#monster factory showdown

[s-opal]

It would’ve been unfair to put The Final Pam against other contestants, she is far too powerful. However, there is one omnipresent being who can try to counter her – Todd Howard, the man responsible for problems in all the games, even the ones he didn’t create.

Will Pam breach containment once again? Will Todd find a bug to get rid of her for good?

#all jokes aside i think todd howard really is a monster factory creation in a way #monster factory showdown #monster factory #also i thought about leaving pam out and making her compete in the finals with two other contestants #like obviously shes gonna win #but yeah #i want her to compete too

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Kaiju Week in Review (February 11-17, 2024)

Warner Bros. unfurled the second trailer for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which seems to be going over much better than the first. There are multiple glimpses of the ice Titan Shimo throughout, and an even briefer look at Mothra reflected in Jia's eye. (My favorite shot, of course, is Kong decking Skar King as he's holding out Suko like a wriggling shield.) The rough shots from trailer #1 still look rough, but at least the new footage is more impressive.

The new issue of Empire (how fitting) has a short article on GxK—the big revelation there is that Godzilla Evolved is pink simply because that's director Adam Wingard's favorite color. Collaborations are also popping up. Circle K is offering a movie-branded sandwich, chocolate bar, and Froster drinks/cups. Godzilla and a seriously wizened Kong are also entering the mobile game Lords Mobile.

I don't know much about Oscar politicking, but Takashi Yamazaki's strategy of bringing a model Godzilla with him everywhere he goes seems like a winner. Both appear in the "class photo" taken of all the nominees at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon. At the same event, Yamazaki and Godzilla met with Steven Spielberg, who told Yamazaki he had seen Godzilla Minus One three times. Posting their photo together on Twitter, Yamazaki said he had "met God."

Toho's English Godzilla YouTube channel also uploaded a six-minute video on Minus One's VFX, with a focus on the various ways the production was able to shave off costs. Officially translated behind-the-scenes featurettes for Toho Godzilla films are a rarity, a sign of how badly they want that little gold statue. It's worth watching just for Yamazaki scooting his chair around the office.

Shout! Factory's onslaught of old Toei tokusatsu films on its streaming service turned out to be a prelude to offering them all on disc. The Classic Tokusatsu Collection Blu-ray set includes Planet Prince (1959; called Prince of Space), Invasion of the Neptune Men (1961), Watari the Ninja Boy (1966), The Golden Bat (1966; called Golden Ninja), Magic Serpent (1966; called Dragon Showdown) , Ninja Scope (1969), and Terror Beneath the Sea (1966). None have ever been released on English-friendly Blu-ray before; some haven't even made it to DVD. The set is $70 and limited to 2,500 copies.

Major caveats seem to accompany every English-language release of vintage tokusatsu these days, and unfortunately this set's no exception. Despite the existence of English dubs for at least some of these films (two of them riffed on Mystery Science Theater 3000), only Terror Beneath the Sea is dubbed; the rest are Japanese-only. And the dubbed Prince of Space well-known to MiSTies was actually an amalgamation of Toei's two Planet Prince films, only the first of which is present here. (Even the first film seems like it's going to be in upscaled standard-def, going off the streaming version.) No special features in the production description either, although one person who got the set early reports that at least one trailer is included (for Invasion of the Neptune Men).

IDW has announced still another Godzilla miniseries, Godzilla: Skate or Die. First-issue description:

It's Australian skater punks versus Varan and the King of the Monsters in this thrilling debut issue by writer/artist Louie Joyce (A Fistful of Pain)! Four years ago, four best friends and die-hard skaters found the perfect location for a DIY skatepark. After months of hard work, they created the world’s sickest spot that they could enjoy for the rest of their lives… That is, until the ferocious Varan appeared in the middle of central Australia and started making a beeline for their beloved park. Why is Varan on a rampage? Why did Godzilla just appear off the coast? What does their beloved skate spot have to do with this? And most importantly…what are these punks willing to do to save it?

Sounds like there's a lot of author appeal here, as Joyce is Australian and calls the tale "inspired by all the amazing DIY spots I've had the privilege of skating[.]" And a meaty role for Varan is a pleasant surprise.

Perhaps inspired by the success of Troll on Netflix, we've got another Scandinavia giant monster movie on the way. Kraken will be directed by Pal Oie (Dark Woods) from a script by Vilde Eide. No cast yet, but here are the plot details divulged by The Hollywood Reporter:

[T]he thriller will follow Johanne, a marine biologist who encounters several strange occurrences while researching a fjord, including the brutal deaths of two local teenagers. “At the bottom of Norway’s deepest fjord rests a mythical monster as large as a mountain, with a myriad of arms ready to crush and devour anything they can grab,” the film’s synopsis reads.

Krakens are certainly having a moment in giant monster stories right now, between Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken and the three that somehow wound up connected to the Monsterverse. (To wit: Na Kika was originally called Kraken, the unnamed antagonist of Skull Island bore the same name internally, and the guardian of Atlantis in the Justice League crossover comic is a Kraken as well.) This seems like a more back-to-basics approach.

#godzilla x kong the new empire #godzilla #king kong #shimo #skar king #kraken #godzilla skate or die #godzilla minus one #shout factory

[bestfictionalplant]

Bracket reveal

Text version under cut!

The tourney is split into 4 32 brackets, and the winners of each will go to the semi finals! I'll make a different post about HOW the tourney will run, and this will serve as a pinned post for round 1 :)

Bracket 1, Side 1

Peppino (Vampire Survivors) vs Winged Strawberry (Celeste)

Herb (Monster Hunter) vs Triffids (Day of the Triffids)

Gigi (Xiaolin Showdown) vs Silent Princess (The Legend of Zelda)

Breath of Evil (Wings of Fire) vs Thorn Thallid (Magic the Gathering)

Audrey II (Little Shop of Horrors) vs Farewell Flower (Mistborn)

Togemon (Digimon) vs Silverwood Tree (Witch Hat Atelier)

Golden Apple Tree (Greek Mythology) vs Potbelly (My Singing Monsters)

Sculk (Minecraft) vs MocDonald (One Piece)

Bracket 1, Side 2

Vida (The Promised Neverland) vs Glaze Lily (Genshin Impact)

Dr Brewer's Clone (Goosebumps) vs The Spring (Friends at the Table)

Kite Eating Tree (Peanuts) vs Zotoh Zhaan (Farscape)

Wheel Tree (His Dark Materials) vs Mushtree (I Was a Teenage Exocolonist)

Medusoid Mycelium (A Series of Unfortunate Events) vs Radial (Ooblets)

Chikorita (Pokemon) vs Blast Cone (League of Legends)

Gooloog (AAAHH!!! Real Monsters) vs Venus (Bug Fables)

The Thorian (Mass Effect) vs Yggdrasil (Norse Mythology)

Bracket 2, Side 1

Deku Tree (The Legend of Zelda) vs Blood Blossoms (Danny Phantom)

Hotblonde37159 (Angel: The Series) vs Vash the Stampede (Trigun)

Kinoko (Don't Hurt Me, My Healer) vs Wolfsbane (The Vampire Diaries)

Plant (Monster Rancher) vs Flower of Life (Mesopotamian Mythology)

Truffula Tree (The Lorax) vs Slurperon Enchantress (Internet Scam)

The Brain Tree (Neopets) vs Ginseng Baby (Scarlet Hollow)

Chompy (Bug Fables) vs Whispy Woods (Kirby)

Clavu (Overlord) vs Ivern (League of Legends)

Bracket 2, Side 2

Bulbasaur (Pokemon) vs The Trees of Valinor (Lord of the Rings)

Leslie (The Amazing World of Gumball) vs Hayzee Dayzee (Paper Mario)

Piranha Plant (Mario) vs Specimen 34/The Blessed Eternal (Wolf 359)

Potted Plant (Wander Over Yonder) vs Morbuzakh (Bionicle)

Jabe & the Trees of Cheem (Doctor Who) vs Black Mercy (DC)

Mr Plant (The World of Mr Plant) vs Feculant Gnarlmaw (Warhammer 40k)

Tree Rex (Skylanders) vs Flowey (Undertale)

Sundrop Flower (Tangled) vs Venus McFlytrap (Monster High)

Bracket 3, Side 1

Pinchley (Long Gone Gulch) vs Frank the Plant (Harley Quinn: the Animated Series)

The Venus (Hello From the Hallowoods) vs Nirnroot (The Elder Scrolls)

Food Fight (Skylanders) vs Paopu Fruit (Kingdom Hearts)

Phillogenous esk Piemondum (Rod Albright Alien Adventures) vs Plant (Wall E)

Tannot Root (Farscape) vs The Broccoloids (The Powerpuff Girls)

Rockbud (The Stormlight Archive) vs Sylvan Hound (Guild Wars 2)

Eldridge Johnson-Mayer (The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy) vs Hyacinth/Hyacinthus (Greek Mythology)

Selas Flower (Kingkiller Chronicle) vs Treant (Disgaea)

Bracket 3, Side 2

Dragonflame Cacti (Wings of Fire) vs Sunflower (Plants vs Zombies)

The Bioplant (The Rising of the Shield Hero) vs Turnip Boy (Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion)

Shambling Mound (Dungeons and Dragons) vs Mandrake (Shin Megami Tensei/Persona)

Cowplant (The Sims) vs Ebony Queen's Apple (Limbus Company)

Devil Fruits (One Piece) vs Donkey-Cabbage (Enchanted Forest Chronicles)

Oaktopus (My Singing Monsters) vs Field Dungeon (Rune Factory 4)

Mushroom Tree (Stardew Valley) vs Jumpkin (Cassette Beasts)

Undergrowth (Danny Phantom) vs Karzahni (Bionicle)

Bracket 4, Side 1

Dreamstalk (Kirby) vs Myconid (Balders Gate 3)

Stingbulb (Fablehaven) vs Treebeard (Lord of the Rings)

Stray Cat (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) vs Peashooter (Plants vs Zombies)

Giant Turnip (Codename: Kids Next Door) vs Treasure Mushroom (Guild Wars 2)

Tree of Wisdom (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs Fire Flower (Mario)

Stump (The Angry Beavers) vs Groot (Marvel)

Maise (Oneshot) vs Konohana Tree (Okami)

Red Weed (War of the Worlds) vs Pod Plant (Fortnite)

Bracket 4, Side 2

Plantera (Terraria) vs The Grass Snake (Friends at the Table)

Breathweed (Warhammer 40k) vs Campestri (Dungeons and Dragons)

Neo Alraune (Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle) vs Kringlefucker (Homestuck)

Slimefoot the Stowaway (Magic: The Gathering) vs Gatfruit Tree (Space Station 13/14)

Sex Pollen Plant (Fanfiction) vs The Rumor Weed (VeggieTales: Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed)

Dr Madley Radish (Papa Louie) vs Vervain (The Vampire Diaries)

Yatevon (OCTAHEDRON: Transfixed Edition) vs Echo Flower (Undertale)

Wither Rose (Minecraft) vs Hydramon (Digimon)

#poll bracket

[raikasueta]

I tend to think that The Prototype is using a child’s voice to appeal to the mc as Ollie. First of all, what is a literal child doing in the factory ten years after it has been shut down? Especially with all those monsters roaming around? And the voice mimic gimmick works with that. Also, Ollie says some things that just don’t work with my idea of how a child is supposed to talk.

