#tarzan clone

[welcometopulpland]

The Absolute Unit that is the Kumán musical

Many Mexicans have known that the first Latin American rock opera is a Tarzan clone by Cristal Y Acero, but barely anyone knows that it’s none other than an unofficial adaptation of The Boy Champion (少年王者), Kumán.

Keep in mind that thanks to being a Cristal Y Acero creation, the musical’s plot is barely different enough not to cause a lawsuit from the companies that distributed Sōji Yamakawa’s works during his lifetime.

[welcometopulpland]

Sōji Yamakawa’s The Boy Champion (少年王者) deserves to get international recognition for influencing some Shōnen manga classics like Sanpei Shirato’s Sasuke and Shotaro Ishinomori’s Ryu the Cave Boy. What a bonkers classic.

yamakawa souji

[chernobog13]

KING OF THE CONGO (1952) Columbia Pictures.

Based on the comic book character created earlier the same year by Frank Frazetta, who drew the entire first issue.

Art by Frank Frazetta. Script by Gardner Fox.

Frazetta was asked by the book's editor to remove the dinosaurs and other fantastic elements from the series. Frazetta refused and decided to focus on work outside of comics. Sadly, Thun'da then became just another Tarzan clone in a comics world chock full of them. With nothing to distinguish it from the competitors, including the actual Tarzan, the book didn't last too long after that.

The King of the Congo serial also eschewed the prehistoric world, and worked in a storyline about spies and hidden microfilm. Thun'da was Buster Crabbe's third role as a jungle hero, the others being Kaspa the Lion Man in King of the Jungle (1933), and Tarzan in the serial Tarzan the Fearless (also 1933). This was also the last serial Crabbe starred in, and was the last Tarzan-like serial film made.

[crossovershipstournament]

CROSSOVER SHIPS TOURNAMENT BRACKET

(Please full-screen for an easier time reading)

Finally, the bracket for the Crossover Ships Tournament is here! I'm so excited to finally get this tournament going, so I'll keep this short and get to the match-ups, with a quick reminder that will be included on the polls themselves as well:

That being said, let's get to the match-ups:

SIDE 1:

Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera (Ducktales 2017)/Clover Ebi (RWBY) VS Gregor (Star Wars the Clone Wars)/Harley Quinn (DC Comics)

Dib Membrane (Invader Zim)/Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls) VS JD (Heathers the Musical)/Nathan Prescott (Life is Strange)

Charlie Bradbury (Supernatural)/Rose Tyler (Doctor Who) VS Reagan Ridley (Inside Job)/Toriel Dreemur (Undertale)

Ange Ushiromiya (Umineko no Naku Koro Ni)/Rin Tohsaka (Fate/Stay Night) VS Max Goof (Disney)/Yakko Warner (Animaniacs)

Dimentio (Super Paper Mario)/Jevil (Deltarune) VS Astro Tenma (Astro Boy (2009))/Wilbur Robinson (Meet The Robinsons)

Damian Wayne (DC Comics)/Marinette Dupain-Cheng (Miraculous Ladybug) VS Michelangelo Hamato (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)/Miles Morales (Marvel)

Sora (Kingdom Hearts)/Jim Hawkins (Treasure Planet) VS Jimmy Neutron (Jimmy Neutron)/Timmy Turner (Fairly Oddparents)

Bendy (Bendy and the Ink Machine)/Cuphead (Cuphead) VS Johnny Bravo (Johnny Bravo)/Samurai Jack (Samurai Jack)

Mogar (Xray and Vav)/David (Camp Camp) VS Dewey Duck (Ducktales 2017)/Whitley Schnee (RWBY)

Ash Williams (Evil Dead)/Crawford Tillinghast (From Beyond) VS Skales (Lego Ninjago)/Starscream (Transformers Prime)

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How To Train Your Dragon)/Jack Frost (Rise of the Guardians) VS Jane Porter (Tarzan)/Captain Amelia (Treasure Planet)

Isabelle (Animal Crossing)/Wolf O’Donnell (StarFox) VS Webby Vanderquack (Ducktales 2017)/Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls)

Chibiusa (Sailor Moon)/Kid Trunks Briefs (Dragon Ball Z) VS Kokichi Ouma (Danganronpa)/Venti (Genshin Impact)

Applejack (My Little Pony)/Hol Horse (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders) VS Jake Long (American Dragon: Jake Long)/Juniper Lee (The Life and Times of Juniper Lee)

Princess Peach (Super Mario)/Samus Aran (Metroid) VS Kefer (Egyxos)/Shiryu (Knights of the Zodiac)

Alex Mercer (Prototype)/Desmond Miles (Assassin’s Creed) VS Gandra Dee (Ducktales 2017)/Winter Schnee (RWBY)

SIDE 2:

Jiminy Cricket (Pinocchio)/Timothy Q. Mouse (Dumbo) VS Max (Camp Camp)/Phineas Flynn (Phineas and Ferb)

Wirt (Over the Garden Wall)/Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls) VS Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony)/Shockwave (Transformers Prime)

Daffy Duck (Looney Toons)/Donald Duck (Disney) VS Commander Peepers (Wander Over Yonder)/Wilt Michaels (Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends)

Jigglypuff (Pokemon)/Kirby (Kirby) VS Merida (Brave)/Rapunzel (Tangled)

Leonardo Hamato (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)/Yuichi Usagi (Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles) VS Megaman (Megaman)/Pit (Kid Icarus)

Floyd Leech (Twisted Wonderland)/Kanata Shinkai (Ensemble Stars) VS Adrien Agreste (Chat Noir) (Miraculous Ladybug)/Berry Shirayuki (Mew Berry) (Tokyo Mew Mew)

