The "Oh" quite literally made the series. That single phone call combined with the Wick grabbing his weapons as Viggo gives a speech about WHO exactly John Wick is MADE the series for those who watched it(me included, this was peak cinema).
Right?? He’s absolutely unbearable, and yet somehow every time he shows up I’m like, okay Patches, what fresh bullshit have you got for me this time? 😭
Theres a guy on YouTube who pvps in elden ring as patches. Very committed to the mischief angle and also looks exactly like patches in his face cam. Its Esbidee
This was several months ago that people were digging into the code to learn why Patches works the way he does. Forgive me for assuming that someone may have found a way to do so.
Without altering game files, you cannot. That is certain.
I mean if the Tarnished summoned you to fight something and you pop in to see you’re fighting the Rot-infested beast that is fucking General Radahn you too would want to leave as soon as possible
Aura Sphere is a move that never misses so the fanon joke to keep the lore consistent is that it locked onto some poor Bidoof or Burmy in the bushes instead of Staraptor.
Yeah but that's not nearly as funny as sending your never-miss hand nuke at someone only for it to veer off course and snipe some deeply unfortunate bastard of a Caterpie that was just chilling in some bushes
A typical problem, don't fire the explosive weapon at the target, aim at the environment near the target, and let the splash do the work. Unless the target is too big to miss or can't move, but that’s still risky.
Porco in the Liberio fight AoT: dude is going through an existential crisis as he realizes the scouts have been fighting titans their entire lives and are about to clap him.
Turns out that when sending monsters to attack a civilization and that civilization is still standing decades later, this might mean the civilization has adjusted to fighting said monsters
It's a great scene because you just know that as a Warrior, he's used to any and all humans immediately dropping everything and fleeing at the sight of him.
Meanwhile Paradis' military has spent the last century doing nothing but fighting titans almost exclusively.
Puts a real fun spin on the lyrics of the first opening song. "Are we prey? No, we're the hunters!"
When Puss faces the bounty hunter wolf in Puss in Boots the Last Wish, he doesn't take the hint when he gets disarmed in the blink of an eye before he finishes his battle intro.
He starts to get the idea when the wolf starts cleaning the floor with him... and later makes him bleed. This leads to Puss actually feeling fear and retiring to preserve his final life.
I think it's also poetic for people who were kids when Shrek first came out and Puss was introduced.
18 years after first seeing him with Shrek, the kids are now grown up and facing the adult world, most of us realizing we're actually fragile bags of flesh and not as resilient as when we were kids.
If you were 8 when Shrek 2 came out, you would've been around 30 when the Puss in Boots came out. You've probably had health exams, gotten sick, had covid, or gone through a life-changing experience.
That anime really went from being about Ninjas into Wizards dressed as Ninjas.
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Alright, i woke up to what is pretty much mostly the same comment from different people. To those i have this to say.
Yes, there were "kaiju", some fireballs and what not. But in the earlier episodes, those was and were considered special. Especially the really extravagant ones. They were rare. And the techniques that the earlier episodes had can still be associated with ninjutsu. Elemental techniques, shadow clones, chidori, etc, was still within the realms of what is considered ninjutsu. If you take a look at other media and/or videogames, like FF14's and Ragnarok Online's Ninja, they do use elemental techniques. Even the old anime, Flame of Recca, made use of elemental techniques. Basically, the earlier episodes still stuck to the theme.
Then all of a sudden, everyone and their mother had a cursed or hidden technique and what not, that could level everything from buildings to mountains, to entire towns. And the ones actually practicing ninjutsu are literally getting shoved aside. The ratio between actual ninjas and what are basically wizards is skewing to the latter. To the point shown by the pic where Madara just straight up summoned a meteor. I think the only ones actually practicing ninjutsu is Shikamaru and Tenten and some i may have missed. Most of the rest are basically different flavors of wizard.
Yes, i know that Kishimoto basically pulled what is essentially malicious compliance. Since he originally wanted an anime about magic and sorcery, hence how the anime ended up. But at the very least, the earlier episodes tried to stick to the theme that Kishimoto begrudgingly stuck to at the time. Hence my comment.
The anime starts with people cloning themselves 100 times and transforming themselves into sexy women. The first major villain they face, zabuza can magically conjure mist, clone himself out of water, can trap people in magic water bubbles and even create a dragon from water. The first scene in the anime they're literally doing a ritual to bind a fox demon into a baby. When was it ever about anything other than magic?
