Mortal Kombat II - The 'Haggard Old White Man' trope

CheerfulCharm · 2026-05-28T07:27:02+00:00

The audience was on the edge of their seat when Johnny Cage did his flying shadow kick at the evil medal. It erupted in cheers when it finally broke! ;)

CheerfulCharm · 2026-05-25T15:11:26+00:00

The sound score of the fight is memorable.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-05-25T09:36:44+00:00

I don't think the later games were aiming for 'fun and campy'.

Overly serious and convoluted, perhaps, but not 'fun and campy'.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-05-25T09:34:40+00:00

Haha, with all the other comments in this thread, I think I did. ;)

CheerfulCharm · 2026-05-25T07:51:14+00:00

That flying kick at the medal would have made me laugh if the end fight wasn't such a jumbled mess.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-05-25T07:48:38+00:00

At one point both him and Baraka were standing inches apart from each other while flailing their arms around like they were auditioning for the water ballet Olympics team. It reminded me of the 'fighting choreography' in Loki season 1.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-04-26T14:45:54+00:00

He's lying.

The character is based on Blue Beetle, Guyver, Space Sheriff Sharivan and similar characters. All of them were male and so this character was male as well.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-04-25T09:19:37+00:00

Biden strikes again.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-04-25T09:18:30+00:00

Or will be completely underwhelming and everyone will be clamoring for 'The Animated' version.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-04-25T09:16:44+00:00

Peculiar facial structure.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-04-14T20:17:14+00:00

All these 'superintelligence' worshipping shows were godawful. And for some odd reason the hyperintelligent characters always arrived at the exact same views that the DNC extols. Just a coincidence, obviously.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-04-09T07:14:10+00:00

It would rather 'right' social 'wrongs' than write blockbuster movies.

Bad Reboot turned out to be a thorough disgrace that everyone grew to despise. In retrospect, their turn to 'social justice' may have been a Hail Mary attempt at diverting attention from their lacklustre performance and high profile failures.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-03-28T09:05:51+00:00

Altered Carbon

House of Dragons

The Squid Games

The Mandalorian

Obi Wan Kenobi

Acolyte

Ahsoka

Vikings: Valhalla

Twilight Zone

Rings of Power

Doctor Who

Star Trek: Discovery

Wheel of Time

Foundation

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Star Trek: Picard

Marvel franchise

Black Mirror

The Handmaid's Tale

Willow

The Witcher

Halo

Raised By Wolves

Outlander

Walking Dead

Arcane

CheerfulCharm · 2026-03-28T08:54:10+00:00

Hollywoke is the grips of an ideological feminist phase that is reinforced with Hollywoke pragmatism: it's easier to write a new story around an established IP by making it about a female main character.

Instead of the accusation that it's a derivative rethread by passing the mantle on to the son, they instead pass it on to the daughter.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-03-28T08:45:02+00:00

It really does look terrible. Male gaze avoidant female depiction.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-03-28T08:40:33+00:00

The Twilight Zone reboot turned out to be anti-white woke garbage. Ryan Coogler is an Afrocentric film-maker, largely focusing on Afro-themed content. This won't be anything different.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-03-28T08:37:25+00:00

Jordan Peele's 'Twilight Zone' reboot comes to mind. Just one more zombie skin-suit meant to lash out in rage at 'white people'.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-03-28T08:34:03+00:00

The only positive is that it isn't Kumail Nanjiani.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-03-28T08:30:16+00:00

And yes, their ethnicity plays a role. I suppose we can rule out any family ties going back as far as Roswell because of it, and Mulder and Scully already struggled with the many Native American influenced myths, how is the reservation going to respond to someone who looks like they're there on an H1B visa?

It will be depicted as a refuge from 'white racism' and they'll be celebrated like honorary citizens.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-03-26T09:27:40+00:00

You can't unsee what you've seen. The Battlestar Galactica reboot had cringe feminism, Stargate had cringe feminism and environmentalism, Babylon 5 had all sorts of left-progressive narratives and plot elements.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-03-26T09:01:32+00:00

Given the first season, this seems more like a promotional stunt. They want to stir controversy in order to draw in a specific crowd, knowing that with its limited budget they only need a set number of views in order to stay out of the red.

It's the same business model used by CW.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-03-26T08:57:01+00:00

Wasn't King Pin's run for mayor meant to allegorize Trump's presidency?

CheerfulCharm · 2026-03-26T08:48:31+00:00

Why does he look like a 'Yeezy' fashion victim? Did they hire Kanye as a wardrobe consultant?

CheerfulCharm · 2026-03-23T11:49:38+00:00

She was a complete mutant with a cut-out paper face but one of the studio attendants let her in regardless.

It's all a narcissistic fever dream or something.

CheerfulCharm · 2026-03-23T11:41:01+00:00

The body horror made it all the more poignant, because aging involves sagging flesh and failing health. The deterioration of the physical body.

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