#gritty reboot

[i-am-the-oyster]

I'm insatiably curious about your gritty Help! reboot

Lol, there wasn't much more to it, but since I'm awake with migraine jetlag I'll give it a go.

Let's see: the shared house would be really dimly lit, like the batcave. They would have bleepy blinky panels that would only open if all four of them used their nuclear-code-looking keys

Are we still making poorly defined arabic terrorist organisations the big bad in gritty movies? (I admit, I haven't kept up). So they're a crack team of anti-terrorist agents who have a band, but they can never do gigs obviously. But they work out their frustrations and adrenaline by jamming together.

Paul is played by Sly Stallone

John is Jason Statham

Keanu for George

And fuck it, Ringo is John Cena

John and Ringo had a relationship a long time ago, but they Don't Let It Interfere With The Work. Until Ringo gets kidnapped by the racist stereotypes, at which point John endangers the whole team to rescue him.

George would definitely get a car chase scene. Paul would be mistaken for soft by a queer coded villain, whom he would kill in cold blood.

I'd love to hear any more ideas anyone has.

#help! #gritty reboot

[slightlycreative]

if Pico was serious

#art #digital art #fanart #pico's school #pico #newgrounds #gritty #gritty reboot

[shiroikabocha]

gritty sequel/reboot of The Santa Clause

Tim Allen hands you a knife. If you wish to become a god, he says, then strike me down and the power will be yours.

But think carefully—not everyone wants to be a god.

No one should have godhood thrust upon them. A god should want to be god. A god should want to be god so badly they’d kill for it.

I want to stop being a god. Do you want to be god?

#the santa clause #tim allen #gritty reboot #i am high #we must imagine sisyphus happy

[thegoodmorningman]

Christmas is coming. Be prepared.

#xmas #christmas #santa #santa posting #wizard #wizard posting #gritty christmas reboot #snow #winter #good #morning #good morning #good morning message #good morning image #good morning images #good morning man #the good morning man #the entire morning #gif #good morning messages #gm #morning vibes #morning motivation

[britcision]

It’s funny when the DC fans get annoyed that half the fandom hasn’t kept up with the entire extended DC universe and know everybody’s stories and backstories and different versions and shit

Danny Phantom had 3 seasons of 20 minute episodes and a handful of comics and most of us haven’t even seen that (and do not intend to 🙌)

Meanwhile people are being confused at me for Jack Fenton liking both fudge and also ham, which came up in every single episode I saw as a kid

My darlings

My beloveds

If you want your preferred versions of the DC characters in a prompt, you may well be the only person who can do it

So do it and tag it and I’ll come eat it along with the horde and you’ll never be rid of any of us

#dp x dc #sorry my darlings but Disregard Canon is contagious #and i get why this is frustrating to the DP side #but THE DC COMIC WRITERS AND ANIMATORS AND MOVIE PRODUCERS all disregard canon far harder than we ever could #there is no fucking dc canon it gets rebooted whenever someone gets bored #this is why batman’s characterisation is a hellscape #you can support any interpretation with at least 2 comic rhns #runs #tbh i am also extra guilty of this i used to make up fake runs to fuck with my brother in law all the time #got him believing aquaman could control the colour blue in about 20 minutes cuz again: dc has no canon #whatever you consider canon someone else considers a whacky and unnecessary reboot #matching saturday morning cartoon dc works best cuz that is dp all the way #but the gritty ones make a funnier contrast

[bmblboop]

I can’t form a coherent thought because it’s the dead of night but like:

The brothers. The brother Gods. They came from a world of fairy tale simplicity and fairy tale morals. And then they went out into the great beyond and thought themselves so clever and so above their origins that they made their own tale with a more serious tone and twist.

You know how everything has a tailor fit place to belong in the Ever After? What if it was just a vast wilderness and the creations gotta figure that out themselves?

You know how creatures ascend and are reborn? What if they didnt? What if they were gone forever? They gotta pass down that knowledge while their alive or it’s lost forever.

What I’m trying to say so that The Brother Gods created a Gritty Reboot (TM) of the Ever After.

