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Keep the Safeties ON: Holodeck malfunctions in Star Trek

By Ames

TVTropes.org would have you believe that holodeck accidents happen once a week on the Enterprise, but when you actually look at the instances we see Holmesian masterminds gaining sentience or the safeties randomly turning off or cartoon combadges going on a rampage, it’s actually quite the rarity. Sure, it’s more times than maybe the characters should be comfortable with, but the fatality rate might actually be safer than the death trap of a transporter, all things considered.

A Star to Steer Her By is counting up all the times our Trek heroes have nearly gotten themselves killed in the holodeck in this full (for now) list! Check them all out below and listen to our conversation in this week’s podcast episode (discussion at 1:07:46). And this should go without saying, but keep the safeties on!

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“The Practical Joker”

The very very first time we see something akin to a holodeck in the whole franchise is also the very very first time we see the holodeck trying to get everyone killed. And laughing as it does so! In this (barely) animated episode, the ship is playing pranks on everyone and really takes it too far for the people enjoying some recreation time!

“The Big Goodbye”

Picard has some bad luck with the holodeck in a couple early episodes of TNG, starting with his snazzy new Dixon Hill program that he immediately gets trapped in. The fact that there are safeties that aren’t permanent features of the holodeck is baffling. While only Whalen gets injured as a result, we are still treated to the existential crisis of Officer McNary who learns he’s not real.

“Elementary, Dear Data”

Apparently if you just ask the computer to create a sentient program, it’ll just do it for you, easy peasy. The DS9 holoprogrammer Felix must’ve gotten this into his head when he created Vic. But the first fully self-aware hologram (not counting McNary, briefly) we meet is Professor Moriarty, who immediately starts outsmarting people and stuffing them with crumpets. You get a Pulaski pic here just because of how pissed I am she’s not in the latest ReAction Figures set. #Feminism

“A Fistful of Datas”

Yeehaw. I blame Alexander for this one. This season six episode of TNG was a sendup of Western films but was otherwise not much else. The holodeck is on the fritz again and has merged with some of Data’s programming, also trapping Worf and Alexander in a frontier town. Overall, there was way too much child acting and somehow not nearly enough Data for an episode with this title.

“Ship in a Bottle”

This episode is quite notorious in how very clever it is, which is pretty appropriate considering it features one of our cleverest villains in Trek. Moriarty has created himself a love interest, the countess Regina Bartholomew, out of literal thin air and proceeds to outwit Picard and crew in more and more ingenious ways until the final twist that is just too smart for its own good. And you get a Countess picture here also because #Feminism!

“Emergence”

Ugh, I remember really not liking this one. The ship is trying to create an intelligence and the holodeck is on the fritz again. Didn’t we already do this with Moriarty? And in much better fashion at that? The way the holodeck starts manifesting clues about building the foundation of something, assembling the puzzle, and putting together the pieces was just all too on the nose and doofy for me.

“Our Man Bashir”

We don’t see a lot of holodeck malfunctions on DS9 because the writers were instructed to avoid it… with one excellent exception. This hallmark episode is half transporter accident (like we talked about before!) and half holodeck malfunction, but it’s got the same ingenuity that something like “Ship in a Bottle” had in solving the incident in the show and also in combining two famous tropes to get around the moratorium.

“Heroes And Demons”

When we make it into Voyager, the kibosh on holodeck malfunctions is lifted and we see a huge resurgence in accidents in the famous fun box. (That just sounds wrong.) Very early on, we lose Ensign Kim in the Beowulf program because of some alien energy beings that were unknowingly getting beamed aboard. This one stands out because of some great acting from Picardo and some great period design to bring us into the epic quest.

“Projections”

Another doctor-in-the-holodeck example occurs the following season and again relies on the EMH’s nature as a hologram himself to work out what turns out to be a hologrid on the fritz. We’re treated to an episode that is composed of twists, twists, and more twists. Possibly too many twists, but how can you go wrong when it’s all EMH and Barclay debating if you’re really Dr. Zimmerman or if that’s just a malfunction?

