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kingoftieland · 1 year

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Let’s take a look at a visual history of the many armors of the Invincible Iron Man! This industrious inventory catalogs 99 Stark-made models worn by the Armored Avenger! 🛡️

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radiofreemultiverse · 3 months

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DC Trivia | Grand Trivia 119

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This week on Grand Trivia, Fluval and Kristie challenged lowly humans to a game of DC trivia

Grand Trivia is a weekly show hosted by Fluval (Grand Triviamaster of The Grand Aquarium Empire) and his sycophantic intern Intern Kristie. Each week they do offbeat trivia around a specific theme and lowly third-dimensional beings compete to prove they know their stuff.

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the-ninjago-historian · 4 months

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In case anyone needs a reminder of which books and comics are canon. Hope this helps! A couple Dragons Rising books are on here too!

#ninjago #lego ninjago #ninjago lego #ninjago dragons rising #lego ninjago dragons rising #tweets #tommy andreason #Tommy Kalmar #Books #comics #ninjago dr #dragons rising #trivia

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goodcopbatcop · 1 month

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There is an answer given in canon. Guess, then see below.

Near the height of the GCPD's corruption, when Jim Gordon first became police commissioner, two out of every five GCPD officers (about 40% of the police force) were corrupt.

By the time of Damian Wayne's time as Robin, after some ~15-20 years of Jim Gordon working as police commissioner and collaborating with Batman, one out of twelve GCPD officers (about 8% of the police force) is corrupt.

Source: Bruce Wayne: The Road Home - "Commissioner Gordon", story by Adam Beechen and Szymon Kudranski (2010)

The Gotham City Police Department employs over 35 thousand officers, with several thousands more retained in support roles. Source: Gotham Central #38 (2005)

#gotham city #gcpd #detective comics #batman comics #batman fandom #post crisis #batfamily #batfam #comic books #dc batman #new earth #trivia poll #goodcopbatcop #2008 #2005

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sohannabarberaesque · 12 days

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No wonder Hanna-Barbera's flicktoons were known and seen the world over

And for some reason, Brazil was especially fond of 3400 Cahuenga's byproducts in Portugese dub, even if retitling was sometimes necessary to make the show work among Brazilian audiences.

Take Help! ... It's The Hair Bear Bunch!, whose Brazilian Portugese title for TV was O Urso do Cabelo Duro, which translates as "The Bear With the Bad Hairdo" ... which, in comic books, was known as Shampoo, in turn becoming something of a popular nickname.

Now You Know.

#hanna barbera #trivia #unusual facts #one for ripley #brazil #brazilian portugese #hair bear bunch #o urso do cabelo duro #shampoo (comic book)#hannabarberaforever

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samasmith23 · 3 months

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Writer J.M. DeMatteis once penned a really great introduction & afterword for the Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage TPB, one which truly emphasizes the story’s central themes about staying true to ourselves even in the face of overwhelming darkness, and not resorting to the methods of your enemies...

#spider man #maximum carnage #jm dematteis #introduction #afterword #behind the scenes #book trivia #marvel comics

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legendscon · 8 months

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Event Announcement: Legends Trivia

Test your knowledge of all things Expanded Universe in trivia games both days of the convention! Join us for a fun challenge for a chance to win great prizes! Everyone who wants to play gets a chance to compete. Saturday’s trivia game covers pre-A New Hope/Battle of Yavin (BBY) material, while Sunday’s covers stories set after (ABY).

Full Convention Schedule: https://legends-con.com/guests-programming/

Buy tickets now, and join us for a celebration of all things Expanded Universe in Burbank, CA on September 9th & 10th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/legends-consortium-2023-tickets-541786186067

#Star Wars Lore #Star Wars Trivia #Expanded Universe Lore #Expanded Universe Trivia #KOTOR triva #SWTOR trivia #NJO trivia #EU trivia #Expanded Universe #Star Wars Expanded Universe #Star Wars Legends #SWEU #Star Wars EU #SW Expanded Universe #LegendsCon #Star Wars Books #Star Wars Comics #Star Wars Games

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kingoftieland · 1 year

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How much would it cost you to have everything that Tony Stark has? Check your banking funds, offshore accounts, under your mattress, and pockets! Can YOU be Iron Man? 🤑