Remnant is in-universe “omg what if we made fairytales grimdark” and the in-universe characters of those fairytales then Disagreed and said “screw it, we are gonna write our own happy ending”

#midnight thoughts #rwby v9 spoilers #rwby analysis #the premise of the show is ‘the in universe creators wanted a gritty fairytale reboot but the characters reject that negativity and forge- #a bright future despite it’ #and that’s so metal

[slashernipples]

In me heart, Killer Frequency has like, 8 movies, 2 failed reboots, and a tv miniseries.

#the second movie sees henry tryign to somewhat adjust af6er marie stepped off whistling point. #He pulls an axel and ends up killing a buncha cops and shit to avenge marie #movie 3 sees marie return a la ft13 part 6. its very sexy. they go on a murder spree again and marie walks off into the mosty woods #while henry ia shot and left for dead. #movie 4 is full of red herrings and a mysterious figure turns out to be henry after he survived the shot. the duo reunite #movie 5 is the copycat killer thay is ultimately offed by marie and henry. henry is killed for real. undead marie is distraught #she goes on a rampage and gets exploded. the town thinks its all finally over #but henrys hand rises from a shallow grave in a post credits scene #movie 6 henry rolls up to exact revenge for his mom AGAIN this is probably where some of the kills have a sense of humour to them #movie 7 is the obligatory Whistling Man In Space movie. henry has been played by a wwe wrestler since movie 6 #he shows.significant decay but turns out the alien nonsense suddenly made him powerful and idk brings back marie Again probably. #movie 8 was the crossover event slasher royale movie. marie and henry have an upper hand and emerge victorious. #the first reboot attempted to be super gritty and replaces forrest and peggy with college students with a campus radio program. #it was terribly received. #the second reboot attempted to place the focus on henry and made him the main murderer while saying he was possessed by a demon #this was one is widely considered to be the worst in the franchise. #the miniseries is a retelling of the original and is faithful to the source #its well appreciated for it even if critics said it was unimaginitive. the fans liked it bc it was clearly made for the fans. #why the FUCK have I put all these in the notes. #killer frequency #send help im so brain dill about this

[megahorous]

Parappa & co. discuss an anime reboot !

#PaRappa the Rapper #cartoon #anime #PJ Berri #Sunny Funny #Katy Kat #Lammy #reboot #Muppet Babies #Riverdale #dark and gritty PaRappa the Rapper reboot #Joe Chin

[bandtrees]

for the warriors ask game :D

🗺 : first map you ever watched?

🖼 : first amv/pmv you ever watched?

(I used to watch MAPs religiously those are my jam)

yay thank you! warriors ask game except the questions are all weird and niche as hell!

know: my memory is bad. i've been into wc for... well over a decade now, so these are probably not accurate xP my first warriors video was i believe a spoof video about ashfur and squirrelflight, but my first map and amv? uhhh unsure!

🗺 : first map you ever watched? - i didn't actively watch maps as a small kid, or at least i don't think i did? the first map that i entirely remember watching was during my second major warriors phase by the time i was closer to... 15 maybe?? as opposed to my earliest memories of wc which are from when i was 10 or younger lol. little fang, which is making me genuinely super misty eyed to rewatch, it's just so so good, from the style to the designs to how well it gets into jayfeather and his family with only animation and music, the composition of every part is so good, the designs, all of it. the sole reason little fang is one of my favorite songs to this day it might, miiight, have also been evelyn evelyn? that one was certainly one of the first maps i ever watched that stuck with me. the dovewing kinnie has entered chat

