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silly hc idea for the riddlers. What do you think it'd be like if the riddlers who have voice actors/actors met their actors? Do you think they'd be appreciative? Freaked out?
Riddlers meet their actors
Short and sweet but this is way too cute
Tw: fourth wall breaking, meta, unreality/dpdr, surveillance
Gotham
- Considering the canon (that I ignore mostly because it's done so poorly) that hes got a split personality he's talked to, it probably wouldn't go well? Lots of animosity. Like a dog growling at its reflection.
- IGNORING THAT THOUGH. He'd start quizzing him and giving him riddles since this is obviously a fake. A trick someone is playing on him.
- if he found out it was real, he'd be super apologetic and calling him Mr.
- oh god does that mean there's actors for penguin and zsasz as well? They must be more pleasant than the on screen counterparts, at least.
60s
- Between Edward's riddles and puns and Mr. Gorshins stand up, the crime fighting duo is going to be seeing double! But this isn't about them.
- given this riddler is kind of a cinemaphile, there would be so many acting questions. Favorite movie? Who is the most famous person he's worked with (besides him, obviously)? He's quite good at acting and impressions himself, as Frank Gorshin would already know.
Zero year
- Get fucked, Edward, you have no VA or actor. That will however not stop him from harassing the writer and artist. His plan was failproof! How did this GUY beat him? And he can't just read who Batman is because then it'll be like he couldn't figure it out on his own. Ugh!
- He is going to red marker a copy of Zero Year showing every unflattering panel. See that expression where it looks like he has a double chin? That has to go, fellas!
- He tells them to do a better job next time. Because there WILL be a next time. He's simply the best riddler there could be! And no, not with the mohawk, get that out of here.
BTAS
- Civilized conversation after a brief "How strange, you can imitate me- OH-" Well, perhaps you should have pushed for more riddler episodes. His brilliant mind should be on display after all!
- sorry its been...... its been how many years since the show has been on...? Of COURSE he knew that. It was just a surprise hearing it. Right now.
- well. Other than that, he's going to ask about the family, his husband, as is only polite. Then about the other voices. Working with them and-
- sorry, joker is luke skywalker?
Telltale
- It should only make sense that his voice actor should be so skilled with a long variety of credits. Perhaps he has this skill as well and he didn't even realize it!
- German is a surprising accent he didn't know he could do. That will definitely come into play at a later date if he needs to hide his voice.
Arkham
- He can't handle this. The realization he's just pixels in programming- He's so much GRANDER than this! Yes, yes, you've done a great job, whatever, he has much more concerning things to deal with. He'll spare you, Wally, simply because without you his voice wouldn't be.
- this ultimately turns into him becoming the nastiest virus that figures out how to spread to any device that can access wifi. In this new world, there's nothing he can't see or control...
2022
- honestly I think he'd be terrified. Who is this well-adjusted man with his face? He's an ACTOR? People pay to see this face? His worthless, disgusting-
- wait he has fans?
- it all goes downhill from there. Abduction, probably like when Joker abducted Mark Hamil in that one special.
- He will flip when he finds out Paul Dano wrote his origin comics. Someone who knows him so well better than ANYONE else on this wretched world.
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Not that I think they would have been shipped otherwise, but Reva and Obi-Wan were vastly different ages while Sabine and Shin are roughly the same age. If Reva was white I don’t think Reva x Obi-Wan would be as popular as Wolfwren
I don't want to argue with you about this... but I don't think you know what you're talking about here and I respectfully disagree. Like I've been in fandom reading fanfics since basically 2000 and age has nothing to do with it!!!
Like ok off the top of my head just restricting it to star wars fandom do you not realize how many people shipped Jyn Erso and Krennic just because Diego luna has an accent???? (he's white passing otherwise)
People ship dinluke too!!! (pedro pascal is 48 and Luke is supposed to be like late 20's at the most? even if you go by mark hamills age in rotj and aged him up to early thirties that's still at least a dozen years difference in age).
Like can we please stop pretending that misogynoir doesn't have a HUGE factor in why Reva wasn't shipped with Obi? Like I'm not even saying I ship them but honestly look at daisy ridley and adam driver for crissake!!! there's an 8 year difference and that's not taking into account how John Boyega was like almost exactly Daisy's age.
look I know you follow us here and I don't want to make you feel bad but maybe don't do the white fans job for them when you defend their misogynoir ok?
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sexycraisinthanos · 23 days
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castlevaniaskeletor · 2 years
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This is a thought I totally had in the shower, but I’ve seen a lot of people automatically dismiss the Mario movie right away just because Chris Pratt doesn’t sound like Charles Martinet’s Mario voice that we’ve all come to know and love… but like, here me out, if we are automatically hating the Mario movie because of a change in voice then doesn’t that mean that we should have hated MOTU Revelation right from the release of the trailer too… yet some of the same people dissing on the Mario movie loved Revelation… interesting. I could literally flip flop the situation and start hating revelation as soon as I heard Mark Hamill speak as Skeletor because it doesn’t sound like the Skeletor that I knew and loved lol. I still gave it a chance. I mean you guys do you but some of y’all are sounding a bit hypocritical to me lmao. Not saying names or looking to start fights, just stating observations LOL 😂😂
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Anyway…. I’m gonna give this Mario movie a chance 😂 the Chris Pratt voice kinda seems like an attempt to be a Brooklyn accent, so maybe Mario will be coming from the real world like in the Super Mario Brothers Super Show. I loved Lou Albano’s Mario voice lol, surprisingly I actually watched that show before I got a Mario game 😂😂😂
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mmoxie · 11 months
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Part 5- Liability
Everything fell away. No old man with his maglite, no predictable cabal of local manipulators. It could be taken for granted that the world was trying to kill her- how would that be different from any other day in the past twenty years?
She didn't know that they could see the fire. If she had, she might've pretended she knew how to wield it. Vomited an arc of blinding orange into the night air to show she meant business. Instead, she grit her teeth, unaware of the trails of smoke sifting between them, and bore down on the stranger in the overstuffed suit.
