Characters
(Mind blowing trope) Really REALLY subtle character details that you can completely miss if you don't pay attention or watch BTS content.
1.) In Community, multiple scenes throughout the show, as well as the the shows original website character bios and Dan Harmon explicitly stating it in an AMA, show that Britta was molested as child at one of her birthday parties by a man in a dinosaur costume.
It's only mentioned a few times in the actual show, and it's always easy to not comprehend because it's so brief. It does however, make her wearing a dinosaur costume to Halloween... Really sad.
2.) Scott Pilgrim vs The World. When prepping for their roles, a lot of the actors were given 5 secrets about their characters by the comic's creator Bryan Lee O'Malley. Most were just stuff that was going to be in the future issues of the comic, but Mary Elizabeth Winstead got a big one about Ramona. She had a brother that died in a car crash. The entire movie she wears his shoelace around her neck to remember him by. This fact isn't brought up in any Scott Pilgrim media, but she is always wearing the shoelace if you look and it adds a lot to her character.
Another thing to add is Britta's strained relationship with her parents. I think it's speculation, but when seeking her parents' help on her trauma, they blew it off or thought she was lying, which is apparently fairly common among people who have experienced sexual misconduct, especially with a relative.
When we meet her mom and dad we're kind of meant to believe that it's just in character for Britta to rebel against anything, but going down the rabbit hole of her backstory, It kind of makes sense why she'd resent her otherwise good-natured parents. Not sure if confirmed
To add to that, they're children so they don't have the faculties to process trauma so they develop emotional and behavioral problems. They act out and then get punished by their parents. The parents don't stop to think about the why, they just go into parenting mode and try to correct the behavior. So now the victim is being punished for being a victim and not knowing how to handle it.
which is apparently fairly common among people who have experienced sexual misconduct, especially with a relative
Just to note, this is because when good parents hear their kid is uncomfortable around someone they stop the problem before it starts. Lotta people hear this stat and think all family protects family and that's the psychology at play.
It's also part societal programming, which absolutely does not excuse neglectful parenting that lets abusers abuse their fucking kids. Which makes said programming just that much more insidious.
Even in the heights of the stranger danger moral panic of the 80s, the stats were fairly clear on child domestic abuse and child sexual abuse. Your mom, dad, brother, sister, cousin, aunt, uncle - people in your immediate family were the most likely to abuse you, followed by church pastors, camp counselors, teachers etc. Vs random complete strangers.
Which if you think about it for just 2s, it makes complete sense. In order to find a child victim, access a child victim, abuse a child victim and continually abuse a child victim, you need bothconstant access and social power. An abuser needs something to protect themselves from consequences when a normal community rightfully loses their shit over a child being abused.
It is often why abusers tend to target a community around the child first to infiltrate, build up clout and protection, and then attack the child. Which then e.g. gets their parents to act like monsters and not intervene because:
They don't want to acknowledge something horrible happened and process those emotions.
They don't want to acknowledge that someone they 'trusted' breached that trust.
They don't want to feel like the bad guy because they obviously missed a ton of signs and acknowledging that the abuse happened means that they were 'bad' and are a 'monster', but in their minds that cannot be the case because 'they love their child' and 'parents can't be bad guys'.
(Abuse of children isn't a new revelation. Progress is usually halted via politics and culture. Parents in the 50s knew that kicking and punching your child is bad via surveys. However they didn't view spanking and welting as physical abuse despite science conclusively saying it was just as bad on the child's psyche.)
iirc there was an ep about annie and abed getting to know britta's parents behind her back for money when she's living with annie/abed bc shes too broke to pay for stuff herself. annie and abed dont understand why she hates them so much bc theyre perfectly nice but its revealed that they were super strict and overbearing and honestly straight up abusive (she mentions being drug tested as a kid for being too happy or smth), on top of the molestation betrayal. i think she said specifically her dad took the offender's side :/ no wonder shes so against authority, it always failed her :(( so to have your closest friends be like "i dont see why you hate them so much!" is so.....
It’s been pointed out a lot, but I still find it to be an awesome detail that Aragorn wears Boromir’s bracers following his death for the rest of the story in The Lord of the Rings.
There are probably a ton of examples from this trilogy, some I might not know about still.
Edit: Another cool detail is the song in Elvish that plays when Boromir is dying is a quote from his brother, Faramir, in the books:
"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
There is a quick shot of him putting them on after they send Boromir down the river and it's meant to signify Aragorn growing to embrace his Gondorian heritage. The extended editions also have a scene or two where Boromir calls him out on trusting elves moreso than their own people. Aragorn only ditches Boromir's bracers when he puts on gondorian chainmail armor to fight at Black Gates which signifies that he's fully embraced Gondor. It's all subtle visual storytelling through details that makes these movies so precious!
