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...while embarking on a whirlwind romance with Sakuya balanced against the demands of the life of a normal high school girl.

After taking on the role of the band's lyricist, she begins using...

Edited by Arivne on Jan 10th 2024 at 8:31:48 AM

Thank you Arvine

So from what I'm getting, Arivne, you didn't proofread my post because I made the page in the wiki first?

Can I ask why is that a problem?

Edited by Rhino8888 on Jan 13th 2024 at 5:45:45 PM

N/A

Edited by Alpinist on Jan 10th 2024 at 5:12:22 AM

Thanks Clare and Arivne. Once again, retirement didn’t work out for me, but I hope this will be the shortest spell I have been back for yet. I won't have time to post much tomorrow but I still have a backlist besides the stuff today,

@ Dickensian

• Arthur Havisham is more conflicted about scamming his sister than his literary counterpart apparently was and even seeks to stop the con in the final episodes.

@ Murder, She Wrote

• Almost every espionage Batman Gambit Michael Hagarty gets into is quite something, particularly in "One White Rose for Death", when he and another agent commander Jessica's limo in a Not My Driver gambti to spirit away a Soviet defector and his sister to a nearby British embassy.

Murder She Wrote S 3 E 1 Death Stalks The Big Top

• When Hank sexually harasses Katie, her 12-year-old son tries to chase him off with a baseball bat.
• After spending most of the two-parter having to put up with the Mayor Pain mismanaging the case, the sheriff snaps that he's done doing that and lets the mayor know exactly what he thinks of his leadership and his reelection chances.

• The episode begins with a Phantom Thief rappelling through a museum skylight, navigating a laser grid, and then escaping with a gold mask that is meant to lure an Asshole Victim to his death.

@ Miracle Mile

• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Wilson's sister Carlotta is played by the talented Kelly Jo Minter and is implied to be an anti-nuclear Soapbox Sadie who spends half of the film having the same kind of chaotic adventures with her brother that Harry and Julie are having. She feels like she could have been an interesting part of the last act, but only gets a cameo appearance with a single line of dialogue.
  • Chip's father, who has unexplained issues with his son, is the impetus of the whole plot, and could have provided a look at the panic spreading to other cities, is nonetheless only present for one short phone call where Harry fails to warn him about the incoming nukes.
  • The busboy who believes Harry's warning but then steals his car to fetch his mother (according to a Bilingual Bonus conversation) and his mother never shows up again, when their own flight from the city likely had an interesting story behind it and his stealing Harry's car could have led to some interesting interactions on both sides if they met up again.

@ Serge Storms

• Board game champion Jen-Jen and Professor Fontaine (who is struggling not to Go Mad from the Isolation for an experiment, only for the first COVID quarantine to trap him once again right as the experiment ends) only have a few scenes throughout Books 25 and 26 but are still decently regarded.

