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Fictional Weapon War Round 1
Now that our preliminaries are over, we're ready to fight!
Here is our bracket:
It is kind of ugly and I used the names instead of pictures because I did not want to figure out the logistics of fitting all those pictures (that are probably a bunch of different weird sizes) on here together.
I still need to get all the pictures together for the matchups but I am planning for round 1 to start on Tuesday, July 25. All polls last a week.
Propaganda is always welcome as long as you are being nice. Have fun!
Matchups below the cut. I'll link them to the polls once they start.
Bridget's yo-yo (Guilty Gear) vs Sasha (Team Fortress 2)
Myrtenaster (RWBY) vs Funkfreed (One Piece)
The Wabbajack (The Elder Scrolls) vs Frostmourne (World of Warcraft)
Portal gun (Portal) vs Buster Sword (Final Fantasy VII)
The Punisher (Trigun) vs Orb (Pondering My Orb meme)
The Spear of the Non-Believer (SCP Wiki) vs R.Y.N.O. (Ratchet and Clank 2002)
Bat'leth (Star Trek) vs Nightblood (Warbreaker/The Starlight Archive)
Ness' bat (Earthbound) vs Kendal (Aurora webcomic)
The Throngler (Twitter) vs Shardblades (The Stormlight Archive)
Kurapika's chains (Hunter x Hunter) vs Kenji Kon's butter knife (Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous)
Jack/Sumarbrander (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard) vs Xena's chakram (Xena Warrior Princess)
Soul Evan's scythe form (Soul Eater) vs Lightsaber (Star Wars)
The Master Sword (The Legend of Zelda) vs Ryuko's scissor blade (Kill la Kill)
Riptide (Percy Jackson) vs Rapunzel's frying pan (Tangled)
Riz Gukgak's Arquebus (Dimension 20 Fantasy High) vs Ichaival (Symphogear)
Meta Knight's Galaxia (Kirby) vs Aang's staff (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Piecemaker (Discworld) vs The List (Critical Role/The Legend of Vox Machina)
Sailor Moon's tiara (Sailor Moon) vs Batarangs (Batman)
Bit Stave (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury) vs Oathkeeper (Kingdom Hearts)
Meowmere (Terraria) vs The Sword of the Creator (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)
Splattershot (Splatoon) vs Amy's Piko Piko Hammer (Sonic)
Pit's Sacred Bow of Palutena (Kid Icarus) vs Sokka's space sword (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
King Dedede's Hammer (Kirby) vs Shingou-Ax (Kamen Rider Drive)
Gideon Nav's two handed sword (The Locked Tomb) vs Needle Whip (Fear and Hunger 2)
Crescent Rose (RWBY) vs Sting (Lord of the Rings)
Kingdom Key (Kingdom Hearts) vs Ghirahim (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
E.G.O. Weapon Mimicry (Project Moon) vs Dangeresque's Nunchuck Gun (Homestar Runner)
Tissue Compression Eliminator (Doctor Who) vs Spider-ham's mallet (Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse)
Sokka's boomerang (Avatar: The Last Airbender) vs Knife (knife crow)
Gungnir (Symphogear) vs Baby 5 (One Piece)
Oblivion (Kingdom Hearts) vs Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle)
Martin the Warrior's sword (Redwall) vs Morgoth's mace, Grand (Lord of the Rings)
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the friar from much ado about nothing after his faking a death scheme actually works: wow, I can't wait to tell my friend in verona about this one weird trick!
#shakespeare#yes i thought of this joke after watching the david tennant catherine tate version#much ado about nothing#romeo and juliet#snail
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The idiots-to-lovers masterpiece
#david tennant#catherine tate#much ado about nothing#usersugar#by*ks#this play is everything#and the fact that they remain idiots after getting together is such a cherry on top#100000/10 would totally recommend
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So you know the scene at the end of The Taming of The Shrew where they have that stupid competition to see whose wife is most obedient? Can you imagine if other Shakespeare characters were there?
Ophelia: You called, My Lord?
Hamlet: No I didn’t. Why are you here when nobody likes you? Go away!
Petruchio: Even I think that’s mean.
Romeo: Go find Juliet and ask her if she would come here and tell her she has the most beautiful eyes, that make the very sun seem dull, and the loveliest hair and a face that puts to shame Aphrodite herself...oh and bring her this sonnet I wrote her...and actually I’ll go find her myself for I can’t bear to be apart from her another moment!
Petruchio: …
Petruchio: … Yeah he’s not coming back. Next!
Coriolanus: Go find my wife and ask her to come here and also ask her if she's seen Aufidius. Actually, have you seen Aufidius...or heard any news of him?
Servant: No I haven't… Is there a name or a description I could use to find your wife?
Coriolanus: Hold on. I know this one.
Petruchio: Wow... We’ll come back to you. Next!
