Since the bandwagon for this has appeared...

[Fantastische Hure]

Charmander's first-appearance/past?

Or if you also mean Johto there's Charizard Chills.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Charmander's first-appearance/past?

First appearances don't have the same impact as the exit of a character we've grown to care for. It also doesn't help that my introduction to the Pokemon anime was the first movie, so I was always aware Charmander would remain safe when I watched the series for the first time.

Or if you also mean Johto there's Charizard Chills.

Yeah, there's that. I was more referring to the Kanto Arc.

 

[SSJ2]

How does it feel to be a walking encyclopedia?

 

[Fantastische Hure]

OK. Here goes a question. Top 10 PokéMon moments from the anime. Can be sad, funny or whatever moments as long as it's memorable you and like it and obviously is your favourite.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

How does it feel to be a walking encyclopedia?

OK. Here goes a question. Top 10 PokéMon moments from the anime. Can be sad, funny or whatever moments as long as it's memorable you and like it and obviously is your favourite.

Pretty much any moment with James from the dub where he makes an innuendo could take up the whole list, but I'll restrict it to one to make things more interesting.

#1 - Mewtwo's speech at the end of Movie 1 (dub)
#2 - James finds a costume in his closet to become a Mighty flaming Moltres
#3 - Ash defeats Gary
#4 - Charizard regains it's respect for Ash
#5 - Meowth's backstory
#6 - Gary's 10/8 badges
#7 - Bruno defeats an Onix bare handed
#8 - Brock turns his Frying Pan....into a Drying Pan!
#9 - Ash's Infernape beats Paul's Electivire
#10 - Ash-Greninja VS Diantha's Gardevoir

 

[SSJ2]

But for real, do you ever get confused considering the amount of different things you know about? I hardly remember who the fuck the characters are in Dragon Balls.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

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[Captain Cadaver]

I can forget some minor information on a lot of my interests if I'm absent from noticing it for a long time, but I generally retain what core information's needed to get by in most cases. Really depends how much investment or familiarity I have in a series as to how much of it I retain in my memory. I also find episodic and stand alone pieces of info a lot harder to recall than those of continuation due to the lack of significance the former have on the series as a whole, unless it's a comedy that thrives on such.

 

[Gin]

The original PokéMon theme. Better than the English version? I might say so, this is just so energetic.:

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Yeah, I would. First english opening is still decent for what it is though.

Also is this one of the most saddest/beautiful moments in PokéMon or what? One of the most memorable for sure. The setting is also so gr9. Like the sun-set.

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Probably. There wasn't any other scene I found sad from the original series at the time or now (there was "Pikachu's Goodbye", but I'd already watched later episodes in the series before I saw it so the impact was lost.)

What about separate lists with Super and non-canon stuff ?

That would be a difficult task, considering I find each of the contrivances within the movies/GT and Super to be all on relatively the same level of terrible as one another. May have to come back to this later.

Thoughts on the Rocky series?

The first film does an excellent job at presenting Rocky as a misunderstood underdog as well as developing the rest of the cast such as Adrienne and Paulie, as well as making a subtle commentary on the corruption of the Boxing organisations (Creed actively going for a match he didn't consider a challenge). Rocky II felt like a natural progression of the previous film, though not as impactful due to being basically more of the same.

Rocky III was easily the most entertaining of the bunch. It was far from as well written as the first film though, with a pretty generic defeat -> montage training -> victory set up, but was so overly 80s with it's aesthetics and music (no Rocky track can beat Eye of the Tiger), cast of grand personalities like Mr. T and Hulk Hogan and good directing making it something I can't help but love. It's not as if it's plot's a complete throwaway though, since it has plenty of highs or lows such as Mick's death or Apollo's character development from rival to friend and Rocky's fall into the same arrogant trap of his popularity and stature that Creed had in the first film making for quite a good take on the Hero's Journey. Rocky IV, whilst having a good soundtrack and decent story points like Apollo's death, was a big step down from the previous films due to having a very similar setup to the previous one (Rocky must face his strongest opponent yet after they somehow lead to his friend's death) as well as having ridiculous aspects such as Paulie's robot that really feel to celebrate aspects that ruin the very concept of Rocky. What was once a story of a poor underdog is now one of a rich pro trying to maintain the status quo. It also doesn't help that the montages are overdone to the point the movie seems to be 50% plot and 50% music video.