@ Serge Storms

• Serge's regular Death Traps can be as brilliantly complex and sometimes but not always poetic as they are vicious, especially when he is acting to avenge wrongs against a new friend or protect them from attackers. One standout example is in Pineapple Grenade, when he ties up the Hate Sink Big Bad and puts him in a boat with the steering wheel jammed so that it will steer through a burning, miles-wide oil slick that is only there because of that guy’s crimes. And then, when the man begs for mercy, Serge seemingly relents, only to reveal that his idea of mercy is putting a nice carpet under the guy’s feet, quipping that his form of mercy is sending the guy out in style.
• In some books, Serge goes beyond mere creative traps and is a full-blown The Chessmaster, such as in Cadillac Beach (where he organizes a Decoy Getaway through a tunnel at a mental hospital and then doubles around to stow away in a truck), Coconut Cowboy (where he tricks most of the murderers, drug dealers, and other lowlifes into turning on each other and tossing each other down a sinkhole by pretending to cut deals with them, then double-crosses the last man standing and sends lethal volts of electricity into the sinkhole), Nuclear Jellyfish (where he and Story spend the whole book hiding their long-game to avenge the attempted murder of Story’s brother and, for misdirection purposes, even manage to fool Coleman into thinking they just met and Mahoney into thinking that Story is plotting to kill Serge), or Shark Skin Suite (where he tricks Amoral Attorneys into submitting what they think is fake evidence that will get their opposing counsel arrested and disqualified but is really genuine evidence of their own misdoings).
• The Kosovo sequence in Orange Crush is alternately awesome and tragic as the National Guardsmen fight to save each other and some innocent villagers from cops carrying out ethnic cleansing. Aging Sergeant Rock Tex Jackson makes several Friendly Sniper kills and then singlehandedly charges and takes out one group of Serbian cops manning a grenade launcher before being mortally wounded. Corporal Lech Kluzinski helps Tex wipe out a squad of enemy soldiers about to gun down some unarmed civilians and charges another grenade launcher (which is aiming at his friends) unarmed after losing his weapon, with both him and the grenadier being blown up after Lech tackles the man. Private Roosevelt Washington carries Ensign Newbie Marlon to cover in a fireman's carry and throws him behind a barricade after being shot in the back three times. Marlon himself ends up standing between a family of civilians and seven cops before being narrowly saved by a Gunship Rescue
• In Triggerfish Twist, Butt-Monkey Jim Davenport kills a violent carjacker who is threatening his baby daughter by tricking the man into sticking his head in the glove compartment and then triggering the airbag. Then, in the climax of the book, despite having never used a gun before, he manages to gun down two of the man's vengeful brothers.
• In Stingray Shuffle, Ivan and Zigzag use stolen racehorses to chase down a train with a briefcase of money onboard, then transfer from the horses to the train just in time to avoid slamming into the wall outside a tunnel.
• In The Big Bamboo, aspiring scriptwriter and grifter Ford Oleman and his friends con some crooked bankers who foreclosed on their families in the past, frame some of the worst Horrible Hollywood types around for murder, and get Ford plenty of publicity and a deal for his movie while everyone else views him as an innocent victim.
• Both Cadillac Beach and The Riptide Ultra-Glide feature chess masters who play Serge into carrying out their agendas and then end up holding him at gunpoint without him ever suspecting a thing. In the former book, Serge only triumphs due to a fluke, while in the latter story, his manipulators learn how it feels when The Bad Guy Wins.
• In Atomic Lobster:
  • Addled Addict Rachael Rhodes gets some Beware the Silly Ones moments once she turns on Serge and Coleman, still coming at them with a knife after being repeatedly punched in the chin and whacked on the head. After being forced to swallow fire extinguisher foam, she takes a few more swings and then partially pumps her own stomach by slamming herself against the TV console.
  • Every moment where One-Man Army Agent Foxtrot is shown in the thick of battle, whether knocking out six terrorists at once in the present or charging at an enemy outpost, blazing away at a vastly superior force and calling in an airstrike on the position in a flashback (an experience Foxtrot survives).
• In her Back Story leading up to Nuclear Jellyfish, Story Long bit off a rapist's penis, kicked various strip club patrons in the nuts for groping her, beat up an anti-abortion protestor during an argument while several months pregnant (although that moment may be more YMMV, depending on the reader's politics), and used Rules Lawyer tactics to outmaneuver some cops shutting down her strip club on obscenity charges by having the dancers perform nude Shakespeare so that there was an element of art (no matter how poorly performed) to the performance that defeated the legal definition of obscenity. During the book, she is quite the actress while going along with a plan to avenge an attack on her brother, and slits the Big Bad's throat while doing a striptease for him.
• After the Big Bad of Tiger Shrimp Tango gets the drop on Serge and is about to kill him, Girl of the Week Brook, who has been a woobie Innocent Bystander up to that point, gets the drop on him and shoots him with a gun hidden in her shopping bag.
• After graduating from law school at the beginning of Shark Skin Suite, Brook spends the next two books winning one legal battle against corrupt business or government officials after another, using Refuge in Audacity methods to get Catharsis Factor results. One of her finest hours is getting a bank that sent illegal foreclosure notices to get foreclosed on itself and humiliated on live TV as everything in the main branch besides the money in the vault is carted away (not even their sign is spared). Brook is prepared to move onto their other locations until they drop their suit and give her clients an enormous settlement fee.