Orlando: I refuse to participate in this farce. It’s demeaning to women.
“Ganymede”: Nonsense! Any real man (which I totally am) wants women to obey him without question!
Orlando: That’s wrong! That’s not being a “real man”; that’s just being a bully. I would never treat Rosalind that way and I hope no one else would either!
“Ganymede”: … You pass the test.
Orlando: What?
"Ganymede": What?
Benedick: HEY BEATRICE!
Beatrice from 3 rooms away: WHAT?
Benedick: CAN YOU COME HERE A SECOND?
Beatrice: WHY?
Benedick: SOME MAN HERE WANTS TO SEE IF YOU’RE OBEDIENT.
Beatrice: WHY ARE YOU PERPETUATING THE OBJECTIFICATION OF WOMEN INSTEAD OF PUNCHING HIM IN THE FACE?
Benedick: YOU MEAN YOU DON’T WANT TO COME HERE AND SHOW OFF YOUR OBEDIENCE? I AM SHOCKED AND HEARTBROKEN!
Beatrice: HA. HA. SO HILARIOUS.
Beatrice: … HE STILL DOESN’T SOUND VERY PUNCHED IN THE FACE. I SUGGEST YOU FIX THAT UNLESS YOU WANT TO SLEEP ON THE COUCH FOREVER!
Benedick: ON IT!
Benedick *rolling up his sleeves*: Isn’t she great?
#Petruchio: Why are you rolling up your sleeves? You’re not just going to let some woman tell you what to— *gets hit right in the jaw*#Benedick: She is not *punch* “some woman”! *punch* She’s *punch* Beatrice! *punch*#Benedick: WAS THAT ENOUGH DARLING?#Beatrice: YEAH! SOUNDS GOOD#Petruchio to “Ganymede”: YOU'RE a man after my own heart. Will you help me up?#“Ganymede”: I am neither a man nor after any heart but Orlando's. *punches him while he still is trying to work that out*#Coriolanus: We’re fighting? Who are we fighting? Is it Aufidius?#listen. after they get together Beatrice and Benedick are THAT couple and they absolutely make that everyone's problem#humor#Shakespeare#Shakespearean shenanigans#the taming of the shrew#much ado about nothing#hamlet#Coriolanus#As you like it#gen
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omfg . radio play version of much ado with david as benedick from 2001
#this version of benedick is a lottttt more serious and restrained than the 2011 version#definitely due to the medium and bc it matches the energy of this version of beatrice way better#it's not david and catherine's insane comedic chemistry but it's still really good imo..#like it's obviously not as endlessly fucking funny as the 2011 version but it's still really solid#and i'm impressed with how they did the humor in a 100% audio format#and i actually really love this interpretation of benedick as more cynical and leaning into his Hater side#ironically david's benedick here generally comes off as older and more mature than his benedick 10 years later#'the prince's fool... hAhH???' is obviously extremely funny but also 'the prince's fool... [uppity hmph]' is Inspired#and his outraged 'oh!'s and gasps and sighs when he listens to don pedro/claudio/leonato talking abt beatrice being in love with him#also funnily enough i think benedick's whole monologue after this is SO good. if not better than the 2011 version#cuz it's more restrained you have benedick's haterism actively fighting and losing against his satisfaction and giddy laughter#and the bit where benedick challenges claudio is so ohhhghhgouhgghg#the way his voice deepens with 'and her death shall fall heavy on you' just FLOORS me it's fucking perfect#but also equally as fun are the line readings where they have evidently remained the same (or similar)#my dearrrrr ladyyyy disdaiiiiinnnn#and the 'she misused me past the endurance of a block' rant#and when he's bitching about claudio falling in love w hero#but the vibes are so different this feels like a whole separate guy and that's really cool#i'm not sure how much i would love this production overall if i wasn't as familiar w the play tho#much ado#shakespeare#essentially trying to say in the least embarrassing way possible that david tennant is now both my first and second favorite benedick
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“the funny thing is, i fought all those battles all those years, and now I know what for: this. i’ve never been so happy in my life.”
"AND THIS IS MY CONCLUSION."
#tatennant#fourteen x donna#doctordonna#much ado about nothing#donna noble#and then they lived happily ever after together forever and ever amen#catherine tate#david tennant
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Watched Anyone But You and was forced to reaffirm my undying, undisciplined attraction to men named Ben, a condition that I blame Shakespeare for.
