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What is that anime where the main character's male and female forms are voiced by Khoi Dao and Laura Stahl in the dub.
openRed, Green, Blue Flying Disc Weapon Western Animation
I've been searching every where. I believe this show was Western Animation or maybe Anime from the 80s or 90s.
I don't really remember much about it, but one of the characters had a very unique weapon... I want to say it was a red/green/blue 3-colored disc, and I want to say he could fly or hover on it. Additionally, the red/green/blue parts could separate and basically become 3 different boomerang-shaped weapons, and I believe that each other might have had its own ability..
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I'm starting to feel like I dreamed it up?
openGame Guide narrated by sarcastic buzzard Literature
I’m trying to remember the name of the series of game guides from the late 90s. The guides were written from the perspective of a sarcastic, talking buzzard who had a butler and was an archaeologist like Indiana Jones. The guide I remember most vividly was for “Day of the Tentacle“ by Lucas Arts.
resolved 2000s Disney/Family Channel Movie Film
This movie aired sometime in the 2000s or early 2010s. It was a live-action direct-to-TV superhero movie that followed the oldest kid in a superhero family. The family didn't really have powers; their gimmick was that they protected people by flying these airships around. The ships were definitely bird themed; they might've been called falcons. The branding of the family also surrounded birds.
The oldest kid/protagonist's arc was that some threat happened that rendered his parents unable to fly the ship. He ends up learning to fly it himself and saves the day/becomes a real hero.
openFunnyAnimals with magic shields? Western Animation
Thanks to the Media Finder, I think I finally found the identity of an Animesque Mon show I saw when I was a young lad (Mix-Masters).
Then I remembered I also had to find another cartoon I saw sometimes when I was a kid. As in, back when I was less than 9 years old. So a looooooooot of time ago.
I think it was a Western animated show from the 80s or 90s, looking back, but there's always the possibility that I couldn't distinguish between styles from different decades at such a young age, or that it was 2000s cartoon made with outdated technology.
Anyway, it was at least broadcasted in Italy during the early 2000s, between 2004 and 2006 for certain.
I remember it being a French animation, or European at least. I don't know why. Maybe it was the names of the characters or shown in the credits that looked French to me, even if I was a stupid lil baby AND I didn't actually memorize the names themselves; but I still think that it could've been something France would make.
As for the setting: it's a World of Funny Animals, the two main characters are two wolf-like Funny Animals, and they have a sidekick that's like a young girl; I remember them being pilots of some kinds in their daily lives (either racecars or spaceships).
The premise was built around two or three magical shields: one red, one blue and one green (maybe), and they possibly could merge. I don't remember what powers they had exactly, but they looked like that they were pretty powerful nonetheless. And the main characters had to search all these magical shields.
The main antagonist was a villainess, possibly a reptile or amphibian; once again, I have a very nonsensically specific memory of one of the scenes, where she was taking a bath and singing, and her singing was SO horrible that they flushed her down the tub so they didn't have to listen to her.
I feel like this will be harder to find than Mix-Master, since this was probably a more obscure show, which I watched back when I was even younger, and I fear some of the things I said are incorrect and just make it harder to identify the show.
But I'm confident that the premise of Funny Animals with magic shields is unique enough it could help, and that I could add it to my Special Ability Shield one day.
openGag source
I’m trying to remember the source of a specific random gag. Like “If you’re the X and I’m the x… then who’s flying the plane?” or something to that effect. Just questioning the identity and then asking an unrelated but important question.
resolved A biopic about Mozart that actually portrayed Mozart and Saleri as best friends like they were irl Film
Hey guys, I am looking for a biopic movie/tv on Mozart which portrayed him and Saleri as best friends like they were in real life and not like Amadeus (1984 film) where they slandered Saleri and painted him in a horrible light? Does anyone know which works of media portrayed him in a good light?
resolved AccidentalTruth: Fairy Tales: What's one tale that does this?
Accidental Truth: Fairy Tales: What's one tale that does this?
- A motif that appears in several tales: The king of the land has offered the princess's hand in marriage to whoever can complete an Impossible Task. Three brothers, sequentially, decide to give it a try. Each in turn meets a mysterious old lady who asks what's in the basket they are carrying. The first two, for fear of seeming ridiculous, invent a mundane lie, and then they find that their basket is actually full of the thing they claimed. The third son tells the truth and gets magical help with the task.
openBug boy or something Webcomic
I am trying to remember the name of a web-based interactive, episodic cartoon. The protagonist was a kid who is part bug (antenna growing out of head) and whose pet roly poly ran (or rolled) away. Each episode represented a different stage in his search. Completing the episode required you click on different things like a point-and-click adventure game. Throughout his search he was followed by a one-armed man in a Napoleon costume and a psionic frog carrying the man’s severed arm in a glass box. The tone of the cartoon was mysterious and surreal. I never saw the end and was always curious what happened. Does anyone remember watching this in the late 90s?
openPiece of Art depicting a yellow field in New York City Print Comic
This was an artistic photograph (found through the service DailyArt), where a woman in white was wandering through a yellow (presumably grain) field outside of New York City. It was mentioned to be made around the 1960s-80s, before that area was turned into housing.
