#Which is part of his comedy special called Randy Writes a Novel which is on youtube!

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FREE PASS TO RANT ABOUT YOUR LUPIN THE THIRD SELF INSERT because I’m curious; what do they do? How’d they join the gang? What’re they like? and because ik you like Goemon so much, what’s the interactions between them like? 👀 I saw your tags on that one post and now I’m calling u OUT (if you feel like talking about them idk I’m not ur mom)

-dippy 🦑

*slams down a thick file onto the table* I have so much information about this self insert that I've been meaning to share but I get nervous to share it cuz brain be stupid. hOWEVER SINCE @dippy-bitch ASKED I HAVE TO DO IT sO HAHAaa!

Also, you asked this question at the perfect moment because my internet just got fixed after have 2 months of it constantly disconnecting.

Warning this post is very long. Not even joking its like 7 pages without pictures?? I'm sorry for what I'm about to do in this Chili's tonight.

Anyways!

This is Amber Corvo! She is the Lupin Gang's official informant/information gather!

Corvo is usually out and about gathering information, whether that be through pretending to be a bartender or be in the alley trying to befriend the local strays to seem like she's absolutely not paying attention to the world around her. She has a passion and hunger for learning things and the longer somebody doesn't tell her secrets the more curious and determined she gets to stealing away that information. Ironically the surefire way to make sure she'll be at a certain location is if Lupin doesn't tell her that she can come along and only briefly mentions the plan to her.

She typically gets away with overhearing things by pulling out an extremely stupid and airheady act and since she looks like a tired college student who just got distracted by a cat that was chilling by the dumpsters. Sometimes this works but when it doesn't Corvo is very quick to bust out her baseball bat to commit acts of extreme violence.

While Corvo does work for gathering and primarily putting information together for Lupin, she does still get hired by other people to give information about whatever they wanted. However, a good chunk of the time these temporary hirers do try to kill her for knowing too much. Sometimes attempt to kidnap her if they realize that she knows a lot about Lupin and his gang as well as a bunch of other important info to try to torture the information out of her.

Corvo being desensitized to this has gotten good at hiding any fear/concern as well as dodging and batting away bullets (not as good as Goemon though but still notable). Usually, Goemon isn't too far off from her in these cases so she doesn't have to worry too much.

Before she joined the gang (and before Goemon joins), Lupin has worked with Corvo in the past just as a free-lance informant he commissions from time to time. Over the course of their business relationship, Lupin got attached to her and the fact that she had a baseball bat as a weapon instead of a gun or a knife interests him and so he frequently begins to try to convince her to join.

Corvo being hesitant to join as a solid member of anybody's team due to the fact that this could be a trap Lupin's trying to lure her in to get all the information out of her. Also because he's a womanizer and didn't want to deal with that from the person who'd be the primary person who pays her.

The informant eventually agrees to join after Lupin and Jigen swooped in and saved her from being shot dead execution-style. She doesn't admit it often but the fact that they did come and save her made her trust them more and come to her senses that it would be more beneficial if she joins them and probably more fun. Typically she just says it's because of the life debt she owns them now, but they know the truth.

Some Trivia-

She typically wears shorts under her skirt. Just so pesky updrafts and also a fall from the sky doesn't flash everybody.

If somebody wants her to stop her life of crime and be a stay-at-home wife the price is one dog. Also, love I guess but the dog is the main thing that's going to make her behave.

In part 1 she's immune to certain poisons since people keep trying to kill her.

She frequently puts a tracking chip on people. The main person she does this to is Lupin.

She frequently listens to police scanners.

Due to how frequently her employers try to kill her she has a fine print in the contracts that say "If you try to kill Amber Corvo or place a hit on Amber Corvo she gets to steal everything you own."

Not only is Corvo excellent at swinging her bat to ward off bullets and ball shaped objects but she’s got a really good pitch as well and will sometimes just throw things.