His Minnesotan accent bothered her. She didn't feel like taking excuses from a guy who sounded like an extra in Fargo. He reached for his radio and she swatted it out of his hand.
"Who," she repeated, her eyes shining with naked hatred, "put you up to this, huh?"
He pivoted at the hips and threw out a meaty hand- only to retract it, rather than grab her wrist, when he saw the crackling fire climbing up her arm.
"What the hell are you? You sick? This, uh- spon- spontaneous combustion?!"
She didn't answer. He didn't like that.
"If you're dyin', just go ahead and die. Don't wait for me to finish you off!" He scoffed exaggeratedly and swung himself out of her reach.
She lunged at him, a moment too late. The oldster's maglite connected with the back of her head in midair, driving an eruption of pressurized fire out of her lungs. She saw both figures blown away at different angles, into the darkness, as she suddenly soared up, screaming and flailing limbs.
A huge gouge of burnt grass and smoking earth marked where she'd taken the blow and lost control- and if she didn't think of something fast, it would serve has her reentry target, too. No point in all the blazing and blasting if she was going to land right back in the middle of it with broken legs.
Let's see...
In the comfortable, going-to-die dilation of time, she flipped through the mental rolodex for action plans.
Bruce Willis? No, don't need to crash a Honda.
Rudy Ray Moore? God no, but I need to watch Dolemite again.
Mark Hamill? Not a lightsaber or pair of Chanel boots in sight.
Wait.
Roddy Piper. Keith David. '88. It was a long, ugly fight, six minutes at least of slamming into pavement and shattering windows. That's how two evenly-matched jocks take care of business.
And that's just it- that's how they're going to fight me. Low, dirty, direct. They might have guns, they definitely have flashlights. Distance is death maybe, up close is death absolutely.
Her mouth was full of ash. All her teeth seemed to be there, but whatever bits stuck to them from her last break were carbon dust, enough to make her cough. The coughing snapped her out of her momentary trance, and made her realize she had finished falling up, and was now on the return trip.
Fuck. Solved the wrong problem.
With no plan for her landing, she could do little but scan the scorched lawn for her opposition. They were split into two groups- one getting the story from her former coworker, and the other crowded around the Minnesotan, checking on his burns.
Damn, damn, damn. Ralph Hinkley. Christopher Reeve. Baxter Stockman. Wilbur and Orville fucking Wright, someone tell me how to fly!
Sorry, Seebs.
--That was odd. She thought hitting the ground would be the worst thing she ever felt- but this sharp ache through her core, seconds before the splat... it was as if a vice had tightened around her whole body and cranked down until she burst in all directions from the pressure. A dark little voice mocked her as she resigned herself to die.
"Typical. Give up again. At least they'll call you consistent."
Oh, you wanna see giving up?
It incensed her with the kind of outrageous hatred for a person that one typically only finds in a bathroom mirror. She threw out her arms in a last-ditch attempt to spread out her impact, maybe save a bone or two for the police to find. But there wasn't any crunch, and no blood or bone or viscera or identifiable scraps of a meatball sub from three hours prior.
Dani had spent her whole life folding to the greater will. Whoever signed the checks that paid the bills, whoever put the roof over her head, whoever shoved a pack of cigarettes in her hand in 1983 because she "would look hot" smoking one. Sure, what the hell. What the hell to all of 'em. It's no skin off her nose. Just a few seconds of time, and you got plenty of those here on good ol' Earth.
Except, when the chips were down and there were only a few seconds left, she found that they were HERS.
These creeps weren't going to give her answers. They were a frat, a country club- a big club, some Carlinite spirit murmured in a far-off corner of her brain- and you ain't in it.
"Same one they use to hit you over the head."
The ground had been the greater will, rushing up to flatten her. And for the first time in her entire life, Dani refused to fold. She erupted with open flame, the air shimmering around her, the grass curling into embers, and made herself a meteor. Her back and shoulders dug through the dirt, carving a long trench that sizzled and smoked- but ate every bit of her impact. Loose rocks tore at her skin, but she fared no worse than a gash up the arm. When she stood, intact, she heard hoarse gasps and the cocking of several guns.
Holy shit, I almost abandoned Seebs.
She looked out at the crowd under their spotlight, her eyes smoldering in a wreath of flame that covered her from the waist to the shoulders.
They almost made me give up on my boy!
"You fuckers almost had me! You were this close!" She held up a pair of pinched fingers and let out a loud, miserable laugh. "Suicide by politician. I look like Budd Dwyer to you?"
She strode into the spotlight and pointed at the old man. He took a step back, but bumped into someone behind him- older still, and in a gray suit, who grunted and shook his head.
"Give him his money. What he expected, not whatever crap you tried to pull." And count yourself all kinds of lucky I can forgive a bump on the head, you old bastard.
"And you," she squinted at him. "Pack it up elsewhere. There ain't gonna be a job to come back to."
"She's threatening us," the man in the gray suit groaned, looking expectantly at some of his larger colleagues. His voice was nasal and needy- the audacity of a motherfucker who had everything, sounding like that.
"Let me cut it down to just one." She wheeled around, a trail of flame following her accusing hand. "The rest of you want out in one piece? Give me the man who wanted to play Caesar tonight."
There were yelps, scuffling, swearing, and the shape of a former fellow goon darting off into the darkness, before the enormous Minnesotan stepped forward, holding a smaller man by the scruff of his neck- or at least the scruff of his crisp white button-up.
"Smart businessmen know when to cut and run." She looked past the scrawny man in the giant's grip, and to the rest of the murmuring crowd. "You've cut!" Her left index finger jutted at the captive. Fire poured from her mouth in a liquid arc that rolled through the air, an orange wave of anguish surging toward the crowd.
"Now run!"
They scattered. All but the little one, suddenly her sole audience, dumped on the ground by a giant in a poorly-tailored suit, currently booking for the horizon with perfect ear-to-pocket running form.
"They sold you out. Tell me something- are you surprised?"
She crouched, and saw the sweat beading on his forehead. Even in the harsh spotlight, her incandescent glow was blinding.
