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EmperorGeode from A Galaxy far, far away Since: Oct, 2022 Relationship Status: On the prowl
#27726: Dec 28th 2023 at 5:06:00 AM

For Complete Monster.

  • ThunderCats (2011): Ancient Spirits of Evil are Mumm-Ra masters and ones who give him his power. They task Mumm-Ra with gathering Power Stones and ruling universe in their name, ordering him to destroy Plun-Darr star and kill billions in order to forge the Sword of Plun-Darr. When Tiger Tribe sommons them to save them from deadly plague, Spirits seek from tribe’s leader Javak to kill his newborn son Tygra because they predicted Tygra will become their enemy. When Javak instead sends Tygra away, Spirits let plague kill entire tribe before cursing them to exist as undead spirits who become savage beats every night. When grown up Tygra and his brother Lion-O encounter Tiger Tribe, Spirits manifest and order Tigers to kill the brothers.
  • Adventures Into The Unknown issue 8’s “The Evil Ones!”: The titular Evil Ones are spirits from the Fifth Dimension who every night go to the Human World and wreak chaos for their amusement. The Evil Ones bring wars, famines and other evils both big and small upon humanity. When test pilot George Bailey gets lost in the Spirit World, the Evil Ones him visions of their evil, including his closest ones diying at their hands, because it is more abusing than immediately killing him. They posses his best friend and wife, driving both to their deaths, before blowing up airfield Bailey works at and finishing him off.

Clare Since: Aug, 2009
#27727: Dec 28th 2023 at 8:12:12 AM

@ EmperorGeode

Complete Monster.

  • ThunderCats (2011): The Ancient Spirits of Evil are Mumm-Ra's masters and are the ones who give him his powers. They task Mumm-Ra with gathering the Power Stones and ruling the universe in their name, ordering him to destroy Plun-Darr's sun and kill billions in order to forge the Sword of Plun-Darr. When the Tiger Tribe sommons the Spirits to save them from a deadly plague, the Spirits try to make the Tribe’s leader Javak (superfluous word - cut) kill his newborn son Tygra because they predict Tygra will become their enemy. When Javak instead sends Tygra away, the Spirits let the plague kill the entire Tribe before cursing them to exist as undead spirits who become savage beasts every night. When the adult Tygra and his brother Lion-O encounter the Tiger Tribe, the Spirits manifest and order the Tigers to kill the brothers.
^ Be careful how you use pronouns if there are two or more characters or groups of characters they could refer to as it can become hard to tell which pronouns refer to which characters.

  • Adventures Into The Unknown issue 8’s “The Evil Ones!”: The titular Evil Ones are spirits from the Fifth Dimension who every night go to the Human World and wreak chaos for their amusement. The Evil Ones bring wars, famines and other evils both big and small upon humanity. When test pilot George Bailey gets lost in the Spirit World, the Evil Ones send him visions of their evil, including those closest to him dying at their hands, because it is more amusing than immediately killing him. They possess his best friend and wife, driving both to their deaths, before blowing up the airfield Bailey works at and finishing him off.

EmperorGeode from A Galaxy far, far away Since: Oct, 2022 Relationship Status: On the prowl
Clare Since: Aug, 2009
#27729: Dec 28th 2023 at 8:40:05 AM

@ AsrulGuza

BoBoiBoy

  • Cast from Stamina :

    • Anytime when BoBoiBoy uses his Elemental Powers at a greater scale, he will end up exhausted to the point he will faint.
    • In cases when BoBoiBoy is using "Elemental Split" and the Elemental Forms are (superfluous words - cut) too far apart from each other and slowly begin to suffer from amnesia, once they are merged into the real BoBoiBoy, he will not only be physically exhausted but also mentally exhausted because he forced himself to combine all the pieces of the Elemental Forms' memories together.

  • Satellite Character : When splitting, the Elemental Forms must not be separated from each other. Justified since they are technically not a person but a personification of the user. (period) The Elemental Forms still carry BoBoiBoy's memories and consciousness. If they are separated too long and are too far apart, their memories slowly deteriorate. At best they forgot their ally's name and act randomly. (period) At worst (superfluous word - cut) fights between the Elemental Forms regarding which one is the 'real' BoBoiBoy have occurred as a result.

  • Adaptational Superpower Change: Attack change. In the comic, BoBoiBoy Sori creates a gigantic Venus fly trap (superfluous word - cut) that can blast a single powerful beam toward the Alpha Jumbosaurs. (superfluous word - cut) In the animated version, Sori creates a gigantic shiny durian flower that (superfluous word - cut) fires multiple beams toward the Alpha Jumbosaurs.