“I don’t want you to get killed” sounds kinda weird, as if his sentences were AI generated or as if English isn’t his first language. We have seen Miss Delight and Poppy speak, and they’re dolls, and they still speak quite alright! But then again, we have heard 1006 speak in the tape number 12 and he really sounds like that AM robot from the horror book. “I possess a question” rather than “I’ve got a question”, as any other person would say irl. He’s a bot for sure, but still:

I think that The Prototype might be a mix of several different people who were related to factory. He’s collecting parts of the toys, not caring if they’re hostile to him like Kissy Missy or if they’re actively working to please him like Catnap. Also, the skeletal remains in Catnap’s shrine are indeed of a grown adult. It isn’t like he had no access to kids’ bodies in the Playcare after the Hour Of Joy. I think it’s only fair if the main part - the “brain” of 1006 is Elliot Ludwig. We know him as this engineer, a grown and probably an old man who presumably loved children and had an impact on them through his toys. The reason why he cannot speak properly like other toys is most likely due to his incomplete nature.

If I had to guess what happens in the next chapter, I feel like it’s going to be a major showdown with a hell load of Ludwig’s lore thrown at us. And maybe the way we defeat The Prototype is somehow resembling the Azriel Dreemurr fight from Undertale, with us calling out for different parts of him and basically tearing the parts of him apart.

#poppy playtime #the prototype #experiment 1006 #elliot ludwig #poppy playtime 1006

[disabled-characters-showdown]

Disabled Characters in the Showdown Currently

Notes:

1.) This list is subject to change, so if you see it off a reblog, please check the link to this post here. At some point this will probably stop updating, as we tend to forget to. Before we kick off the showdown there will be another post. Characters are under the cut, the list is currently unorganized, but might get organized later.

2.) If you see a character on here and you want to submit propaganda for them please feel free to, there is no submission limit or character per fandom limit. Here is the link to the submission form. Characters from the prior round of this showdown are fair game except Toph, Toothless and Hiccup. Additionally, most characters from @gay-disabled-characters-showdown are also fair game.

3.) The amount of submissions will not affect how likely a character is to get into the showdown. If you submitted a character and they are not here, we probably just haven’t gotten to verifying your character yet. If it’s been more than 3-4 days since you submitted the character you can shoot us an ask as to why they are not on the list, it might be an error on our part.

4.) When will submissions close? We have no fucking clue. At the earliest sometime October, as we are still working on setting up over @gay-disabled-characters-showdown which is still accepting submissions here. Additionally, as we need to write image descriptions it takes us a ridiculous amount of time to get set up.

5.) If you think a character doesn’t qualify you can send us an ask or leave a comment, and we can show you the explanation we have for the character as to how they count.

7.) If there is a character or media on here you think is problematic you can send us an ask and we will evaluate. That being said it’s not about being the best most perfect representation.

Tougou Mimori- Yuuki Yunna is a Hero

Olivia- Fear and Hunger 2: Termina

Edward Elric- Fullmetal Alchemist

Takashi ‘Shiro’ Shirogane- Voltron: Legendary Defender

Narti- Voltron: Legendary Defender

Shirou Emiya- Fate Stay Night

Red Haired Shanks- One Piece

Neil Watts- To the Moon/ Finding Paradise/ Imposter Factory

Harrowhawk Nonagesimus- The Locked Tomb

Wei Shi London Arelius- Cradle

Clint Barton- Marvel Comics

Barbara Gordon- DC Comics

Anna Tromedlov- Hench

Chirrut Îmwe- Star Wars: Rogue One

Imperator Furiosa- Mad Max: Fury Road

Long John Silver- Muppet Treasure Island

David- Four Weddings and a Funeral

Kaz Brekker- Six of Crows

Wu Zetian- Iron Widow

Cassandra Cain- DC Comics

Entrapta- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Bran Stark- A Song of Ice and Fire

Heart- Moonlight Chicken

Wen Kexing- Faraway Wanderers

Hartley Rathaway/Pied Piper- DC Comics

Wen Kexing- Word of Honor

Zhou Zishu- Word of Honor

Baiken- Guilty Gear

Draal the Deadly- Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia

Petra- 1992 Summer Paralympics/ Cobi Troupe cartoon series

Twyla Boogeyman- Monster High

Kaladin Stormblessed- The Stormlight Archive

Nath- 100% Orange Juice/Sora

John D. Cort- Baywatch

Ming-Hua- Avatar: The Legend of Korra

Takane Enomoto (Ene)- Kagerou Project

Sylvette Suede- Tegami Bachi

Sunny- Omori

Basil- Omori

Stone- ONE by Cheesyhfj on YouTube

Parker- Leverage

Eustass Kid- One Piece

Fujitora- One Piece

Nog- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Ashton Greymoore- Critical Role

Geordi La Forge- Star Trek: The Next Generation

Nicholas Benedict- The Mysterious Benedict Society

Hermann Gottlieb- Pacific Rim

Johnny Joestar- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

Linh Cinder- The Lunar Chronicles

Percy Jackson- Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Genya Safin- Grishaverse

Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd, Fire Emblem Three Houses

Wylan Van Eck- Six of Crows

Jesper Fahey- Six of Crows

Havelock Vetinari- Discworld

Stiles Stilinski- Teen Wolf

Charles Xavier- X-Men

Hitori Gotoh- Bocchi the Rock

Vash the Stampede- Trigun

Gintoki Sakata- Gintama

Big Boss- Metal Gear

Black Raisin Cookie- Cookie Run Kingdom

Daan- Fear and Hunger 2: Termina

General Amaya- The Dragon Prince

Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader- Star Wars

Sir Alastair Hammerlock- Borderlands

Alinta- DC Comics

Norma Khan- Dead End: Paranormal Park

George Mullner- Stardew Valley

Rani- Disney Faries

Joey Wilson/Jericho- DC Comics

Pit- Kid Icarus

Chai- Hi-Fi Rush

Sarah Sharpe- The Sea Beast

Gregg Lee- Night in the Woods

Arthur Lester- Malevolent

Kim Kitsuragi- Disco Elysium

Zee- Total Drama Island Reboot

Ignis Scientia- Final Fantasy XV

Komugi- Hunter x Hunter

Cheza- Wolf’s Rain

Maedhros- The Silmarillion

Ballister Boldheart- Nimona

Doom- Mashle: Magic and Muscles

Ianthe Tridentarius- The Locked Tomb

Talbot- Curse Words: Spellcasting for Fun and Prophet

Aka Ashi no Zeff- One Piece

Charlotte Webber/Sun-Spider- Marvel Comics

Zolf Smith- Rusty Quill Gaming podcast

#polls #disability #poll #fandom polls #disabled characters #disabled characters showdown

[scoutandvioletfan]

Gwendolyn The Miracle Hen

Stevie Look At Me

At Night

Sam

One, Two, Where's My Shoe

Swimmy

Track Picture Book

My Little Brother

Goggles

ABC Of Cars and Trucks Peter's Chair

Maybe A Monster

Cluck The Captain's Chicken Moving Day For Manuel

Who Will Wake Up Spring

Welcome Roberto, Bienvenido Roberto

I Am A Hunter

Mommies At Work

Tom In The Middle

Play With Me

What Do You Say, Dear

Where Are The Mothers

Will I Have A Friend

I Have A Tree

The Story Grandmother Told

Dandelion

5A and 7B

The Circus Baby

Clyde Of Africa If I Had

Tony and The Toll Collector

I'll Fix Anthony

Ask Mr.Bear

Go Away Dog

Chicken Little Count To Ten

The Snowy Day

Birthday Presents

Whistle For Willie

My Friend John

Katie Goes To Camp

What Is Your Favorite Thing To Touch

What Do I Do

City In The Summer

Dear Uncle Carlos

The Cat Who Thought He Was A Tiger

Six Foolish Fishermen

A Kiss For Little Bear

Corduroy

Some Of The Days Of Everett Anderson

Chicken Soup With Rice

Where The Wild Things Are

The Lorax

Clifford The Big Red Dog

Mr.Uppity

Thomas Snowsuit

My Funny Animal Alphabet

Alexander and The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Hideout

Insects and other small creatures

Clifford The Big Red Dog: Tummy Trouble

The Animal Alphabet Book

My Little Pony: Twilight Sparkle's Magical Journey

Horton Hears A Who

Oh The Places You'll Go

Old MacDonald Had A Farm

My Little People School Bus

Socks

Are You My Mother

Fluffy Bunnies

Chicka Chicka 123

I Can Read With My Eyes Shut

Barefoot Bear and The Ice Cream Factory

Green Eggs and Ham

The Berenstain Bears and The Attic Treasure

Goodnight Moon

In A People House

The Pigeon Finds A Hot Dog

It's Not Easy Being A Bunny

Parachuting Hamsters and Andy Russell

Mr.Brown Can Moo Can You

Care Bears: Meet The Care Bears

Little Monster At School

Rugrats: The Rugrats Versus The Monkeys

The Pigeon Loves Things That Go

My Little Pony: The Perfect Pumpkin

Pink Panther and Sons: Pinky Saves The Beach Bullies

Monchichi's ABC

Curious George and The Dump Truck

Bad Kitty

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Big Bird's New New Nest and Other Goodnight Stories

