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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 16th 2023 at 5:37:57 PM
Page 1184 @MM_Crusader
...Leonard is eliminated in the second episode in which he participated.
Leonard loses when he attempts to rely on magic...
Sanders decides to eat the stew slowly...
Page 1184 @Spiro Spiro
...wasn't aired in the country due to the plot involving Doraemon and Nobita going into a zoo in Imperial Japan <- no comma and the presence of Imperial Japanese soldiers in the episode segment.
^ Partial-Context Example. Which country? Despite its unclear title, Banned in China isn't limited to China.
The 2017 episodes of Doraemon <- no comma "I am Mini Doraemon" (ぼくミニドラえもん) and "Elephant and Uncle" (ぞうとおじさん) <- no comma weren't aired in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, despite the latter segment's earlier 2007 adaptation already airing in these countries before. South Korea did air the former segment, but the latter segment was also skipped but for some understandable reasons, as the segment involves Doraemon and Nobita going into a zoo in Imperial Japan, and the presence of the Imperial Japanese soldiers in the segment.
Page 1184 @Toot
The original female cast in the first season is composed of...
No, fate or destiny if you will.
For Unico: Awakening
- Adaptational Early Appearance:
- Unico's mother and siblings are present during Volume 1's prologue explaining the origins of unicorns and when Unico was an infant. Unico's mother and family didn't appear until midway through the manga's run in 1978 debuting in the chapter "A Hometown Visit".
- In the original manga, the Night Wind only made a brief appearance in "The Tale of the Fangs of Athens" chapter near the manga's conclusion. In this incarnation, she appears during the prologue section of Volume 1 where she's established as The Dragon to Venus.
- Big Good: Sphinx is huge and actually towers over the West Wind. When the West Wind wakes her up to seek her wisdom, she's intimidated by Sphinx and almost gets squished by her front paws. Despite her large size, Sphinx is very knowledgeable and tries helping her out on Unico's situation. She even empathizes with the West Wind's situation since Sphinx's daughter was kidnapped by Venus.
- Evil Is Bigger: While Venus already had threatening in the original manga. She's given a more imposing appearance where she's not only a gigantic. But actually makes Zephyrus and Sphinx look tiny since Venus' fingers is the size of truck compared to the West Wind's head.
- Gender Flip: Marusu (Piro in the manga) is a female sphinx cub in this incarnation. In the original manga, Marusu/Piro was a boy but easily confused as a female due to having very feminine hair and eyelashes.
- Give Me a Sign: When the West Wind becomes remorseful and wishes to find a way to end Unico's cycle of getting separated from his friends and forgetting his own identity. She hears a whisper on the zephyr with a message reading "There Is A Way" written by leaves. She decides to drop Unico off to a nearby city to follow that whisper.
- P.O.V. Cam: When Unico wakes up inside a city at night. Two panels are shown from Unico's perspective showing his vision getting less blurry until he gets a clear vision of a neighborhood.
- Tears of Remorse: When realizing how cruel her methods towards protecting Unico was by constantly wiping his memories and endlessly separating him from his friends. Zephyrus, the Spirit of the West Wind starts shedding tears as she wishes there was a way to end Unico's cycle on forgetting his friends and his own identify.
Edited by brb1006 on May 5th 2024 at 2:00:42 PM
- Wolf's Rain: A rare male example. The main cast is composed of flirty hedonist Hige, the manly cynic Tsume, the cute Baby Of The Bunch Toboe, and the chosen leader Kiba .
Edited by Toot on May 5th 2024 at 11:35:04 AM
- Sleepy Hollow (1999): Jonathan Masbeth's murder is preceded by lots of sheep and deer running out of the woods in terror, alerting Masbeth to ready his gun and prepare to open fire at the Headless Horseman from his lookout post. The warning does him no good.
- Downplayed in Intermedio when the villain captures the protagonists and ties them up with barbed wire. Malik is the one who manages to get out of their bounds and then free Gen. Still, she is the one who then manages to find the hidden exit of the room they were dumped in, helps carry Malik out when he can barely walk, and then overpowers their captor and takes his Revenant Zombie-summoning necklace from him when he tries to stop them.
- Damsel out of Distress: Ryder's kidnapped P.A. Alma manages to beat up one of her kidnappers and knock him out of the truck, although the truck would have then crashed without Colt's intervention and he also distracts some other thugs who would have been able to help the one Alma was fighting.
