Subpages cleanup: Complete Monster

Lost Galaxy is, along with its successor Lightspeed Rescue, one of the few PR series generally regarded as superior to its corresponding Sentai, I'm told.

I've heard that. RPM often has that said about it as well, though in that case it's just strange because they took probably the silliest entry of Sentai to date, and made the darkest entry of PR to date.

At any rate...for Tales From the Crypt, I restate I think Prince is the only keeper now (OE and I actually watched that episode together. It's directed by Tom Hanks of all people who gives himself an amazing death scene)

Otherwise, any other thoughts on what we need for film, Live Action TV, etc?

Super Australian Nazi and Mr.Shadow get a

Austrian, not Australian. One is in Europe, the other is where I live.

No Grunwald?
Anyway, Nazi guy (P.S. He has a point; what would've happened if Hitler hadn't invaded Russia?).

BTW, for Nemesis, I propose we just say the title character so as to avoid the titular vs. eponymous debate

edited 15th Mar '14 2:12:07 AM by ACW

Ah yes, my bad. It's late.

I'll request the Nemesis on the locked pages thread late tonight/tomorrow morning.

I already requested that Ivan Ooze be cut. Also, could someone do a rewrite on the Mission: Impossible example on the Monster.Live Action TV subpage? Also, here's a writeup for Black Doom. I've never played this game before, so correct me if I'm wrong. Here we go:

• From Shadow the Hedgehog, we have Black Doom, the sinister leader of the Black Arms. In the video game, he essentially tried to torture every living thing on the Earth by paralyzing them with nerve gas (which he got from the Black Comet). After everything had been paralyzed, he and his offspring could then come in, and devour everything on Earth. This also included Shadow, who is who is Black Doom's biological son^note Shadow was created from Black Doom's DNA, as revealed in Sonic Adventure 2.. Even Dr. Robotnik himself is also disgusted by him.

edited 15th Mar '14 6:02:02 AM by AustinDR

YMMV: True Crime: New York City

Complete Monster: Terry. Well, at first he doesn't seem so bad saving Marcus from getting shot, but then he fakes his death, gives the gangs inside information about the cops and embezzle millions of dollars, frames an innocent man, butts Marcus through events that would kill anybody, tries to get Marcus to join him in Mexico, tries to blackmail him to not arrest him, randomly fires at innocent civilians killing them and the whole reason: he saved Marcus so he could use him to kick this plan into action.

I'm not too sure about this one. I doubt Terry meets the heinous standard. TC: NYC is kinda like Grand Theft Auto except you play either like a bad cop or a good cop.

@22896 It's a good write up but it will need an expansion soon though.

edited 15th Mar '14 6:04:03 AM by ZetaRidge

Do you know anything about the video game?

I did watch the walkthroughs and the cutscenes up on youtube. But I have not played the game on my PS 2 yet.

edited 15th Mar '14 6:00:57 AM by ZetaRidge

I've played the game, and I've argued against Terry's inclusion before. He's a standard baddie, who, in my eyes, doesn't even cross the Moral Event Horizon given the Asshole Victim nature of the cop he framed.

Is Terry a cut then?

Sure.

From The Fly:

Maybe he counts if mixing two living creatures in a teleporter counts as possible torture. Also, a little help on the Black Doom writeup I posted on the last page?

edited 15th Mar '14 7:11:06 AM by AustinDR

Have a rewrite for Waingro from Heat. Here's the original entry below...

• Waingro. Murders a guard in the armored car robbery who he thinks looked at him funny, as well as rapes and kills multiple prostitutes. His final horrid act is to murder Trejo's wife and beat Trejo half to death, but not kill him because that would be a Mercy Kill. This all shows you how much better Neil is, even if Neil's gang becomes a gang of cop-killers after the bank robbery.

Here's my rewrite for him.

• Waingro is an Ax-Crazy Psycho for Hire hired by criminal Neil McCauley to help in the robbery of an armored truck. When one of the guards "looks at him funny," Waingro murders him, necessitating the deaths of the other two guards to eliminate witnesses, turning a bloodless robbery into a triple homicide. His accomplices, disgusted at Waingro's actions, try to kill him in retribution but Waingro manages to escape. To get revenge on his accomplices for the attempted murder, Waingro approaches money launderer, Roger Van Zant, whose buyer bonds the group stole from the truck, and offers to work for him. Waingro tracks down McCauley crew member, Trejo, holds Trejo's wife hostage, forces Trejo to sellout information on his crew's bank heist, and then leaks that information to the cops. This leads to the shootout with the cops which claims several lives. Waingro then murders Trejo's wife and beats Trejo half to death, but refuses to kill Trejo himself because it's more painful for Trejo to leave him live. Instead, McCauley kills Trejo at the latter's request. Waingro is also a Serial Killer of underage prostitutes, whom he solicits then kills by bashing their skulls in. Neil and his crew may be criminals and killers, but they still have honor and standards. Waingro is just a psychopathic maniac motivated by profit and enjoyment.

edited 15th Mar '14 8:03:45 AM by OccasionalExister

Since I have the votes, here's also a write-up for El Patron.

