#Dr. Norrington

[bachelorisland]

surely you guys remember the cherished 80s adult film!

[crispy-dib]

Yes, what if.

What if we kissed 😳

In the Museum of Mostly Natural History 🙊

[cloudysarts]

My superstitions, your visage, my visions,

furthering the fever of your fervor, for believing, I will.

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i couldnt decide on just one coloration :P also this is a redraw!!!! the original is under the cut, but if you want the og post, you can see it here <3

[crow-man9000]

OMG???? ACTUAL ART WITH (minimal) EFFORT PUT INTO IT????? POSTED BY MOSS???? UNHEARD OF

original image + sketch below

TDP REMASTER SOON GDVDBHXJSBNXN

[waddlesworth]

My crushes but at the end it’s very unhinged.

[vetdoll]

[skylessknights]

N'BUSHE WRIGHT as DR. KAREN JENSON BLADE 1998 | dir. Stephen Norrington

[cowboylikeyouu]

funfact about the german dub of venom 2 & 3:

cletus from let there be carnage & martin from the last dance have the same voice actor, which is just so funny to me bc wdym in the german canon of that universe there were two guys with EXACTLY the same voice for some time lmao??

(that was the fun fact if you don’t want me yapping about german voice action feel free to scroll)

one thing you need to know the about german dubbing market is that while it’s amazing and while we actually have a lot of incredible voice actors, it still feels like everyone is voiced by the same 10 guys all of the time bc there are just some voice actors who seem to have been in almost every. single. big. franchise. and one of them is thomas nero wolff (great guy, love his voice), who is the usual voice actor for characters played by both woody harrelson (cletus) & rhys ifans (martin). so it makes sense that he would voice them both (after all, they’re not in the same movie) but i still find it incredibly funny that they wouldn’t use a different voice actor for rhys ifans this time lol.

anyhow, here‘s a super super small selection of characters thomas nero wolff has voiced in the german dubs bc i think it’s fun:

gargamel from the 2011/2013 smurf movies

logan/wolverine in basically everything except for x1

p.t. barnum

det. mark hoffman

grand admiral thrawn

mycroft holmes (bbc)

spike (notting hill)

mr gold from once upon a time

haymitch abernathy

james norrington

dr facilier (only the dialogue, not the songs)

gobber (httyd)

chief tui (moana)

luke danes

grandmaster in what if…?

stanford pines

this is maybe a fifth of the roles he has done, but most of these are the ones that have had a huge impact on me growing up (especially haymitch, gobber, dr facilier, mycroft, mr gold, & logan). as a kid, it was definitely equally fun & confusing to always recognize the voice of a character from somewhere else!!!

anyways, that’s thomas nero wollf for y’all, he‘s definitely one of my favorite german voice actors, his voice is just so recognizable!! i kinda love that he voices both haymitch & logan bc idk, they’re both annoyed alcoholics who go all soft around the edges for a random teenage girl. he does them both so well that i watch hunger games in german for comfort sometimes lmao.

ok that’s it for now hmu if you want more german dub yapping

[inluvrn]

˚. ୭ ˚ My main drs list ˚｡⋆.

MCU drs

☆ Alien Princess dr - my main and first dr ever omg, dating Loki laufeyson , basically I am a super cool alien princess that crashed landed on earth due my planet being destroyed, I have the most amazing wardrobe, I love this dr with my entire being

☆ Spider-Verse dr - basically where I’m Spider-willow, I have super cool nature powers (like literally my spider webs are like moss), dating Loki (the way I find a way to script him in ever dr), I sorta work at spider society, friend with Miles morales, Gwen stacy, etc

☆ Cosmic Goddess dr - yeah I was born from the stars, Tony starks adopted daughter, i am goddess of the stars and cosmos and my powers are awesome, dating Loki laufeyson and Bucky Barnes (they are literally the most hottest guys to ever exist omg)

☆ Spider-Girl dr - I’m spider-girl, I end up getting adopted by Tony stark (he’s so father figure)

Etc

☆ Marauders Era dr - I’m besties with the marauders, I have an amazing loving family

☆ Gotham dr - I’m a detective and sometimes nightclub singer, dating Oswald cobblepot

☆ Descendants dr - daughter of mad hatter and Cheshire Cat (yeah made him a girl and my mom), I have the coolest hair and powers (my hair is rainbow and it’s so pretty), dating Ben Florian and Harry hook

☆ Fame dr - I’m a actress, singer, etc (basically I’m Barbie, I star in the marvel movies as my Mcu dr self, dating Tom Hiddleston (I love him sm)

☆ Knight dr - a fantasy fairytale dr, here I’m a knight for hire, if you need a incredibly hard quest done I’m the person for the job, I live in a cottage and have amazing armor, dating prince Loki (I saved him on a quest and that’s how we met), I honestly can’t wait to go to other realms, slay dragons but end up befriending them instead and ride on unicorns. ☆ Pirates of The Caribbean dr - I’m a fierce and very wanted pirate that so happens to be a mermaid, dating James norrington, I’m fulfilling my childhood dreams of being a mermaid and a pirate

☆ Stars Wars dr - where I’m a Jedi (I have a magenta blade), dating obi wan, besties with Anakin Skywalker and Ashoka

[aviradasa]

Welcome to my masterlist

REQUESTS ARE OPEN

{Picture from Pinterest}

Shows:

The umbrella Academy

Supernatural

The walking dead

Miraculous ladybug

How to train your dragon (all spin-off shows)

The dragon Prince mysterys of Aaravos

Once upon a time

Anime:

Tokyo ghoul

Death note

My hero academia

Movies

Van helsing 2004

Hellboy 1 and 2

Labyrinth 1986

The MCU as a whole (Marvel cinematic universe)

Same with the DC universe

Avatar 1 and 2

Pirates of the Caribbean (all movies)

Games

Lord of the rings (lotr)

The lost boys (trilogy)

Sally face

Call of duty

Skyrim

Legend of Zelda breath of the wild/ tears of the kingdom

Assassins creed 2

Stardew valley

Books

Creepypasta

(Work in progress I’m reading a lot more recently so give it time any book suggestions are welcome.I’m a huge fantasy fan!!!)

