The Unknown
Good review. I like it when Doug is making fun of a movie but also still clearly enjoying it. It makes for a nice change of pace while also giving a certain enthusiastic energy to his jokes that's kind of lost when he's not into to.
edited 10th Aug '17 9:11:21 PM by Karxrida
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
Perpetually Confused
The Marvel comics are always a different continuity than the cartoon though, so that hardly means anything. Ditto for Transformers.
Speaking which, some people don't know, but Cobra Commander actually showed up in an episode of Transformer. As "Old Snake", a consultant to some terrorists.
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
Not only that, a character from that season of Transformers is supposed to be the daughter of Lady Jaye and Flint.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
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It makes sense due to the fact that Chris Latta voiced both Starscream and Cobra Commander.
edited 10th Aug '17 9:49:24 PM by firewriter
Fun fact, when Cobra-La was introduced, Larry Hama apparently took one look and said he would never write about them ever. (He relented 20 years after for a toy pack in comic). He also hated Serpentor, but the way he wrote the guy (a Machiavellian schemer who pretended to be one of the boys) was far more compelling than the cartoon.
Raven Wilder
So which 80's cartoon villain would you say has the sillier voice? Cobra Commander, Skeletor, or the original Witch-King:
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edited 11th Aug '17 9:34:15 AM by RavenWilder
"It takes an idiot to do cool things, that's why it's cool" - Haruhara Haruko
Skeletor, mainly due to that voice mixed with his design.
The Protomen enhanced my life.
Perpetually Confused
Skeletor, which honestly I am 99% sure his voice is the basis for the Monarch. The two sound eerily alike.
I think I will go for Cobra Commander, because I am the most familiar with him. What is it with the 80's having an obsession with villains who have squeaky voices?
Perpetually Confused
You can have Megatron's 9 pack a day voice.
The King Without a Kingdom
I think the reason 80's villains are squeaky is to contrast the traditionally deep, manly voices of the heroes.
It's been 3000 years…
However, on the opposite end of the spectrum you had Destro, Bruiticus, Dr. Claw, Darkseid, and Tyroc (from the MLP movie), all with deep voices.
Perpetually Confused
Darkseid wasn't really an 80s villain though
Less Superman the Animated Series time traveled more than I remembered.
Deranged X-Mas Figure
He was actually. Superfriends was still going on back then, and Darkseid was the main villain in the last season. So he does technically count.
Perpetually Confused
Huh. I stand corrected.
@J79 Fun Fact: Frank Welker used the same voice for Soundwave and Dr. Claw and the differences are entirely the result of the digital post processing done for Soundwave.
Because it was on tape and I grew up in the 90s, I've seen the GI Joe movie more than I've seen the series.
Frank Welker is just a classic voice actor along with Jim Cummings.
Perpetually Confused
Frank Welker is a voice god. Have you SEEN his IMDB.
He's been active a lot longer than Jim Cummings, While Cummings has an impressive 33 year career, Welker's been in the business for 48 and has played Fred Jones for most of that time.
edited 11th Aug '17 9:06:20 PM by BigMadDraco
Frank Welker is 71 years old, and you can probably filled up a book of how many voices he's done. I also saw he got an Emmy last year for his life time achievements. He even reprised Megatron in the recent Transformers movie.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (w/ Some Jerk with a Camera)
Wow, this means Corey Taylor of Slipknot has been on the Nostalgia Critic and QI within a twelve-month span!
... was he visiting them just for that quick punchline?? At any rate, we did get TWO Rick and Morty shoutouts in this ep!
Life is like a hurricane, to the Cri-tic... (Beware Nightmare Fuel...)
NC will review the DuckTales reboot. And yes, his Facebook does imply it's the reboot specifically, but I can't make a hyperlink to that specific Facebook post with my iPad.
Yeah, Cobra was explicitly depicted as human, with no sign he was a part of some snake race. His comic origin story has him beginning as a used carsalesman and he even had a wife and kid. Speaking of his son, he was named Billy Kessler and was made a prominent member in the comics.
http://gijoe.wikia.com/wiki/Cobra_Commander_(RAH)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Kessler
edited 10th Aug '17 8:23:24 PM by firewriter