Little Critter: I'm Sorry

The Foot Book

The Cat In The Hat

Alphapets: Bradley and The Great Swamp Mystery

Curious George At The Parade

The Jacket I Wear In The Snow

The Gingerbread Bear

Blast Off Barefoot Bear

Can I Have A Stegosaurus Mom Can I Please

Sprout's Valley Adventure

Blue Skidoos To The Beach

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

Richard Scarry's Find Your ABC's

Ernie's Big Mess

Bad Kitty Does Not Like Dogs

Spongebob Squarepants: Spongebob Goes To The Doctor

The Backyardians: The Mystery Of The Jeweled Eggs

Shopkins: Lights Camera Shopkins

Llama Llama and The Bully Goat

Posie The Kitten In Pink

Goodnight Sweet Butterflies a Color Dreamland

A Boy, A Dog and A Frog

Disney's Aladdin

ABC Animal Jamboree

Please Mr.Panda

Richard Scarry's Please and Thank You Book

Max and Ruby: Bunny Cakes

Skeleton Hiccups

W Is For Woof A Dog Alphabet

Barefoot Bear and The Dragon

Splat and The School Trip

Blue's Clues: Blue's Bedtime

Scooter Computer and Mr.Chips: The Computer In The Candy Store

How Do You Say It Today, Jesse Bear

A Big Ball Of String

The Cat In The Hat Comes Back

Blue's Cool Idea

Little Bear

The Gruffalo

Q Is For Duck

Sesame Street: A My Name Is Alice An Alphabet Book

Pink Panther and Sons: Fun At The Picnic

Spongebob Squarepants: Ice Cream Time

Alpha Bugs

How Many Bugs In A Box

More Bugs In Boxes

The Day It Rained Hearts

Peppa Pig Class Trip

Socks For Stan

The Three Bears ABC An Alphabet Book

Harry The Dirty Dog

Gummi Bears: Zumi's Magic Spells

Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends: Sidekick Showdown

Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends: Go Goo Go

Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends: Eduardo Goes Extreme

Rainbow Brite: The Risky Rescue

The Care Bears Picnic

The Care Bears: The Mystery Of The Missing Dreams

Fox In Socks

Hop On Pop

Ronald McDonald Alphabet

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Wuzzles: Bumblelion's Funny Money

Wuzzles: Butterbear's Surprise Guest

Wuzzles: Hippopotamus Goes To Hollywuz

Wuzzles: Eleroo and The Brahma Bullfinch

Thomas and Friends: Thomas and The Treasure and Other Stories

Thomas and Friends: Track Stars 3 Thomas and Friends Stories

Thomas and Friends: Hooray For Thomas and Other Thomas and Friends Stories

The Bernstain Bears: Go Green

The Bernstain Bears: No Girls Allowed

The Bernstain Bears: Computer Trouble

The Bernstain Bears: and Baby Makes Five

Riddles Riddles From A To Z

3 Little Witches Trick Or Treat Halloween The Berenstain Bears and The Tooth Fairy

Spot's Halloween Spot's Halloween Party

Barbie: The Big Splash

Biscuit and Friends A Day At The Aquarium

Biscuit's Birthday

Schoolhouse Rock: 3 Ring Government Sesame Street: Oscar's Rotten Birthday

The Taxi That Hurried

The Wonderful School

You're A Good Sport Charlie Brown

Sesame Street: Grover Goes To School

Master Of The Universe: Castle Grayskull

Master Of The Universe: He Man and Battle Cat

Masters Of The Universe: The Revenge Of Skeletor

Rocky Versus Clubber Lang

Scooby Doo: Scooby Doo and The Mystery Of The Strange Paw Prints

Strawberry Shortcake and Her Friends

Pound Puppies: Fun From A To Z

Barbie: Camping Adventure Barbie: Barbie Goes To The City

Benji Goes Camping

My Little Pony: Lost In The Clouds

Halloween Cats

On The Night You Were Born

The Berenstain Bears: New Baby

Barbie: Soccer Coach

Barbie: The Missing Wedding Dress

Jim Henson Muppets: Trouble With Twins

Jim Henson Muppets: The Wonderful Wagon

Jim Henson Muppets: What A Mess

Spot Loves His Daddy

The Berenstain Bears and The Ghost Of The Forest

The Berenstain Bears and The Spooky Old Tree

Sesame Street: Big Bird Follows The Signs

Alphaoops The Day Z Went First

Sesame Street: How To Be A Grouch

Alphaoops H Is For Halloween

Sesame Street: Cookie Monster and The Cookie Tree

It's A Mystery Charlie Brown

The Berenstain Bears: Go On A Ghost Walk

Fraggle Rock: The Legends Of The Doozer Who Didn't

Muppet Babies: Gonzo Saves London

Pucasso The Cat Who Wanted To Be A Artist

Muppet Babies: Animal Go Bye-Bye

How The Alphabet Came To Be

Muppet Babies: Baby Gonzo's Treasure Hunt

Heathcliff: Pigs Out

Little Critter: Being Thankful

Spot's Birthday Party

Robo Machine Challenge Of The Gobots: Collision Course Comet

Gobots: Battle For Gobotron

The Transformers: Battle For Cybertron

Gobots: Battle Target Earth

Fraggle Rock: What Do Doozers Do

Gerry The Giraffe

Alf: This Place Is A Zoo

Clifford The Big Red Dog: Thanksgiving Parade

Alf: A Day At The Fair

Corduroy's Thanksgiving Muppet Babies: Baby Piggy's Mermaid Tales

Little Critter: Just A Special Thanksgiving

Fraggle Rock: No One Know Where Gobo Goes

Muppet Babies: Gonzo and the Great Race

Fraggle Rock: What's A Fraggle

Muppet Babies: What Is A Gonzo

Spot Love His Mommy

Muppet Babies: Kermit The Hermit

Corduroy Goes To The Doctor

Winnie The Pooh: Pooh Can, Can You

Fantastic Four: The Island Of Dragon

Corduroy's Busy Street

Thomas and Friends: Christmas In Wellsworth

Corduroy's Day

Corduroy's Halloween Hooray For Halloween

Goldilocks and The 3 Bears

Curious George Sonny Says Sorry

The Little Sparrow

Why Anansi Has Eight Thin Legs

The Story Of Rama and Sita

Donald Duck's Christmas Tree

Biscuit's and Friends: A Day At The Aquarium

The Little Red Hen

The 12 Days Of Christmas

Little Owl: ABC and Counting

The 3 Billy Goats Gruff

The Princess and The Pea

Tredicino

Schaefer and The Raccoons: The Mystery Of The Disappearing Forest

The Berenstain Bears: Meet Santa Bear

Care Bears: Where Are You

Care Bears: Caring Contest

Care Bears: What Makes You Happy

Sleepy Kittens

Don't Put Mustard In The Custard

Richard Scarry's Christmas Mice

Corduroy's 4th Of July

Merry Christmas Uncle Scrooge McDuck

Spot's First Christmas The Christmas Helpers

The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas

Thomas and Friends: Thomas and The Missing Christmas Tree

Once A Mouse

The Little Engine Could

Little Christmas Star

Winnie The Pooh: The Merry Christmas Mystery

The Little Engine That Could and The Snowy Blowy Christmas Merry

Christmas Curious George

Dreams

Two Ducks and a Turtle

Shangool and Mangool

The Hare and The Hedgehog

Please Baby Please

Dinosaur Vs Bedtime

Blue's Starry Night

[scurpmun]

Time to rate the Heisi Era Gamera films alongside Gamera the Brave.

Gamera: Defender of the Universe (1995)

Having now gotten a chance to see this film it's definitely interesting. The new effects to match with what had changed since the late 70s early 80s looks great! Gamera is looking as good as always. The levels of bloody scenes is more then I expected. Hell I expected zero bloody looking scenes and it surprised me. The Gyaos redesign however I'm still not a big fan of but it looks good in motion and fun fact is the first kaiju known to be acted by an actress. Yumi Kameyama does a great job bring Gyaos to life. The whole psychic connection thing with Gamera thou is a little out there for me but I'll get used to it at some point. All in all pretty good film. Last stand off was cool.

Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996)

The second film in the Heisi Era and also the first new monster for Gamera to take on. And the differences in showa and heisi really show here. Lot more time focused on the human characters. We get our first little hinting of Legion during a security guard moment in a factory. All we see is a shadow and it's eye at first. We start to see a better look at it when it attacks a subway. A kinda crab insect like kaijus with glory blue bits that dissolves glass and goes nommy nommy on people. Then you begin to realize that they are a hivemind getting food for the "flower" aka actual Legion. Actually getting to see Legions design is interesting. It's kinda more bug like then part crab like the little ones are. The movie also calls back a lot to Defender of the Universe with Gyaos encounter and having a few characters return as key players. Legion shows it's extreme power with 2 huge stabs into Gamera's belly and completely blowing off a chunk of Gamera's shell in a series first. We've seen cuts and technically a stab before but never that much harm on Gamera. The second showdown starts kinda funny seeing gamera basically drift to shoot fire at Legion. We also get Gamera's belly beam introduced to end the fight.... cool attack just not a big fan of how he literally opens his belly and goes brrt with it.

Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)

The final film of the Heisi Era gamera and thd Heisi Era in general. We get into the story with having it focus a little on a girl who lost her family during Gamera's battle against Gyaos and grows a hatred towards Gamera because of her family being caught in the crossfire. Gamera also gets a big redesign here and I must say... not a fan of it. Also the graphicness goes up heavily. You see some really dark stuff as Gamera takes on multiple Gyaos in Shibuya. You start to see Iris kinda earlish as a freshly hatched alien like creature that attacks to the girl who hates gamera. She starts "raising" and "taking care of" him. Once again characters from Legion and Gyaos make appearances throughout the movie. The movie gets really fucking weird really quick after Iris starts getting bigger. It is clusterfuck after clusterfuck. Now Iris once it's the final design looks kinda cool. It's hard to describe how it looks but it's interesting to say the least. Also the CGI in this movie ain't that bad only time I can complain about it is when Iris is walking in a certain scene in a forest. Now the fight in Kyoto is fucking cool as hell. The fight takes some heavy blows on both side and ends on a interesting note with what felt like a sequel planned but sadly never came to be.