Bands:

Ghost

David Bowie

Mcr

(I’ll add more here once my will to live dies again.)

Characters I will write for:

The umbrella academy:

Luther

Diego

Allison

Five

Klaus

Ben

Viktor

Lila

Marcus

Fei

Alphonso

Sloane

Jayme

Supernatural:

Sam

Different characters react to you stoned/couch logged

Dean

Different characters react to you stoned/couch logged

Castiel

Different characters react to you stoned/couch logged

Lucifer

Different characters react to you stoned/couch logged

(I'm only on season 5 so if you want more characters let me know and I'll do my best!)

The walking dead:

Rick

Daryl

Different characters react to you stoned/couch logged

Glenn

Maggie

Michonne

Negan

Carl

Rosita

Abraham

Ezekiel

Carol

Miraculous ladybug:

Marinette

Adrian

Luka

Julika

Nino

Alya

Chloé

Kim

Sabrina

Jagged stone

Meeting the kids jagged stone x fem!reader HC

Rose

Nathalie

How to train your dragon:

Hiccup

Astrid

Ruffnut

Tuffnut

Snotlout

Fishlegs

Heather

Eret

Dagur

The dragon Prince, mystery of Aaravos:

Aaravos

Love long lost Aaravos x Fem!reader pt 1

Love long lost Aaravos x Fem!reader pt 2

Love long lost Aaravos x Fem!reader pt3

Love long lost Aaravos x Fem!reader pt4

The sight of two stars Aaravos x Startouched elf! Reader

Aaravos introducing you to his daughter pt 1

Aaravos getting ready to propose to you with the help of leola Pt 2

Teenage!leolas first partner is human! How do you and Aaravos react?

You and Teenage!leola sync up during that time of month. Aaravos is done

Callum

Rayla

Claudia

Viren

Soren

Janai

Nyx

Ibis

Amaya

Corvus

Gren

Terry

Once upon a time:

Mr.Gold ( Rumpelstiltskin )

Captain Killian ‘Hook’ Jones ( Captain hook)

Emma Swan

Regina Mills (the ‘Evil’ queen)

Mary Margaret Blanchard (Snow white)

David Nolan (Prince charming)

(work in progress)

Tokyo ghoul:

Ken kaneki

Touka kirishima

Nishiki

Uta

Yomo

Juuzou

My first juuzou x reader hcs

(Lemmi know who else yall want)

Death note:

L

Light

Misa

Ryuk

Rem

Mha:

Deku

Ochaco

Ida

Asui

Todoroki

Shinsou

Toru

Yaoyorozu

Bakugou

Kirishima

Denki

Mina

Jiro

Sero

Tokoyami

Shoji

Koda

Sato

Ojiro

Aizawa

Mic

Hawks

Midnight

Mt. Lady

Shigaraki

Dabi

Mr. Compress.

Toga

(Pretty much anyone 😭 just use common sense and shit.)

Van Helsing (2004):

Dracula

Aleera

Marishka

Verona

Gabriel Van helsing

Anna valerious

Velkan valerious

Carl

Hellboy 1 and 2 (live action 2004-2008 movies)

Hellboy

Different characters react to you stoned/couch logged

Abe

Liz

John

Prince Nuada

Different characters react to you stoned/couch logged

Princess nuala

Labrynth 1986

Jareth the goblin king

Marvel:

Peter Parker

Thor

Loki

Tony Stark

Dr, Stephan strange

Wanda

Bucky

Natasha

Nick Fury

Bruce banner

Steven Rodger

DC:

Bruce Wayne

Barry allen

Oliver Queen

Clark kent

Robin

Starfire

Raven

Cyborg

Beastboy

Joker

Harley

Poison Ivy

Catwoman

Avatar 1 and 2

Jake sulley

Naytiri

Neteyam

Lo’ak

Kiri

Miles Quaritch

Javier “spider”

Aonung

Grace

Pirates of the Caribbean:

Captain jack sparrow

Captain Hector Barbossa

Will Turner

Elizabeth Swan

James Norrington

Bootstrap bill turner

Davey jones

Lord Cutler Beckett

Calypso ( Tia Dalma)

Lord of the rings/the hobbit (lotr)

Legolas

Aragorn

Sam

Frodo

Pippin

Merry

Boromir

Faramir

Arwen

Gimli

Éowyn

Sally face:

Elrond

The lost boys

Michael

David

Dwayne

Paul

Marko

Star

Max

sal fisher

Sal,Larry,ash (separately) x reader Makeout hc

Larry and sal (separately) x Chubby!fem!Reader Hcs

Sal x fluttershy like reader hcs

Larry johnson

Sal,Larry,ash (separately) x reader Makeout hc

Larry Johnson general hcs

Larry and sal (separately) x Chubby!fem!reader hcs

Ash

Sal,Larry,ash (separately) x reader Makeout hc

Call of duty:

Ghost Mw2 and 2009

König

Soap

Price

Graves

Skyrim:

Cicero

Astrid

Arnbjorn

Farkus

Vilkas

Aela

Balgruuf the greater

Legend of Zelda Botw/totk:

Link

Zelda

Mipha

Daruk

Revali

Sidon

Urbosa

Kass

ganon

Assassins creed 2:

Ezio

Stardew valley (Sdv):

Alex

Elliot

Harvey

Sam

Sebastian

Shane

Abigail

Emily

Haley

Leah

Maru

Penny

The wizard

Caroline

Dwarf

Jodi

Kent

Krobus

Robin

Pierre

Sandy

Ghost:

Papa Emeritus 1 (primo)

Papa Emeritus 2 (secondo

Papa emeritus 3 (terzo)

Papa emeritus 4/cardinal copia

Swiss

Aether

Mountin

Phantom

Aurora (we have the same name irl lol)

Rain

Cirrus

Sunshine

Cumulus

Sodo

Dewdrop

David bowie(going by era current stage persona):

Ziggy stardust

Aladdin sane

The thin white duke

Major tom

David bowie

My chemical romance

Gerard way

Party poison

Mikey way

Kobra kid

Frank iero

Fun ghoul

Ray toro

Jet star

I will add Other characters to any of these lists if you would like to request a character go on ahead!