“Worst Case Scenario”

Of course, sometimes the holodeck tries to kill you on purpose because someone programmed it to. The fact that that is possible is absolutely ludicrous, but does supply us with this genuinely fun romp of an episode in which Seska has sabotaged the holodeck to kill anyone that tries to play Tuvok’s Maquis strategy game, and things just get more wild from there!

“Bride of Chaotica”

Speaking of fun romps! Another of our favorite holodeck episodes in Trek is just a full sendup of 50s sci fi adventure gimmicks when we need to play “The Adventures of Captain Proton” in order to save some aliens who are convinced the game is reality. It’s a concept so ludicrous that it totally works, especially with the delightfully hamming of Kate Mulgrew as Queen Arachnia.

“Spirit Folk”

While we generally panned the whole “Fair Haven” holoprogram since it’s an uninteresting setting and also because it’s confounding that Janeway would have such a debate on the subject of romance, when the program starts malfunctioning it gets pretty engaging. Watching what the NPCs do when the game isn’t focused on them is pretty clever, though the execution could have been better.

“Su’Kal”

Discovery season three did something interesting with the holodeck when we meet Su’Kal in the eponymous episode. The holodeck that has effectively raised him from childhood is glitching out more and more due to the radiation of the planet, so our Discovery crewmembers get mistaken for characters in the program and are makeup’ed accordingly. Any opportunity we get to see Doug Jones’s lovely face is a good time, I say!

“Terminal Provocations” et al

By and large, fans of Lower Decks love Badgey, and I don’t blame them. Rutherford’s counterfeit Clippit is bright, colorful, hilarious and perfectly portrayed by Jack McBrayer. Even though the whole episode is a spoof on how even the most innocuous program tends to turn malicious in Star Trek, it’s still quite funny and Badgey makes for a very cute little psychopath.

“Ghost in the Machine”

I could praise Prodigy until I’m hoarse (hell, we did a little of that when we gave our overview of season one), but the holodeck malfunction episode in this CGI kids show turns out to be one of the most creative and dynamic uses yet! The computer creates a mystery for our ragtag crew to solve, but as Zero says, “the holodeck may have more than a malfunction; it has a motive!”

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Computer, end program! Make sure you have all your belongings and limbs as you exit the holodeck via the platform on your left, and thank you for riding with us today! Considering I always assumed there were way more holo malfunction episodes than these ones I could think of (am I missing a bunch? what happened?), there seems to be more good ones than bad, so maybe we got just the right amount.

Keep up with us because we’ve definitely got more fun in the holodeck as we continue through our watch of Voyager on SoundCloud or wherever you find your podcasts. You can also visit Sandrine’s with us on Facebook and Twitter, and be careful what you ask the computer for: it might just give it to you.

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holystormfire · 4 months

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Mark 3:13-19

Jesus appointed the twelve

The Last Supper,

Painted by Fritz von Uhde (1848-1911),

Painted in 1886,

Oil on canvas

Gospel Reading

Jesus went up into the hills and summoned those he wanted. So they came to him and he appointed twelve; they were to be his companions and to be sent out to preach, with power to cast out devils. And so he appointed the Twelve: Simon to whom he gave the name Peter, James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, to whom he gave the name Boanerges or ‘Sons of Thunder’; then Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, the man who was to betray him.

Reflection on the painting

Our Gospel reading today tells us how Jesus summoned those he wanted and it lists the names his twelve disciples. The last disciple is named as 'Judas Iscariot, the man who was to betray him'. Mark the evangelist was writing with hindsight, knowing that Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus to his enemies. Yet Mark acknowledges that Judas Iscariot was among that group whom Jesus wanted. Jesus made a clear choice of these twelve. There is no suggestion in the gospels that when Jesus chose Judas he knew at the time that Judas would betray him. But as we know, it seems that, although Jesus wanted Judas,.. Judas in the end, did not want Jesus!

The other important part of our reading is that Mark describes clearly what it is to be a disciple: to be Jesus' companion and then to be sent out. The Lord wants us, first of all, to be his companions. He calls us to be with him as he is with us; this is the call to prayer. Then once we are his companions, he calls us to be sent out. From our prayerful companionship with the Lord we are sent out by him as his ambassadors, as people who witness to his values, his attitudes and his whole way of life.

