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openNo Title Webcomic
A webcomic I remember reading in 2004(?); it began in a steampunk setting in a desert, with the two (female) bridge crew of an airship meeting with a (female) general - who might have had a talking cat?!? - who they believe is going to have them demoted (or worse) for damaging the airship's engines by over-stressing the them so as to have supplies arrive in time for a battle; general instead promotes the airship's captain, but as the general offers the captain a pen to sign her promotion orders they come under fire, and the captain is killed; the ensuing battle includes biplanes being attacked by a flock of raptors-with-riders; at some point the reality shifted and the setting became a highschool/college in a modern city - the same characters appeared, but in different roles - the girl-who-had-been-the-general is ambushed in a roadblock and her driver is killed, and a raptor-with-rider appears again, the rider being scolded that they might have been seen. It had very good (colour) art but made Mega Tokyo's update schedule look rushed.
openNo Title Literature
A gamebook I remember stumbling upon in primary school (so early-to-mid 90's) - I remember it for being astonishingly creepy for a children's gamebook, feeling like a gamebook version of Solaris; if I recall correctly the gamebook began with the PC arriving at a moonbase - shortly thereafter World War Three breaks out, leaving the crew of the moonbase the only survivors; a later scene had an NPC be seen as outside the moonbase - but the PC could check and see that all the spacesuits were still accounted for; oh, and it also had a You Fail Physics Forever moment where the PC could choose to fire a laser whilst travelling FTL, causing the laser to curve back past them and hit their own reactor, causing an explosion killing the PC.
openNo Title Anime
I believe it was an anime set in the gundam universe or some other giant robot series though I could be wrong... It opened with two astronauts meeting in space (I think) and one of them loses their watch. They turn out to be on opposite sides of a war... The show ends with them emerging from a cave after the final battle of the war, and if I remember correctly the guy lead lost a leg.
openNo Title Film
Okay so, I once watched this movie and now I can't find it again.
It was about a girl who managed to travel back in time thanks to an elevator, and she came to the same building only like 100 years back or something. There she met a girl her age and after some adventure (I think chasing away the mean man who wanted to marry her mother?) the girl went back home and told her dad about it.
Then the girl and her dad went back in time together and he ended up marrying the other girl's mother and after that they lived happily ever after. Sounds familiar?
openNo Title
So this was a million years ago. Early 90's.
It was some cheesy live action horror movie that was on TV, I just don't remember if it was made for TV movie or just a movie to be played.
All I remember was a cheesy, skinny mummy thing walking around a neighborhood. And a scene where this kid is all, "Daddy there's a monster in my closet". And you see the weird mummy thing in the closet,but the dad is facing away, looking at the kid, mocking him with "Ooo, scary monster!"
I never actually *saw* it, because the movie was like, canceled.
Thank you in advance.
openNo Title Music
I can't really remember the song's lyrics, I do slightly remember its music video. It involved someone moving through a bunch of scenarios with different clothing on. One of them involved being on the ground in a football uniform. The last scene shows him walking away from the camera's view, possibly with a girl, but I don't really remember it.
openNo Title
Okay, I remember playing this bug game when I was in elementary school (early 00's) on the computer (probably pc). It involved a bug rescuing his family from a spider, but had quite a few levels for a kid's game. I remember a snow level, a desert level (with dive-bombing mosquitoes and snakes with boomerang cowboy hats), a water level, and a grassy level. The bug himself was a green... something, and there was this deep bass voice that said "You the man, bug" at main menu screen.
openNo Title Live Action TV
I doubt anyone will remember this, but I recently remembered about a TV show I watched that was on back in the 1980s. It was about a man named Jim Douglas I think and he had a car that had a mind of its own I'm pretty sure. This sound familiar to anyone?
openNo Title Literature
A couple of years ago I read on the wiki a description of a short story. I'm having trouble remembering the name of the story.
Basically a guy goes on vacation on some beach after his wife has died and meets this girl there who claims to be a time traveller. Eventually they fall in love. This girl is using her fathers time machine to travel back in time but has limited amounts of use.
Eventually she uses the time machine to go back to when the man is younger and changes her name and becomes his secretary and it turns out the girl is his wife.
Sorry about the long post but I really loved this story and want to find it again.
openNo Title
I know it best as a catch phrase from Atop The Fourth Wall, but does anything before it use "Our hero, ladies and gentlemen" in a sarcastic tone?
openNo Title Literature
I'm choosing literature but this is actually a comic featured in Heavy Metal magazine. It was featured about the early 90s, I think (at the earliest the end of the 80s). I only saw the issue being read by a bunch of schoolmates and the rest of the details are all hearsay. From what I saw, it was about a tribe of women on an alien planet. They lure warrior men to go down a huge cliff wall, where the rest of the tribe hide in waiting to capture them. Once the men are caught, the women would tie them up and have sex with them to impregnate themselves; then they would, errr, cook them for the whole tribe to eat. From what I've heard, the planet was slowly falling apart (hence the giant cliff faces) and the inhabitants try to keep it together with cables/rope, and the women follow the ways of the black widow spider (hence their treatment towards men). I really would like to know the title of this story and who made it, and even the issue of the Heavy Metal mag that featured it. Thanks!
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Watched this in Malaysia just a month ago, so it was voiced-over in Malay. The title didn't show.
A dark and bloody anime that had something about an experiment called Project ALICE that went wrong. They were trying to perform an experiment on a little girl with a spiral mark on her abdomen. Her village was destroyed (something like that). There was a significant toy animal somewhere.
At the point where I started watching, there were five main characters. The main character was a girl with round glasses. Then there was a scientist guy with glasses; he was eaten by a skeletal animal. Also, a badass guy with a his arm tattooed with the name 'Laura'. And a young boy and his female guardian (whom I can't seem to remember much of).
openNo Title Film
This one has been nagging me for years. As I remember it, it's part of a movie. There are girls, in what I think is an orphanage, and they're in a bedroom. One of the girls is telling the others a story, which is shown on the screen. The story has a man, maybe a prince, dying in a forest. A deer comes along and licks his wound, and ends up giving its life so the man can live. That's all I can remember, and I'd be eternally grateful if anyone could tell me what it was from.
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Video game (Why isn't that an option on the medium?):
For some reason I can't remember anything except the soundtrack, but I'm pretty sure it was a fighter. All I remember is some guy going "Round One...Fight fight fight fight!" and then "Round Two...Fight fight fight fight!"
Ring a bell for anyone?
This just popped into my brain and is killing me. I remember watching this on either Nickelodeon or Disney. I think it was a Made for TV movie. It involved kids in a post-apocalyptic desert world (one of them may have had powers), and they windsurfed across the desert. Had to have been Post Alex Mack, but Pre Eddie Mc Dowd Nick Era.