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meatmel · 14 days

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PUNCH OUT OCSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

im finally taking up the courage to post my guys. Say hello!!!!!!

John 'The Eagle' Whacker! [the ref is outdated a bit.] 27. he/him! Hes from New jersey, Trenton! and hes very proud of his country!!! USA BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!! he is purposefully meant to look like a eagle! You know that line aran ryan says, about little mac having cheeseburgers in his gloves? Thats exactly what john has in his gloves. sweaty greasy cheeseburgers. He still eats them, inbetween matches too! Docs first reactions to this in the intermissions for the first time is always an "ew..." hes a little bit of a wimp despite thinking hes the #1 american man. his hair occasionally spikes up like a cat when he dodges your attacks! considering him being an egg and not knowing hes transfem yet.. but thats for another post, hehe https://toyhou.se/26347946.john-whacker-the-eagle

Blue jay! France, paris. shes 25! she/her gabby jays daughter! a bit of a reckless [but fair] fighter. shes really competitive and became the champion of her circuit because of that. shes johns gf [future wife.] both share the theme [and a love of] birds! shes a redesign of an old oc from 2021:) https://toyhou.se/26790872.blue-jay

Cesare Dracula! [usually just goes by The Dracula] from Transylvania, Rome. said to be hundreds of years old, hes in his 30s in human years. he/it he speaks italian but also some english! [and other misc languages.] since hes met a lof of people over his lifetime who use many many diffrent languages. he has bat wings tattooed onto his back, because he himself can transform into a little bat! he was my first punch out oc:)) https://toyhou.se/26347826.cesare-dracula

and finally, Radio - Active. [he/it] most of his information is unknown. but he speaks very little and mostly does ASL most of his attacks are dance based, kinda like disco kid! but with a lot more kicking. his face mask is hiding something. [facial deformity, if you knock it off of him he will be pissed.] he doesnt know that nobody would mind much about it, hes just self conscious he has so many infractions if you were to count them up [though they do not come close to aran ryans infraction count] multiple tattoos!!!!!! he loves getting them https://toyhou.se/26375708.radio-active

thas everybody:) i have a few that are still in the works, but these are the ones i have mostly polished up. make sure to check out their toyhouse pages too, because ill try to update them consistently! and add whatever drawings i make of them there, hehe

#punch out #punch out!!#punch out ocs #punch out oc #ocs #oc content #radio active #blue jay #john whacker #cesare dracula #using johns actual name bcs just tagging the eagle would be strange #mels artt #mels ocss #hell yeah i hope you guys like them!!!!!!!!#oc #oc art

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boneopera · 1 year

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my other secret type: scrungly delicate old fashioned freaky dudes who oft share the characteristic of having been driven mad by their circumstances

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maxwell-grant · 8 months

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If you were making up a gang of super-villains from classic Horror Movie characters (Count Dracula is an obvious 'In' being pretty much a super villain even in his original novel!), may I please ask which characters you would include and what role they would play in the gang?

First thing to establish is that Dracula is not leading the team. And obviously Dracula’s not gonna be a team player in a supporting role, so what we’re gonna do is this: Dracula is the threat that the team was assembled to fight.

Pretty much anytime you see the classic monsters gathered in any fashion, Dracula’s always the leader, and if we wanted to do that, we already have Monster Mash and Castlevania and so forth. I think assembling a Legion of Doom out of the Classic Monsters makes you particularly subject to law of diminishing returns that affect both supervillains and monsters, in that having a bunch of characters who demand to operate solo in narrative wind up greatly diminished when they're all doing the same thing together. So instead of Legion of Doom, I'm making these something more low-key like Secret Six, Thunderbolts and Suicide Squad and etc.

Here, it's all a bunch of classic monsters, but they all have a grudge with him, because everyone’s got beef with Dracula, and Dracula wants them destroyed so he may rule monsters and humans alike unopposed. Dracula is The Flash, and they are the Rogues. They bond together because it's the only way to win. Dracula is several orders of magnitude more evil than them, has countless weird magical abilities to counteract them, and he’s skilled enough in manipulation that he could conceivably trick them into doing his bidding, but he’s got no need for them past whatever unique abilities they have for momentary use, when he’s already got so much else at his disposal, including the ability to call in the universal ending to most monster stories: Call in the cops to shoot them dead.