What's interesting about this gif is that while it's the same scene as in the movie, the background is clearly not from the scene used. They did this with a lot of the Ragnarok trailers, including not revealing his hammerless lightning powers.
I think it’s reshoots more so than keeping stuff from the trailer secret. Clearly the original intent was for Odin to be in New York (Loki hid him in a retirement home) and not long after they find him, he dies, and Hela shows up, all in New York. Presumably that felt like kind of a bummer for a character like that to die in a grimy place, so they rearranged some stuff to have Odin die somewhere more picturesque, which changes where the Hela scene occurs, hence different background despite the shot being identical. Could also be to work around the Doctor Strange inclusion which was a post credit from a different movie and potentially not something the movie had fully accounted on working around.
Saitama vs, well, everyone else in One Punch Man, but Genos is one of the few people left alive after seeing the sheer raw destructive power Saitama is capable of unleashing on someone, and it's only because Saitama was messing with him
Legendary fumble. OPM had the potential to be a huge media franchise. Merchandising, sequels, spin offs. But they cheaped out. It didn't even have to be as good as season 1, just like 70% as good would have been fine.
I really love this scene. The contrast between Saitama just playing around and Genos suddenly realizing he is going to die... only for Saitama to aim slightly to the right on purpose.
Nopan had never, once, in millenia faced anything he couldn't beat. 99% of the multiverse is like wax paper to him. Even the guardians was more of an emotional beating than a physical one and im still not sure be didn't job it a bit to give himself an alibi. Most of the things that could threaten him, he was still able to destroy utterly by freezing or dehydrating or sonic-booming the whole damn planet to death. And when they fought Conquest, they won.
Im not sure Nolan did think he was dead for destroying the planet. I think he was following his MO and assumed it would work the way it always had. Even the most dangerous enemy is defeated when they dont even have planet to live on anymore. And I think he still though the other Viltrumites would finally give up on the Empire with Viltrum fully gone.
I dont think he ever would have put Mark in a guaranteed death situation at that point. Risk his life? Sure, that's just being a Viltrumite. But hed become too human to send his sons on a suicide mission.
Revenge of Shinobi (1989, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive) actually has an out of place hulk-ish fight (ish because his skin comes off and it looks more like the terminator underneath; character more or less being Lou Farigno Hulk + T-800 Terminator combo) there's also a Spiderman/Batman fight...and a Godzilla knockoff...I guess Japan didn't care about American copyrights at the time.
This was after muscle monster disabled 3 of 4 of Batman's limbs and Batman tried calling him a cheater for using Venom. So Bane decided to show him what he looks like when he's using Venom.
Nomo and his vice captain from chainsaw man. Can’t find this image from the movie online for some reason but whatever. (They still went out like badasses)
You know what, now I'm only just realising that Aura probably never went up against an elf before. Sure she's seen demons and humans, probably a few dwarves; but I suddenly doubt she's ever viewed an elf's mana level.
Sure Frieren is hiding it from her, but Aura's only been around for like 500 years and there's very few elves. And, IIRC Frieren even mentions at some point her mana level isn't all that impressive for an elf (although she may have been comparing herself to Serie and other powerful elves), she's just good at managing it.
In anime we've only seen a few elves, Serie obviously has an insane amount of mana (even when hiding it), Kraft is an ancient hero that saved the world, Frieren is quite impressive and killed the demon king, not sure about Milliarde but she is old enough to be very impressive also. So yeah all the elves we've seen are legendary figures.
Yeah, there very likely is some survivors bias with surviving elves, where the ones that have made it to the modern era needed to be more powerful. As killing an elf, even a weak one would probably be a pretty good feather in a warrior/mage's cap. So the young and weak ones likely don't make it.
In a moment that never fails to get a laugh out of me, the reveal trailer for the Mists of Pandaria; World of Warcraft expansion is one of these.
The whole cinematic is of the Human and Orc characters locked in a battle to the death, only for Kung Fu Panda to interrupt and effortlessly beat the shit out of both of them simultaneously so badly they're absolutely gobsmacked into immediately calling a truce. Not that it does any good, because he proceeds to beat the shit out of them simultaneously a second time.
Affleck says he went and interviewed a lot of prisoners convicted of robberies when making the film, and this moment is inspired directly by something one of them said happened to them.