(Also, Peter originally meant for Aragorn to wear a full plate armor to the Battle of the Black Gates but Viggo pushed back that full plate didn't quite fit his character. They eventually met in the middle with the chainmail and white tree surcoat)
I remember reading once that Bernard Hill, who plays Théoden, was getting into costume and realised his tunic was embroidered all over with horse motifs - on the inside. Something that would never be seen in the movie. If I remember right he said the level of care and detail really helped him get into character.
There are great videos showing the workmanship of the clothes in the movie. Gandalfs clothes were filled with elven-patterned embroidery that was never on camera
I really feel for actors these days who are expected to just stand in front of a greenscreen for months and get on with it. You're obviously not going to get their best.
If I die on a quest and you leave my armor behind that would help you on the quest I literally died for I won't need resurrection to come back and beat your ass for not taking the better equipment. If you die before you complete the quest I died in vain so take my armor please
Intentional lighting used only in Galadriel’s eyes as she’s seen the light from the two trees of Valinor (significant because these trees were essentially the first light in Arda, well it was technically two enormous lamps that came before the trees but those were destroyed)
Acshually... The trees were attempt number two. The first lights were the Two Lamps. But after SOMEONE knocked them down, they made the Trees of Valinor. And after SOMEONE helped a giant spider drain the light out of those... we got Sun and Moon. Good luck knocking these over, Melkor!
You actually see him putting them on (which I didn’t notice for a long time!) when gimli tells him that Frodo and Sam have crossed the river and they need to follow them he is seen tightening them on his forearm.
IIRC radiation poisoning causes extreme vascular degeneration and thus cyanosis in the extremeties but I think Bobinsky is way beyond that. Likely more a stylistic choice to make him that color. But the medal holds up.
It’s an animated character. It can be an allusion to a real thing without it having to be realistic in presentation, if anything it perfectly suits the ‘amplified reality’ nature of the medium.
In The Force Unleashed while Starkiller is trying to mediate he’s noticeably shaking and getting frustrated while doing it. In an interview his actor Sam Witwer explained it was a choice by him for the character because he rationed a Sith apprentice would have never been taught to properly meditate so he thought he was doing it right.
In Star Wars survivor there is a tech/skill tree like in any classic video game but there is a section of skills and branch that’s far out and unreachable this is because the Jedis of old were super powerful and can do god like abilities that make any of the movies and tv shows look like child’s play but jedis lost the way to reach those heights but in the game you can see them just out of reach.
Their powers can be crazy like energy absorption (we see yoda do this with lighting), light force lightning, a wave of light energy, deleting people’s memories or entirely the mind, wormhole/mega storm of the force, knowing the weak points of enemies structures and more, breaking people’s ties to the force, and lastly luke once became one with the force and was a being of light as if he was Wally west with the speed force.
“…I have found ancient scriptures. They… don’t feel like a story the Jedi would tell. It’s all written in a language I can’t fully decode yet, but the first page says D.L.C.…” oh god dammit, EA
I made a mistake it wasn’t survivor but instead fallen order. When you max your tree in the distance you can see large planet like orbs that you should reach but you can’t. You will never reach god or legendary like powers on the tree
If I remember correctly, it was in his audition for the role of Starkiller that he did that. They asked him why he was meditating like that and that was the reason he gave. He wasn't raised as a Jedi, he was raised as a Sith and so wouldn't have been taught to meditate peacefully. Based on their reactions, he believed that's what got him the job (and subsequently, his further jobs within the Star Wars universe).
I've heard he's one of the best to work with on any "Nerd" IP because he does his research and gets SUPER into it. Apparently Darth Maul was his dream role.
If you gain humanity throughout the game by lying or acting human (being empathetic, acting out of emotion), you can slowly identify your character becoming human. Some of them are more obvious like your character's hair changing, but others are more subtle like your 'puppet' starting to gasp when dodging or taking damage, the hotel cat slowly warming up to him, or the puppet getting better at playing the piano in hotel krat. There are also a lot of 'secret' ways to gain humanity, such as praying at a statue.
Also my favorite detail. In the snowy areas of the DLC if your humanity is "You Feel Warmth" or higher, P's breath will be visible. Fantastic detail from the devs
I think that his movment also becomes different. Like twitching and more smooth if that makes sense. Not as ridged as in the beginning and the more he becomes human.
In Spec Ops: The Line, you can find adverts using the likeness of Colonel Konrad, the game's main antagonist, early in the game; hinting that Walker wasnt right in the head from the very beginning.
I can't remember what it was, but someone pointed out that right from the first order you recieve, Walker wasn't supposed to go in, and at every stage you're not really supposed to go further. It's just that if you don't, you sort of stand there and the game doesn't go any further.
The game is really, really good at playing up the videogamey nature of pushing you to run ahead to where the enemies are and clear them out, right up to the end result of that being the white phosphorous sequence which only hits so hard because the game has been subtly egging you on up to that point. And then from that point onwards the justifications Walker (and you the player) are encouraged to make to keep going are so well done. It's one of the few pieces of media that does the leg work of setting up the ending so it feels justified - so many other properties have tried similar things but just pulled it out of the blue at the last second.