In itself, this already gives the team a motivation to stay together regardless of what else is in the setting to give them trouble: They need to survive and beat Dracula, and they can’t call on anyone else for help. In fact, if the urge to have Dracula lead the Monster Squad again gets too strong, we could even establish that Dracula is able to create his own monsters, imperfect copies of their archetypes to serve as his enforcers, and thus, our group could have to fight off Frankensteins and mummies and werewolves and clones of themselves on their way to take him down.

Formation for this hypothetical group goes as follows:

The Leader - The Bride of Frankenstein:

Couple of reasons for why she’s leader besides favoritism being, she’s a Frankenstein and thus has to play a major role, but she doesn’t need to be a shambling brute, and if we’re gonna do a ragtag group of people fighting Count Dracula, in any form, it would be quite wrong to not have them led by a headstrong, brilliant woman. Also Elsa Lanchester plays Mary Shelley in the same movie, and Mary Shelley rules so she's qualified to rule this team-up by default.

We could establish her as having had significantly more time to mature and develop into something resembling the book Creature’s intelligence and sense of self, having picked up alchemical expertise from Pretorius’ notes to combine with her survival skills, and as a Frankenstein she could have the kind of superhuman strength and endurance that follows, allowing her to be sort of a jack-of-trades suitable for the leader position. Imposing, stoic, capable, and being a Frankenstein, crushingly lonely in more ways than one and in dire need of guidance.

The Mentor & Magician - Imhotep (The Mummy):

Because there’s no way we can pass on having Boris Karloff on this team. If The Bride is the Mina of our anti-Dracula crew, then Imhotep is our Van Helsing. Functionally similar to Dracula in many ways, but playing on a different side (definitely not on humanity’s side though). He's a prideful, manipulative grumpus from a bygone era with his glory days long behind him, with access to a wide array of magical powers, but not quite as rotten or powerful as his ancient enemy Dracula.

Imhotep has lived a long, long, long life and an exceedingly longer afterlife, constantly raised from death to be bothered by mortals again and again, which has granted him a considerable know-how of navigating strange worlds of magic and terror and history, but remaining out of touch with modern times. The team's magic user, with his main weakness being that he’s fragile and old and rotting and dying. Imhotep’s not quite able to transverse the mortal realm as easily as his rival, and he’s held back by the countless forms of decay that have set within him, which is part of why he’s agreeable enough to work with The Bride and for the two to put this team together.

The Resources & Social Interface - Janet Smith Jekyll (Daughter of Dr Jekyll):

We can't have a classic Universal Gathering without at minimum a Talbot werewolf in the mix and Jekyll & Hyde is as Classic as classic monsters get, so we're going here with Gloria Talbott's character in Daughter of Dr Jekyll, a mysterious orphan who inherits a huge mansion and fortune that used to belong to the infamous Dr Jekyll, and who discovers that she may indeed share his two-faced affliction and proclivity for going out at night on uncontrollable murderous rampages (and yes I am very much ignoring the movie's climax to make this character, shut up)

The movie sort of treats Mr Hyde as a werewolf transformation with quite a lot of vampire in the mix, which suits our purposes just fine because now we get to have a vampire on top of a werewolf in the team. She's got a cool homebase for our team to operate from in Dr Jekyll's mansion, she's super rich which never hurts to have in a team setting, she's the only one that can fully pass for human and also the one who accumulates the biggest body count the longer she stays active, so there's always some tension with her.

She is the monster most suited for operating within modern society, high and low class alike, which makes her an invaluable operative in the battle against Dracula and his game of predatory psychological class warfare, and the one most suited for keeping the team out of trouble. However, it's up to question how much can the team trust her. Even she doesn't quite know how much she can trust herself. Her teammates may not have blood, but a girl's gotta eat and all.