🖼 : first amv/pmv you ever watched? - i cannot remember. i watched sooo many amvs as a kid. not my FIRST amv, probably, but one of the earliest i recall is ashfur's revenge, which is delighting me so much to rewatch. this one was formative for me, i miss the style of flash-animated warriors amvs that (obviously:() aren't around anymore. i also have such a soft spot for tigerclaw is not one of thunderclan, one i was thinking about the Entire Time i was writing the exile scene in spottedfur's pride lol. i still love it so much, this is my first time rewatching it in like... a decade, im sure. its so good. im kind of blown away as i rewatch these that they ARE as good as they are, cuz i feel like it's common in the warriors fandom to treat old amvs as some cringeworthy lost art (in general i have strong opinions on how (unintentionally)cruel the internet starts being to things as soon as they enter "nostalgia" territory) - but there's still, like, genuine talent in these. there's a reason these amvs were as popular as they were, and not because we were all cringe 10 year olds who didn't know better, lol. also reminds me of tigerstar and the dog pack(be prepared) - which is one i have the most vivid memory of watching on my family computer, hehe. in general i love corvus katana's stuff, past and current oh my god i will never get this ask posted because i keep remembering ones that helped, like, form a lobe of my brain growing up. HOW TO SAVE BLUESTAR'S LIFE YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS!!!! I AM TOTALLY NOT CRYING REWATCHING IT. YOU ARE. YOU ARE. cant believe i had a phase where i hated bluestar - i think everyone did because they spontaneously realized she was imperfect, immoral even at times, and made mistakes but hadn't developed the media comprehension to realize she was... actually meant to be complex and troubled and not just a perfect leader. god. bluestar. god. god. g (im also gonna use this question as a chance to gush about old amvs that i remember that are unfortunately lost to time: a hollyleaf one to hurricane by thirty seconds to mars (!!!! THIS ONE WAS SO FORMATIVE BUT IM LIKE 80% SURE ITS LOST MEDIA), bluestar heart heart head (PLEASE tell me im not the only one who remembers this one!!! i was devastated to learn it wasn't iconic or reuploaded anywhere (as much as i also think, again, in the nostalgia-sense, people act entitled to things like old amvs or people's art or whatever else)), NIGHTCLOUD GIRL WITH ONE EYE CHANGED MY LIFE?and... probably more of course that aren't coming to me now xP

i. didnt expect to ramble as much as i did with this? i just can't put into enough words how formative warriors amvs and the like were for me growing up :'DD they were my major start for digital art and animation (something i did a lot when i was younger but fell out of over time, but god i'd love to animate again, maybe do a classic wc amv to spottedfur's pride or something lol)

thank you for the question! I am so incredibly normal about warrior cats.

#babbles #wc #warriors #warrior cats #long posts #i knew i had a tag for ask games but uh. dont remember it soz #i poke at it a few times here but i do have strong opinions about how vapid nostalgia culture can be #especially w regards to the early internet where if something is deemed a universal enough experience #people stop caring about the person behind it and it just feels like ppl think its public domain #like a product of collective nostalgia and not a piece of art a person made #see every wacky comment on these amvs like 'Lol remember when THIS was peak animation?? like if youre still here in 2019!!!!' #or there being like a gritty lps popular reboot meant to ~deconstruct~ it #stuff like that. its why even though i was 100% a webcore furry 2000s kid i can never get into the culture surrounding it on tumblr #it feels too ironic for me even if it doesn't mean to be - i would rather art be treated like... art and not as 'haha remember THIS?' #everytime some kid from 2007's old art gets reposted for nostalgiawave animecore whatever i cringe a bit im sorry #unless it's for like. 1) w permission somehow 2) genuinely liking the art itself and not through a lens of 'this is kiddy nonsense lol' #idk i have many opinions. ANYWAY. WARRIOR CATS

[hiddenramen]

i didn't even like riverdale but the amount of people who don't understand that riverdale was never meant to be taken seriously astounds me. like all the adults are former soap opera stars. it's based on archie comics. it intentionally parodies teen dramas. it's like an infinitely stupider twin peaks for babies.

#i don't even like twin peaks either but like. that's the vibe #it's a deliberate parody of teen soaps and the idea of a 'gritty reboot'

[tigertrack]

:'-) some head shots of the boy! oh, and a singular knife

#trigun #vash the stampede #millions knives #fanart #mine #it feels so good drawing them again aaaaaaaa i miss being obsessed and churning out fanart at rapid speeds #melancholic vash is my fav hes just a sad little man tryin to get some peace #also as much as i dont hate the reboot designs i think they look sooo young in it and i prefer the grittiness of the manga by a long shot #also THEIR EYEBROWS. WHY DID THEY JUST MAKE THEM LONG RECTANGLES? THEIR TRIANGLES WERE SO GOOD #I FORGOT HIS MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLE

[simplydm]

I think we forgot about the Grumbot on empires too quickly. That bitch had hands. And arms. What the fuck

#the different versions of Grumbot is like different movie companies getting a hold of your favorite childhood film #and making gritty reboots out of it #/pos lol #Grumbot #hermitcraft #speak up dm

[abbinurmel]

I spent the past couple hours tailoring this aimless rant on YT, in response to a person merely saying how much they'd love for a reboot of 'Cow & Chicken' on adult swim, cos they could say whatever they like on there. I posted it here, cos YT doesn't wanna allow me to post anything right now, which is probably for the best.