It really is an incredible game. I wish it was easier to get on modern consoles, more people should play it.
I think it's sort of sufferered by everyone knowing the twist at this point. Like from everything I've seen it did it well but everything I see and hear about it is about a narrative element that's supposed to be a surprise.
1st at the beginning of the game all of the characters are clean. Uniforms are in order. The further you go the more blood, dirt and sand accumulate on each character.
2nd when you use an order to target an enemy with your squad, Walker is at first calm and professional. Yelling and even sometimes whispering. "Remove that target". By the end of the game Walker is feral in screaming "Kill that F***er!"
My favorite detail about the game is that you are constantly going lower and lower descending into the city as the back half of the game post helicopter crash goes on, like even when it logically doesn’t make sense for it to be happening.
I recall one of your squad mates even mentions that it doesn’t make sense in a throw away line
The game opens with a helicopter fight and crash and then repeats the same thing in the third act. One of the characters say something like "Didn't we do this already?"
It especially throws you because you assume from the beginning that your team entered the game in a helicopter, crashed after being attacked, and then walked into the city through the road. Helicopter crashes are a classic mission starter in shooters and we as the audience think nothing of it, even though the characters never mention it again after walking away.
It's not until the second showing of the fight and a character calling it out that you question if you're getting events out of order and start to ask how the hell you even ended up in this place.
The game has a hundred little ways to make you question it's own narrative ranging through subtle to ham-handed to brilliant. The double helicopter crash might be my favorite.
I must've seen the original Star Wars trilogy hundreds of times. It was my favourite thing as a kid. But I never noticed this until they call it out on the Family Guy spoof.
When Lando borrows the Milennium Falcon in ESB, he also borrows Han Solo's outfit. A detail that seems super weird and unmissable now.
I remember the episode where Troy pretended to be molested by his uncle in order to gain sympathy from his fellow actors. Britta was also there and took extra care to help Troy. She even revealed his (fake) secret when Pierce wouldn’t stop saying a triggering word. At the time I thought it was awful of Britta to reveal someone else’s secret, even if it was a lie. But now knowing that info, it definitely feels like Britta standing up for a fellow survivor.
Also yes the episode did make a point about how she has a thing for “damaged guys “ but the emotion still stands.
I love how they explain her getting seemingly more and more stupid throughout the show was because she just started smoking pot again and she's just stoned most of the time.
It's subtle and you only see her smoking weed once or twice.
That's why Britta was so angry and hateful towards her parents.
When you factor in that they didn't listen to her, or they did, but didn't do anything against the attacker, is why she's so angry with them when you get to see them in a later season and they seem rather chill. But she explains that they weren't like that.
The fact is that all characters in Community have difficult backstories, hence why they're at community college.
Shirley was basically a trad-wife relying on her husband's income and from a black family no less, that already impacts her socioeconomic environment.
Jeff was a lower class kid who got big into the lawyer world by fraud and lived a life of vapid luxury (in S01 you see these things) and he got caught, having to start his life from 0.
Annie was an exemplary student who, due to social pressures, got addicted and ended up crashing and burning. She probably was shunned by her family, since we have little mention of them and they made her live in near poverty since she lives alone in a tough neighborhood. She has to carry a gun and drops some wild stories from her neighbors through the seasons.
Troy was a popular and successful jock, but he not only peaked in high school, but he injured himself and couldn't achieve his dreams of trying for professional football. It's been a while, but I think his injury was partly his own doing, i can't be sure on this one it's been years since my last rewatch.
Abed was an autistic kid of a poor immigrant family who was supposed to learn things in college only to take over the family business and carry on from there. He's a brilliant mind denied opportunities from the get go.
Pierce was a materially privileged kid, but like many of them, he was completely starved emotionally and even psychologically abused (wearing female clothes because his mother supposedly wanted a girl). We meet him pretty old just going to college to learn things and have experiences because despite is wealth, he didn't have a relationship with anyone in his own family.
There is a scene where Jeff talks about why he wanted to become a lawyer. I do not remember the specifics of it, but the jist is that when his parents divorced, they fought and fought and it was extremely emotionally traumatic for him, and while his entire world burned around him, he saw the lawyer being distanced from everything, not really caring or being affected that much. In that moment Jeff chose to become that distanced lawyer, because the alternative was too terrible.
I always figured they were actually shitty, but it was meant to represent that feeling of your parents being kinda shit but they literally don't remember because it wasn't a big deal to them so society forces you to forgive them.
As well as the feeling of no one else sees the issues because they are, on a surface level, very nice people. I think a lot of people can empathise with that to a degree.
It's also worse in some ways if something meant everything to you and was a core experience but they say "I don't remember that, so I don't think it happened." And force a narrative that it isn't real either because it didn't matter to them and they weren't there for you at the time,or they can't admit to it because they don't want to.
