A Questionnaire, Part II: The Questioning

[Torzelbaum]

1.

2. Good question. A lot of Gods are assholes and even for some of the ones that aren't it feels a bit too much like appropriation for me to claim to be a part of those religions.

The only two that I think I would feel comfortable claiming/being are:
1. The God of Deism (but not Pandeism)
Or
2. Stanzi Potenza's version of God

3. It's a tie among all of the Batwomen in Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman

4. Grace Jones

5. I can't think of any off the top of head. I think if a movie is bad or even merely just flawed then I can still find something to like about it. Also other people do like those "bad" or flawed movies for their own reasons so I wouldn't want to try to fix them out of fear of removing what makes those movies what they are.

But if the movies are encouraging prejudice or if that's what people are getting from them then let's fix that shit up right away.

 

[Octopus Prime]

1. It’s the start of the Summer Blockbuster season, so “May”
2. Hermes seems like a fun guy
3. Gwenpool, easily
4. Bill Murray
5. Valerian: City of a Thousand Planets

 

[Olli]

1. What month is it?

It is toukokuu, or sowing month. Not to be confused with elokuu (August), or harvesting month.

2. If you could become an avatar for any God, which would it be?

Ganesha.

3. Who is you favourite "girl" version of a male superhero?

Viv Vision.

4. Which non-cat celebrity most embodies being a cat?

Going to say Bill Murray. Everyone loves him despite him being kind of an asshole. He also seems completely opposed to making any sort of effort for any of his appearances.

5. Which sci-fi movie do you just wish was better?

The Matrix Resurrections

 

[LBD_Nytetrayn]

1. What month is it?
2. If you could become an avatar for any God, which would it be?
3. Who is you favourite "girl" version of a male superhero?
4. Which non-cat celebrity most embodies being a cat?
5. Which sci-fi movie do you just wish was better?

1) Late Smarch
2) Considered Primus for a hot second there, before realizing that doesn't tend to go well. How about Palutena?
3) I'm not sure if the Mega Men from Mega Man ZX count as superheroes, so... oh! Wolverine is pretty cool. And Batgirl. Maybe Iron Heart? Does she count? Spider-Gwen?
4) Lorenzo Music.
5) I guess Terminator Genisys? I mean, I loved it, but audiences didn't, so I'd kinda wish that appealed to more people so we could get a follow-up to it.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1. What month is it?
2. If you could become an avatar for any God, which would it be?
3. Who is you favourite "girl" version of a male superhero?
4. Which non-cat celebrity most embodies being a cat?
5. Which sci-fi movie do you just wish was better?

1. May
2. Athena. A strategist and I could use more strategy in my life.
3. She-Hulk
4. Eartha Kitt
5. Hot take: Dark City. I think it's a good movie but it's never quite as good as I remember when I return to it and I feel like it could be made a lot better with some small tweaks (like, remove the explanation at the beginning).
Another good movie that could be better: the first quarter of Silent Running is a little preachy and the rest of the movie gets the message across much better. Let's fix up that first quarter.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1. Who is your favourite member of the Justice League?
2. What did you used to think you were "too cool for" that you no longer do?
3. What models do you have in your house?
4. If you had a clone, what would they be named?
5. What is your preferred car colour?

 

[Octopus Prime]

1. Supes
2. Oh Lordy, lots of stuff.
3. I have a hearty assortment of Gunpla; most recently I put together a Gundam Aerial and Gradius IV Vic Viper
4. Oct-two
5. Kermit the Frog green

 

[LBD_Nytetrayn]

1. Who is your favourite member of the Justice League?
2. What did you used to think you were "too cool for" that you no longer do?
3. What models do you have in your house?
4. If you had a clone, what would they be named?
5. What is your preferred car colour?

1) Depends on the roster, but probably Batman.
2) Not so much "too cool" as "too old/mature," maybe, but there was a time I didn't buy toys because I had it in my head I was too old for them. Thank God that was brief, but not without regret, which I carry to this day.
3) I have several Bandai Rockman X3 and Rockman 8 model kits around, though not a complete set. I think there might be something else, but I'd have to look around.
4) Lytetrayn.
5) I'm partial to red, but orange, black, or a mix would really appeal to me.

 

[Kirin]

3. I have a hearty assortment of Gunpla; most recently I put together a Gundam Aerial and Gradius IV Vic Viper

Well heck, now I need a Vic Viper model.

