#LASER DRAGON

[darker-than-darkstorm]

Not about the Queen

I have been falling asleep lately to episodes of the Herculoids, and let me tell you, it has quickly become one of my favorite old cartoons.

It is Fuck Around And Find Out: The Series.

Every episode is just some neighboring (or even alien) overlord showing up at Zandor’s place and...

Wait, let me go back a bit. Introductions are in order. Meet our heroes, all lovingly designed by the late, great Alex Toth:

Zandor is that guy in the middle.  To the left is his wife Tara, to the right is his son Dorno.  (Dorno calls Zandor and Tara by their first names all the time, but the opening narration establishes their relationship).  Zandor has a shield that blocks pretty much anything, and a slingshot that shoots powerful energy rocks, and is the tactician. Tara and Dorno sometimes use similar slingshots, though Tara is unfortunately often a damsel in distress, but not quite as much as you’d expect for a show from this era.

They look very primitive, but they were extremely familiar with advanced civilizations and high technology. There’s a vague implication that Zandor, at least, is from a more advanced society and just wanted to get away from it all by moving to this extremely backwater planet. They don’t even live in a house, they instead have a mostly-open shelter and sleep outside, but Zandor has no trouble piloting spaceships (usually left behind by a previous villain).

Those weird-ass monsters behind the humans are the Herculoids themselves. Despite their monstrous forms, they are definitely the real heroes and the real stars of this show. They don’t talk, but they each have their own distinctive voice for roars despite three of them being played by the same guy (Mike Road, who also voices Zandor). Even the two blobs have different voices, with the larger one having a deeper voice (but, again, both played by the same person, Don “Scooby-Doo” Messick, who also voiced a lot of the villains). They also understand English perfectly, and Zandor understands them.

That’s Tundro on the left: he shoots energy rocks from his horn, that flower-petal-like arrangement around his head blocks things being shot at him, and, though you can’t see it in this picture, he has eight little legs and can charge at high speeds. He’s weirdly cute in motion, because his legs are so stubby (though he can also extend them to become very, very tall).

On the right, Igoo. He’s an ape made of rock. Like if the Thing from the Fantastic Four was ten feet tall and couldn’t talk. He was at a disadvantage at ranged combat (he could just throw things, and everything he threw tended to get shot out of the air), but in melee he was unstoppable.  Very hard to hurt, as well. Because he’s the most humanoid, he’s the most likely to be comic relief (again, sort of like the Thing), but also the most likely to punch a robot’s head off when energy rocks and laser beams aren’t quite doing it.

Gloop and Gleep are the two blob-like things with the big eyes. Gloop is the big one, Gleep the little one. Possibly the least powerful offensively, but impossible to hurt (they often used their bodies to shield the humans) and incredibly versatile, able to stretch and turn into pretty much anything (shades of Mr. Fantastic, speaking of the Fantastic Four — no equivalent to The Invisible Woman or the Human Torch, if you’re wondering). It’s never explained their exact relation to one another. They’ve killed a few folks by squeezing them to death. (I’m not exaggerating, incidentally. The aliens definitely died)

And last but not least, in the back, Zok. He’s a dragon that shoots lasers from his eyes and tail, and he’s exactly as cool as that sounds. Very rarely he breathes fire (which I think only happened in the 1980s episodes), but usually it’s lasers. Slightly less durable than the others, but he can fly.  I mean, look at him:

I love that guy.

And almost every episode, some villainous idiot shows up and goes “Aha, it is Zandor and the Herculoids!” — yes, they all know who he is already, and call him by name, which makes the impending defeat all the more humiliating — “I believe I will attack them for some reason that has to do with my plan to take over this planet and/or the universe!” And then they usually send out dozens of troops who look mostly like the leader but with slightly simpler costume design. Sometimes they send out robots or even a giant monster instead. Sometimes this is just a distraction while they use a machine to steal the planet’s air (Spaceballs ain’t got nothin’ on these guys) or invade a nearby village to steal their gold, but just as often they just are there specifically to capture and/or kill Zandor and the Herculoids.

And by the end of every single episode, the villain’s troops are all dead, their “unstoppable” gizmo is wrecked, their spaceship or fortress reduced to rubble. Usually, that was it for them, implied to have been killed when their ship crashed or their fortress exploded. (Sometimes they escaped at the end and didn’t return; sometimes they escaped at the end and actually did return once in a later episode. Once the villain returned even though they had seemingly been killed in their previous appearance, and they managed to escape at the end of that episode, too, though that was also their last appearance)

And almost every single episode has a point where the villain has a chance to just surrender and leave, and Zandor often even offers to let them go if they’ll just stop, but they never take it. They always double down. “Sure, the giant nearly-invulnerable monsters easily thwarted my first attack and murdered half my troops”, they say, “But now I shall do exactly the same thing but harder; surely that will work! Go, my remaining loyal minions! Use a slightly larger laser cannon this time!”  Spoiler: it doesn’t work. In another few minutes, they will all be dead, and the leader’s last-ditch attack will also fail, leaving him (or, once, her) also very dead.