  • Hidden Depths:

    • At some point, when BoBoiBoy Thorn, Solar and Thunderstorm suffer amnesia inside the Kadruax Temple, they perfectly perform a marching Scouts movement, (comma) implying that BoBoiBoy (superfluous word - cut) joined the Boy Scouts.

    • It's also shown that BoBoiBoy knows about other languages aside from English and Malay. (superfluous words - cut) During the face-off against the Alpha Jumbosaurs, BoBoiBoy Thorn says "Stop" in three different languages: (colon, superfluous word - cut) Tamil, Tagalog and Japanese.

Edited by Clare on Dec 29th 2023 at 2:28:42 PM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#27730: Dec 28th 2023 at 9:41:39 AM

Page 1109 @Tylerbear 12

     Corrections 

One of the unofficial drawings conjured up by Disney animators during the animators' strike...

...even if it's made very clear in "The Job" that he...

...he only has a major role in two episodes in the second season (Chapter 1 and 6), <- comma and a non-speaking cameo in the last episode and has the least...

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#27731: Dec 28th 2023 at 9:48:48 AM

Page 1109 @Fate Stay Who

Ivan Ooze, for starters. <- period He floats...

...breaks out of his cell, one of the guards makes no attempt to stop him and...

Edited by Arivne on Dec 28th 2023 at 9:49:15 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#27732: Dec 28th 2023 at 10:02:48 AM

Page 1109 @G-Editor

     Corrections 

To Samey with Emma: <- colon both are...from someone who's toxic and horrible...while also befriending someone who's black (Jasmine for Samey; Bowie for Emma). However, <- comma Samey...

Emma is shown to be a friendly and polite girl <- no comma whenever she’s interacting with anyone who's not named Chase or eventually Bowie.

However, Amy has an extremely unpleasant and volatile personality and is intentionally abusive...because he is such a idiot...

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#27733: Dec 28th 2023 at 10:07:31 AM

Page 1109 @Alpinist

...but then starts to play only minor roles for the most part.

...and aids her friends in times of need.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#27734: Dec 28th 2023 at 10:23:09 AM

Page 1109 @jahman

     Corrections 

The Straw Hat Pirates are a small, but formidable pirate crew who hail from the East Blue.

Luffy ascends to become one of the Four Emperors of the Sea...

His accomplishments earn him the respect and admiration...

The true nature and power of his Devil Fruit discovery...

The band Λucifer revolves around a young couple: <- colon with the lead singer and face of the band <- no comma Sakuya Ookuchi <- no comma and his demure Ordinary High-School Student girlfriend <- no comma (who is also the band's exclusive lyricist), Aine Yukimura.

^ Adding the word "with" requires more text at the end of the sentence explaining that they do or are something.

Edited by Arivne on Dec 28th 2023 at 10:23:34 AM

FateStayWho Since: Jul, 2016
#27735: Dec 28th 2023 at 1:42:13 PM

@Arivne got it, thanks.

Galactic Battles

  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: When the Enterprise is taking a beating from Reapers, the ship is saved by the Death Star, of all things. The Reapers were attacking other ships in the Villain Team-Up; however, the crew of the Death Star did not need to destroy the Reapers when they were attacking the Enterprise. As a result of the Death Star's ill-timed attack, the crew of the Enterprise survives and uses the Red Matter they were carrying to destroy the Death Star and the rest of the assembled villain fleet.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition YMMV

  • Game-Breaker: Ivan Ooze. For starters, he floats and can indefinitely stay at jump height, making it hard to hit him. Almost all of his attacks are projectiles, and while he has no supers, his attacks deal as much damage as some supers anyway. One of his projectiles automatically aims at the opponent, and two others fire homing projectiles that are impossible to dodge if the player is too close to him. Ivan cannot block, which he does not need to, since one of his homing projectile attacks makes him invincible for two seconds and can be performed while in hitstun. He cannot grab his opponents, which is yet another trait he does not need. His one close range attack is unblockable, has priority over almost all other attacks in the game, and hits the opponent across the screen, making them easy to hit with yet more projectiles.
  • It Was His Sled: Ivan Ooze is the Final Boss. The game hides this since he is not selectable, and Lord Zedd appearing as the Game-Over Man sets him as the last opponent, but Ivan's infamy as such a broken boss character means almost anybody familiar with the game knows he is the Final Boss.
  • No Problem with Licensed Games: While the game has a small roster of fighters, it is nonetheless regarded as a fun fighting game with unique mechanics.
  • That One Attack: Ivan Ooze’s Homing Projectile attack that creates a force field around him. The projectiles are almost impossible to avoid even with Lord Zedd’s teleport, and he cannot be damaged during the attack. He can even use the attack during hitstun. An Ivan Ooze player can win the fight simply by using this attack, and the opponent will never hit them.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
    • For whatever reason, only the season 2 Zords can be used in single player, meaning the players are limited to two fighters and cannot use any of the game's other characters in this mode.
    • Serpentera appears in the game but only as a decoration for Lord Zedd's stage. The giant Zord the Rangers could never defeat in the show could have easily been the game's Final Boss.
  • Unexpected Character: Silver Horns and Lipsyncher are both Monsters Of The Week from the show's second season who appear to give the game two extra villains, rather than Rita, one half of the show's Big Bad Duumvirate, or Rito, one of the Co-Dragons.

