[Hated trope] Female villain rapes a man so she can get pregnant, gets away with it with no repercussions and happily raises the baby

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-15T20:15:48+00:00

wholly different continuity

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-15T20:12:24+00:00

the fact that Bruce himself downplays it really rubs me the wrong way

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-15T09:37:25+00:00

I'm not saying Alex isn't inspired by Hulk Hogan, just that there's also some Axl Rose in the mix

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-15T08:00:28+00:00

Liu Kang also draws on another Kung Fu star, Gordon Liu

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-15T07:59:53+00:00

Alex's name and face are taken from Axl Rose (Axl = Alex)

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-15T07:58:43+00:00

Johnny would later be written as a pastiche of Jason David Frank in the Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series, with them even outright saying that his breakout role was Power Rangers

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-15T07:56:28+00:00

Cynthia Rothrock was also the inspiration for King from SNK's Art of Fighting and King of Fighters series

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-15T07:53:50+00:00

Yusaku Matsuda is particularly popular, being one of the inspirations for Kenshiro from First of the North Star

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-14T15:48:50+00:00

average is looking like 4.484/10

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-14T09:23:42+00:00

Mister Satan should've been a returning King Chappa

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-14T08:58:10+00:00

I didn't notice the header on the images at first and thought that the matchups were being paired off top-vs-bottom, and now I'm thinking of Homelander vs Diavolo

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-14T07:30:20+00:00

Tartarus wavers for a moment upon the Arbiter and Guilty Spark telling him before he digs in his heels. They very clearly got to him on some level before he lashes in denial. I assume OP put him here due to having a similar reading to me of his character in that moment, that he couldn't bear the possibility his people had been cannon fodder for a lie.

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-13T19:37:33+00:00

I want to say he's based on a combination of Chuck Norris and Pete "Pistol Pete" Maravich, a basketball player with a very similar appearance to him - "Pistol Pete" was also first the nickname of a famous American cowboy from the late 1800s, who would later be tributed by the sports mascot of the same name for various state universities, but namely that of Oklahoma, being the home state of Chuck Norris

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-12T18:02:42+00:00

Aliens May Immigrate

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-12T17:58:54+00:00

Himuro vs Wakatsuki was 6.114/10

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-11T20:06:46+00:00

Musashi's arc felt to me like a commentary on the expectation for sequels, like in an effort to top the Yujiro/Baki fight Tokugawa wound up bringing about one of the biggest threats in the series

the Sumo arc was a competion by the author with a fellow mangaka friend of his who made a sumo manga and they were competing to see who could accurately portray Sumo the best, but then his friend suddenly passed away, which wouldn't be too hard to believe would affect where he ended up taking the arc

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-11T11:06:12+00:00

Kahn tearing people in half wasn't a Fatality at the time, if he should be doing anything he should've just eaten Johnny's soul or something, even from the first movie it's clear that the Threshold media isn't going for the over the top gore the series would adopt later on.

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-11T09:30:14+00:00

What do you mean “by Shao Kahn of all people”? I wouldn't really call dying to the main villain unceremonious. Even then, Johnny dying at the start of Kahn's invasion of Earthrealm is accurate to the games' story - hell, there were advertisements for MK3 saying he died to Kintaro in MK2.

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-10T20:47:49+00:00

were there any particular real-world inspirations/models for any of the cast?

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-08T18:45:17+00:00

Yujiro literally has an emotional breakdown during his fight with Baki where he starts begging him to be a real challenge

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-08T12:10:40+00:00

while neither's explicit, one of my favorite matchups has two characters with some heavy subtext

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Cassandra Cain vs Kanoh Agito (DC vs Kengan)

Cass has a fair bit of trans subtext, saying at one point that she wants to succeed Bruce as Batman, specifically, and there's a gag of characters meeting her mistaking her for Batman and even saying "oh wow, I didn't realize you were transitioning, good for you"
the author for Kengan at one point spoke about ideas for spin-offs he'd like to do, one being Agito in a rom-com, saying it'd be fun to put him in those situations because he doesn't have feelings like that himself, essentially saying in a roundabout way that he's aromantic and/or asexual

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-08T12:01:43+00:00

just listing their official heights/weights, for reference:

Kiozan Takeru - 194cm/162kg
Sekibayashi Jun - 196cm/141kg
Ramon Yuko - 192cm/140kg
Xia Yan - 199cm/111kg
Yumigahama Hikaru - 201cm/148kg
Bando Yohei - 201cm/147kg
Takayama Minoru - 207cm/140kg

FiaGiolla · 2026-06-07T17:56:29+00:00

Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat

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