The Reality-Warping Assassin - Cesare:

Cesare is, strange. He’s a sweet young man, but around him hangs the faint echo of dead, ancient eons. He’s unmatched at subterfuge, able to slip through the shadows not just unseen, but unheard in a way that shouldn’t be possible, as he makes absolutely no sound whatsoever, not even when he does things that should make noise, like trip or cry or stab people. On the rare occasions he vocalizes, it's like the words emerge in your head fully formed. Everything he interacts with turns colorless and frayed the way he is.

He’s able to tell the fortunes of most he meets, but only for their deaths, and if he's bothered by his own prophecy of Dracula ending the worlds of monster and man alike, he doesn't show it. The world around him seems to occasionally warp into strange angles and crooked architecture and thick, tangible shadows, and it’s difficult to tell if any of it is even his doing in the first place. He also has an unusually intense grudge of clowns and hamburguers

He seems to sleep most of the time off-duty, and he’s docile as a lamb even while commanded to kill, though he may resist more immoral commands. Though his eyes hang open, he only wakes up very rarely, and when he does, the monsters see the world around him blink out of existence to be replaced with a greyed out mental hospital, where they all look like doctors or regular people in straightjackets, and it only lasts for a few brief, maddening seconds before he falls asleep again.

This can be an advantage to the team as a potential safeguard from threats and space to regroup, provided they don’t lose their selves and can get Cesare to stop playing with the flowers and go back to sleep, and you can imagine it only gets harder every time, convincing him to abandon a peaceful existence to once again be a murderous slave for eternity, and maybe convincing themselves to not join him there.

Better he’s on our side than Dracula’s, The Bride and Imhotep figure.

The Warrior-Healer & Aquatic Specialist: The Gill Man

I already said much of my piece on The Gill Man in terms of their role and personality here and obviously, they gotta be in the team. In terms of their powers & skillset, Gill Man is actually much better suited for this kind of stuff than most of the other Universal monsters. They are strong enough to move boats on their own, stealthy enough to consistently evade his human pursuers (and human civilization for countless years) and tough enough to survive and come back for two sequels.

Another idea to me comes from using The Shape of Water and it’s take on Gill Man, who was believed to be an Amazonian river god, and throughout the movie displays magical healing powers and traits that call into question just what it is exactly. Dracula would certainly find no use for The Gill Man as anything other than muscle for his army of the undead, but for a team that does have at least a handful of living members and may even depend on human assistance, a medic is a invaluable thing to have, as is someone still living and in touch with nature.

The Scientist & Swarm Controller: Doctor Delambre (The Fly)

Picked here to represent the original version of The Fly but can also adapt traits from Seth Brundle and other takes on this idea. We need a resident mad scientist (who's really not a mad scientist, but when you look the part, y'know), a sci-fi guy to represent that other vein of classic horror, somebody who can contrast the resident magicians and alchemists, and also no self-respecting team is complete without a bug guy, so here we have Dr Delambre, who joins the team as an assistant to The Bride and has found a way to hold off the mental decay process and made substantial progress on his matter-transporter devices as well as find ways to live with his newfound biological quirks. He's even found a way to utilize insects with humanoid limbs and intelligence in daily chores and missions, although he resents the idea that he's "controlling" them, mind you.

But with his wife under trial for his botched suicide ruled a murder, and his inability to show up in society and testify in her favor, and all of his former military contacts having cut off all ties with him, he's desperately trying to find a way to reverse the process of his transformation for good to save her and is willing to do whatever it takes. Doctor Delambre even winds up being sort of the team's wild card, because his technology is very potent and just as capable of breaking reality under the wrong hands as Cesare's weirdness, but he is not a "monster" by birth or choice and is merely a guy in a rush to try and revert his condition, and if Dracula comes along with a better promise to save his wife and life, perhaps...