This is gonna be a dumb rant. I got sucked down a rabbit hole, cos this is a favorite topic of mine to talk about and I'm procrastinating horribly on purpose on a lot of dull paperwork. So strap in before reading my garbage. You're warned now, don't hafta TLDR or whatever, thanks, I already know. …Anyways. For those who care about irrelevant, shitty opinions:…I love Cow & Chicken. A lot. On paper I know exactly why it seems like a great idea to reboot on 'adultswim', purely on the merit they do things more outrageously. I'm certain many would watch this. It's actually kinda weird there hasn't been one yet, when you think about it, given this age of rehashes. It already has the raunchy humor and gross art down, seems like a match made in heaven, right?- It'd be easy too, "Cow & Chicken" wasn't exactly lavishly drawn or had a big cast. Well… Much as I think there could be a slim possibility of it happening, for it to be good, and IF they do good, to be wildly entertaining…I don't think "Cow & Chicken" is going to ever get actually rebooted. And I don't think it benefits from being rebooted, either, which is really the only reason you should try to reboot things ever in the first place. The lore of an IP needs to benefit in being revisited, somehow, and ESPECIALLY, SPECIFICALLY, if brought back for adults. It is very unlikely gonna be executed right, ironically BECAUSE of this show's already semi-adult nature. And the reasons why, is endemic to why a whole lot of current modern shows, and movie/live action series remakes, are suffering too. -And no, it is NOT due to the reasons some of you're likely thinking of. It is NOT cos of any tired old: "things are just too safe and WOKE /PC culture now!" theories. (That sort of affair is highly subjective/means basically nothing or very different things to different people. Pretty impossible to gauge due to how all over the place/ludicrously out of touch with general fans censors and networks can be, no matter what their political leanings or personality is. Which can and do range all over the place. So I won't go into that topic as it's an entirely different problem to what I am talking about. Plus I was there for the 80s and 90s, its pretty silly to say we can not get away with any wild things these days, cos let me assure you, by comparison, there is a LOT technically more we CAN do and say now, in both kid's and adult shows, that would never get by in a million years 30 years ago. You couldn't even just say the word 'kill', 'poop' or 'die' then, most the time. Let that sink in.)

…See to me, if it ironically hadn't ever been restrained by censors/made for kids, C&C might've been NOWHERE as good. Like. At all. It might've actually been one of the worst CN shows aired. Just 100% annoying gross-out show laziness, like a lot of shows of its era. The main reason it didn't flop was cuz 1) duh, Charles Adler, the main voice, and 2) it did its 'thing' the way original 'Ren & Stimpy' did. It didn't beat for beat copy them. Their writing/visuals just simply knew how to cross the line JUST enough, keeping the raunchy humor tucked in JUST as far as they could push it, but knew also on the whole how to always stay utterly light hearted, simple and goofy. That's where its core identity is. It's the dumb blithe enthusiastic Innocence of pretty much the entire cast, and the goofy simplicity of the plots/gags, while they get to say out the side of the mouth much more 'mature' sinister things….It works purely b/c of that contrast; sometimes with innuendo being camoflauged extremely subtly, sometimes NOT subtly at all. -But it would always go ping-ponging gracefully between the two. Never too much Idiotically Innocent, or too Smugly Adult and Crass. It would do this, with actual wit. It didn't JUST have gross visuals or say dirty jokes. It did all this with a theatrical, self-known flair. Shows like C&C and its fellow Golden Age shows basically are very good at doing what franchises like Monty Python were known for, and what Regular Show and Gravity Falls and similar would do later on, just with more visual ugliness.

