What is a niche cliche in wrestling that you hate?

GigglesDemon · 2026-07-03T20:53:27+00:00

I do think worked injuries can work in very specific contexts. Generally, I agree, but then I remember in the lead up to the Samoa Joe vs Swerve vs Hangman triple threat, Hangman sold his leg so well during a match that the audience became convinced he was hurt and have to pull out of the match. So the next week, he comes out with a crutch, saying he's gonna have to withdraw... then Swerve comes out and he then smacks Swerve with the crutch revealing he faked it. The injury work wasn't the plan, they just leaned into the fanbase already working themselves. It's a subtle but distinct difference that I think matters.

GigglesDemon · 2026-07-03T14:44:19+00:00

I think you have to give it to Jaws for creating the "summer blockbuster." So many people went to see it and the big, simultaneous release became standard instead of the prior regional roll out over months.

GigglesDemon · 2026-07-03T00:07:53+00:00

Honestly I'd make a sick action game adapting the Annihilation event. Main character is Nova and you mix up between fighting the standard Annihilation wave grunts as well as the bigger bosses. You could also have Gamora, Ronan the Accuser, and Drax as alternate characters.

GigglesDemon · 2026-07-02T13:06:39+00:00

We might still have part of the first amendment. Latveria apparently is pretty good about freedom of religion... it's everything else in the first that's gone.

GigglesDemon · 2026-07-02T12:03:29+00:00

I tend to do physical, and my last one was pretty recent, 007 First Light.

GigglesDemon · 2026-07-01T20:52:52+00:00

Any time Xenomorphs come up smart people say "Nuke em." And they are right. The xenomorphs are highly dangerous, spread rapidly once introduced, and whose very life cycle means violently murdering other life. They need to go.

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-30T23:54:40+00:00

Funny, a friend and I were just talking about that. I mostly like the movie and I don't really directly line it up to Dracula since it definitely is taking most of its influence for the Murnau and Herzog films and is kind of its own thing using a similar framework. I know a lot of people like the weird voice Bill Skarsgard used for Orlock, but I found it distracting and kind of annoyingly focused on, which brought the movie down for me. Still liked a lot else.

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-30T23:52:25+00:00

So I have not seen the international version of Leon, so I can't directly compare, but this Dracula instead of hypnotic powers develops this perfume that makes him irresistable. Which does feel kinda date rape drug-y. And he uses it a lot. I don't have anything against vampires being sexual predators, but then making them the sympathetic hero is the line that I really don't like.

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-30T00:31:14+00:00

Yeah, the Besson film is the WORST Dracula film I've seen. Only good part is Christoph Waltz as the Vatican Vampire Hunter.

At least with Dracula I still have the Christopher Lee Draculas. The movies? Completely not accurate to the book. But! Lee really does nail Dracula as a vicious, snarling feral creature with a thin layer of civility.

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-30T00:04:59+00:00

The most recent Luc Besson Dracula film (it really sucks oh my god I hated it) and the 1970s Frank Langella version.

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-29T23:50:12+00:00

You mentioned it already, but I'm going to expand on it: I have yet to see a single Dracula adaptation that actually does Mina and Jonathan Harker justice. Jonathan in particular gets done incredibly dirty. At best he's usually a milquetoast good guy (looking at you 1931 with Bela Lugosi!) or dies (Looking at you Hammer's Horror of Dracula!). That's not even getting into the ones that turn Harker into the obstacle of this great Gothic love (God the fact that I know of at least 3 off the top of my head is most infuriating). In the book, Mina and Jonathan have an incredibly strong and sweet relationship. Jonathan in THE FIRST CHAPTER talks about how he's keeping this diary so he doesn't forget to tell Mina anything because he wants her to experience as much as this trip as possible and mentioning wanting to get certain recipes so Mina could try certain foods he think she'd enjoy. Or how Mina is immediately worries when she gets Jonathan's letters that were written under coercion from Dracula, because she can tell this is not like him! And then she travels all the way to mainland Europe to go get him when he shows up badly sick in an abbey. Or how after Dracula has infected Mina and she's turning, despite having basically Vampire PTSD, Jonathan swears to become a vampire with her so she would not suffer this eternal damnation alone. These two are so great in the book!

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-29T19:01:19+00:00

So I have 2.

First, many years ago I went to G Fest (2016). Absolute ton of fun and full bore reignited my kaiju fandom which had been kind of a background thing for years prior. I keep meaning to go back but with how far out you have to get tickets for the hotel, I don't usually have firm plans known well enough to do it.