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comicsbyte · 6 months

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Comics Byte Facts - Raj Comics - Nagraj Trivia

कॉमिक्स बाइट फैक्ट्स - राज कॉमिक्स - नागराज ट्रिविया (Comics Byte Facts - Raj Comics - Nagraj Trivia)

#ComicsByte #RajComics #comics #comicbooks #facts #trivia #Nagraj #superhero

#comic books #indian comics publishers #comics byte #comics news #comics #new release #nagraj #raj comics #trivia #comics facts #comic book #comics blogger #blogger

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catchdacraze · 7 months

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It's Trivia time with Doodie and Friends! Test your knowledge and answer the question without Google. Did you know every issue of There's an Alien in my Toilet ® is filled with more trivia, puzzles and activities. Now on Kickstarter http://kck.st/3LMsV8m

#trivia #puzzles #activities #comics #indie comics #kickstarter #art #artist #alien #scifi #kids books #fun #adventure #series

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a-plethora-of-midnight-roses · 8 months

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things i know about pokemon with 99% accuracy:

gender ratio

name

vaguely what they look like

things i know about pokemon with 50% accuracy:

where to find

what their shiny look like

things i do not know about pokemon:

how tall they are

how much they weigh

#I do not need to know #all I know is that by gen 5 joltik was the itty bittiest pokemon around and that was ONLY because it was in the little trivia section in th #back of a pokemon pocket comics book that I had #midnight speaks #pokemon

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thecollectorsbase · 1 year

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Ten un fin de semana "mutante" con estos datos que tal vez no sabías de esta producción que marcó el cierre de la 1° trilogía X-Men

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wifelinkmtg · 8 months

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So let's say you grew up in the nineties and that The Lion King was an important movie to you. Let's say that the character of Scar - snarling, ambitious, condescending, effeminate Scar - stirred feelings in you which you had no words for as a child. And then let's say, many years later, you're talking about it with a college friend, and you say something like, "oh man, I think Scar was some sort of gay awakening for me," and she fixes you with this level stare and says, "Scar was a fascist. What's the matter with you?"

The immediate feeling is not unlike missing a step: hang on, what's happening, what did I miss? You knew there were goose-stepping hyenas in "Be Prepared," but you didn't think it mattered that much. He's the bad guy, after all, and the movie's just pointing it out. Your friend says it's more than that: the visuals of the song are directly referencing the Nuremberg rallies. They're practically an homage to Riefenstahl. This was your sexual awakening? Is this why you're so into peaked caps and leather, then? Subliminal nazi kink, perhaps?

And then one of your other friends cuts in. "Hold up," he says, "let's think about what Scar actually did in the movie. He organized a group of racialized outcasts and led them against a predatory monarchy. Why are you so keen to defend their hereditary rule? Scar's the good guy here." The conversation immediately descends into a verbal slap fight about who the real bad guy is, whether Scar's regime was actually responsible for the ecological devastation of the Pride Lands, whether the hyenas actually count as "racialized" because James Earl Jones voiced Mufasa after all. Your Catholic friend starts saying some strange and frankly concerning shit about Natural Law. Someone brings The Lion King 2 into it. You leave the conversation feeling a little bit lost and a little bit anxious. What were we even talking about?

INTRODUCING: THE DITCH

There is a way of reading texts which I'm afraid is pervasive, which has as its most classical expression the smug obsession with trivia and minutiae you find in a certain vein of comic book fan. "Who was the first Green Lantern? What was his weakness? Do you even know the Green Lantern Oath?" It eschews the subjective in favor of definitively knowable fact. You can't argue with this guy that, say, Alan Scott shouldn't really count as the first Green Lantern because his whole deal is so radically different from the Hal Jordan/John Stewart/Guy Gardner Corps-era Lanterns, because this guy will simply say "but he's called Green Lantern. Says so right on the cover. Checkmate." This approach to reading a text is fundamentally 1) emotionally detached (there's a reason the joke goes, oh you like X band? name three of their songs - and not, which of their songs means the most to you? which of them came into your life at exactly the right moment to tell you exactly what you needed to hear just then?) and 2) defensive. It's a stance that is designed not to lose arguments. It says so right on the cover. Checkmate.

