The Nerd Thread (Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comics, Games, Collectibles, Lore, etc.)

@ANoobis  
Halo and Robin Hood are both so relevant. Why wasn’t a Halo show made years ago when hype was at it’s highest for the series? Focusing on another character is a bad move, unless they spread spread the focus around.

I’m enjoying watching people have histrionic meltdowns over Batman being rich. This happens every time he gets a new movie.

@ANoobis  
People don’t know Batman is rich?

@Dex Stewart  
They know. It’s just that every movie gives them a chance to clickbait about it.

@ANoobis  
Aren’t there more interesting things about Batman?

Twitter is in one of its periodic anti-Gal Gadot spasms. They and the news outlets bounce back and forth between trying to cancel and unperson her and worshiping the ground she walks on because strong independent woman.

@ANoobis  
What is it this time? Last time it was Black Twitter seething about her being cast as Cleopatra - who historically was ethnically greek - rather than a KWEEN like they like to imagine in their pathetic revisionist fantasies.

@Zerowinger  
It’s both because she did her mandatory IDF service and doesn’t use her platform to condemn Israel. So they periodically try to label her a war criminal.

@ANoobis  
Ah, so the typical Twitter histrionics.

Disney released the trailer for their new Chip’n Dale Rescue Rangers movie and it looks like absolute cancer.

@Zerowinger  
Cancer pizza, one might say.

They’re making a big deal that Master Chief is going to be unmasked in the Halo show. Who wants to bet that he’ll be black?

@ANoobis  
Even though that makes no goddamn sense because SPARTAN IIs never take their armour off if they can help it, which has lead to all of them having unnaturally albino skin due to extreme sunlight deprivation?
 
Yeah, I’ll take that bet. This seems like the exact kind of lore-disregarding, fan-inciting, ideological decision that I expect.
 
It doesn’t matter anyway, it’s still wrong according to the canon of the company that own the IP. This show has it’s own separate dumb canon that only the lefty tosser tards who won’t even watch it anyway will consider to be ‘proper’.

@FeatherTrap  
Unless they pull a bullshit bait n’ switch like Marvel did with Taskmaster, it seems that Chief is going to look like this in the end.
 

@ANoobis  
Frankly, unless they take his helmet off to reveal: another, identical helmet underneath-making it one of the best fandom in-jokes in TV show history-then it’s still going to be shit. Why take his helmet off at all unless it’s specifically to piss off fans?
 
Is it to make him more “relatable” to a wider audience? Cause that worked so well for fuckin’ Boba Fett, didn’t it? Remember when they gave him a show, where he could naval gaze the camera and spout dialogue that gave everyone the impression that he’s going senile? Didn’t you all love that version so much more then the imposing, stoic and ruthless merc who was only known by the appearance of his distinct armour?
 
Chief shouldn’t be ‘relatable’, like most ‘vulnerable and deep’ protagonists these days. SPARTANs are supposed to be emotional stunted sociopaths who are utterly loyal only to the UEG (the lesser known United Earth Government, the actual civilian governing body of the Halo Universe) and it’s subordinate authorities, mainly the United Nations Space Command and the Office of Naval Intelligence.
 
And also side note: Bad things happen to character =/= Deep or Interesting character. You can’t just have your perfect little progressive angel, then have a nasty thing happen to them so they piss their eyes and call that “character growth”. How the trails and challenges effect their personality and motivation are indictive of a deep and interesting character, not just the bad things on their own.
 
It’s hard to translate Chief into a non video game format because in the narrative of the universe, SPARTANs are supposed to be seen as more then human, the demigods of war that can turn the tide of an unwinnable battle. The appearance of one on the battlefield is enough to instantly raise the morale of even the most broken marine, and assure them by their mere presence that victory is assured.
 
That works for the game, in which the story plays out almost like a biblical legend but in space, with you being the divine hero at the centre. But for a TV show like the one they’re going for? Not so much.

Venus de Milo of Ninja Turtles the Next Mutation is making a comeback!  

 

 

@Dex Stewart
 
Is she undead?

@ANoobis  
No idea what her story is.  
I assumed it may have been inspired by the story of her suit. It was found a few years ago,in deteriorating condition and restored.  
 
I think the restored suit is on display at Chiodo Brothers studio now.

@Dex Stewart  
That hand with the longer fingers is a frog hand, so I guess she inherited it from one of the Punk Frogs.
 

 
The artwork is sloppy, though. Her frog hand jumps from being the left hand to the right and back in every shot.

@ANoobis  
Ooohhh, nice catch!

@Dex Stewart  
When is this series hitting?

@ANoobis  
Its in an upcoming issue of the current IDW comic.

Speaking of TMNT news, Seth Rogen has a TMNT movie slated to release in 2023.
 

Hollywood is making a woke, whitewashed propaganda film lionizing the slave state of Dahomey. John Boyega is going to be playing King Gezo, the man famous for saying “The slave trade has been the ruling principle of my people… it has been the source of their glory & wealth”.