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resolved 40K (possibly fan)story
A Warhammer 40 K story I can't remember if I read or read about (and it might have been a fanfic), about two brothers in a Space Marine Chapter. The older brother failed the tests and is a Chapter serf, while the younger brother passed and is a true Astartes.
Edited by Chabal2resolved I can't find western movie, can someone help? Film
Movie is about one cowboy, aka main character, i think with no kill rule. During stand off he accidentally kills his enemy. Main character decided to retire because of that. I don't remember much about it, but twist was that aformentioned enemy turned out to be alive and faked his death to break main character. Any ideas what movie is it?
resolved Mother abandons wolf pup Literature
When I was in elementary school my teacher read us a book where a pregnant wolf forces a fox or coyote or something out of its den and uses it to deliver. One of the pups has a deformed paw or something so the mother leaves it to die, but it survives.
Edited by CosmicGhostresolved Prehistoric CGI Cartoon Web Original
I remember a while back about a CGI cartoon on YouTube that was set in a prehistoric-like world with these Mons based on Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures where people with a stone-like device can tame and summon Mons along with having some competition based on it. I think it was based on a video game. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
resolved "My Little Pony"? ...Or was it? Western Animation
Back in the 90s when I was four years old my mom rented me a movie and said it was "My Little Pony", but... What I remembered was pretty different from My Little Pony.
For one, the horses had more realistic proportions, and the protagonist was a young human boy. There was a medieval European fantasy setting with thatched roof cottages, and the tone was not as cloying. I distinctly remember a black, shadowy horse, and a fire. Also flying horses, not pegasi, but sort of walking in the air like Santa's reindeer.
Now... It could very well have been My Little Pony and I just have bad memory/my mind playing tricks on me. I was only four afterall. I know the first gen cartoons can get surprisingly tense and maybe I mixed up Megan and Danny, but there is still the possibility it was a completely different movie.
But I don't know of any uh, animated fantasy horse movies from that era other than The Last Unicorn, which matches the proportions and setting I remember, but there isn't a young human boy in it or a shadow horse from what I know.
Sooo, is there some other 90s or earlier animated fantasy movie with horses I could have watched? Or was it indeed My Little Pony or The Last Unicorn and my memory just sucks?
Edited by ninjamitsuki2resolved Reluctant travel companions
All I remember is Person A and Person B travel together. Person C assumes they're friends (or maybe more?) and Person A insists "We are reluctant travel companions!"
resolved Child Abuse drama with fantasy ending Film
I randomly remembered a drama (?) movie aid heard about, but I can only remember the ending. It was a kid with an abusive father, and the movie ends with him building a plane and flying away or something like that. Apparently he movie doesn’t provide a definitive answer on what actually occurred. Did the child escape, and the plane was a fantastical description? Or was he killed by his father? I put a question mark near drama because it might have also been tonally weird, maybe advertised like a family movie or something
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.
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.
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 Filip04resolved Mockumentary about pretentious photographer Live Action TV
I saw a british mockumentary, a comedy centered on a pretentious photographer and his younger, somewhat goth girlfriend. He's portrayed as a ridiculous loser who assumes his random pictures of trees in black and white are high art, and she's obviously dating her to piss off her parents. I remember two scenes in particular:
- The girlfriend is going on a nihilistic rant about how people are sheep, and she lights a cigarette to look cooler, but she misses the tip with the lighter and "smokes" the unlit cigarette, until the cameraman says the cigarette is unlit, she gets mad and tries to light it again - burning half the cigarette off.
- The photographer shows some of his pictures to a critic (or gallery owner) and the critic, while very polite, trashes him - he says "I think you're using words you don't understand" and "this pictures have absolutely no meaning".
resolved Mario Party video that's eluded me for years. Web Original
I have done a lot of my own digging to find this one specific video which (despite remembering so much from) I cannot find the video or it’s creator.
The main things that the video had was (given the title) reviews of games that were “knockoffs” of Mario Party (one of these games was Fuzion Frenzy), and an opening sketch where two of the reviewer’s friends were fighting to the death over a Mario Party gone wrong.