Godzilla vs. The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers

  • Adaptational Badass: Tommy successfully fights off attempts to mind control him through Heroic Willpower, something his canon counterpart never did.
  • Admiring the Abomination: Unlike Finster, who is frightened by the presence of monsters on the Earth that Rita traveled to, Rita is delighted to see giant creatures and the destruction they sow.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: The Xiliens are in the process of invading Earth, with no success due to Godzilla's intervention. Even after they team up with Rita, she is clearly the bigger threat, and they are powerless against her when she betrays them.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: Rita happily brags about having no motivation beyond wreaking havoc and destruction across a defenseless planet.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Ghidorah dominates both Godzilla and the Megazord. Godzilla only lands one hit with his Breath Weapon, which does no real damage.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: The Xilien Supreme Controller only prefers to send out monsters that are pliable to orders, and when Rita sends out less obedient creatures, they are quick to run when things go bad. Seeing that failure, the Xilien commander no longer wants to send any more monsters in rash attacks, seeing it as a waste of resources.
  • The Juggernaut: Ghidorah easily defeats Godzilla and the Megazord when sent against them. After he turns on Rita, she sends Goldar, Scorpina, and her three remaining monsters to kill him. Ghidorah defeats them all. It takes the Mega Dragonzord and Godzilla's combined power to defeat him.
  • Made of Iron: Godzilla gets impaled by the Megazord's Power Sword and still gets up to fight the Xilien ships sent to finish him off.
  • Never My Fault: When Ghidorah nearly kills Rita, she questions whose idea it was to send the monster out, forgetting that it was her idea.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: The Xiliens do not like to waste resources, and the Supreme Controller is against sending monster after monster in failed attacks against Godzilla and the Megazord with no guarantee of victory. Too bad for him, Rita doesn't listen and turns loose Ghidorah, who nearly destroys them all. Realizing the invasion of Earth has failed, when Tommy breaks out of his cell, one of the guards makes no attempt to stop him and gives him back his Morpher so Tommy can help stop Ghidorah and get the Power Rangers back to their universe.
  • You're Insane!: Tommy calls Rita insane after she explains her plan to use her monsters and the monsters of the Godzilla universe to finally conquer her home reality. Her reply:
    What else is new?

Godzilla vs. The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers

  • No Yay: Rita is insistent on turning Tommy back into her mind controlled slave, which almost makes her come off like an obsessive stalker, and while having him prisoner, she touches him under the cheek in a way that feels eerily like she is flirting.

Digimon Tamers Antagonists

Mephistomon

  • Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Mephistomon is introduced fighting Omnimon, who completely outclasses him, and Mephistomon only survives by escaping into the Real World. While weak compared to Omnimon, Mephistomon is still powerful enough to easily handle the Tamers' Digmon in the Champion forms.
  • No-Sell: In either form, none of the attacks by the Tamers' Digmimon in the Champion level forms have any effect on him.

AsrulGuza A QUINCY Since: Jul, 2022 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
A QUINCY
#27736: Dec 28th 2023 at 3:32:21 PM

Yay~ Thanks Clare ^^

MGD107 Since: Feb, 2015
#27737: Dec 28th 2023 at 3:34:04 PM

I've got a few additions for Anonymous Public Phone Call (and by extension the work pages):

  • Cracker: Janice, Fitz Stalker with a Crush from "True Romance", uses one of the universities phone boxes to contact his radio show after its announced he's been taken off the investigation into the men she's been murdering to get his attention. The police manage to track the call, but despite Fitz's efforts to keep her on the line they just miss her. Later after Janice kidnaps Fitz's son Mark they pre-emptively try to avert this by having officers watching all the public phones in the area only for her to instead use her landline, knowing they would track it, so she can meet Fitz face to face.
  • Happy Valley:
    • Towards the end of the first episode after getting cold feet about the kidnapping plot Kevin Weatherhill tries to contact Ashley Cowgill to talk him out of it, but Ashley refuses to take any calls from him knowing that if anything goes wrong the police will go through their phone records and could find the connection. Kevin eventually finds a phone box to talk to him, unfortunately by this point his fears and timidness have whittled him to the point that all he can accomplish is trying to ensure that Ashley's men won't hurt Ann, which Ashley just brushes off stating as long as things go to plan they won't.
    • In the same episode after contacting Nevison to tell him they've taken his daughter on her mobile, Ashley directs him to a public phone box by the service station to properly relate the terms of the ransom.
  • A Touch of Frost: Graham McArdy, the smart but utterly sociopathic kidnapper from "Paying the Price", uses a series of different payphones around town each time he contacts Sue Venables following kidnapping her sister Pauline, always ensuring to never use the same one twice. This makes tracking him effectively impossible for the Denton police as even with instance tracing, Graham's always well away by the time they arrive. For added anonymity, Graham also goes to trouble of muffling his voice each time to ensure it can't be linked to him.