He refused to answer. Dani grabbed him by the collar- and then the knot of his tie, when she realized how quickly his shirt was turning to cinders.
"Are you surprised, Gaius Iulius Caesar?"
"What the fuck are you talking about?!" He was shrill and creaking with every other word. Maybe the threat of being cremated has him going through puberty all over again.
"I bet you got a big laugh out of the room when you proposed, what, betting on some goon fights to liven up the evening?"
He swallowed. Dani's expression flattened, and she exhaled a gray cloud through grit teeth.
"What was your first job, ah-" She raised her eyebrows. "-Didn't catch your name."
"My firs- what? Listen, I'm- I can give you whatever you want. I- we've got money. You know that. My name? I'm Sean. You know, Mayor Sean?"
"Answer the question, Sean. First job."
"Why?"
"If you don't, me and you will do a little experiment. See if a single Sean is as good as firewood on these cold desert nights. Who knows? You could be the economical choice."
His eyes widened. She went on.
"Or, because I want to get to know you. You like that better?"
Oh, how she relished this. She had never had the power to fuck with someone before. She could tell him whatever the hell she wanted. It was enough to make her dizzy.
"I- I cut lawns for my folks," he said. He was blinking a lot. Smoke must be stinging his eyes.
"Real job. Someone else cutting the check."
"I pushed carts at Gwep's for a couple months, but... that was like, punishment, for crashing the car I got for my birthday."
"Haha, yeah. Working retail, that's punishment alright." She relaxed her grip on his ashen remnant of a tie and instead grabbed his shoulder. He screamed, but she stared at him and made him listen to the sizzle beneath her palm.
"I did that for twelve years, Sean. Thought I'd be done in a couple months too, right back to college. Woulda been jockeying the camera for the Channel Nine News by now, but... you know what they say at Wilson Titlee, Sean?"
Anguished and terrified, he shook his head.
"It's right under the logo. You deserve it. I see those three words when I close my eyes to sleep, Sean."
She lifted her hand, and his face was a rictus of horror at his own ruin of a shoulder.
"Do you think I deserved it, Sean? The dreams I had before people like you took hold of my life- I gave them up over and over and over again. Just to keep a roof over my head while I 'waited' to go back to college."
"Nobody-- nobody deserves anything!" Ooh, maybe he's made of more than tissue paper after all. "You earn it in this life! That's what I've always been told."
Nah.
"You got the money on you, Sean?"
"I got my money." He shivered with pain and honest-to-Christendom pouted. Dani wasn't having it.
"Who's your favorite Marx brother, Sean?
"What? I'm not- what the fuck? You think I'm a Marxist?"
Holy shit. Come on.
"Sean." She ran a hand through his hair. The gel caught fire before the strands, but after a few seconds, she had torched him into a flaky, blistery tonsure.
"You need to appreciate that making conversation with me is the only thing keeping you secured to this mortal coil. So I need you to dig deep, and strike those burnt-out neurons together until you get a roaring fire full of shit I want to hear. Favorite Marx brother."
"I don't know who the fuck you're talking about!"
"Mine's Groucho. You probably know him. Cigar, big eyebrows and mustache- ooh, the Genie turned into him in Aladdin.
--You know, 'No substitutions, exchanges, or refunds.'"
"Well, I guess- I guess he's my favorite too. I, yeah, I do remember that from Aladdin! Haha, see? I- I know stuff."
"Mm. Anyone ever called you a coward, Sean?"
He balked at that, and actually wrenched himself away, scrambling to his feet. "I'm not afraid of you," he hissed, half from pain and half a jab at bravado.
"That doesn't make you not a coward. It just makes you a liar, and we already knew that."
She advanced on him. "How about what your friends call you?"
He seemed so small, like a child looking up at the glow of a shop window in the middle of winter. For a moment, his contempt was consumed by the strange magic of it all. A fire elemental advanced on him. If that could be real... anything could be. Even heaven. Even hell.
"I'm going to end your life tonight, Sean."
The slack look on his face bordered on numb awe. He wasn't a deer in the headlights- he was a cow caught in the tractor beam of a UFO.
"They abandoned you for the same reason they abandoned me, and everyone else at the bottom. You might have cost them something."
She set both her hands on his neck and stared into his eyes.
"You and me? We're the same."
She tightened her grip and filled his chest and throat with living fire. Ribs cracked as the hollow parts of him filled with exploding oxygen. Every strained breath he sucked in stoked the embers she'd pressed into his skin. He cooked in her hands for a long time, until the fire had gone out of her and he was nothing but ash. Tears streamed down her face, cutting lines through the thick layer of soot, zigzagging over her cheeks and down her neck. Her arms swung down at her sides, and she let out a short, quaking laugh.
"A liability."
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d-field22-blog · 5 months
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Story on DeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/d-field22/art/Batman-OC-villain-1-Bengal-digital-865401975
Bio: Real name: Sarah Rachael Sollivan Occupation: Scientist(formerly) Professional Criminal Base of Operation: Gotham City Eyes: Brown(formerly) Blue Hair: Black(formerly) White Height: 5ft 8in Weight: 140lbs
Attributes: Heightened senses Flexibility Skilled in hand-to-hand combat. Mostly sticks to using her claws. Suffers from Chronic anger and Volatile anger Skilled in Biochemistry Suffers from a severe Delusional disorder Driven desire to covet her cubs and keep them away from human customs
Dream voice actress: Emilia Clarke. I don't know why. But for some reason, I can see Daenerys voicing Bengal. I can just picture her being the voice of one so demented as Bengal being voiced by someone who is "probably" already insane, though it has yet to be determined. In the books anyways, and before…well we don't speak about that train wreck here. THAT certain event(which shall remain nameless) honestly was only one of many things wrong with that dumpster fire of a show and marks many horrible things about storytelling and basic writing. Those two untalented dunderheads should be flipping burgers or operating a dump truck instead of writing. Just wow! What the hell were they thinking?!?! Martin, that rumor about the show and books better be false because there is gonna be hell to pay old man!! But I digress, I also picture her being beside Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy(originally) voicing their respected characters. And maybe that deep within someone good and kind like Daenerys, there is an inner mad queen. And maybe that mad queen is Bengal. And in case you're wondering, she would be using her Sarah Conner voice for Bengal. She pulls an American accent fairly well.