What I will write/Rules:

Rules:

No bullying or harrassment to anyone or groups of people in the comments. BE NICE TO OTHERS

No homophobia

No racism

No hatred

What I will write:

Fluff

Angst

No self harm. I've struggled with it in the past and still sometimes do so I won't write for it

Smut

(FOR SMUT I WILL NEVER EVER ERITE ANYTHING LISTED BELOW)

No Pe*o*hili* (this includes age play)

No R@pe

No Necro

No poop or pee shit

If there is anything else I find out exists that I don't like I will add to this list.

IF YOU REQUEST THESE THINGS YOU WILL BE BLOCKED AND REPORTED.

Lemon

Anything you want I will add

I don't write for Male readers anymore. Due to some uncomfortable and unnessasary comments and requests. I apologize for this. I will write for trans folks though

PS. When requesting please be specific to what fandom/character you want(I will do crossovers.) just so I can make sure to get everything right for ya!

[hanasnx]

⿻ CHARACTER LIST — !

MINORS DNI 18+ ༄

"We want more than the wars of our fathers." — Switchfoot. (2003). Meant to Live.

TIP: bold is current favorites in which i respond to the quickest.

── characters ┆ EVERY CHARACTER I'VE EVER WRITTEN ON THIS BLOG (DOES NOT INCLUDE GIFTS).

dc comics ¡! ❞

✩ bruce wayne ✩ dick grayson ✩ terry mcginnis ✩ jason todd ✩ clark kent ✩ talon ✩ dr. manhattan ✩ oliver queen ✩ wally west ✩ j’onn j’onzz ✩ nanaue ✩ tim drake ✩ conner kent ✩ joker

marvel ¡! ❞

✩ peter parker ✩ venom ✩ hobie brown ✩ miguel o'hara ✩ tony stark ✩ logan howlett ✩ wade wilson ✩ harry osborn ✩ the great protector

the boys ¡! ❞

✩ black noir ✩ soldier boy ✩ the homelander ✩ jordan li

star wars ¡! ❞

✩ anakin skywalker ✩ darth vader ✩ han solo ✩ nd-5 ✩ plo koon ✩ din djarin

wizarding world ¡! ❞

✩ fred weasley ✩ remus lupin

movies misc. ¡! ❞

✩ indiana jones ✩ brian o'conner ✩ patrick bateman ✩ elton tiscia ✩ optimus prime ✩ jake sully ✩ charlie baker

outer banks ¡! ❞

✩ jj maybank ✩ rafe cameron ✩ drew starkey

atla-verse ¡! ❞

✩ jet ✩ zuko

tv. shows misc. ¡! ❞

✩ jake peralta ✩ abed nadir ✩ mordecai ✩ kevin levin ✩ dean forester ✩ christopher hayden ✩ dean winchester ✩ sam winchester ✩ kendall knight ✩ james diamond

jujutsu kaisen ¡! ❞

✩ toji fushiguro ✩ satoru gojo ✩ naoya zenin

boku no hero academia ¡! ❞

✩ katsuki bakugou ✩ taishiro toyomitsu

akatsuki no yona ¡! ❞

✩ hak

namaikizikari ¡! ❞

✩ shou naruse

manga misc. ¡! ❞

✩ riftan calypse

mass effect ¡! ❞

✩ garrus vakarian ✩ nihlus kryik ✩ saren arterius ✩ urdnot wrex

christensen-verse ¡! ❞

✩ hayden christensen ✩ scott barringer ✩ leo campo ✩ sam monroe ✩ billy quinn ✩ clay beresford ✩ jacob ✩ stephen glass

rpf misc. ¡! ❞

✩ indy ✩ andy biersack ✩ corpse husband ✩ tom welling

── additional ┆ CHARACTERS I'D LIKE TO WRITE FOR.

✩ cad bane ✩ general grievous ✩ boba fett

✩ barry allen

✩ luke riordan

✩ korra ✩ mako

✩ sirius black

✩ shoto todoroki ✩ dabi ✩ kai chisaki ✩ hitoshi shinso ✩ toshinori yagi ✩ yo shindou

✩ garnet

✩ jace herondale

✩ sinbad ✩ masrur

✩ tomoe ✩ kurama shinjirou

✩ sesshomaru ✩ koga

✩ marshall lee

✩ bill cipher

✩ dan lynch

✩ nicholas devereaux

✩ eric knox

✩ sherlock holmes

✩ jack sparrow

✩ james norrington

✩ ned nickerson

✩ mike ross

✩ gregory eddie

✩ sam sweeney

✩ david rice

── gifts ┆ CHARACTERS I'VE WRITTEN GIFTS FOR AND DO NOT WANT MESSAGES ABOUT.

✩ luke skywalker ✩ carmy berzatto ✩ druig

NAVI | M.LIST | RULES | FAQ

[the-knife-consumer]

How do Paperwaite and Norrington feel about Max's current form?