Rocky V takes things in an interesting way with Rocky's retirement, but overall had boring execution due to it turning more into a slice of life story about his son, who's nothing but your typical kid protagonist. Absolute snorefest. Rocky Balboa was the concept of Rocky V done right, with him showing his age and presenting a lot more depth to his words than he has since the first movie. I wish Rocky V had just been Balboa with the opening scene of V being maintained before a timeskip. Finally, there's Creed, which seemed to just be a cashgrab. Sure, we saw a new epilogue to Rocky's character in his old age as a broken man, but there's not much more that needed to be added that wasn't already in Balboa.

Rocky - 7/10
Rocky II - 5/10
Rocky III - 6.5/10
Rocky IV - 4/10
Rocky V - 2/10
Rocky Balboa - 6/10
Creed - 2.5/10

Couldn't have said better myself. Despite it being my most favorite movie series ever. Good analysis.

 

[Keedounan]

Top 10 awesome moments in DB ?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Top 10 awesome moments in DB ?

#1 - Taopaipai kills Blue with his tongue
#2 - Goku kills Piccolo Daimao
#3 - Piccolo's death in the Saiyan Arc
#4 - Vegeta's escape from Freeza's spaceship
#5 - Gohan's "Fight you? No, I want to kill you!" line
#6 - The finale of the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai
#7 - Piccolo Daimao kills Shenron
#8 - Taopaipai riding a pillar
#9 - Roshi beats Yamcha with a slight breeze
#10 - Vegeta's death on Namek

 

[Keedounan]

Top 10 best Krillin moments ?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

#1 - His fight with Goku at the 22nd TB, mainly his balloon tactic and grabbing Goku's tail
#2 - His words to Goku before the fight with Vegeta
#3 - Killing 3 Saibaimen at once
#4 - His fight with Goku in the last episode of GT
#5 - Distracting Jackie Chun with panties
#6 - Sending Goku after the wrong Turtle stone
#7 - Defeating Chaozu with maths
#8 - His Kienzan against 2nd form Freeza to save Gohan
#9 - Attempting to protect #18 from Boo in the anime
#10 - Saving #18 in the ToP

 

[Pocket-God]

Would you ever name your child after an anime character? If for some reason you did, what would you name him or her?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Donovan

I would if a name that'd sound vague enough to either not sound distinctly Japanese. Some main choices would include Raoh from HnK or maybe one of the Germanic characters from Legend of the Galactic Heroes such as Reinhard, Oskar, Paul, etc. Whilst it'd probably raise some eyebrows, a part of me couldn't resist wanting to name them Guts, because come on, it's possibly the most badass name you can get.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

#1 - His fight with Goku at the 22nd TB, mainly his balloon tactic and grabbing Goku's tail
#2 - His words to Goku before the fight with Vegeta
#3 - Killing 3 Saibaimen at once
#4 - Saving #18 in the ToP
#5 - Distracting Jackie Chun with panties
#6 - Sending Goku after the wrong Turtle stone
#7 - His fight with Goku in the last episode of GT
#8 - Defeating Chaozu with maths
#9 - His Kienzan against 2nd form Freeza to save Gohan
#10 - Attempting to protect #18 from Boo in the anime

Not his fight against Piccolo Jr. at the 23rd Tenkaichi-Budokai or the immediate after-math and all? The anime made that seem really kewl and everyone was surprised how good Kuririn became. Not to mention learnt flying on his own. The anime also had that gr9 after-math, with Master-Roshi reminiscing about first meeting Kuririn (and Goku) at the beginning of the series and to see how far he came, Bulma crying, Goku praising him, Piccolo Jr. himself giving him credit (also through-out the fight) and the whole arena clapping for him.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

That instance has the flaw of Kuririn getting stomped in the one opportunity where he didn't underestimate himself and didn't even have Kuririn question how someone outside his circle could be that strong, which is fairly damaging for his otherwise consistent and logical character.

 

[Gin]

Do you like Pineapple on Pizza?

 

[Fantastische Hure]

Do you like Pineapprle Express?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Do you like Pineapple on Pizza?

Don't even like regular Pizza (more specifically, the Tomato sauce on most Pizzas), so no by default.

Do you like Pineapprle Express?

Was a pretty funny movie when I watched it, even if it sticks to the regular formula of basically having Seth Rogan play a character that's basically himself. May need to rewatch it at some point.