…Meanwhile, a lot of other 1990's/current shows DO NOT have this memo. They do not have that balance, they lack the awareness of what is the difference between 'sneaking in occasional very dirty jokes with wit' and "throwing every and any kinda joke at a wall and not even bothering to look at what sticks." A LOT of 'gritty comedy parody reboot' things are doing this, and also doing this same idea just with the "dramatic tropes" instead of comedic tropes too. ….Including Ren & Stimpy itself. -Once 'The Ren & Stimpy Show' moved to SpikeTV, they went fully 'adult', and by direct result went 1000% downhill. I don't ascribe that to just poor writing(the original has flat stupid writing too), or ugly looking animation (so is the original). Not even John K.'s…ahem, history. If you fixed his behavior, and abusive attitude; made all his notoriously horrible bad jokes tamer, I still think 'Adult Party' would've tanked, because doing this concept in of itself is a fool's errand. It's not just rebooting nostalgic childhood IPs that's the problem, but specifically attempting to repackage something that was already a mild bit 'tawdry', so now that it is INTENTIONALLY for adults only. Whenever the entertainment industry does that 'gritty effect', be it games or movies or Netflix or comic books, it's 8/10 doomed, because you essentially neutered the core joke or appeal. You've taken away the cool 'taboo' point of saying hidden naughty/clever things, in a story you're not SUPPOSED to. You're able to state and do whatever you want, and so there's not only no leash to hold down any of the weaker ideas, there's almost no "rebellious challenge" to its bite whatsoever, even when those jokes/story ideas succeed. Noone is gonna be shocked or laugh nearly as much when a Red Guy says "KISS MY ASS!" unironically in an adultswim show, as they would if he says "KISS MY ASS!!!!!!….-Her name is GERTRUDE! :D" -and then happily pulls onstage a donkey wearing a big bowtie in on a rope, because this renders it now a pun and technically 'child safe' to flaunt now. (This isn't a real joke from the show btw, I'm only making this up for convenience. But you get the idea. It's the precise sort of silly thing you know he'll do. :P )

Neither the audience nor execs are 'prey' anymore for the writers to be creatively poking the boundaries with, when you remove that expectation. It's different if your IP started with an already adult geared story to begin with, but, when it's a full on polar opposite shift in tone and/or age demographics like that, it's almost always pulled off in a confused messy way, because even the original work's creators themselves, (IF they're even kept around, or are familiar with the source material if they are new), are trapped now in completely unfamiliar territory. Without a deeply wild reinventing of the show's lore or main tenets(a thing which nobody has ever been upset by on the internet!), it usually doesn't have anything else to stand on, especially with a purely episodic comedy show, like Cow and Chicken is. Once you take out this 'vulnerability' in our dynamic, between child/censor guardians, and writers, this main core joke of not knowing what the writers are and are NOT actually going to get away with is gone, and so much of the stakes now is irreversibly lost. Sometimes being hidden from the details is what makes a gag all the more funnier, or a scary scene all the scarier, or a cringe scene all the cringier. If we take away this, things lack a lot more of the colorful shock & ridiculousness. The main DNA in these classic "deranged shows", like Ed, Edd n Eddy, Ren&Stimpy, Rocko and C&C, that a lot of nostalgic fans, and current show-runners often alike forget; is the simple fact that such shows had to weigh the balance of: 'being a sincere kid show' and 'trying to get away with something they're not supposed to'. …With very deep emphasis on the words: "GET AWAY WITH". To me, a show is not getting "away" with something good, be it a message, a joke, a deeper sense of drama, if you constantly always spell it out for us, and we know you lose nothing and have to take no creative risk by displaying it for the audience. You're not really earning a prize, if someone just right at the start, hands you a medal. In other words….Every good memorable/subversive classic cartoon show, is not beloved just because they got to have crazy visuals, or say and do unhinged jokes. …You needed to be MEMORABLY STRANGER for having those qualities, in the first place. If you do something unhinged and bizarre, but coming in I expect to see it, is it really an unhinged show?