- Ignored Expert: When he arrives on the shoot, Colt quickly notes that the sand isn't quite right for the stunt driving he's expected to do, and they should wait until after the tide comes in and out again. He's overruled, and the car ride is unnecessarily bumpy when he does the student, leading to the destruction of a camera.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Big Bad Gail is a smarmy person with Complexity Addiction and a fondness for having subordinates do all the hard work, but she does get in a few punches in the climax, steals back the evidence against Ryder, and nearly shoots Colt.
- Recruit the Muggles: In the climax, most of the film crew help trick Ryder into confessing and a small army of stunt workers provide Dan backup during his fight with the {{Mook}}s and mop the floor with them.
- Pet the Dog: Downplayed with Horrible Hollywood movie star Ryder's four actual pet dogs (he also has a cockatoo, but he's planning to sell it); he does give his assistant instructions to take care of them during his disappearance, but also only keeps at least one of them, Jean-Claude, around to do violent party tricks.
@ The Spiderwick Chronicles (2024)
- Critical Dissonance: The film's critical score hovers at 46% on Rotten Tomatoes, but the audience score is 78%, although the Internet Movie Database score is also about average.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Teddy and Dr. Einstein may be less prominent than Mortimer, Jonathan, and the aunts, but provide some of the most funny and heartfelt moments of the story.
@ Jeremiah
- Ghost Story: In the pilot, some patrons at a bar in Clarefield discuss a story that victims of the Big Death aren't entirely dead and, in Chicago, they wake up every night to prowl the streets looking for their kids, although this is more of a story that people who miss the old world want to believe rather than something to scare each other with.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In "To Sail Beyond the Stars," after the owner of a profitable business is murdered, Kurdy half-seriously suggests to Jeremiah that they could retire from their scouting duties, take it over, and avoid the kind of danger they keep getting into on the road. Before they can consider it further, a local tough announces that he is taking the place over instead, and they drop the idea.
- In The Case of the Tender Cheeping Chickens, Hank gets a rather devious victory over Pete when Pete marches into a chicken cage to eat the chicks they have both been tempted to eat throughout the book. Hank seizes the opportunity to lock the cage door and alert the humans, catching Pete red-handed and (probably incidentally) making him too scared to eat any of the young birds.
- Everybody Lies In Hell: Anyone who enters Hell has their own private Hell that is modeled after a place that meant something to them in life (often where they died) and comes with a Limited Wardrobe, but those who are less able to process what happens drift out of their private Hells and end up either punishing themselves for eternity or trying to pretend they're still alive in someone else's private Hell. Most injuries last for eternity, and eventually, souls who are hurt badly enough, lose their sense of awareness, or did certain evil acts descend to a dungeon cell where demons torture them nonstop. Self-Inflicted Hell is also at play in the story, as how bearable a private Hell is often depends on how much someone thinks they deserve to be punished, and it's possible to escape that feeling if you accept what you have done but feel you have managed to redeem yourself.
- There are a few moments in earlier issues which suggest that at least some of them may really care about the world as more than just something to rule over, such as when Cold talks about hoping his actions will stop the apocalyptic nightmares he has and Manta says that Aquaman deserves a brutal death for causing the visions he saw, both of which might have Undercover When Alone implications otherwise.
- Ned and his companions have a surprisingly warm and insightful (on both sides) meeting with Septon Daeron and both Ned and Daeron give each other some comfort over their respective worries and both indulge in some acts of charity. Also, despite a potential Broken Pedestal-inducing up-close look at the leaders of the Faith of the Seven, the pious Gerant asks Daeron for a blessing as they part ways and makes it clear that he still respects him a great deal.
Edited by Alpinist on May 6th 2024 at 11:58:52 AM
Just a guy.
Broken Base.Transformers:
- Do Transformers count as Mecha? Some argue they count since they're giant robots with Japanese origins, while others argue they don't since they're sentient beings instead of robots piloted by humans like traditional mecha.note This debate can send both Transformers and traditional mecha fans into a frenzy, which is not helped by the two sides sharing a Fandom Rivalry.
Edited by Tylerbear12 on May 5th 2024 at 12:04:28 PM
Useful Note
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I mean the episode segment is banned in South Korea only.
Thanks Arvine.
Ridonculous Race French Is An Eiffel Language
- Mythology Gag: This isn't the first time Noah and Owen visit Paris.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: In the bathroom that Owen uses, one can see the flypaper that appears in the confessional booth in the original series.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Due to Owen's actions, both he and Noah incur a penalty. Noah, who is already losing his patience with Owen, reprimands him while gently smacking him with a rolled-up newspaper.
