The Fridge Brilliance Thread

In Kamen Rider Wizard, the villains known as Phantoms use a front company to net their Victims of the Week in their latest plot. The company is known as TOMFANCE.

Read it aloud.

In Quest 64, one of the monsters, a Treant, is Water. Even in the Gameboy Remake, it still is Water.

...Why? Because Water takes double damage from Fire, trees' natural weakness.

I was rewatching Iron Man earlier and, in the scene where Tony out-dogfights two F-22 Raptors on the first outing of the Mark 3 suit, wondered just how he manages to do that, mostly in terms of g-forces. (Fair warning, this takes a bit of explaining for a pretty simple end result.)

Positive g-forces cause blood to accumulate in the lower parts of the body (the legs in particular) under the acceleration, thus depriving the brain and leading to (in order) grey-out, tunnel vision, blackout, loss of consciousness and eventually death, depending on how strong the effect is and how long it is sustained. The pilots in those jets have training to tense their abdominal muscles during high-g maneuvers and are wearing g-suits that include inflating bladders triggered automatically under the same conditions, both of which helps in tightening blood vessels and preventing blood from pooling in the lower body. While Tony may well have included a g-suit functionality in the armour, I realized there would be an additional factor aiding him.

As early as WWII, before practical g-suits were developed, experiments were conducted with aircraft in which pilots would lie in a prone position, which minimises the blood-pooling effect. It soon turned out though that lying prone isn't the greatest position for actually flying a fighter aircraft and before long, this approach wasn't pursued much further (though it has in a way snuck in through the back door again, the F-16 Fighting Falcon for one is somewhat notorious for having its ejection seat inclined a full 30°).

Anyway, point is this: Flying in his suit, Tony is basically in a prone position the whole time, which should be some boost to his g-sustaining abilities. It's really a lucky coincidence in-universe as much as out, that's the most straightforward and simple way to put a humanoid shape in the air, but I think it's a rather neat line of thought anyway.

I just now figured out that the nation of BattleOn is a pun on "Babylon."

I had a moment of fridge brilliance while reading my favorite webcomic,Unlife is Unfair;when I realized why the main character is terribly afraid of worms,and flies. He is a zombie. Flies,(and some worms) eat dead things. He is worried that they(the flies,and worms)will try to eat him. It makes sense.

Marowak is Marrow + Whack. I NO RITE

...English is my second language, all right?

One of the smileys on this website really bugged me.

You know the "evil grin"? I always wondered why the hell it was called that. I always thought it was a laughing (xD) face.

But today, I looked a little closer at it.

That isn't an X. Those are eyebrows and small eyes.

my life is a lie

Okay, that explains all your "evil" grinning then...

I'm naht evil I swear

And Terly told me I evilly grinned too much.

I was wondering what he meant.

Had one about Beauty And The Beast recently. This film has had some notable criticisms of it, most notably regarding the Beast himself who has been argued as being essentially a Domestic Abuser played as a good guy. This is definitely an interesting interpretation, but I'd argue that it has some quite progressive elements as well. For starters, the Beast is the Distressed Damsel. Think about it: trapped in a castle, cursed, needs true love to break the curse, the works. Sure, he does save Belle... in the middle of the film. At the climax, when Save the Princess usually happens, she saves him.

You know the phrase "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned?"

The Ancient Greek Underworld is often referred to as hell. (Which isn't actually accurate, but work with me here.)

In the Underworld, Hades had a group of minions called Erinyes, also called Furies. They were spirits of vengeance and punishment.

So, the phrase could be interpreted as either a scorned woman's anger being stronger than that of Hell (which is what I always assumed it was), or comparing the scorned woman to a spirit of vengeance and saying that the woman is even more formidable.