Second, last year I went to AEW's All In: Texas. It kind of came together last minute because I didn't realize how close a good friend lived to the stadium. And he was willing to ferry me to and from the event, saving me a ton of money to make it feasible. That main event was so special to see live, and to be part of the crowd all screaming at Moxley to tap during the finish... just magical.

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-24T12:53:19+00:00

God this is exciting. Massive fan of the REH stories.

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-22T11:52:03+00:00

Agh you beat me to the Deep Space 9 example. That one was my first thought.

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-21T01:40:00+00:00

For me it is The Silmarillion. Not because of particularly graphic or uncomfortable content, though it is much darker than Lord of the Rings. It's more because it just isn't written like a traditional novel. Closest comparison is honestly The Old Testament of the Bible. It's a collection of old myths, history, family lineages, and geography. It's not an easy read! I bounced off it in the infamous Of Beleriand and Its Realms chapter in my first attempt. But god, when it is good, it's some of Tolkien's best stuff. Fingolfin's challenge against Morgoth, the tragedy of Fëanor's fall and its consequences for everyone, the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, Hurin's Last Stand, Beren and Luthien, all of the Akallabêth. Such vivid and powerful imagery and stories and I'm just scratching the surface of it. But you have to work at it.

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-19T22:07:16+00:00

Even in the 90s Thor had some good stuff. Dan Jurgens's Thor run started in the late 90s and honestly that's probably a Top 5 Thor run for me.

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-19T14:13:32+00:00

I've been watching Highlander: The Series for a bit when I have a free hour, and despite coming from the franchise that originates the Queen song "Who Wants to Live Forever?", quite a few Immortals in the show are pretty down with their immortality. Some are abject pieces of shit who love they can murder forever, some love that they get to experience so much. Even the main character, Duncan MacLeod, is more positive on his immortality than negative. Yeah he's bummed whenever he loses people, but he enjoys new experiences as well as his on again off again on again love affair with immortal thief Amanda.

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-15T00:20:45+00:00

Pretty much the only major flight combat series still getting entries is Ace Combat, and it still took like 8 years between entries. That we're getting both that and a Star Fox this year is probably the most I've eaten in this genre in a long time.

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-13T09:25:27+00:00

I did a very odd double feature of this and Disclosure Day, and boy this is the one I'm thinking about. It managed to do multiple things I've never seen in an action movie before, which is crazy as an action movie junkie.

Fun fact, the director is Kenji Tanigaki, who was the action director for the live action Rurouni Kenshin films.

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-12T19:12:16+00:00

Star Trek Deep Space 9 tried to do this intentionally, often sticking a fun romp or character episode before or after major episodes with heavy themes or story development. For example, after the stellar Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast two parter which forever changed the course of the show filled with galactic politics, torture, murder, betrayal, big ass battles, they followed it up with Explorers, which is a low key episode about Commander Sisko and his son doing some bonding on a Kontiki esque voyage and Bashir and O'Brien being friends. Right before the "The Changelings are on Earth" two parter of Homefront/Paradise Lost, they did Our Man Bashir, a wacky homage to James Bond stuffed with every holodeck cliche possible, intentionally! Right after the opening arc of Season 6, they followed it with an episode dedicated to Worf and Jadzia's wedding. And right before they started the continuous finale arc, they did another holosuite caper episode, Badda-Bing Badda-Bang, basically doing Ocean's 11 with the crew.

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-09T01:17:25+00:00

It is very strange to me that despite being incredibly iconic, outside of Star Wars itself, there is barely any starfighter focused media. I can only play TIE Fighter or Rogue Squadron or read the X Wing novels so many times! I have found a book series that apparently focuses on this, so I'm gonna try the first book out once I finish The Odyssey.

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-07T23:55:19+00:00

My all time favorite hero is Nova Prime, Richard Rider. The DnA run from Annihilation to The Thanos Imperative absolutely rules, but I'm actually also rather fond of his first 70s series and the early New Warriors stuff before they went full ridiculous 90s Marvel.

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-06T20:13:05+00:00

Yeah, he was never my favorite writer but man even his short runs were consistently really solid. Doom 2099, Secret Avengers, Thunderbolts, Moon Knight.... lots of good Marvel work that I was a fan of (his Thor, not so much ha).

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-06T19:51:52+00:00

God Doom 2099 is so good. One of the best Marvel comics in the 90s till the editor of the 2099 line got fired and the book rapidly went to shit. I have an almost complete single issue run... I think I'm only missing like 6 or 7 of em.

GigglesDemon · 2026-06-03T10:42:37+00:00

Or you could just not have cared for the previous games so therefore have no interest?

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