Gamera the Brave (2006)

The last movie as of writing this for Gamera. And a return to the friend of the children route of the Showa Era instead of the Defender of the Universe/Earth route of the Heisi Era. And it begins with some Heisi level violence against Gamera as 4 Gyaos attack him and a village near the fight. Gamera sacrifices himself to save the humans as the fight becomes to obvious that he'll lose. Then we get Toto the "son" of Gamera and he is just adorable! They mix in scenes with him with scenes of the kids in this film at a skate park and it keeps getting cuter and cuter with each scene. Once we see the new enemy Kaiju Zedus then the battle begins. Zedus looking likea type of dinosaur like cresture has a pretty cool design. Toto having grown to a bigger size to be able to fight and the short first fight is kinda nice with some really good music adding to it. Of course Toto gets captured and they spend time trying to figure out the deference between him and Gamera. Zedus and Toto then prepared for a second battle in Nagayo once Toto is broken free while the kid characters race through the city to find a stone that was with Toto's egg that Toru gave to a friend as a good luck charm as they went to the hospital. You get a kinda nice scene of a group of kids passing the stone to get closer to Totot while they run through the fleeing and destroyed streets of the city that culminates in Toru and his dad racing up a building to give Toto the stone to defeat Zedus. Once Zedus is defeated for good the JSDF try to take Toto into custody but the kids all block their path so Toto can escape. The movies ends with the line I will also say for now until Gamera returns in a movie someday "Sayonara Gamera."

For my opinion. I can see why the Heisi Era is loved more for Gamera but idk. I think the Showa ones have my heart still but I can agree Heisi was really good.

As for rating the Heisi films.

1. Guardian of the Universe

2. Revenge of Iris

3. Attack of Legion.

And with that. Me and my wife have now finished the Gamera films. I do hope one day to see my turtle boy on the big screen again... maybe alongside Goji and Kong, who knows. We start Godzilla this upcoming weekend so I'll soon be meeting the legendary king of the monsters

#scurp talks #gamera #scurp's kaijus

[sbknews]

Martin smashes lap record for magnificent Misano pole

Bezzecchi and Bagnaia lead the resistance as qualifying sets the stage for some spectacular showdowns. Qualifying laps don’t get any better than that! Jorge Martin (Prima Pramac Racing) will start the Gran Premio Red Bull di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini Tissot Sprint and Grand Prix race from pole position after setting a phenomenal 1:30.390 – a Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli all-time lap record. Key rivals and home heroes Marco Bezzecchi (Mooney VR46 Racing Team) and Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo Team) join him on the front row on their home turf after stellar efforts in qualifying, despite riding through the pain barrier.

Q1: APRILIA RULE As the first hot laps were slammed in, Miguel Oliveira (CryptoDATA RNF MotoGP™ Team) led by a healthy 0.3s over Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™), with Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia Racing) 0.6s adrift in P8 – as younger brother Pol Espargaro (GASGAS Factory Racing Tech3) suffered an early crash. Quartararo improved his time to a 1:31.678 to get a tenth and a half clear of third place Michele Pirro (Aruba.it Racing), but Pirro's fellow wildcard Stefan Bradl (HRC Team) then pounced to P2. Pol Espargaro’s session was then over as he went down unhurt for a second time, as Aleix Espargaro shot to P1 by 0.021s. Could Quartararo get himself back into the top two? Not quite. The slimmest of margins cost El Diablo – 0.038s to be precise – as Oliveira returned to P1 on his last lap, heading through with Aleix Espargaro.

Q2: LAP RECORD OBLITERATED After a brief pause in proceedings, the fastest 12 riders fired up their machines as we got set for the San Marino GP pole position fight. After the slower banker laps were set, the rapid times started to come in as Bezzecchi’s 1:31.027 handed the Italian a tenth advantage over Martin, with Bagnaia’s first lap placing him a brilliant P3 – 0.152s off Bezzecchi’s time. Martin then went for another time attack and it was a new all-time lap record – a 1:30.832 saw the Spaniard rise to P1, 0.195s clear of the chasers. As the pack peeled back into pitlane, Martin led Bezzecchi and Bagnaia, with Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) P4 and Aleix Espargaro P5 – the leading quintet in the title race setting the pace in the opening part of Q2. An absolute barnstormer then came from Martin on fresh rubber, a mind-blowing 1:30.390 putting the #89 0.6s clear on provisional pole. Dani Pedrosa (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) was the rider in second, but briefly, as elsewhere Pecco climbed onto the front row again. Bezzecchi responded to return to take over in second, but the #72 was a mighty four tenths adrift. On his final lap, Pecco was giving it all he had. A red split came through Sector 2 but time was lost in the latter half of the lap, as the Championship leader improved his time but stayed P3 – 0.039s away from Bezzecchi. In the end though, no one could get within touching distance of Martin’s absolute stunner. A first pole since the 2022 Valencia GP was clinched by the title-chasing Spaniard, and what a time to do it!

THE GRID Behind the Martin, Bezzecchi, Bagnaia front row, Maverick Viñales (Aprilia Racing) was able to set his personal best time on the final lap to climb to the front of Row 2 in P4. He has wildcard Pedrosa – the leading KTM! – and Aleix Espargaro for company behind the leading trio. Binder fronts Row 3 in P7, with Luca Marini (Mooney VR46 Racing Team) and Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) claiming P8 and P9 respectively. Oliveira, Alex Marquez (Gresini Racing MotoGP™) and Raul Fernandez (CryptoDATA RNF MotoGP™ Team) round out the top 12. Find the full grid below! The stage is set for some serious action on the Rimini riviera. Don't miss it. For more MotoGP info checkout our dedicated MotoGP News page Or visit the official MotoGP website www.motogp.com Read the full article

#Michelin #Misano #MotoGP #MotoGP2023 #SanMarinoGP #Sprint #Tissot

[tyzixs]

monster factory monster showdown is funny bc everyone knows that pam will use her ungodly abilities to win

#monster factory

[reachablefire]

Xiaolin Showdown + Monster Factory quotes

#this was in my drafts FOREVER #im free now #xiaolin showdown #raimundo pedrosa #jack spicer #chase young #kimiko tohomiko #clay bailey #wuya #my secret is that this is my current fixation so

[s-opal]

Monster Factory Monster Showdown

Alright Monster Factory fans! Let's do a tournament to find out who is the best, the scariest, the strongest, the monstriest creation of Justin and Griffin

Much like the creatures, the brackets turned out kinda wonky, so in rounds 2 and 3 we'll have both two and three characters competing

The tournament's tag will be #monster factory showdown for your searching/blocking purposes

I'll start posting polls today/tomorrow

#monster factory showdown #monster factory #griffin mcelroy #justin mcelroy #polls #tournament

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Kaiju Week in Review (November 19-25)

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters remains must-see kaiju TV with its third episode. The flashbacks revisit the U.S. attempt to kill Godzilla with an H-bomb in 1954, making a few retcons to the 2014 film that I think are largely for the better. This might be the Monsterverse Godzilla work that best understands it's adapting a Japanese story. There's also a delightful new critter who shows up at the end of the main story and will surely continue to be a threat in the next installment. On the human side of things, we're starting to see how Monarch became more and more obsessive about secrecy over the decades, paralleled with the infidelity at the heart of the story.

Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong #2 delivers the Superman/Godzilla fight that's probably what people most wanted out of this crossover. I was surprised at how well Godzilla did, although it wasn't quite a clean victory. Camazotz's duel with the Bat-Family in Gotham City was more interesting, as bizarre as it is to see some of the most famous superheroes in the world taking on a Titan who's never even been in a movie before. Meanwhile, Scylla's in Central City and Behemoth's closing in on Themyscira. Odd choices considering Scylla's Greek name, but then I can't see her doing well against Wonder Woman.

As is New Generation Ultra Series tradition, Ultraman Blazar will be quickly followed by a movie (Tokyo Kaiju Showdown) released early next year (February 23). Most of these things are pretty forgettable, but director Kiyotaka Taguchi was also behind the Ultraman X movie, which I thought was one of the best ones. The plot:

A wave of kaiju emerges from an industrial zone, prompting Capitan Gento and the Special Kaiju Reaction Detachment (SKaRD) to engage in the relentless battle. Yet despite their efforts, the endless kaiju attack continues. Suspecting a link to Necromass Co., an advanced chemical company that researches kaiju corcasses and owns factories in the industrial zone, SKaRD rushes to the company’s CEO and renowned chemist, Dr. Mabuse. At Necromass Co.’s research facility, Dr. Mabuse explains the development of the damudoxin, a substance on the brink of achieving immortality. Meanwhile, Alien Damuno, who claims themselves as the “ruler of the universe” appears! Chaos ensues when damudoxin leaks from the destroyed tanks, consuming samples of kaiju carcasses and giving rise to the giant Gongilgan, the Demonic Carcass. Set in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, Ultraman Blazar and SKaRD clash in a showdown against the giant kaiju!

This year's Ultraman Decker movie was available to rent on Tsuburaya Imagination the same day it released in Japanese theaters, so I'd expect the same from the Blazar movie.

I'm typing this hours before I see Godzilla Minus One in IMAX. The date crept up on me, but I can feel every atom in my body vibrating right now, so yeah, almost time for the new Godzilla movie. High hopes with the reviews it's getting!