Ben Tennyson (Ben 10)/Rex Salazar (Generator Rex) VS Bayonetta (Bayonetta)/Palutena (Kid Icarus)

Gyro Gearloose (Ducktales 2017)/Hazel Rainart (RWBY) VS Sally “Thorn” McKnight (Scooby Doo Franchise)/Skwisgaar Skwigelf (Metalocalypse)

Blossom Utonium (Powerpuff Girls)/Dexter (Dexter’s Laboratory) VS Angus McDonald (The Adventure Zone)/Shigeo Kageyama (Mob) (Mob Psycho 100)

Selina Kyle (Catwoman) (DC Comics)/Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe) VS Apollo (Percy Jackson)/Clark Kent (Superman) (Superman)

Aqua (Kingdom Hearts)/Cinderella (Cinderella) VS Huey Duck (Ducktales 2017)/Wakko Warner (Animaniacs)

Madoka Kaname (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)/Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) VS Gaz Membrane (Invader Zim)/Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls)

Sam Winchester (Supernatural)/Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds) VS Phone Guy (Five Nights at Freddy’s)/Wally Franks (Bendy and the Ink Machine)

Ditzy Doo (My Little Pony)/The Doctor (Doctor Who) VS Anne Boonchuy (Amphibia)/Nepeta Leijon (Homestuck)

Bowser (Super Mario)/Dr. Eggman (Sonic) VS Beastman (Masters of the Universe)/Lifeweaver (Overwatch 2)

Luca Paguro (Luca)/Maisie Brumble (The Sea Beast) VS Dewey Duck (Ducktales 2017)/Silver the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)

The tournament will begin proper sometime over the following weekend (07/01 - 07/02). I should have a more specific day and time by tomorrow!

[s10127470]

Freeform Disney Block Ideas

So for the past few months, I've been thinking about the concept of the channel Freeform having programming blocks for the animated programming from Disney’s expansive library, similar to what TeenNick and Adult Swim did with The Splat and Checkered Past.

I feel like it would help garner more interest in the channel, and would serve as a throwback to those programming blocks like Disney’s One Saturday Morning and ABC Kids.

So far, I’ve taught of about two programming blocks, both of which would air on the weekends.

Funky Fridays:

This would be a Friday night block, drawing heavy inspiration from Cartoon Network’s Cartoon Cartoon Fridays.

The block's format would be set in the iconic House of Mouse, where Mickey, his famous pals, and various Disney Channel characters serve as the hosts.

As for the programming.

The block would feature new episodes of Big City Greens, Hamster & Gretel, Kiff, Zombies: The Re-Animated Series and Primos.

In fact, that would be the biggest draw of the block.

You would be able to see new episodes of these shows before they would properly premiere on their home network.

The block would also feature reruns of Phineas & Ferb, Hailey's On It!, Recess, The Proud Family, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Pepper Ann, and yes, even House of Mouse.

And staying true to it's name, Funky Fridays would feature music videos that would air during commercial breaks, structured in a countdown format ala TeenNick's Top 10.

Finally for the schedule....

-6:00: Recess

-6:30: Pepper Ann

-7:00: Big City Greens (New)

-7:30: The Proud Family

-8:00: Zombies: The Re-Animated Series (New)

-8:30: Lilo & Stitch: The Series

-9:00: Hamster & Gretel (New)

-9:30: Phineas & Ferb

-10:00: Primos (New)

-10:30: Hailey's On It!

-11:00: Kiff (New)

-11:30: House of Mouse

Jetix:

Now this is a name that I'm sure will take you all back!

This will serve as a Saturday night block, focusing on the more action-oriented/mature programming of the library, ala Toonami.

Similar to Funky Fridays, it would feature various characters serving as the hosts of the block.

However, the setting would be in a high-tech hero base.

As for the programming, it would primarily feature reruns.

Those being of Hercules: The Series, Aladdin: The Series, Gargoyles, The Legend of Tarzan, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Kim Possible, American Dragon: Jake Long, Gravity Falls, Amphibia, The Owl House, The Spectacular Spider-Man, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

There would be new episodes of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, X-Men: The Next Mutation, Maximum Marvel, and Time Patrol Bon.

In the case of the middle two, they would be Freeform original series since....

They're a little too mature for Disney Channel

They're not gonna thrive at all over at Disney XD! Also, same issue as Disney Channel

I actually want the seasons for these shows to be longer than 10 episodes. So no to Disney Plus

As for Time Patrol Bon, I know it seems strange it's an original series on Netflix.

But #1, this wouldn't be the first time a Netflix original series would go on to air on television.

And #2, this would sort of a nod to the fact that Disney famously aired the official English dub of Doraemon, another work done by the Fujiko Fujio.

As for the schedule.

-6:00: Star Wars: The Clone Wars

-6:30: Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

-7:00: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (New)

-7:30: Hercules: The Series

-8:00: Time Patrol Bon (New)

-8:30: Aladdin: The Series

-9:00: X-Men: The Next Mutation (New)

-9:30: Gargoyles

-10:00: Maximum Marvel (New)

-10:30: The Legend of Tarzan

-11:00: Gravity Falls

-11:30: The Spectacular Spider-Man

-12:00: Amphibia

-12:30: Kim Possible

-1:00: The Owl House

-1:30: American Dragon: Jake Long

Well that's all I have for now.

A short post I know, but a fun one.

Let me know what you guys think about this block ideas and the schedules for them.

