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ITT: western /m/ media
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Watch the skies coming at you. A hero of metal hue. He locks horns with disaster, for the red and the white and the blue.
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What's his best armor?What's his best story?
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>>23651087
Always liked this one
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>>23651087
The heroes reborn was one I liked
>>23651104
Modular is a pretty sharp style. And this one was spiffy
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>>23651087
Ive always been partial to the ultimate design
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>>23651087
Powerwise, Bleeding Edge, or Superior Ironman, I didn't care for the design of those though.
>Best Story
I hate to agree with people that Ironman is so C-list he never had a classic storyline, but I see the criticism. Probably the best of what he has is Demon in a Bottle, and I'm really fond of Armor Wars. Also his fight against Doom (the one where they accidentally time travel to King Arthur's day) is underrated, but probably too silly for most people.
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I just learned about this and am planning to read it asap because the premise reminded me of a film noirs Orguss and Big O
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The cancellation still stings
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Imagine getting written out of your own series going from Americanized gundam to another boring ass fucking battle royale
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>lol destroid
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Needs no introduction
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>>23651173
>I hate to agree with people that Ironman is so C-list he never had a classic storyline,
The problem with comics is that so often people are only ever really looking for single stand out stories they can point at. A Dark Knight Returns or a Kraven's Last Hunt but a lot of characters don't really have too many major hits like that. I still wouldn't call him C list by any stretch, especially not when people who watch the MCU say it like they were the defining triumph of the character. He's headlined HUNDREDS of comic books. You don't do that a C lister. Not by any stretch. C listers are characters who may get a book but it's cancelled inside a year or two.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y63i2NR9-LE
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>>23651393
People talk about him like he was almost Peacemaker levels of obscure before the films. He might've been B-list enough that Black Sabbath didn't deliberately write the song about him, but he wasn't so B-list that it's not reasonable people assume they did either.
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Unicorn Warriors Eternal was a weird show but I liked the robot.
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>>23651639
I think they said it was an original idea or something, either way the point is it wasn't actually written with any knowledge of the Marvel character, despite the name and the more modern use of it in relation to him.
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>>23651821
Iron Man never reached the heights of Spider Man or X-Men.
The whole Avengers were B-listers until the MCU, with zero cultural presence outside comic books. Mostly because they never got any decent cartoon adaptation in the 80s or 90s, every attempt fell totally flat.
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>>23651828
See this is the exact kind of moronic MCU brain rot I mean. An idiot so retarded from the movies that he honestly cannot process the idea of people actually reading the comics and the comics themselves being famous outside a cartoon.
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>>23651839
I was there, dumb fuck. Iron Man and the Avengers were niche within a niche, nobody cared about them. Meanwhile every person in the country had 2 copies of X-Men #1 and everyone was reading the fucking Clone Saga and seething over it. Nobody remembers a single run of Thor, Hulk, Avengers, Iron Man, etc from after the fucking 70s until those gay movies came out.
And the ONLY reason those jobbers even got movie pushes was because Marvel sold off the rights to their actual big sellers, Spiderman and X-Men (and somehow they convinced them to pay real money for F4 lmao).
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>>23650655
Lacking in /m/ scenes
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Any good?
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Tina a cute
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>>23654125
Yeah it was great
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>>23654163
I really liked those old marvel figures. They were cheap and had limited articulation but they made like EVERY FUCKING CHARACTER. And you could get them. Cheap. It wasn't like 30 bucks for a marvel legends is today. Even the original Legends line would give you cool stand or a comic book or something. I hate current action figures. It's not just the actual price but they're all scalped to hell. I miss the 3.75 line.
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https://youtu.be/5NBt8kaIQEY?si=kiQs0N505-KexSVY
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>>23654125
He was also in MvC
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>>23651087
>What's his best armor?
Model 42.
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Man the 80s really did like ancient warring factions. Though I do wish they were a bit more creative with the names. The Goodguylons vs the Badions!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ve7IoBZaUU
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>>23661148
That might be why I liked it so much.
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>>23661156
based
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>>23651087
I've always liked Arno's armor.
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>>23661231
Then you're in the wrong thread faggot.
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>>23663352
Short version is WB really wanted to take a second stab at The Matrix as a franchise. The film they got with Matrix Resurrections was really more a great big middle finger to needless legacy sequels. The first fifteen minutes is a pretty direct comment on its own existence, through the thin pretence of a resurrected Neo in a new simulation having been made to think the film trilogy were the events of a game series he directed.