Featured songs: Roar by Twenty One Two (originally by Katy Perry), Monster by Imagine Dragons, and Animals by Maroon 5. For Roar's case, I was originally going to use Animal I have Become but Killer Croc already took that one and made it a rule NOT to use the same song twice. The lyrics seem to fit Bengal's case well especially with the chorus. I chose this particular cover because I just liked that one better than the original. If I find other songs that fit her, then they will be added later. Monster, I feel fits Bengal especially with her time after her transformation, the animal or monster in her is only taking more control of her sanity. Animals, well you can figure that one out pretty easily.
Notes:
Her origin in a sense is similar to Man-Bat's origin.
Since the original looked a bit too human, and finding references from many talented artists who have drawn anthropoid tigers and do fine work I may add, I once again decided to use some of those elements in the new design for Bengal, I even gave her lips, well sort of. Since the outer black of a white tiger's mouth is that shade of black I decided to use that for lips essentially. So once more I say thanks for all who inspired me to make Bengal more animal.
Leo is another OC that will be done and thanks to my good friend YugiohPonyAvengers, we have developed him and many other of my rogues. Be sure to check out their bios in her page.
Her cubs have yet to be decided on what type of Tiger/Lion hybrids they will be. I know it matters on the animal's sex and all. But hey this is comics.
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bear-of-varley · 10 months
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Nintendo pull the trigger and go ahead with a live-action Zelda movie, who are your main cast (Link, Zelda, Ganon, etc.)
The problem is that I don't watch any movies or tv shows to know who is "it" rn. Illumination has a reputation for being really into the celebrity voice actor trope (blegh). I'm also going to assume illumination would play it safe and adapt something close to the original Loz. I don't really have high hopes with illumination tbh so I'm hoping either the rumors aren't true or they prove me wrong.
What is funny is that the consensus is Tom Holland for Link. I don't know enough about male actors, esp young ones all I know are him and Timothee Chalamet. The ideal casting is no one but come on, they're not gonna do that.
Uhh for Zelda, for some reason I think Carey Mulligan would be a good pick but I don't think she voice acts? I did see a joke about Zendaya doing it. I've never seen her act so maybe? Jennifer Lawrence? I don't know if British Zelda will be the norm though. There's some Zelda incarnations I can see having the British accent (oot, TP though oot is a master of disguise) and some who aren't (ww, skyward sword). If we're doing British who can do American, maybe Millie Bobby Brown.
Ganondorf...I'd kill for it to be Mark Hamill please be Mark Hamill but it won't be. They'll probably go for someone storied with an occasional dip into voice acting like Patrick Stewart.
Impa (assuming they're going for older): Helen Mirren or Meryl Streep. If you can't get them then Imelda Staunton. I rest my case.
Beedle: uhh what's his name? The dude who played the raccoon who did that movie with Lady Gaga? Bradley...Bradley Cooper! Yes, the stuff of nightmares. Or just hire Gru himself and get Steve Carell on it.
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toopunktofuck · 2 years
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I am honestly genuinely disgusted by the film industry acting like live action actors and voice actors are interchangeable. It’s completely different skill sets as a voice actor has to obviously figure out how to get the character across using just their voice. Out of live action actors, there are only a few I have EVER seen whose skills translate well to animation: Mark Hamill’s Joker (who I always thought was possibly based on Rik Mayall’s character accent), Robin Williams’ Genie, and Phil Hartman’s roles on the simpsons, to name a few. I have always enjoyed the “behind the scenes” aspect of cartooning, both comics and animation, so voice acting has fascinated me for a long time. Chris Pratt simply does NOT have the same skill set as the likes of Billy West, Dan Castellaneta, Tara Strong, Kath Soucie, Nancy Cartwright, Cree Summer, Jim Cummings, etc etc etc etc. And yet they are typically paid less (simpsons VAs are an outlier) and nowhere near as respected for what they do. he doesn’t even have a very wide range *as a live action actor* so giving him a voice role in ANYTHING was the dumbest fucking choice
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autolenaphilia · 2 years
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Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Gabriel Knight: Sins of The Fathers is a classic point-and-click adventure game, written and designed by Jane Jensen. It was first released in 1993 by Sierra as both studio and publisher. In 2014 it got a remake led by Jensen and her development studio Pinkerton Road.
It’s a mystery-horror story, featuring a failed writer and used bookstore owner named Gabriel Knight in New Orleans. He gets interested in “The Voodoo murders”, a series of killings with a Voodoo aspect and decides to solve them. And soon he gets entangled in a complex plot involving cults, a conspiracy and his own family heritage as a “Schattenjäger”.
The gameplay is fairly typical of early 90s point-and-clicks, complete with having to choose between verb commands and all. There is even a score of points you get, including for optional actions. There is as you might expect a fair bit of pixel-hunting, there is no indication when your cursor is over a hotspot. Although the puzzles are mostly sensible. There are some unwinnable states, but way less than is typical of earlier Sierra titles. From reading online, I think it’s only in the final chapter where you really can easily screw yourself. Which again is much better than most earlier Sierra titles, which often seemed to be striving for arcane ways to fuck over the player.
So it’s fairly reasonable by Sierra standards, but the original game is still frustrating at times. I actually started playing the original, but after a few chapters/days I decided to switch over to the remake. And that was solely because of the pixel-hunting. The remake fixes it by having a “highlight all interactable hotspots by pressing the spacebar” feature which is common in modern adventure games, and it is common for a reason. It makes the experience of playing the game so much more less frustrating by removing the pixel-hunting. The remake also has other improvements. The remakes simplified the verb commands, so clicking on a thing brings up a menu with what you can do with the thing. And there is even a built-in hint system, so you don’t even have to go to UHS if you get stuck.
So if you have less patience for the faults of early 90s adventure game design, the remake is definitely the way to go.