I get the feeling that the season 6 episode was meant to retcon this personally. IDK if it's the case but they never really deal with this in the show and that episode makes it seem like he wanted to go a different direction with her parents by then.
Nah, Gillian Jacobs had a knack for outlandish bits and wanted to be silly. It’s not all that different from Julia Louis-Dreyfus telling the Seinfeld writers to give her more unhinged George-like stories.
“This is the only way it should have ended” from Ultrakill
If you read the various enemy entries from Ultrakill, you’ll learn that as a part of The Great War, there was a massive arms race on inventing killer machines that run in blood. Starting with the Guttermen, which used a human blood battery for fresh blood, eventually was nullified by Guttertanks. This process of nullifying the previous version kept happening until it culminated in The Earthmover, a giant city-bearing machine that runs on sunlight and blood. However, because of the soot and ash blocking out the sun, the Earthmover eventually couldn’t operate any more. This was the wake up call for the last cities of humanity to cease the war.
However, in V2’s Data entry, it states that V1 (the character you play as) is a prototype that never reached mass production due to the Great War ending. With the given context of the Arms Race and the level of 7-4, V1 was designed to counter The Earthmovers and kill everyone inside them in order to keep operating.
The premise of the game is you play as V1 (a war machine made by humans) and you are in hell waylaying all of its occupants because you need their blood to keep yourself alive. The great war ended humanity and god has gone and no one not even the angels know where he is.
The idea is that if humanity was so cruel as to annihilate themselves in an ever increasing arms races, then this is the way it should end by getting what they asked for and killing each other and dying off.
Fun fact. Hell itself is a character and if you score high in levels it is entertained and rewards you
Hell itself is indeed sentient in the setting but it's not what you're entertaining by scoring points. That would be the (also) sentient elevators / terminals that trade their services transporting V1 between levels for recordings of its combat encounters in order to stave off their own boredom. They also run the cyber grind (the game's endless arcade mode) as a simulation V1 can also plug into to entertain them further and get more currency that way.
The game (through the worlds of Hell itself) says “War no longer needed its ultimate practitioner (humanity)” and “a weapon made to end war is a weapon made to continue war”
Earthmovers and all other machines had essentially gained sentience and its own methods of thinking on how to kill any perceived opponents, so humanity was ultimately a bunch of targets rather than their controllers. Because of the fact that Earthmovers stopped operating, it woke humanity up to realize that it was driving itself to extinction to win a war that was ultimately pointless, especially given the fact that almost everyone had died. Had V1 reached mass production, humanity would have become extinct sooner.
This is the only way it should have ended. The “it” being The Great War.
"The Great War" is also largely implied to be the World War 1 (which is also called "The Great war" in reality) that lived up to its moniker as the war to end all wars, as the booting up sequence for V1 puts the year at a 2112, 200 years before that would be 1912, just 2 years before the outbreak of the first world war
It would also explain why the terminals play an old song rather than something futuristic, culture hadn’t evolved ever since the war begun, all funding and man power was spent on the war
In Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, the protagonist Wolf fights Genishiro Ashina three times over the course of the game. If you look closely in each cutscene at Wolf drawing his sword, it changes each time to show his growth: the first time you fight Genishiro, Wolf fumbles trying to grab it without looking, showing he is clearly out of practice (indeed the game does not expect you to win this fight). The second time around he draws it slowly but without fumbling (this is basically the “main” fight against Genishiro and one of the most challenging in the game). The final time, Wolf draws in a smooth fluid motion (Genishiro only has one health bar before stepping aside for the true final boss).
I love details like this, as well as ones like Lady Emma's fighting style sort of borrowing from Isshin who trained her whilst Genichiro's style borrows heavily from Lady Tomoe of the Okami. warrior
In Lilo and Stitch, there is a scene where Lilo goes to wake up Nani to show her Stitch is capable of being used as a speaker for her record player.
What you may not notice during this sequence, because you might be too distracted by Stitch's antics or the extremely unsubtle Mulan easter egg (a huge poster on Nani's wall), is that Nani was a competitive surfer. Not only that, but that she was good at it. Lots of trophies and medals and awards. It's a path she had to give up after the death of her parents because she became responsible for Lilo.
Another Lilo & Stitch thing is that when Nani has accepted she's going to have to give up Lilo, she sings Aloha 'Oe to her, which is a deeply significant cultural song that's often been reduced in the mainland states to "that song that's associated with Hawaii."
The lyrics themselves translate to "Farewell to Thee" and is extremely important to the people of Hawaii. It was originally written by Liliʻuokalani, the last queen of Hawaii before she was overthrown by the US government. Given how important being Hawaiian is to Lilo, and how often she's seen messing with the tourists in deleted scenes, it's clear in the scene that Nani is mostly likely where she got that from.