Thoughts?

Edited by MGD107 on Dec 28th 2023 at 3:37:04 AM

Tylerbear12 What you see is what you get, just a guy. from The Green Hills. Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
What you see is what you get, just a guy.
#27738: Dec 28th 2023 at 4:04:47 PM

YMMV.Sonic Frontiers:

  • So Okay, It's Average: How many critics feel about the game (though it's not universal). While the game can be fun at times and there are enough strong elements to keep it from being outright bad (such as Ian Flynn's writing, the improved 3d controls, fun boss battles, etc), it is held back by a slew of problems, such as questionable level design, bad pop-in, a bland art style, and clunky physics. The consensus is that it is a step up from Lost World and Forces, but it still falls below the standards set by Colors and Generations.

Trivia.Wolfwalkers:
  • What Could Have Been: The original conceptual trailer has a couple of differences from the final film:
    • Mebh and Robyn originally met under very different circumstances, with the trailer showing Mebh bumping into Robyn in Kilkenny while being chased by a group of kids. In the final film, this is changed to the two meeting in the forest after Robyn gets trapped by one of her father's traps.
    • Mebh is shown to hang around more in Kilkenny in general, which contrasts sharply with the final film, where Mebh hates people and prefers to stay in the forest.
    • The trailer has a Deleted Scene of Mebh and Robyn hanging out in the town's marketplace, suggesting that they were going to bond in Kilkenny in addition to the forest. In the final film, their bonding moments only happen in the forest.
    • There is a Deleted Scene in which Robyn becomes forced by the kids to kill Mebh with her crossbow, which was cut from the final film.
    • One of the final shots has Bill dodge various arrows from soldiers by jumping into a pond, implying that he was gonna rebel against Lord Protector far earlier than in the final film.

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Dec 29th 2023 at 12:55:09 PM

G-Editor The 47th President Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
FateStayWho Since: Jul, 2016
#27740: Dec 28th 2023 at 6:25:15 PM

Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Villains

Ivan Ooze

  • Faux Affably Evil: Ivan acts like a friendly guy, even giving a high five to Goldar, but he is underneath is Ax-Crazy and ill tempered, threatening to kill Goldar for touching him, and after deciding he no longer needs the adults he brainwashed, he orders them to commit suicide.
  • Laughably Evil: While Ivan is pure evil, he is also a total goofball who revels in his own villainy to such a degree it is impossible not to laugh at his antics.

Cyclopsis

  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Its initial fight with the Zords is a one sided beatdown until the Rangers form the Ultrazord and destroy it. As Titanis is unavailable in the second fight, Cyclopsis deals out an even worse beating that sees the Megazord lose an arm and the Dragonzord lose half its tail. In round three, the Megazord is still no match for it.
  • Final Boss: In all of the video games based on the show's first season, Cyclopsis serves as the final opponent. The exception is the Gameboy game, where it does not appear, and Rita is the last boss.
  • Macross Missile Massacre: It packs missile launchers built into its shoulders. These put the Megazord and Dragonzord Battle Mode down for the count.
  • Wrecked Weapon: In the final fight with Cyclopsis, the Dragonzord breaks both of its blades.