I also know that this creator made a sequel video, and also during that time covered Grabbed by the Ghoulies. I’d estimate the video was made around 2013-17.
Also, the creator was not Connor The Waffle or Austin Eruption.
Edited by CanuckMcDuck1resolved 2 series mashed together or 1 Literature
I apologise for how all over the place this is going to be as I remember details.
I think this was a single series, but I could be mashing 2 together. I know for sure it was a series with different books though.
I think the title was something like "the grimorie ofthe dark woods" but that doesnt sound right, at all.
What I can remember plotwise:
A girl (13-16) finds a grimoire, and discovers she's a witch that can control animals, shortly after her mother is hung for being a witch.
She got out of this fate by subconsciously commanding the magic hounds to ignore her.
Theres these woods near her village that like no one is allowed in. Big bad lives there.
Except hes not really bad? He was cursed by his friend, I think. But the woods are sworn to protect him so it attacks outsiders.
I think she tries to avenge him and starts fighting a monster?
He explains that to use magic, all witches must give up something. Emotions, looks, humanity. She chose memories and slowly forgets everything.
Her best friend joins the witch hunt, and she helps, cause now the witch hunt only looks for bad witches.
The hunt collectively skips over one girl and shes like "well that's weird, why do they all blindly trust her" come to find out that girl is a witch and enchanted them
I think theres a part where her and her brother (?) Takr a train, and shit is HAPPENING on this train. When they stop they go to some like hourglass place where time stops. And brother person signs his name on the door and some creep comes out from the shadows and is all like "well, the demons behind this door wants you now" and she says no take me, I'll come back later.
The dude finds her years later and says "the demons demand a soul." And she says "yes, but it will not be me" and uses her powers over creatures to lure the demons to take the man.
Aaaaalllll over the place.
EDIT: Found it! The series is "The Thickery" by J.A. White
Edited by Zee-Trayhorneresolved Fantasy novel. Literature
Younger readers. Protagonist sent to another world, lands with two others. The other two might have actually been from other worlds. Each had a unique ability. One seemed to be the power of inference.
Residents were Beast Men. The main one was part man, part orca.
Villain is an evil wizard who sends the heroes all around during the final battle.
Edited by Caswinresolved Elementary level book about gum that makes you invisible Literature
I read a book in 3rd grade about a kid that got a strange kind of gum from a machine, and it was called Gum-X or something like that. It turned out that it could turn him invisible and his older brother used it to prank people without getting caught. And I remember a prank went wrong when he tried to steal an old woman's dentures and she thought that he was robbing her. The art style looked like it was from the 80's to the Late 90's.
resolved Shareware breakout clone Videogame
There's this game I played like twice as a kid, and all I remember is:
- It's a clone of breakout from somewhere in the Windows 3.x-95 era
- One of the blocks used a badly squashed graphic of a mouth with bared teeth and instantly ate your ball
- Probably because of the above block, it gave you a bucketload of balls, to the point of Meaningless Lives
- For some unfathomable reason, it had a transhumanist Author Tract in the about box
anyone else remember this?
resolved Trying to figure sources of Korean media from an ancient meme Live Action TV
Well somehow I had a nostalgia trip back to the later 2000s and noticed this particular Korean meme of Rainbow Tylenol. Problem is, I don't know where the heck they managed to get their memes from. What were the names of those shows were used in the creation of this meme?
Hello! I remember reading a novel that was probably aimed at teens in the 90s or very early 2000s. After having some kind of vehicle-related trouble and getting injured, the protagonist got trapped in a mysterious town or village that I think was in a mountainous area. Every time he tried to leave, he couldn’t. It was like there was some kind of supernatural force field around the town, so that even if he walked for a long time, he would just wind up back where he started. He eventually did get out, though.
At one point, characters went swimming, and I think they had a dance or party on another occasion. Characters might have done some kind of traditional healing, though I could be confusing this book with a different one. At the end of the novel, there was an author’s note about how the culture of the townspeople had been inspired by the real-life Melungeons. The cover of the book might have been blue or green with an image of a person and white writing, but I’m not sure. I would really appreciate any assistance in finding the title or author.