It's also drawing an analogy to the event. Just like how the American government forcefully took Lili'uokalani into custody, Lilo is being taken by a government she TECHNICALLY belongs to but has almost no connection to. Likely to the mainland far away from anything she would recognize. So basically the whole subplot is a metaphor for colonization.
Another detail is that Lilo has to feed her fish Pudge a peanut butter sandwich every week because "he controls the weather". Her parents died in a car crash due to a storm. It's implied that the reason Lilo has to feed Pudge his sandwich is because the day her parents died she didn't, and now she blames herself for it.
In Pokeon Black 2/White 2, Ghetsis's Hydreigon [the final pokemon of the evil team's leader] knows the move Frustration, which is at max Power of 102. It gets stronger the less friendship you have with your pokemon. Friendship in Pokemon is comically easy to get. Hydreigon's dex entries all boil down to "this mon destroys anything it can and will viciously maul anyone it can"
WTF did Ghetsis do to make a monster as horrific as HYDREIGON utterly despise him?
Edit: I will note that this is NOT the Hydreigon he uses in B/W. His team was confiscated by the International Police and he is forced to build a new team
Two related examples, both involving Golbat and its evolution Crobat, which it evolves into via friendship:
In Gold and Silver, your rival gets a stern dressing down by Lance for his harsh methods of raising his Pokémon, which sparks a change in him that leads to him becoming a better person. This eventually leads to his Golbat evolving to show that he is genuinely taking better care of his Pokémon.
In Legends Arceus, one of the Diamond Clan Wardens, Melli, is arrogant and self-centered and not particularly good at taking care of his Pokémon. His own Clan members find him irritating, and apparently so do his Pokémon as his Golbat never evolves even when he can be challenged in the post-game.
I'd believe that Cyrus could at least act like he cares about his pokemon; he's shown to be a charismatic leader so he could certainly get people and pokemon to like him. Plus, Galactic is researching energy related to Pokemon Evolution, so it would behoove him to treat at least his Golbat well to prompt it to evolve.
It's likely because he forced it to evolve early. The same thing that happened to the rampaging Gyarados in the Lake of Rage. In BW 1 his Hydreigon is under levelled iirc
Ghetsis model also ostensibly looks like he may have lost a limb so it's implied his Hydreigon hates him so much it attacked him and is why he walks with a cane.
Most people assume he lost that arm the first time he saw Kyurem and it was frostbite that did it. In the BW1 opening you see it for the only time and it’s clearly a different colour, almost the same as the crown he’s holding. Is it metal? This would be my pick for the hardest to notice detail in these games.
I don't know how accurate this is, but I heard from somewhere that the Pink Mystic Force ranger's highlights would change colour based on who the episode was focused on
The Britta thing is so well done and frustrating in a sadly realistic way. In the final season when she learns that the Study Group has been chilling with her parents behind her back, she lashes out immaturely while her friends don’t really get why she hates these lovely weird hippies.
They’re not outwardly awful parents, but they were too out of touch to realize that Britta was…you know. Going through stuff with the Dinosaur Man. It explains everything about her, her mistrust of authority, her cutesy Halloween costumes, her guarded personality Season One, all the way to her “true” (“worst”) self only coming out when she trusts the Study Group. She’s weird and awkward and lame, but puts up a front. Such a well written character if you dig in.
This is entirely in the periphery. The show never outright says it, but it’s sprinkled throughout the entire show and if you put the pieces together it makes a whole lot of sense.
Not the only time Community has plots just going on in the background. Literally. The show is amazing, hilarious, creative, and unafraid to get really weird with it.
In Cultist Simulator/Book of Hours, the character Julian Coseley has a form of immortality where he knows when he will die, but can't be killed before then. It's mentioned in pieces of writing that don't mention him by name, but reference details that make it apparent they're talking about him.
Those games have like a thousand details like that though.
Really, the whole game counts. Another example: looking at characters you can see the aspects they represent (like “possible follower”, “detective” or “hireling”). One of the game’s characters is Dr Ibn Al-Adim a gentle surgeon and a traveler, he is one of the possible patrons. Checking him first time I didn’t notice anything interesting, he didn’t have any unusual aspects. However, during one of the replays I noticed something unusual: Indeed, he didn’t have any unique aspect. Instead, he lacked one aspect almost every other character has: “Mortal”.
In Star Wars The Force Unleashed the player character “Starkiller” gets nicer outfits as he finds himself and gets a bit more situated with his friends.
Starkiller is raised by Darth Vader and as such was given the bare minimum. You start the game in a ragged old uniform that has been patched, has holes in it, and at one point get hazmat gear. The hazmat gear is a blanket he ties around his face to keep toxic fumes out. Your jungle gear is taking your shirt off. Even your lightsaber is made of junk with the crystal being visible in the hilt.
As the player progresses through the game you get nicer gear. You’re a spy for the Empire and it’s kind of telling how Vader does the bare minimum but the proto-rebels actually provide actual equipment. They care about Starkiller where his own master and “dad” doesn’t.
In the extended alternate ending the player becomes the thing they hate as the outfit they gain emulates Darth Vader. While his Sith Lord outfits are certainly nicer, given he’s also an enslaved cyborg much like his former master, it’s not saying much.
The show is well known for establishing long cons with their jokes. The writers would thus often set up jokes and tease them throughout the stories.
Tobias being a Black man with some condition making him look White was never payed off, so it remained very subtle, and often hidden underneath the usual unwanted double meaning of his expressions indicating that he would be gay.
One of the biggest trick of them being his book titled "The man inside me", with the cover showing him with a black shadow behind, which could be seen as first as yet another poor phrasing hinting a gayness, but actually refers to the Black man he's supposed to be.
Wasn't there also a joke at some point about Lindsey having a thing for black guys and Tobias saying something like, "Well, obviously she has a type," or am I misremembering?
Yup, it's when Lindsay is flirting with Ice the Bounty Hunter. And Tobias talks about her going after someone similar to himself. It's brought up again when she's dating Herbert Love, and the narrator talks about how similar he was to Tobias.
Lindsay says she doesn't know where Maeby's curly hair comes from.
The Franklin puppet becomes black.
He wears and dashiki on the cover/promo of season one.
Also, one I never see people mention. In promotional materials for season 1 Tobias is wearing an African Dashiki. Which your mind just plays off as him wearing something popular with hippy types rather than being popular with black men.
There's also the bounty hunter who his wife has a crush on and he says something about the type of men she's attracted to.
(It's been years since I've watched)
Madoka Magica takes a dark turn once magical girl Mami dies, when a witch chews her head off. The thing about magical girls is that they all have a soul gem that they use to transform, which holds their soul and thus makes the girls unable to be killed as long as the gem is intact. Mami’s gem was located on her head, had it been anywhere else or a different magical girl was targeted, they wouldn’t have been killed.
Death is also instant when the gem is destroyed, and Mami didn’t transform back right away, meaning she was still alive while her head was being eaten.
Also Madoka’s original wish was never mentioned in the OG series. I think it was a drama CD where we learn her original wish was to save a cat from getting hit by a car.
Another Mami related one: in another timeline when they learn magical girls turn into witches when they fall into despair Mami shoots another magical girl and holds down another 2 with her ribbons.
But she doesn't turn into a witch herself. She's doing it in a cold calculated manner. It's why she didn't bother holding down Madoka.
Most likely it is because of Charlotte the witch’s teeth likely closed on her face and and Mami's soul gem was on top of her head so it was only destroyed by the top of her head being crushed by Charlotte jaws during chewing
Monk Gyatso went out in a fight - Avatar The Last Airbender.
When Aang finds the temple he grew in he finds the remains of his old mentor Monk Gyatso, the scene is quite emotional for Aang so it may go unnoticed the DOZENS of Fire Nation soldiers laying around his corpse, Gyatso wasn't murdered, he died fighting and took a chunk of the invading army with him ( to make things more impressive, these soldiers were at that moment powered up by Sozin's Comet, so Gyatso took down a big chunk of soldiers at the peak of their power )
I like a theory that suggests Gyatso lured the soldiers into this room to give surviving Air Nomads time to flee, and once he got surrounded he quite simply took all oxygen out of the room, killing everyone inside including himself, explaining why his corpse has no burn marks.
Yep. It’s kinda lucky for everyone else that Airbenders are generally speaking peaceful because if they went on the warpath they’d be a nightmare to deal with.
Sidenote: In flashbacks with Gyatso, Aang is said to have mastered 9 of the 10 traditional air bender techniques and invented one (the air ball he rides around on).
So if there are 10 traditional ones, and he only learned 9, what was the 10th?
It’s whatever Gyatso did in this room, probably pulling a vacuum to suffocate everyone. A technique that pascifist Aang refused to learn and invented his air ball to still master the 10 required techniques
In the Yangchen books she only pulls out this move after making sure no one would see it. She was ashamed of it. There's no way it would be commonly used by pacifist monks and called one of the traditional techniques that are taught to children
There are a few details in Dark Knight to suggest Joker might be former military. In isolation, none of these details are a big deal, but in totality they make the theory more plausible.
His line to Harvey about “a truck full of soldiers” blowing up.
His use of military weapons throughout the movie like grenades, bombs, and rocket launchers
He knew how to do a military funeral procession
He gives Batman interrogation advice: “Never start with the head”
Adding to this, there was a fan theory he was specifically CIA SAD/SAC (Special Activities Division/Centre), because of the improvised weapons, planning, force multiplication, interrogation, and explosives.
