Phelous

Favorite lines from the Beast Machines review

"Optimus Primal was an average fighter but a brilliant botanist!"

"Hey Primal i'm dead now, my bad."

The Forgotten Video Format: Movie CD - MMZ

And now I want to see a Phelous/Oddity Archive crossover review.

MK Defenders of the Realm: Amends (Ep 11) - Phelous

Tangled Up - Phelous

Edited by VeryVileVillian on May 17th 2019 at 7:34:39 PM

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MK Defenders of the Realm: Abandoned (Ep 12) - Phelous

One more to go.

You know I’m surprised Netflix hasn’t tried to make another MK cartoon, although I suppose with the movie coming out it’s a moot point.

I'm not sure how a Mortal Kombat cartoon would work unless they put a Castlevania spin on it.

That’s exactly what I envisioned. A TV-MA pseudo-anime adaptation.

Batman VS Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Phelous

Phelous makes Transformers seem so interesting. A few years ago I tried getting into Transformers Prime but stopped after the first episode. It's hard getting invested in talking mechas. But Phelous makes the series interesting. Maybe I should pick up a IDW comic or Prime again someday.

Phelous reviews Dingo Pictures take on The Bremen Town Musicians, complete with live-action segments.

It baffles me how the Dingo movies somehow get worse and worse.

I do miss Dingo and the other cash-in companies though. Most animated blockbuster cash-ins are either unironically terrible Youtube Kids Channel stuff or repackagings of old films. The days of numerous people releasing Beauty & The Beast adaptations "coincidentally" around the same time Disney did are over.

Phelous covers the many foreign cuts and versions of the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, including the Japanese cut that removes all references to ninjas and Japan:

Why did the Japanese version of the film censor everything Japanese? Was there some sort of regulation that non-Japanese media couldn't mention Japan? I can't imagine it being a Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change because it's in English, plus ninja are very Japanese. The characters being Korean is also weird considering Japan's relationship with Korea in the 1990s.

Going through the comments, some people think it was a Korean or some other Asian variant of the film, but that doesn't explain how Japan got it.

Happy Death Day - Phelous

Phelous wraps up his look at Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm with the finale that randomly decided to have a slight Art Shift.

And so ends the attempts at making MK cartoons and other spinoffs, until we inevitably get a TV-MA cartoon from the Castlevania people.

Also after 12 episodes of really poor quality animation we suddenly get Madhouse making it look like the second season of the Street Fighter cartoon, which made it a lot more Animesque because the anime came out and blew the cartoon away.

If you mean Street Fighter II V, it has some horrible pacing. It barely has 10 minutes of actual screentime per episode, with the rest being a "last time" and a "next time". The cartoon has its issues too, but at least it had a huge amount of content per episode. It also felt weird that II V was overly bloody. Like, for no reason. The games and series wasn't built on the idea of excessive blood. A bit here and there, sure. We had various VS screens. Like, stuff like assassins and such, yes. But Vega was way over the top. I had a hard time watching it, far more than the cartoon(including the MK cartoon which was at least fun lore-wise to some degree. Especially with giving Cyrax and Sektor their first human forms. And introducing Quan Chi. Not even counting that is bothered to develop the actual characters, which is a problem with the games as many are outright ignored despite having tons of potential. Mileena has so much more to her than being deadly and sexy. At times she didn't even know was a clone. That's potential right there).

Also, I think it's the cartoon/movie continuity that established that Charlie Nash was Blanka first and foremost. I don't remember if Charlie even appeared before that, though. That or he was mentioned but never used otherwise? Kind of like how Blaze appeared in Mortal Kombat II.

To clarify for the Defenders of the Realm stuff, since videos tend to be slow for me to get to(I'm a busy person), is he just basically going over them while playing the episode, or is he remaking it via his Mortal Komedy live-action series?

i Disagree on your opinion regarding the cartoon being better than the anime. The cartoon was a blatant knockoff to GI Joe which pretty much misrepresent the appeal of the franchise which the anime nailed with its Around the World like plot. Plus the violence in the show is fitting, especially Vega who is supposed to be a bloodythirsty psychopathic Spainard in the games.

And yes the movie did established that Charlie is Blanka . . . which itself was basically canon defilement to the games as Blanka was a boy name Jimmy who was seperaterd from his mother and was basically raised by animals. He was NOT supposed to be an experimentes on Charlie by Shadoloo’s lead scientist Dhalsim. Speaking of the anime, it basically introduce the concept of Dhalsim as a sage like mentor similar to how the MK movie did for Raiden.

As for Phelous MK Defenders videos, they are simply a series of reviews where he critique each episodes. Similar to when he did Mortal Kombat Conquest.

I never saw the other videos besides Mortal Komedy.

I also don't see how Vega is portrayed that well. They got the personality right, but there is no need for that much excessive blood ever at any point during Street Fighter. The cartoon portrayed the violence way better and kept it accurate to the games. And it was a plenty violent cartoon in its own right. The moves were flashy to begin with while showing off tons of characters with their actual abilities as is. The anime might've been better, if didn't vastly overdo the blood(which got downright sickening in a bad way after a while) and had proper pacing. There's literally no reason to have barely 10 minute episodes with the rest of it being "last time" and "next time" to fill the time slot. It has more filler than your typical anime. Hell, even Naruto and Bleach didn't have as much filler due to having way more notable story pieces. Filler arcs, yes, but it doesn't negate how many non-filler episodes they had. 29 episodes. And 2/3rds of each were spent on other things. It was meant to have 51. What's interesting, as I checked the work page, is that it had underwhelming ratings(though not in every country. Brazil it did way better in, but this is before the episode order was decided to be 29, of course. Other dubs can only do so much). It should be noted that the Ken VS Vega fight is one of the most brutal in the entire franchise, farrrrrr more violent than any of the regular games. It's way over the top. Narmy, sure, at some points, but it's in no way accurate. Not to say every character was accurate either. A lot of unique stuff was done(Chun Li, at least, was based upon being younger, so it's not a real example of changing her personality. Her father is alive, after all. The lack of Blanka entirely is kind of strange at times too. Some of the others were cut due to the other 22 episodes being gone.

M. Bison also felt way more accurate with his abilities as they overdid it in the anime too. He's not that powerful, and he was plenty powerful enough in the cartoon. Also, it feels like the cartoon portrayed him better. He had no actual redeeming qualities. In the anime, they made him a well-intentioned extremist that's trying to protect the environment. The cartoon kept his evil ambitions far more accurately, including his normal actions and events. The thing about II V is that while it does have some accuracy to the games, it has a ton completely incorrect or adding a completely unusual trait. The only thing, for instance, that Bison did in the cartoon that wasn't completely evil was help Guile to fight against Akuma. And they still failed. Ken of all people somehow defeated him.

Weird about Blanka, but I felt the movie made the character more interesting overall, as they gave more backstory with him being a previous officer. There was way more to work with while allowing for alternate character forms. Also, not getting any G.I. Joe vibes at all. At worst one character was shoehorned in(being Blanka due to the Charlie Nash storyline). But that's kind of it. Ken and Ryu being thugs were far bigger of a deal. But it's only the movie that went overboard. The cartoon really didn't go overboard with any portrayals.

So, looking at his Patreon stretch goals, it seems like the next retrospective series he'll be doing after this will be Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation.

So that'll be a treat.