people in the parallel world had the were made into Brain in a Jars and hooked up to virtual afterlife which the aforementioned "insurance".
- This leads them to set out to rescue the injured boy from the hospital and get back through the wormhole to their universe before they take his brains out.
openkorean(?) anthology film series? Film
a while ago i watched this series of movies. they were korean i think but it could be a different country. i watched it through a friend streaming them on discord. apparently there were a lot but i only watched a few. i asked that friend about the title and they just said "strange tales i think?" which gives me nothing, do you know how many tales there are bro let alone strange ones. i was wondering if someone knows these films. i remember several of the stories. spoilers i suppose. the stories between the stores were always narrated by this one old man. one of the stories involved a child praying to a shrine that she would get every question on the test right, and it comes true and warps the world around her wrong answers so they are correct, which makes havoc ensue. another story involves a character who gains a condition where they often hear music and have to act along to it, and she finds another person with the same condition. i dont remember exactly how it ended but i do remember they died because of a certain special song. another story involved a man finding a supernatural NES game, which would summon the man's childhood friend who would play the same game with him when he was young. i dont remember a whole lot about this story but i remember something about the childhood friend dying in a river on their way home. another story which i can only remember the concept of was about a world where snobby business men acted like dogs. the last story i can remember and put into words was about a story about half the length of the other ones about a golden egg. i dont remember anything else about it.
if anyone could help me find these films that would be GREATLY appreciated, they were really fun
openSprite Animation Series on Machinima about Disney Web Original
I remember in the last years (maybe even months?) of the YT channel Machinima, there was a animated sprite series that had a linear story, but was also part commentary on Disney and their subsidiaries as a whole. I remember it for a number of scenes and story elements which I will list here:
1. Luke Skywalker and Mickey Mouse being the main protagonists, with the main antagonist for the 1st (and only) season being Pinhead from Hellraiser.
2. Several Disney-owned characters get corrupted by Pinhead into their masochistic cult, like Buzz Lightyear, Ursula, and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
3. At one point, the Avengers show up, only to be unceremoniously disintegrated by a monster's blast in the next episode.
4. At one point the Enterprise shows up and someone asks "Is Star Trek owned by Disney?" and Luke answers, "No, but it seems like a matter of time".
5. The last episode they meet a hologram of Walt Disney (whom Mickey Mouse refers to as "Dad" and hugs). Also, during Pinhead's defeat, he gives a soapbox-type speech on the downfall of the Hellraiser franchise.
As you can see, it's a strange series of sorts. Can't remember what it was called for the life of me.
openWebsite for Pokémon Fan Game Idea Web Original
Trying to remember the name of this Pokemon fansite that was for a fan game; I don't believe there was a demo or anything, it was just a hosting website for someone's fan idea for a video game with chapters of a story laid out.
The 1st sprite character I remember was a recolor of Wally from Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald. Instead of his green hair and white shirt, it was recolored to give him white hair and a blue shirt; he was also renamed Simon. In the story itself, it starts with him being kidnapped by Team Rocket.
The 2nd sprite character was a Team Rocket character with the uniform, but the character in question was a little girl with pink hair and pigtails.
Edited by TropeFanaticFanopenInternet compilation video Web Original
I've tried numerous times to copy and paste the information from reddit over to here but it hasn't worked so I'll try this instead: https://imgur.com/Wld38gq
openA search for a show that has been ongoing for over 3 years
Hi guys, I remember a show I watched as a kid and it is haunting me. I don't have a good memory of it but I remember a specific scene.
The scene involved two characters.
One of them shot ice spikes shaped like this
https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/355714070565309482/
(this is not the actual picture)
they might not be specifically ice but that's how they looked like** And the other character started to counter attack by jumping from one ice spike to another.
So multiple of "ice spikes" were heading his way and he proceeded forward by dodging and doing parkour on the spikes. He went forward while the "ice spikes" were coming at him and used them as little platforms to jump on.
the scene looked like the following scenes:
https://youtu.be/3Ce_3hk-XhM starting from 10:25 to 10:40
https://youtu.be/by2pP4DN7Gk from 4:19 to 4:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAqMIWmJVKw from 4:50 to 5:07
I know this is a generic fight scene so i'm ready to take any ideas. The search for this show has been ongoing for 3 years
Edited by ShowWatchedAsKidKilingmeopenJ-Pop Album with Retro '80s Sound and Cover Music
A flash drive died and took my music wish list with it. What was the pop metal/arena rock album I was going to get from CD Japan that had a cover right out of the '80s with the singer posing downtown in punkish clothes? This would've been released somewhere in the 2000s or 2010s, but probably around 2007.
I know, I'm taking a long shot here.
openLibrary in Purgatory Literature
Exactly What It Says on the Tin, a novel about the library in Purgatory. Likely published in the USA sometime between 2000 and 2010, if that helps.
Edited by SumanuilopenCartoon -- boy uses laser to try to be cool
A cartoon I remember seeing on TV in maybe the late noughties or early New Tens. A boy is using a laser (I can't remember if it's Eye Beams, a Ray Gun, or something else) to zap random things, all the while declaring, "I'm cool!"
The part I remember the most vividly is when he passes by a restaurant or a store or something and zaps away some of the letters on the big sign, so the sign now reads, "CLOSED".
openDon't bo the title Live Action TV
It's about a teen I think he's from Australia or newzealand main character isnt white hes aboriginal and he's working for these bad guys and I think he's trying to find hes missing dad or find out who killed him he becomes friends with some one from he's school who is a genius and they team up the first episode he's breaking into a house to steal a necklace he climbs the building with ease and he opens a safe and finds jewly and he rides a skateboard not sure if the dad is dead and he could probably be trying to find out what happend to him the guys hes working with could be responsible he also has a older sister who is trying to keep him out-of trouble he's hair is kinda long i think it's curly in one episode I think he finds he's dad car and it's not conspiracy 365 the teen isnt white
When I was way younger, this could very easily be 10 years ago by now, we had this top down 2D RPG on our old computer. Unfortunately, all I remember about it today is that there was a green snake/lizard character who I thought was the coolest thing, so I used the game editor we had to turn the entire party into clones of this one character. I never got far enough into the game to get any of the plot because I was dreadful at playing it. I know it isn't much to go on, but any help would be appreciated!