And then you get the guys who are like "well obviously Bruce Wayne could do far more as a billionaire to solve societal problems by using his tremendous wealth to address systemic issues instead of dressing up as a bat and punching mental patients in the head," and these guys have half a point but they're basically in the same ditch butting heads with the "well, actually" guys, and can we not simply extricate ourselves from the ditch entirely?

So, okay, let's return to our initial example. Scar is portrayed using Nazi iconography - the goose-stepping, the monumentality, the Nuremberg Lichtdom. He is also flamboyant and effete. He unifies and leads a group of downtrodden exiles to overthrow an absolute monarch. He's also a self-serving despot on whose rule Heaven Itself turns its back. You can't reconcile these things from within the ditch - or if you can, the attempt is likely to be ad-hoc supposition and duct tape.

Instead, let's ask ourselves what perspective The Lion King is coming from. What does it say is true about the world? What are its precepts, its axioms?

There is a natural hierarchical order to the world. This is just and righteous and the way of things, and attempts to overthrow this order will be punished severely by the world itself.

Fascism is what happens when evil men attempt to usurp this natural order with the aid of a group or groups of people who refuse to accept their place in the order.

There exists an alternative to defending and adhering to one's place in the natural order - it consists only of selfish spineless apathy.

Manliness is an essential quality of a just ruler. Unmanliness renders a person unfit for rule, and often resentful and dangerous as well.

And isn't that interesting, laid out like that? It renders the entire argument about the movie irrelevant (except for whatever your Catholic friend was on about, since his understanding of the world seems to line up with the above precepts weirdly well.) It's meaningless to argue about whether Scar was a secret hero or a fascist, when the movie doesn't understand fascism and has a damn-near alien view of what good and evil are.

There's always gonna be someone who, having read this far, wants to reply, "so, what? The Lion King is a bad movie and the people who made it were homophobes and also American monarchists, somehow? And anyone who likes it is also some sort of gay-bashing crypto-authoritarian?" To which I have to reply, man, c'mon, get out of the ditch. You're no good to anyone in there. Take my hand. I'm going to pull on three. One... two...

SO PHYREXIA [PAUSE FOR APPLAUSE, GROANS]

We're talking about everyone's favorite ichor-drooling surgery monsters again because there was a bit in my ~*~seminal~*~ essay Transformation, Horror, Eros, Phyrexia which seemed to give a number of readers quite a bit of trouble: namely, the idea that while Phyrexia is textually fascist, their aesthetic is incompatible with real-world fascism, and further, that this aesthetic incompatibility in some way outweighs the ways in which they act like a fascist nation in terms of how we think of them. I'll take responsibility here: I don't think that point is at all clear or well-argued in that essay. What I was trying to articulate was that the text of Magic: the Gathering very much wants Phyrexia to be supremely evil and dangerous fascists, because that makes for effective antagonists, but in the process of constructing that, it's accidentally encoded a whole bunch of fascinating presuppositions that end up working at cross-purposes with its apparent aim. That's... not that much clearer, is it? Hmm. Why don't I just show you what I mean?

Atraxa, Grand Unifier (art by Marta Nael)

In "Beneath Eyes Unblinking," one of the March of the Machine stories by K. Arsenault Rivera, there's a fascinating and I think revealing passage in which Atraxa (big-deal Phyrexianized angel and Elesh Norn's lieutenant) has a run-in with an art museum in New Capenna. The first thing I want to talk about is that, in this passage, Atraxa has no understanding of the concept of "beauty". A great deal of space in such a rushed storyline is devoted to her trying to puzzle out what beauty means and interrogating the minds of her recently-compleated Capennan aesthetes to try and understand it. In the end, she is unable to conceive of beauty except as "wrongness," as anathema.

So my first question is, why doesn't Atraxa have any idea of beauty? This is nonsense, right? We could point to a previous story, "A Garden of Flesh," by Lora Gray, in which Elesh Norn explicitly thinks in terms of beauty, but that's a little bit ditchbound, isn't it? The better argument is to simply look at Phyrexian bodies, at the Phyrexian landscape, all of which looks the way it does on purpose, all of which has been shaped in accordance with the very real aesthetic preferences of Phyrexians. How you could look at the Fair Basilica and not understand that Phyrexians most definitely have an idea of beauty, even if you personally disagree with it, is baffling. This is a lot like the canonical assertion that Phyrexians lack souls, which is both contradicted elsewhere in canon and essentially meaningless, given Magic's unwillingness or inability to articulate what a soul is in its setting, and as with this, it seems the goal is simply to dehumanize Phyrexians, to render them alien, even at the cost of incoherence or internal contradiction.