Our painting by Fritz von Uhde, painted in 1886, depicts Jesus and his disciples at the Last Supper. It is a typical example of late-19th-century paintings, where many artists placed biblical scenes in contemporary settings. The scene is set in humble surroundings. Jesus is holding the chalice. Judas is the only disciple standing. We can see in his posture that he is torn: he is looking at Jesus with his hands clasped in prayer, yet he is ready to leave to go and betray Jesus.

Article by Father Patrick van der Vorst

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coleheinous · 2 years

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The Owl House OCs! The Borealix family! Info about them under the cut

Simone Borealix

Oracle

Her spider palisman is named Ophelia

Pashmina’s wife, Fantasia and Bart’s mother

Pashmina Borealix

Potion maker

Simone’s wife, Fantasia and Bart’s mom

Fantasia Borealix

Bard track, plays a concertina

Her Amphithere palisman is named Fritz

Very awkward and clumsy

Bartholomew “Bart” Borealix

Future botany track

Little troublemaker

#squd arte #the owl house #toh #owl house #owl house oc #the owl house oc #toh oc #borealix family

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as-warm-as-choco · 3 years

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books i got in thrift stores

(that I will probably have to leave behind before leaving Utrecht) ALSO LEAVE IMPRESSIONS IF YOU HAVE READ ANY OF THEM, so I re-decide

Cry Freedom, John Briley Life of Pi, Yann Martel Musical Bumps, `Antony Miall The Mabinogion, tr. by Gwyn Jones / Thomas Jones Otomen, Aya Kanno I come as a brother, Bartholomew Vlinders in de tuin (types of butterflies I guess) MANNA In the Wilderness of AIDS, Kenwyn K. Smith Travelling to Infinity, Jane Hawking In Fairyland: The world of Tessa Farmer Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett LOTR: The Two Towers, JRR Tolkien Swords and Deviltry, Fritz Leiber The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe John Winchester’s Journal (dont @ me)

Books I will most definitely get with me: East, West, Salman Bushide THE SECRET DIARY OF LAURA PALMER An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redflied Jamison PS: YES, I HAD ZERO TIME BECAUSE OF CAPITALISM so I only have read a few pages of The Hobbit and Musical Bumps. T_______T

#books #jrr tolkien #terry pratchett #SUGGEST if you may which ones i should definitely read #anyway i make this list in hopes i will find them again in the future if they are to be left behind

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mutifandomlover · 4 years

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My mom got me this pocket stone and it's a Turtle. I want to name him but I have quite a few ideas.

List of names for my new "pet"

Emanuel, Manuel, Matthew, Scott, Richard, William, Henry, Mike, Micheal, Charles, Jack, Alexander, Dylan, Jeremy, Fritz, Alan, Alfred, Freddrick, Bartholomew, Thomas, Bryan, Carter, and Johnny.

I'm figuring out what to call him.

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placetobenation · 4 years

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In this brand new column, staff writer Matt Rotella will be going through the catalog of the Walt Disney Picture live-action features in order of their theatrical release.

Swiss Family Robinson

Released on February 8, 1940

Budget: $681,000

Box Office: $890,000

Starring: Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Tim Holt, Terry Kilburn, & Bobbie Quillan

Director: Edward Ludwig

Plot (per Wikipedia): In London in 1813, a Swiss father, William Robinson, wishes to escape the influence of the superficial profligacy of London on his family. His eldest son, Fritz, is obsessed with Napoleon, whom he considers his hero. His middle son, Jack, is a foolish dandy who cares only about fashion and money. And his dreamy son Ernest is preoccupied with reading and writing to the exclusion of all else.

William Robinson sells his business and house, in order to move with his wife and four sons to Australia. They set out on a brig bound for the faraway country. Following a long voyage, the family is shipwrecked on a remote deserted island after the captain and crew are washed overboard during a storm.