#the og benedick from 'much ado' being my most formative crush#no version of his character has failed at being sexy to me#david tennant in one-size-too-small Superman tee tucked in jean shorts with sandals and sipping canned beer from a swirly straw?#after which he does a silly dance and accidentally rubs wallpaint on himself?#hottest thing i've ever seen#i'd not have been as ride-or-die for benophie#if benedict wasn't named benedict#luke t is 20% more irresistible because he plays benedict#apparently so is glen powell#anyone but you#benedict bridgerton#bridgerton#benophie#david tennant#much ado about nothing#william shakespeare#shakespeare#luke thompson#glen powell
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Sydney!🤣
#sydney sweeney#anyone but you#ya know that gurl down fo whatever in tha bedroom after hearin that!😛#much ado about nothing#william shakespeare
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saw my friend in a production of much ado about nothing last night. feeling like its always sunny Oh My God ... I Get It gif
#post#ohhh my godddd it was SO GOOD#i had never seen a production of much ado before and maybe its just because this one was really REALLY good#but it might have replaced julius caesar as my favorite. and you KNOW i take julius caesar SERIOUS.#play for gossips and meddlers and busybodies and people who would rather kill themself and throw up and die than admit romantic affection#my friend was don pedro btw and he played that role like he was born for it#also none of the actors were dudes which added. leonato was fully genderbent to being Aunt Leonata#and i didnt know she was a man in the original text til i went on wikipedia after HAHA#i think her being a woman makes it a lot more interesting. good lord that show was peak
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reading this book margo's got money troubles and for some reason it kept hitting all the sore spots for me, even though i literally have nothing in common with the main character. she is forced to drop out of college when she gets pregnant w her english prof's baby and decides to keep it (causing the prof to ghost her immediately), and in order to make ends meet, she starts up an onlyfans. also her ex-pro wrestler absentee father moves into her apartment after divorcing his wife (not her mom) and coming out of rehab from painkiller addiction. also the third roommate is a teenage LARPer. a family can be a sex worker, a baby, an estranged father, and a LARPer
#p#something something guilt about ruining her life#something something parental issues#i also started and finished another book after dinner today bc i'm insane#it was a retelling of jane austen's persuasion with muslim characters in modern day toronto (much ado about nada)#and honestly? social conventions & pressures mapped onto the og plot like 1:1 it was p good
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god the gender envy for shakespearean characters is real
#much ado about nothing#robert sean leonard#emma thompson#denzel washington#beatrice#count claudio#don pedro#im watching much ado about nothing with my father#and god#i want to wear and be half of those characters#let me dance around with my nemesis after calling him a dull jester to his face#let me orchestrate a plan to get my friend to fall in love with his nemesis#let me fall in love with a woman i barely know and then cause her heartache only to love her again#kenneth branagh#kate beckinsale#let me run around and in a fountain in a flowy shirt and an unbuttoned vest#let me wear a flowy dress and read a poem to my friends while eating grapes#let me fake my death just to marry the man who caused me to do so anyway#god just let me be any or the much ado about nothing characters
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was just overtaken by a desire to see a queer staged performance of much ado featuring masc Beatrice and femme Benedict bi4bi mayhem
#imagined her smoking in a suit as she tells ‘a lovely lady’ about how Benedict sucks at the party#then taking the cigarette and placing it in his awe struck mouth with a parting ‘farewell my lady’ as she leaves#he’s sitting in full glamour drag wig ballgown jewellery makeup and all#he drops it out of his mouth when he begins to lovingly complain about her behaviour and nearly sets his own skirts on fire#they’d be so hot!!!!!!!! and bi4bi#after her ‘can’t have a man with a beard can’t have a man without one’ I’d want hero to lean in with a ‘and what about a woman fair cousin?’#in return Beatrice seems to start ‘the perfect woman would look and act like’ speech before being cut off#she’s explicitly and unknowingly describing how Benedict looks and acts when he’s all dolled up#Benedict’s bisexual contribution is dialling up the implicit flirting between him and all his mates. also everything about him#much ado#much ado about nothing
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Might be a hot take but a major character’s death is really only as good as the weight and the treatment that the narrative gives it. Sure, any author has the ability to write death as they see fit. But whether the consumer (of any given form of media) is actually able to emotionally connect and resonate with the departure of someone who has occupied a good chunk of narrative space very heavily depends on how it’s treated within the story. If it’s a major character, the narrative needs enough built-in breathing space. As in, the consumer doesn’t have to fill in the blanks as to how the death impacted the plot or the remaining characters. Let the narrative do that for them, and that would actually allow the consumer to better react and relate to that major death (sadness, anger, joy, etc). Allow the rest of the characters (who were impacted by the deceased) to react to their parting. Let them engage with the death in a manner that helps justify the character’s inclusion in the narrative to begin with. Make it clear how the character’s life and (especially) their death relate to the larger themes of the story. Because most consumers aren’t stupid. We don’t want our hands held at every waking moment, but we also don’t want our investment in a story to be insulted just for the sake of a cheap shock. Give us time to breathe and grieve. And respect that we have put in a lot of emotional investment in a story and its characters, and we deserve to have that acknowledged.