Atraxa's progress through the museum is fascinating. It evokes the 1937 Nazi exhibit on "degenerate art" in Munich, but not at all cleanly. The first exhibit, which is of representational art, she angrily destroys for being too individualistic (a point of dissonance with the European fascist movements of the 20th century, which formed in direct antagonism to communism.) The second exhibit, filled with abstract paintings and sculptures, she destroys even more angrily for having no conceivable use (this is much more in line with the Nazi idea of "degenerate art", so well done there.) The third exhibit is filled with war trophies and reconstructions from a failed Phyrexian invasion of Capenna many years prior, which she is angriest of all with (and fair enough, I suppose.) But then, after she's done completely trashing the place, she spots a number of angel statues on the cathedral across the plaza, and she goes apeshit. In a fugue of white-hot rage, she pulverizes the angel heads, and here is where I have to ask my second question:

Why angels? If you are trying to invoke fascist attitudes toward art, big statues of angels are precisely the wrong thing for your fascist analogues to hate. Fascists love monumental, heroic representations of superhuman perfection. It's practically their whole aesthetic deal. I understand that we're foreshadowing the imminent defeat of Phyrexia at the hands of legions of angels and a multiversal proliferation of angel juice, but that just leads to the exact same question: why angels? To the best of my knowledge, the Phyrexian weakness to New Capennan angel juice is something invented for this storyline. They have, after all, been happily compleating angels since 1997. We could talk about the in-universe justification for why Halo specifically is so potent, but I don't remember what that justification is, and also don't care. Let's not jump back in the ditch, please. The point is, someone decided that this time, Phyrexia would be defeated by an angelic host, and what does that mean? What is the text trying to say? What are its precepts and axioms?

Let me ask you a question: how many physically disabled angels are there in Magic: the Gathering? How about transsexual angels? How many angels are there, on all of the cards that have ever been printed for Magic: the Gathering, that are even just a bit ugly? Do you get it yet? Or do you need me to spell it out for you?

SPELLING IT OUT FOR YOU

There is a kind of body which is bad. It is bad because it has been significantly altered from its natural state, and it is bad because it is repellent to our aesthetic sensibilities.

The bad kind of body is contagious. It spreads through contact. Sometimes people we love are infected, and then they become the bad kind of body too.

There is a kind of body which is good. It is good because it is pleasing to our aesthetic sensibilities, and it is good because it is unaltered from its (super)natural state.

A happy ending is when all the good bodies destroy or drive into hiding all of the bad bodies. A happy ending is when the bad bodies of the people we love are forcibly returned to being the good kind of body.

Do you get it now?

ENDNOTES

It's worth noting that the ditch is very similar to the white American Evangelical hermeneutics of "the Bible says it. I believe it. That settles it," the defensive chapter-and-verse-or-it-didn't-happen approach to reading a text, what Fred Clark of slacktivist calls "concordance-ism". I don't think that's accidental. We stand underneath centuries of people reading the Bible very poorly - how could that not affect how we read things today? We are participants in history whether we like it or not.

I sincerely hope I haven't come across as condescending in this essay. Close reading is legitimately difficult! They teach college courses on this stuff! And while it is frustrating to have my close readings interrogated by people who... aren't doing that, like. I do get it. I find myself back in the ditch all the time. This stuff is hard. It is also, sorry, crucial if you intend to say something about a text that's worth saying.

I also hope I've communicated clearly here. Magic story is sufficiently incoherent that trying to develop a thesis about it often feels like trying to nail jello to the wall. If anyone has questions, please ask them! And thank you for reading. Next time, we'll probably do the new Eldraine set.

#phyrexia #not defining the ditch except by implication #thanks to all the very smart vorthoi on the flavor text discord server for helping me work through my thoughts on fascism and phyrexia #this is technically the march of the machine review also #or as much of one as i care to do

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