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resolved Anime with a character resembling K′ from The King of Fighters Anime
I remembered reading an article here on TV Tropes about a specific anime (which may have been based on a manga or novel) which I believe was in the '90s or early '00s. I for the life of me can't recall what it was called, but I do recall that it has a female protagonist, she is accompanied by another similar to KOF's Kyo Kusanagi, and also that one major antagonist is someone who looked very similar to K′ (and his name is G). Apologies if this is not a lot to work with, but that is all I can recall about it. I thank anyone who will offer a response.
Edited by JesseMB27resolved [Solved] Weird movie Film
I remember seeing the ending of this film from HBO, where this little girl and her babysitter, I think?, were being chased by a horde of barbie dolls...weird I know. Though the dolls were not at all moving, they were just placed around the place. When they were trapped in the closet the sitter was comforting the girl, but her eyes were changing like the barbie dolls. The scene changes with the parents saying good night to their daughter, when they leave she goes to a glass case of her dolls and tells them that they've been very bad and that she's giving them someone to watch them, which happens to be the her sitter as a doll.
Anyone else know or have heard of this film?
Edited by Animaltamerresolved English cartoon Western Animation
I only know it was English because I found info about on the web at one point. Anyway i'm looking for this cartoon that was on during the early 90's in the Netherlands though it probably originally was from the 80's. It was about this group of kids and stray dog who had adventures in the dreamworld, in their dreams all the kids had superpowers and the dog could talk. I think it was named after the stay dog.
resolved Puppet used to frame midget for serial killings Film
This might sound a little weird but I remeber watching something on SBS. I don't remember if it was a movie or a tv show or if it was in English but it was live action
- The main character is looking into an old serial killer case
- At one point he finds a life sized puppet of a midget that was used to make it look like a midget was running away from the murders and frame the midget for the crime. The midget had a history of drunkness and violence.
- The main character connects the killings to lines in childrens book or poem. One of the victims was a farmer who got stabbed with a flute or similar instrument. He realises that this connects to line about a farmer working with his instrument and the killer didn't understand that instrument could refer to a tool. He then realises that the killer was a child because they wouldn't be able to understand that and it us why a midget was framed - to match up with the child height stabbing and wittness accounts.
- He then finds out it was a friend of his that was the murderer and the friend's father was behind the frame up
resolved [Solved] Red and blue anime hero Anime
I remember this anime where there were these two guys, one smart and one strong, who were not at all friends. Then at night something from their computers started to glow, with a female voice talking to them, making them heroes. The smart one was blue and the strong one was red. They fused and became a superhero, then stopped a villain. I only manage to remember watching it on dubbed channel with lots of other animes as well.
Edited by Animaltamerresolved Horror Short story Literature
A short story about a young girl spending time at a relative's house (her aunt, I think), and how there's something horrible at the bottom of the pond. She's Dead All Along, and the thing at the bottom of the pond is her drowned corpse.
resolved NPR kids' show 1990s Radio
I remember a kids' show on NPR where it was a bunch of kids on a train who would solve mysteries using science. They had a computer that would speak to them and help them out. The only character I remember was a side character with a French accent named Claude Clueless (pronounced kloo-LAY) who hated it when people pronounced it the English way.
resolved Swan Prince(?) Literature
I remember reading a novel when i was younger where the main character was the youngest of his siblings, and was cursed along with his 6(?) brothers, turning into swans. To change them back, their sister had to knit sweaters of thistle within the year. The sister didn't get the left sleeve on the last sweater, so the MC has a swan wing, and can talk to birds. He at some point ran away with his two best friends to try and find a place in the world. He runs from them too when he finds out they're a couple. That's all i can remember for sure, but i think the MC had a prosthetic to hide the wing?
resolved A weird TV show about science fiction adventures involving a secret agency and a boy genius Western Animation
I saw this as a kid and it was weird, the kid's gadgets were of course based off of toys. And from what I can recall it was just called "The Boy".
resolved Disney show starring a green alien Western Animation
It was released sometime in the early 2000s and the main character, I think, is a green alien in a red-and-white striped shirt.
resolved Children's(?) Fantasy Creature Picture Book Literature
I'm looking for a book that sprung back into my mind a few days ago. I wouldn't be able to tell you when it was published, but I had it last around ten years ago, I think. It was a full-colour illustrated "bestiary" of fantasy creatures - it for certain had dragons and gryphons in it, but plenty others that I don't remember. It was written in first person, possibly from the point of view of an old lady. That last point is fuzzy, so don't rely on it. The only exact phrase I remember from it was on the section about gryphons, the narrator comments that they always "reminded [her] of flying kittens". The gryphons are drawn exactly like that; my memory of the image is of them on a tree - small, fuzzy, big paws and cute faces. Please help me find this! It's been mystifying me since I remembered it.
resolved Fantasy YA Book With Contagious Turned-to-Stone Paralysis Literature
I'm trying to find the title of a fantasy YA book I read about a decade ago. The basic premise is this: a young teenager somehow gains the ability to travel to a magical alternate world and bring people and items back and forth. I remember three scenes from the book:
- The teenager meets and befriends a girl from the magical world and brings her back to their home in the mundane world, where they show her all the cool modern conveniences that the magical world doesn't have. The girl amuses herself by typing up magical incantations (either on a computer or with a typewriter) and comments on how it's the neater than any calligraphy she's ever seen, but she leaves a sheet with the spells sitting out on a desk.
