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Trying to identify two characters from Newgrounds. Web Original
So I was watching a YouTube video on Alan Becker's channel "The Flashback" where it features both stick figures, The Chosen One and The Dark Lord, rampaging throughout various places on the internet (video games, websites, social media, etc) and then they raid the website Newgrounds featuring multiple characters from different works.
Now, I didn't know a lot about these characters at first since I haven't been fully immersed in Newgrounds as much as YouTube until I did some researching and now I know the majority of them. However, I was unable to figure out two unknown characters in particular so I was wondering if anyone know these guys?
Here's the original photo◊ for context.
And here are the two characters I don't know.
And if anyone wants to know the rest of the characters, I'll be happy to name them.
Edited by ObserverfromafarTop down computer RPG Videogame
When I was way younger, this could very easily be 10 years ago by now, we had this top down 2D RPG on our old computer. Unfortunately, all I remember about it today is that there was a green snake/lizard character who I thought was the coolest thing, so I used the game editor we had to turn the entire party into clones of this one character. I never got far enough into the game to get any of the plot because I was dreadful at playing it. I know it isn't much to go on, but any help would be appreciated!
No Title Literature
I'm trying to find information on a fantasy series inspired by the Inca civilization and I think that it was written by a Portuguese writer.
Small girl waits in her haunted room. Videogame
I remember a gameplay video of an indie game where a small girl was supposed to wait in her room for her parent to come home. But the room was haunted or something and depending on your interactions with it, there were different outcomes.
The graphics were minimalistic, looked like hand-drawn and the environment was mostly white.
Nun with a tank Anime
I only vaguely remember a cover art of what was either some manga/anime or JRPG. It featured a nun and some other character on top of a rather dieselpunky tank.
It kind of reminded me of Chrono Crusade, but there wasn't a tank, was there?
Similar to Dinosaur King but in another world Anime
It was some sort of childrens cartoon/anime, with a character design reminiscent of Dinosaur King. The main kid, a boy, had some sort of monster/creature like a pokemon or something. I remember in one episode, the creature ran in circles around a city to create a glass dome with layers of glass and something else to make a dome to protect it from a sandstorm or something. I am also pretty sure this show doesn't occur on Earth, but another univese/world, but I could be wrong. Not digimon, nothing that comes up under dinosaur.
Filipino drama about an angel falling in love Live Action TV
I remember seeing this drama a couple years ago, it involved a pair of girls whose dad died and went to heaven, the girls are taken in by their aunt who has a bratty daughter. One of the daughters gets a dog while the other gets lesson from an old lady I think? By the end of the first episode or so they're older teens/young adults (forgot which). A couple episodes later a jerk gets in an accident and an angel accidentally possesses his body, where the guy's soul ends up in hell. The angel ends up in a relationship with one of the girls, I think the one who got lessons. One of the episodes later the angel tries to get the original guy's soul back to his body by going to hell with another angel. I'm not sure how the series ended but that was what I remember.
2d cartoon??? Help! Western Animation
I remember seeing this cartoon. It starred this girl and her pet cat. They ride in a limo. I saw an episode about mummies and Egypt and stuff. The girl was definitely POC. I think the cat was blue. I only saw a little bit of it, but then the channel was changed. What cartoon is this?
Analog horror about nuclear war and fallout Web Original
The video was similar to a regular PSA about nuclear bombs and such, but it was somewhat stylized. It had a pinkish, 1950s-1970s-esque filter over the video. The sections of information had numbers in one of the corners, and some of the segments were missing. Near the end of the video, it shows a fallout shelter with a crack in the corner and radioactive particles that look like stock image germs seeping in from the crack, and eventually making their way into the shelter. At the end, it says something like "There are no winners in a nuclear war" or something like that.
I tried looking up 'nuclear war analog horror' on Youtube, but I couldn't find the specific video. Perhaps it got deleted
Children's card game
This was in Australia in the 90s. We had a whole bunch of these weird cards. They were dark blue or purple and I seem to remember some sort of swirly pattern. They had wavy edges all around and you could maybe fit cards together, maybe. I think the cards were textured in some way? The cards had strange characters on them with really exaggerated features: big eyes, a huge mouth, a long nose, etc. They were always pulling crazy faces or doing strange things. Some of the cards might have been scratch and sniff??
EDIT: Never mind, it was Odd Bodz!
Edited by MuratakuTaunting someone with chicken clucking to call them a coward
What is the trope when someone imitates a chicken's clucking to call someone a coward (if it even is a legit trope)?
Edited by arisbochMovie Where Man gets sent to life in prison for attacking his Wife's murderer Film
I saw this video on Facebook of a movie where a man gets life in prison for attacking the man that killed his wife, Grey.
All I know is that the guy who killed the wife is named Kovic...I don't know the title though.
Song with "shu-shook" in the chorus Music
This song from The '90s that was on the radio a lot.Male singer, genre maybe rock? The main think I remember is in the chorus someone says the "word" "shu-shook" repeatedly. The rest of the chorus (and the song in general) was real words, but I can't remember any to look up
Song that says "As the day fades away" Music
There was this song I first heard on the radio in 1997. I would call it smooth jazz, or maybe soft rock. It had a female singer singing "As The Day Fades Away", which I'm pretty sure was the only lyrics in the song (at least I don't remember any others.)