Total Drama: "Full Metal Drama"
- All for Nothing: Played for Laughs. The chest that the Screaming Gaffers have been protecting turns out to be empty, symbolizing that war does not bring any rewards. Realizing they have been fighting for nothing, Duncan and Harold scream into the sky.
- All That Glitters: The Trunk of Mind-Blowing Secrets appears shiny on the outside, but is empty on the inside.
- Meaningful Name: Although the Trunk of Mind-Blowing Secrets is empty, it still managed to blow the minds of the Screaming Gaffers.
Edited by MM_Crusader on May 6th 2024 at 12:11:36 PM
Not the Eye
For Complete Monster.
- Rebel Moon: Admiral Atticus Noble is ambitious Imperium commander and most brutal minion of Regent Balisarius. Tasked with crushing uprisings at the borders of the Realm, Noble ruthlessly enforces the Imperium’s will with help of his dreadnought capable of laying waste to entire planets. Searching for Bloodaxe siblings, he comes to village on Veldt in search of the grain to feed his army. When village’s leader lieas to him about amount of grain they produce, Noble clobbers him to death and orders enormous amount of grain, leaving his sadistic soldiers to keep villagers in line and not caring that they will starve to death because of his demands. When presented with captured rebel liason, Noble promises him freedom in exchange for information, only to sever his spine chord and leave him prisoner in his body after getting it, ordering his brain to be dissected to see if he knows anything more. Learning that Bloodaxes are protected by king Levitica, Noble personally kills him while having his planet completely razed. Capturing Kora’s group and learning that Kora is the infamous Scargiver, Noble plans tosever their spine Chord and take them to Balisarius to earn a place in senate. After being killed by Kora, Noble is revived by the Priests of Motherworld and return to the village. When villagers rise up, Noble unleashes his army on them before ordering his ship to blow up the village and all troops still down.
- Star Wars: Darth Maul - Black, White & Red Issue #1 “Ghost Ship”: The Emissary of Chaos is mysterious leader of anarchistic Final Occultation and strongly hinted to be being of the Netherworld. When Darth Sidious organises cult to be taken into custody in order to learn their secrets, the Emissary leads them to hijack prison ship that transported them and slaugther the crew. The Emmisary organises and presides over summoning ceremony, planning to use ship’s hyperdrive to open rift in space and unleash chaos and madness on the galaxy.
For Magnificent Bastard:
- The Grimm Variations "Little Red Riding Hood": Scarlet is mysterious woman hungry for blood. Working as Little Red Riding Hood to be hunted by sadistic men, Scarlet uses her charm tipo lure them into a false sense of security before killing them. When paired with Grey as his prey, Scarlet uses Wounded Gazelle Gambit to lure him into the open and charm him into letting his guard down, before druging and killing him.
- Doraemon
- In some unlicensed Malay translations of the manga, the title was changed to "Labu Labi" (Pumpkins), with the title character's name changed to "Labu", which means "pumpkin", and Nobita's name changed to "Labi".
Edited by SpiroSpiro on May 6th 2024 at 3:20:49 AM
@ EmperorGeode
- Film/Rebel Moon: Admiral Atticus Noble is an ambitious Imperium commander and the most brutal minion of Regent Balisarius. Tasked with crushing uprisings at the borders of the Realm, Noble ruthlessly enforces the Imperium’s will with the help of his dreadnought which is capable of laying waste to entire planets. Searching for the Bloodaxe siblings, he comes to a village on Veldt in search of (superfluous word - cut) grain to feed his army. When the village’s leader lies to him about the amount of grain they produce, Noble clobbers him to death and demands an enormous amount of grain, leaving his sadistic soldiers to keep the villagers in line, (comma, superfluous word - cut) not caring that they will starve to death because of his demands. When presented with a captured rebel liaison, Noble promises him freedom in exchange for information, only to sever his spinal cord and leave him a prisoner in his own body after getting it, ordering his brain to be dissected to see if he knows anything more. Learning that the Bloodaxes are protected by King Levitica, Noble personally kills him while having his planet completely razed. Capturing Kora’s group and learning that Kora is the infamous Scargiver, Noble plans to sever their spinal cord and take them to Balisarius to earn a place in the senate. After being killed by Kora, Noble is revived by the Priests of Motherworld and returns to the village. When villagers rise up, Noble unleashes his army on them before ordering his ship to blow up the village and all troops still down.