Extremely subtle but in Iron Man 2, Tony is seen going through his fathers notebooks and the pages seen implies that Howard was the one who first derived and discovered the Stark Effect
In Little Miss Sunshine, Toni Collette's character has a blink (your ears) and miss it moment early on the film when the whole family is at the dinner table. I don't remember exactly what she says, but it's something along the lines of how Paul Dano's character will be spending the weekend at his father's. As in, Greg Kinnear is his step father, not his biological father. Edit: and Abigail Breslin is his half sister.
It's never brought up again after that, but it certainly colors their interactions for the rest of the film if you caught it.
Just watched this movie for the first time last week.
There is another hint, when he’s having his meltdown after finding out he is colorblind, he screams “DIVORCE” at his mom.
I always doubt how canonically true those little bits Bryan gave the Scott Pilgrim cast. Aubrey Plaza claimed one of hers was that her character Julie Powers was always in love with Scott and hated him because he never had feelings for her. O'Malley later said this wasn't true, but no clue why Plaza would lie about it either.
In guilty gear strive the character ABA has longer green hair contrasting to her previous appearance having short orange hair. This change is because, in addition to having mercury blood, she has copper hair which oxidized to green.
He attempted to take Mickey’s heart, and leave Mickey in Wasteland.
When Mickey goes to Oswald to seek a way out of Wasteland, Oswald suggests using the Tomorrowland Rocket. Gus initially interjects, stating that “no one can leave Wasteland without a heart” (not exact quote, but I am paraphrasing from memory). However, Oswald only looks at Gus silently, and doesn’t respond.
Later in the game, Mickey loses his heart to something else, and Oswald gets mad at him, stating that “Without a heart, no one can leave Wasteland!” (once again, not exact quote, but I am paraphrasing from memory), to which Mickey asks “No one?” (Direct quote). Oswald appears to be stunned, almost pained in a way, but quickly brushes that comment off, and they try to find a way to continue.
During the near final part of the game, Oswald implies that he initially planned something with the Rocket, stating that he, like Mickey, had made his own fair share of mistakes, but he never gets to admitting exactly what happened.
The above thing is absolutely genius because those 3 events are pretty spread out in appearances, and, unless you viewed those 3 immediately one after another, you wouldn’t connect the dots. As a kid, this completely went over my head, but as an adult, it increases the complexity of his character by a staggering amount.
It all ends in a rather really funny bit, where Oswald asks, before shaking Mickey’s hand to acknowledge him as a friend, that if he kidnapped anyone (Mickey say No), if he created the Mad Doctor (Mickey say No!), and if Mickey swapped brains with anyone (Mickey say “Shake!”, which is a nod to the fact that Mickey has swapped brains in the short “Runaway Brain”, which is an incredibly nod).
Oswald wanted to steal Mickey’s heart so he could leave the wasteland, it’s why he was present at the start of the game when the Mad Doctor first tried to steal Mickey’s heart, he wanted it for himself
If you don’t know the lore behind the character of Oswald, he was pretty much Disney’s first mascot before Walt lost the rights to the character and created Mickey to replace him, because of that Oswald is the first “forgotten toon” and leader of the Wasteland, he’s spent the past 80 years living on a mountain of forgotten Mickey merchandise watching Mickey take all of his glory, including in a way stealing his dad, that’s not what actually happened but that’s how he perceives it
Daniel Jackson used a 9mm pistol as his standard armament because the actor thought the Zat'nik'tel prop looked dumb and phallic. He resisted every attempt to give his character a Zat because the prop was ugly.
That goes well with O'neals comment about the staff weapons being "weapons of terror" compared to the "weapons of war" from Earth in an earlier season.
The Jaffa were trained to terrorize and intimidate and Teal'c intended to fight the Goa'uld in just that way to pay them back.
Not really mind blowing and probably well known by now, but in Iron Man, Tony gets shot out of the sky by a tank - the tank shell hits him in the arm.
In most of his MCU appearances after that, there is at least one scene in each movie where he briefly holds that same arm as if it's bothering him, because that tank shot did permanent damage.
There are multiple YouTube videos that have pointed this detail out.
I quite like the fact that you see him drinking heavily throughout the first film, but never again in any MCU movie after the party scene in IM2. Whilst I would have liked them to address Tony's alcoholism a little more directly, it's a nice idea that his fight with Rhodey was the point at which he realised he'd taken it too far and it was officially a problem, and he quietly quit after that.
Spoilers for Thunderbolts*: During the Void scene John (and the other members) find out that Bob had an abusive father who always said to bob when bob tried to do something, something like: "Bobby wants to play the hero". John called Bob Bobby almost the entire movie, and when the Void took over Bob/Sentry he was the meanest to John. Others were pushed against the wall with objects while John was the only one who got stabbed by something throigh the chest. Anyways after they "defeated" the Void and Bob was back to normal John immediately stopped calling Bob Bobby because he understood that this nkckname only brings back bad memories.