Serpentera

  • Adaptational Badass: In Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Shattered Grid, Serpentera doesn't have the problem of running out of power when it is on the verge of victory and destroys multiple Megazords.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle:
    • Jason tries to fight Serpentera with the Red Dragonzord in the Rangers' first encounter with it and quickly realizes he is in over his head and has to hide in Tor. He only escapes because Zedd clutches the Idiot Ball and lets him go.
    • When Zedd brings Serpentera to Earth after the Rangers defeat Pachinko Head, it defeats the Thunder Megazord with a single blast and reduces it to the Red Dragonzord. Once again, the Red Dragonzord only avoids getting crushed by hiding in Tor, and Tor only survives because it suddenly drains most of Serpentera's power.
    • In the Boom comics under the control of Lord Drakkon, Serpentera destroys three Megazords with a single blast and takes out another by swallowing it.
  • Demoted to Extra: Not in terms of screen time, but in terms of role. Its Sentai counterpart, Daijinryu, was the biggest threat in Dairanger, and his presence resulted in the heroes' mentor plotting to appease him by seeking an alternative method to ending the series' conflict. In Power Rangers, Serpentera simply acts as a giant robot used by the Big Bad in attempts to kill the heroes, and its only significant contribution is being used as a glorified car.
  • Drama-Preserving Handicap: Serpentera is unstoppable at full power. The only thing keeping it from destroying the Rangers is it runs out of power when it is about to win.
  • Giant Equals Invincible: Serpentera dwarfs the Megazords, and they have no chance of beating it.
  • The Juggernaut: As long as Serpentera is charged, nothing can stop it. All the Power Rangers can do is run. Barring its Villain Decay in Wild Force, the only time it has been defeated is in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Shattered Grid, when it is attacked with a Megazord that is as big as it is.

Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World

Emil Castagnier

  • Asshole Victim: Ratatosk murders Richter's best friend right in front of him, then mocks said friend as worthless for being human. Even Ratakosk himself admits he deserved the beating he got from Ritcher.
  • Covert Pervert: Both personalities cannot help but stare at Sheena's chest.

Richter Abend

  • Cassandra Truth: Ritcher spends much of the game saying that Ratatosk is evil. Nobody listens. Ironically, by the time the truth has come out, Ratatosk undergoes a Heel–Face Turn.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Xenk

  • Curb-Stomp Battle: He singled-handedly demolishes Dralas' minions without any of them laying a finger on him.

Forge

  • Consummate Liar: Forge is an expert at deception. He turns Kira against Egdin by playing on her concerns, telling her that the theft where Egdin was caught was simply an attempt to earn money. When Egdin does return later, after Forge has him carted off, he lies to Kira, saying Egdin left after being given money.

Sofina

  • Dragon-in-Chief: As Szass Tam cannot act outside of Thay, his plans are only a threat with Sofina carrying them out.

Dralas

  • The Worf Effect: While Dralas proves himself a formidable warrior against Xenk, he is swiftly eaten by Themberchaud, showing how dangerous the dragon is.

Themberchaud

  • Curb-Stomp Battle: The minute he shows up, he eats or crushes the warriors from Thay sent to kill the protagonists.
  • Giant Equals Invincible: He is by far the largest creature in the movie, and nothing he is hit with can do more than slow him down.
  • The Juggernaut: Themberchaud is so big he can easily crush or eat any human sized creature he comes across and is far too big to do any real damage to.
  • Lightning Bruiser: He is enormous, and despite his bulk, he can move fast by rolling like a barrel.
  • Made of Iron: Xenk driving his sword into Themberchaud's head all the way down to the handle does little more than annoy the dragon.

Absolution Council

Edited by FateStayWho on Dec 28th 2023 at 6:27:57 AM

Alpinist Since: Jul, 2023
#27741: Dec 28th 2023 at 7:04:52 PM

@ Star Wars Theatrical Legends

  • Badass in Distress: Insanely powerful Sith lord or not, he is left vulnerable and helpless in no less than three different and particularly effective coup attempts (one selfish one, one well-intentioned one, and one more Ambiguously Evil one) throughout his reign.
    • He spends most of Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison barely able to walk after being injured by nerve gas during the Gentis coup.
    • In TIE Fighter, he is kidnapped by Grand Admiral Zaarin's forces, and there's no indication that he'd have escaped without Vader's intervention.
    • In the climax of Dark Empire, he finds all of his cloned bodies degenerating (due to poisoning by Carnor Jax) as his final death approaches.

@ Northern Exposure

  • Adam and Eve's wedding in the season 3 finale is one of the most remembered moments in the series, even though neither is a main character.
  • Ed and Ruth-Anne playfully dancing over the grave plot that Ed just bought Ruth-Anne as a present in "A-Hunting We Will Go" is something that fans enjoy recreating or making other tributes to.
  • The puppet show Shelly puts on for Holling in "Things Become Extinct" might be the most well-known moment between them in all six seasons.
  • Joel saying Kaddish for his Uncle Manny as his neighbors watch respectfully is a short scene, but one with iconic status in most fans' eyes.

@ Serge Storms

  • Serge's grandfather's Caper Crew are iconic supporting characters, even though several of them pass away during the Time Skip between their first two appearances.
  • Tex Jackson from Orange Crush, who can go from "the black Mr. Rogers" to a Sergeant Rock action hero in seconds, makes a strong impression despite not living for too long past his first chapter.
  • The Doberman, a Joke Character Dog the Bounty Hunter Expy from Electric Barracuda, has few scenes but plenty of fans.