#kaiju week in review #godzilla #ultraman #ultraman blazar #monarch legacy of monsters #justice league vs. godzilla vs. kong #kaiju

[cryingalexanders]

Superman: TAS s1 notes I’m posting because why not

It’s my first time watching this show. I have seen BTAS and JLU the whole way through before, but it was years ago

The pilot is such a good take on Krypton’s destruction. just focussing on the human dynamics of Jor-El’s family. Lara getting to say more than a few words, and the dynamic with her father. it’s so good

from the first few episodes, it feels like the STAS creators are so used to writing Batman that they kind of try to write Superman like that too. He's rather scowly, sure, but it's also noticeable how weirdly rich everyone seems. Lois has a huge apartment and a sports car, Clark and the Kents aren't struggling, it's weird. it feels a bit like they’re not adjusting to portraying people without Bruce Wayne’s resources

I can also see how this show would give someone the impression that Clark Kent isn't a good disguise, because he isn't any different to Superman, aside from being a bit clumsy

It also feels like they're using Star Labs in this role of giving him gadgets. But who are they funded by? I know we’re not meant to overthink it but seems weird to me, as in what I said above

He even does the Batman cape thing! It's makes some sense that he'd use it to shield other people but he just used it to shield his own face in an explosion, in a dracula pose! That has to be a deliberate reference

I love how Lex is written in this though, and how Lois has an actual personality beyond ‘concerned’

I like Superman helping the scientists test technology too, that's pretty cool and unique

D'you reckon this Lobo episode could have been an influence on Ben 10? The alien designs are giving me similar vibes

The Preserver's final form literally looks like a red version of that cannonball alien from Ben 10. Maybe some of the same people worked on it or something

I should have expected the '90s sexism in an episode called "My Girl".

I like Lana recognising him. I mean they showed her knowing about Clark's powers in the second episode it would've been insane if she hadn't made the connection

it's not to say that the show doesn't justify this treatment of Clark's identity internally, but I can see why people who enjoyed this would be annoyed when other versions don't follow the same logic. I feel like that's pretty common with superhero fans in general. It was one version that got them into a character, so they clash with others who dislike or disagree with that version, especially over the aspects of it which they liked.

What? Clark has a futuristic convertible too? is this just what cars look like in Metropolis lol. but the police cars look normal. which is it

Okay the idea of someone luring Superman to a lead factory so they could have a batman-esque showdown with him is brilliant. The only problem is that it's from the creators of BTAS so it feels hopelessly derivative

I feel like one reason I avoided this show for so long was because it always seemed like it was "BTAS but worse". And I'm getting a lot of BTAS vibes from this episode, but it's still really good? imagine my surprise

"someone quiet, understanding, patient--" *Lois interrupts* LMAO

The detail of the guy squeezing the hotdog out its bun in surprise. simply amazing

Interesting that the supporting cast is starting to feel truly fleshed out in this episode. we have Turpin and Maggie Sawyer, Bruno Manheim as head of Intergang not just a random crime lord, they aren't overusing Lex (though who can blame them this version of him is so fun)

Ah, the New Gods have turned up

I don't love how it goes all cop show on us and shows the Metropolis police as good and Superman works with them.

It makes sense that Metropolis' police would be incredibly militarised. But I don't love this heroic scene of a swat team rushing a building only to not be enough

I think this show makes a really creative use of Parasite. Most of the time he's just portrayed as a mindless monster

#dc liveblogging #superheroes tag

[zackfiar-a]

FRIENDSHIP ENDED WITH SHINRA NOW AVALANCHE IS MY NEW BEST FRIEND

it took me 10 hours to write all this. i did change up canon quite a bit, but it’s generally the same in some places. i dont blame u guys if u want to skim it LOL 

i rewrote zacks canon from when he joined soldier then a little bit after the Infamous Shinra Showdown PLEASE read this !!!!

i will be applying THIS canon to my portrayal for now on esp the part where he lives but knowing my dumbass, ill be forgetting pieces of canon information i meant to add before ill be adding this to his about shortly once i wake up with a better thought process

if u have any questions pls feel free to ask !!!

being a naive kid at 13 and hearing the glorifying the heroic stories of shinra and SOLDIER, zack makes leave for midgar while writing a note to his parents not to worry about him, he’s aiming for greater things; far more than what gongaga can give him. his dream is to be the wrong idea of what being a hero means, which is wanting to be loved by many and being admired simply for the fame. sephiroth could do it, so why couldn’t he? anything is better than the boring life that gongaga gave him. 

at 15, he makes it into SOLDIER as a 3rd class with the sheer force of determination and the passion of not giving up, which is what his higher ups find lacking in the military chain. being young and impressionable, shinra puts into their head of the glory they give. SOLDIER and the military is what the people look up to for protection while some think of SOLDIER as just dogs. this doesn’t deter zack, genuinely thinking that shinra is doing well for midgar. during this time he gets injected with a dose of mako, which is what they give all members of SOLDIER. this enhances their abilities and strength at the cost of body degradation and the risk of dying earlier than everyone else. zack questions this: giving up literal life for power? well, shinra wouldn’t lie to him! right? if this is price of being a hero for the people, then it has to be worth it while completely clueless of the manipulation of propaganda and ideology that shinra has shoved in his face and forced to intake.

when he turns 16, he’s promoted to SOLDIER 2nd class and befriends kunsel, who helps him give more of the inside scoop of shinra. he’s one of the first real friends zack has made, even exchanging e-mails to communicate outside of missions and SOLDIER. all the while, he is put under the tutelage of angeal. he can sense the hesitance in his mentor for training an actual kid while zack thinks being in SOLDIER is all fun and games. zack hasn’t even seen the horror of the underbelly of the beast, only fighting the surface of the war and just blindly following orders (anyone who dares stand against shinra is a bad guy and aligns themselves with wutai). fortunately, zack doesn’t fully believe that. regardless, angeal teaches him what it means to be SOLDIER, something along the lines of having SOLDIER honor. he doesn’t get what angeal means by that with furrowed brows as he continues to drill that into zacks mind, ontop of zack admittance of the reason why he joined SOLDIER in the first place aka becoming a hero for shinra and the people of midgar. angeal doesn’t even try to alter that dream knowing very well that’s not something he should be aiming for, deciding to let zack figure it out for himself.

if you want to be a hero, you need to have dreams and honor. how many times zack has heard that, he would be a rich man. eventually he takes it to heart, looking up to angeal because of how wise and strong he is.

when he’s 17, angeal nominates for him to be a 1st class while being sent out to a mission in wutai. lazard says this will stop the war, but in actuality it’s used as a false sense of justice of using SOLDIER to set up another reactor in its place. zack is unaware of this, thinking of serving as justice against wutai, using this as a place and opportunity to prove himself. in the end, lazard uses zack’s tenacity and naive enthusiasm to show he could prove himself to overtake fort tamblin. ontop of that, while navigating lazard to safety, angeal is gone and is approached by sephiroth that angeal has possibly betrayed and abandoned SOLDIER. 

no! angeal wouldn’t do that! that’s not the angeal i know! he tries to tell himself that. it’s now where he begins to doubt in shinra and question their motives. he’s so enraptured at the loss of his mentor, he’s stuck inside of his mind on why angeal would leave? he has honor, right? it’s not honorable to leave that what you’re loyal to. having infatuation and admiration for sephiroth, he quickly loses the shine. maybe it’s disappointment, maybe it’s the loss of his mentor. shinra had glorified the 1st class members on all forms of media, but in reality, they weren’t all that special. he takes this time to talking about the SOLDIERS (some that don’t really care for him), about shinra and why they’ve joined it while trying to see if anyone knows anything about behind the scenes. he confides in kunsel, who does give some information on former 1st class genesis and all the 3rd and 2nd classes he took with him.

going with tseng to banora, he immediately feels a sense of dread. it’s strangely quiet, especially when when he comes across angeal’s mother. while he explains to her he doesn’t know where he is, he is determined to bring him back no matter what, not knowing the meaning of his own words. finding out that genesis buried his adopted parents, tseng and zack make their way to the apple factory on the outskirts of town. tseng tells him that sephiroth was originally assigned to this mission but pushed this on zack, for selfish reasons, he thinks. he doesn’t know whether to be angry or relieved because he feels like he can convince angeal to return to shinra but angry because how cowardly can you be? when he finds out that the planes are going to bomb banora, he rushes to try and help gillian escape only to think that angeal had killed her. he feels enraged, punching him, yelling at him about honor and the fact that was his own mother. the respect for him was rapidly being lost, feeling immensely disappointed when angeal leaves without explaining himself. he comes to greatly hate genesis and seriously distrust shinra.

coming back to hq, he is promoted to SOLDIER 1st class. lazard thinks zack would be happy about his promotion, but is only met with a sad face. i don’t deserve to be SOLDIER 1st class. i don’t want it. which, this is what he wanted in the beginning, but with everything that’s happened, he feels like can’t. being unable to convince angeal, the loss of a village and the death of gillian, he feels like he’s going backward from his goal of being a hero. it doesn’t help that he’s a 1st class by default from the lack of leadership. lazard doesnt listen and hearing that genesis copies have attacked midgar. doing so, he meets cissnei. finding out that she can handle herself, he immediately hits on her but is shortly sent on a mission with sephiroth to sector 5 reactor. they look for hollander, instead they find papers for project g. seeming that sephiroth is interested in the details of the experiments, zack is appalled that genesis is a result of a failed experiment and the fact that hollander experimenting on others. is this why he took a bunch of 3rd and 2nd class SOLDIERS with him? to use them to help himself?

finally finding hollander and genesis, he chases hollander through the mako reactor to eventually come across angeal. there’s a momentary relief of seeing him again, however is quickly flooded by reddening anger. angeal tells him, because he is also a monster, he only dreams of 2 things: world domination and revenge. zack is thrown aback at the declaration, resisting the temptation to punch him again. you’re not a monster. monsters don’t have honor. they’re scared. they’re selfish, so they fight and punish the weak. you’re not like that, angeal! and then he remembers what cissnei said about wings that symbolize freedom. angels aren’t monsters. angeal after gets into a fighting position and demands that zack defend himself. hurt at the notion that he would attack him, he’s momentarily stunned. before he can get into a fighting stance or defend himself from the blow, he falls below into sector 5.