And last but certainly not least,

The Transportation & Muscle - The Rhedosaurus (The Beast from 20.000 Fathoms)

We might have to shrink them down a bit but we absolutely can’t NOT have a giant monster dinosaur on the team, but neither Godzilla nor Kong would have much business palling around with these monsters. The Rhedosaurus, on the other hand, is a perfect fit, seeing as he’s Godzilla’s inspiration and the movie he’s in is credited as being the revival of the giant monster genre as well as the first to introduce the atomic bomb to the mix. The Rhedosaurus here would be sort of composited from the movie version as well as the original story by Ray Bradbury and obviously composited from Godzilla variants and the Toho kaijus who owe their existence to it, a vicious and violent creature defending itself and one that's deeply lonely and desperate and strangely noble as the last of it’s kind, one that has nothing else to help protect it but these strange not-humans it’s formed an unlikely bond with. It has a particularly strong bond with The Gill Man, the only one who’s able to communicate with and steer it properly.

The Rhedosaurus is a global danger on a bigger and more direct scale than the other monsters, not just as a giant powerful dinosaur, but also a creature whose death could unleash a plague powerful enough to wipe out mankind, something the characters wouldn’t discover until late into the story (something Dracula, and maybe even Imhotep, would certainly want to exploit for personal gain). Maybe this radiation seeps over and forces the team to move their location around to stay undetected, maybe it's instrumental to powering whatever plans Dr Delambre and The Bride are cooking up in their lab, maybe it's affecting the environment or reality itself in strange unforeseen ways the way certain Godzilla works like KOTM and Singular Point have done.

It can be the key to saving the world or destroying it in equal measure, and so the fate of the Rhedosaurus is the fate of the future, and it falls up to the team to protect it as much as it will protect them.

So yeah, maybe I took this from a super-villain team and made it something a lot more League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in setup, but this team I imagine is grouped together less by a desire to save the world or serve a higher cause, than a simple matter of survival against a mutual enemy and the world that''s turned against them. They want drastically different things and employ drastically different methods and they each constitute powerful threats, and together, they are as likely to destroy themselves first if not the world with them. But survival is a matter they all have a stake on. Alone, they don’t stand a chance. Together, they may just have a chance and live, if only to finally rest in peace.

#replies tag #universal monsters #monster #horror #frankenstein #the bride of frankenstein #imhotep #the mummy #dr jekyll and mr hyde #cesare #the cabinet of dr. caligari #the gill man #the fly #dracula #hero forge

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gesamkuns-twerk · 3 months

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I’m always going to have a love for the gothic and dramatic while accepting that I am “just some guy.”

So a creature of the night being some poor overworked sap with little to no control over his own life is really interesting and resonant.

#give me someone who’s just a revenant taskrabbit #btb #bigtop burger #btb cesare #no more Sex Draculas

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klc-archive · 11 years

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Young Dracula - S04xE03 Storm in a Blood Cup

Vlad must find a way to get out of his engagement before the Blood Tea Ceremony, but his attempts to make her look bad have no effect on his father and Ramanga. With blood supplies running low, it becomes harder to maintain peace.

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collinsportmaine · 2 years

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Cesar Romero (aka The Joker from Batman66) played a vampire in a "Night Gallery" S2E3 (1971). The story was something about his confusion over the purpose of a blood bank.

#vampires #Cesar Romero #Dracula #blood bank #Night Gallery #The Joker #Batman 66

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mantecol · 1 year

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the mbti test is boring if you have a boring personality type. couldn't be me

#im ENTJ and is so much fun #PATRICK BATEMAN ??? LIGHT YAGAMI ??? DIO ??? MADARA UCHIHA #DRACULA. NAPOLEON. JULIO CESAR. GENGHIS KHAN. BISMARCK. ATTILA EL UNO.#.txt

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spider-xan · 7 months

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Regarding Mina's description of Dracula and why it's problematic, a good starting point would be to read the Wikipedia article for physiognomy, which is the outdated pseudoscience of face reading that is unfortunately rooted in racism, antisemitism, ableism, etc., and was very popular during the Victorian era as a way to judge moral character based on facial features.

So when Mina says 'His face was not a good face', she is not just saying that Dracula is ugly (though concepts of ugliness and beauty are not value-neutral either), but that she can tell that he is evil based on his facial features; note that one of the facial features she singles out is a 'beaky nose', which comes from Cesare Lombroso's idea that among other traits, hawk-like noses are a marker of criminality on the basis of criminals being evolutionary throwbacks who are less evolved than non-criminals; many of these allegedly 'criminal' and 'degenerate' facial features are obviously racialized and not associated with Gentile whiteness, but in opposition to it.