The best way to describe it is that it’s similar to the album cover for Melanie's "Garden in the City". It’s a similar angle and with a similar-looking woman.
openThe Seems Literature
A boy named Becker Drane is recruited to the facility that created the world in order to fix problems, such as a Glitch in Sleep, a Split Second, and a Lost Train of Thought.
openStrange Radio Song I Heard Music
During a road trip in 2023, I tuned in to All India Radio and came across a segment on 'Western Music'. There was a song playing that had a refrain that went something like "You don't play at night". Although I don't remember all the lyrics, I recall that the second half of the song had a pseudo-rap form and incorporated some disco(?) music.
openComedic Car Crash Film
It's driving me bananas, but everything I think it might be turns out to not quite be it— I chose film as the medium but it could be a cartoon or something. All the action occurs in one static shot (wide shots are comedy!), the view is of a wide open field and there's a car going out of control off the road for some reason, and it crashes into the one tree in the whole field. It does not cut to the interior of the car at any time during the proceedings. Wide shots are comedy.
openhorror magic realism
I'm not trying to look for a particular media or anything, I'm just curious—is there any media that is like magic realism, but horror? Horrifying things happen but the characters treat it as a daily occurrence.
openGenius Party Beyond soundtrack - looking for name of specific track Music
Anyone have an idea what this track in the Dimension Bomb is named and who composed it?
Thank you.
openStory where women are hyper-sexual and always seek male attention even putting other women down
Can't remember, am just searching for such
openYA anthology Literature
A YA anthology of short stories, the first short story was about lesbian witches I'm pretty sure but I know one of the next stories was a monkey's paw-esque story but its like a plush cat doll and the MC is a musician who chooses to NOT use the magic. please help, I've been going insane for YEARS trying to find it.
openSuper obscure anime with monsters from the 2000s (possible lost media) Anime
This is... something, alright. Nobody I ever talked to it about knew what I was talking about, nor it seems that it was already documented here. Did I have hallucinated this? I don't know.
I remember in the year 2009 in Italy they broadcasted a Mon anime series, which unfortunately, I never memorized the name. I'm pretty sure it was an anime and not just an Animesque cartoon, because it had that style typical of the Turn Of The Millenium animes. It had at least an Italian dub.
This Mon show was very notable in that it looks like it lacked any semblance of mon-related collectibles, which implies it was NOT Merchandise-Driven, nor it seemed to have evolutions for the mons; this also means that I couldn't possibly have seen Bakugan or a Digimon or Yu-Gi-Oh! series.
Other details I can give to better help identify it: The setting was mostly like our world except critters live alongside humans.
The protagonists were a quartet of kids plus the mascot mon, and pretty cliched; the protagonist was a red-headed Hot-Blooded Idiot Hero and probably an Extreme Omnivore as well; the deuteragonist was much more stoic and probaboy wore either blue or black, but also had some un-boyish hobbies; then there's the girl who was a pink-wearing tomboy; and finally the timid yellow-wearing smart guy; plus the mascot Mon who was a white-colored Cartoon Creature. I remember the five main characters bickering a lot with each other.
The main antagonists were a Terrible Trio of Green and Mean devils who were revealed to be brainwashed, but there also were a couple of GreaterScopeVillain.
I also don't remember any of the characters' names.
Some episodes I somewhat remember:
- An episode where the aloof lancer is revealed to like collecting plush toys, but his parents scold him for having such hobbies, but it's also revealed that the big guy from the Terrible Trio also collects plush toys and attempts to steal a rare plushie from the good guys;
- An episode where there's a huge monster on a rampage, and also a Mon that looked like a fire-breathing Jack-o'-lantern (one of the few "generic" Mons I remember from it);
- An episode where The Smart Guy saves the day but mistakes a boy for a girl;
- The Myth Arc and possibly the "finale arc", where the masco Mon flees, the kids try to find him with the protagonist trying to bait him out with EXPIRED snacks (that's very dumb, but one of the only scenes I remember clearly...), all the four kids touch a magic stick and get transported to a special place, where a "butler-like" Mon reveals to them that the mascot had an older brother who did an Heroic Sacrifice, using carvings in a wall to illustrate the story.
I've tried giving the most detailed account I could give at this point, and so far nobody else even had the faintest idea of what I was talking about. It could be lost forever..
resolved Netlix movie about gang who decides to raid pre-Columbian temple Film
Hi everyone, new troper here and this my second query on "Ask The Tropers".
Do you guys know the name of recently released Netlix movie about a gang who hatches a scheme to raid pre-Columbian temple? Because I added this movie to my movie's list, but then our account was deleted, and now (since we have new account) I can't find it. Can you help me?
EDIT: Found it! It's not movie, but a series, and it's called "Bandidos".
Edited by Filip04
I remember once, probably in an old playwriting class, we read a play about a group of friends in New York, told Back to Front. One of them had gotten in trouble and it ruined the friend group... either they were a murderer or had killed themselves or something serious like that.
I only really remember one scene in which the group, in a flashback, trudges through the snow while singing "New York New York" from On the Town.