he wakes up in a church with aerith hovering over him, briefly thinking it’s his mother when he’s convinced that she’s an angel that has come to greet him in heaven. there’s a funny feeling of meeting her, but he brushes it aside and asks her for one date as a thank you for saving him. he notices the flowers, suggesting that she should sell them to make midgar happy with the motto midgar full of flowers, wallet full of money. on a little detour, zack and aerith chat while she explains she’s afraid of the sky and SOLDIER. they fight and they like it, she explains. however, zack explains that he’s a part of SOLDIER and maybe that it was a mistake that he joined in the first place. not all of them enjoy fighting for the fun of it. that some of them joined because of a childhood fantasy and it’s not at all what it’s cracked up to be. SOLDIERS motives and goals were vastly different from his own and he doesn’t know if he wants to continue to align himself with shinra. he apologies that he shouldn’t have put that all on her since they just met. though he reassures her that since his eyes are the color of the sky, there’s nothing to be scared of. he decides to take her out to see the real sky one, to reassure her that it won’t swallow her. his stay is cut short when he’s called that genesis has attacked midgar and that he should hurry back.

when aerith takes him back to the sector 5 gate, zack decides to buy aerith a pink bow as a gift for their one - day anniversary of meeting. before he leaves, he helps a guy name the bar that would later be named 7th heaven. 

he makes it back to shinra hq and is ordered to go protect hojo, for hollander is probably using this as a way to kill him. finding hojo, he seems less than troubled and more annoyed about hollander. he says that SOLDIER should do their jobs as brutes and do less thinking to protect geniuses like him, which angers zack a little bit. he never really did trust him, seeming to enjoy it too much when hojo injected him mako upon first entering SOLDIER. people aren’t made to throw their lives away for someone who seems them as less than human and shows no compassion. regardless, he does his job, fighting the bahamut fury. he swore he saw angeal during the fight; genesis is gone. 

months later, he’s sent to modeoheim with a couple of shinra infantryman and tseng. on the way there, the helicopter crashes and he meets cloud while the infantryman can’t quite keep up. he learns that cloud is from nibelheim and they instantly bond as being “country boys”. eventually they find a mako excavation facility, which zack takes the initiative to infiltrate while tseng and the others continue to modeoheim. he finds a bickering genesis and hollander, which he immediately aims to fight and kill him. even though he has no personal connection to genesis, he knows that he was close friends with angeal and sephiroth, and he feels like it’s his duty to finally end him. albeit hesitant, he charges forward and wins the fight with genesis while he continues to run after hollander. in the bathhouse, he finds tseng and cloud tired and beaten as they had fought angeal. they warn him to be careful. doing so, he runs into angeal and hollander. 

with his sword shaking in his hand, he decides that he has to bring angeal down and stop this cycle. that as long as he’s alive then genesis will be as well. he finds out that angeal is a result of project gillian and that said gillain actually killed herself in her home. he feels so bad, so disgusting that he had accused angeal slaying his own mother. those thoughts aren’t with him for long, but he sees him combining with all of this copies to become angeal penance. this is it, this where he is where he’s going to have to slay his mentor, the man that he’s looked up to and found as a role model. angeal, his friend that he had confided so much of his secrets in, dead by his blade. it’s like the battle was over in an instant, because now angeal was on the ground, blood pouring out of his wounds whilst slowly degrading. while zack sustained injuries of his own, the most noticeable one was the x on his cheek, with blood slowly running down his neck. it doesn’t take long for him to realize that his whole intent was to kill him, while angeal still had some semblance of honor left. it wasn’t fair, he shouldn’t have to be the one to do it.

angeal weakly hands him his buster sword and tells him to remember dreams, that zack should aim to be a true member of SOLDIER and protect his honor.

when he dies, he takes a deep breath and presses the buster sword to his forehead much like angeal did before he went on missions. sorry, angeal. i can’t do that. i can’t be the SOLDIER you want me to be. my dreams… what does it even mean to be a hero? what honor do i have left as SOLDIER? as long as i stay here, i have none. i will continue to live with what’s left.

later he confides in aerith, traumatized over angeal’s death. he doesn’t want to be in SOLDIER anymore, not what’s going on behind the scenes. unfortunately, while being under the contract of shinra, he’s forced to stay in and serve as a SOLDIER 1st class.

at 18, he’s one of the few SOLDIER 1st class left, the other one being sephiroth. when interacting with a brigade of shinra troops, he tells them that if they want to be a SOLDIER, they must have dreams and honor. while the troops have said to find his speech admiring and they they look up to him with his cool, new look! it’s any rare time that he gives a somber look. don’t believe what shinra says. think for yourself. he doesn’t want to promote and encourage more people to join SOLDIER. deny them as much man power as he possibly can, even if it gets him in trouble with the higher ups. as long as he’s here, he’s under the thumb of shinra.

as a “congratulatory break”, he’s sent to costa del sol to rest and relax. except the fact that he was opposite of that. cissnei was here with him, and any other time he wouldn’t mind, but he knew why she was also on “break” with him. though he’s warned that genesis copies have been spotted, and he has no choice but to fight. a soon to be vacation was over with, when he’s also informed that hojo broke out of prison with the suspicions of lazard, who was said to have disappeared prior before. he rushes to midgar to help stop the genesis copies with the stolen tech of shinra. when he found hollander, it was too late and he escaped. lo’ and behold sephiroth has finally arrived and tells zack that his mission was deemed a failure. he’s just tired of all of this, more concerned about the towns people that caught up in the mess than hollander. at this point, he was too deep that he has no choice for hollander to seek justice for what he’s done. needless to say, he doesn’t care much about seeing sephiroth, but hearing him say he forgives him of his misdeeds relaxes him. with sephiroth’s permission to go back to midgar to see aerith, he heads off there immediately. 

when he arrives at the church, he spots an angeal copy with aerith. at first assuming the worst, he aims to kill it but aerith says not to. instead, the copy protects aerith instead from an uninvited monster. zack doesn’t trust it, but leaves it in the church’s beams anyways to watch over her. he tells aerith that he’s going to be gone for a long time, and he won’t know when he’ll be coming back. so she suggests that zack makes the flower wagon he promised her long ago. when he gets the pieces together, he’s disappointed that aerith doesn’t like it but uses it anyways. he’s with her for several hours, selling flowers, but when he sees aerith being lenient with the price, he tells her not to settle for less. make your stand and not sell it for 1 lousy gil. the flowers deserve to be 10 gil a piece, at least. when a costumer comes across aerith and zack selling flowers, he tells them that it’s their dream to make midgar full of flowers. unfortunately, it isn’t a bit later that he gets a called away on his last mission. before he leaves, he tells aerith that aerith should do something for zack every time he comes to visit her, like wearing pink. he thinks pink is a really endearing color on her. he finds tseng hiding behind a piece of playground equipment, and even though he doesn’t fully trust the turks, he’s really the only one he can trust to take care of aerith, not exactly understanding tseng’s role in the first place.

when zack gets back, he finds cloud, who’s trying to round everyone up for the next mission. zack is elated and excited that finally another mission with him. he finally meets with sephiroth, accompanied by cloud and several other unnamed shinra infantryman, and sephiroth tells them they’re leaving for nibelheim. their goals there were to inspect the incoming monsters infiltrating the town and a malfunctioning reactor. although zack is surprised that cloud has his helmet on, he has his suspicions, he asks why. cloud doen’t give a direct answer, so he brushes it off, not wanting to push the issue. hearing that sephiroth doesn’t have family, he perks up when he hears him mention jenova’s name. jenova… jenova… isn’t that the cells they were using for the monsters? genesis mentioned something about that, didn’t he?

when they go check out the reactor, tifa is there and offers them around nibelheim as a tour guide, even taking pictures in the process. the reactor is now fixed, but among the pods they find monsters soaked in mako. zack is disgusted and feels bad to the people who were affected by this. what were the lads words they said to their family? what were they doing when they got kidnapped? climbing the stairs, he finds the biggest pod with jenova and he can’t help but stare at the plaque. jenova… wait, that’s sephiroth’s mother! before he can think about it more, sephiroth starts to speak. you average SOLDIER members are mako - infused humans. you’re enhanced, but you’re still human. …but then what are these things? their mako levels are exponentially higher than yours. when sephiroth explains that they are monsters spawned by mako energy and that hojo created them, it didn’t take long for zack to connect the dots. he didn’t want it to be true, but it wasn’t a coincidence that the three best friends weren’t human at all, just experimental pawns made by the scientists of shinra. zack approaches him, and tries to be careful on the subject. he didn’t want it to be true. you said “average” member. what about you? that should’ve been an instance where he kept his mouth shut.

this whole thing was no coincidence. seeing sephiroth suddenly grip his head and ask himself if he’s an abomination, that he’s not like the others. zack can’t help but wonder what’s wrong and console him or to be shoved away. makes it no better that genesis came to confirm that’s the case, blowing zack away; that sephiroth is not human because he was created from jenova, or the remains of those failed experiments. finally, when genesis leaves after sephiroth, zack rushes after him to see zack be blasted by a monster and helped by tifa. it makes sense that sephiroth possibly the strongest monster out of angeal and genesis. when he helps tifa and cloud back to the inn, he goes to check up on sephiroth, who is in the basement of the shinra basement. in a mistake of one room, he comes across a seemingly sleeping man in a coffin. oh, creepy. finding sephiroth, he is immediately shunned away with him burying his face in the books. it was his fault this happened anyways, that he had to ask why sephiroth thought he was different from the other SOLDIERS, even angeal and genesis. he was going to try again, because he wasn’t going to have sephiroth betray them too. except sephiroth continued to ignore him and even threatened him to leave. there was a terrible feeling in his gut, but there was nothing he could do, so he left to go check on cloud back at the inn.

cloud was fine, but he wanted to talk to him about tifa and the fact that he was hiding his face the whole time he was in nibelheim. it was a personal issue it seemed, but cloud said if only he was in SOLDIER, then he would be strong enough to protect tifa and others. except, zack wasn’t on board. SOLDIER is a den of monsters. don’t go inside. everything shinra has told you about it is a lie. how great it is… how it produces the best heroes in the world; they don’t settle the peace, they’re just glorified monsters. they don’t care about what happens to the people, as long as it funds their goals in the end. cloud seemed confused, wanting to know more about what he was talking about. zack has the experience of being in SOLDIER in his belt, he just wants to prevent people from being in the same situations he’s been in many times. you know, i asked myself what it meant to be SOLDIER. when i first joined, i thought i was proud to be a part of shinra. everyone talked about how great being in shinra was, but no one knows what lies in the dark. only i know the truth. cloud, do me a favor: don’t ever look in SOLDIER’s direction, before you get turned into a monster, too. 