Ouhh okay so both Dr Norrington/paperwaite and Dr Bosco are running tests and doing experiments to try and get him back to "normal", but given that Norrington and momma b have been unsuccessful in separating him and paperwaite they aren't getting their hopes up on reversing or at least alleviating Max's condition.

[persnicketypomelo]

Hey, if you like characters with very little fics about them like Norrington then I have a character you might like from the horror movie, Crimson Peak, Dr Alan McMichael.

The small amount of people who write for that movie only ever write for Thomas. I think Alan is underrated.

I haven't watched the movie, but I did my best to understand the characters and plot from clips and plot summaries.

spoilers for Crimson Peak, obsessive tendencies, manipulative behavior

Yandere Alan McMichael Headcanons

Alan seems a real sweetheart through and through

The kind of sweetheart to be by his dear childhood friend's side, even while she becomes the bride of someone else

I think an interesting scenario could be either where you take Edith's place as the victim of Sharpe siblings' schemes, or where you meet him in the aftermath

In the event where take Edith's place, his temperament will be far sweeter and more laidback

Its a crush he developed now that you two have blossomed into adults

In an ideal scenario, he would be by your side as your husband, and he will do his damn best to convince you of his vision as well

However, if you truly wish to marry this Thomas fellow over him, he is sound enough to respect your wishes

He will loyally and dutifully stay by your side as your best friend, content to watch you be happy

In this scenario, I surmise the plot would carry on much the same as in the original

Something about your husband and his sister disconcerts Alan, and when he learns of the truth, he makes haste to rescue you

I think, however, a scenario in which you nurture a relationship with him after the ordeal with the Sharpe family, is more interesting

His experience would harden him somewhat, making him more wary and cynical of the world and others

Your sweet and kind-hearted nature would appeal to him greatly, reminding him of something he lost in the traumatic evening he and Edith endured

McMichael knows the world to be full of people capable of vile things masked by kindly demeanors

Yet, you wear your innocence so openly that it simultaneously troubles and endears him

Someone could come along and hurt you, take advantage of your trusting nature, gain your love then leave you broken hearted

With the last possibility, his worry is tinged with jealousy

He can't let that happen to you

There's another aspect to his possessive nature as well

He's been the leftover, the cast-aside before when it came to his first love

It's a feeling he doesn't want to tolerate again

This time, he feels he can right the disappointments of the past, as well as protect you from ever having to endure the same heartbreak

His courtship is sweet, warm like sunshine, and oh-so protective

As a yandere, I don't see him doing anything particularly terrible, especially in comparison to the virility of some other yanderes

But he may or may not employ some underhanded tactics to ensure that other suitors are...unappealing to you

Or you may find that those too romantically intimate with you end up dropping their pursuit, deeming it not worth the strange and intimidating attention of the shadow by your side

I think, due to his protective sentiment towards you, he would be as close to you and occupy as much of a role in your life as you allow him to

And even when you do set boundaries with him, he may or may not be lurking just about the corner, present and aware of aspects of your life greater than what you share with him

He couldn't stand it if you needed his care or protection while he wasn't around

And should you need a guardian--someone to step in for you if you ever find yourself in a precarious situation--how fortunate then that he managed to be in just the right place at the right time

I think he is too well-intentioned to ever purposefully put you in dangerous situations to later rescue you

That doesn't mean, though, that he wouldn't ever abuse his power to...guide you in the right path (the one towards him)

Any mild symptoms of dis-ease: a headache, fatigue, or mild cold would have him fretting over you

You would think, with the way he treats you. that you were made of glass

Though his paranoia may be just be a symptom of that terrible happening at Allerdale Hall

He experienced his best friend being poisoned, and was unable to be there for her until it was almost too late

Alan will not make the same mistake again with you

If you do end up marrying him (due at least in part to his insistence) his protective and possessive nature would amplify to be even worse, since the two of you are no longer encumbered by the inhibitions of friendship or being acquaintances

It would never be his intention to cause you harm despite his questionable behavior, but it's as they say...

The road to hell is paved with good intentions

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[jamesbracket]

The matchups have arrived!

This tournament includes 96 characters named James, Jim, Jimmy, and Jay (with some others too), and they will all be competing in 6 brackets of 16, and the winners of those will be participating in two semifinals, and the winners of the semifinals will fight each other in the final finals! (Basically, it’s just how I did it on @blue-character-brawl, but with the amount of participants cut in half.)

Here are the matchups:

Bracket 1

Jim Hopper (Stranger Things) VS. Jim Halpert (The Office)

James “Rhodey” Rhodes (Marvel) VS. James “Bucky” Barnes (Marvel)

James Bonde (Moriarty the Patriot) VS. James Blond (Super Mario Brothers Super Show)

Jim Rockford (The Rockford Files) VS. James Bond (James Bond)

Jimmy Carter (Real Life) VS. James Madison (Hamilton)

James Byrd (@byrdsfly) VS. James Byrd (Spyro the Dragon)

JayMoji (Real Life) VS. James Phryllas (Real Life)

Jimmy Z (Wild Kratts) VS. Jimmy T (WarioWare)

Bracket 2

James Baxter (Adventure Time) VS. James (Adventure Time)

Jamestown, Virginia (Real Life) VS. James Webb Telescope (Real Life)

Jim Henson (Real Life) VS. Jim Davis (Real Life)

Jimmy Olsen (DC Comics) VS. Jim Gordon (DC Comics)

Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby) VS. James Henry Trotter (James and the Giant Peach)

Jimmy Neutron (Jimmy Neutron) VS. Shimmy Jimmy (Phineas and Ferb)

James McCloud (Star Fox) VS. Jay Elbird (Ace Attorney)

James (Wii Sports) VS. James (Papa Louie)

Bracket 3

Captain James Hook (Peter Pan) VS. James Norrington (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Jim Hawkins (Treasure Island) VS. Jimmy Hopkins (Bully)

Jamie Waring (Black Swan) VS. James Flint (Black Sails)

Jamie McCrimmon (Doctor Who) VS. King James IV (Doctor Who)

Dr. James Possible (Kim Possible) VS. Jimmy Pesto Jr. (Bob’s Burgers)

Prince James (Once Upon a Time) VS. James (Princess and the Frog)

jim teacher (This TikTok) VS. Nagasaki James (Noonbit Man)

James March (American Horror Story) VS. James Vane (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

Bracket 4

James (Pokémon) VS. James T. Kirk (Star Trek)

James the Red Engine (Thomas and Friends) VS. James P. Sullivan (Monsters, Inc.)