I'm stupid by nature and misread something so now you get all of her relationships with the gang dfgdghdgfh RIP

-Her relationships-

Lupin and Corvo- It feels only right to start this off with Lupin. Lupin and Corvo have a very much playful back and forth relationship where they enjoy annoying each other. They get along pretty well, despite the times where Corvo threatens to or actually does hit Lupin for not telling her things she deems as important. Which the vast majority of the time it is something that he should tell his intel so she can help improvise a plan or make sure the others don't screw it up. Lupin enjoys teasing her for her contradictory behavior of being apathetically "You can't hurt me in a way that matters." to immediately hiding away from a door knock cuz unwarranted socialization is scary. Lupin doesn't really enjoy it when he's in trouble with the others and Corvo just cheers them on to kick his ass. Corvo is basically the one who keeps Lupin in check and tells his friends what's going on. Corvo is a violent HR for the lupin gang

Jigen and Corvo- Siblings siblings siblings siblings. When these two they are by themselves together they have such a chaotic dynamic. This is the duo that'll inflict a lot of chaotic damage if in a fight together because they sort of egg the other on. Since he and Corvo are the two people who've been working for Lupin the longest, they have the shared hobby of "Lupin won't listen to us when we warn him so lets just watch him get his ass beat."

They have the bond of "I would absolutely sell you for a half of a penny, no hesitation." but in a loving sibling way.

Fujiko and Corvo- They are sort of rivals considering they both gather information. Their behavior with each other can go from Amber siding and enjoying watching Fujiko reject Lupin and others. Then it can flop to the other side of Amber getting after and trying to screw over Fujiko for betraying them or for messing with Goemon. Though that's much more of an extreme, its usually just a "Hahahahaaa Fujiko you have betrayed us yet again."

These two fill the sides of information gathering that the other doesn't. Fujiko does the more seductive side while Amber fills the more business, "accidentally overhearing" and deep dives into books and theories.

Off work hours these two get along pretty decently and they enjoy jokingly flirting with each other. Fujiko has absolutely dressed Corvo up cuz Corvo doesn't really fight it and doesn't know how to do makeup.

Zenigata and Corvo- If Zenigata ever captures Corvo, Corvo refuses to shut up and will start info-dumping random topics to hopefully make him unarrest her for being annoying. Corvo has absolutely sat on top of the fiat with a megaphone yelling at Zenigata random sad facts until he let Lupin go. It doesn't always work, but listen it's better than nothing.

Corvo: Did you also know that Axolotls have amazing regeneration abilities? Its because they are forever in that in-between being a purely water creature and land-based creature- Zenigata: Shut up! Corvo: .... you silence me? You silence Corvo? that's messed up Zenigata, you know I can talk forever. That's the one thing I'm better at than Lupin and you try to take my god-given right to yell! JAIL FOR POPS! JAIL FOR POPS FOR 1000 YEARS!!!

But listen, Zenigata is going to be thinking of those axolotl facts later. Its going to keep him up at night thinking about glow-in-the-dark amphibians.

Zenigata also absolutely hates it when Corvo bats away his cuffs. He's tried to make adjustments so it just gets stuck but then the crazy broad just starts rapidly spinning the cuffs in the air saying her weapon got new and improved.

Goemon and Corvo- Wanna see how hard I can talk? LISTEN I KEEP THREATENING TO MAKE AN ESSAY ABOUT MINE AND GOEMON'S RELATIONSHIP DYNAMIC TO MY FRIEND SO I HAD TO SAVE HIM FOR LAST! Goemon my beloved

Listen the Goemon x Corvo ship is all about that mutual yearning and pining and being equally stupid cuz you spent god knows how long pining for each other in a very obvious way and not ever acting on it except in one series and that's only the Koike movies!

Beyond that the Goemon and Corvo(tm) interactions according to @soft-citrus-central can be described as a Samurai and his Cute Wife.

In some adaptations, Corvo meets Goemon cuz he's trying to kill Lupin and she's just there like "!!! OoOoo Cool Samurai man!! Hell yeah!"

Other adaptations Corvo meets Goemon because she has a hobby of looking into swords and swordsmen so she eventually just works for him usually to help him find a sword (Episode 0).

Other adaptations is just

Either way, Corvo is usually very thrilled to see and meet Goemon. In the Koike series, she deems him the only person who could kill her in a way that matters AKA "Heeehhooo pretty samurai man can kill me and I'd be fine with it."

Typically after the first interaction goes by Amber and Goemon have a very civil relationship that quickly becomes more platonic due to them having similar interests and typically side with each other. They constantly work together as well since Amber hires Goemon to be her bodyguard as she is trading information with people or gathering particularly dangerous info.

Then those platonic feelings turn into romantic cuz, listen if you were Goemon you would also fall for the cute informant girl who whenever you do cool things cheers you on and tries her absolute hardest on making sure you have your preferred foods ready.