It’s a bit of a pity, because I do prefer the presentation of the original. The pixel art is excellently made and at this point look charmingly retro rather than aged. This kind of pixel artstyle is so often used in modern adventure games like the Blackwell games that the original Gabriel Knight don’t even look old at this point.
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The remake’s graphics in comparison has lost some of the charm and atmosphere of the original. Not to be too harsh on the remake, which actually looks good overall. The 2d backgrounds are gorgeously detailed. And I appreciate the overall aesthetic which feels inspired by mid to late 00s adventure games that I have a soft spot for, like Lost Horizon. But like Lost Horizon, the 3d character models are the weakest point of the game’s aesthetic. They look kinda rough yet don’t have the charm of the original’s sprites.
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The remake also by necessity replaced the voice actors, which is a shame, because the original had great voice casting. It had an unusually starry cast for a video game in 1993. Tim Curry as Gabriel (doing a charming but dubious Louisana accent), Mark Hamill as Gabriel’s cop friend detective Mosely, a pre-fame Leah Remini as Gabriel’s shop assistant Grace and Michael Dorn as Dr. John. And the stars actually deliver, especially as Curry and Hamill are not just live-action movie actors but have extensive voice acting experience. Also I must single out Virginia Capers as the narrator for praise. She does most of the game’s descriptions and she is great at it and makes this game stand out.
The voice cast of the remake lack all these starry names. They are fine, but its obviously a step-down. After playing both the original and the remake, it’s obvious that most of the remake’s actors just imitate the original voice performances. They are good at doing it, but it naturally makes their performances seem like just shadows of the original.
The music is still great though. Robert Holmes did the music for both the original and the remake, and both soundtracks are great. Holmes did some great music for the original, and those tunes are still great in the remake.
So the remake is a mixed bag compared to the original. The gameplay is better than the original, while the presentation is inferior. I have played this game twice for that reason, first finishing the remake and then finishing my playthrough of the original.
The story is basically the same in both games, right down to the majority of the dialogue. And I think it is pretty great. It’s well-written, unfolding a complex mystery plot in a way that keeps up the suspense. The story just plain appeals to my aesthetic preferences, I love occult detectives investigating gory murders with a supernatural connection.
While there is humour, it’s primarily a dark and serious story. And that probably made it stand out in the adventure game genre of the time. Like the majority of previous titles from both Sierra and Lucasarts were primarily humorous. There were exceptions like Loom and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis but King’s Quest and Monkey Island did set the tone in 1993. Gabriel Knight however was a serious thriller, and had voice acting from major names. I can see why this game made such an impact, there was almost nothing like it. And you can see its influence in later adventure games like Broken Sword.
I have mixed feelings about Gabriel as a character. He walks a very fine line with how he is written, as this womanizer who is ultimately a loveable rogue, hiding a heart of gold beneath a bastard exterior. There is a character development arc to Gabriel, as he genuinely falls in love with Malia Gedde and strives to uphold his family legacy of being a heroic “schattenjäger” who battles supernatural evil. And he is called out on his womanizing and sexist ways during that process. Gabriel’s arc is ultimately this fantasy of the handsome bad boy womanizer falling in love and becoming a better person.
But there is a fine line between writing a bad boy and a creep, and the writing does step over it with his dialogue with Grace. He makes repeated flirty comments to her, despite she being his employee and her voicing her disgust repeatedly. It’s basically verbal sexual harassment. And it’s something the game expects us to be okay with, because it writes Gabriel as never crossing the line of (physical) sexual consent and because Grace is a strong woman who throws Gabriel’s shit back at him and is mostly annoyed at it.
I didn’t hate Gabriel and even enjoyed most of his writing. I get the intent with him and most of the writing for him works to fulfil that. But his banter with Grace is a major misjudgement, redeemed by Grace being such a great and likeable character.
On the subject of problematic things, I’m also a bit dubious about what the game is trying to say regarding race and colonialism. I think it tries to be more progressive than earlier stories dealing with these tropes, but ends up affirming the racism of such stories in a serious way. But it’s difficult to talk about without spoilers, and I think this game does such a good job of slowly revealing its mystery plot that you should experience it for yourself. I’m going to put some spoilery story thoughts beneath a read-more.
Ultimately I enjoyed the game a lot. You should play it, especially if you love a good occult horror murder mystery and point-and-click adventure games. If you have a high enough tolerance for old adventure game nonsense like pixel-hunting to see the game’s good side, you should play the original. The great pixel art and voice acting of the original are probably the best way to enjoy the story. The remake’s presentation is not bad however, just inferior to the original, and there are some massive gameplay improvements that makes it the far more user-friendly version.
Spoilery thoughts beneath the cut
Again, I have to reiterate how much I loved GK1’s story. An occult detective, bookshops and libraries, evil cults, supernatural evil, conspiracies, gory murders. There is even a German castle with hidden rooms and an adventure to an African temple with living mummy/zombies that rip your heart out. I love this shit, especially as part of a well-written mystery plot as GK1 is.
The racial themes are uncomfortable at best though. The villains is a voodoo cult basically, who practices human sacrifice and organized crime. It’s a portrayal of black religious practices of African origin like Vodun and voodoo as evil and “savage”. Like there is no other word for it, the cult practices human and animal sacrifice and has wild half-naked dances wearing animal skins and masks around bonfires. The leaders of the cult, Malia Gedde and Dr John are black, and they are the only black characters of any importance. The association of them also doing organized crime is icing on the cake. The cult is also portrayed as a conspiracy that controls New Orleans, including the police. So there are elements of the “reverse colonialization” fantasy going on, where those subjugated by European colonialism have used supernatural means to in turn control Europeans.
And the cult is literally fuelled by revenge for the African slave trade, at least partially. Not just because voodoo has partial African origins, but because the leading force is the loa Tetelo. She is the vengeful evil spirit of an enslaved black woman who died three hundred years ago. She once led the voodoo cult and murdered the slavers on the slave ship that brought her to America. Tetelo has regularly possessed her female descendants ever since and now possesses Malia during the cult’s rituals.