#recent developments in a very popular ip have forced me to think about how creators treat the deaths of major or main characters#and the discourse of ~ohh we don’t need to see every single thing~ has got me thinking#like sure we don’t need to be spoon fed everything but consumers have varying emotional investments depending on the characters#a side character it’s passable if we don’t get any fanfare but a MAIN???#we’ve invested so much into their journey and the themes in their arcs and how they affect the world around them#is it too bad to want that to be actually acknowledged by & within the narrative?#so that whole thing got me to think about main characters whose deaths were well done in fiction#ned stark imo is a really good one because the immediate payoff of his death is the start of the wot5k and long term effect was#that the stark kids now had to fill in their father’s shoes and rise and become leaders in their own right and while we still have twow an#ados we can also tell as shown in adwd that the long term effect of Ned’s legacy is that house stark will be preserved even when it’s on th#brink of extinction#so that’s a well done imo because we also see throughout 4 books just how much his death meant to the kids#his death hurts because we see how his kids are hurting - jon arya sansa bran are GOING THROUGH IT AND IT HURTS!#I’d argue MCU did a pretty good job of showing tony’s everlasting legacy after his death and they did that through Peter who was the proteg#we can love and grieve for tony though peter whom we love and have come to relate to so Tony’s death has a lot of narrative weight#and how it’s handled is satisfying even though we’re hurt that he’s gone#same with sirius and dumbledore in HP - sirius’ especially hits sooo hard because Harry goes absolutely apeshit in ootp and then has to#pick up the pieces in hbp + dumbledore’s life and death is given quite a good amount of narrative space for both harry and the reader#the recent developments in jjk have me worried that a certain someone’s departure won’t be given the narrative weight it deserves#and part of that is gege’s pacing being wonky because oops it’s another big fight that will take god knows how many chapters idk#I’ll wait and see but as of right now….i feel like fan complaints about it shouldn’t be brushed aside because they’re super valid 😕#asoiaf#harry potter#jujutsu kaisen#mcu#marvel#comics#manga
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yall thinkng enemies to lovers is every modern Hallmark meet cute where the main couple disagree about who hit who's car need to ducking read/watch much ado about nothing. b&b HATE each other and will complain about the other, unprompted, for full soliloquies. thats how you know it's true love
#much ado about nothing#needed to rewatch the tennant tate version after the dw 60'th special#it never fails to make me laugh
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when don john said "I must be sad when I have cause and smile at no man’s jests, eat when I have stomach and wait for no man’s leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and tend on no man’s business, laugh when I am merry and claw no man in his humor"........... yeah
#much ado#like. just. leave me BE hhhgnnhghgghhggg#please. i PROMISE im much more pleasant to be around after I've had a reasonable amount of alone time.......
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--> your eat his heart on the marketplace note. Totally, it's so good and poignant in the Josie Rourke production and with DT's CT's acting choices! And to think that majority of the reviews for it, which I googled before watching for the first time, gave this production its due for entertainment factor but called it too slight and frothy
trulyyyyy. i think my favorite version of the "eat his heart in the marketplace" scene as a whole is actually the 2019 version w/ danielle brooks (it's more tonally consistent and serious and danielle's line delivery is so everything), but catherine's was the first version of it i watched and i was SO blown away by it like i rly fell in love w catherine as an actress right there <333 and god i could go on and on and on about how well the 2011 version portrays benedick in that scene too, like i really love how it's made crystal clear that he recognizes what's wrong and is willing to stand up for hero even without beatrice's urging - he already knows to defend her, but she needs to push him to actively stand up to don pedro and claudio (not my observation, but benedick starts to move to interrupt claudio's outburst at the wedding multiple times and is stopped by don pedro and UGHHH. it makes his challenge to claudio and resignation from don pedro's service hit so fucking hardddd) . like this is why i love the 2011 much ado so much it's not just that it's so accessible and easy to understand and funny, it's that there is so much thought being put into the details and the characterization and you will notice small things like that upon multiple rewatches
#tbh ultimately 2011 version is my favorite much ado overall because benedick/beatrice are very much equals in every scene#never for a moment do i think one is out of the other's league or that they aren't a perfect match for each other#i LOVEEEEE that they're both equally surprised and disgusted at the love letters they wrote each other at the end#n i'm genuinely surprised this isn't how most productions play it bc it's by far the funniest way to do it#much ado#ws#i think it's easy to fall into portraying beatrice as being too good for benedick#and dt's benedick/the 2011 version has my heart because his benedick is just.. such a kind and emotionally intelligent person#he leans over in his chair and starts on his 'for which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me'#after he sees beatrice's guilty reaction at him telling her that he challenged claudio to the duel#he cheers her up he makes her laugh i eueugghugehugughh oauuoHGUhG aoughaoughgghghgh i love them so muchhhhh
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