  • In Shark Skin Suite, Brook's main co-counsel Shelby, who is just as green as she is, spends the first few arguments completely outflanking and humiliating an Army of Lawyers when it comes to winning over the jury. Her other co-counsel, Ziggy The Stoner, also proves to be quite the Bunny-Ears Lawyer for organizing an ironclad lawsuit in the first place, figuring out one of his plaintiffs has thrown in with the defense, and discrediting that man’s pro-defense statements on cross-examination.
  • On a non-legal note, Ziggy manages to make a bong out of his briefcase to sneak his marijuana past courthouse security. Granted, this can have a disastrous and unethical effect on his court performance, but the effort is still impressive.
• In Clownfish Blues, while helping Serge with a Zany Scheme, backwoods fisherman Jasper casually reveals that he has enjoyed reading several works of great American literature that even the relatively brainy Sege was barely been able to get through, leaving Serge feeling stupid next to the guy. Then, the man tops this off by playing a banjo to remind a couple of captives of Film/{[Deliverance}} and scare them more.
• In The Pope of Palm Beach:
  • Cartel accountant Salenca frames himself for embezzlement in a deliberately clumsy way that will make his bosses look closer and find "evidence" that Salenca's direct superior is the real embezzler, at which point Salenca brutally kills the man and requests his job.
  • A Corrupt Corporate Executive responsible for making lifesaving drugs impossible to afford is poisoned and needs his own drugs for an antidote. Serge drops him off near a pair of pharmacies without enough money to buy the drugs. The pharmacists are willing to give the guy his pills on credit until they recognize who he is and, out of anger for all the lives he's ruined, refuse to lift a finger to help him unless he will call corporate headquarters and lower the drug prices for everyone. Both Serge (for planning out that exact scenario) and the pharmacists come out equally impressive by the time that scene is over.
• In Naked Came the Florida Man, aspiring female football player Chris proves to be a Badass Bookworm when she writes a science paper that is better than anything her science teacher could have ever done. Then, when the teacher flunks her out of jealousy, her coach finds out, gives the man a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, and gets the principal to start an investigation into the teacher that gets him fired for multiple acts of misconduct.
• In No Sunscreen for the Dead:
  • Throughout the book, data cruncher Benmont identifies multiple fugitives from justice and identifies a conspiracy to murder various retired spies just by spending a few hours examining things like who has been renting certain movies near crime scenes or how certain fake IDs have similar social security numbers.
  • Cold War spy Tofer tells his old friend Ted that their friendship (when Ted was in high school) began as a ploy to pump Ted for information. Ted reveals that he figured out what Tofer was doing from day one, walked into an FBI office, and set himself up as a double agent to feed Tofer false information.
  • Serge has been helping the retirement home communities have a Now, Let Me Carry You moment and fight off a group of wet work operatives with fireworks, angry swans, and flour bags shot from inner tube slingshots.
• In Tropic of Stupid, after petty-minded senate candidate Jack Grayson is humiliated by someone filming a classist, private campaign speech he makes, he lashes out at the event organizer, powerful lawyer Nathan Sparrow, and tries to get his daughter fired from her job as a cop. Nathan, who had confiscated the film (and discovered that the camera was still running after he confiscated it and captured Grayson insulting both his donors and his voters in the same sentence), promptly releases it to the media in sections to build up the story and anticipation, wrecking the politician's career.
• In Mermaid Confidential:
  • Cartel heir AJ Benzappa is assassinated after his father Raffy starts turning senile so that, under the day-to-day management of A.J.’s Non-Action Guy brother Mercado, the cartel will be a pushover for its rival, Morales. Benzappa enforcer Cinco tells Mercado that he and AJ already planned out a series of retaliatory hits of their own in the event of something like this and are already carrying them out without Mercado getting involved. They are effective enough to bring the Morales Cartel and its business to a standstill. Then, even after Morales has Mercado and later his immediate successor killed, the Benzappa soldiers still keep fighting back with the same intensity and eventually triumph and kill Morales.
  • The climax sees a bunch of Morales thugs attacking a hospice for Littlest Cancer Patients because it has been made The Protectorate of the Benzappa cartel due to (among other things) the hospice also taking care of Raffy. Serge and a local deputy all get caught up in the melee and (along with Cinco) shield the kids with their own bodies while gunning down attackers. Serge also throws a bunch of cherry bombs taped to cans of lilac-scented Febreze at the attackers, and a wounded Julie, the main care provider, takes out the last attacker.
• Many climaxes have battles worthy of an action movie. Still, The Maltese Iguana is one of the most notable ones, with Serge and his allies being chased by a stolen military vehicle, commandeering a bus, and being chased across the bridge where the climax of True Lies was filmed, with Serge taking them through the middle of an actual movie shoot in the process.

