𝐈𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞

𝕴𝖓𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖉𝖚𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓

Hello, HELLO everybody! Welcome to my official introduction to you all in this amino. Now I suppose I will just start with the simple questions. My name is the Prince of Puzzles. But you can call me Ed, Nygma, whatever pleases you really. I of course like reading comics, DC especially. I mean why else would I be here?? Anyway, really I guess I enjoy most things related to DC. Games, movies, shows, especially the ones related to Batman or Flash. But enough said about myself, let's move on to talking about ME!! :3

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𝕳𝖔𝖜 𝕴 𝕲𝖔𝖙 𝕴𝖓𝖙𝖔 𝕯𝕮

Now this is a short-ish story. Basically, my dad brought me and my older brother along to meet our uncle. Who, by the way, was already a massive comic nerd. Collecting a bunch of comics since he was about my brothers age at the time, 14. Basically, our uncle decided to show us his collection of comics. It was honestly just amazing, with comics ranging from DC, Marvel, and everything in between he picked up over the years. He then let us take a look around before picking 2 comics each for us to keep. My brother ended up picking Spiderman and Batman comics. I on the other hand, went with Batman: Knightfall and a collection of the Superman/Flash races. ^^

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𝖁𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖎𝖓𝖘 𝕺𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝕳𝖊𝖗𝖔𝖊𝖘

I will blatantly it this with no shame, I love a great villain consistently more than the good guys. Basically like the Batman mythos, I enjoy the criminally insane Arkham inmates more than a bunch of the Bat-Family. It all comes down to how interesting they are and what potential they have. I love reading or watching more about a good man constantly fighting his own second identity more than say a charismatic circus fella. Another example being a possibly decades old man doing whatever it takes to save his wife from an incurable disease.

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𝕱𝖆𝖛𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖊 𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖘

ᴿⁱᵈᵈˡᵉʳ

Oh what a humongous shocker, one of my favorite characters is the Riddler himself?! :scream: But seriously, who amongst you are actually surprised about this answer? Anyway, Ed's always been a favorite of mine. For a while, he kept having a tie with Joker for my favorite Batman villain spot. But seeing as one is absolutely overused, while the other is only recently gaining some leeway. Nygma just seems more likable for me. I love it so much more when writer's realize that he is actually a genius. Not Bruce Wayne or Lex Luther smart of course, but still pretty damn smart. Also, in the Arkham games, Ed pretty quickly became an unofficial nemesis for me. Just like Ed boi, I can't stand leaving a puzzle unfinished. To top it all off though, one of my favorite villain archetypes is the mastermind who's always 10 steps ahead. Obviously, Nygma here shows that in spades and in glorious fashion.

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ᶜᵃᵖᵗᵃⁱⁿ ᶜᵒˡᵈ

Now we reach the master of absolute zero himself, Captain Cold. He's probably been my favorite Flash villain for I'm not even sure how long now. This man's attitude, his frenemy relationship with Flash, his design! Everything is hard for me not to enjoy. Plus, his motives are justifiably simple. Basically, he just wants to make some good cash, and have fun doing it. Another thing I like is just how much he cares about his sister. Slightly off topic though, I absolutely adored his CW portrayal when played by Wentworth Miller. It's a real shame the studio decided to kill him off.

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ᴶᵒʰⁿ ᶜᵒⁿˢᵗᵃⁿᵗⁱⁿᵉ

And now, the final favorite I'll officially be talking about. John's a cheeky and quite honestly a stubborn bastard. But that's kinda why I love him so much. He's basically the type of exorcist who's less likely to simply repell the demon out of you. And more likely to taunt it, let it possess him instead, and tear it down from inside his own head. This is a man who I'm pretty sure has next to no fear. At one point, he literally walked up to Trigon, surrounded by complete inferno, and simply ask for a light. If you want, you can call him a bastard version of Dr. Strange. But to me, that actually adds to the lad's charm. He's a dark magician from Liverpool, London!! What were you expecting?! :joy: But seriously, when Johnny boi here is done right, he's done AMAZINGLY!!

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𝕷𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖙 𝕱𝖆𝖛𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖊 𝕿𝖁 𝕾𝖍𝖔𝖜

I don't need to explain myself, right?? We all know why this show sucks, right??? But, I still gotta say something. So I'll probably go about how they really disappointed me with one of my favorite of the old villains, Slade. To start things off, I at one point saw the episode title "The Return of Slade". So I decided, "Alright Go, this is your third and final chance..." What happened? They spend the first couple minutes talking about how bad and scary Slade is, go to fight him........ Skip the fight... I- then WHAT WAS THIS ABOUT?! An evil clown... Not Joker mind you, or someone interesting, just an ordinary evil clown.🤦 That was the moment I lost literally any glimmerence of hope for this show.

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𝕱𝖆𝖛𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖊 𝕿𝖁 𝕾𝖍𝖔𝖜

Firstly, this is probably one of the best shows I have ever seen, period. The art style is very charming, and fitting pretty well for a Batman cartoon. Each episode is like another short comic series and I LOVE it. The characterisation in this is spectacular. The Two-Face 2 parter was just amazing to go through. Not to mention, Almost Got 'Im. I could probably gush for hours on each individual episode alone. But that would probably take forever. :sweat_smile: Just, if you somehow haven't already, I very much recommend watching this for Batman fans. Or even just if you wanna get into Batman but don't know where to start.