 

[Octopus Prime]

You do

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1. Who is your favourite member of the Justice League?
Superman again. Anyone says "he's boring" and "he's too powerful" feels like they are myopic in how to tell a story.
2. What did you used to think you were "too cool for" that you no longer do?
Just acting happy and goofy and exaggerated. It's important for all my work and got over that in my early 20s.
3. What models do you have in your house?
A friend gave me a Dream of the Endless model he won in a raffle from the comic shop.
I have a hard time finding an image online but it's one from the early 90s where he holds up his helmet.
4. If you had a clone, what would they be named?
Mark Joseph, which are my middle names.
5. What is your preferred car colour?
Bumblebee yellow and black

 

[Exposition Owl]

1. Who is your favourite member of the Justice League?
I’m not really a DC knower, so probably Batman.

2. What did you used to think you were "too cool for" that you no longer do?
At no point in my life have I labored under the misapprehension that I was cooler than anyone or anything.

3. What models do you have in your house?
I think the closest thing I have to a model nowadays is these guys, who are part of my owl collection:

4. If you had a clone, what would they be named?
Tiim. Or, if it were an online clone, Oowl.

5. What is your preferred car colour?
British Racing Green.

 

[Kirin]

A friend gave me a Dream of the Endless model he won in a raffle from the comic shop.
I have a hard time finding an image online but it's one from the early 90s where he holds up his helmet.

?

 

[Johnny Unusual]

That's the one.

 

[Kirin]

It's a nice statue. I got a great deal on it from a dealer who was packing up at the end of a DragonCon, but you can't beat free!

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1. Where does your current avatar come from?
2. What internal organ would you like a spare of?
3. What modes of transportation do you use daily?
4. What musical do you feel you need to see that you haven't yet?
5. What is your favourite time in a movie where it suddenly changes genres?

 

[Exposition Owl]

1. Where does your current avatar come from?
It’s the closest thing to an owl that I’ve yet been able to find in Tears of the Kingdom. Digging my old Kaneli av from BotW back out didn’t feel different enough. I’ve been thinking about switching over to a Blupee, though.

2. What internal organ would you like a spare of?
I’ve spent enough time dealing with people with dementia recently that part of me wants to say “brain,” but then again, I’m not sure if I’d still be me if I switched out to another brain. So, maybe lungs. All this smoke in the air certainly isn’t helping those.

3. What modes of transportation do you use daily?
The only transport I use every day is the good old Mark I Foot, but next after that is probably our grey Chevy Cruz. We’d love to move back to a place where we could rely on public transportation again, though.

4. What musical do you feel you need to see that you haven't yet?
Either Sunday in the Park with George, Assassins, Little Shop of Horrors, or Iolanthe.

5. What is your favourite time in a movie where it suddenly changes genres?
I finally saw Everything Everywhere All at Once last night, so I’m tempted to say the moment when Alpha Waymond first appears to Evelyn in the elevator, but that might just be recency bias.

 

[Octopus Prime]

1. The Octoseal was created by long absent TTer Comb Stranger way back in the 2.0 days; I’ve yet to find an image that better intersects my hobbies.

2. Could use a spare stomach for when I have a tummy ache; then I can turn one off and use the other.

3. My getaway sticks

4. Beetlejuice

5. The most jarring one is still From Dusk Till Dawn so I’m going to have to stick with that

 

[LBD_Nytetrayn]

1. Where does your current avatar come from?
2. What internal organ would you like a spare of?
3. What modes of transportation do you use daily?
4. What musical do you feel you need to see that you haven't yet?
5. What is your favourite time in a movie where it suddenly changes genres?

1) It's my Xbox Avatar with an Avatar cat that represents one of my late cats. In some places, I'm using one custom-made of my self-named Mega Man Legends character.

2) Would an extra kidney help me with kidney stones at all?

3) Imagination.

4) I'm not much for musicals... but I believe there's a Back to the Future one I would make an exception for.

5) I... am not sure of what I've seen that would qualify.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1. Where does your current avatar come from?
2. What internal organ would you like a spare of?
3. What modes of transportation do you use daily?
4. What musical do you feel you need to see that you haven't yet?
5. What is your favourite time in a movie where it suddenly changes genres?

1. A bizarro sci-fi horror comic called Fourteen from Kazuo Umezi (or Umezz). Set fourteen years in the future, it depicts several events that trigger the apocalypse, mostly based on human folly. The character depicted is the American president, a well-meaning but ineffectual leader. Mostly I just like his crazy ass crossword jacket.
2. Heart would be wise.
3. Walking in winter, biking in summer.
4. Phantom of the Paradise.
5. Someone mentioned From Dusk Till Dawn so I'll go with Parasite. Granted, the pigeonholing into a single genre and it is social satire throughout but the sudden turn from "heist but what we are stealing is honest work" to... the second half is brilliant. I did not see the turn in the film coming.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1. Do you own a cat?
2. What is your favourite comic book film adaptation that you think many people don't realize is one?
3. If you were reincarnated, what's the only memory you'd like to carry with you into the next life?
4. What's a winter activity you'd love to do in the Summer?
5. If you were a knight, who would you swear fealty to?