They always fuck around and boy do they find out.

(There’s some episodes where a monster is just spontaneously generated out of a swamp or hatches from an egg or something, but the overconfident villains make up the majority.  At least once they crossed over with Space Ghost, which was done by the same animation and writing team)

I honestly love it. I love all the goofy Alex Toth designed 1960s H-B cartoons (Space Ghost, Mighty Mightor, etc) and also the weird in-between series Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles (which has character and background design reminiscent of the Jetsons but the writing of their Space Ghost-era superhero cartoons), but The Herculoids is absolutely my favorite.

I find nothing as soothing as old superhero cartoons where you don’t have to focus on the myriad plot twists (because there are none), just watch and enjoy the explosions. Or drift off to sleep while explosions happen.m

#Herculoids #The Herculoids #HB #Hanna-Barbera #Space Ghost #Not Really Space Ghost #Zandor #Tara #Dorno #Tundro #Igoo #Gloop #Gleep #Zok #LASER DRAGON

[cloud-ya]

why using satellite laser cannon when you can be your own satellite laser canon

#cant decide which version id prefer for dragonmeko. like either sipping coffee during explosion or causing the explosion herself #i remember someone proposing both.getting back to ground fast enough to sip coffee as if she didnt just spit a fucking laser beam at enemies #honkai star rail #himeko #dragon

[dunderella]

phoenixflare :)

(available as stickers in my shop!)

#ffxvi #final fantasy xvi #ff16 #final fantasy 16 #phoenixflare #joshua rosfield #dion lesage #ffxvi spoilers #ff16 spoilers #my art #digital #illustration #chicken nugget and laser dragon guy #fanart

[tiikerikani]

Lamassu aren't Egyptian but it's fantasy stuff so anything goes I guess.

#fantasy miniatures #miniature #dungeons and lasers #lammasu #lamassu #dungeons and dragons #winged lion #miniature painting

[dragons-hoard-of-fandoms]

Posting one Murder Drones meme a day until Episode 5 drops, Day Eleven.

#Murder Drones #Liam Vickers Animation #Glitch Productions #Uzi Doorman #Murder Drones Uzi #Serial Designation N #Murder Drones N #NUzi #Uzi x N #N x Uzi #Biscuitbites #Don't tell me you really thought I wouldn't do one for my OTP #Gotta get this out there before the FR anniversary makes me hit the post limit again #I watched WALL-E last night and let me just say #You CAN NOT convince me N wouldn't break down in tears all 'THEY JUST LIKE US FR' at it #Someone please make art of N and WALL-E gushing about their awesome girlfriends #Meanwhile EVE and Uzi go laser cannon skeet shooting together #Or just give me an MD WALL-E AU please I am on my hands and knees #E5 tomorrow let's go baby! #Straight From the Dragon's Mouth

[just1gnome]

what if . fenhawke domestic au .

ft my best friend eadan hawke and their daughter adelaide

#blasting them with the dad beam #im like superman except instead of laser through your abdomen you get a kid and a wedding #dragon age 2 #dragon age #da2 #da2 fanart #fenris #fenris da2 #hawke #da2 hawke #my art #eadan hawke

[irregularjohnnywiggins]

Okay, thing that just occured to me about Drakengard 1: At the end of Chapter 1 Verse 9, Angelus tells Caim directly:

And, the thing is, she's... right. It's part of the commentary Drakengard 1 makes on the nature of violence, that violence for violence's sake inevitably leads to death. In every Ending except A, Caim remains unchanging right up until the end, obsessed with inflicting as much suffering on the Empire as possible, and in every Ending except A he encounters something infinitely stronger than him and dies because all he can do is kill or be killed. And Furiae also has a part in this as well - the opening cinematic clearly shows that the only thing that can even temporarily draw Caim out of his violence-fueled worldview is Furiae being in danger, and so the fact that she dies in every route is symbolic because it dooms Caim to death, as well - all he is at the start is protector and killer, and now that the thing he protects is gone all that is left is the killing. The only thing that saves Caim in Ending A is that he finds something else aside from hatred to live on - Angelus herself.