@ Don't Call Me Ishmael! Don't Call Me Ishmael!

  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Razz's girlfriend Sally doesn't appear until the second book, but is better liked than some of the True Companions main cast.
    • Bruiser with a Soft Center Theodore may only become a Sixth Ranger to the gang in the third book, but many fans see him as a solid, indispensable character in that book.
    • Razz's cousin Cindy Sexton only appears long enough for one ill-fated date with Ishmael, but her Motor Mouth tendencies and Big-Breast Pride make her a memorable character.
    • Cool Teacher Ms. Tarango and Mr. Barker, the Stern Teacher with Hidden Depths, are probably the best-liked adult characters in the series despite their secondary or tertiary roles in each book.

@ Princess Leia

  • Fanfic Fuel:
    • The Empire's more aggressive stance in hunting Alderaanian survivors than in Legends makes it interesting to imagine what Schrödinger's Canon Alderaanian survivors from Legends (the Arranda siblings, the refugees on Delaya, the Panteer Brothers, Winter, Kell Tainer, etc.) experience if they exist in this timeline, or how Canon and Legends Alderaanian Imperial loyalists like Jahan Cross and Nash Windrider react to the order.
    • In a setting with so few whole new species born out of hybrid relationships, the history behind the Alder-Espirion culture feels very interesting despite only getting a few sentences of exposition.

@ Reacher

  • Awesome by Analysis:
    • Fast and complicated Sherlock Scans of people and situations are all in a day's work for Reacher and his old military comrades.
    • Reacher's first meeting with the mysterious Sleazy Politician Senator Malcolm Lavoy has Lavoy casually emphasize that he knows exactly what went down in Margrave in the previous season after reading between the lines of some police reports and deducing Reacher's Vigilante Man involvement.
  • Chekhov's Gun:
    • Tony Swan's guitar, which is briefly seen in some early season 2 flashbacks, becomes unexpectedly prominent in a later flashback when the man who sold it to him turns out to be a criminal who recognizes Swan during a sting operation.
    • When Detective Russo arrests Reacher, he makes fun of a boxed toy in the back of the cop's car. Two episodes later, it turns out he bought that toy for Franz's son after getting to know the family during his investigation.

@ Reacher

Senator Lavoy is being set up as a recurring character (whether a villain or just someone morally gray) for season 3 and possibly beyond rather than just a character for the rest of season 2.

@ Supergirl

  • Adaptational Attractiveness: Argo City provides a locational version, as there are trees and parks running throughout the whole city, while most past versions of it feature a tightly packed urban setting with just a few greenhouses or futuristic machines making food out of nothing.
  • Super Power Lottery: In the tie-in novel Age of Atlantis (set in season 2), a Mad Scientist gives dozens of citizens powers based on their wishes and thoughts at the time he activated the device. Among the many who get new abilities, a TV weathergirl starts controlling the weather, someone who works with animals at the zoo can talk to them, and an Outlaw Couple of petty crooks get the ability to levitate heavy (and valuable) objects and create a swarm of bees that can even sting Kryptonians and provide handy distractions.

@ FunJungle

  • In the short story "Monkey Business," several suspects are gathered together in the aftermath of a chaotic attempted monkey-napping, and the culprit's identity seems to hinge on an odd fluffy object that the monkey was holding. The object turns out to be a piece of an animal character's costume that got stuck to the monkey while she was fleeing through the zoo after escaping from the culprit.

@ Hank the Cowdog As befitting a long-running, best-selling book series, Hank the Cowdog has many popular supporting and guest characters.


  • Slim's Tomboy with a Girly Streak, dog-loving girlfriend Viola is a frequent favorite among the human characters despite only being a secondary character.
  • Coyote White Sheep Missy doesn't appear often, but her sweet nature and Star-Crossed Lovers interactions with Hank make her character one that fans are always happy to see show up.
  • Sinister the Bobcat has made less than five appearances so far and is The Voiceless until Book 80, but his intimidating visage, the humorous way Hank ends up Mugging the Monster while trying to pounce on Sinister in his first scene, and the Affably Evil attitude Sinister displays after finally deigning to talk to Hank all make him a beloved Rogues Gallery member.
  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander witch owl Madame Moonshine and her rattlesnake bodyguard Timothy tend to add a lot of enjoyable color to their rare appearances.
  • Bruno the Boxer only appears for one chapter in the first book as someone for Hank to taunt, but his name is well-known to the fanbase due to how frequently read that scene is.
  • Little Alfred's cousins Amy and Ashley only have a couple of appearances but are fondly remembered for their cute Pet Dress-Up interactions with Hank and Drover.
  • Bub the monkey, the trained accomplice of a local burglar, is only in one story but is notable for being one of Hank's most wily and hilarious adversaries.
  • Feed-stealing raccoon Eddy appears infrequently but is quite popular for his Friendly Enemy interactions with Hank and frequently successful Batman Gambits.
  • The Mama Bear cat and her adorable kittens from The Case of the Haystack Kitties are in many fans' hearts for causing Hank to make an exception for his Animal Jingoism.
  • Good-natured bumbler Happy the Labrador only has a few appearances, but the fans like him just as much as most characters.
  • Frankie, the eponymous character in The Case of the Fiddle-Playing Fox, is hard to forget, with his gentlemanly Cunning Like a Fox behavior and methods of getting food.