cloud is still confused, but agrees with him regardless because he was someone who looked greatly up to zack, and it must be serious if he’s saying stuff like this too. though he couldn’t help but ask if zack was considered a monster also. zack doesn’t answer for a long moment, even considering. … i might be. all monsters are infused with mako energy afterall. wouldn’t it make sense if i were one? cloud doesn’t know how to answer it, so he nods towards the buster sword, telling zack that’s never seen him use it. zack picks up angeal’s sword and thinks. this is a symbol of my dreams and honor. it was a symbol of angeal’s burden of SOLDIER honor, not his own. no, it’s not. it’s symbol of my freedom, when i finally leave SOLDIER for good. when i make up all the wrongs it’s done to the innocent people of midgar. this is a symbol for… my own honor. this is proof that i am alive and that i exist. who gives a damn about SOLDIER anyways? no, he wasn’t a monster and never will be one. he’s a kind, and cares for others. do monsters do that? he smiles at cloud and sets down the blade. he thanks him while going straight to sleep. cloud doesn’t even have a say in what for.

a week passes. zack hasn’t seen sephiroth in town and every time he visits him, he is shoved away and ignored. it doesn’t even look like he’s been sleeping. it’s his horror when he wakes up to the increased heat in october and the smell of smoke that he finds out nibelheim is on fire. going to confront sephiroth, he sees tifa curled up, cursing shinra and SOLDIER. he meets him in the reactor where he’s talking to jenova, which he fights him not soon afterwards. just like genesis and angeal, monsters from experiments. sephiroth is no longer the man he had once trusted and admired, so he must either kill him or try and talk him out his hazed trance of god superiority. which is pathetic to think about, because if he couldn’t convince angeal, what makes him think he can talk to sephiroth? zack is striked down, too weak to fight on, so seeing cloud approach, he begs for him to finish sephiroth off. for what he’s seen, it looks like killed him. that victory is short lived when he becomes unconscious. 

for the next 4 years, his dreams died as fast as he desired them. he vaguely remembers such unjust experiments done to him; pumping in so much mako and the power of jenova cells it feels like the flesh is melting off his bones and his heart pounds heavily in his chest. zack doesn’t even realize it’s been 4 years, maybe several days max when he sees angeal’s image in his sleep. he tries to scream for him, but nothing comes out. he bangs on the glass, but there’s no sound. the next few seconds flash by, and now he’s on the ground in some lab. where was he? that didn’t matter. he’s free now, and he’s see cloud in a pod that was next to his own. from then on, it was his duty to take care of cloud until he woke up. it didn’t matter if he didn’t wake up for 3 months, he was still going to be by his side. it’s the least he could do, he owes him so much for getting cloud involved in this mess. 

when he’s finally able to change his clothes, he realizes upon closer inspection that cloud is suffering from severe mako poisoning. he’s seen it in several SOLDIER members who were addicted to it, like they were in such a catatonic state it took them a day to several to get over it. he can’t imagine the intake he has taken, but zack was fine, already being infused with it previously. 

he takes cloud to the coast of a beach that wasn’t far from nibelheim, but by the time he got there, it was night time. he didn’t mind, he needed a break anyways and they had to wait it out until morning because of all the shinra patrols. which, has hasn’t figured out why there were so many to begin with. he’s approached by cissnei, but she wasn’t here for a friendly conversation, her weapon drawn. she asks if he’s the runaway specimen, which gives zack the idea that while he got his wish of no longer being a SOLDIER, he is now seen nothing as an experiment gone wrong. that’s not quite what he had mind, but also finding out that being gone for 4 years makes sense, being presumed dead when he was captured. how was he supposed to function in this world now when it’s moved on and you’re left behind? it was cissnei’s orders to capture him alive, but zack would be dead than rather to be back in shinra’s hands. seeing her able to actually put up a fight, zack escapes to meet back up with cloud. cissnei comes back, but offers him her peace, and a vehicle for them to runaway in. he thanks cissnei, and cloud and zack attempt to back to midgar, while trying to run from shinra.

another year passes, he sees genesis on the road, which he’s been told that zack’s “gift of the goddess”. becoming captured, a genesis clone eats some of his hair to help stop his degradation, except the cells had adapted to zack’s body, having already intaken mako in the past. the clone transforms into a monster, which zack has to fight to pass. he does, becoming more frustrated and angry until he reaches gongaga. he decides to make a pit stop, but cissnei finds him, telling that his hometown is such an obvious place for shinra to find zack. except he spots a white wing and a flash of angeal’s face. 

he leaves cissnei and goes to chase the figure, finding out it’s lazard who had become an angeal copy. once wanting revenge and filled with anger, absorbing angeal’s cells caused him to have a strong will and the desire to help out zack. he’s degrading, and it shows by the withered feathers. unexpectedly, he asks what zack’s dreams were. this time, he takes serious consideration. no longer someone of shinra or SOLDIER, he’s free to do whatever he pleases, however now that’s very sure in his goal, he tells lazard that he wants to a hero. this time, not for fame or to see how great people are. if he can save one person, then he can be a hero. if he can help at least one person, then that’s good enough for him. he doesn’t care about fame, or the glory that comes with a praised name. that’s boring and not for him at all. lazard laughs and tells him exactly what he had said before when he first asked those years ago: unattainable dreams are the best kind.

genesis and hollander find them, which hollander now has become a genesis clone. genesis informs him that cloud is the last bearer of pure s - cells. upon them trying to take it, zack officially kills hollander at last, which he leaves cloud with a wounded lazard. zack finally gets the hint with the constant banora apples he always holds that genesis works from banora. he asks a dying lazard to look after cloud as he goes to finish off a further degrading genesis. he chases him underground and finds and finishes him. after all this time, he can’t feel the harbor of anger and hatred he once had towards genesis, but now only pity and sadness. all this for a shred of immortality, just because he was afraid of dying. however, he can’t forgive all those people he’s captured and extracted for any hopes to stop his degradation process as a failed experiment. he leaves genesis down in the banora underground where the lifestream goes through.

coming back to the surface, he sees lazard dead with the angeal copy that had protected aerith in her church. zack rests with cloud when the last angeal copy to dies, thanking it for protecting aerith this whole time while he was away. with his new found motivation, zack hitches with cloud on the back of a truck on the way to midgar. zack tells him that he wants to become a mercenary, any job that’s dangerous or boring, as long as it has pay. he also informs cloud that he’ll join him too, because they’re friends, right? he also has “conversations” with a continued catatonic cloud about how he can’t wait for him to meet aerith. zack thinks the two of them will get along perfectly, like they’re two peas in a pod. also recalling how cloud had issues with talk about tifa, he hopes that cloud gets that resolved because he’s sure tifa misses him a lot and wants him to come home (which, it’s unfortunately no longer nibelheim). zack continues to talk to cloud about nonsense, even silly stories about being in SOLDIER. he says once that kunsel had e - mail’d him like crazy when he mysteriously found that he was still alive. it’s like he’s too ashamed to face him now. 

he spots a shinra road block, which zack thanks the driver and sets cloud to the side, telling him he’ll be right back. he’s convinced that he will die here but he will continue to fight for his freedom as long as he was associated with SOLDIER in any time frame. that’s fine with him. approaching him, he gives a sigh and a shake of his head. then pressing the blade to his forehead, he speaks to himself. whatever happens, protect your dreams…  and your honor. fight for your freedom and your right to exist! come and get it! before charging at the army in his wake. 

it feels like the battle went on for hours, being targeted at several different directions. the weight of the buster sword was becoming too heavy, his arms feeling like lead and legs feeling like jello. dodge a bullet there, block a punch there. even several summons later, it like his body was running on auto - drive. he’s lost vision in one eye, but he can still fight. the pain is numbed by the adrenaline running through his body and how his lungs are struggling for air with every swing he takes. was he really going to die here? his first mistake was believing in shinra’s ideals and goals, and continuing to follow them, what kind of idiot was him? quickly went down from being a respectable, admirable leadership to someone who’s the lowest of the low. shinra won’t keep midgar safe. everyone is pawns, they’re all expendable. they don’t care about its people, they will sacrifice as many as they can. what’s their end goal? he doesn’t know. he just wants to right all the wrongs he’s done, all the ignorant stuff he’s said. it’s all over. he owes the people.

i’m sorry. i’m sorry.

it’s almost a hour later, his back is laid against the bloodied ground with a cloudy sky above him with the hilt of the blade loosely being held in his hand. did he… make it? his heart rate is slow but as long as he can still move. was cloud okay? that was his main concern. cloud… his voice is quiet, rasp as he struggles to sit up. blood is pouring down his face and neck, a rib was cracked, but that was the last thing on his mind. cloud, we did it. there’s a very weak smile on his face, his left eye is non - functional, and he’s using his buster sword as a crutch. a rather pathetic sight. did you see that? he finds cloud resting exactly where he rested him. good, he’s so relieved. he struggles to pick cloud up, but with his arm held across his shoulders, he’s wincing and in so much pain, but they had to keep moving. we’re almost there. then he can see aerith again, the freedom of the sky of his victory well won.

however, he collapses upon half way making it to midgar, unconscious from blood loss, but when he wakes up, he’s at the slums sector 7 train station. he looks at his side and see cloud still knocked out. he’s safe. he’s spotted by tifa, who regonizes cloud and brings them back to the apartments. zack is treated by a doctor, with 2 cracked ribs and a loss of his left eye, which is covered up with a bandaged eye patch. cloud is still catatonic, however slowly regaining consciousness, as he is showing more body function than he has in the past year. while recovering, zack is introduced to avalanche, who’s goal was to fight against shinra and their greedy destruction of the planet. zack decides to still work as a mercenary while aiding avalanche, to take back what they’ve killed and caused chaos with. he decides to take tifa to the side and apologize for what happened in nibelheim and her dad, even feeling solely responsible. 

when zack is able to fight, he takes up the job to help bomb a reactor, albeit hesitant, and helping up around  the sector 7 slums with the neighborhood watch, even going to the sector 5 slums and reuniting with aerith. even after all this, he still maintains a positive face, joking with the lack of a brain cell.

however, bombing the reactor has tied him with shinra once again, instead of being a SOLDIER 1st class, he’s an escaped fugitive; a betrayer of shinra. the events after this is still to be determined.

