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analyze a Mage of Doom please?
The Mage of Doom [symbols: brain, skull]
The Mage class has its basis in the classic court magician. An example would be Merlin from Arthurian Legend.
The Doom aspect’s main theme is caution. You can find its official description here.
A Mage of Doom is among those who explore energy to influence. This is the “classpect group” they belong to. Members include: the Mage, Seer, Heir, and Witch of Life/Doom. These classes are all opposites or inverses of each other that explore the Life/Doom dichotomy (energy to influence). A description of classpect groupings can be found here.
The Mage of Doom actively knows the Doom aspect. Active classes tell themselves what to do and do so for their own benefit. They are more likely to stand up for themselves, but more likely to be cruel. Mages and Seers possess great knowledge of their aspect and everything it symbolizes. Simplified, the Mage of Doom is motivated by themselves to know caution.
In personality, the Mage of Doom has trouble forgiving their own mistakes and hates confrontation. Personality descriptions can be found here.
Their archetype is the Genius Defender, defined by introspection and caution. Archetypes are explained here.
Their opposite is the Seer of Life, who passively knows growth.
Their inverse is the Heir of Life, who passively manipulates growth.
A classpect or “god tier” is an individual’s best self. All classpects go through a journey from unrealized, to struggle, to realized. When a character is unrealized, they neutrally exist as their inverse. On their struggle, they will wildly flip back and forth between their inverse and true classpect. In their worst moments they will act as their inverse, in their best their true classpect. When realized, they will stabilize as their true classpect. They will still have room to grow, but will become happier, more successful people.
This means that the Mage of Doom begins life motivated by others to manipulate growth. When their struggle arrives and they are at their worst, they will continue this behavior in negative extremes. However, when at their best, they will find purpose in instead knowing caution for themselves. When realized, they will stabilize and continue to know the Doom aspect actively, in a positive way.
They share their archetype with the Knight of Mind, the Defender Genius.
The Mage of Doom would quest on a planet similar to the Land of Thought [Mage] and Doom [Aspect]. An example would be the Land of Dreams and Undead. An explanation of planet naming conventions can be found here.
Two possible gods, or denizens, to reign over their planet would be Hades (God of the Underworld) or Persephone (Dual Goddess of Spring Growth and Decay). Other Doom aspect denizens can be found here.
When the Mage of Doom completes their planet quests and dies on their quest bed, they would rise to ascension on the wings of locusts (symbols of plague). A list of soul animals can be found here.
The characters that I have currently classpected as Mages of Doom are: Sollux Captor from Homestuck [canon example], Connor Guerrin from Dragon Age, Felix Alexius from Dragon Age, Scarecrow from Batman, and Jack Godell from The China Syndrome.
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Official Aspect Descriptions
Personality Descriptions
Aspect Denizens
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summers-in-hollywood · 11 months
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Jane Fonda in The China Syndrome, 1979
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lisamarie-vee · 9 months
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spiritlowerlight · 3 months
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Pinterest. Beautiful Jane Fonda star of many genres of movies and who started a fitness craze with her excercise videos in the 1980s
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not-a-choice · 6 days
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It really sucks that the anti-nuclear sensationalists latched onto the phrase "China syndrome" when TMI happened bc this movie is good actually
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The China Syndrome (1979)
"I may be wrong, but I'd say you're lucky to be alive. For that matter, I think we might say the same for the rest of Southern California."
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The China Syndrome (1979) directed by James Bridges
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Happy 86th Birthday to 2x Academy Award Winning, 2x BAFTA Winning, Emmy Winning, 7x Golden Globe Winning actress Jane Fonda! ^__^
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raurquiz · 6 months
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#remembering #RichardHerd #actor #AdmiralOwenParis #startrek #Voyager #LKor #Thenextgeneration #renegades #allthepresidentsmen #thechinasyndrome #getout #themule #TJHooker #vtheseries #seaquest2032 #AChristmasinNewYork #TheSilentNatural #startrek57 @TrekCore @StarTrek
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movieassholes · 1 year
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We've got some people here from Channel 3. They're shooting a TV news special at the plant. Listen, what the hell's goin' on down there?
Bill Gibson - The China Syndrome (1979)
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On August 1, 2020 cult film icon Wilford Brimley died in St. George, Utah.
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R.I.P. (1934 - 2020)
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lascenizas · 2 years
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The Last Movie I Watched...
The China Syndrome (1979, Dir.: James Bridges)
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crowdvscritic · 8 months
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round up // JULY 23
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Spies! Josh Hartnett! Perfect 10s! They all made multiple appearances in July. This summer has churned out one of the best crop of blockbusters in years, and even though this Round Up is a bit shorter than usual, it’s a stacked lineup. Whether you’re looking for big thrills, big emotion, or big art, July had it all. 