Man jumps, son ceases to exist, short horror/sci fi story from a collection (still unsolved!) Literature
This is all I know:
1. Someone here said that they remember reading something like this. They cannot remember basically anything, except that the cover had a monochrome appearance, largely white with some design in the middle in darker color, covered about a quarter to a third of the cover, and was centered.
2. Someone on Yahoo answers said that Joe Hill (author of Dark Carousel) writes these type of stories.
3. I read this on a horror collection I downloaded in 2015-2017, it was fairly new then. I have tried searching on my Kindle and found nothing.
4. This occurs in the story. A man jumps off a building or balcony (quite possibly suicide), I think a father. The mother and son (how old he was I am not entirely sure) were watching news. Suddenly, the son's body slowly disappears, first I think his legs, then his arms, as this happens, his mother screams, "Eli (I think that was his name), look down at yourself ..." He was ceasing to exist. I cannot remember the ending, but knowing how these stories turn out, I think it was not a happy one.
5. I thought it was the collection, "the Seer of Possibilities - And Other Disturbing Tales" by Thomas O or "Choose Your Doom: Collected Short Stories - Picking Stories for the Apocalypse." Apocalypse seems quite familiar for some reason. Something is telling me that this is from one of the Twisted Endings books by author Timothy D Mclendon, but unfortunately, though I downloaded the entire volumes from Amazon, they were returned, for some reason, they are currently unavailable. I will check E-bay.
6. I asked this (of course here), Reedit, Booksleuth, Yahoo Answers, Do You Remember.co.uk, three horror forums, and I sent this in to my local library. The librarian who was probably the most helpful of anyone, asked this approximately to 500 librarians and not one knew.
Now, I know this is very vague, but I know this must seem familiar to at least someone here, I know tons read horror, and searching several of the queries, people here are quite helpful and have made tons of guesses, and half even led to correct answers, and the queries are even vague. Now, only TWO people have helped, and I wish more would, the majority of the responses are bumps. This is discouraging and I do not know who else to ask. I will find this out by myself if I have to, but as I said, I know several of you read horror, and this must ring bells for someone here. PLEASE HELP.
Edited by thestormtrooper(SOLVED) A play about a town where Sunday repeated over and over again Literature
When I was in… I think 8th grade, I was homeschooled with the A Beka curriculum, and it came with a literature book that I enjoyed leafing through- it contained many excerpts from such classics as “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, “Adrift on an Ice-pan” and “Mrs. Ching”, but one I remember in particular that I haven’t been able to find anywhere was a transcript for a play
In the play, there’s a little town where everyone is written with a distinct dialect- I seem to remember them having Irish accents or something along those lines? The play opens with a man doing his job of knocking on everyone’s windows to wake them up or something like that, and he’s telling everyone that he has a strong feeling it’s Sunday again- yesterday was Sunday, but he can’t shake the feeling that somehow Sunday is repeating itself
The town ends up deciding to go along with it and do all the things they would normally do on a Sunday- one thing I remember is that the pastor at the local church decides to preach the same sermon he did yesterday, since it’s the same day all over again anyway
The results are quite positive- one delighted woman says that she was able to understand the sermon better the second time around, and after a few days or so of reliving the same Sunday, a big strong man shows everyone how much stronger he’s gotten from all these days of being able to have a day of rest instead of working himself to the bone, and he demonstrates this by bending a penny with only his two fingers
This goes on for a while, until finally the government gets involved for some reason that I forget- the governor or king or whoever is fed up with all this nonsense, and he consults some sort of calendar or something to prove to everyone that time has in fact passed (I think I remember him relaying the information by telephone, but I’m not sure) and he declares what day it is, but then someone points out what day it will be tomorrow… and the town happily declares “It’ll be Sunday!” And that’s about where the play ends
Nothing I search turns up any results, and I can’t remember the title or character names (though I feel like the man knocking on windows was named Cam or Callum or something similar?) and while I was able to find a similar book on the Internet Archive with many of the excerpts I remember, the play wasn’t in there, so maybe I had a different edition? I’d love to find that play again, it was quite memorable
Edited by ArtsyDreamerpop up book thats like weirdly grim Literature
it was like a pop up book with a lot of purple and black and there was like a brother and a sister and there was one page with a really really tall house. anyone know this?
Movie/show where a mentor withholds a technique
The quote is something like: "I know X ways to kill a man, I shall teach you X-1 in case I need to use that one on you someday"
I cannot remember the exact numbers which I think is why it's proving Un-Googleable (I'm getting answers to math questions and Bible verses). I feel like I've seen it imitated/parodied as well, but I'd like to find the original source of the quote. (Though if you know one of those works, feel free to share it since we might be able to trace it back to the original.) TIA!
Edit - Some additional research turned up that the first part of the line originally came from The Forever War - "Tonight, we’re going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man." I'd really like to find the first source to use the latter "...I'll teach you X-1 in case I need to use it on you someday" part.
Edit 2 - Found one of the parodies here, a Robot Chicken sketch at 0:55. But what is that originally from? It's infuriating!
Romantic military film
Does anyone know a recent romantic film where the guy is a soldier / military dude and there's a scene where he and his girlfriend/wife kiss while she's being carried and he's in the bus?