BarretWallace

Big moo-lah?

Big moo-lah?

Big moo-lah?

Big moo-lah?

How's this for a Princess Bride remake?
 

Many years ago a friend (Luis) and I went to a small gaming convention on the other side of the state.  Luis had found out there was going to be a Car Wars game there, so he and I created a few cars, hoping the GM would okay one of them.  No dice (not really surprising, in retrospect -- I'd imagine some players would bring pretty abusive builds to try to slip past someone), and we had to choose from among the GM's selection of vehicles.  Not a problem, really, though IIRC they were pretty weak / dull creations.
 
Anyway, one of the players had never played Car Wars before, so Luis and I decided to take him under our wings - help him understand what he could and couldn't do, give him some advice, and generally avoided shooting at him so he's have a chance to have some fun.
 
The scenario was basically an arena battle, and was going okay... until the GM decided to roll out his *own* car.  A gas-powered high-speed rammer, that he proceeded to use to one-shot take out players' cars.  It was an extreme example of "GM-I-Wanna-Play".
 
As the GM smashed through car after car, Luis was jotting down numbers.  And then the GM finally got to the newbie's car - smashing right through it with an instant kill, like all the rest.  That's when Luis asked, rather innocently, "How much front armor does that thing have?"  The GM gleefully told him, so proud of his creation.  And Luis said, "Well, even with a ram plate on the front, by my calculation he should have take X points of damage, so this last ramming would have breached his front armor and damaged his engine pretty badly.  His gas-powered engine.  Isn't there a chance for it to explode?"  He pretty much forced the issue, and as luck (or karma) would have it, the GM's car did explode. 
 
All of the players decided that the newbie had effectively killed the big bad and was the winner of the event.  Lots of slapping him on the back and congratulations all around.  Luis managed to turn a potentially crappy experience into a good one for that player. 

No one is going to mention Thor & Immigrant Song? 

I swear I just saw it breathing. 

He got super-juiced with all the lightning he was tossing around at the time. In fact, I'm pretty sure he named himself Shazam for a while.

Judging by the end, the villain is Darth Joker.

Maybe Thor got aiming lessons from Jayne Cobb.
 

There are those who believe life here began out there.

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/gary-kurtz-dead-dies-star-wars-1202954316/

TLJ is just a movie, folks. Move on.

Last-minute sacrifices that are supposed to be tragic and noble, and maybe sometimes are, but that you can see coming a long, LONG way off.  Bruce Willis's death in Armageddon jumped out at me in this regard.  The odds of death go up about 10,000% if said character has children or other close family, and are 99.9999% certain if the character shows a picture of their kids (this last one can also apply to non-sacrificial death by any throwaway character who shows his/her teammates a picture of their kids and/or talks about them to any great degree).  Bruce's death also illustrates how you should never, ever promise to come home to your kids after "this job" is done.

Last-minute sacrifices that are supposed to be tragic and noble, and maybe sometimes are, but that you can see coming a long, LONG way off.  Bruce Willis's death in Armageddon jumped out at me in this regard.  The odds of death go up about 10,000% if said character has children or other close family, and are 99.9999% certain if the character shows a picture of their kids (this last one can also apply to non-sacrificial death by any throwaway character who shows his/her teammates a picture of their kids and/or talks about them to any great degree).  Bruce's death also illustrates how you should never, ever promise to come home to your kids after "this job" is done.

That's why I enjoyed Last Action Hero so much.  In and of itself it wasn't a great movie, but it had so much fun poking fun at the action genre that I couldn't help but like it.

That's why I enjoyed Last Action Hero so much.  In and of itself it wasn't a great movie, but it had so much fun poking fun at the action genre that I couldn't help but like it.

This thread makes me think of Last Action Hero and some of the stuff there, like, "you know, tar sticks to most people".
 

On the one hand, Ancalagon fit within the Pits of Angband.  On the other hand, the towers of Thangorodrim are described as taller than Everest, and Ancalagon's body destroyed three of them.  We can resolve this discrepancy somewhat by assuming that Ancalagon fell from orbit, and that his breath weapon was powered by a warp core, which was breached upon impact.

Maybe Hela colored those pictures in kind-asgard-en, and the ceiling is Odin's refrigerator?

now we know how Indiana Jones got his hands on "Travel by Arrow' Tech,  Wonder Woman brought it to the world of cinematic man

Maybe it is "just me" but there is no room for a head (bathroom you land lubbers) so they are getting to know each other Super well if this trip takes anything like a reasonable amount of time.

Which reminds me, a certain Ewok sort of appears in this one.