‘Sir, we should evacuate’
‘For over 200 years no Chancellor has ever left the seat of power, I will not run’
‘But Sir… we have also lost track of John Wick’
Keep in mind, the henchman didn’t say Wick was coming for the Chancellor, just that they lost track of his movements. Simply not knowing where Baba Yaga was or what he was planned was enough to convince the Chancellor to abandon his pride and get the hell outta Dodge. I remember seeing this scene after walking into it as I was working (theatre usher) and got worried someone heard me laughing.
Buffy the vampire slayer, S5E12 for the par several episodes Buffy has been trying to get answers on what the current Big Bad Glorificus “Glory” is, assuming she’s some demon
Upon getting the watcher’s council to comply, she’s like “alright, what is she? What kind of demon?”
Slight tangent but I love how in the trial before that how Denken is practically out of spell slots and just says "Fuck it, I cast fist." Honestly best character that the group encounter. Mage's should know how to throw down when needed.
I love Denken for very similar reasons. At the end of the day, he has two big advantages over most people, magic and experience. And when the former no longer exists, he is more than willing to rely on the latter. That experience is responsible for so many amazing moments with him
Yup, he's the epitome of the whole phrase "Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young."
I'd even say that beyond Frieren he may be the most dangerous/skilled of the candidates in those test. Sure Fern's powerful, no doubt. But Derken will 100% fight dirty if need be, and is way more combat practiced than Fern is.
Tserriednich is absolute scum of the earth, but it's been genuinely entertaining watching him just embrace his masochistic side as he learns how deep the waters he's swimming in actually are.
To put the Dizzy finisher in perspective, her mother Justice aka Aria Hale Aka Jack'O, it's complicated Basically blew up Japan. Dizzy is no slouch in sheer power. Thankfully she is a genuinely nice person and the only reason that destroy attack doesn't hit the opponent is that she manages to pull her sentient wing aside at the last second. Notably, this attack then says "Surrendered" instead of "Destroyed" unlike other instant kill attacks.
Also, every character has their own unique animation panicking or in Slayer's case, calmly shrugging and acknowledging dizzy wins this round.pictured was my favorite.
That scene with the punisher was so funny. I also hate it at the same time. Spiderman gave him one job. Just the one and you know what he does? He gets too close and Jean brain washes him.
The entire second half of this part is him doing everything just to avoid meeting jotaro again. It really puts in the perspective of how scared he was in this fight
This is why I really like Jojo, most series would've had Jotaro shelved for some reason for plot i.e injury or similar.
Here it just makes sense, Jotaro is the force of nature that the whole plot kinda revolves around, getting Jotaro in range of Kira is the goal of the protags (or otherwise defeating Kira), while getting as far away as possible is the goal of the villian. It's just natural.
It's a really underutilized narrative device. Jujutsu Kaisen does a similar thing with Gojo and Casius Bright from Legend of Heroes. I love when the antagonists basically decide there is someone they jist have to ignore, distract, or somehow get out of the way because ain't no fucking way we're beating that guy.
Durante a luta, Zoro foi completamente e facilmente superado por Mihawk, que mal precisava usar sua espada Yoru (And when he used it, it was practically a near-death experience for Zoro)
It really shows the scale of power in the series, because up to that point Zoro was a total badass who everyone was terrified of. He looked like he really could be the world’s strongest swordsman. But then Mihawk shows up and makes Zoro look like an ant in comparison to him.
It’d be like if Beerus showed up to spar with Goku when he was a kid and Beerus only used his little toe.
Not to mention that he specifically starts the fight with the smallest blade he had (like 3 inches long maybe?) to give Zoro any sort of chance of surviving more than 2 seconds
Shout-out to Slayer’s version of Dizzy’s instant kill where he just shrugs with a tiny smile as if to say “eh, not bad, I’ll give you this one.” Because he himself is one of the most powerful characters in the lore and has canonically never lost a fight.
Bleach - The main characters theme music plays indicating that he's about to pull off some cool shit. The big bad that just revealed himself however instantly defeats him, and stops the theme mid track. That theme music never plays again for the rest of the series.
When Alucard in Hellsing unlocks one of his restriction levels and Luke Valentine, the dude he's fight, is just completely baffled and terrified by what's happening.
https://giphy.com/gifs/26tna3lBvhiLsBSXC
The beginning of The Phantom Menace, with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan vs. the two Droidekas.
Qui-Gon: "It's a stand-off, lets go!" (The two Jedi sprint away).
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Viggo Tarasov talking to his son about John Wick.
"It's not what you did, son, that angers me so. It's who you did it to."