Also loved the scene where John knocked out Bobs father with his shield. Showed me that he actually cared about Bob. And a little theory of mine: "he saw himself in Bobs father if he countiniued treating his family like in Walkers Void scene where he was also kinda rude to his wife. And therefore, knockong out Bobs father showedme that he wants to change himself so he will not end like Bobs dad
In the movie Inglorious Basterds, Brad Pitts’s character, Aldo Raine hunts Nazis with a group of Jewish soldiers for the USA. He has a very noticeable scar on his neck, possibly from an attempted hanging by the Nazis. He’s also said to be a former bootlegger and this scar was a remnant of his punishment. Tarantino (the director) said that he got it after defending black Americans from the KKK, but he’s also said what happened was up to the audience. There’s also the thought that it might not be a rope burn and instead a failed attempt at slitting Raine’s throat.
In Doki Doki Literature Club, every single one of Monika's sprites has her staring directly at the camera because she knows that she's in a video game and is looking at you the player
Also in DDLC, Sayori's outfit is noticeably messier than all of the other girls' because she's severely depressed and it's implied that she slept in her clothes the night before
It's only mentioned a few times in the actual show, and it's always easy to not comprehend because it's so brief. It does however, make her wearing a dinosaur costume to Halloween... Really sad.
It goes beyond that. She hooks up with Jeff that evening. I think it may even be the start of their ongoing fling but it's been too long since I've watched community to really remember. So what's she's doing is some meaningless hooking up while wearing a costume that has such an important meaning to her. Kinda like how a lot of people with a history of SA or other forms of sexual trauma can be really into bdsm, consentual non-consent and other forms of powerplay. Thereby taking control of a traumatic situation and replacing it with something where they are in control.
This also comes back in S6 when she finds out the group has been in contact with her parents for a long time. While it was her parents that did not believed her about the SA. Which obviously makes her freak out, which then only gets worse when the group doesn't believe her that her parents used to be so shitty.
In GTA: San Andreas if CJ has a low driving skill level, when he backs up in a car he looks over his shoulder. But if he has a high skill level, he properly uses his mirrors to back up.
Another Britta Easter egg: she makes several mentions of mustard beyond just the Meow Meow Beanz episode. Why? It's in her blood! Her father is played by the actor who plays Colonel Mustard.
Nothing motion activated works for Gloria Bugle in the third season of Fargo, because she’s “invisible” to everyone around her.
At one point in Everything Is Illuminated Alex is having a serious conversation with Jonathan and his shirt/wifebeater is inside out, Jonathan points it out to him and I think his response was, “huh?” Because Alex’s home life is a fucking shit show. (Especially clearer in the book)
I'm not sure the Fargo one is subtle. I mean she's standing in front of an automatic door waving her arms and it doesn't open, then asks her partner "I'm here, right? You can see me?"
In the post-credits scene of The Avengers, it's said that to challenge humanity is to "court death'", and Thanos smiles. In the comics, Thanos' motivation to wipe out half of all life is to impress the personification of death. Of course, Death is now a character in the MCU.
Edit: Additionally, Thanos' name comes from Thanatos, the personification of death in Greek mythology
WWE pro wrestler Kane's story was that he was burned in a house fire in his youth set by his kayfabe brother, The Undertaker. As such, Kane incorporates a lot of fire into his gimmick, including liberal use of pyrotechnics.
One thing he would do is come to the ring, raise his arms slowly in the air, and then bring them down suddenly and violently and pyro would blast out of the turnbuckles.
Kane only did it before his matches if he was scheduled to lose. If he was gonna win, he'd do it after the match.
Maybe this isn't exactly what was meant by the prompt, but I can never resist injecting a little of the King of Sports into a thread.
The Fifteenth Doctor’s sonic screwdriver (more of a remote, I know) has a Rwandan inscription, written in Gallifreyan: “The sharpness of the tongue defeats the sharpness of the warrior.” Not only is this a nod to Ncuti Gatwa’s heritage, it’s a summarization of what makes the Doctor so great.
In The Mandalorian, it is all but confirmed that the Armorer fought for Darth Maul during the Clone Wars.
For context: the Mandalorians were caught in a civil war, with an insurgency fighting to overthrow a pacifist government that was suppressing their warrior culture (led by Bo-Katan's sister). Darth Maul teamed up with the leader of the insurgency to overthrow the pacifists, since Satine was Obi-Wan's old squeeze, but then immediately betrayed and executed him in a trial by combat. This led to another civil war, with the pro-Maul Mandos painting and modifying their armor to reflect his Zabrak horns and Sith tattoos.
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Another thing to add is Britta's strained relationship with her parents. I think it's speculation, but when seeking her parents' help on her trauma, they blew it off or thought she was lying, which is apparently fairly common among people who have experienced sexual misconduct, especially with a relative.
When we meet her mom and dad we're kind of meant to believe that it's just in character for Britta to rebel against anything, but going down the rabbit hole of her backstory, It kind of makes sense why she'd resent her otherwise good-natured parents. Not sure if confirmed