Jamie Fraser (Outlander) VS. James Sunderland (Silent Hill 2)

James Ironwood (RWBY) VS. Private Jimmy (Red vs Blue)

James Rallison (Real Life) VS. James Huckle (The Search for Santa Paws)

Jay Walker (Ninjago) VS. Jimmy McGill (Better Call Saul)

Jaime Lannister (Game of Thrones) VS. Jimmy Novak (Supernatural)

Jem Carstairs (The Infernal Devices) VS. James Herondale (The Last Hours)

Bracket 5

James Wilson (House MD) VS. Jamie Tartt (Ted Lasso)

Jim Lake Jr. (Trollhunters) VS. James Hunter (Animal Ark)

James (The Walking Dead) VS. Jimmy (Scott Pilgrim)

James-Roman Grilfalinas (@artificialkids-2k23-official) VS. Jimmy Lightning (Peggle)

Jamie Wellerstein (The Last Five Years) VS. Jamie Winter (Midsomer Murders)

James Holden (The Expanse) VS. James Ford (Lost)

James Garrett (Zoey 101) VS. James Amber (Life is Strange)

Jay Merrick (Marble Hornets) VS. Meanie Jim (Junie B. Jones)

Bracket 6

Jim Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes) VS. James Maguire (Derry Girls)

James Black (Detective Conan) VS. James Gunn (Real Life)

James the Cat (James the Cat) VS. Jimmy the Robot (The Aquabats)

Jimmy King (Emmerdale) VS. Jim Johnman (Monster Factory)

Jame Palrose (Terror Island) VS. Jimmy (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac)

James Diamond (Big Time Rush) VS. James Herriot (All Creatures Great and Small)

James West (The Wild Wild West) VS. James Maxwell (We Happy Few)

Jimmy Campbell (Bandstand) VS. James E. Negatus (Yonderland)

Round 1 of Brackets 1 and 2 will be going up on Saturday, May 20!

[ojchartoonzsstuff]

how you draw sam makes me think he would sound like how he is voiced in the cartoons. also, if you had to choose a favorite character from the franchise that isnt sam or max, who would you choose?

THANKS FOR THE COMPLIMENT MAN!! ((love hearing that my design for him matches his voice in the cartoons((Harvey Atkins’s voice for Sam is definitely my favorite))

And for a favorite character for the franchise other than Sam and Max!!! It’s a tie between Sal, Dr Norrington, Charlie Ho-Tep from the Devils Playhouse

((Sal because he’s just a nice and chill guy, Dr Norrington because I like his design and voice, and Charlie Ho-Tep because he’s oh so silly and I LOVED the idea of one of the toys of power being revealed as an antagonist))

[popculturebuffet]

Sam and Max The Devil's Playhouse Retrospective Finale: The City That Dares Not Sleep!: Into the Sunset (Patreon Review for WeirdKev27)

Hello all you happy lagomorphs and welcome to the FINALE of my look at sam and max: the devil's playhouse and the telltale games as a whole. It's a bittersweet feeling: I"m happy to have finished this retrospective, have played these wonderful games and for all of you. This is one of the more popular series i've done and i'm proud of it. It allowed me to play three great games that while not my genre, were still a lot of fun and I will definetly revisit sometime and it was a fun experiment. It got me to review games for the first time, got me copies of all three games and got me the hall

Recently renovated!

But as i've said twice now and thought would cushion me from doing it again... i'll miss these guys. These games have a sense of humor that's parts brilliant, insane and just dark enough that really fits for me, and with no new sam and max media on the horizon this is the last we'll probably get. There is the high possibility skunkape could do a new game or there could be another vr game, but as of now the franchise has gone back to the sea, remaining dormant to rise triumphantly once again. There's other stuff to review, but it's unknown when we'll ever see these guys again. I would hope for a reprint of the comics or an actual release for the cartoon at some point, but i'm not holding my breath.

For now this is the end, the grand finale and it's perfect. Or as close as you could get: It's emotinally wrenching, hilarious, and engaging, a final sendoff to these games with a lot of major characters coming back to say goodbye. If the franchise had to stall for decades.. this was a good note to go out on. One last ride into the sunset on the wings of a giant monster with cockroach children, bizzare pregnancies, sailor moon refrences and shocking reveals galore! Let's get in the desoto one last time.. this is the City that Dares Not Sleep!

We open with the narrator who in classic fashion tells us one of these faces, displaying the whole cast and being in frame himself, will betray sam and max!

It's been one week since Max looked at sam, cocked his head to the side and became a giant cthulu monster. I do miss the direct followups from the earlier chapters, but the time jump feels necessary and adds to the sense of despair as Maxthulu has been terroizing the city for a week straight, with creepy flaming heads of max, psychic spores apparently, encouraging everyone to

And feeding off their dreams, and getting real pissed when Freddy Kruger keeps killing them. Stay on your street freddy!

Sam is working with an all star team. Mama Bosco and the Cops are there, though Carol has left to be with Buster Blaster, with Curt happy she's happy. Good on you man. Less good is that he keeps making puns about murdering max.. just HOW many you can get out of him and the sheer lack of empathy as ya know that's sam's husband make it one of the best gags in the game.

