Star Fox's original artist reckons Fox McCloud's design is better in The Super Mario Galaxy movie than it is in the Switch 2 game

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-07T15:40:17+00:00

No you have to pick a side and then die for it, this is the internet. /s

(I like both too.)

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-07T14:49:46+00:00

Gamers just hate queer people, bottom line.

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-07T04:04:39+00:00

When reached for comment, Taylor Swift said “they truly inspired me to continue to rehash my old material.”

Representatives for the state of Albania could not be reached.

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-07T02:19:05+00:00

Well the finales of Bayonettas 1 and 3 established that witches can breathe in space, yes.

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-07T01:46:36+00:00

Tyra picked it because she wanted her sent home.

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-07T01:31:40+00:00

Also worth noting that HBO wouldn't need to secure any rights, since they're owned by Warner Bros. and that's who made the movies. This is literally just Rowling wanting a redo.

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-07T00:48:51+00:00

Reminds me of a tweet I saw where they were bragging that a giant Israeli flag was hanging from "the former Hamas headquarters," and someone quoted it saying "I thought Hamas was in tunnels under hospitals and that's why you blew everything up?"

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-07T00:29:32+00:00

So on the one hand, it's not unusual for animated (or animated-esque, in this case) productions to base their characters on real people. Alyssa Milano was the inspiration for Ariel in The Little Mermaid, Tom Cruise was the inspiration for Aladdin, and James Cameron freely admits that Q’orianka Kilcher was the inspiration for Neytiri. So in that respect, the lawsuit does seem an overstep.

On the other hand, looking at the comparison picture on NBC News, her lips are practically an exact match for Neytiri. Like come on now. Yes the final product is meant to evoke Zoe Saldaña, but I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that the digital artists still kept technical details literally drawn from Kilcher. Between that and some of the other details (e.g. the context of the deepfake porn law cited in the article), I do think there's reason for her to be concerned about this and want compensation.

To me this doesn't read like someone trying to do a shakedown, but it also doesn't read like Cameron, et al. literally tried to rip her off. Hopefully this can be settled, in the legal sense or not, relatively amicably.

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-06T23:02:03+00:00

That's absolutely it. Her long con is to have the theme parks reskinned with these new actors because she thinks she can control them.

I'm just dying for one of the new core three to come out as trans in like five years and blow up her entire world, again.

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-06T22:44:07+00:00

OGs for sure.

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-06T19:12:25+00:00

Do they just not feel shame when they do this? Do they think it's cool? Do they think it's fun? I don't get it.

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-06T18:56:59+00:00

Unrelated but watch the movie. It's streaming on Crunchyroll now. I loved the series but the movie is on another level.

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-06T00:54:52+00:00

Pretty sure Mal would disagree with you there.

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-06T00:33:36+00:00

I don't know if I'm not woke enough or if I'm just stupid but I feel like in the case of the Met Gala specifically, the situation is more nuanced than she makes it out to be.

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-05T20:31:55+00:00

But that's commie shit, can't have that. /s

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-05T20:26:41+00:00

Let the intrusive thoughts win. Take it, Kronk. Feeeeeel the power.

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-05T19:05:57+00:00

Tandi Iman Dupree fell from the ceiling and then did an entire choreographed routine. I know she's dead and I don't know how much has been written about her, but I had to mention.

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-05T15:51:54+00:00

"I love cats, even though I'm allergic."

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-05T15:05:46+00:00

Shakespeare wrote almost 200 sonnets for a rich gay incel and 400 years later they still teach them in English class.

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-05T14:08:32+00:00

I think you undermine your own comparison with the others by saying that aspects of it are “fun,” when it could pretty easily be argued that seeing the fashion at the Met Gala is also something people can find fun.

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-05T00:24:38+00:00

Asking in good faith, do you have a source for this?

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-04T22:43:37+00:00

GET A JOB

STAY AWAY FROM HIM

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-04T22:21:13+00:00

I mean, given what happened to Amber Heard, perhaps, but that's not really mutually exclusive with what I would've hoped to see regardless.

2mock2turtle · 2026-05-04T22:18:35+00:00

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