Edited by Alpinist on Dec 29th 2023 at 5:44:52 AM

N2002 Since: Mar, 2022 Relationship Status: Singularity
#27742: Dec 28th 2023 at 10:44:44 PM

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Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#27743: Dec 29th 2023 at 8:54:56 AM

[up] @MGD 107

     Corrections 

Janice Fitz, Stalker with a Crush from "True Romance", uses one of the university's phone boxes to contact his radio show after it's announced he's been taken off the investigation into the men she's been murdering to get his attention. The police manage to track the call, but despite Fitz's efforts to keep her on the line, <- comma they just miss her. Later, <- comma after Janice kidnaps Fitz's son Mark, <- comma they pre-emptively try to avert this by having officers watching all the public phones in the area, <- comma only for her to instead use her landline, knowing they would track it, so she can meet Fitz face to face.

Towards the end of the first episode, <- comma after getting cold feet about the kidnapping plot, <- comma Kevin Weatherhill tries to contact Ashley Cowgill to talk him out of it, but Ashley refuses to take any calls from him, <- comma knowing that if anything goes wrong the police will go through their phone records and could find the connection. Kevin eventually finds a phone box to talk to him, unfortunately by this point his fears and timidness have whittled him to the point that all he can accomplish is trying to ensure that Ashley's men won't hurt Ann, which Ashley just brushes off, <- comma stating as long as things go to plan they won't.

In the same episode, <- comma after contacting Nevison to tell him on her mobile they've taken his daughter, Ashley directs him to a public phone box by the service station to properly relate the terms of the ransom.

^ Because you put "on her mobile" after "they've taken his daughter" instead of after "tell him", you said that the daughter was somehow taken on the phone.

^ To avoid confusing the reader, you should always put sentence elements as close as possible to the other sentence elements they're related to.

This makes tracking him effectively impossible for the Denton police, <- comma as even with instance tracing, Graham's always well away by the time they arrive. For added anonymity, Graham also goes to the trouble of muffling his voice each time to ensure it can't be linked to him.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#27744: Dec 29th 2023 at 9:06:57 AM

[up] @Tylerbear 12

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...(such as Ian Flynn's writing, the improved 3d controls, and fun boss battles, etc.)...

...after Robyn gets caught by one of her father's traps.

^ This isn't, strictly speaking, a direct English mistake. However, when writing you should avoid using the same or similar words too often by using a synonym instead.

...suggesting that they were going to bond in Kilkenny instead of the forest.

One of the final shots has Bill dodge various arrows from soldiers by jumping into water, <- comma implying that he was gonna rebel against the Lord Protector far earlier than in the final film.

^ If "soldiers" is a common noun, it shouldn't be capitalized as if it were a proper noun/name.

^ This sentence was improperly split into two sentences, with the second half becoming a sentence fragment.

Edited by Arivne on Dec 29th 2023 at 9:12:41 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#27745: Dec 29th 2023 at 9:28:32 AM

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...but underneath he is Ax-Crazy and ill tempered...

The exception is the Gameboy game, where it does not appear <- no comma and...

In Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Shattered Grid, Serpentera...

In the Boom comics, <- comma under the control of Lord Drakkon...

^ Without the comma, you're saying that the comics themselves are under the control of Lord Drakkon.

The only thing keeping it from destroying the Rangers is it running out of power...

the only time it has been defeated is in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Shattered Grid, when...

Ironically, by the time the truth has come out, Ratatosk has undergone a Heel–Face Turn.

...but despite his what his menacing appearance may indicate, <- comma he...

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#27746: Dec 29th 2023 at 9:45:56 AM

[up] @Alpinist

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Joel saying Kaddish...is a short scene, <- comma but one with...

...supporting characters, <- comma even though...two appearances.

...makes a strong impression despite not living for too long on screen.

...a Joke Character Dog the Bounty Hunter Expy from Electric Barracuda, <- comma has...