- Star Wars Darth Maul Black White And Red Issue #1 “Ghost Ship”: The Emissary of Chaos is themysterious leader of the anarchistic Final Occultation and is strongly hinted to be a being of the Netherworld. When Darth Sidious arranges for the cult to be taken into custody in order to learn their secrets, the Emissary leads them to hijack the prison ship that is transporting them and slaughter the crew. The Emissary organises and presides over a summoning ceremony, planning to use ship’s hyperdrive to open a rift in space and unleash chaos and madness on the galaxy.
- The Grimm Variations in "Little Red Riding Hood", (comma) Scarlet is a' mysterious woman hungry for blood. Working as Little Red Riding Hood (superfluous words - cut, move text), Scarlet uses her charm to lure sadistic men into a false sense of security before killing them. When paired with Grey as his prey, Scarlet uses a Wounded Gazelle Gambit to lure him into the open and charm him into letting his guard down, before drugging and killing him.
Edited by Clare on May 6th 2024 at 3:21:56 PM
Not the Eye
Thanks Clare. First was meant to be “in his own body”, while in second I also forgot to add his troops.
@brb1006
...through the manga's run in 1978, <- comma debuting...
She even empathizes with the West Wind's situation, <- comma since...
While Venus had already threatened <missing text> in the original manga, <- comma she's given a more imposing appearance where she's not only a gigantic <missing text>, <- comma but actually makes Zephyrus and Sphinx look tiny, <- comma since Venus' fingers are the size of trucks compared to the West Wind's head.
^ While Venus had already threatened who or what in the original manga?
^ Where she's not only a gigantic what?
^ Twice in this paragraph, you improperly and unnecessarily split up sentences.
Marusu/Piro was a boy but was easily confused as being a female due...
She hears a whisper on the zephyr and sees a message reading "There Is A Way" written by leaves. She decides to drop Unico off at a nearby city to follow the whisper.
Two panels are shown from Unico's perspective, <- comma depicting his vision...
Changed the redundant "showing".
When realizing how cruel her methods of protecting Unico was by constantly wiping his memories and endlessly separating him from his friends were. Zephyrus, the Spirit of the West Wind starts shedding tears as she wishes there was a way to end Unico's cycle of forgetting his friends and his own identify.
@Toot
...and the chosen leader Kiba. <- no space
@Alpinist
...to take care of them during his disappearance, <- comma but...
...although the Internet Movie Database score is also about average.
Most injuries last for eternity, <- comma and...and it's possible...
Heroes like Elongated Man were targeted but were left alone...
...and loved ones of Justice League members were also kidnapped...
@MM_Crusader
Although the Trunk of Mind-Blowing Secrets is empty, it still manages to...
^ Changed verbs to present tense as per How to Write an Example - Write in Historical Present Tense.
- Fanfic Fuel: What reasons did the few heroes seemingly absent from the loyalty pledge in Washington D.C. besides Alan, Ted, and Paul (Vigilante, Mr. terrific, etc.) have for their absences?
@ Jedi Masters
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: He relishes fighting and did something that made him doubt his connection to the positive parts of the Force, but he cares about innocent life and is quite pleasant with the mechanic maintaining his starship and her family.
Edited by Alpinist on May 6th 2024 at 11:16:13 AM
...with the help of his dreadnought, <- comma which...Noble beats him to death...
...planning to use the ship’s hyperdrive...
Edited by Arivne on May 6th 2024 at 8:46:09 AM
@Alpinist
He relishes fighting and did something that made...
Edited by Arivne on May 6th 2024 at 8:49:40 AM
Decided to create modified version of this example for Unico: Awakening to make it flow better.
- Evil Is Bigger: In this incarnation of Unico, Venus is depicted as a gigantic evil goddess. Her massive size makes the West Wind, the Night Wind, and Sphinx look small. Even Venus' fingers are the size of trucks compared to the West Wind's head.
Edited by brb1006 on May 6th 2024 at 10:49:48 AM
- The Oblongs: The female main cast is composed of Gonky Femme Helga, the snarky goth Susie, the adorable Token Mini-Moe Beth, and the Go-Getter Girl Peggy.
Page 1184 @Blue Sparkles
Ronda can tell who is a good or bad person, <- comma as...
John Dory tells Floyd half the truth about his stress...
Edited by Arivne on May 5th 2024 at 8:59:11 AM