Tetelo descendants the Gedde family have immense magical power due to Tetelo taking a magical talisman from Günter that was the source of the Ritter family’s magical power. They have used this magical power to become rich and influential. So the story is very much a case of reverse colonialism. Grace even suggests in the original game’s ending that the Geddes caused the slave revolt in Haiti, which is so tasteless that it reminds me of the animated Anastasia and its portrayal of the Russian revolution.
The cult does try to sacrifice a damsel in distress in the game’s finale of course. She is not white at least, but the Japanese-American Grace Nakimura. But still, the game’s story is a full-on dive into pop cultural tropes about evil non-white cults.
Still, I don’t think Jane Jensen intended to write a racist text. Like the game does discuss racism. Malia mentions she is ostracized because of her skin color and the story acknowledges the evil of slavery. The game sympathizes with both Tetelo and Malia, who are not portrayed as entirely evil. Tetelo’s anger at being enslaved is portrayed as understandable and as a human being, she is said to have been a sympathetic woman who truly loved Gabriel’s ancestor Günter. It’s only when she became a vengeful loa that she became irredeemably evil.
Malia is portrayed as an ultimately reluctant villain, who only becomes evil when she is possessed by Tetelo and who when she is herself, truly loves Gabriel (the relationship between Gabriel/Malia and Günter/Tetelo deliberately mirror each other). The voodoo cult in the present also chooses serious criminals as victims for their sacrifices, possibly implied to be because of Malia’s benign influence. Grace suggest in the game’s ending that the true horror were those many generations of young women in the Gedde family who were forced to live under Tetelo’s overbearing influence.
The white hero fighting against the evil “pagan” cult is an old story in popular horror and adventure fiction. And I think Jensen wanted to tell that kind of story, have fun with pop fiction tropes about human sacrifice and voodoo. But she wanted to tell it with more nuance about race and more sympathy for the black characters than that genre is known for.
But I don’t think it really works. Like the intent is clearly there, but the black characters are still antagonists at best. Malia is sympathetic, but she must still commit suicide in the end to stop the evil of the Gedde line from going on. Her second in command Dr John becomes just a big scary black man. And Tetelo might have been human once, but becomes just a purely evil spirit that must be destroyed. There is not enough subversion of the evil non-white cult story for it to truly matter.
There is a theme of ancestry and heritage, the game’s subtitle is literally Sins of the Fathers. Both Gabriel and Malia have heritages that decide their fate. AndGabriel’s white german heritage enables him to become a hero, Malia’s black African heritage makes her into a villain and destroys her. So no, this game is still racist, even if it tries not to be.
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iamdeltas · 2 years
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I have a fairly limited list of on-screen actors who I think are also good voice actors, I've noticed.
Mark Hamill (I mean, obviously. Besides, I'm pretty sure most of what he's done has been voice acting anyway so he's basically only a professional VA at this point.)
Jack Black (He really went off as Bowser lol. Honestly before that trailer, despite popular opinion, I wouldn't have had him on this list simply because I just am so used to him just sounding like himself in any animated thing I've seen him in but damn. Man's clearly got some range.)
Stephanie Beatriz (She's honestly done quite a bit of voice acting work. I think she even voices several different characters in Bob's Burgers, so that's cool. And obviously, as anyone who's first seen her in Brooklyn 99 and then was incredibly shocked to hear what her actual voice sounds like in interviews can attest to, she's got quite a bit of vocal range.)
David Tennant (He's voice acted a lot, actually. I know he's been in several different animated shows, and he's pretty good in all the ones I've seen. He doesn't always use the same voice, he's of course very good with accent work especially, and so he's just clearly quite good at it.)
I'm definitely forgetting some and also I'm not including actors who I know do on-screen work but I primarily know them for their voice acting (eg Ashley Johnson, Clancy Brown) since to me they're just. professional VAs so I don't see why they should be on this list of Exceptions To The Rule. (Honestly, this is also why I debated if I should even include Mark Hamill on said list anyway.)
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toolazytodecide · 2 years
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Arianna being cast in Wicked should not be seen as the same as other celebrities being put in roles they have no place in like Chris Pratt. Arianna adores wicked and I genuinely believe she will give it her all and not rely on her status. If actors like Chris pratt showed a genuine interest and appreciation for voice acting and the franchises they're entering instead of just doing the same old thing it would be a different story.
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yess the made-up movies meme is back!! alright, how about Amy Adams, Diego Luna, Chris Pine, Gina Rodriguez, Zendaya and hmmm, Mark Hamill?
SONG: “Band on the Run” by Paul McCartney & Wings
“Stuck inside these four walls / Sent inside forever/ Never seeing no one nice again / Like you / Mama, you / Mama, you...”
SUMMARY: In the not-so-distant future, an increasingly volatile climate on Earth has forced governments across the world to come together and seek out hospitable planets across the galaxy that might be able to support the mass exodus of humans looking to flee natural disasters that are making life on Earth unsustainable. Instrumental to this search has been technology that allows for an AI pilot to navigate the space ship while the human crew are kept in stasis for long stretches of time, allowing them to travel farther out into the galaxy than ever before.
On Earth, Dr. Ilsa Craine (Amy Adams), the inventor of this technology, awaits news from the first ship equipped with it, the Artemis, as it approaches the four year anniversary of its launch. While she waits, she reflects on her life, recalling the events that led to her working for NaxosTech and meeting her recently deceased mentor, the brilliant and eccentric scientist Dr. Gustav Mahler (Mark Hamill), with whom she created the AI technology currently piloting the Artemis. She is also forced to reflect on the reasons behind her failing marriage when her estranged husband Daniel (Diego Luna) returns home after months of working abroad on a mysterious project and wants to reconcile before it’s too late.
Aboard the Artemis, the skeleton crew, including Captain Lucia Gabel (Gina Rodriguez) and biologist Dr. Maxfield Lott (Chris Pine), are awoken from stasis by the ship’s pilot, Caro (Zendaya), per her orders. They are approaching the planet everyone hopes will be the answer to Earth’s prayers—able to sustain human life and close enough that, with current technology, human refugees can reach it before life on Earth becomes untenable. If this planet will not work, the Artemis will have to continue its search, stretching farther into the unknown parts of the galaxy and all but ensuring that humanity’s time on earth will end before a new home world can be found. As the crew runs tests and explores the planet, the wide-eyed Caro sends updates to her mother, Ilsa, and the world holds its breath as it waits for the crew of the Artemis to determine its fate.
