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

@Buttlord Wayne
the minecraft movie will fail :p

I cringe at characters familiar with the concept of Zombies somehow not taking weapons with them when faced with a Zombie outbreak.

You don’t need a freaking Machine Gun or Chainsaw, knowing how to swing a Bat or pick up and throw big rocks should at least be enough to keep a mindless Normal Infected at bay.

@CaptainXtra
we need………bully maguire

Transformers One is actually fantastic. Look for an early screening and go watch it right now

They won’t pay him royalties but they will let him read the script. That’s almost as good, right?

Also, I fully expected Knull to just be relegated to some flashback infodump sequence, but it sounds like he will play an actual role. Neat.

@CaptainXtra
Talking about you, Claire Redfield!

Oh god, I just watched what is probably the worst Adam West Batman episode ever.

Four words: “Batman takes on feminism.”

@TheHappySpaceman
You ever think about like Batgirl is a girl so of course her motorcycle just had to have a dress on it?

Ya know cause she’s a girl they really needed to make that clear to the audience.

Like it kinda looks like bat wings and that could work but they added frills.

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@Darth Prime
I hadn’t noticed that, no. That’s wild! It is interesting that they had to differentiate between the two genders like that.

But yeah, actually, the episode I was referring to was from season 3 of the 1960s show. The plot is that there’s an evil feminist activist, Nora Clavicle (apparently a satire of real life activist Gloria Steinem), who convinces the Mayor’s wife to stop cooking and cleaning until he demotes Commissioner Gordon and puts Clavicle in her place. Once she does, she replaces the police force with all untrained women who are incompetent at their jobs.

And… it just gets worse from there on out.
Cue every female stereotype you can think of: The lady officers carry rolling pins instead of clubs, they can’t prevent robberies because of their shoes and because they’re busy putting on makeup, and the entire police force can’t handle mice, fainting out of fear.

What’s most baffling about this episode is that it came out in 1968!!! Women’s liberation was already a growing movement by then, so you can’t even say this is “from a different time,” because it’s so contrary to the zeitgeist of that year. Not to mention that by then, they’d added Batgirl as a main character to give girls who enjoyed the show someone to identify with. So how did those female fans react to this episode that basically says that women can’t or shouldn’t do men’s jobs?

Alien Romulus has broken $100 million at the domestic box office, making it the second highest grossing film in the franchise behind Prometheus.

@TheHappySpaceman
Maybe the writer was just angry his wife forgot to make his favorite pie because she was doing some job, and he took it out on her as vengeance.

@Darth Prime
“Erm your just mad it’s not woke! Ha owned you liberal woky!”

Glitch only has one series left now.

See this boy?

He’d be able to keep a Zombie away.

This is why I like the concept of “this monster doesn’t have media” where the universe lacks popular media about the monster, there are no vampire books movies ECT, then it creates a we k ow the killer is in the house but they characters don’t type of suspense,

And with that.The top gear crew are done with car shows

The 3 Venom movies all release in October, 3 years apart each.

Neat.

WELL.

See, a xombie apocalypse would also mean moving around–and you defo want to keep it light. Only carry weapons you’re halfway proficient with. Reason being: a weapon you can’t use is extra weight and also using might put yourself at risk.

Also, there is the possibility that the unarmed savvy survivor is actually so proficient with so many things, that their entire environment is a weapon–meaning it’s in their interest to not encumber themselves with stuff that just gets in the way.

What’s this trope/cliche called:

“Dude who carries a knife but uses his fists for close range combat and only uses said knife as a tool for cutting rope or other things outside of actual combat.”

Basically they use the knife as a traditional work tool and not offensively whatsoever.

@CaptainXtra
I don’t know, but similarly Captain Falcon (F-Zero/Smash) has a blaster gun holster on his belt, (it’s even on his low polygon N64 model) yet is never seen using it in any game, or SSB game.

Only time he uses it is in the well drawn F-Zero comic in the original SNES game’s instruction manual. So he only uses it for bounty hunting.

@Angrybrony
Nobody is saying that…

@TheHappySpaceman
I guess that ep didn’t age well, though given Poe’s law, maybe it was meant as an exaggerated, and humorous look at how some view feminism back then. The show tends to exaggerate alot.

@Beau Skunky
Since Im not a Batman tv show fan, to give some benefit of the doubt it could be simply mocking the really radical parts of feminist movement. Though I can’t really say if they went too far or not since I haven’t seen it.

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
Yeah, I haven’t seen it in a long time either.

I remember Lauren Faust said she regrets making that Powerpuff Girls episode “Equal Fights,” because she feels it was too complicated for kids, but I liked that episode, and it does a good job highlighting the diffetences of, “good feminism VS bad/fake feminism.”