Edited by Alpinist on Jan 11th 2024 at 11:03:17 AM

HilariousInHindsight.Comic Books:

• From 1995-to-1997, Marvel would publish a series of Disney anthology comics titled Disney Comic Hits!, predating Disney's eventual purchase of Marvel by over a decade.

• What Could Have Been: There were originally plans for a LEGOLAND resort near Charleroi Airport in Belgium, which would've been the largest LEGOLAND in the world, beating out LEGOLAND Winsdor. While it was planned to open in 2027, it would be suddenly cancelled by Merlin Entertainment a year after its announcement in 2022, citing a "complete evaluation of its global activities."

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Jan 11th 2024 at 6:11:08 AM

Mobile Suit Gundam 00

• Ambiguously Gay: Unlike Lyle, there is no indication if Neil has any romantic interest with the female crew. His interaction with Feldt is more platonic due to their age gap. Neil also not distracted with Sumeragi's sexy swimsuit, and slightly annoyed with Lichty tease that he is dating on a girl during day-off. However, unlike when he with Setsuna who more to big-brother figure to him, Neil interaction with Tieria is slightly more than platonic especially its help Tieria to defrost his stoicism and accept his own flaws.
• Celibate Hero: Neil has a close relationship with all Celestial Being crew. However, unlike Lyle, it's never shown if Neil has ever had a romantic relationship with anyone or shown any romantic interest with someone. To be fair that Neil is very focused on his duty as Meisters, revenge and change a future into better for his sole family member.
• All-Loving Hero: Downplayed. As himself, Allelujah is compassionate, care about everyone future and is not fond with violence. To the point he still think to give the other experimented-children from HRL Superhuman institute to get a therapy and give a normal life instead of do a Mercy Kill to end their suffering. His other persona, Hallelujah, unfortunately hate this mindset and believe it will make them weaker and easily get killed.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While Hallelujah convince Allelujah to destroy HRL Superhuman institute and kills all the experimented children is cruel, he has good point. Even if the institute get closed, the children would still ended as a living weapon for any faction due to their status as young Super-Soldier and they would not mind with this since the children already brainwashed by the scientist to be a living weapon. In the end, they were still trapped in war and killed senselessly. Making do a Mercy Kill is the only way to end the experimented children free from military control.

Kong: The Animated Series

• Non-Idle Rich: Despite being Art Dealer for rich family like The Tannenbaum, is not enough for Tiger Lucy to get a money from selling the art. Leading her become thief and De La Porta henchwoman to get a bonus.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: Inverted. Tiger Lucy has a tabby cat. Despite her morality and role as henchwoman for De La Porta, Tiger Lucy does like to pet her cat during on episode "Framed" and proved to be friendly with her cat.
• Right-Hand Cat: Tiger Lucy and her cat are friendly and closed with each other. This show during the entire episode of "Framed", especially when it help her to inform Lua and Kong appearance by hissing at them.

One-Gender School

• The Univeil Academy in Jack Jeanne is stated to be an all-boys school. The protagonist, Kisa, has to disguise herself as a boy after the principal decides to invite her.