See, there's a reason why most of the frequent reboots of Scooby Doo like 'Velma' atrociously fail. And it's not because they changed someone that was formerly white, or made someone like Shaggy have a different name, or backstory. Or even because they overhauled an old wholesome character into a rude, toxically mean, judgemental unpleasant character. Yes this does affect some tastes, but on the whole, that wasn't the core problem for most watchers. LOADS of shows have a morally awful, pompous, or an incompetent, chaotic mess for a central protagonist, or reinvent them in some way if they come from an old property. Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, and Space Ghost Coast to Coast did more or less exactly what "Velma" does, where they took an old IP and completely transformed their roles/upgraded their style of humor for a more adult audience. Rick & Morty has a toxic main protagonist. South Park has four of them. Family Guy and American Dad has them, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, the list goes on. Even kid shows do this, and sometimes get away with it well too: Dan Versus did it well so did Ren and Stimpy, again, back when it understood how it worked. Having a mean protag or changed fundamentals, isn't why so many reboots don't work. …What happens with bad modern remakes of Scooby Doo, (and not just in shows like Velma), is often that they forget how to make things have that beautiful sense of contrast, that Cow and Chicken does, in its writing. They do not know how to both show this is a show rooted in something sincere, WHILE ALSO saying outrageously dirty/surreal/mean/pompous or dark things inside that vessel. The appreciation for the context of its background, is what makes shows like 'Mystery Inc.' and 'Zombie Island' work, while Velma and other SBs, do not. If we took Cow & Chicken, stripped it of it's irony, what else do we have except yet another dime a dozen weaker show, constantly going 'haha, me say the rude words!/do the gross bad thing again!' adult oriented show, with no fangs? Another exhausting reboot, which takes yet another unoriginal idea, robs its reputation, and wastes our time? …There's a way to do this kind of thing right. I just do not think most people, not even some of the most talented in the business, have the freedom or ability to do so. Not even Samurai Jack, a legend of an animated program, escaped this 'update it for adults!' treatment unscathed. If you're gonna update something for adults, you really have to think about WHY it was good in the first place. Not take just what you had, and stamp lots of expletetives or flashes of red to indicate actual blood on there. You need either to actually SAY something, completely useful and different, or, just stick to your guns with the old formula, and do it so well it exceeds the hype for the original. Which is also near being impossible to do. Hence, it begs the question, why do it at all?

…Sorry for this TEDTalk, I just love being an absurd mess at 2AM when I have better more boring adult things to do.

#cow and chicken #reboot #cartoon network #90s cartoons #nostalgia #gritty #updates #entertainment industry #remakes #old tv shows #essays #analogies #hyperfixation #adhd brain #adhd brain is at it againnnnnn #bogleech #ren and stimpy #nickelodeon #subversive #humor writing #innuendo #dirty jokes #the red guy #In all honesty I find that donkey joke great if I do say so myself #scoob #scooby gang #velma #adult swim #2d animation #END

[holyscream]

how i found out that winnie the pooh is now in the US public domain

#the great whine shark #id in alt text #i’m mad because “winnie the pooh dark and gritty reboot” used to be my go-to remake joke but now it’s real #so i have to come up with a new one #hmm #biene maia? pumuckl? mainzelmännchen! now that one should be safe

[duckapus]

Corrupted Save File AU

Someone or something tries to put Emulator on the Factory Reset Bandwagon, but the rather unique nature of her existence means that something goes horribly wrong, and now the SMGs, Lil Coding and Steve have to adapt to a very different Mushroom Kingdom while the USBs work on getting Emmy back to normal.

Meanwhile, Byte and Welony are similarly unaffected by the failed reset and immediately try to take advantage of this new world.

#smg4 #corrupted save file au #smg4 ocs #emulator #forum #domain #lil coding #byte #welony #smg1 #smg2 #smg3 #minecraft steve #the smg side of things is sort of a commentary on the film industry's obsession with gritty reboots #i figured byte and welony would be an interesting teamup #since they are(or were in byte's case) godlike entities with puppeteer theming who just want to watch the world burn

[sapphire-mage]

Decided to give Twisted Metal’s show a try after a recommendation, and I’m surprised how much this show is working so far! I’m really enjoying it.

Highlight has easily been Sweet Tooth. Will Arnett does a great job as the voice, but Samoa Joe’s physical acting is PERFECT! I almost wish Samoa Joe was doing the voice instead.

#Twisted Metal #Probably a hot take but think ST being a combination of ‘classic ST comedy’ and ‘reboot ST grittiness’ works really well