ESPECIALLY THE CORVO-CENTERED EPISODES ARE BASED AROUND HER TAKING CARE OF AND BEFRIENDING A STRAY ANIMAL.

The exact reason why Corvo and Goemon don't get together changes from part to part (special to special, movie to movie, etc.) usually it's not really explained can be assumed that both are stupid and don't realize they can just ask the other out.

In part 5 it's because a long time ago Goemon asked Lupin for permission to date Corvo since Lupin's the boss and Lupin got annoyed and said no unless he beats him in a duel.

Typically the two don't really fight, if they do it's just a very quiet argument. However, the main thing they argue about that can be somewhat mean at times is if Goemon falls for another scam because there was a pretty lady, but he doesn't realize it. Which causes Corvo to get at least passive-aggressive with the lady and at worst doing petty things to try to ward her off. Which would upset Goemon, which in turn would make Corvo upset and irritated. So this topic can't really be reasoned out since it's just an argument of emotions until the trickery gets revealed. Even then though when Goemon apologizes and comes back looking like a kicked puppy Corvo can't stay mad and immediately forgives him. Lupin and Jigen absolutely love to laugh at her for this and will do so every time. Much to her immediate embarrassment.

So yeah that's basically my self insert, if I forgot anything I might make another post to cover it dfgfghgfh

I'm sorry I burdened you with info-dumping everything about my self insert on you Dippy;;;

#long post #si: Amber Corvo #Does this show off how much I think about my self inserts? I think it does #self insert #self insert community #lupin iii self insert #lupin iii oc #otp: O'Samurai my Beloved #I guess? Idk I think it counts #Goemon's section is majority of this post #*Claps hands* TIME FOR ME TO ALSO MENTION THE REFERENCES SOME OF THESE PICTURES MAKE #AkaTheTwoGoemonPictures #First goemon picture was heavily referenced from Princess Mononoke #Second Goemon picture is based off of Randy Feltface's The Life of Earnest Hemingway in 3 and Half Minutes #Which is part of his comedy special called Randy Writes a Novel which is on youtube! #exhibit car

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Spoiler Alert: The Flash, 9-1-1: Lone Star and more news

Spoilers in The Flash, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Tommy and more…

Many news in the Spoiler Alert From this week. I repeat. Many news. Spoilers for The Flash, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Tommy and much more. Also, don't forget to read the week's quickies, as well as our trailer suggestion. You will not regret it, believe me. So I count on your reading of Spoiler Alert this week, as well as your comments, criticisms and suggestions for news.

Time to say goodbye

To the sadness of this one who writes to you, Fresh Off The Boat will come to an end this season. But how will the series end? According to ABC, the only way that comedy could do it. According to an official synopsis, Series Finale will be an hour long with the first episode christened Family Van, while the last one will be called Commencement.

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The first half hour will bring Jessica and Louis to work with the family van, which, unfortunately, cannot resist time and mechanical problems. The brothers, however, take a trip to Washington D.C. to see what the time capsule they buried in years ago looks like. Finally, in the last half hour, Jessica finds herself thinking about her, her family and especially her future prospects.

Let's talk?

It's primary season in the United States with Democrats (trying) choose who will face Donald Trump in November. Tomorrow (11), party voters vote in New Hampshire, according to the state of a long voting calendar. Taking advantage of the occasion, ABC will show a (very) political episode of The Conners. According to Variety, the expectation is to talk about a key issue in the United States: the influence of money on politics.

The episode, which will be live, will start with Mark (Ames McNamara) watching the result of the poll with Harris (Emma Kenney). The problem is that she is disillusioned with the electoral process due to the influence of money on politics, which, according to her, prevents real changes. Such a position gives the whole family the opportunity to express their own opinions on the subject.

The bigger the better

There is a maxim in the United States that says ‘everything is bigger in Texas’. This Monday (10), 9-1-1: Lone Star will prove that this saying is quite true. The reason? The series will bring about an explosion of a bull semen factory. That's right, an explosion of a bull semen factory. “We are in Texas,” said Rob Lowe in conversation with the TVLine.

“It's hilarious,” the actor told the TVLine. “Because all we’re going to see are vats exploding and flying through the air. There is a certain despair even when you realize what is really happening, ”he added. According to the website, the narrative will be inspired by a very similar accident that happened in September 2019 in Australia when a genetic material laboratory catches fire.