Stoker was definitely interested in physiognomy and uses it as a narrative device to show how certain heroic characters are intelligent, perceptive, and educated on the latest (pseudo)sciences (the modernity theme again) - namely Mina and Van Helsing, but also Jonathan to a lesser degree; we will definitely see this idea come up several more times, including explicit references to Lombroso himself.

It is also important to remember that linking physical appearance and morality still happens today - think about how many people say they can tell someone is a bad person bc they're ugly or that 'People get the face they deserve' where good people age gracefully and bad people age poorly, even though aging has nothing to do with personal character.

#dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #mina harker #mina murray #abraham van helsing #van helsing #the sad irony with lombroso is that he himself was jewish #yet pioneered a theory of criminality that encouraged bigotry against his own marginalized ethnic group #which is also why it's frustrating when people dismiss mina's bigotry by saying she's an autistic-coded woman and would never #marginalized people can still internalize prejudices that hurt themselves and others #and she is ultimately a narrative device written by a bigoted writer not a real person herself

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best-movie-ever-tournament · 8 months

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari:

Arguably the first TRUE horror film! The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a majorly influential German silent film from 1920, very easily streamed all over the place including YouTube! It had a tremendous impact on German and American cinema, especially in horror and later noir films, and featured fantastical elements of surrealism in its depictions and architecture that are incredibly endearing. The film is a tale of love, hypnotism, and murder. Fantastic plot twist for an early film, and Cesare is very very gender.

Dracula:

Stoker's novel is great, but this is what defined Dracula and most vampire media for the past 90+ years (even the new Renfield references it). And it's a genuinely good movie!! A lot of films can feel dated over time, but Dracula holds up really well. And Bela Lugosi puts on a great performance.

#the cabinet of dr. caligari #tournament poll #dracula 1931

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wearebackbagels · 1 year

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Vampire.

(I used that title bc I knew it would catch your eye @fergusfraserapologist )

I know Cesar/Augustin is the fandom’s resident vampire but Paul’s outfit here reeeaally gives me Dracula vibes. Augustin is the hot, sexy, French vampire that would seduce you with a nice dinner, candles and wine then erotically suck you dry in front of the open fire place.

Mr Essner on the other hand would most likely just jump lost hikers left and right to get a drink. Maybe scare them a bit first, or seduce them into following him back to his castle.

Like this--(time to use our imagination).

Imagine you are walking on a trail somewhere deep in the German mountains, alone, you haven’t met anyone during the whole day and the decision to take that shortcut might not have been a very good one.

Reaching the top of a mountain you pause to rest for a while, drinking the last water in your bottle and watching as the sun sets behind the mountains and taking all color and warmth with it.

Sighing you pack up to get going again, the forest now cold an eerily silent around you.

Caught up in your map and the search for a nearby village, you don’t notice how the trail leads you down the mountain and into the thick, dark forest below and how fog slowly rises from the mossy ground and dampens any sound you create.

Next time you look up and look around a weight settles in your stomach, you have NO IDEA where you are or where you are supposed to go. But without any better plan you keep on walking, hoping the trail will lead to SOMEWHERE, but now a lot more attentive on your surroundings than before.

You walk and watch as the forest becomes darker and darker as night settles over the mountain, suddenly you hear the sound of rustling fabric and whips around only to find THIS

towering over you, highlighted cheekbones and all! After apologising for the scare and introducing himself as Walter Essner, he explains how he lives only a bit further down the path and how you could stay there for the night.

Personally I’d be scared as all shit, but would ofc follow( for a lot of different reasons)

@invisiblegargoyl

#sas rogue heroes #he is just so Dracula #walter essner #Paul boche #i spent an unhealthy amount of time finding good pictures

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vogelfreyh · 5 months

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Wanted to finish the fullbody ref chart for Vladi before my week off ends! 👀❤️

Vladi and his true vampire form in fullbody.