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I’ve finally watched What we do in the Shadows season 1-3 and here are my favourite things about it in no apparent order:
Nadja
The fact that Nadja is just as dumb and horny as the other two
Nandor is played by the guy who did British sketch and prank shows when I was a young teen, they were so horribly cringy in that mid 2000s way that I die a little inside when I think of them. He plays Nandor with the same energy
That Lazlo, amazingly, seems to be the most emotionally intelligent out of the three of them
That all their old photos are of them fitting in perfectly to the era but in the 21st century they have stopped giving a shit
That I usually have issue with female characters who can be described as ‘hysterical’ but with Nadja it’s my favourite thing about her
The implication that Nandor and Lazlo occasionally bone
That Nandor’s special skills seems to be that he is incredibly strong and a good fighter yet most of the time he is too uncoordinated and clumsy to be of much use
I love Jenna and want more episode with her and Nadja
Actually more scenes with Nadja hanging out with other women. Love it when she goes off with the neighbours wives
How perfectly rancid and unfitting Colin Robinsons outfits are
Lazlos nail polish
The fact that Nadja always the first to fall asleep when Colin Robinson is draining them
How weirdly hot Nandor looked when he joined that fitness cult
Guillermo and his cute outfits
And how I really relate to him just doing everything
Nadjas speech patterns and how blunt she is
How she and Lazlo seems to really enjoy each other’s company and make each other laugh
How much everyone swears
Guillermo’s ambiguous sexuality
That scene when they tried to go to that funeral and Nadja complained that her mascara was running because of how much her eyes were bleeding
How lots of the actors like Kirsten Schall put on the ‘vampire’ accents but Matt Berry is just Matt Berry
Nadja
Softball with the werewolves in the snow. Nadja playing in a full formal dress and bag
“Bat!”
Doug Jones and Mark Hamill
OMG THE REVEAL AT THE END OF SEASON THREE THAT LAZLO LEFT ENGLISH HIGH SOCIETY BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T WANT HIM TO MARRY THE UNEDUCATED EUROPEAN PEASANT?!? That ended me
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Okay completely ignoring the fact this biopic that’s gunna come out is gunna b trash do you…do you have a fancast of who should play who? Curious of your opinions :)
I literally don't know actors so here's my John Lennon Biopic fancast to piss this fandom off:
Timothee Chalamet as George
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Owen Wilson as Ringo
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(yes, he's keeping his accent)
Lin-Manuel Miranda as Paul
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CGI Mark Hamil from The Mandalorian as John.
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(Kanye does the motion capture)
Supporting cast: assorted Tik Tokers and Instagram influencers as Stu, Yoko, Linda, Pattie, Cyn, etc. Some Hollywood producer's twins play Julian and Sean.
Physically restraining myself from saying Benedict Cumberbatch as Brian.
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classicaldumbstuff · 3 years
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Luke Skywalker mocks people with voice
English is not my first language, so I'll try to explain myself. My headcanon: Luke knows how to make voices as Mark Hamill does and he will be a terrific dubber, but the Jedi thing...
He started when he was a child, playing with his few friends on Tatooine. He mimicked perfectly the Core Worlds' accent, playing as a imp. His friends run away scared every time and Biggs (aka Luke's biggest fan ever) told everybody as Luke was so great at it that would fool a Hutt on a comlink. At some point, the young Skywalker had to fool someone on a comlink.
Some trouble with the farm, Uncle Owen is away and Beru couldn't do much, because she's a woman on Tatooine (i had a less misoginy headcanon about her, anyway). So Luke got in front of this and use his Uncle Owen's voice to fool the one that's bothering Beru on comlink.
(Beru at first thought Owen had come back earlier, but then she realized the voice came from her little nephew and "Oh, better this than the Force!")
Growing up, making voices is not cool anymore, but Luke doesn't stop. Why should he? He is good at it, one of the few things he is good at! He come to do the Jawa's language pattern too (like he doesn't know the language, but he sounds like them, from a out pov). And then "A New Hope" happens.
In the Rebellion there's again some fun moments. Like there's a war going on, of course, but also some moment of healthy camaraderie and Luke is the star of the show, with his terrific imitation of Admiral Ackbar's speech.  Then he uses his no Jedi abilities in some more intimate friendship, for example.
It takes six months for him, to master Corellian accent, but now Leia always search for him, when she's fighting with Han and she needs some backing.
"Listen, princess, this is the last time..."
"Ah! "Last time", ya scoundrel? What about you rethink about that? Cos you are very wrong, y'know?"
"Hey, I don't sound anything like that!"
And he is useful too, before he becomes useful as the legendary Jedi knight. Like, Rebellion need to fool some imp, but they don't have anything like pass code and stuff? Well, send Skywalker, he will sort something out. (He does, always)
"Code, please."
"I forgot it, sir."
"You forgot it?"
"Yes sir, I must left it at home. Very unfortunately, sir."
"And you don't remember your own code, son?"
"Not at all. I've memorized many things, sir, offensive tactics, defensive tactics, even some Star Destroyer's planimetry, and..."
"All right, all right! Just, this must be the last time you come without the code."
"As you said, sir. Thank you, sir."
Of course, Leia loves his brother's quirk, not only because it's an helpful weapon against Captain Solo nonsense. Some day Luke comes to her senatorial appartment, where she's so much stressed because of some stupid politics of some stupid planets being so much stupid. He comes uninvited because she was late at their monthly brother-and-sister-fastfood-dinner and  although she is very sorry about it, she has to finish her work first. So Luke waits, patiently as the Jedi he is, seated on the couch. Just few moments and he starts to mimicked some few senators he met in person, the most dreadful ones and Leia can nothing but laugh because his brother is saying such mumbo-jumbos with her colleagues' voice. She has to stop, of course, and goes with him to eat, cos it's hella late.