As for why they want to murder sam that's down to another guest: Agent Superball. Sorry ACTING PRESIDENT Agent Superball... could.. could he come here and be potus? Please? I'd even take max a this point. Max would say trans rights. He'd also give llamas the right to drive but he'd say trans rights. He dosen't want to.. but he's preparing the maimtrons, their's multiples now to nuke max which would take out manhattan and all in there but unlike max he's not throwing away lives for funsies. It's this or Maxtulu spreads and the whole world goes down.

Sam refuses to accept that and Luckily mama bosco has a plan: send Sam and a team of experts into Max's body to hopefully turn him back to as normal as the little psychopath gets. Thankfully she brought in two ringers. The first is a plesant suprise as DR NORRINGTON IS ALIVE! Yes he somehow survived the fall.. as did Paperwaite , who I spelled what wrong the last few episodes, but who cares about him DR NORRINGTON LIVES. They agree to go along.

Our second guest dosen't, but he is a welcome return. MR FEATHERLY. Yes he's helping out. Why a trained actor is needed we don't know but he was missed regardless and unlike the others I didn't expect him to be gone most of the game.

Everyone else turns sam down to join the team if for understandable resons: As President superball can't risk himself like this and unlike max won't go against protocol to do so time and time again, mama bosco needs to stay to be your woman in the chair and it goes against SAG regulation for mr featherly. The cops juts don't wanna. Thankfully an old friend arrives in the nick of time, someone with all the qulaifications and more:

YUP SYBIL HAS FINALLY RETURNED. And thankfully she's returned to doing tons of jobs and doing weird shit instead of griping with a horrible boyfriend she ends up marrying anyway. IN fact as you can see the marriage.. has gone well. Lincoln apparently shaped up as their now not only entirely loving but he stayed with her through all 15 semsters of her pregnancy. Which I know is a low bar but given how much I couldn't stand lincoln in season 2, is an improvment. He's leading the maimtrons and has won back my good will in being badass and also a supportive partner for a change.

So with that our team's assembled. Now we need to get inside max

Thankfully we have just the right Chekovs Gun: CORNDOGS! Max still loves them and his spores have taken all of new yorks to feed his endless hunger. Thankfuly we're able to swipe the last box from grandpa stinky's truck and thus need to get cookin without looking. We're going ot need the recipe though which he just gives us.. another fantastic gag. Wasn't that hard. This might be the funniest chapter of an already hilarious game.

We'll need cornmeal which is easy enough, as a truck's nearbye. For most of this batch we simply need to repeat these events, which gets a bit tedious as sam walks slow, but gets easier as you get more used to it: you wave a corndog, lure max's hand to wherever then stop waving it and he'll pick something you need up aka a truck full of cornmeal and the desoto.

With both plopped in the bowl, we now need veggie oil which luckily new york keeps in some of it's fine water towers for situations just like this. It's blocked by some more old friends; Satan and Jurgen! Both of whom i'm delighted to have back. Satan is doing damage control as he's being blamed for the whole affair instead of the elder gods and I can't blame him. Even the name devil's toybox is inaccurate.

Jurgen is having more issues with satan's premadoonna behavior. On the bright side he's looking sharp, having put his old clothes back on to save on the budget.

We need to end this local interview to get to that oil. Thankfully we got corndogs so you swap one with the mic, satan gets attacked and max drops the oil where we need it.

The last ingredient is one egg. Just a regular egg. Dosen't have to be sized up for the recipie. I found this hilarious. We have to get it out of mr featherly who can give us the goods....

We just gotta get everyone to turn around.. they won't.. except superball. He's a good guy. But we distract everyone else including geting the cops shut down by bringing up viruses. Not touching that one and moving on as we now have everything we need right in front of us. It's time to get inside of max!.... he.. he would've loved that.

We get a boss 70's adventure movie style intro for everyone. It's dope and feeds into the whole 70's vibe this game goes for in it's logo, bringing it all full circle.

So now we're inside max where his stomach is a shockingly orderly kitchen where we sadly can't cook without lookin but we do have all the lovely spices from that gag. I'm not suprised Max has tile grout in his stomach. I'm more suprised there isn't a tire iron.

The good news is Max digests slow the bad is that the tubes to the rest of his body aren't working. Luckily we have coffee beans in our inventory.. for some reason. A quick jolt and we can get up to the brain.

Sadly max has a bit of a problem: There's a tumor there's a tumor, there's a tumor there's a tumor oh oh there's a tumor. A massive one made out of stygian energy and poking it gets our heroes scattered throughout max's body.. though luckily where they need to go.

First is the legs. Their ran by treadmill but sybill won't do it so we need to find something to run them. Thankfully we get a direct line to MAX'S INVENTORY! Yes we finally get to see where max keeps everything... in a warehouse somewhere in his bowels

I assume sam also has one, might explain the gut... damn now I wish my gut was explained by a pocket dimension. At any rate we find some fun nods to media I haven't seen: a board game from their edgy offensive phase.. which is still going as of 2024 and a bucket of fish from hit the road. We also find the duo's roach farm and Sam witensses the miracle of birth! And thus Max Jr is born. One of only two roaches i'm not horrified by. Good boy.

To get him we have to touch some jumper cables, turn into a roomba and ram the shelf, scooping up our little buddy son buddy. He goes into our inventory and leaving turns us back to normal. With that Sybil is touched Sam is actually capable of being a parent and hits the treadmill and now we can walk around a bit.

The walking around a bit.. dosen't do much, but we go to boscotech for reasons that will be useful later. For now we need to stop skipping arm day so to the arms which are controlled by a game of TWISTER! Hit it AL!

We get our commands from an arcade game.. just like my real life

Once I figure out what that means.