#m. #my eyes hurt ............. ill be back later after taking a nap or something

[its-whitetomorrow]

TRio in XY but with flawless feel!

Edit of XY series. I’m so proud of my personal tweaks that I gotta share...

Episodes in altered order below! (note --> episodes with stars were edited)

FIRST PART

(plot intros, catches, classic TR, mega nyarth, calamanero)

We've Arrived in the Kalos Region! The Beginning of Dreams and Adventures!! 

Mega Evolution and the Prism Tower!***

Keromatsu VS Yayakoma! Aerial Battle Maneuvers!!***

Pikachu and Dedenne! Cheek Rub!!***

Leave it to Serena!? The Charging Sihorn Race!***

Pokémon Trimmer and Trimmien!

Harimaron VS Mega Mega Nyarth!!***

Pursuit in the Bamboo Forest! Yancham and Goronda!!***

Debut! Serena and Fokko on Pokévision!!***

Madame X's Plot! The Scary Calamanero!!

Ta-da! Fake Satoshi Appears!!***

The Bond of the Aurora! Amarus and Amaruruga!!

Nymphia VS Keromatsu! Big Commotion in the Kindergarten!!

Serena's First Capture!? Yancham VS Fokko!!***

Peroppafu and Peroream!! The Sweet Battle isn't a Piece of Cake!?

Flabebe and the Fairy Flower!

The Undersea Castle! Kuzumo and Dramidoro!!***

Dispatch the Laplace Protection Team! Do Your Best, Eureka!!

The Worst Luck? Eureka VS Nyarth!!*** (put together with 2 other episodes!)

Calamanero VS Maaiika! The Bonds that Would Save the World!!

SECOND PART

(greater ambitions, first perfomance, mega evolution, guidance waves)

The Clumsy Pukurin VS the Rampaging Bohmander!!***

Hearts Calling to Each Other! To the Other Side of Wave-Guiding!!***

Luchabull and Dark Luchabull!***

Aim to be the Kalos Queen! Serena Makes Her Debut!!

Decisive Battle in the Badlands! Fight, Numera!!

Protect the Future of Science! The Electric Labyrinth!!

The Coveted Mega Evolution! Gaburias's Bonds!!***

The Scary House's Hospitality!

A Fork in the Path of Indecision!? Musashi and Sonans!!***

Battle in the Wetlands! Numelgon VS Florges!!***

Conclusion! Numelgon, Somewhere Over the Rainbow!!***

Fokko VS Mahoxy! A Splendid Performance Battle!!***

Fierce Battle in the Monster Ball Factory! Pikachu VS Nyarth!!***

THIRD PART

(perfomance arc, classic “follow the twerps” routine, the return to more “serious” business)

Tairenar and Yancham!! A Captivating Fiery Performance!!

The Wind, the Egg and Onbat!***

The Pumpjin Festival! Farewell, Bakeccha!?

The Happy Dance Comes After the Quiz!? The Hyakkoku TryPokaron Tournament!!

A Broken Twig and a Broken Heart! Tairenar's Strong Feelings!!

Dance, Eievui! Its TryPokaron Debut!!

The Forest's Curse and the White Bokurei!

Satoshi and Serena! Catch One at the Dance Party!!

The Master Class Begins! A Maidens' Fierce Fight Where Sparks Fly!!

Elle VS Serena! Open the Door to the Future!!

Find Melecie! Numelgon and Dedenne!!

Left and Right! The Kametete's Swaying Heart!!***

Serena Becomes Satoshi! The Strongest Pikachu Showdown!!***

The Explosive Heat at the Mechanical Festival!

Thunder and Onvern! The Lightning of Anger!!***

FOURTH PART

(off-screen research into sundial, team flare arc, the league, the ending)

The Crisis in Kalos! The Battle of the Giant Sundial!!***

The Double Battle in the Hyakkoku Gym! Gojika's Future Sight!***

Team Flare Story - full-scale edit of XYZ (XYZ: Plot Compilation X and onward)

Lots of gentle edits and cuts, huh? But it was worth it, believe me. Now I have XY TR that I can enjoy and treat as part of flawless canon. 1) They aren’t jarring and all over the place with pointless, low quality appearances 2) While not perfect and sometimes you may wish for more, they’re acceptable as continuity successors to past series’ TR, including Best WIshes proper and its Decolora Adventures filler arc. 3) There is a sense of direction here, they are fun and cute when they’re supposed to be but at the same time aren’t degraded by pointless skyward blast-offs and unhealthy fixation with Pikachu, at times being able to quietly “slip away”

If you’re like me - you care for solid direction and logic behind them, not cute or bizarre shots of them in otherwise completely worthless, fucked-up appearances so you don’t mind if those are removed and forgotten - maybe you’ll want to take a look? Because they are pretty cool now and my heart doesn’t ache anymore!

Check it out if you’re interested. Or maybe you’ll want to add this to your Pokemon/TR collection? Here are the links!

XY TR episodes + TR in Team Flare’s arc

#team rocket #team rocket xy #xy team rocket #pokemon #pokemon edits #pokemon anime #correction #XY TR FIXED! #i have Alola TR to share too #mostly order of episodes #and needed but very subtle #gentle tweaks #often voiceovers lol

[my-km-me]

My Top Video Games of 2010s

Bolded = My GoTY

2010

999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors

Alpha Protocol

Atelier Rorona

Castle Crashers

Chaos Rings

Deathsmiles

Donkey Kong Country Returns

Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition

Dragon Quest IX

Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City

Fairy Wars

Fallout: New Vegas

Guwange

Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley

Infinite Space

Knights in the Nightmare

Mass Effect 2

Mega Man 10

Mega Man Zero Collection

Monster Hunter Tri

No More Heroes 2

Pac-Man Championship Edition DX

Persona 3 PSP

Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver

Professor Layton and the Unwound Future

Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey

Sin and Punishment: Star Successor

Splatterhouse

STALKER: Call of Pripyat

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Tatsunoko vs. Capcom

Xenoblade Chronicles

2011

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy

Dark Souls

Deathsmiles II

Dragon Quest VI

Hard Corps: Uprising

Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns

Kirby's Return to Dreamland

Marvel vs. Capcom 3

Pokémon Black

Rayman Origins

Saints Row: The Third

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked

Sonic Generations  (HD)

Star Wars: The Old Republic

Ten Desires

The Witcher 2

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

Valkyria Chronicles III

2012

Call of Duty: Black Ops II

Chaos Rings II

Dishonored

Dodonpachi Maximum

Dragon’s Dogma

Final Fantasy XIII-2

Growlanser: Wayfarer of Time

Gungnir

Harvest Moon: A New Beginning

Hatoful Boyfriend

Long Live the Queen

New Super Mario Bros. 2′s coin rush mode

New Super Mario Bros. U

Pokémon Black 2

Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask

Puzzle & Dragons

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2

Spelunky

Sumioni: Demon Arts

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron

Twisted Metal

Way of the Samurai 4

Xenoblade Chronicles

Zombi U

2013

Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate

Deus Ex: Human Revolution-Director’s Cut

Double Dealing Character

Dragon's Crown

Dungeon & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara

Dynasty Warriors 8

Papers, Please

Rayman Legends

Rogue Legacy

Rune Factory 4

Shin Megami Tensei IV

Tales of Xillia

The  Cave

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

The Stanley Parable

2014

Atelier Escha & Logy

Broken Age

Divinity: Original Sin

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

Dragon Quest IV (iOS)

Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends Complete Edition

Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster

Mario Kart 8

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

Phoenix Wright trilogy

Pokémon ORAS

Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy

Super Smash Bros. 4 3DS

Tales of Symphonia Chronicles

Tales of Xillia 2

The Last of Us Remastered

Ultra Street Fighter IV

2015

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy

Bloodborne

Broken Age: The Complete Adventure

Dariusburst Chronicle Saviors

Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom

Pillars of Eternity

Rare Replay

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker

Shovel Knight  [Xbox One]

Story of Seasons

Super Mario Maker

The Age of Decadence

The Witcher 3

Undertale

Until Dawn

Way of the Samurai 4

Yakuza 5

Yoshi's Woolly World

2016

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Dishonored 2

Killer Instinct: Supreme Edition

Pac-Man Championship Edition 2

Pokémon Sun/Moon + Special Demo

Super Robot Wars Original Generation: The Moon Dwellers

The Witcher 3: Game of the Year Edition

Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet

Tyranny

2017

ARMS

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

Cuphead

Divinity: Original Sin II

Hidden Star in Four Seasons

Horizon Zero Dawn

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Night in the Woods

Romancing SaGa 2

Sonic Mania

Star Fox 2

Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns

Super Mario Odyssey

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap

2018

428: Shibuya Scramble

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon

Dead Cells

God of War

Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition

Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux

Sonic Mania Plus

Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition

Super Robot Wars X

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

The Walking Dead: The Final Season

Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales

Vampyr

Yakuza 0

Wario Ware Gold

2019

Castlevania Anniversary Collection

Collection of Mana

Darius Cozmic Collection (International/Special Edition)

Disco Elysium

Dragon Quest XI S

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Pathologic 2

Romancing SaGa 3

SaGa: Scarlet Grace

Sekiro

Shovel Knight: Showdown

Six Ages

Space Invaders Invincible Collection

Spyro Reignited Trilogy

Star Ocean: First Departure R

Super Mario Maker 2

Super Robot Wars T

Tetris 99

Wily Beast and Weakest Creature

Misc.

Any Super Robot Wars game translated (official or fan)

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