[stargirlfics]

And if we're gonna talk about bearded disney dilfs we can't forget one of the most well-known: ALADDIN'S DAD CASSIM. He's a silver fox bad boy AND is one of the few disney dilfs that is single (he's a widower) so you're not breaking up a marriage. (And from what I can tell they also did a good job of making him look like Aladdin while not making him look EXACTLY like Aladdin, same for Tarzan and his dad. Back when Disney understood "family resemblance means similarity, not cloning")

CASSIM IS ABSOLUTELY KING OF THE DILFS AHH! Look at him!

Daddy? Sorry Daddy? But quite literally daddy

That stripe of gray, the way he looks so broad please!!!

Agree about making the families all look related but not an exact copy of the main character!

[wyrmfedgrave]

Pics:

1 & 2. General purpose map for this prehistoric natural game preserve.

3. Kazar, Lord of the Savage Land. Originally a Tarzan clone - but, always in his own 'Pellucidar.'

4. Shanna, the She-Devil. Originally, a knock-off of Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Now married to the Tarzan clone above.

5. Kazar vs augmented dinos - in some great cover art.

6. Shanna - your readers really want to know how you get out of this jam!!

1906: The Earth (is) Not Hollow.

The Savage Land is a hidden (under Antarctica's ice!) tropical preserve at the base of the Palmer Peninsula.

It's part of several such planetary zoos built by the Nuwali for the mysterious Beyonders...

This 1 is stocked with the prehistoric animal & plant life of 200 million years ago.

50 million years ago, the Nuwali had to augment the area's volcanoes to preserve it's tropical ecosystem.

They also supplemented the animal life with various early mammals - including 'Man-Apes!'

The Nuwali finally left Earth some 200,000 years ago...

Eternals lived here briefly.

Then, ancient Atlanteans colonized the Savage Land, exporting its animal life thruout their empire.

Their scientist-sorcerers imported magical creatures & expanded the Land's recreation/commerce center called Pangea.

Beast-Men were created by the Atlanteans & promptly enslaved!!

But, after a successful rebellion, they spread out into the preserve to find places to live in...

In 18,000 BC, an alien/mystic war resulted in the sinking of Atlantis!!

The Beyonders sent alien operatives to Earth - to repair the Savage Land's environmental systems.

Yet, over half of the Land's population still perished!

Other, god-like aliens lived in the Land for awhile.

Then, the Sagittarians stored a Planet Destroyer & it's guardian there.

Khor, a French sorcerer, was exiled to the Savage Land - for eternity!

Velasco hid Beatrice under Mt. Flavius & tried to summon the Elder Gods there.

As Dante & Belasco fought, a pipe got hit - releasing some unknown gas!

It put Belasco into suspended animation, but, Dante & his men were mystically 'changed'.

In the 1800s, Atlanteans relocated to the waters surrounding Antarctica - as did Lemurian rebels...

By the 1940s, Nazis had built a hidden base somewhere in the South Pole.

After WW2, some high ranking Nazis escaped there, stumbling upon the Savage Land - & its high tech.

British Lord Plunder was the next to discover the Land - while looking for vibranium.

His 9 year old son was orphaned & raised by Zabu, a sabertooth tiger!!

He was renamed Kazar, "friend of the sabertooth cats."

Author/Artist: The Savage Land was created by Jack Kirby & Stan Lee for X-Men #10 in 1965!

[gardenofedenuniverse]

Alexander Skarsgård: ‘There’s a politeness to Swedes. It’s a facade. Deep down we’re animals’

The actor talks about his new film, the explicit sci-fi horror Infinity Pool, why he gave up acting for eight years – and why he likes playing darker, more twisted characters.

Alexander Skarsgård: ‘I’m quite mellow in my disposition.’ Photograph: Charlie Clift

Alexander Skarsgård is an embarrassing creep who tries to coerce women into partying naked with him in hotel suites. Or so it would seem from the version of himself that he played last year in Donald Glover’s comedy Atlanta. “I’m not saying that I dance around in a leopard-print thong in front of girls I don’t know,” he says. “But I’m also not saying that I don’t. That kind of thing works really well when there’s a kernel of truth in it.”

This twinkling, teasing playfulness represents the default setting of the 46-year-old actor. His natural self-deprecation is what makes it so startling when he turns up on screen as another of the brutes and bastards that have become his speciality over the years. There was the violently abusive husband in the HBO series Big Little Lies and the violently abusive cop in War on Everyone; a racist in Passing and a rapist in the Straw Dogs remake, as well as a sad, moustachioed sleazeball who sleeps with his partner’s underage daughter in The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Eric, the vampire he played across all seven series of True Blood, was an absolute catch by comparison.

It could even be argued that Skarsgård looks lost or vague in those roles that don’t supply some darkness to temper his natural sheen. He was ferocious as a mud-caked proto-Hamlet in Robert Eggers’s wild Viking epic The Northman, but as the yodelling vine-swinger in The Legend of Tarzan, there was none of the usual depth present behind his beauty. Whereas his character in the new satirical horror Infinity Pool – directed by Brandon Cronenberg, son of David – is up to his disbelieving eyes in vanity, amorality and rancid privilege.

Skarsgård plays a novelist called James living off the wealth of his wife, Em (Cleopatra Coleman), and struggling to write a second book six years after his debut. In search of inspiration, he and Em visit a luxurious resort in an unnamed country. What begins as a taunting comedy about the awfulness of the 1% veers off into extremity when the couple fall in with the hedonistic Gabi (Mia Goth) and her partner, Alban (Jalil Lespert). All it takes for the impressionable James to be hooked by these reprobates is a few compliments from Gabi followed by a sex act shown in graphic detail. “My job is so hard,” the actor says with a smirk.