Anyway, Luke knows very well that he has to stick to living senators when it comes to his sister. He thought it was a terrific idea to learn how Leia's father voice sounded like, before he blowed up with their planet. It was not, at all.
And now, we come to the point from which this post was born: @pistachiopiccolo 's tag under another post, awesome tag btw.
Grogu has no few troubles to sleep on Yavin (or anywhere else Luke placed the temple, idk) because it's a new strange place and it doesn't feel anything like his home, like the Razor Crest. So Luke has to do something, because there's the toddler version of his old Master who wander for the temple, waking up the other children.
"What’s the problem, little one? You are homesick, perharps? Oh, you miss your dad, of course!” 
And he starts to comfort him in Din’s voice, because he can hear it in Grogu’s mind as we mortals hear the radio. And the Child of course falls asleep because he feels safe now. 
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Psycho Analysis: Chucky
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(WARNING! This analysis contains SPOILERS!)
Look, I could sit here and try to come up with some smart, witty lead up to who we’re talking about today, but really, why bother?
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Now before you grab your pitchforks, I mean that in an affectionate way. Chucky, real name Charles Lee Ray, is one of horror’s most prevalent icons, and this is despite the fact that he gets so little respect compared to other slasher icons of his time. I guess when you’re shorter than a six year old boy, you’re gonna end up standing in the shadows of the taller killers like Freddy, Jason, Meyers, and Pinhead. But, quite frankly, Chucky deserves respect.
Motivation/Goals: Chucky really wants his body back, because I imagine being a serial killer is pretty difficult when you’re a killer doll… Except, no, it’s really not, this dude amasses gigantic body counts all while gaslighting everyone around him by pretending to be a harmless toy, why the hell does he want to go back to being a greasy human serial killer? Well, the answer to that is simple: His girlfriend is Jennifer Tilly. If your girlfriend was Jennifer Tilly, and you were stuck in a plastic body that wasn’t anatomically correct, you’d probably go on a homicidal rampage and use Hollywood voodoo to get yourself a penis too.
Performance: Brad Dourif has been playing Chucky since the first film (except for that one time he was played by Mark Hamill, but that doesn’t count), and really there is just no one better suited. He makes Chucky sound like a really nasty, sleazy bastard, which is all the more jarring coming from the ‘cute’ Good Guy doll that it becomes equal parts creepy and hilarious.
Final Fate: The fun thing about Chucky is that despite him dying over and over and over and over again, he just always comes back! This is par for the course for slasher villains, but with Chucky he never really seems to suffer any hugely notable setbacks. Even more impressive, in Cult he actually manages a big win by possessing the body of protagonist Nica. After all these decades, Chucky finally has a human body again! Hooray!
Best Scene: Chucky’s absurdly Rasputinian deaths in the first two films are amazing for just how much abuse the guy takes before finally going down. Really, both climaxes are fantastic. Also of note is the big reveal of Chucky’s true nature in the original Child’s Play.
Best Quote: As much as I really want to put Chucky with his Jersey accent saying “GENDA FLOOID” while talking about Glen in the 2021 series, I don’t think any quote in his arsenal can quite top the majesty that is the legendary quote from the original Child’s Play:
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Final Thoughts & Score: Chucky is honestly one of the most endearing slasher villains out there.
Like, the concept of some killer Cabbage Patch knockoff with the soul of a serial killer grafted inside it with voodoo magic is inherently goofy, and yet he manages to make it work and be genuinely unnerving and terrifying when he wants, especially in the first two films. At the same time, Chucky also manages to slide into comedy with a bit more ease than some of his contemporaries, although he also did not handle it quite as well. Still, the fact is that Chucky works just as well in an absolutely goofy setting like that of Bride or Seed as he does a serious setting, and when they manage to blend things together like in Cult and Curse? Boy does it ever work.
It’s also interesting to note that Chucky seems to actually learn and grow as a character. Slashers like Freddy, Jason, and Meyers do not ever really mature as characters, and that’s fine; we want to see them as unstoppable killing machines. But Chucky manages to sort of grow as a character across the films, and I think it helps make him more well-rounded. For instance, he spends a lot of Bride abusing Tiffany, t the point he kills her and traps her in a doll, and he really screws up their relationship in Seed. But by the time of Curse and Cult, it’s clear he’s stabilized their relationship and that he does genuinely love and value her. Then there’s his relationship with Glen; in Seed, Chucky was totally against their identity, but come the 2021 TV series and he seems genuinely accepting of his “GENDA FLOOID” kid. Like yes, he’s still a psychotic murder doll, but it’s pretty neat to see he’s not static and that he can change while still maintaining his edge.
Chucky is a fun antagonist who I feel never really gets the respect he truly deserves. Like, yes, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t recognize him, but you really don’t hear him brought up with the same reverence as, say, Jason Voorhees or Ghostface or Pinhead. This is in spite of Chucky managing to do what very few villains can: Go from an utterly irredeemable hate sink to a laughably evil villain you can love to hate and still be entertaining all the way. For that, I think he deserves a 9/10.
Before we go, let’s briefly touch on Chucky’s partner in crime and love interest, Tiffany Valentine.
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Portrayed by Jennifer Tilly, she is the exact spice this series needed after the first three films. It’s honestly to the point where it’s extremely weird to go back and watch earlier movies and see that she isn’t there. What makes her really fun is how she actually seems to have morals and boundaries, while Chucky does not. For instance, she completely and totally accepts Glen’s genderfluidity while Chucky is just violently homophobic. That’s not to say she’s a nice person, because she’s definitely as insane and murderous as Chucky himself, but she has a little bit going for her… but she loses a lot of sympathy in Curse and Cult where she indulges in some truly heinous acts.
Also, it’s really funny that she canonically is Jennifer Tilly now. It’s a long story, don’t ask. I don’t want to talk about Seed more than I have to. Tiffany manages to score a 9/10 as well, because really, do you expect me to award the slasher movie equivalent of Harley Quinn being played by Jennifer Tilly anything less?
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