The family members collaborate to create a home for themselves in the alien jungle environment. They gradually learn to use the unfamiliar plants and animals to create what they need to live and thrive. They have many adventures and challenges and make many discoveries. The mother, however, misses her elegant home and community in England, and wishes to somehow be rescued and return. The father slowly convinces her that living in the natural environment is better for the family and that they are meant to be there.

Final Thoughts: So this is the beginning of my Disney + Live Action Movie trek that I have set out on. When I saw this was the oldest movie on there, I was stunned. Mostly because like most of you when I think of Swiss Family Robinson the first movie that comes to mind is the one that came out 20 years later. Honestly never knew there was a version made before that. Though this technically wasn’t created by Walt Disney Studios. It does go by the same principles that they had for all of their movies at the time (to be totally honest not much has changed in 80 years). This is a fun family adventure movie that is based on the book by Johann David Wyss of the same title in 1812.

A fun fact about this movie is that Walt Disney Studios bought the rights to this movie from RKO Radio Pictures in an effort to avoid any comparisons to their movie and to squash its re-release. This movie was not released again in full until 2010 when Turner Classic Movies released it on DVD as part of their Vault Collection.

Unlike the later version this movie was shot primarily on a sound stage, which helped them to create some good special effects for which they got an Oscar nomination for. Though in my opinion I think they went a little overboard at times with it. For example, they had to make a raft to get to shore, their sail to shore went far too long. I understand shooting it but they kept on them sailing for far too long, just to show off their wave making ability. This took time away that they could have used on showing more adventures on the island.

From reviews that I have seen this version is more closely related to the Book than the 1960 version is. The two most glaring differences that I noticed was that in the 1960 version there are 3 sons (Fritz, Ernst, & Francis), while in this movie there are 4 sons (Fritz, Jack, Ernst, & Francis). Though there is a lot of similarities in the personalities of a couple of them. Jack is essentially Ernst from the 1960 version and Ernst from this movie is more like Francis. One other glaring difference that I was shocked to learn was that like in the book this movie had no pirates in it. Though the description on Disney + says there are pirates.

Though this movie doesn’t have the action that the later one did, I found it just as much fun to see what they came up with to make the island habitable. While at the same time trying to figure a way to get off the island (for some of them anyway). The acting in the movie was also quite good, and not to mention the Narrator of the movie Orson Welles (Uncredited). The actors kept the movie going at the same pace throughout and made the movie enjoyable for the parts that were not marred by too many special effects.

Overall, I enjoyed my foray into this adventure I am doing. Please bear with me as I work on my style and format for this. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Final Score: 3 out of 5

Next Review: Miracle on 34th Street

#IFTTT #Place to Be Nation

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britesparc · 5 years

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Weekend Top Ten #377

Top Ten Character Reveals in Movies

You only get one chance to make a first impression, unless you’re a movie version of a comic book character, in which case they’ll probably retell your origin story every seven years. But generally speaking, movie characters emerge onto our screens fully-formed and eager to show us their stuff. Sometimes this is a slow-build affair; sometimes a single frame is enough to give us an insight into their character. Often with a confident performance and excellent cinematography, a character can become iconic almost instantaneously, sometimes with little or no dialogue. This week I’m celebrating ten such characters, whose first appearance in the films in question is a marvel to behold. And – hey! – only one of them is actually from Marvel. Ain’t that a surprise?

Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2001): as much as I’ve cooled towards Depp in recent years, and as much as the Pirates films lost their way once their superlative first instalment sailed off the screen, no one can deny the majesty of this character introduction. Looking amazingly cool and confident, Jack Sparrow glides across the screen, seemingly standing astride the mast of a great pirate galleon. It is only as the camera pans wider that we see the boat is almost entirely sunken, with just the mast visible. This in itself is a perfect distillation of Sparrow – equal parts pirate rock god, master tactician, and clumsy drunken oaf – but the icing on the cake is that the sunken mast deposits him directly onto the shore at precisely the moment it disappears beneath the waves. Piratical perfection.

Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford, Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981): Indy is a character introduced in silhouette and close-up: the image of him, broad, leather-jacketed, fedoraed, walking through the jungle, is the first thing we see after the famous dissolve from the Paramount logo to a real mountain. After that his hands do the talking, examining arrowheads and assembling a map, before he whips out his, er, whip to disarm a treacherous guide. Only then does he finally step into the light and we see just how pretty Harrison Ford is. And it’s even later than that before he finally speaks. But Indy is already an icon: resourceful, robust, a sexy swarthy man’s man, a take-no-shit hero, and clearly incredibly competent and intelligent. And very, very pretty.

Jessica Rabbit (Kathleen Turner, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 1988): speaking of pretty… the joy of Jessica Rabbit’s introduction is partly in subverting our expectations (or, at least, watching Bob Hoskins’ Eddie Valiant have his expectations subverted). Roger Rabbit is cute but chaotic; Jessica is a bona fide sex bomb. Sultrily singing a bluesy number as she flirtatiously struts around the Ink and Paint Club, she is the antithesis of the family-friendly Roger, a busty pin-up model, all legs and curves and – vitally – the full-throated voice of Kathleen Turner. Quite frankly it’s rather shocking in a Disney movie from the director of Back to the Future.

Darth Vader (David Prowse, Star Wars, 1977): the opening scene of Star Wars is all tension. A small craft is abducted by a larger one; on board, two droids flit about whilst angst-faced soldiers await a boarding party. The subsequent firefight is short and rather brutal, efficiently directed by George Lucas, and leaving the corridor strewn with Rebel dead. And then, unheralded, out of the smoke emerges Darth Vader, beautifully framed, his vast black frame exquisitely contrasting with the white interior of the Tantive IV (and the “fascist white” of the Stormtrooper uniforms, according to Lucas’ own screenplay). He barks orders definitively in James Earl Jones’ baritone rumble, before hoisting a Rebel officer into the air by the scruff of his neck. He instantly oozes not just evil, but strong evil. He’s a Big Bad and no mistaking. Even without the depth and nuance afforded him by subsequent films, we know from frame one that he’s a really, really big deal.

Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman, Leon, 1995): Stansfield is one of 90s cinema’s greatest villains. A whirling dervish of tics and eccentricities, beautifully orchestrated by Oldman. The first thing we see him do is rattle a small tin before removing and consuming some narcotic, which he swallows in almost orgasmic fervour, before mowing down an entire family with a shotgun (mum in the bath, teen girl in the back). But it’s his shark-like entrance through a beaded curtain that sticks with me, all cool malevolence and forward motion.

Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen, Toy Story, 1995): one of the beauties of Toy Story is how it presents its fantastical world – a world of living toys, but one which follows a very strict hierarchical structure – so efficiently. As such, the arrival of an exciting new toy into Andy’s bedroom is an incredibly tense event, portrayed mostly through sound and shadow. The symbolic nature of Woody, Andy’s favourite, being knocked off the bed but still trying to keep his optimism, is neatly done. And then we get the reveal: a slow pan up Buzz’s form, his slick plastic limbs giving way to his stern jaw and proud face. The subsequent scene, in which Buzz’s pomposity and assurance is quietly mocked but ultimately used to puncture Woody’s desperate and fragile self-belief, culminating in the “falling with style” scene, is a masterpiece of economic, witty script-writing, world-building, and character development. It also makes terrific use of nascent computer technology to deliver something that was, in 1995, a visual set-piece the likes of which we’d never seen.

Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca, 1942): like Indiana Jones (who was, presumably, inspired by him to a certain degree – or at least that typical Bogartian old-fashioned manly-man), Rick is a character introduced in his absence, other characters reacting to him in a way as a note is passed through his club and into his hands. His hands are the first thing we see as he signs off on a note of credit and lifts a cigarette to his lips. We can tell from the surroundings, the money, the reactions of others that this is a man with some degree of power; we can tell from the weariness of Bogart’s performance that it’s man with some degree of past.

