Where he lived, people paid five cents (Colones) to watch wrestling on a single TV because most people in El Salvador couldn’t afford to have one of their own. Once inside, they’d sit on benches, root for their heroes, and jeer the villains. Classic confrontations lost over time and...
Few movies debut as "franchise-ready" asDr. Nodid, even though the Hollywood of the '60s wasn't as obsessed with universe-building as it is now. The first James Bond 007 film was made by Eon Productions, a union between rivals Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman that merged to secure th...
Walker and Greene make for a dynamic duo on 2016’sPOWER MAN AND IRON FIST, taking the original Heroes for Hire back to their home turf! Encountering classic villains likeCottonmouthandBlack Mariah(plus newer allies likeCaptain MarvelandBlack Cat), this retro run has some of the same trappings...
12 Marvel Villains Too Terrifying For The MCU Vote 11 The Juggernaut Is The Avatar Of An Angry God Photo: Marvel Comics 20th Century Fox What Happens In The Comic:Cain Marko, the man who becomes the Juggernaut, grows up as the stepbrother of Charles Xavier. After a...
What Happens In The Comic:Rocket has one of the most existentially disturbing origins in all of comics. He starts life out as a therapy animal on a planet-sized insane asylum run by robots, and it only gets stranger from there. When the robot wards gain sentience,...
Recognizing the humanness of everyday villains September 14, 2020~Leave a comment By Brian M. Junkes SVD In a movie or book that you like, have you ever identified with the villain or antagonist? Have you ever seen yourself in the shoes of a villain or antagonist? It may be shocking to...
Understand your fantasy villains and mentors Many fantasy villains appear to be destructive for its own sake initially – cruel figures who enjoy destruction or vast power. Yet many fantasy authors have developed and humanized their villains as series progressed. ...
driving across three states was spent with the fictional adventures of Mike Rabb, a former CIA special operator, as he tracked down megalomaniacs and world-destabilizing villains. These audio books kept us focused while we drove through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and then into the Sooner state...
The show is a goddamn delight, full of hundreds of throwaway zingers, some slicing observations, and some excellently named villains (The Terror, Overkill… Lint…). It’s bright, bold, beautiful, warm, compassionate, heartbreaking and sensitive in its handling of mental illness… and still ...
possibilities as I can. And off the top of my head, and calling to mind all the examples that I can think of, I have come up with a list of seven different kinds of people/organizations who usually have a hand in the creation of superheroes and villains. Select one and proceed to ...