The studio wants a new game, with or without him, and the experience of trying to make a focus-grouped, 'mind bending' but safe and like the old ones sequel drives him into such a miserable mental state it begins to break the machine conditioning. It's about some other stuff too but that's the most direct.
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I suppose it depends what you went in looking for. I went in wondering if there was any way they could do this without fundamentally betraying the spirit of the original and came out reasonably satisfied they'd found the answer. I think that's going to age better than if it was a solid but soulless retread.
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>>23651339
Recently caught it on Tubi. Made me almost buy those expensive Ramen Toys recreations.
Also surprised it has an episode that could be considered a proper ending too (the one where the bad guys summon a chthulu monster)
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Death's Head counts, yes?
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Where can I watch ExoSquad?
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back in the day I got into him through his solo run imported as the Marvel UK banner
ironically I had NO clue about his TF connections despite being big into G1 USA, back then I think I vaguely recall sentence to the effect of "there's some UK TF comics" was the extent of what I'd heard by the mid 90s
the UK Zoids comic is pretty neat, really lush art and an early paycheck for... somebody who became a name, I want to say Grant Morrison
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I'm sure there's a torrent for it in pirate bay.
Alternatively, you can watch the whole thing on YT.
https://youtu.be/KINV-aDKXck?si=yi9uYIAaQjJPR5r2
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We need more Jaegers in here.
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>>23665243
Jaegers you say?
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>>23669465
Iirc, unironically Bayverse synergy.
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sidenote: given the blunder of the MCU, whats the best war machine comic to follow
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>>23673749
It's always the case. Marvel has had plenty of minorities to push but they never push the ones people like. Or in a form that people liked them in. Everybody liked War Machine. Like More than Shell Head even for a point.
>>23673404
Rhodie's been around for a while, since Iron Man 118. He was actually the guy in the suit during Secret Wars and had a stint as the actual Iron Man in issue 169. He became War Machine in 291 and is pretty much a fixture of the Iron Man mythos ever since.
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>>23673867
>That time a former nazi scientist put his brain in the body of a 12 foot tall Captain America robot.
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the Coalition is here
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the Mawlr
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>>23651393
>The problem with comics is that so often people are only ever really looking for single stand out stories they can point at.
Iron Man Extremis exists its literally the one of the two stories people talk about (Demon in a bottle and this one) not only because it was the basis for the design in the MCU but also a great introduction for new comers. It is sad that the stories that came after wherent that good
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>>23651828
I completly disagree ironman was pretty much in the top 4 most popular marvel characters theres a reason why he always keeps getting runs theres never been (at least to my memory) a time where we didnt get any ironman runs. If you want any proof just look at his tv series and the short film pre mcu
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>>23673404
simple the run in 2009 to 2010 you do need to read a single issue in the ironman director of shield run but its the last issue of that run so dont worry about it. Its to my knowledge the last rhoedy story because they castrate him for MCU synergy
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>>23687241
The problem is that people think comics need to have single stand out stories rather than consistently good and entertaining runs. It's all just hyping single bits and peaces so lazy secondaries can jump in read a trade or kindle edition and pretend their hardcore fans because they know the one thing. Iron Man had a comic that ran for decades and was one of the tent pole Avengers. There were many stories beyond the two.
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>>23669429
They put Bulkhead in the new comics, but he looks cursed because he isn't FAT.
Pic related is the only transformers pic that I saved, poor Rod got butchered by the last cartoon.
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>>23650653
That's either Battletech or Videya, really. The French have been dipping their toes into the genre in comics, but they yet have to find their own take.
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Coalition SAMAS powered armor from Palladium Books Rifts rpg.
And then they beefed it up even more
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>I give the ones by Gendy a pass since he's one of the only western animators to "get it" so to speak
Too bad it's not enough to redeem the material he's given to work with, e.g. >>23661160.
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>>23693581
The whole thing is just a massive disservice to their own history. Falcon is a character with real legacy. Real history. The Falcon Identity is one of the earliest black super heroes in marvels catalog and they just tossed that all away to give him someone else's label. People like the Falcon. His name was plastered on the cover of the main Cap book for a long time. People like Mackie in Winter Soldier. But nope forget all that you get to wear this costume now you finally made it.
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>>23700457
B.O.B. from The Black Hole
not a bad scifi flick, much better if you like sidekick robots, sorta a spooky castle movie
if you watch it try for an hd copy, it's got some nice sets and stuff
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>>23701113
I wonder how things are in the universe where that got a well-received video game around the turn of the century and then Disney kept trying to make Black Hole sequels a thing
bet the NINs do the music for the third one of that too like they did Quake
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>>23702054
Nobody cares about decent creative works in general. Tron 2 was fine. The Tron cartoon was pretty good. New movie... kind of looks terrible, but I haven't seen it (and probably won't, so maybe I don't care about Tron after all).