The Borg Queen (Alice Krige, Star Trek: First Contact, 1997): the Borg were not meant to have a leader; the Borg were not meant to have individuality. To have the Borg as the villains in a movie felt like an obvious, inspired choice; after all, they were essentially the “big bad” of the Next Generation era. But how to give face to the faceless, how to give character to a legion of identikit drones? Creating the Queen is as elegant a choice as I think you could come up with, and Krige’s performance is all sensual menace, her bio-organic appearance almost giving off an air of Cenobitian S&M. And she speaks before we see her, so we get a little bit of darkly seductive exposition as she touts the Borg’s accomplishments to a captive Commander Data. But it’s her first appearance that sticks in the mind, if only for the technical chutzpah on display: Krige’s head and torso is lowered from the ceiling in one long panning shot, before being attached to her waiting body, all whilst she delivers a speech. Krige’s performance might be what makes the Borg Queen linger in the memory, but Jonathan Frakes’ direction, and the wizardry of First Contact’s FX team, is what made her stand out from frame one.

Quint (Robert Shaw, Jaws, 1975) Quint is introduced through one of the greatest uses of sound effects in movie history. During a tense, argumentative, and loud town meeting to discuss the killer shark of Amity, a horrid screeching noise is heard. Fingernails down a chalkboard. The culprit: Bartholomew Marion Quint (who I’m fairly certain is only ever called “Quint” in the film). From his appearance and accent we know this a salty old seadog, a man of the open ocean. He delivers one of a number of Quint monologues that have gone on to anchor a place for themselves in popular culture; the assured speech of a man who has no time for bluster or politics, a man who gets down to business. “You all know me,” he begins, “You know how I earn my livin’.” He grabs attention with the shrill finger-trick, he holds it with his stern but wry delivery. “For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn fish.” He then disappears for an hour of film time, but we know he’ll be back; the film circles round him like a boat in a whirlpool.

Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson, Iron Man, 2008): I’d heard rumours. Sam Jackson was, apparently, going to play Nick Fury, following on from Bryan Hitch using Jackson as the basis for the character in The Ultimates. Art imitating life imitating another form of art; nice symmetry. But there was no confirmation; indeed, at this point, Marvel was treating the possibility of an Avengers crossover movie as a pipe dream, a wish only fulfilled if they’d done their homework and the audience was interested. So I didn’t even bother staying for the end credits. God, I wish I had. Because following on from Iron Man’s spectacular, hilarious final line, its continuity-baiting desire to move beyond simple comic adaptation with these characters, to see the world expand so explosively is really something to behold. Cocksure, arrogant, always-right Tony Stark has just announced to the world that he’s Iron Man; venturing back into his sexy cliffside mansion, his elaborate technology – showcased to winning effect throughout the film – is on the fritz. Lights don’t work, computer-Jarvis is popping and crackling. And then it comes: that distinctive Jackson baritone. And one of the most important lines in any movie, a line that shaped the next decade of cinema history, but a line that – at the time – just felt like a cool, somewhat badass thing for Jackson to spout: “You think you’re the only superhero in the world?” We knew he wasn’t; we knew the Hulk was around, that Captain America was frozen up north somewhere, that Thor was still on Asgard. We didn’t know that the Ancient One was over in New York, that Rocket, Star-Lord and the rest were up in space, that Carol Danvers was out there somewhere, that a small boy from Queens would one day be bitten by a spider. We didn’t know that Thanos was searching for Infinity Stones, that SHIELD had been infiltrated by HYDRA for years, that Hank Pym had had his company stolen out from under him. Everything got smaller and bigger all at the same time, all because a really, really cool dude in an eye patch and a long coat stepped from the shadows. Welcome to the Avengers Initiative, indeed.

There were others, as usual. Ones that I honestly thought would be included. I almost traded Fury for Thanos. There’s Harry Lime, of course. Trinity. Heath Ledger’s Joker (really, he fell by the wayside because however good the opening scene of The Dark Knight is, the best Joker scene is when he does his pencil trick, which is technically his second introduction). I even thought of doing Batman’s initial appearance from his 1989 film. But, y’know, ya gotta draw the line somewhere. These ten seem as good a place as any.

#top ten #movies #characters #character reveals #introductions #actors #pirates #avengers #disney #star wars #star trek

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