- At another point in the book, the mundane teenager's mother is cursed/ magically turned to stone while outside in the garden of their family house, and any creature that touches the mother also turns to stone [eventually she's surrounded by a little pile of birds and insects that have landed on her, thinking she's a statue]. Later, an "evil corporate scientist" passes their house and notices a bumblebee that has turned to stone. She wonders if it's been exposed to a new type of pesticide, and collects it for testing. After examining the bee, the scientist returns and snoops around inside the house, only to find the typed out spells. She reads out the incantations and accidentally performs magic.
- Near the end of the book, the scientist uses the typed out spells to blackmail the teenage protagonist.
I'm pretty sure I read the book between 2004 and 2011, and that it was written at some point after 1990. I have no clue if it's part of a series or a standalone novel. Any clue as to what this might be?
resolved Metal eating monster in medieval fantasy that turns gigantic Film
I remembered way back sometime between 1997-1999 on the Disney Channel they aired a movie involving a teenage boy who finds a creature (who is a little bigger than a kitten at first) which eats iron and other metal things which in doing so causes the creature to grow bigger. I didn't get to see how it ended, but the last bit I did see was when the boy looking on, in an "OMG what have I done!" matter, at the creature (now by this point about four stories tall or taller) fighting knights at a castle.
resolved Young Adult Book about 2 young brothers surviving the Holocaust in Poland Literature
I've been bugged by the inability to remember the title of a book that I read back in Middle school in 2005. Among the details I can remember about it are the following: Two Jewish children (who are brothers as mentioned earlier) who are living in Poland during World War II, of which the younger has blonde hair which makes the older one (who is the protagonist) envious because he "looks German" and thus isn't in as much fear of being spotted by the Nazis. The protagonist is living with a Polish family named the Rosens (or some variation of that name such as Rosenberg, Rosenthal, etc. again I can't remember all the details accurately) who are providing refuge for him from the Nazis. At the beginning, there is a celebration of Passover (in the present day) in which at one point it is mentioned something along the lines that "the Holocaust was more recent and just as true" in which the protagonist (who is a grown man at this point) then goes on to recount the main narrative in an extended flashback. Near the end of it, the uprising in Warsaw against German occupation happens. The protagonist and Rosens also meet a Russian soldier who reveals that he is also Jewish. The book also featured the Rosens in a photo dated 1992 after the conclusion of the novel.
resolved DS Zombie Game Videogame
I remember a DS game I used to play. It was a side scroller where you were a zombie hunter attacking zombies with weapons that had limited ammo/uses, like a shotgun or a whip. Other than that, it camd out in or before 2009, it was rated E10+, it had a cartoonish but dark art style, and the first boss was supposed to be a zombified version of Whispy Woods from Kirby. Any ideas?
Edited by SwiftSeraphresolved Girl's sister attempts suicide and she decides to get revenge - BOOK
So this is in a book I read a while ago, where a girl attempted to commit suicide because of what this guy did to her, so her sister decides to get revenge on this guy. She cuts her hair, dyes it, changes her look, and starts wearing different clothes in an attempt to attract this guy that ruined her sisters life. She eventually gets the guy, but it happens way later in the story, and ends up being a different guy than she thought. Through the story, they go to a mall, almost get busted for shoplifting, hang out on school grounds, etc. I can't remember the exact names of the characters, but that's pretty much the story. I really, really want to read this again, and cannot remember the name of the story, or who it is by. I do remember that I checked it out from the Southwest Arlington Library in Arlington, Texas, and I think It had a girl with black hair on the front. Oh, and there is a scene in which they all are in the hospital with her sister.
Edited by Xion_the_Undead-Huntressresolved a medical show
about a female morgue worker .....it was reality, not a show like CSI or anything like that
resolved cartoon with aliens and psychics Western Animation
As the title says I'm looking for a cartoon, probably from the 90s/early 2000's though it may be older as that is when it aired in the Netherlands, about aliens and psychics. Also one of of the main characters was an alienabductee and could turn his arms into steel
resolved Creepy, surreal game on Newgrounds Videogame
There was this game I played on Newgrounds years ago (maybe 2-5 years). You're playing as a psychic who is tasked with (actually, more like forced into) solving murders by reading the victims' minds.
Every time you look in someone's head, you get this very surreal scene of warped imagery and faces. You have to pay very close attention, because one of the faces that appears is the murderer's face.
Then you get a view of a police lineup, and all the characters are very Gonkish. You have to pick the one whose face matches one of the faces in the victim's mind. Whichever one you choose gets the electric chair.
If you guess wrong, your boss - who seems to be a normal human, but he's covered in shadow - tells you that You Have Failed Me, and that he would do the paperwork to fire you, but what he's about to do is easier. He then shoots you to death, and you get a Game Over screen.
The whole game had a pixellated, monochromatic art style, like the Game Boy. Does anyone know what this game is?

I remember that movie have the main characters to be a rich man and his driver/best friend that were kill by another member of his company. The man loved his pre-teen/teenage son a lot but their relationship was somewhat distant. When the two men died, they became ghost and discovered that the man's golden egg box has recorded his murder, ghosts could appear on TV for a few seconds to talk with the living before the TV exploded and could teleport to wherever they want by just thinking about it. Not to mention the driver discovered his girlfriend has moved on immediately after his death much to his chagrin and there was a strange man who could talk to both of them directly.
They managed to contact the son, who was be able to recovered the stolen egg from a kleptomaniac female relative. The bad guy confronted the boy but he was stopped when the latter put his VR game headgear on the former. In the virtual space, the two ghosts confronted the murderer and he fell backward into his death through the window/balcony. The ghosts said goodbye to the boy, father and son confirmed their love for each other before the ghosts left. They met both the ghost of the bad guy and the strange man who was some kind of grim reaper or angel. Through a public bench, the murderer was sent to hell while the two men, sitting on the bench, filed to heaven.