Trivia.Blue Eye Samurai (under Actor-Shared Background)

• Some of the characters are played by actors who are, even partially, of Japanese decent. These include Masi Oka (Ringo), Darren Barnet (Taigen) and George Takei (Seki).

Edited by Ayumi-chan on Jan 11th 2024 at 11:25:19 PM

@ AsrulGuza

Mobile Suit Gundam 00

• Ambiguously Gay: Unlike Lyle, there is no indication of Neil having any romantic interest in the female crew members. His interaction with Feldt is more platonic due to their age gap. Neil is also not distracted by Sumeragi's sexy swimsuit, and is slightly annoyed with Lichty teasing him about dating (superfluous word - cut) a girl during his day off. However, unlike when he is with Setsuna, (comma) who is more like a big brother figure to him, Neil's interaction with Tieria is slightly more than platonic especially when he helps Tieria to defrost his stoicism and accept his own flaws.

• Celibate Hero: Neil has a close relationship with all the Celestial Being crew. However, unlike Lyle, it's never shown if Neil has ever had a romantic relationship with (superfluous word - cut) or shown any romantic interest in anyone. To be fair, (comma, superfluous word - cut) Neil is very focused on his duty as a Meister, getting revenge and changing the future into something better for his sole family member.

• All-Loving Hero: Downplayed. As himself, Allelujah is compassionate, cares about everyone's future and is not fond of violence. (superfluous words - cut) He still thinks he can help the other experimental children from the HRL Superhuman Institute by getting them therapy and giving them a normal life instead of performing a Mercy Kill to end their suffering. His other persona, Hallelujah, unfortunately hates this mindset and believes it will make them weaker and easier to kill.

• Jerkass Has a Point: While Hallelujah convincing Allelujah to destroy the HRL Superhuman Institute and kill all the experimental children is cruel, he has a good point. Even if the Institute gets closed, the children would still end up as (superfluous word - cut) living weapons for any faction due to their status as young [Super-Soldier Super Soldiers] and the children would not mind (superfluous words - cut) since they have already been brainwashed by the scientists to be (superfluous word - cut) living weapons. In the end, they are (superfluous word - cut) trapped in war and killed senselessly. Performing a Mercy Kill is the only way to set the experimental children free from military control.

Kong: The Animated Series

• Non-Idle Rich: Despite being an art dealer for a rich family like the Tannenbaums,Tiger Lucy does not get enough money from selling the art. This leads to her becoming a thief and De La Porta's''' henchwoman to get a bonus.

• Kindhearted Cat Lover: Inverted. Tiger Lucy has a tabby cat. Despite her morality and role as henchwoman for De La Porta, Tiger Lucy does like to pet her cat during one episode "Framed" and proves to be friendly with her cat.

• Right-Hand Cat: Tiger Lucy and her cat are friendly and close with each other. This is shown during the events of "Framed", especially when the cat (superfluous words - cut) informs her of Lua and Kong's appearance by hissing at them.

@Alpinist

@Tylerbear 12

I don't see any English problems with those examples.

@Ayumi-chan

...are played by actors who are, even partially, of Japanese descent.

Edited by Arivne on Jan 12th 2024 at 7:46:04 AM

For Magnificent Bastard

• Scissor Seven: The Prince of Stern/Stan is the new head of the country of Stan/Stern and desires to usher in a better world through technology. The Prince scouts out Chicken Island and preps it for invasion to harvest its energy source. Attacking Chicken Island to harvest its energy source, the Prince is able to effortlessly match the heroes blow for blow using his technology and tactics. When defeated, the Prince instead opts for a more subtle approach and has the energy harvested in a more stealthy manner. Gaining a friendship with Cola, the Prince goes out of his way to help cure her from her illness even discovering and dragging the doctor who can help her to her location. Helping defend the island, the Prince tricks White Fox into letting him go for a better challenge later we'll he uses it to upgrade himself and come close to beating him.

Thank you.

Bad weather canceled the event that was going to make me take it easier tonight but I still won't go as hog wild as I did yesterday.