Cronenberg and Skarsgård are both the sons of talented men. (Skarsgård’s father is Stellan Skarsgård who, like him, is part of the Lars von Trier Cinematic Universe.) Director and actor also have a certain placid temperament in common. “There’s a politeness to Canadians and Swedes,” says Skarsgård. “But it’s all just a fucking facade. Deep down we’re animals. We’re just very good at concealing it.” He gestures at me. “Brits too. It’s all down there, though. You can just open the tap and let it out. That’s what this movie does.”

Even as the film descends into gruesome horror, Skarsgård remains committed to the idea of his character as a show pony with delusions of being a stallion. “James is arm candy. His wife buys him all these expensive clothes. The two of them look like something out of a travel brochure: the perfect couple on vacation. And he’s trying to play that part while wanting also to be this serious author. But he’s not a Charles Bukowski, he’s not tormented and twisted. He isn’t in touch with the darker side of his personality.”That changes when James finds himself facing the death penalty after accidentally killing a local farmer. He is assured by the police that there is a way out: for a hefty price, a clone of him can be created to take the fall on his behalf. This is no dumb beast, however; the sacrificial lamb will possess all his memories and feelings. It will, in effect, be indistinguishable from him. In a film featuring explicit sex and violence, there is still nothing quite as unnerving as the moment James encounters his own double as it wakes with a shocked gasp in a vat of red goo.

“The film company gave me a prosthetic of the clone’s face with all that goo round it,” he says, shaking his head. “It’s incredibly disturbing. What am I meant to do with it? Should I just hang it on the wall? Put it in the fridge?” He decided to go down the practical joke route. “When I have guests over, I’ll hide it in different places around the house.”

Would he take the clone option himself, I wonder? “One hundred per cent! I don’t blame James for going to the ATM. But it opens up other questions. If the clone retains all his memories, then how will he ever know that he is not the clone? Maybe they’re killing the real James. That fascinated me, and I love that there’s no answer in the movie. To throw another wrench in the works: maybe James has even been to the island already. Maybe he’s done this sort of thing before.”

These questions of authenticity, dilution and duplication are especially intriguing for an actor who proposed that twisted alternate version of himself in Atlanta, and who claims to suffer even now from impostor syndrome. Had you been present in 2008 on the set of Generation Kill, the HBO Iraq war mini-series written by the creators of The Wire and shot in Namibia, Mozambique and South Africa, you might have noticed him sitting off to one side between takes, quietly totting up figures with a pen and paper. “It was my first big job,” he explains. “I was so convinced they were going to fire me that I started calculating the cost of recasting the role once they realised I wasn’t good enough. A month or two in, I was still convinced that every time the phone rang, it was my agent saying: ‘Pack your bags, you’re not cutting it.’ It was only when we’d done some big battle scenes that I knew it would be too expensive to replace me.”

It wasn’t as if he has a history of flunking, though there was the job in the Stockholm bakery that he was sacked from at the age of 16. “We were dipping little biscuits in chocolate for six hours a day in a basement and that was the only thing we got to do,” he says pleadingly, as though mounting the case for his defence. “When you get chocolate on your fingers, it’s tempting to put little stains on your buddy’s white robes. That turned into a bit of a food fight.” He smiles bashfully. Chocolate wouldn’t melt in his mouth.

A few years earlier, he had abandoned a childhood acting career after feeling freaked out by all the attention he received. “When people recognised me, or I thought they did, it made me very uncomfortable. I also believed everything I heard about who I was. Most people at 13 have no idea who they are. I was going from a boy to a man, which is a crazy transformation anyway, but to do it while being in the spotlight was not healthy. That’s why I didn’t work for eight years.” What could he learn now as an actor from his younger self? “There was a lot of joy,” he says. “That makes me sound bitter now! But there was something innocent and lovely and wide-eyed. It’s worth remembering that it can still be a big silly game.”

On Becoming a God in Central Florida. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy

His continuing appetite for comedy bears this out. He was a riot in the opening episode of On Becoming a God in Central Florida, where he played a dope who gets involved with a pyramid scheme before being eaten by an alligator. (His on-screen wife was Kirsten Dunst. For further proof that their marriages never end well, see Von Trier’s apocalyptic Melancholia.) He also goofs around gloriously in the new season of Documentary Now!, in which he stars as a Werner Herzog-esque director shooting an epic in the Urals while simultaneously showrunning a US network comedy pilot called Bachelor Nanny. “I’ve met Herzog a few times over the years, but I don’t know if he’s seen this yet,” he says, slightly sheepishly. “I’m curious to hear what he thinks.”

It was in fact comedy that tempted Skarsgård back to acting again after all those years away. He was on holiday in Los Angeles in the early 00s when his father’s agent suggested he try out for an audition. Six weeks later, he was pootling around New York in the back of a Jeep with Ben Stiller, pouting away happily as gormless Swedish model Meekus in Zoolander. Getting that job was such a breeze that he was crestfallen to be knocked back repeatedly in other Hollywood auditions. He returned to Sweden to continue acting; another six years elapsed before Generation Kill kickstarted his US career.

These days, he seems somehow both ubiquitous and judicious. He is getting ready to make his directorial debut with The Pack, in which he and Florence Pugh star as documentary makers in Alaska. And he will return this month in the fourth and final season of Succession, which reportedly places even greater emphasis on Skarsgård’s character, the tech bro Lukas Matsson. Another bad boy of sorts.

With Brian Cox and Kieran Culkin in Succession. Photograph: Graeme Hunter

“Quite a few of the projects I’ve chosen deal with the juxtaposition of someone trying to function in modern society while also dealing with that atavistic primal question of who he is deep down and what happens when that flares up and can’t be suppressed any longer,” he says. “It’s incredibly cathartic to play those roles. Maybe because I’m quite mellow in my disposition. These darker, more twisted characters give me an opportunity to howl that primal scream and let it out, which I rarely do in everyday life.”