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>>23700692
So much of that movie is great. I understand why it flopped though; during the original fever pitch of Star Wars mania, Disney of all people made a really eerie and depressing space horror/disaster movie. I'm sure people were expecting a more Buck Rogers style adventure flick out of them. The scene where they literally DON'T make it on time and the female lead actually starts getting lobotomized has stuck with me for years.
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These were peak 80s/90s for a kid
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>Any good?
Its been a while since I watched them, but from what I remember they are typical straght-to-vhs cult classic scifi films
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Klatu Barada ....neACHOO
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>>23651193
glad to see mention of Dynamo Joe. Thought I was the only one who remembered.
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>>23706579
Cringe.
>>23709457
Fuck yeah
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>>>23706579
>Cringe.
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>OMG, bruh.wav
FTFY
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>>23709457
THE CHANCES OF ANYTHING COMING FROM MARS IS A MILLION TO ONE, HE SAYS!
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I really like Robotman from Doom Patrol.
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>>23713473
I liked how much of early Doom Patrol was just looking for excuses for Rita to turn big and fight something.
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I've only ever read 1987 morrison stuff. I should go back.
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>>23719747
He's from 1963 and don't you mind the names Doom Patrol had plenty of weird shit.
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>>23719753
Doom Patrol's Robotman is a remake of an early 40s character with the exact same name and origin story (man nearly dies in a car crash and is saved by putting his brain in a robot body). It's like how Superman would sound terribly unoriginal if he came out later than the 30s.
Also, the wild thing about Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man (yes, that is his name) is that he NEVER looks like that in his original 60s appearances.
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I love Heavy Gear and I'm gonna shill the fuck out of it once the game comes out.
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Based giantess connoisseurs.
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I really like the bed mech in girl genius because I'm a lazy fuck
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>>23728293Silent Running
That ending made me weep as a kid, yet it inspired one of my favorite shows of all time.
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>>23728490
Yeah my sister and I cried.
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Kyle you fucking weeb. Guy is still way cooler.
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In the alternate reality of Earth-X, Lord Sunfire stands aside his guardian robots, his Silver Samurai
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>>23693150
The hate boner for titanfall here was completely based on misunderstanding, poor reading comprehension, or straight up lies.
When they said
>Mech is kind of a dirty word with us, we don’t like it. These aren’t mechs
They were saying they were trying to distance themselves from battletech and mechwarrior. They said MECH as in WESTERN MECH not Mecha!
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I'll take this opportunity to contribute one of my old favorites.
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>>23693083
Reminds m of the powered armor used by the Longinus Thirteen.
>>23700692
I'm guessing that doesn't stand for Bunker Operations Robot. Yes, I'm aware that doesn't properly fit the acronym; take it up with the writers and development team of Safari Software.
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No dice, Captain Supermarket.
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How Roujin Z.
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tbdesu I have no clue what it stands for
>>23730141
I'm pretty sure they're The Nins
Monsieur Blow Things Up? The Distant Area? Nearer?
next you'll be dumb about The Devos or The Gwars
>>23728293
Last Starfighter and Black Hole hit about the same for me as a kid yeah
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>>23732469
>I'm pretty sure they're The Nins
you're wrong
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>>23732469
I guess I might as well post the other (western) B.O.B. since I'm here, and while I'm at it...
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>Reminds me*
Heck!
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>>23701249
>then Disney kept trying to make Black Hole sequels a thing
The Tron Legacy guy wanted to do the Black Hole but if never happened. There's a poster for it in Tron Legacy.
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Is the big guy and rusty comic any good I only ever saw this cartoon as a kid
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Black Hole did get a comic sequel. Surprised they didn't reboot it yet but I guess they have Star Wars
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>that time star trek stole from dirty pair
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>>23734636
>Wouldn't be the last time
TNG referenced Dirty Pair ALL the damn time
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The implications of this one are my favorite
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>>23734728
You seem to have misunderstood the theme of the thread. Also, Rick Sternbach should've been dragged out into the street and curbstomped.
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That's what killed the original plans for a Tron 3 at least. Legacy did fine at the box office, but Disney had just bought the biggest IP in history and didn't see a point in 'competing with themselves' in the sci-fantasy action adventure market.
Never mind that right now I bet they were really wishing they'd kept some other properties alive and relevant instead of going all in on Star Wars and Marvel.