@ Batman The Brave And The Bold S 1 E 21 Duel Of The Double Crossers

• High-Heel–Face Turn: Lashina is more honorable the two male antagonists of the episode or her (less attractive) two fellow female antagonists, has some romantic sparks with Jonah, and joins him on his adventures at the end.
• I Choose to Stay: Batman offers to find time-travelling heroes to get Jonah back to the Wild West, but Jonah decides to see a little more of outer space now that he is free of Mongul.
• Moving the Goalposts: Mongul has a deal that he will send Jonah Hex back to his own time in exchange for catching criminals (and eventually Batman) to make Warworld gladiators, but shamelessly and liberally changes his deal after each job Jonah performs. Eventually, this makes Jonah turn on him.
• Space Western: Wild West Bounty Hunter Jonah Hex has been brought into the future to act as a space bounty hunter for Mongul, tracks people to backwater cantinas, and finds an alien steed to ride.
• Team Spirit: In the teaser, the recently reformed Outsiders struggle against Despero individually but do well fighting him in a coordinated effort.

@ Don't Call Me Ishmael!

• Every debating scene in the trilogy has Scobie speaking well enough to nearly carry the whole team on his own (even a time when Razz and Prindable spend the debate insulting each other’s beliefs about the subject rather than making persuasive arguments). Still, there are also rare moments when the others can shine, such as when the geeky Bill gets to rail on about why science-fiction and fantasy films are still relevant to modern society.

Don't Call Me Ishmael

• Every moment where Ms. Tarango puts school bully Barry in his place, such as subtly calling him a dick to his face while pretending to be hypothetically discussing where names come from and using Exact Words to win a bet against him to provide a lesson about languages.
• While Prue painting dozens of highly recognizable celebrity peg people figurines in a flashback to first grade does give Ishmael a case of Successful Sibling Syndrome, it is still an impressive effort.
• Scobie uses Reverse Psychology to make the school bullies prank him with an insect collection when, really, he is used to being around creepy bugs and has no fear of them whatsoever. This is followed by Mr. Barker the vice-principal quickly finding the culprits during his investigation and making it clear to them how much trouble they are in while never losing a Tranquil Fury attitude.
• Ishmael witnesses Barry and his friends picking on a younger boy from another school and has a perfect chance to slip away, but instead, he walks up to divert their malice and tries to cut the younger boy some slack.

Ishmael and the Return of the Dugongs

• Black Hippie Teacher Mr. Guthrie’s Establishing Character Moment involves him winning a soccer game with some bold moves which earn him the nickname "Pele," which began as a racist insult from his opponent but then became a respectful nickname form people agreeing that he knows the moves of one of the best soccer players to ever live.
• Ishmael remains silent and takes heaps of abuse that are being thrown at him over an emotional poem Barry’s gang caught him with rather than reveal that it was someone else (who he doesn’t even like, but who would be far more embarrassed) who actually wrote it and he just happened to pick it up.
• The triumphant music show at the end of the book features the teenaged Razz (an emergency substitute drummer) keeping up with the veteran adult rockstars.

Ishmael and the Hoops of Steel

• Prindabel has an epic Rules Lawyer moment when manages to calculate how a tie for last place in a volleyball league will affect the overall school rankings by giving them one extra point to apply to the overall athletic competitor boards and will catapult their school to first place. He follows this up by managing to score the deciding point during that game, albeit with more than a little blind luck.
• Class Clown Razz comes up with a cunning plan for two gay couples (one male, one female) to attend a Catholic school dance with an unofficial heterosexual-couples-only policy and have fun in plain view without anyone else being the wiser.
• The eponymous talent show act, where Bill twirls several hula hoops from his chest and limbs to blaring rock-and-roll accompaniment from his friends.

@ Mystery Road

• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Quirky coroner Jim from the original movie seems to have known and gotten along with Jay (who recently moved back to town) for a long time, yet season 1 of the prequel never bothers to show the beginning of that association.