James in Infinity Pool has his head turned by the tiniest compliment; Skarsgård knows that, for all his own protestations about refusing to read what is written about him, he is just as susceptible to praise. “I really don’t read reviews,” he says. “That said, it’s so nice when people enjoy your work enough to come say something or take a photo. I’d prefer that to the alternative, which is crawling around in the mud for seven months and giving it everything and then it’s just … crickets. I like people appreciating what I’ve done. I’m a vain motherfucker!”

[welcometopulpland]

This is El Rey de Los Gorilas, a 1977 Mexican Mockbuster of the venerable comic book series 'Kaänga', directed by Rene Cardona Jr.

However, unlike its comic book source, both Simio and Eva have a son whom I dubbed ‘Junior’. Also, the backstory for Simio himself is created more clearly than any one of Kaänga’s backstories will ever be.

[welcometopulpland]

This is the 1960s version of Sōji Yamakawa’s The Boy Champion (少年王者). I can’t frigging help but adore this little bugger in all his whinnying glory!

yamakawa souji

[john-bracket]

Jacket 4: Significant Jothers

Here we go again, these are your 32 competitors for the Significant Jothers bracket, in which the romantic interests of Johns, Jacks, and Variants compete to see well... they just compete!

Round 1L will start on Tuesday, July 18th, and Round 1R will run on Thursday, July 20th.

Match-ups below the cut:

Bout 1L: Martin Blackwood for Jonathan "Jon" Sims (The Magnus Archives) vs Helen Wick for John Wick (John Wick)

Bout 2L: Angela Montenegro for Jack Hodgins (Bones) vs Shepard for Jack (Mass Effect)

Bout 3L: Nisha Kadam for Handsome Jack (Borderlands) vs Samantha Carter for Jack O'Neill (Stargate SG-1)

Bout 4L: Eric Bittle for Jack Zimmermann (Check, Please!) vs King Shark for John Constantine (DC)

Bout 5L: Jason Mendoza for Janet (The Good Place) vs Jay Nakamura for Jon Kent (DC)

Bout 6L: Liz Wilson for Jon Arbuckle (Garfield) vs Mary Morstan for John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)

Bout 7L: Shayera Hol for John Stewart (DC) vs Slippery When Wet Dikrats for Jack Bauer Dikrats (The Trail to Oregon!)

Bout 8L: Maddie Fenton for Jack Fenton (Danny Phantom) vs Ianto Jones for Jack Harkness (Torchwood)

Bout 1R: Mina Harker for Jonathan Harker (Dracula) vs David Read for Jane Read (Arthur)

Bout 2R: Rafael Solano for Jane Villanueva (Jane the Virgin) vs Charles Bingley for Jane Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)

Bout 3R: Lucy Westenra for John "Jack" Seward (Dracula) vs Jo Lupo for Zane Donovan (Eureka)

Bout 4R: Peter Parker for Mary Jane Watson-Parker (Marvel) vs Tarzan for Jane Porter (Tarzan)

Bout 5R: Mercymorn the First + Augustine the First for John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) vs Petra Solano for Jane "JR" Ramos (Jane the Virgin)

Bout 6R: Phryne Fisher for Jack Robinson (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries) vs Frank-N-Furter for Janet Weiss (Rocky Horror Picture Show)

Bout 7R: Aeryn Sun for John Crichton (Farscape) vs Sally for Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas)

Bout 8R: Joan of Arc for JFK (Clone High) vs Lisa Hallett for Ianto Jones (Torchwood)

[that-blue-vault-dweller]

Tarzan and Jane

A/N: Okay, so I couldn’t help myself. I finished clearing the Safari park thing in Nuka World and Cito is literally Tarzan. Like I was getting major vibes, and I think Nora was like his Jane. Obviously not in her eyes, but kinda in his lol.

But here’s my weird little rendition of Cito and Nora in a Tarzan and Jane sort of way with Piper added in for a little humor in the midst of all these feels 😅💗

Hope y’all enjoy! 💖💖💖

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  It was all over. They had shut down the cloning facility and Nora had managed to help Cito save his family.

   It had come time to decide what to do about him because she was not entirely sure how he would handle it when she inevitably got rid of the raiders and hopefully got some settlers moved in around the Nuka World parks.

  Ultimately, she offered him the chance to stay, telling him that she had some new friends that would probably be moving in sometime soon. He had trusted her and agreed.

  Now was the matter of saying goodbye, which was pretty rough in itself. Mostly because he kept trying to speak to her and find reasons to keep her there for longer.

  She at long last sighed, deciding to finally tell him how things were going to have to be.

  “Cito, I really have to—”

  “New friend,” Cito interrupted before pausing, seemingly struggling with how to phrase the words he was looking for.

  Nora patiently waited for him, just watching him as his surprisingly intelligent blue eyes shifted around in thought with his furrowed brows shadowing them.

  He extended his hand and placed it on her chest, spreading it.

  Nora could feel Piper and Dogmeat watching carefully. Piper was not entirely comfortable with him, but she did not say anything. Both of them knew the gesture was mostly pure and he likely was not thinking of it in some sort of inappropriate manner considering Nora’s breasts.

  Nora touched his hand, covering it with her own as she watched him and waited for him to utter his next words.

  “New friend… have name?” Cito questioned finally, meeting her eyes with that same intensity that he seemed to always have. His gaze was warm and sweet with nothing but affection there. There was a certain presence of desire there as well, and Nora felt her heart hurting for him.