But since Max is somehow fucking with us, everything Sam says is the oppsite so to get the right commands we have to say the oppisite. It's.. a decent little puzzle and is quickly done, a vast improvment over Beyond Time and Space's over reliance on mini games Devil's Playhouse mocked last chapter.

Sadly while Sam can beat the system he can't beat a .. maimtron just kinda lodged in there releasing nuclear gas. The good news is norrington can still do it as he and his meat sack are immune to radiation. But Sam's going to need someone ELSE immune to work the controls and get things started.

Thankfully we just so happen to know a giant seemingly radiation proof cockroach and simply switching max's hunger from corndog to roach by putting the roach on his faviorite food deal, fixes it. The puzzzles here are less complex: still a dead end or two, but more streamlined. I don't feel it hurts the game as there's still enough for you to do and given how well built up this story has been, you really don't care. The puzzles don't drag, the solutions are simple and the the jokes are on point

So outside Sal is having second thoughts about stinky

But gets eaten as they break up while she ends up back with Skunkape and decides "Eh why not". So it's up to our friend whose more than happy to make amends for the whole attempted murder, working behind your back , evil scheme stuff. Also for making out with stinky in front of us... and... oh god i'm remembering it.

Larger point is he's wiling to help.. which leads to the second saddest moment in the trilogy, just inching out sam's quite "Max" last chapter.. and just behind this chapter's climax. Sal goes and saves the day... then comes back VERY sick. He got the controls working, but turns out in this universe of all things roaches being immune to radiation.. is a myth. Sal knew this.. but also knew if he didn't do it someone else would and also woudln't make it and desperate to do SOMETHING right for once... sacrificed himself. Sal dies tragically, collapsing quitely on the couch having helped save the world, all to help his friends.

And sam responds to this by.. cracknig a lot of jokes.

Stillt his means we can control sam. GIANT MONSTER SAM IS GO!

Being evil by moonlight Winning love by daylight Never running , he'll just bite! He's the one named Max!

Now we can control his body, we can give max a needed shock to the system, via battery park which in this universe has a giant battery as nature intended. Using this we give max a little shock treatment, get him jumpin like a real live wire and thus allowing us to open the door in his brain.

As Sam prepares the action pauses and the narrator asks us to guess one last time... who will betray sam and max.... only to get a guest. Sam opening the door behind him. Yup in a masterful twist I knew all along, but with a reveal I didn't and I needed a second to recover from laughing hard at, the Narrator wasn't just some abstract 4th wall guy but PART of max and behind the events of this season. Well some of them. The whole alternate timeline things more on sam. But he was at least the one keeping Sam away.

Turns out the narrator is Max's superego... and a sympathetic villian at that. I mean imagine if every action you wanted to do had to be screamed through a feral rabbit who just wanted to light the world on fire and eat junk instead of reading a book or petting a puppy once in a while. You too would snap and his plan is for Max to explode, having stalled Sam long enough to where it seemingly dosen't matter and the shock having been something he planned destroying Max's memory seemingly so the one toy that ISN'T under the superego's control, the astral projector, is functionally useless. He even admits that yeah this is horrible, will kill a bunc hof people.. but it's hard to truly hate him: he's part max. Of course his solution is a violence. It's also a bit of irony I didn't realize till now: that he tries to be better than the rest of him.. but his solution is as reckless, selfish and dangerous as anything max could cook up. It's something max would LOVE despite the horrifying death... and it's something the superego can't fathom.

Thankfully dr norrington as always has a plan: turns out there's one toy left max didn't eithe rreplciate in his mind palace, the cthonic destroyer. He fixed it but someone stole it... it must be that dastardly bastardly HARRY MOLEMAN!

Yeah Sam's just... bad at this. It's Skunkape and it's time for one final showdown with our arch enemy. We take control of the body back and remember the memories of a few places so we can fast travel, including Skunkape's ship which is strangely active again. And we can visit with an old power of ours, astral projection. For some horrifyign reason Superball thought an interment camp was a good idea and i'ts where most of the dogglegangers are, but we can hyjack the few left in nyc, psecifically three on the ship. What follows is a fun puzzle going back and forth through the cages to escape, simple, quick to do and didn't require much guide work.

We then go forth and encounter an old foe... Sammun Mak. Turns out Skunkape had use for his brain and presumibly picked it up off the floor of hte museum where our heroes left it.

He's kinda eh here, but I do love how we move things forward: Sam has to piss him off by bringing up th emole men beating the little snot, getting him to open the pod bay doors and revealing.. GRANDPA STINKY.. except.. it's not. It's an ape in his body. And at this point Sam may need to find anothe rline of work as it takes hilarously long for him to spot it. It's a great gag and I love how he figures it out... the ape apologizes. Grandpa Stinky would rather castrate everyone in the room with a rusty fork than apologize! Still a little light intimidation and we have Skunkape's location and a little smashy smashy as max and we're there: the final set piece of the game.

So Skunkape is having an all out climactic supervillian showdown with Flint Paper, whose punching apes as fast as Skunkape can clone them while Skunkape plans to.. er... conquer the world with the toy he dosen't remotely understand while Girl Stinky gets flint to kill grandpa stinky. I do love Skunkape's gradual breakdown over the seasons: he's a genuine clever threat in the first episode, still dangerous when he returns.... then gets degraded to flunky, beaten up, traumtized, kidnapped and now is just doing his patner's half baked scheme with no clear plan. The sheer amount of defeats have broken the poor sap and we're about to finish the job. I also love how PISSSSED he is to realize the doggleganger is sam. Sam is equally pissed and it's neat this fight got so personal that it went from a pretty impersonal world conquering to a blood fued I ddin't know sam and max were even capable of and ends fantastically: we use a projector to project the toybox, trick skunkape and trade the fake box. He's foiled and Stinky follows suit, as Sam.. just casually points out the gorilla is grandpa stinky and Flint lets him down.