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𝕷𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖙 𝕱𝖆𝖛𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖊 𝕸𝖔𝖛𝖎𝖊

Ok... Let's start with the one thing I do enjoy here. The visuals were kinda nice and the cinematography worked well when it needed to. Now onto pretty much everything else. I just... I don't know what to say, this was simply an awful movie in almost too many ways to even count. The story was all over the place, the characterization of people like Bruce and Luther is so far off their counterparts it almost hurts. Of course, this was based on one of Frank Miller's only good stories, The Dark Knight Returns. But I wonder if Zack actually read it, or he thought the pictures looked nice and said "yeah ok, I think I got the jist of Batman, who doesn't. 1: Dark Knight Returns is a disection of Batman tropes. It should NEVER be someone's first Batman story. 2: The two rules that anyone writing Bruce to . What did Zack do with them? He breaks them literally the first few minutes of Batman being on screen. Basically what I'm saying is Batman in this movie is portrayed as basically being this evil bastard with zero regard for human life. I should not have to explain to anyone why that portrayal makes literally no sense from the 75+ YEARS of writing for this one character. I'm just gonna link Nostalgia Critic's vid for the rest of my thoughts. Here ya go.

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𝕱𝖆𝖛𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖊 𝕸𝖔𝖛𝖎𝖊

Alright, this movie is basically a homage to all Batman and Ninja Turtle fans watching. There's not really some overarching plot that'll make you scratch your head. But I feel like that adds to the film rather than takes away. Sometimes, you just wanna have a little dumb fun and watch two of your favorite teams fight together. Also, both the art style and animation in this movie are insanely spot on. The portrayal of a lot of different characters are only a little less than perfect for a movie of this style. Like I said, this film is a homage from beginning to end. So even some little things like the pizza painted manhole later on. Or especially when the Arkham inmates get gassed with the mutigen. The results are actually pretty fun, and confusing for one, but we'll get to her. First, of course Harley turns into a hyena. After all, we all know about her pets Bud and Lou. Crane into a giant crow, again makes a good amount of sense. Ivy confused me a bit, turing into a Venus Flytrap. I thought the ooze turned people into animals, not plants. Though, I guess there was that one time with Snake Weed...🤔

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𝕱𝖆𝖛𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖊 𝕮𝖔𝖒𝖎𝖈

I LOVE Scott Snyder's first Court of Owls story. It showed just about everything I love about Batman stories. It had bits of action, a nice mystery, ties to Bruce's past or personal life. Even though this 2012 comic was technically the first appearance of the Court, Scott managed to make it seem like they've been there all along. The Court themselves are pretty intriguing as well, given the mystery of how engraved into Gotham they really are. Not to mention the Talons that work for the Court are intimidating as hell. Imagine one of these assassins just snuck past your high level security, silently kill anyone in their way, make their way to you with little issue, daggers and weapons at the ready. ">insert name here<, the Court of Owls has sentenced you to die." I would've damn nearly shit myself on the spot. And the labyrinth, I swear I will never forget the labyrinth scenes.

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𝕳𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖘 𝕱𝖔𝖗 𝕯𝕮

Let's start with the comic side of things. I hope DC more or less keeps doing what they already are doing. Personally, I'm really enjoying the stories being released and the writers are doing a great job from the recent comics I've read. However, the show and movie department could use some work. Firstly, I really want DC to have learned from their mistakes in the DC animated movie universe. It had its ups and downs, sadly a lot of downs. Apokolips War was a huge let down and gave one of the worst characterizations I have ever seen in Constantine. (I'm a character guy, so characterization problems are more obvious to me) But it's a new dawn, it's a new day. So let's hope DC grows some smarts or bring in people from the comic side of things so no one does anything stupid.

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𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖙 𝕽𝖊𝖈𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕴 𝕻𝖑𝖆𝖞𝖊𝖉

I still when I first saw the reveal trailer for this game. The amount of excitement I had was just insane. Yes, I do still occasionally play the LEGO games. And YES, this one in particular just became addictive for me. The fact that you essentially get to create your own character and have it basically be the protagonist is just the best. Not to mention, practically all of my favorite actors who've played certain characters come back for the game. Honestly, this is probably my favorite game in the LEGO Batman franchise.

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𝕻𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖘 𝖂𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖊 𝕴 𝕬𝖒 𝕳𝖊𝖗𝖊

Oh nothing major, really. At the moment, I'm just making wikis for the characters I'll be role-playing as. Speaking of which, I will of course try to put some effort into RP Request posts. I mean if I'm going through the trouble of coming up with legitimate plots. Might as well make a post that looks good in the process. Another thing I might do is post a few one shots here and there. Maybe a moment from a character's backstory, or possibly even a small series. Finally just for the fun of it, I could make a couple review posts about certain games, movies, or shows.

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𝕱𝖆𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖊𝖑𝖑

And now comes the end of this big introduction to my greatness. I hope the lot of you enjoyed your time here. Just know that this isn't the last you'll be seeing of me. The fun's only just beginning, farewell everyone. See you on my soon return. >:3

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