  A human raised among gorillas… She was likely the first of his kind that he had seen since he was a small child. It was no wonder that he had a hint of desire and want in his eyes. He wanted human companionship in a way that his gorilla family could not exactly give him.

  Nevertheless, Nora forced a smile, looking at him softly as her honey-greens met his deep blues.

  “I’m Nora,” she introduced softly. Cito tilted his head slightly, searching her face carefully as he observed her.

  “Nora,” he tried out carefully. He then grinned widely, that adorable innocence shining through.

  “Nora!” he excitedly declared.

  He moved his hand from her chest, grabbing her own as he pulled her forward toward the gorillas that were not too far off.

  Nora huffed a little and could not help grinning bittersweetly in spite of herself as she paused next to him. His hand was still outstretched and holding hers, but he crouched down next to his family as he looked up at her.

  “Nora stay with family. Stay with Cito,” Cito offered happily, a smile on his face where he was crouched down with the gorillas.

  Nora looked down, dropping her chin to her chest. She dreaded having to tell him no. It was not that she thought there would be any physical consequences, but she would hate to see the heartbroken look on his face.

  Since she had met him a day or two ago, she had the overwhelming urge to try to help him somehow and to try to take care of him. It was something she always felt when it came to hopeless people or ones that were in need. She had helped him, but now that it was time to part ways, she did not want to leave him behind.

  But at the same time, she knew she could not ask him to leave his family to join her and hers, but she also knew that she could not stay. They both had people that depended on them, so it would never work for one of them to join the other.

  “I can’t,” she expressed, despising every syllable as she uttered them.

  His smile faded just a little. He stood up slowly, towering over her a little despite the fact that he was not very intimidating when one came to know him. Nora lifted her head to look at him, trying to keep a smile on her face.

  “Cito… Cito not have friends. But Nora come and Cito have friend,” Cito explained to her, the entire thing extremely pitiful and hurting Nora’s heart deeply.

  Nora tried to think of some way to explain it to him. She happened to see the gorillas watching them, and it was then that she thought of the perfect way.

  “Cito… You have a family,” Nora told him, and he nodded, glancing back at the gorillas briefly as he penetrated her gaze with his own blazingly intense one.

  “I have a family, too. Her and the dog are two parts of my family,” Nora emphasized as she pointed at Piper and Dogmeat. He looked at them before looking back at Nora as she took in a careful breath.

  “The rest of my family is waiting at home,” Nora tried to explain, endeavoring to keep her words simple. He was still looking at her longingly and dejectedly, but there was an element of understanding that was starting to set in.

  “I have to protect my family,” Nora admitted, meeting him on a level that he would doubtlessly understand.

  Cito gazed at her silently and sadly, his eyes glowing with emotion. He had such strong, giant feelings and they overwhelmed his eyes, which were two of the most expressive things that Nora had ever seen.

  He was quiet for a few moments before finally speaking up.

  “Cito… Will miss Nora. Cito… is sad,” he confessed, and Nora nodded, pain gripping her despite not having known him for that long.

  He was wild like a hurricane. He loved quickly and she could not help but return some amount of fondness in reply to him.

  Nora offered him a brief onceover before extending her hand as he had done earlier, pressing it to his chest as she spread her fingers over it. His stare never left hers, and Nora swallowed.

  “I’ll miss you, too, Cito. I’ll come visit soon, okay?” Nora promised, her voice soft as she spoke to him. Cito nodded, brightening just a little as his gaze lit up.

  He paused once more, seemingly trying to find words as he extended his hand again to touch her chest as he had done before. She did not even blink as she watched him and waited him out.

  He seemed to struggle, and he briefly brought his hand up to touch her face, his knuckles brushing her cheek affectionately. Nora was a little surprised at that development, but she allowed him to do what he felt like he wanted to do as long as it remained in a realm of acceptable.

  “Cito… Cito like new friend. Like, like, like new friend,” he tried to express, and Nora nodded to him, not quite having the heart to tell him the word he must have been really looking for. He was trying to express it in terms of like but given how much he was trying to emphasize like, she knew it was stronger than that.

  It had only been around two days, but he must have somehow loved her in some strange, unexplainable way.

  “We need to go, Blue,” Piper softly told her, interrupting the moment briefly, and Nora nodded sadly but tried to muster some amount of easiness about her as she patted his chest affectionately.

  “I’ll see you again soon, Cito,” Nora told him, and he nodded, letting his hand drop away from her hesitantly.

  “See Nora soon,” he nodded, smiling, and Nora nodded to him in reply, stepping back as she turned back to join Piper and Dogmeat. She took hold of the door, opening it as she let Dogmeat out and Piper as well.

  She paused as she stood near the door, looking back at him. He smiled at her, his eyes warm where he was now crouched with the gorillas.

  Piper had stopped in the doorway and she softly touched Nora’s shoulder. Nora met her eyes, and Piper just looked at her somewhat sadly before tilting her head in the direction of outside.

  Nora sighed but offered Cito a small wave and a forced smile as she headed out, shutting the door behind her.

  They travelled through the park, making their way to the exit in silence with only the nature noises around them, the sound of the old intercom, and the comforting click of Dogmeat’s nails to accompany them.

  After glancing over at Nora a couple of times, Piper finally spoke up, her smile somewhat wry as she spoke up.

  “It’s pretty bad…”

  “Which part?” Nora tiredly questioned, a definitive heaviness in her heart as she looked over at her companion, Dogmeat trailing along in front of them.

  “It��s pretty bad that you told ol’ Tarzan back there your name quicker than you told me when we first met,” Piper dramatically pointed out, grinning a little as she looked at Nora more fully.