• El Patrón, the original Matteo Alacrán, from The House Of The Scorpion, the most powerful and evil druglord of them all. El Patrón rules over the country of Opium and punishes anyone who tries to illegally cross his borders by capturing them and implanting computer chips in their brains, turning them into eejits. These eejits are essentially human robots, programmed to do certain tasks all while their thoughts and emotions are repressed by the computer chip. Even El Patrón's security team and certain staff members have been implanted with chips, turning them into high-functioning eejits bound to El Patrón's will. The most common usage of "dumb" eejits is for manual labor in the fields used to create his drugs. Due to the harsh conditions and poor care, they tend to have a low life expectancy, leading to hundreds of thousands of bodies being buried beneath the poppies. El Patrón, like many druglords, keeps himself alive by harvesting organs from clones. Unlike most druglords, however, El Patrón doesn't destroy his clones brains, instead he raises them like they were his own children. He pretends to care about them and their future, lavishing them with gifts, all because he sees them as extensions of himself and views their happy childhoods as stand-ins for the one he never got. When the time comes, he harvests and kills them without hesitation, all to extend his nearly one hundred and fifty-year-old life. El Patrón cares for no one but himself and sees everyone around him as his possessions. The dead siblings he pretends to mourn he only valued, not for who they were, but because they were his. In the end, after his death, he still manages to murder everyone close to him, his entire family, his friends, and most of his staff, by poisoning the wine they drank at his funeral. He also coded the deadly force fields surrounding his country to only be dismissed by his DNA. Meaning that when he died and the country went into lockdown, nobody could leave and no supplies could get in. His ultimate reason for this was to murder his entire country just to have a "fitting tribute" to take with him into the afterlife, just like the kings of old.

Btw, anybody know how to put apostrophes over certain letters? There are a ton that should be in the entry but I have repeatedly tried and failed to put them in their proper place. Damn yahoo answers. EDIT: Nevermind, got it done. Good idea, ACW.

edited 15th Mar '14 9:40:59 AM by OccasionalExister

Nice guy. Good writeup (the COUNTRY'S named Opium?).

It's set in a verse where druglords literally rule countries, so a lot of the names of countries are simply the names of the drugs they specialize in.

Btw, another possible candidate, this one, strangely enough, is from Grim Fandango. His name is Hector LeMans.

Who is Hector LeMans?

Hector LeMans is the Big Bad of Grim Fandango and is the one responsible for the corruption flooding the Department of Death. Grim Fandango is set in a version of the afterlife inspired by Aztec mythology. Grim Reapers not only collect souls here, but they sell them means of transportation with which to cross the Land of the Dead and head straight to the Ninth Underworld, the Land of Eternal Rest. What mode of transportation they're given depends upon how good a person they were in life as well as how much money they were buried with. The best means of transport is a ticket on the Number Nine, a train that turns the Four Year Journey of the Soul, into four minutes instead and shoots you straight to heaven. Hector, however, is a mobster that's managed to infiltrate the Department of Death through his corrupt underlings.

What has Hector LeMans done?

• Hector LeMans has stolen hundreds of Number Nine tickets from their intended recipients, the people who were exemplary in life, and counterfeited them. He ten sells these counterfeit tickets to souls who weren't so good in life for loads of cash. However, "one's destiny cannot be bought" and the people who try to use the counterfeit tickets to get into heaven are plunged straight into hell instead. Hector keeps the real tickets for himself, planning on using all of them to buy his way into heaven.
• Using a hypnotic pearl that causes people to jump overboard on their boat ride to the entrance to the Ninth Underworld, Hector captures the people who he's cheated out of their just rewards, so they can never spill his secrets. He then enslaves them with the intent of forcing him to work as miners for him forever at his Factory at the End of the World
• He created the method of permanently killing a soul, called sprouting. Here, people are shot with sproutella, a special type of ammunition which causes flowers to grow throughout the skeletal bodies of their victims and kill them forever once fully grown. One of his first victims is Don Copal, a conspirator of his who fails him. The final level, however, shows his body count is higher than even imagined. He's murdered, hundreds, possibly thousands of people, and has built his hideout on top of a mountain of their corpses. He even has a greenhouse made in order to preserve their bodies as trophies.

Is he heinous by the standards of the story?

As the Big Bad, his deeds drive the story and are the worst of any character in the setting. ust so people don't get the wrong idea about the game, while the premise is odd and some of the situations seem absurd, none of that is Played for Laughs by itself. The game is funny, not because of the weirdness of the situations or because the characters don't take anything seriously, it's funny because the characters themselves are funny people, with protagonist Manny being one of the best snarkers in videogames. Despite it's premise, the game is treated seriously as a drama where the bizarre just happens to take place. The setting and the characters aren't Played for Laughs, and LeMans remains a dark presence throughout the entire game with none of his deeds being treated lightly.

Does he have a Freudian Excuse or redeeming qualities?

No. Like he says himself, he's just been a "very bad boy" in life and wants to bribe his way into heaven to cheat himself out of the consequences for his evil deeds.

Does he qualify?

Personally, I say yes. He's got more than enough deeds, he's treated heinously and he's never given any good qualities. He's just a greedy bastard who's ambition caused him to bring eternal death to the innocent of the afterlife and damned his customers to hell forever.

edited 15th Mar '14 9:24:45 AM by OccasionalExister

Nevermind.

edited 15th Mar '14 9:36:16 AM by ACW

I guess for the apostrophes just copy and paste? BTW, for the first sentence: El Patron (the original Matteo Alacran) from House of the Scorpion is the most powerful and evil drug lord of them all.
I'll add that Heat writeup tomorrow morning when I request the addition of Nemesis.

@Austin: By the time Shadow The Hedgehog came around, Dr. Robotnik is specific to Gerald name-wise. The name Dr. Eggman is more specifically used. Other than changing that, it should be noted that Black Doom outright manipulated Shadow into trying to destroy the Earth, and help him conquer it. They're only biological by blood, as Gerald "created" Shadow in a giant tube(he's an artificial being, but couldn't do anything till he was given Black Doom's blood). Not that that specifically matters, just pointing out how he's biological. It may be notable for the write-up. Or not. I dunno.