July Crowd-Pleasers
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1. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
A redux of the 1996 original Mission: Impossible in all the best ways. Whatever you think of Tom Cruise, you can’t deny his commitment to the audience experience. Crowd: 10/10 // Critic: 9/10
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2. Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023)
This is the kind of movie that you can tell within in three minutes isn’t totally working but it’s hard to tell why. It looks pretty good! There’s loads of style! Jason Statham is one of the best action leads in the biz! Every actor is doing something fun! (Especially Josh Hartnett, validating my major crush in his Pearl Harbor days.) But not a single character has an arc, and we should’ve opened on an action sequence introducing our heroes and villains so we don’t need so much dialogue to explain our characters or the inciting incident. But you know what? Call the butcher because I love a good ham! I had a great time with this cast doing the Guy Ritchie thing, which means I am gonna watch this so hard again on cable.
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3. Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift (2023)
My attempt to swing last-minute tickets to the Eras Tour in Denver for less than $1000 was a no-go, but the treats that are “When Emma Falls in Love,” “Timeless,” and a Taylor Lautner music video cameo softened that blow. The article “The Unprecedented Weirdness of Taylor Swift” in The Washington Post captures some of the unique joys of her re-recordings.
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4. Barbie (2023)
Is Barbie an instant classic? Perhaps it’s too of-this-moment for that kind of longevity, but it’s a comedy that made me laugh so hard I cried and also just that made me cry, which I don’t remember ever happening to me within a single movie before. Read my full review for ZekeFilm, and then be sure to listen to the soundtrack after seeing the movie. Dua Lipa, Charli XCX, Tame Impala, Haim, Billie Eilish, and Ryan Gosling(!!) made some bangers! Crowd: 10/10 // Critic: 9/10
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5. Do You Like Apples Podcast
I’ve recommended the Do You Like Apples newsletter, and now I’m recommending Billy Rock and Drew Wendt’s new accompanying podcast. I may be biased since they invited me to join their Barbie discussion, but because I like filling my earbuds with thoughts on Wes Anderson’s oeuvre and the best of Harrison Ford’s career, I’m a regular listener beyond our collab. Listen to our discussion of Barbie and then browse through their rapidly growing feed about the world of movies.
More July Crowd-Pleasers: Airport (1970), Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023), Zoey 102 (2023)
July Critic Picks
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1. The China Syndrome (1979)
Another ‘70s conspiracy thriller FTW! Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas, and Jack Lemmon are getting suspicious at a nuclear power plant, and their investigation lands on my lists of favorite journalism films and movies that have made me cry. Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 9/10
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2. BlackBerry (2023)
Product-inspired films are still rocking and rolling in 2023, and BlackBerry is one of the best. It owes a lot to The Social Network, but it learned all the right lessons. I would love to see this cast in conversation for Oscars this winter, but until then, the rage-at-the-corporate-machine soundtrack is keeping me going. Crowd: 8/9 // Critic: 9/10
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3. Oppenheimer (2023)
On average, me every 7 minutes in this movie: "Oh hey, I love that guy!” This cameo-packed historical epic/biopic is a clearer-eyed version of A Beautiful Mind, and perhaps most impressively doesn’t feel three hours long. The review in The Federalist and Vox’s analysis of the history of nuclear cinema are excellent companion pieces. Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 9.5/10
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4. Suddenly by BØRNS (2023)
Like the rest of us, it sounds like BØRNS has been going through some stuff in the last few years. After a five year hiatus, he’s back with his lachrymose synth-pop in a six-track EP. My only complaint? I’m ready for a full album!
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5. The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson (2021)
Haven’t I already recommended The French Dispatch as the best film of 2021? Yes, but because I’m a woman of limited interests, I’m now recommending the published screenplay. If you’ve ever wondered just how Anderson and his collaborators create their idiosyncratic stories, reading the complex script gives a new insight into their overlapping minutiae, much of which I missed just by watching.
More July Critic Picks: The Merry Widow (1934), Christmas in July (1940), Some Came Running (1958)
Also in July…
At the start of July, nine writers for ZekeFilm picked our top five movies of the year so far. You can read our individual lists as well as our aggregate top five in our “Best of 2023 (So Far)” piece. 
I checked out Haunted Mansion, which was…at least better than the Eddie Murphy version? Read my review for ZekeFilm, which turned into a long list of theme park-inspired films for Disney, and watch more on KMOV to see me correctly predict that Barbie would dominate the box office yet again.
Thanks to a holiday break, I had a little time to finally add a few Best Picture Project pieces. Keep scrolling on the home page to read reviews of The Apartment (1960), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Rain Man (1988), Dances With Wolves (1990), Million Dollar Baby (2004), and 12 Years a Slave (2013)
Until August wraps, you can follow what I’m watching on Letterboxd and the site formerly known as Twitter
Photo credits: BØRNS, DYLA, The French Dispatch. All others IMDb.com.
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