  Nora sighed deeply but could not help just the smallest bit of a smile in reply to Piper’s goofiness. This argument had been ongoing for a long, long time and it was something that Piper loved to playfully bring up occasionally.

  “Look, you didn’t ask and I didn’t think about it when I first met you with everything that was happening around us. And I didn’t get the chance to talk to you until like a day or two later. I was asking around the city and trying to figure out if anyone had seen anything,” Nora tiredly defended herself, playing along despite her sadness.

  Piper just huffed, smiling softly as she nudged her with her shoulder gently.

  “I’m just messing with you, Blue… I know this was hard for you. I could see that urge to just snag him up like you do every other needy wastelander,” Piper told her with a fond smile and a definitive sympathetic glint in her eye despite her teasing tone. Nora looked over at her somewhat sadly.

  “I couldn’t ask him to leave. And I couldn’t stay,” Nora explained, and Piper nodded, extending her arm to wrap it around her best friend’s shoulders.

  “I know. You helped him the best that you could. And as far as I’m concerned, you did pretty darn good. I really think they’ll be okay,” Piper expressed, and Nora sighed, leaning her head over to touch Piper’s briefly as they walked along.

  “I hope so. I really do.”

[xxxtylerworld]

Cartoons 💖💕

Danny Phantom

Dexter's laboratory

The Loud House

Class of 3000

Ed Edd Eddy

Mission Hill

Super Jail

The Simpsons

Family Guy

Mr. Pickles

Justice league

Justice league Unlimited

Totally Spies

Kim Possible

Cool World

American Dad

Futurama

Robot Boy

Robot Chicken

Fairly Oddparents

Perfect hair forever

Boondocks

Aqua Team

King Star King

Black Dynamite

Venture Bros

Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law .

Stroker & Hoop

Clone High

Samurai Jack

Scooby Doo

Minoriteam

The Incredibles

Inner Workings

Despicable Me

The Road to El Dorado

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Duck Dodgers

Tarzan

Star vs the Forces of Evil

[ariel-seagull-wings]

WHY THE ELVISES COULDN'T BECOME, AND DIDN'T BECOME ENDURING MUPPET CHARACTERS

@softlytowardthesun @moonbeamelf @thealmightyemprex @fragglesesamemuppetz2 @princesssarisa @the-blue-fairie @themousefromfantasyland @amalthea9

The Elvises were a trio of characters who looked, acted and talked sounding like Elvis Presley.

The Elvises first appeared with the Muppets in Muppet Classic Theater. Due to Rizzo mishearing Gonzo state the title of the next story of “The Elves and the Shoemaker” as “The Elvises and the Shoemaker,” when the titular magical creatures come to help Kermit and Robin’s shoe shop, they appear as a group of Elvises (much to Rizzo's joy and Gonzo’s surprise). As in the original story the Elves make a bunch of amazing shoes for the cobbler, but since these are Elvises, they not only sang a rockin’ tune, they created a whole mess of Blue Suede Shoes. In thanks for their help, Kermit and Robin made the Elvises white sequin jump suits and, according to Rizzo, they went to Las Vegas where they play “The Big Room” at The Palace.

After their stint in Las Vegas, the Elvises returned in 1996 for the Muppets Tonight recurring segment “Great Moments in Elvis History” where moments in past history were retold… with Elvises. These moments include The Signing of the Declaration of Independence, The King and his Round Table, Elvis of Arabia, Tarzan of Graceland, Sir Elvis Newton, and the death of Elvis Caesar.

In their last onscreen appearance, The Elvises were featured in the full version of “Moulin Scrooge” in It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie. There, they briefly sing “Jingle Bells,” interrupting Miss Piggy’s big “Santa Baby” number.

CELEBRITY INSPIRATIONS FOR MUPPET CHARACTERS

Going back before the Elvises were created in 1994, celebrities from the musical and acting world had served as inspirations for some Muppet characters.

Miss Piggy was originally known as Miss Piggy Lee, referencing a jazz singer named Peggy Lee, who between the 1950s to the 1970s was known for having a larger than life diva persona. When the Muppet Show camed into fruition, the surname Lee was taken out of the character, for fear that Peggy Lee would see it as a mockery of her image and file a law suit against the show, helping the character to become just Miss Piggy and turn into a big personality and huge celebrity on her own right.

Dr. Teeth's nickname, visual style and talent for the piano and keyboard were references to a jazz musician named Dr. John, mixed to the flamboyance of rock and pop stars like Elton John and Liberace. Mixing up all those influences, Dr. Teeth can also be seen as a character with his own personality, needs and desires, rather than a clone of whatever popular musician of the past. You don't really need to be a previous fan of Dr. John to understand and enjoy who is Dr. Teeth.

Later, in 1996, we were introduced to Johnny Fiama, a Muppet who homaged the style of singers like Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennet, with an italian-american cultural background, problems with a very controlling mother, mobster style suit, and a bit of arrogance mixed with ignorance about oversteping in other people's space that hided a hearth of gold deep down. What made Johnny Fiama win a following among Muppet fans was the fact that while he homaged a style of italian-american crooners, he wasn't a clone of a specific italian-american crooner. Like Dr. Teeth before him, Johnny Fiama was an amalgamation of several artists representatives of a style who created a life of his own.

THE ELVISES

And them there were the Elvises. A trio born out of a pun between "Elves" and "Elvis" due to how much Rizzo was a fan of Elvis Presley.

They are all called Elvis, so you won't know how to differentiate one from the other. They all only sing in the style of Elvis Presley. They all have the same hair and dress style as Elvis Presley. They all talk the same way as Elvis Presley, and they all have the same blaze facial expression.