Where do I know you from?

Eddie Falco returned to television last Thursday (06) by CBS with the series Tommy. But what to expect from the drama with only one episode shown? In conversation with TV Guide, the actress said that the viewer can expect familiar faces from The Sopranos, a production that launched him to stardom in 1999.

“Many people approached me and said,‘ Hi, in fact we already know each other, I was in The Sopranos, ’So I reply,‘ Hmmm, I’m sorry! ’. “People who unfortunately had small roles, but I hope the public will remember those with bigger roles,” he added.

The first actor in the famous HBO series to make an appearance is Matt Servitto, who at the time played FBI special agent Dwight Harris, who was tasked with spying on the Tony Soprano family. In Tommy, Servitto will play an unnamed policeman.

“He showed up one day and I said, 'Oh no, you can only be kidding!'” Recalls Falco. “We had a lot of fun,” added the actress. She concluded the conversation by also confirming that several actors from Nurse Jackie they will also do special points in the CBS drama.

We are not prepared

O showrunner in The Flash, Eric Wallace, sent word that the viewer must prepare for the second part of the sixth season, better known also as Graphic Novel # 2. “This season is a year of excitement and chills, so if Graphic Novel # 1 it was chills, Graphic Novel # 2 it's the moment of emotion, ”said Wallace to Entertainment Weekly.

“If the Bloodwork story was a version of The Flash of a horror movie, I believe this is the moment of strong emotions, and maybe we have a little bit of bizarre added to science fiction because I watched a lot Twin Peaks,” said. In addition, Wallace assured that the new episodes will focus more on Iris' reaction to what happened in the first part of the season.

Quickies

Fox announced the renewal of one of its game shows most successful Summer Season for a new season. Presented by Jamie Foxx, Beat Shazam will return a fourth year with no premiere yet. (deadline)

Adam Sandler, frustrated after not receiving the long-awaited Oscar nomination for his work on the film Raw Jewelry, renewed with the Netflix to make four more films with the service of streaming. (The Wrap)

With a major restructuring in sight in the Hulu at a time when Disney takes full control of the streaming, the company's president, Randy Freer, resigned his post after two years at the helm of the company. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Trailer of the week: Genius: Aretha

National Geographic, now owned by Disney, last week released the trailer for the third season of Genius. After Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso, the production will focus on the life of a legend and genius of music, Aretha Franklin. The performance will be on behalf of Cynthia Erivo, nominated for an Oscar this year for Harriet, which will bring the Queen of Soul suffering domestic violence and trying to deal with childhood trauma. O teaser, which was shown during the awards last Sunday (09), recalls that the premiere takes place on Monday (25).

Check it out below.

So, what did you think of our column this week? Leave it in the comments and keep following the news of your favorite series here on Series Mix. Yet. Therefore. Also. The Flash. The Flash. However The Flash. Yet. On the other hand. Like this.

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The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) starring Grant Williams and William Schallert

Never feared before, now a household cat and a cellar spider become threatening monsters to an unfortunate man who discovers he’s slowly becoming smaller and smaller and smaller. . . .

On the surface, it doesn’t seem to have much to offer.  The Incredible Shrinking Man has no big-name stars, few of them known today.  Its top-billed actor, Grant Williams, hardly a “star” in the remotest sense of the word, received his checks for generally B pictures and a much longer career in television.  All this without much distinction or recognition, though this film is his claim to fame, however tenuous.

The Incredible Shrinking Man came toward the end of the monster-creature-mutant-spacemen flicks, that “fabulous” time—depending upon one’s viewpoint!—of the 1950s, and yet the film is somehow in a class all its own.  If not strictly a part of them, it is among the best of the general type represented by alien spacemen (The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951), radioactively enlarged insects (Them!,1954) and devil monsters (Curse of the Demon, 1957).

No monster or alien being arrives to devastate humankind and crumble skyscrapers in The Incredible Shrinking Man.  This is, rather, the plight of a single man, previously isolated in his complacent world, who is gradually reduced in size, shrinking so small that common things—a domestic cat, a spider, even water or cellar stairs—become his monsters and obstacles.

Along with the special effects, advanced and impressive in their day, a definite plus is the source novel by Richard Matheson and his resulting screenplay, shared with the uncredited Richard Alan Simmons.  This explains why the story-line and writing make the movie so convincing.  Matheson was one of Rod Serling’s chief supporting writers, along with Charles Beaumont, in the Twilight Zone TV series (1959-64).

