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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?
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?
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.
openJ-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.
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 ShowWatchedAsKidKilingmeopenDon'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
openChildrens book where icecream mascots come to life, monster tries to eat protagonist girl Literature
This would have been 1990s, it was a book and audio cassette readalong. I honestly don't remember too much about the illustrations other than they were cartoony, possibly pastel-coloured.
In the story a young girl ends up in a grocery store where the ice cream mascots ( might have been other food but I specifically remember ice cream) come to life. There's definitely a "cool" penguin, possibly a robot too? They go on an adventure and at the end there's a monster that tries to eat the mascots and the girl. I vividly remember the song he sings when he tries to get her;
"Little girls are very nice, especially with peas and rice - I'll tell you what I'm going to do, I'll make you into a tasty stew!"
I can't remember what the monster was, other than it frightened me! It may have been a troll or a giant. The girl and the mascots escape.
I believe the narrator might have been Lenny Henry. They were very animated which is why the song stuck with me.
I've since lost the book and cassette, and the person who gifted me the item has passed away.
This might have been a UK only release.
openFamily in a tend Live Action TV
I'll explain to you, as a child in the early 2010s, or saw on TV a scene of a man with children in a tent,they were in a room of their house, and at a certain point, inside an animal, and then each scene showed a shot of an animal different from the other, the only one I remember is a parrot, perhaps white,please help me find.
resolved Relatively Modern movie or tv show Film
What I remember, is a family arriving to a town where everyone acts wierd (typical cult town) the main character is a Doctor with his family. After encountering a sacrifice wood altar at the woods he begins to suspect about the weird behaviours of the people in town. One night they wake him up and drag him to the caves, where monsters/creatures that live and lurk in the dark make him help them gave birth of one of this monsters/creatures that is pregnant, because he is a Doctor. The scene is very graphic and dark. The creatures only communicate with growl sounds, and if I remember well have dark-blue/blue skin. So, it's revealed, the "sacrifices" people of this town made were made to feed this creatures for safety.
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 SumanuilopenLiterature/BlasphemousAndUnintentionallyRacistThingsKeatonAndWyattSay
No link to anywhere, Google search for quotes just gives the page back.
Does Blasphemous and Unintentionally Racist Things Keaton and Wyatt Say really exist?
openSuper Robot Wars series where Tifa Adill channels many spirits? Videogame
Hello! I remember seeing this certain Super Robot Wars game or manga where Tiffa Adill gets possessed by many spirits, most of them are male. Also, while being possessed her expressions changes and even her tone of voice as well, albeit more deeper.
Unfortunately, I could not remember which specific Super Robot Wars series/game/manga was that.
Edited by Billie1994openCartoon -- 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".
openLive Action Movie Scene Film
A women enters a man's office and the man says shit. The movie is live-action, PG-13, realistic fiction.
openLiterature/OnMyRadar
On My Radar seems to have been deleted from the internet?
Its quotev page seems to have been deleted and the sole editor hasn't made edits in 7 years?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=Lolitroy
Can anyone confirm so we can Move to Darth Wiki?
I'm looking for the issue/character that this example I found on Born-Again Immortality comes from: