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openAviation anime? Anime
I remember a few things about the anime ; It aired on the Anime Network on demand service in about 2011-2012, it involved aviation, two of the main locations in the show was an (aviation?) academy, and an old aviation museum. It took place during WWII, I think. Another thing I remember was one scene where a character who was thought to be dead by his two siblings is sitting by his mothers grave, putting down flowers, whilst his siblings plot to kill him for inheritance. Somebody on Yahoo Answers suggested 'Pumpkin Scissors', but I vaguely remember the opening for this show, and it didn't match. Any ideas as to what it could be?
Edited by Torterrafan5676
openKid plays baseball very well, but actually [RoboticReveal] Live Action TV
IÂ remember:
- Kid is named Arthur, plays baseball, is too good at it
- At some point gets sick
- Mom comes into the hospital room after doctors think he's done for ( he's not dead, just very sick, definitely still alive when healed ), whips out a laptop, and that's what heals him
- *He was a robot all along*. "Arthur" is the name of the ( Government program? Might even have been an acronym ) place he was built.
- This felt filmed after 1990, but could be wrong. Definitely felt made for TV, not Cinema. Low budget. Definitely kids-aimed, not adult at all.
I saw this in France in the mid-90s on TV, but it was clearly a US thing ( baseball was a core theme which is a dead giveaway even for tiny me ). Was a TV movie or a self-contained episode of a sci-fi show/anthology.
I'm sure I'm missing a lot but IÂ have been obsessed with finding this thing over the years, it's literally the only time ever that Google has failed me ( also browsed all relevant TV Tropes pages without luck ).
As it's been so long it's possible I might have made some element up along the way, but I'm pretty sure about those I wrote here.
If you know the name, it'd help me so much!
EDIT:Â If you read this and also remember/want to know about this movie, please please say so in the comments, so we can get you to describe what you remember, and maybe find some extra info we don't have yet.
EDIT:Â Thanks to a kind commenter, I was reminded of the D.A.R.Y.L movie, which is very close in terms of plot, but is definitely not the same movie.
Edited by ArthurWolf
Slayer of YMMV complaining magnets
openCrude Mario Sunshine parody on Newgrounds Web Original
It involved badly drawn art, bad grammar, Mario going to get Shine Sprites to have sex with a Toad (represented as a picture of a naked woman with a Toad head crudely pasted on) that at the end was some kind of monster in disguise and a flying Bowser pooping on everyone's head (with the narrator box saying "BOWSER GO SHIT" every time). Also at a certain point the video stops until the user doesn't click on a Shine Sprite Mario is unable to see for some reason.
That guy who ripped all enemies from a Lufia game
openA Retraux PC game I haven't played in almost a decade... (SOLVED!) Videogame
This is a very obscure game. I remember a surprising amount of it. It's a 2D platformer/Metroidvania with a world map, it stars a character who looks more or less like this[1]
◊. He's a chancellor, I think. He can only do basic platforming initially, gaining the ability to wall jump/wall climb (I don't remember which) halfway through the game, and gaining the ability to double jump during the final level (and only the final level. You can't double jump outside of it).
The game features an 8-bit aesthetic during levels, 8-bit music with a side of MIDI stank (the music reminds me a lot of Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, actually, at least in terms of sound), and a main map with an oil painting look.
The first few levels happen at night, while the last few levels take place in space. The final level is called Far Far Star. The game has like 3 boss fights, one of which takes place in a stone bridge, the second one takes place in a tunnel, and has you go against a giant wooden contraption with wheels. I assume that there's a third boss fight against the big bad, but I was never able to finish the final level. Speaking of big bad, the big bad is a magician.
One of the optional levels has you use more than one character. It's an escort mission with a female character. You use her to do some jumps you wouldn't be able to normally, I think.
I bet a lot of these details are wrong, but then again, it's been almost a decade since I last played it, back when I still had a Windows XP PC. This has been bugging me for a long time. I really want to go back and finish that game! I'll be very disappointed if this game's been somehow lost to time.
Edited by LucasRCD
openFlash game with burning vampire Videogame
I found this game on one of those sites that collect flash games, Kongregate or Newgrounds or one of them. It's a sidescrolling platform game where you play as a vampire trying to get somewhere. If you go into a sunny area you catch fire, but there are fountains where you can douse yourself again.
openPINK haired girl with brain? Western Animation
I vaguely remember an animated show with a pink haired girl who had a ‘pet’ brain, not certain on air time, probably 2005-2009 period, on cbbc or citv. in most episodes the villager people would come after the brain claiming it did something. I keep trying to remember it but all i can think of is ‘Pinky and the brain’, which i know it is not as i searched it and have never seen an episode, however i know the theme song off by heart. Meaning what im describing may be a remade/spin off version. Possibly not.
The animation style is difficult to remember but is most likely western and flat layered. Not anime or 3D animation.
Any idea about this show is VERY APPRECIATED! Thanks in advance ^-^ (Any questions just ask)
Edited by SpuriousRangiferine
openWhat cartoon is this?
Does anybody know what artist/strip the comic below is from? We want to use it for a trope on the launch pad, but I haven't been able to find the source, even with a reverse image search.
NoSocialSkills
openBunch of kids, ghost mentor. Literature
A supernatural story from the 80's with a bunch of teens.
What I remember is - One boy is a feral child due to parental abuse, one girl is a Tsundere toward the main character and at the end the other girl (who's a Mysterious Waif type) turns out to be a ghost.
Each of the teens has some sort of symbol, with the Main Character's being a circle (or a ring?), which he's underwhelmed by, but the mentor girl explains that the circle is vital because it keeps the team together.
When all seems lost because of a traitor, the Main Character manages to make the others see sense and wonder why they were betrayed, the bad guys are beaten, and the mentor girl turns out to have been a ghost and the previous Circle, who failed to keep her team together.
So I remember all that, but I don't remember the name! Or the author! It's been driving me nuts for years!
openFood cutting flash game Web Original
I remember my cousin playing this food cutting flash game on the computer. What I remember was that you had to cut fruits and you had to do well on it. There would be voices that would say yay if you did it right and boo if you did it wrong. Does anyone know this game?
Council Spectre
openShort story where middle schoolers give an alien a thermos Literature
There's a short story that features an alien who comes to Earth in search of a legendary device that can keep cold things cold and hot things hot. He is given a thermos by a group of middle school-aged children. While it is rather odd that a star-faring civilization could arise without this knowledge, if memory serves it was portrayed as a rite of passage of sorts for the alien's people. I have vague recollections of reading this back in middle / junior high school, so it had to be first published before 2003 at the latest.
resetting my password cleared my settings
opensci-fi shooter type flash game with furries? [SOLVED!] Videogame
This game has been driving me crazy for at least a week. I found it around 2010 and it was one of those platformer-shooter games, like Armor Mayhem or Raze, but it was purely singleplayer and the two main characters were furries. It had a lot of comedic fourth wall breaking moments, like one character telling the other character the controls and neither of them knowing what they mean. The character you played was a male grey cat I think, and I think the second character was a female with red hair, and the second character would talk to the player character through a computer and give advice and maybe hack things?
Edited by KindaExplainingThings
openaction movie about hindu gods Western Animation
i watched this thing in mid/late 2000s on a (probably pirate) dvd. it's some kind of cgi animation. the first setting is a modern city, the protagonist is a western blonde girl with a pet dog, living in a skyscraper. she meets some dude when her dog runs in front of his motorcycle. the dude will be important to the plot later. her friend is kidnapped or something, and someone is targeting the blonde girl, th above mentioned dude is helping her. the plot revolves around hinduism and their mythology, i remember the goddess kali and krishna, bengal tigers, labyrinth ruins etc. the bad guy looks like some kind of criminal organisation boss, he has resources and like hologram technology. any ideas?
openWhere did this quote came from? Anime
I am pretty sure it is either an anime or a manga, but which one? All I remember was this quote, it is a bit paraphrased, but the point still stands.
"We are nothing but minds trapped inside a game called life."
That, and it was said by an antagonist. But I really forget the rest, not even the villain's appearance.
Walking the Earth
openHa Ha... Plop
Back in the 90s there was this kids' show I watched a couple of times. The show is most likely fully animated, though it could possibly be a live action show with animated segments.
I only really remember one thing about it. One episode had a character ask the "What goes "ha ha plop?" riddle. After the answer is given ("Someone laughing their head off"), it cuts away to a scene of someone's (a kings'?) head popping of while robotically saying "ha ha plop."
I can't tell you much else about it. It probably used a very cartoony and simplistic art style style, similar to 2 Stupid Dogs, at least for the scene I described above. I also remember it having an educational show sort of vibe, but I might be wrong about that. I traveled a lot in the 90s so I can't even tell you the country it's from, but it was definitely in English.
open2d 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?
openCalculate days remaining in a normal life, then live life to the fullest Film
Hi Tropers! You all are freaking awesome! Happy I found such a cool thing!
Know this MOVIE?
A young man adds up (for his girlfriend) the days remaining in a normal lifetime... Then they go on to live a more free lifestyle.
The movie centers around a sort of underground gang of children, all controlled by an older man. Drugs, homelessness, sewers, petty theft..
In the end the pair are snow-sledding with kayaks in Iceland or someplace like that.
May be European or American... Probably later than 1999, and earlier than 2008.
It wasnt a Countdown or Deathwatch or grim trope at all... More of a "Snap out of my own apathy, stop hanging around losers wsting my time" kind of trope.
It always stuck with me.
Thanks for your help!
PS... If I'm 35, and I can fully enjoy life until im 75, then I only have less than 15000 days to GET ON WITH IT. Merry Christmas. Peace be with us all.
Edited by blarvin
openTrippy Anachronism Stew Fantasy Movie [Solved!]
I saw about fifteen minutes of this bizarre movie while on lunch break at work. It was running on a television screen some distance across the canteen, so I didn't get any audio, but I got plenty of weird visuals. It was apparently running on Comet.
It looked like it might have been made in the 80s or 90s and possibly took inspiration from Lewis Carroll, or maybe just whatever drugs the creators took while working on it. It started out in a forest, where a guy in a suit ambushed a guy wearing what looked like a tutu and tights by the former jumping onto the latter's head from a tree. Three or four other people quickly showed up, one of which was a woodsy-dressed woman with an axe, who were apparently on Suit Guy's side, because they all dogpiled Tutu Guy. But then some kind of gas started pouring out onto the set, and the dogpiling group tried to flee. Tutu Guy pulled out a gas mask, and most of his opponents eventually fell unconscious, although I think one of them got away.
Suit Guy, Axe Lady, and another woman then woke up in Tutu Guy's Secret Lab. Tutu Guy was apparently some kind of Mad Scientist and had imprisoned them all in little plastic tents hanging from the ceiling. There was a bunch of lab equipment around, and at one point Tutu Guy appeared to be performing surgery on a cadaver or maybe a living body — looked like he might have been trying to remove organs? His prisoners freaked out, but were no match for the might of the plastic tents they were in, and after they spent a minute or two pointlessly slapping the tent walls and yelling, Mad Scientist Tutu knocked them unconscious with some kind of yellow foam he vented into their tents. Then Scientist Tutu took a nap, his prisoners woke up while he was sleeping, and were able to swing around in their tents enough to use a fire that was going in a corner of the room to burn the plastic. The whole lab went up, and Suit Guy and one of the women escaped — I don't recall seeing the other one after that, so I don't know if they just got separated or if they left her for dead. No word on the Tutu Mad Scientist.
The freed captives wandered through the woods for a short bit, then ran into a crazy dancing guy who seemed to be a gatekeeper of some kind. He annoyed them, so Suit Guy killed him, but then his body lit up green and he respawned double, so there were now two annoying guys. Suit Guy and the only guy to escape the gas (who had shown back up at that point) threw the two guys off a bridge. That was about the point I had to go back to work.
There was also some kind of wooden sign in the woods that the characters kept going past, but I don't recall what it said. I don't know if I actually want to watch this movie, but it was one of the most whacked out things I've seen in a while, and I'm quite curious to know what the hell it was I was watching. Has anyone seen this? Is it supposed to take place in a medieval fantasy land? Why was the Mad Scientist wearing a tutu? Who were his victims and why were they incompetent sociopaths? What's the deal with the dancing gatekeeper who's secretly a hydra?
Edited by SpocktorWho
openGiant Transmedia Game Videogame
I can't recall the name but it was a game in a website (kinda indie) and as you would play you would go through "pages" each of these pages was a mini-game in of itself or had some comic pages or other transmedia interactions and each one would lead you to the next one but not in a linear way (like you could skip from page 20 to like 84 and come back to 21 depending on where you'd click); I'm pretty sure I found it through Youtube in 2011 and I think it already had like 900 pages or something like that.
openA game described as weird Videogame
I saw a stream of a game where the player character apparently is having the worst day of his life.
Several of the levels have him being chased by a giant metal globe, another level had him strapped to a cot where he gets electrocuted if he answers wrong, and the following level has him haphazardly tossed out of it and onto the road where he has to steer around oncoming traffic and barricades.
It as described as a weird game by the person streaming it.
I remember finding this book in a public library back, like, 9 years ago. It was a children's book about a white kid and a black kid; I legit picked it up because the drawing of the black kid was the spookiest fucking drawing I have ever seen; have you ever seen a caricature that is so racist it is actually somewhat frightening? This was it.
Anyways, so then I turn it around, and on the back cover, the premise of the story unfolds. The white kid is racist towards the black kid and bullies him; so racist, in fact, that he eventually punches the black kid. Then, a patch of skin on his knuckles turns black.
And then it begins to spread.
Like, this was, I believe, an attempt to write a book about "Look, kids, if you act racist, bad things will happen!", but the message is so ass backwards that it comes across as "Look kids, if you touch a The Blacks, you will become one of them. You will become... infected."
It is horrible and nonsensical and I don't understand who wrote it or why and I NEED it so badly, if you have seen anything about this book please PLEASE tell me the name, Google just gives me examples of antiracist books and no, mister Google, I don't want the not racist book, I want the EXTREMELY racist book.
Thanks for the help!