#drakengard #drakengard 1 #dod1 #caim drakengard #angelus #furiae #it is funny to me that Caim consistently gets killed by entities completely removed from anything he could conceivably match #from an army of clones of his sister as an undead angel-scorpion-thing #to an army of dragons shooting lasers out of their mouths #to an army of Giant Flying Demon Babies #culminating in the most eldritch and unknowable of all of them #the Japanese Air Force

[catbatart]

Finished the Dragon of Schmargonrog from Dungeons and Lasers! My morale was low during the process of this one- the ‘ugly phase’ was pretty long on this. But honestly? SO pleased with the result. 

I’m so glad the crackled magma effect turned out how I envisioned it. It took forever to get there, but we did it!

#dnd #dnd miniature #miniature painting #dragon #dungeons and dragons #mini painting #dnd mini #dungeons and lasers

[fatedroses]

I woke up in the middle of the night yesterday just to get the sketch for this down and I've finally finished it today

He will still tidal wave with no warning and no apology v-v

#ffxiv #concept #digital art #fan art #zenos yae galvus #adventurer zenos #everythings fine and normal with your supposed pugilist tank #until he turns into a half-dragon that can shoot lasers out of nowhere #truly the inappropriate ancient transformation emet feared #it would be his own great grandson that would find out how to do it again #i dont know why i also considered the hand wing #an inheritable trait #but here we are #I just think it would be funny having him pick up people without moving too much #not shown is tataru kicking his ass for morphing his clothes to himself #and probably not being able to morph them back the same as how they used to be now and then

[neoyi]

Still playing the Very Serious Game, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, with Very Serious Plots such as: helping one of the main characters create and fulfill a bucket list before he dies of cancer; a cult running rampant all over Hawaii, running its vast, criminal empire, and it's up to the heroes to put a stop to it; a conspiracy by a dying Yakuza gang that can and has implicated many innocent people in their wake; and inner personal demons some of the main cast are struggling to battle including lost loves, regrettable actions that has festered into decades long guilt, false accusation that costed one their job, and an adult son reunited with his mother after 40+ years and trying to navigate the awkward emotions between them.

#yakuza #like a dragon #like a dragon infinite wealth #like a dragon spoilers #yakuza spoilers #neoyi talks #please play yakuza you get to beat up a giant flying roomba #please play it you get to summon a giant satellite dish that shoots a laser beam from space

[krystaldeath]

Bullfrog fans

#sorry class #watched draw feed best of 2022 and this made a lightbulb go off above my head #captain lazerhawk blood dragon remix #was is it lazer or laser??? #ITS LASER #captain laserhawk #okay do I wanna be completionist with my tagging or would I rather not that many people look at this #bullfrog clh

[chernobog13]

Alex Toth's designs for various villains, bad guys, and assorted no-goodniks for Birdman.

#Birdman #the Claw #Ant Ape robot #Barracuda #Murko #Chang #robot snow monster #Dr. Kordo #laser Winchester! #Dr. Millenium #mechanical dragon #Hanna-Barbera #Alex Toth

[tabletopresources]

Humank Monk by Cheese-and-Lasers

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#Cheese-and-Lasers #npc #male warrior #monk #tabletop rpg #rpg #tabletop gaming #pen & paper #roleplayer #roleplaying gamer #games #inspiration #pen & paper games #dnd #d&d #pathfinder #dungeons & dragons #Dungeons and Dragons #fantasy rpg #tabletop gamer #roleplaying #gamer #scifi #scifi rpg #science fiction #cyberpunk #d20 modern

[jermz]

More explosions! Now including the clips with how FREAKIN' AWESOME THEY MADE IT LOOK HOLY HELL. Whoever you guys are that cleaned these up and made it look this amazing, thank you so much.

#flash #flash fx #flash animation #2dfx animation #vox machina #season 2 #fire #laser beams #dragon

[duchess-of-mischief]

This isn’t directed at anybody in particular, but to everyone who calls How To Train Your Dragon a “Boy and his Dog” movie, respectfully,

✨ No ✨

It is clearly a Boy and his Cat movie, thank you very much

#like??? it’s so clear that dragons have cat mannerisms #they chase lasers #they love dragon-nip #they even curl up in a ball and purr #like it’s so obvious what they’re modeled after #anyways rant over lol #turtle’s tangents #HTTYD

[decimdraws]

Experimenting with laser engraving 😄 need to make adjustment to the lineart from the original, but I think I’m gonna enjoy this

#dragon age #dragon age fanart #cullen rutherford #commander cullen #da inquisition #cullen dragon age #Cullen #dragon age inquisition #laser engraved