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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Sept 10, 2022 20:31:22 GMT -5
James Bond makes no effort to disguise his appearance and shares his real name freely, despite the fact that every time he travels he kills a bunch of people and blows something up. Every customs desk in the world would have a notice saying “don’t let this guy in!” 1)License to kill. 2)Someone explained to a comic reviewer one time that using the real name actually does make sense, as it's something less for a spy to have to remember in the field, and possibly slip up on. A license to kill from the English government isn’t going to keep him out of trouble in the rest of the world.
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Post by nevthebassist on Sept 11, 2022 10:39:18 GMT -5
The number of times Lister has had his appendix removed in Red Dwarf.
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Post by Hit Girl on Sept 11, 2022 10:56:43 GMT -5
1)License to kill. 2)Someone explained to a comic reviewer one time that using the real name actually does make sense, as it's something less for a spy to have to remember in the field, and possibly slip up on. A license to kill from the English government isn’t going to keep him out of trouble in the rest of the world. Bond tends to kill guys who even foreign governments would prefer to be eliminated. In fact it's easier for other governments to allow MI6 to kill threats than to do so themselves. Plenty of times in Bond movies, we've seen Bond work with agents of enemy countries to kill mutual enemies, so there would be a tacit understanding between Britain and other nations to give Bond some latitude.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Sept 11, 2022 11:32:28 GMT -5
The Dark Knight, Coleman Reese tells everyone “ I know who Batman is!” Really? And nobody forced him later to say who Batman was? The mafia didn’t kidnap one of his kids and hold them for ransom? The police or the government didn’t send him down to Gitmo for a 4 am water boarding? Somebody was going to force him to talk sooner or later. Maybe after almost being killed once for revealing he had the information, he realized the danger he'd put himself in and lived the rest of his life in Montana under an assumed name or something. Maybe Bruce Wayne even winged some money his way for a new identity and to keep his mouth shut. Real issue for Bruce is that if Coleman figured it out, other people surely would too.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Sept 11, 2022 12:09:51 GMT -5
The Dark Knight, Coleman Reese tells everyone “ I know who Batman is!” Really? And nobody forced him later to say who Batman was? The mafia didn’t kidnap one of his kids and hold them for ransom? The police or the government didn’t send him down to Gitmo for a 4 am water boarding? Somebody was going to force him to talk sooner or later. Maybe after almost being killed once for revealing he had the information, he realized the danger he'd put himself in and lived the rest of his life in Montana under an assumed name or something. Maybe Bruce Wayne even winged some money his way for a new identity and to keep his mouth shut. Real issue for Bruce is that if Coleman figured it out, other people surely would too. Lucius probably went to a lot of effort to cover tracks after that. Especially considering Reese only discovered the evidence after Fox made him redo the diligence as punishment for badmouthing Wayne after the meeting.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Sept 11, 2022 15:54:52 GMT -5
I remember when Cracked did live shows. There was a bit of “how did Jason set up that first kill in Friday the 13th Part 2”
Saying he would of had to travel a great distance somehow from Camp Crystal Lake with his mother’s head, find that woman’s house, put the head in the fridge, try and get his victem to go to the kitchen to open the fridge, do the kill, grab the head and travel home. All this without anybody noticing, and if you remember how Jason looked in this film he would have been hard not to notice (bag over his head or not)
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Post by CMWaters on Sept 11, 2022 15:58:01 GMT -5
I remember when Cracked did live shows. There was a bit of “how did Jason set up that first kill in Friday the 13th Part 2” Saying he would of had to travel a great distance somehow from Camp Crystal Lake with his mother’s head, find that woman’s house, put the head in the fridge, try and get his victem to go to the kitchen to open the fridge, do the kill, grab the head and travel home. All this without anybody noticing, and if you remember how Jason looked in this film he would have been hard not to notice (bag over his head or not) While I have fallen out of watching him for reasons, Cinema Snob I think put it best: "If I saw someone that looked like Jason walking down the street with a severed head in his hand, I would not want to f*** with that guy."
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Sept 11, 2022 16:08:56 GMT -5
No one bleeding when struck with a lightsaber when it was established in the very first lightsaber attack in the first film made that you do indeed bleed when a limb is severed. You’d think with Lucas’ obsession with titting around with the original series that this would have been explained or removed.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Sept 11, 2022 16:14:51 GMT -5
No one bleeding when struck with a lightsaber when it was established in the very first lightsaber attack in the first film made that you do indeed bleed when a limb is severed. You’d think with Lucas’ obsession with titting around with the original series that this would have been explained or removed. Wouldn't the bleeding be the strange part? It's a laser or particle beam based weapon, any wound it delivers should be cauterized by the instrument itself Although I'd be curious to see a Star Wars where people explode in gore every time they throw down with the Jedi
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Sept 11, 2022 16:17:34 GMT -5
No one bleeding when struck with a lightsaber when it was established in the very first lightsaber attack in the first film made that you do indeed bleed when a limb is severed. You’d think with Lucas’ obsession with titting around with the original series that this would have been explained or removed. Wouldn't the bleeding be the strange part? It's a laser or particle beam based weapon, any wound it delivers should be cauterized by the instrument itself It’s a bit over the place really, people shot by lasers bleed sometime, other times they don’t.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Sept 11, 2022 17:03:54 GMT -5
Wouldn't the bleeding be the strange part? It's a laser or particle beam based weapon, any wound it delivers should be cauterized by the instrument itself It’s a bit over the place really, people shot by lasers bleed sometime, other times they don’t. Yeah, Kylo Ren is bleeding like a stuck pig after Chewie blasts him in TFA. Plus the Stormtrooper who got shot and bled on Finn in the opening scene.