We can worry about the horrific nightmare that is a mysthorpic man in the body of a gorilla later as now we have everything we need. We can save max, save the world again, and call it a ... day... why is it wet? Well that's because Sybil's water broke

She dosen't want to give birth inside of max whose rapidly collapsing his brain just minutes from exploding. A fair want but Sam can't think of anything else.. and it's what makes this chapter quitely heartbreaking. Sam's whole goal this time isn't saving the world.. he just wants his best friend, husband and reason for living back. He's not as broken as he was during his unfortuante noir breakdown, but that breakdown makes it very clear how much Sam NEEDS his little buddy. He'll, in his own words, destroy as many cities as he has to. This whole quest has been to save him, and depsite all he's done over these games: stopped a childhood star's revenge plot, saved a talk show audience from a hostage situation, defeated a pathetic man running a mafia out of a mafia free playland and casnio, saving the presdiency from a power mad tyrant to give it to another power mad tyrant, destroying the internet, saving the world from a sentient bacteria, saving christmas, saving easter island for all of a minute, defeating a eurotrash vampire, coming back from the dead in the process of the previous thing, piloting a marachi ufo time machine, saving hell , KILLING THE SODA POPPERS TO THE JOY OF ALL OF HUMANITY, thrwaring an alien invasion, traveling back in time via film reels, saving max' sbrain and then all of reality and finally helping beat a doll in a battle for the fate of all.... all of this.. all the adventures.. the jokes.. the sexual tension... all of it.. and he ultimately fails.

And he fails for not lack of trying. Evne if Sybil has to leave he refuses to... but the ultimate reason for the failure is tearjerkinga s it is deeplys weet... the creepy flame headed spore thigns return.. and the only thing they can say and think is.. SAVE SYBIL. Despite all we've done to her... Max will never abandon someone he considers friend, let alone with her child and implictly.. he won't abandon sam. in one truly sefless act he guides the party out, and the superego.. actually gets a happy ending. I mean he's about to die, but he's just so HAPPY that Max.. proved him wrong. That for one moment, Max proved himself selfless, that he did something noble and brave with nothing to gain from it but saving the people he cares about. That in his last act.. max was everything the Superego had gave up on and CAN be saved. Well.. metaphorically. Literally the superego stays behind and gestures them to a tear duct, which we escape with Max's poetry. There's a ton of great little albums he has including his weird flint paper fanfiction

So our heroes escape, Norrigton takes sybil to the hosptial.. and then.. it happens. one of the most painful moments i've ever witnessed in all of gaming. A sad, truly pogniant death, one of the best i've ever witnssed. As max prepares to go up... it's clear despite being a monster.. max is back in there... and he waves a simple goodbye to sam. And then vanishes. An explosion goes off in the sky.. and Max is dead. All sam can do is say a very quite max still in shock. It's such a fantastically animated, acted and heartfelt moment and it hits you harder because of how insane this franchise is. Even in what I thought would be a fairly morose chapter due to this ending... it's pretty wacky and buisness as usual. But the reason this hits so hard, even harder now I can actually see it and hnot hear about it is that tonal shift: that relization that max.. cannot be saved this time. That we still techincally won.. but you the player and sam the character did all they could.. .and max is still gone. The good news is he took stinky and skunkpae with him as a bomb got teleported to them, their gone, and the world is better.

IN a playable epilouge bit, Mama Bosco tries to clone the boy.. but his dna is too fucking weird. They try.. but max is gone. OUr little buddy.. is well and truly dead and we get another gutpunch as superball runs off crying.. .finally showing emotion and showing that while he considered max expendible earlier.. it clearly was NOT easy for him. It's the last we see of him.. and of everyone else as they all just solemly stare. Even Grandpa Stinky who hates everyone especailly max (and ESPECIALLY sam) can only look forlorn.

So gut punch #3 as we get a truly haunting credits scene of Sam walking, sad, depressed.. and devistated. He's lost everything, not even stopping some muggings or notcing anything. It's a shockingly accurate depection of grief for a game series whose grasp on reality is tenious at best. Just that numbness you feel, that pain, that blankness that takes time to fill if it ever does. It's a truly affecting ending and would be a hell of a way to end the games

Thankfully they don't. As much as this ending would've hit... what they went with.. fits the tone of the series more: optimstic, weird... and with the knoweldge that it's not an IF sam and max will be back.. but a when. For while the series did a pretty good job tying up all it's loose ends over this game, there was one they never adressed till now.. one they left in the barrel fo rthis exact moment.. Max comes back. Specifically his time doppleganger from the previous game. Last we saw them chronal copies of our heroes from situation: comedy took off with the time machine, with our heroes having to relive most of the game the slow way round.

And Max.. is back. And alone. Turns out that sam went thorugh a similar thing and Max had to blow him up real good. And our sam's reaction to seeing this max is just.. so damn beautfully: he hugs his little buddy, is elated and while it's not the exact copy... it's him. Max in all the eways that counts and vice versa. While Max does shrug off having to kill his sam.. given he came back here at all, he likely missed his and was willing to share and is tellingly put off when he realizes the other him is gone.. and just HOW depressed sam seems. Yet... they have each other. THeir not the exact versions.. btu their still each other's best friends. No matter what happened with each other's counterparts... they still have each other. And so our story ends not in tragedy but, at least with the ending I went with, our heroes literallyw alking off into the sunset, talking about all the crime they'll stop Max knows about somehow. It's the perfect ending to sam and max and to this trilogy: our heroes move on with .. our heroes, and head off ot do more shnanigans. The story may be over.. but sam an dmax's story goes on

Thanks for reading... it's been my utmost pleasure.. and to all you talented folks at telltale, skunkape and to steven purcell himself.. thank you. Thank you so much. And thank you all for reading