 

[Olli]

1. Nope, I'm strongly allergic to cats. My mom used to have one, though. My grandparents took care of the cat occasionally and then they didn't want to give him back to my mom, so it became my grandparents' cat.
2. Hellboy
3. The Konami code
4. Not being sweaty
5. Chaos reigns

 

[LBD_Nytetrayn]

1. Do you own a cat?
2. What is your favourite comic book film adaptation that you think many people don't realize is one?
3. If you were reincarnated, what's the only memory you'd like to carry with you into the next life?
4. What's a winter activity you'd love to do in the Summer?
5. If you were a knight, who would you swear fealty to?

1) two of four overall.
2) Either Men in Black or The Mask.
3) I don't even know... I think a lot of them would just make me sad.
4) I dunno. I'm not a huge fan of winter, so... Christmas dinner with the family, maybe?
5) My wife.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1. Do you own a cat?
2. What is your favourite comic book film adaptation that you think many people don't realize is one?
3. If you were reincarnated, what's the only memory you'd like to carry with you into the next life?
4. What's a winter activity you'd love to do in the Summer?
5. If you were a knight, who would you swear fealty to?

1. Nope.
2. Female Prisoner Scorpion. But people barely know that one exists (cool, stylish movie but so much CW). So maybe A History of Violence.
3. Making someone smile. Really laugh. I'm not sure who. That's the hardest part.
4. Downhill skiing!
5. Mr. Rogers or Bruce Campbell

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1. Which toyline do you wish you grew up with?
2. Which is your favourite Gremlin?
3. What's the first piece of music you would introduce to aliens in a first contact situation?
4. If you were looking for romance, what period in the past would you travel to?
5. Where's a place you have never made love but would like to some day?

 

[LBD_Nytetrayn]

1) Mega Man, World of Nintendo, and Sonic. Missed that first one by only a few years, too.

2) Brain Gremlin

3) The Transformers: The Movie soundtrack. 1986.

4) I'd be burned at the stake as a witch if I went any earlier than the '80s.

5) My bedroom.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1. Which toyline do you wish you grew up with?
2. Which is your favourite Gremlin?
3. What's the first piece of music you would introduce to aliens in a first contact situation?
4. If you were looking for romance, what period in the past would you travel to?
5. Where's a place you have never made love but would like to some day?

1. Not sure. I like toys OK but I feel like while I hang around kids, I'm not sure I'd be into a lot of what they seem to like. Hulk hands maybe? And even that's pretty old. Switch if you count game systems. Specifically the Mario Kart game with Mario RC cars.
2. Brain Gremlin is great
3. A Day in the Life by the Beatles
4. 80s in Australia. During that period people were really into Australia. Don't know why.
5. Bed

 

[Johnny Unusual]

1) How often do you dance?
2) What's a great idea for a noir movie no one has done yet?
3) If you had a motor cycle gang, what would your insignia look like?
4) What real person who hasn't gotten a musical needs one?
5) What is your favourite Ray Bradbury work?

 

[LBD_Nytetrayn]

1) How often do you dance?
2) What's a great idea for a noir movie no one has done yet?
3) If you had a motor cycle gang, what would your insignia look like?
4) What real person who hasn't gotten a musical needs one?
5) What is your favourite Ray Bradbury work?

1) Not enough to provide a conclusive statistic.
2) Spider-Man Noir adaptation
3) I 'unno. Maybe this?

4) That's tough. Mostly because I don't really like musicals much, so I don't know if it would be considered a compliment or an insult.
5) Honestly not sure. Possibly one of his Alfred Hitchcock works, but it's been so long since I saw anything there, I can't recall if any of his were among the ones I saw.

 

[Olli]

1) How often do you dance?

If you count just randomly dancing around in your underwear at home, I'd say on a weekly basis at least.

2) What's a great idea for a noir movie no one has done yet?

A noir from the viewpoint of the damsel in distress / femme fatale

3) If you had a motor cycle gang, what would your insignia look like?

A skeleton flipping the bird

4) What real person who hasn't gotten a musical needs one?

Thor Heyerdahl

5) What is your favourite Ray Bradbury work?

I'll pick Something Wicked This Way Comes just on the strength of the title (which of course comes from Shakespeare)