@ Reacher

2.6 New York's Finest

• Reacher subjects Langston's bodyguards to a Mook Horror Show, then subjects Langston to some uncharacteristic gloating before the terrified Langston only escapes due to a villainous Gunship Rescue.
  Reacher: It's just you and me now, Langston. This place is surrounded by a barbed-wire fence, there's only one exit and you got to get past me to reach it. You killed the wrong guy's friends, asshоlе.

The Man Goes Through

• The flashback sequence where the Special Investigators break up Operation Kite Runner has highlights like O'Donnell crawling under a car to slash a mook's foot and then headshooting him when he drops, Dixon shooting a man in mid-motion while diving for cover, Sanchez slamming a car door on a guy's head, and the whole crew stopping the Smug Snake ringleader's escape by knocking over a chainlink fence he is trying to escape over.
  Drug dealer: You broke my fucking leg.
  Reacher I broke the fence. The fall broke your leg.
• Neagley and an assassin have a battle in a hospital lab while using improvised weapons like a crutch and bonesaw.

@ Robin (1993)

• Moe: Enfant Terrible the General's little sister Hilary is pretty adorable for the childish innocence she shows while interacting with Robin and giving him information about her brother, whose monstrousness she is Wise Beyond Their Years about, and for the way she protectively holds her little dog to her chest in several panels.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Lynx is one of the first villains Tim fights as Robin, is a Love-Interest Traitor to him and loses her eye to a Bad Boss for failing to kill him, but only makes a few appearances in this series afterward, when she could have made a decent major rogue and had her Heel–Face Door-Slam in Batman: No Man's Land explored more.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • The conclusion of issue #144 sees dozens of colorful new D-list supervillains (Tapeworm, Redback Spider, Wicker Man, Monsoon, Impervious, Crucible, Fright Knight, Krakatoa, Basketcase, Slipknot, the Jury, etc.) arrive to demand that Robin and some other heroes surrender Thunderhand, who their leader Tapeworm (and presumably the others) had a good Villainous Friendship with and who Ragman just executed and assimilated. This had the potential for some What Measure Is a Mook? moments when the others learned of Thunderhand’s death and the heroes wondered if Ragman should have killed him while also having enough antagonists for a continuous battle that could last several issues. It could have also deeply explored the moral alignment of Warlock’s Daughter (who wants to do good but has been doing bad things ) and Tim’s conflicted feelings about whether to join the Veteran’s hero team. By the end of Issue #145, all of the new villains are defeated after just a few panels of fighting or less apiece (most never reappear afterward). Thunderhand's death is never mentioned by either side, the Veteran’s plot is barely advanced, and Warlock’s Daughter does land on the good side but barely gets a page exploring her actions and decisions.
  • It can be disappointing that Stephanie never encounters some of Tim's friends and enemies, like the General and his siblings, Jason Bard, and the Ghost Dragons during her time as Robin, which would have given them a chance to comment on the turnover of the identity.

Edited by Alpinist on Jan 12th 2024 at 4:22:31 AM

Thanks, Arivne.

YMMV.Fantasia:

• Once Original, Now Common: Fantasia was incredibly groundbreaking and innovative in the sound department for its time, as it was the first film to utilize stereo/surround sound, click tracks, the overdubbing of orchestral parts, and simultaneous multi-track recording, amongst other modern sound techniques. While these techniques have since become the norm in the film and recording industry, back in 1940, there was nothing like Fantasia, and it's thanks to it that those techniques are the norm today.

• Broken Base: The Heroes segment in the updated Hollywood Studios version. Many fans found it to be a great addition to the show and a massive improvement over the Pocahontas segment from the original show, while others found the segment to be shoehorned in and poorly paced with the rest of the show.
• Common Knowledge: Many assume that Maleficent is the show's Big Bad due to her usual status as The Leader of the Disney villains and the posters prominently focusing on the climatic battle between her and Mickey. However, this is not the case. The actual Big Bad of the show is the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Maleficent is simply one of several Disney villains in the Evil Queen's team, and the Final Boss.

• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: The costumes used in Disneyland's first years of operation are notorious for being very unsettling looking◊. The reason for the costumes' appearance is that they weren't originally designed to be walkaround characters, but as costumes for the ice skating show The Ice Capades,^note Disney hastily burrowed them at the time because they didn't have time to create their own. and were meant to be viewed from a distance in an arena setting, not up close and personal, as doing so exposes a lot of their odd quirks meant for visibility on the ice rink (like the large holes on Mickey and Minnie's faces, Donald's overly long neck, etc). Disney would quickly drop the costumes a few years later once they got the resources to make their own costumes.

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Jan 12th 2024 at 2:46:45 PM

Thanks clare ^^

Thanks Arvine.

I want to add an example to AwesomeMusic.Pop, but I feel like the syntax is a bit iffy (specifically in the bracketed text — I'm honestly not even sure the brackets are necessary in this case) so I'm running it by GHWE first. The artist already has an example on the page; I'm omitting it for proofreading purposes.

• Sam Smith:
  • (PRE-EXISTING EXAMPLE)
  • Their cover of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" radiates joy. It's a fresh, modern take on the original, showcasing Smith's dazzling falsetto. (Unsurprising, given how they described this as the "highest song" they had ever sung!)

Edited by Riolugirl on Jan 12th 2024 at 4:03:50 PM

@miraculous

Edited by Arivne on Jan 12th 2024 at 7:52:54 AM

@Alpinist

@Tylerbear 12

...over the Pocahontas segment...

Maleficent is simply one of several Disney villains in the Evil Queen's team, <- comma and the Final Boss.

Edited by Arivne on Jan 12th 2024 at 8:16:34 AM

@Riolugirl

It's a fresh, modern take on the original, showcasing Smith's dazzling falsetto <- no period (unsurprisingly, given how they described this as the "highest song" they had ever sung!). <- period

Oh I meant well.

My bad

And thank you arivne

Cheers, Arvine!

Thanks, Arivne.

YMMV.Sonic Prime:

• Older Than They Think: This is not the first time Sonic has caused problems due to his impulsive nature and inability to listen to others. In Sonic Lost World, he causes the Deadly Six to gain control of Dr. Eggman's tech after he ignores Tails' warnings and impulsively kicks the conch controlling the Deadly Six out of Dr. Eggman's hands. His impulsiveness in the same game also gets Tails captured by the Deadly Six after Tails stops him from being trapped by a fake Egg Capsule.

• Unexpected Character: Fans were surprised by the presence of Gmerl (as part of the Egg Ball No. 2 boss in Sunset Hill) in a flashback to Sonic Advance 3 in "No Escape".

• God Never Said That: Many fans ended up interpreting Ian Flynn's comments that the show takes place after Sonic Advance 3 in a far more literal sense than he intended, with many assuming that the game takes place immediately after Advance 3, which is not the case. He meant to say the show happens at some point in the franchise post-Advance 3 (due to the flashback to Advance 3 in "No Escape"), not that it happens immediately after. According to him in a later tweet, the show's exact placement in the timeline is "intentionally vague".

FandomEnragingMisconception.Sonic The Hedgehog:

• Saying that Blaze is a "female Sonic" is an easy way to become burned to ashes by the fandom. Beyond the fact that they're different species (Sonic being a hedgehog and Blaze being a cat), the two have nothing in common outside of both having Super-Speed, with their personalities, backgrounds, and abilities being completely different.

• Ambiguous Situation: Despite Hilda's father Anders finally appearing in S3, the season is more focused on his relationship with Hilda and does not delve into his relationship with Johanna or vice versa, keeping their relationship and what exactly happened between them a mystery (outside of the fact that Johanna and Astrid currently hate Anders).

YMMV.Ted 2024:

• Memetic Mutation: The scene of Ted trying to act calm before suddenly running in a panic after being confronted by Blaire after giving John weed has quickly garnered meme status on X in early 2024, with users posting edits of the scene coupled with different sound effects and/or music to fit the scene.

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Jan 13th 2024 at 12:48:08 PM