Horror writer Stephen King was impressed by the way Matheson wrote: “He was the first guy I ever read who seemed to be doing something that Lovecraft [horror writer of The Rats in the Wall, The Call of Cthulhu, etc.] wasn’t doing. . . .  [T]he horror could be in the Seven-Eleven store down the block . . . [and] that was a revelation that was extremely exciting.  He was putting the horror in places that I could relate to.”

Which is exactly what Matheson does with The Incredible Shrinking Man: he brings terror and fear directly into the suburban home, where, to paraphrase Alfred Hitchcock, it belongs.

Scott (Williams) narrates his own story and begins: “The strange, almost unbelievable story of Robert Scott Carey began on a very ordinary summer day. . . . ”

He and his wife Louise (Randy Stuart) are lounging in their swim suits on his brother’s (Paul Langton) sailboat.  While she is below deck, a peculiar mist rises unexpectedly and when she returns the cloud has passed.  Her husband’s chest is covered in a strange, glittering powder.

(Except for its five-second ominous opening, the main title music has been non-threatening, with a lyrical trumpet solo, quite different from the usual noisy apprehension that opens most ’50s horror films.  Two of the quartet of composite score composers are mainstays of the B movie horror genre, Hans J. Salter and Herman Stein.  The neutral music that has continued into the film abruptly changes to disturbed harmonies with this strange mist, telling the audience . . . this isn’t good.)

Before long, Scott notices that his trousers are too big, his shirt sleeves too long and that he’s lost weight.  Dr. Bramson (William Schallert, In the Heat of the Night, 1967) isn’t particularly worried, but sends him to a research institute.  Dr. Silver (Raymond Bailey, Mr. Drysdale in The Beverley Hillbillies, 1962-71) discovers an unusual chemical in Scott’s body.  Possibly his contact with insecticides years ago and this recent radioactive mist have, together, rearranged the molecular structure of his cells.

Before long, Scott has shrunk to three feet high.  Even when Dr. Silver gives him an anti-toxin that arrests the shrinking but cannot return him to normal, Scott becomes more depressed.  He wanders into a carnival of dwarfs and meets Clarice (April Kent), who assists him in writing an autobiography.

Before long, he realizes he’s become even shorter than Clarice—the anti-toxin no longer works—and, weeks later, he has diminished to only a few inches high.  He now lives in a dollhouse.

One day when Louise goes to the store and forgets about the family cat (Orangey, This Island Earth, 1955, The Comedy of Terrors, 1963), the animal batters the dollhouse and Scott flees, falling into a sewing basket at the foot of the cellar stairs.

He is able to climb out of the basket and adjusts as best he can to this new basement world: “The cellar stretched before me like some vast primeval plain, empty of life, littered with the relics of a vanished race.”

(Whenever Williams’ narration is absent, the film is then supported only by the music score, which matches well the desperate man’s struggles.)

Scott drinks from a dripping pipe and lives in an empty matchbox.  When the basement floods from a broken pipe, he avoids being swept into a drain by clinging to a pencil.  After his efforts to free a fragment of cheese from a mousetrap are foiled, he retrieves a piece of bread from a seemingly inaccessible ledge, only to have to flee from a spider.

Thinking Scott dead, Louise leaves the house with the help of Charlie.  They cannot hear his shouts for help, his voice a whisper (Williams’ narrative voice continues throughout unchanged, despite the enormous shortening of his vocal chords; other physiological changes/impossibilities are also shown incorrectly).

After a few successes in his new world, including killing the spider, Scott is encouraged and resolves “ . . . as man had dominated the world of the sun, so I would dominate my world.”

Small enough now to pass through a ventilation screen, he steps outside and stands studying the sky: “I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing.  My fears melted away and in their place came acceptance.  All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something.  Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too.”

This existential ending, a much longer monologue than the portion quoted, and supposedly added by director Jack Arnold, was not a traditional Hollywood “happy” ending at the time.  The studio executives wanted it changed.  Arnold (It Came from Outer Space, 1953, Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1954) refused, and had enough clout that it remained.

It isn’t the acting that makes the film unique among its horror and science fiction contemporaries: it’s the creative special effects, the crux of that genre, which make The Incredible Shrinking Man exceptional and worth watching all these decades after it was made.

#Grant Williams #William Schallert