The Nerd Thread (comics, movies, anime, cartoons, video games, lore, fun stuff, ect.)

@Icicle Niceicle 1517
Look, I’ll give them points if they don’t hire an actual hooker to play Starfire this time.

@Lord WyrmSpawN
It still amazed they managed to make starfire look like a hooker more and that is fucking saying something given her new 52 disihn.

Warner Brothers Executive: “So we were thinking, opening scene, Robin rolls up a Joker playing card and does a line of coke off of Batman’s coffin.”
Director: “…I thought we were trying to get away from the dark edgy stuff.”
Warner Brothers Executive: “Eh, it doesn’t matter, we’ll be canceling this before release anyway.”

@Background Pony #6BAC
Yeah I was actually thinking “Wouldn’t Warner Brothers cancel it anyway?”

It seems that doctor who in the uk will be released on iplayer before it is on TV.
Internationally, It will be on Disney plus the same time.

Here are the animes I plan on watching next season

KonoSuba season 3

Tensei Slime season 3

Spice and Wolf remake

Yuru Camp season 3

Mission: Yozakura Family

Jellyfish Can’t Swim At Night

The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio

Two nights ago, in preparation for the inevitable disappointment of the new movie of The Crow, I stayed up way too late reading the original comic. Golly, you can tell it was written by a guy who was grieving his fiancée’s death.

A huge amount of the comic, amidst Eric’s quest for vengeance upon those who killed him and his fiancée Shelly, is focused on his grief for her. There are flashbacks to their Christmas together, the domestic life they had, even like really mundane stuff like painting the house. Shelly is also given a personality and isn’t just a flat character whose only purpose for the plot was dying.

And that grief for that person that she was is what lets Eric hold onto his humanity: it’s what drives him to do things like adopting the cat Gabriel after its owner is killed by thugs, and then make sure Gabriel has a home when it’s time for him to leave this world for good; it’s what leads to him giving Shelly’s ring to young Sherri as the first gift she’s ever received, treat Sherri gently, urge her mom to get clean, and let Officer Albrecht know that she needs protection. Even when Funboy, one of the members of the gang, talks with Eric and tells him he doesn’t know why he is the way he is, doesn’t see the way to be better, and thinks resisting Eric pointless, he lets him take drugs to overdose and have a relatively peaceful end instead of killing him himself. Not only because of Eric’s own personality buried under layers of rage and depression, but also because of Shelly’s retained influence on him beyond the grave.

The film leaves a lot of this out, and Shelly’s passing is more of just the backdrop and driving force of his quest for revenge; however, there are some aspects of the film that I like better. Specifically, I like how much more it fleshes out both Albrecht and Sarah’s characters, while in the comic they’re mostly confined to the background. Especially Sarah (Sherri in the comics), who I feel there’s even more of a reason for Eric to care about, given that Shelly had cared for Sarah during her life.

I also love the graphic stylized nature of the comic, which was carried over to the film.

@TheHappySpaceman
Which version did you read? The special edition has additional new material. It makes it a little more surreal.

Who does she think she is? the fun police?

@northern haste
I think she also said something about how she hated America and only wanted spend a few months in Georgia. I forgot the tweet.

Frankly I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s very bored and wants to troll everyone with insane takes.

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
She was offered a role in Marvel’s Agatha. She wanted more money to go to georgia for 4 months Because she hates america

@northern haste
She sounds like the greatest Karen of all time.

Ironically these tantrums are way more childish than these fans she speaks of.

@northern haste
To be fair, I am an American and I too hate this place.
Also, speaking of Harry Potter crap, guess what I found out:

The guy that played Ron Weasley’s dad was a voice actor on Power Rangers twice, almost five years apart.

There are rumors going around that Henry Cavil will appear on Deadpool and Wolverine as a Wolverine varient donning the yellow/brown costume

@Dex Stewart
I read that version, yeah! I remember those pages from it.

Here’s a hot take: If they wanted to do a direct adaptation of the comic of The Crow, it shouldn’t be a live action film at all… it should be an animated miniseries.

The miniseries would be the best format in regards to showing all the events of the comic, including the flashbacks to Eric’s life he had before with Shelly, while fleshing out some of the other characters more. And making it animated would be the best way of capturing the stylization of the source material. Imagine if it were animated in Sin City style, where everything was black and white except the blood, but then the flashbacks are in full color, symbolizing life, bliss, and joy, to contrast the black and white bleakness of the present day.

Honestly, a lot of comics would benefit from having animated adaptations instead of live action ones, but that’s a conversation that Hollywood isn’t ready to have.

Is it disrespectful to prefer the fanfic retelling over a canon ending.

Like a Mass Effect 3 fic with a satisfying ending? Or a Pokefic where Ash becomes champion in Johto and goes out with Misty? Or a Star Wars fic where the sequels don’t destroy the originals and prequels legacy and don’t make Rey a Ma-rey Sue?

I don’t want to seem disrespectful to the original creators. I know these are just fanworks. But dang it sometimes I wish the fanfic was the true canon.

@Background Pony #43A7
Nah. Only if your being completely rude about it.

I’ve now found out that the wiki and various other sources may have been wrong and the Mark Williams who voiced these two random monsters may have actually been this dude:

Mark Williams is a pretty common name, so much more likely this NZ guy just has poorly curated credits than a British actor happened to be in NZ a couple times and at the same time did some Power Rangers voices.

I noticed that the vast majority of problems that happen in the story of Naruto can basically be boiled down to either “The Uchiha clan kinda sucks” and/or “Danzo’s an asshole”

Just beat breath of the wild.
Got all the beasts, memories and the master sword.

@Icicle Niceicle 1517
Hyugas: Hey what about our story?! Hello?! Kishimoto! We exist too!

@Icicle Niceicle 1517
Some of those problems can be attributed to Hiruzen, the 3rd Hokage as well.

Remember when the sharingan was supposed to be the dime store knock-off of the byakugan? But then Kishimoto decided he liked the sharingan better?

@Dustcan
Byakugan was like some invincible power that would make you not even be able to touch a Hyuga.

Sharingan was just copycat at first.

Then Itachi showed up.

Can you still post gifs on comments sorry if i ask here it just wont work for me