Unlike Miss Piggy, Dr. Teeth and Johnny Fiama, who are characters inspired by previous existing celebrities who developed their own sense of identity, the Elvises have literary no identity.

They are mechanical clones of Elvis Presley, with no feelings and desires of their own, wich is not good if you want to be part of a versatile, diverse and character gang of performers like the Muppets are.

They worked for the pun joke in Muppet Classic Theater, but when they were put to act in a segment of Muppets Tonight, they were the weakest part of the show!

I am glad that after that one quick scene in It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, they were retired for good.

May them stay in Las Vegas playing "The Big Room" at The Palace forever, and never return again.

[baambastic]

Books:

Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing

Lost and Found

The Whipping Boy

Frindle

No Talking

The Report Card

Cam Jansen

The Hardy Boys

Magic Treehouse

Warriors

Wonder

Nancy Drew

Encyclopedia Brown

Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism

The Only Girl in School

The Secret Keepers

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

The Land of Stories

Serafina and the Black Cloak

The Candymakers

The Candymakers and the Great Chocolate Chase

Pi in the Sky

The Unwanteds

The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom

Fablehaven

Wings of Fire

Beyonders

Every Soul a Star

Crying Havoc

The Candy Shop War

Spirit Animals

Shadow Magic

Walk Two Moons

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Wonderstruck

Movies:

Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone

Mr. Peabody and Sherman

Astro Boy

How to Train Your Dragon

Kung Fu Panda

Justice League: The New Frontier

Turbo

Rango

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Mulan

Tarzan

Santa Paws

The Polar Express

Dolphin's Tail

Air Buddies

TV:

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Justice League: Unlimited

LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu

Pokémon

Mighty Med

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Spectacular Spider-Man

Spider-Man Unlimited

Avengers: Assemble

Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes

Fairly Odd Parents

Rugrats

Scooby-Doo: Where Are You?

Transformers: Prime

The Magic Schoolbus

X-Men: Evolution

Wolverine and the X-Men

Iron Man: Armored Adventures

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends

Johnny Test

Phineas and Ferb

Danny Phantom

Dinosaur Train

Backyardigans

Word World

Power Rangers

The Land Before Time

Godzilla: The Series

Wordgirl

Gadget Boy and Heather

[baby-brawl-bracket]

Here's a list of all the lil tykes that will be continuing on to the next round!

While I work on the images for the next round.

ROUND 1 CHAMPS:

Ai-Chan (Doki Doki Precure) 

Groot (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Cheer (Mewkledreamy)

Daffy Duck (Baby Looney Tunes)

Reborn (Katekyo Hitman Reborn) 

Sunny Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events)

Michelle Tanner (Full House)

Galvana (My Singing Monsters) 

Strong Bad (Homestar Runner)

Metroid Hatchling (Metroid) 

Bumblebee (Wings of Fire)

Baby Herman (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)

Love Nikki Baby Advertisement (Love Nikki Dress Up Game)

Gangnam Style Baby (Gangnam Style)

Pepe (Shugo Chara)

Tokomon (Digimon)

Lei (Pokemon)

Midori Sawatari ( (Gakuen Babysitters)

Sandy Crood (The Croods)

Benjamin "BeBe" Proud & Cecilia "CeCe"

Maggie Simpson (The Simpsons)

Baby (Super Monkey Ball)

Super Baby Caren (Fate/Grand Order)

Fuwa (Star Twinkle Precure)

Takashi 'Mori' Morinozuka (Ouran High School Host Club)

Rosalina (Mario Kart)

Snoopy (Peanuts)

Karkat Grub (Homestuck)

Bobby (QSMP)

Nathan Christopher Summers (X-Men)

Kacheek (Neopets)

Titanicus aka Titi (Karmaland)

Tamaki Suoh (Ouran High School Host Club)

Toxel (Pokemon)

Kermit (Muppet Babies)

Hotaru Tomoe/Sailor Saturn (Sailor Moon)

Giant Floating Baby Head (Phineas and Ferb)

Boh (Spirited Away)

Polly Plantar (Amphibia)

Kirin Kumatsuka (Gakeun Babysitters)

Ianita (Mianite)

Boo (Monsters Inc.) 

Shogo Lee (X-Men)

Pubert Addams (The Addams Family)

Sidon (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)

Swee’pea (Popeye)

Tarzan (Tarzan)

Rotta the Hutt (Star Wars the Clone Wars)

Evil Sky Babies (Drakengard 1)

Unico (The Fantastic Adventures of Unico)

Miss Piggy (Muppet Babies)

Takuma and Kazuma Mamizuka (Gakuen Babysitters)

Bugs Bunny (Baby Looney Tunes)

Uzura (Princess Tutu)

Megamind (Megamind)

Azymondias (The Dragon Prince)

JuanaFlippa (QSMP) 

Time Baby (Gravity Falls)

Jack-Jack Parr (The Incredibles)

Alvin Jr. (The Walking Dead - Telltale )

Potpourri (Heartcatch Precure) 

King Clawthorne (The Owl House)

Milk (Sanrio)

Sir Not Appearing In This Film (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) 

The Sun (Teletubbies)

Latte (Healin Good Precure)

Fozzie Bear (Muppet Babies)

Chiffon (Fresh Precure)

Grimmchild (Hollow Knight)

Kirby ( The Kirby Games )

Saiki Kusuo (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.)

Baby Peach (Mario Kart)

The Grinch ( How the Grinch Stole Christmas )

Joshua - Meat Form (Wayneradiotv)

Togepi (Pokemon)

Finn the Human (Adventure Time)

Tallulah ( QSMP )

Chayanne (QSMP)