Razz's girlfriend Sally doesn't appear until the second book, <- comma but...

In a setting with so few whole new species born out of hybrid relationships, the history behind the Alder-Espirion culture <- no comma feels...

Adaptational Attractiveness: Argo City provides a locational version...

As befitting a long-running...has many popular...

...make her character one that fans are always happy to see show up.

...is hard to forget, <- comma with his gentlemanly...

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#27747: Dec 29th 2023 at 9:47:53 AM

[up] @N2002

There don't appear to be any English errors in those examples.

MGD107 Since: Feb, 2015
Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#27749: Dec 29th 2023 at 10:31:07 AM

Page 1108 @Chris X

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Aoharu Manga Library

...and one (or all) leading ladies whose names are either...

...set him up to an Arranged Marriage with a CEO's daughter named Yui while micromanaging his spending only so he can provide for their gambling addiction. Thankfully, Yui and her father are reasonable people (even if Yui started out a bit spoiled), and eventually Keiichi just flat-out disowns them.

^ Disowns who? His parents or his wife and father-in-law? I assume you meant the parents, but the way you wrote the sentence it's the latter.

This usually comes back to bite them in the end.

Keiichi's kindness will eventually lead him to help someone in trouble without looking into their background...

...makes Keiichi overwork, takes all the credit for himself, and eventually proves to be incompetent at the same time too.

Whenever Keiichi or any of the heroines is a company CEO or other chief <missing text>, you...

^ Other chief what? Executive?

...only valuing other people for their looks...heroines are also flat-out...turn out to be a complete knockouts in...

...while the cheater's prosperity will be just temporary <- no comma and disaster awaits afterwards.

...by tampering with the direction for no clear reason. She ends up exposing Daigo because of her conscience...

^ By tampering with what direction?

Keiichi may start the series being a pathetic wimp with no backbone despite being a good person, but he eventually Grew a Spine and is able to talk down and reject the bad guys' insults and bribery while standing up for his principles.

Out of the named heroines, Kanae...

...thus being expected to 'finish last'.

...money and materialistic wealth from him. This is sometimes inverted when it's the heroine who's popular: either she...

The reason why this doesn't into Take That! is that the story portrays K Company with more respect: Keiichi has more freedom and is able to resign without being blacklisted from the industry; there is no workplace abuse <- no semi-colon and the problem stems solely from Matsumoto charming everyone and making Keiichi the fall guy. And Once Matsumoto's fraud...

...based on their superficial looks <- no comma and therefore has...

Likewise, the female antagonist is usually a shallow Gold Digger who only sees men as how...he makes it a point to avoid...

By the end of the story, their smug attitude comes crashing down along with their plans to show that they are actually competent at their field, while Keiichi perseveres with his own hard work ethics, so they usually come back to Keiichi begging for a second chance, but at that point, Keiichi has had enough of their smug shit and rejects them, leaving them to a horrible fate.

Sometimes it's deconstructed that the Tsundere's antics end up...

Usually the eyes of the antagonistic Gold Digger, <- comma once they realize Keiichi has risen to a higher position surpassing the antagonistic rival, will be replaced with yen signs. This is to cue in their true money-grubbing nature that they're just interested in mooching off him as an ATM.

Edited by Arivne on Dec 29th 2023 at 10:32:51 AM

Tylerbear12 What you see is what you get, just a guy. from The Green Hills. Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
What you see is what you get, just a guy.
#27750: Dec 29th 2023 at 11:16:53 AM

Thanks, Arivne.

Trivia.Wolfwalkers

  • What Could Have Been (Revised): The original conceptual trailer showcases some cut ideas and deleted scenes from the final film:
    • Mebh and Robyn originally met under very different circumstances, with the trailer showing Mebh bumping into Robyn in Kilkenny after being chased by a group of kids. In the final film, this is changed to the two meeting in the forest after Robyn accidentally gets caught by one of her father's traps.
    • Mebh is shown to hang around in Kilkenny, which contrasts sharply with the final film, where Mebh prefers to stay in the forest due to her hatred of the town and being a wolfwalker, only going into town when necessary (such as to find her mother).
    • Mebh and Robyn are shown hanging out in the town's marketplace at one point, suggesting that they were originally going to bond in Kilkenny in addition to the forest. In the final film, their bonding moments only happen in the forest.
    • There is a Deleted Scene in which Robyn becomes forced by the kids to kill Mebh with her crossbow after Mebh frees herself from the cage she was put her, which was cut from the final film.
    • One of the final shots has Bill dodge various arrows from soldiers by jumping into a pond, implying that he originally rebels against Lord Protector far earlier than in the final film, where he is loyal to him until the climax.

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Dec 30th 2023 at 11:32:07 AM


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