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Post by jimmyjackezekiel on Sept 11, 2022 17:13:57 GMT -5
Why did all the other factions in Warhammer Fantasy not unite to purge all the Dwarfs from existance?
This is a race famous for going on murderous wars of vengence over even the smallest slights. You're telling me not once at any point did the humans, elves, and whoever else decide these short bearded psychos were more trouble than they were worth, and wiped their holds off the map?
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Sept 11, 2022 18:04:39 GMT -5
Why did all the other factions in Warhammer Fantasy not unite to purge all the Dwarfs from existance? This is a race famous for going on murderous wars of vengence over even the smallest slights. You're telling me not once at any point did the humans, elves, and whoever else decide these short bearded psychos were more trouble than they were worth, and wiped their holds off the map? Well, that's because everyone in Warhammer are awful people.
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Post by Totorob101 on Sept 11, 2022 18:24:55 GMT -5
In the end credits of the Flintstones,the cat throws fred out of the house after jumping in through the window, i always wondered why Fred didnt just climb back in through the window rather then screaming blue murder and waking up Wilma and the neighbourhood knocking on the door!
in the 60s batman series,the villains always get the upper hand on Bats and Robin at first, why didnt they just either take off their masks while they were out cold or kill them instead of using all their elabarate machines that take time to actually do anything to them?
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Mar 17, 2023 18:11:23 GMT -5
The Alien wiki says they’re partially feeding off of the hosts they inhabit. They’re pretty much parasites, a sort of bio-robotic take on that. Still no possible way it could work. For the alien to grow after chestbursting it has to have the mass to grow. So it either has to be eating something or it has to have the mass built up before bursting. Basically like it supercompresses mass like air in a SCUBA tank. But then that would mean before bursting the host would have the equivalent weight of a full grown alien in their chest. Even if an alien weighs roughly the same as its host thats a 200 pound ish weight in your chest. And unless the host is consuming a massive amount of food before it bursts then the alien would have had to consume most of the hosts body to have that kind of mass. It doesn’t really make sense and I’m sure none of the Alien franchise writers ever explained it this way, but here’s a theory. Maybe xenomorphs have a very efficient way to consume from the air they breathe rather than burning off all those calories? Outside of an absolute vacuum all air has some matter in it, even if it is microscopic. Whereas humans just breathe in these particles and mostly burn these off through everyday actions perhaps xenomophs are able to absorb these particles and store them until they reach a critical mass (hence why they’re not growing indefinitely). Otherwise as you said there’s really no way to explain the growth of hundreds of pounds with no nourishment. In some of the Alien stories there are situations where the xenomorphs have absolutely no access to any food during this period of rapid growth. Unless the writers forgot to mention 200 lbs bags of flower are stored everywhere in the future. Or a wizard did it.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Mar 17, 2023 19:01:09 GMT -5
Still no possible way it could work. For the alien to grow after chestbursting it has to have the mass to grow. So it either has to be eating something or it has to have the mass built up before bursting. Basically like it supercompresses mass like air in a SCUBA tank. But then that would mean before bursting the host would have the equivalent weight of a full grown alien in their chest. Even if an alien weighs roughly the same as its host thats a 200 pound ish weight in your chest. And unless the host is consuming a massive amount of food before it bursts then the alien would have had to consume most of the hosts body to have that kind of mass. It doesn’t really make sense and I’m sure none of the Alien franchise writers ever explained it this way, but here’s a theory. Maybe xenomorphs have a very efficient way to consume from the air they breathe rather than burning off all those calories? Outside of an absolute vacuum all air has some matter in it, even if it is microscopic. Whereas humans just breathe in these particles and mostly burn these off through everyday actions perhaps xenomophs are able to absorb these particles and store them until they reach a critical mass (hence why they’re not growing indefinitely). Otherwise as you said there’s really no way to explain the growth of hundreds of pounds with no nourishment. In some of the Alien stories there are situations where the xenomorphs have absolutely no access to any food during this period of rapid growth. Unless the writers forgot to mention 200 lbs bags of flower are stored everywhere in the future. Or a wizard did it. In my head there just happens to be a Cheesecake Factory wherever a Xenomorph is born.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Mar 17, 2023 19:15:52 GMT -5
It doesn’t really make sense and I’m sure none of the Alien franchise writers ever explained it this way, but here’s a theory. Maybe xenomorphs have a very efficient way to consume from the air they breathe rather than burning off all those calories? Outside of an absolute vacuum all air has some matter in it, even if it is microscopic. Whereas humans just breathe in these particles and mostly burn these off through everyday actions perhaps xenomophs are able to absorb these particles and store them until they reach a critical mass (hence why they’re not growing indefinitely). Otherwise as you said there’s really no way to explain the growth of hundreds of pounds with no nourishment. In some of the Alien stories there are situations where the xenomorphs have absolutely no access to any food during this period of rapid growth. Unless the writers forgot to mention 200 lbs bags of flower are stored everywhere in the future. Or a wizard did it. In my head there just happens to be a Cheesecake Factory wherever a Xenomorph is born. Killer space monsters are real suckers for their egg roll samplers.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Mar 17, 2023 20:21:51 GMT -5
Rose Tyler being satisfied with Clone 10 as a consolation prize.
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Post by schma on Mar 18, 2023 3:53:05 GMT -5
The fact that they couldn't go back to rescue the Ponds. The Statue of Liberty being able to walk through New York without being seen. Hell pretty much everything in that episode of Doctor Who.
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Post by thechase on Mar 18, 2023 4:24:23 GMT -5
Rose Tyler being satisfied with Clone 10 as a consolation prize. I remember writing a fanfic where I rewrote that scene just a smidgen and had Donna chastise Rose for the choice. The reactions I got in the reviews was...something, a lot of pushback from Rose fans who thought I was a complete monster for having Donna tell Rose off!
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