#and then apparently blade just spontaneously gets their Memory Loss via insta ultratragic traumatic event memory blackout there it seems
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unproduciblesmackdown · 2 years ago
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flashback to part of blade gunnblade’s tragic past, from kapow-i gogo z, episode vii: the world’s martial arts tournament saga: part one: the penultimate episode: “who is blade gunnblade?”
(not a performance of asia kate dillon’s (alex seife, rather), but still pertinent character lore)
(p.s. if you want to avoid seeing anything resembling gore in the least, Don’t Look at 2:30 (actually make that 1:58, if you’re seeing tumblr’s media player progress bar showing the time Remaining in the video rather than the time Elapsed, still two and a half minutes in if the latter), after the killer cyborgs have beat up blade’s wife fran and picked up their baby, until 8 seconds later, when the audible audience reaction has subsided and the “walk / in the rain” chorus has started. if you’re not that sensitive the practical effects are hardly trying to be realistic but it is a bit of a surprisingly gruesome moment, to appropriate tragicomic effect. i thought they were gonna like spike or dropkick that baby offstage or something lol)
#linked to the video of the full episode on youtube as the post content source#blade gunnblade#kapow i gogo#his original name being frank gunnfrank lmao....the whole video is fun & truly just zoomed by when i watched it like wow sixteen min huh#bit tricky to catch some of the dialogue but uhh. frank gunnfrank ordinary man has some special dna to survive whatever like#super strength super fighter serum is supposed to create the Ultimate Fighter mysterious assassin to kill kapow-i gogo...#grim detail that Failed Test Subjects become those killer cyborgs? wow mafee sweet blade gunnblade backstory reference#and then apparently blade just spontaneously gets their Memory Loss via insta ultratragic traumatic event memory blackout there it seems#which then also becomes insta indefinite amnesia about their entire past / identity#yet being immediately duly informed their wife & child have been killed. admirable honesty#it was weird to Know a specific media moment lmfao like i do immediately know this song like ah right cowboy bebop#the one that plays in episooode. 7 also i think. ballad of fallen angels when walking to the church for the gunfight showdown#which preceeds the dramatic stained glass memory flashback flashforward montage set to a different song (green bird)#so all very appropriate lol#the person going YEAHHHH as blade's changed into their outfit via the mail carrier jacket being stripped off....#multiply that by 9000 that's me in spirit as the equivalent plays out with akd#october second....two thousand thirteen....#lmfaooo i saw he has a dramatic facial scar pre Bladeness but just noticed his wife fran already has a mirroring one too lol. epic of them#kapow-i gogo
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