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Aviation anime? Anime
I remember a few things about the anime ; It aired on the Anime Network on demand service in about 2011-2012, it involved aviation, two of the main locations in the show was an (aviation?) academy, and an old aviation museum. It took place during WWII, I think. Another thing I remember was one scene where a character who was thought to be dead by his two siblings is sitting by his mothers grave, putting down flowers, whilst his siblings plot to kill him for inheritance. Somebody on Yahoo Answers suggested 'Pumpkin Scissors', but I vaguely remember the opening for this show, and it didn't match. Any ideas as to what it could be?
Edited by Torterrafan5676A Retraux PC game I haven't played in almost a decade... (SOLVED!) Videogame
This is a very obscure game. I remember a surprising amount of it. It's a 2D platformer/Metroidvania with a world map, it stars a character who looks more or less like this[1]◊. He's a chancellor, I think. He can only do basic platforming initially, gaining the ability to wall jump/wall climb (I don't remember which) halfway through the game, and gaining the ability to double jump during the final level (and only the final level. You can't double jump outside of it).
The game features an 8-bit aesthetic during levels, 8-bit music with a side of MIDI stank (the music reminds me a lot of Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, actually, at least in terms of sound), and a main map with an oil painting look.
The first few levels happen at night, while the last few levels take place in space. The final level is called Far Far Star. The game has like 3 boss fights, one of which takes place in a stone bridge, the second one takes place in a tunnel, and has you go against a giant wooden contraption with wheels. I assume that there's a third boss fight against the big bad, but I was never able to finish the final level. Speaking of big bad, the big bad is a magician.
One of the optional levels has you use more than one character. It's an escort mission with a female character. You use her to do some jumps you wouldn't be able to normally, I think.
I bet a lot of these details are wrong, but then again, it's been almost a decade since I last played it, back when I still had a Windows XP PC. This has been bugging me for a long time. I really want to go back and finish that game! I'll be very disappointed if this game's been somehow lost to time.
Edited by LucasRCDBunch of kids, ghost mentor. Literature
A supernatural story from the 80's with a bunch of teens.
What I remember is - One boy is a feral child due to parental abuse, one girl is a Tsundere toward the main character and at the end the other girl (who's a Mysterious Waif type) turns out to be a ghost.
Each of the teens has some sort of symbol, with the Main Character's being a circle (or a ring?), which he's underwhelmed by, but the mentor girl explains that the circle is vital because it keeps the team together.
When all seems lost because of a traitor, the Main Character manages to make the others see sense and wonder why they were betrayed, the bad guys are beaten, and the mentor girl turns out to have been a ghost and the previous Circle, who failed to keep her team together.
So I remember all that, but I don't remember the name! Or the author! It's been driving me nuts for years!
What cartoon is this?
Does anybody know what artist/strip the comic below is from? We want to use it for a trope on the launch pad, but I haven't been able to find the source, even with a reverse image search.
Crude Mario Sunshine parody on Newgrounds Web Original
It involved badly drawn art, bad grammar, Mario going to get Shine Sprites to have sex with a Toad (represented as a picture of a naked woman with a Toad head crudely pasted on) that at the end was some kind of monster in disguise and a flying Bowser pooping on everyone's head (with the narrator box saying "BOWSER GO SHIT" every time). Also at a certain point the video stops until the user doesn't click on a Shine Sprite Mario is unable to see for some reason.
Kid plays baseball very well, but actually [RoboticReveal] Live Action TV
I remember:
- Kid is named Arthur, plays baseball, is too good at it
- At some point gets sick
- Mom comes into the hospital room after doctors think he's done for ( he's not dead, just very sick, definitely still alive when healed ), whips out a laptop, and that's what heals him
- *He was a robot all along*. "Arthur" is the name of the ( Government program? Might even have been an acronym ) place he was built.
- This felt filmed after 1990, but could be wrong. Definitely felt made for TV, not Cinema. Low budget. Definitely kids-aimed, not adult at all.
I saw this in France in the mid-90s on TV, but it was clearly a US thing ( baseball was a core theme which is a dead giveaway even for tiny me ). Was a TV movie or a self-contained episode of a sci-fi show/anthology.
I'm sure I'm missing a lot but I have been obsessed with finding this thing over the years, it's literally the only time ever that Google has failed me ( also browsed all relevant TV Tropes pages without luck ).
As it's been so long it's possible I might have made some element up along the way, but I'm pretty sure about those I wrote here.
If you know the name, it'd help me so much!
EDIT: If you read this and also remember/want to know about this movie, please please say so in the comments, so we can get you to describe what you remember, and maybe find some extra info we don't have yet.
EDIT: Thanks to a kind commenter, I was reminded of the D.A.R.Y.L movie, which is very close in terms of plot, but is definitely not the same movie.
Edited by ArthurWolfFlash game with burning vampire Videogame
I found this game on one of those sites that collect flash games, Kongregate or Newgrounds or one of them. It's a sidescrolling platform game where you play as a vampire trying to get somewhere. If you go into a sunny area you catch fire, but there are fountains where you can douse yourself again.
PINK haired girl with brain? Western Animation
I vaguely remember an animated show with a pink haired girl who had a ‘pet’ brain, not certain on air time, probably 2005-2009 period, on cbbc or citv. in most episodes the villager people would come after the brain claiming it did something. I keep trying to remember it but all i can think of is ‘Pinky and the brain’, which i know it is not as i searched it and have never seen an episode, however i know the theme song off by heart. Meaning what im describing may be a remade/spin off version. Possibly not.
The animation style is difficult to remember but is most likely western and flat layered. Not anime or 3D animation.
Any idea about this show is VERY APPRECIATED! Thanks in advance ^-^ (Any questions just ask)
Edited by SpuriousRangiferinesci-fi shooter type flash game with furries? [SOLVED!] Videogame
This game has been driving me crazy for at least a week. I found it around 2010 and it was one of those platformer-shooter games, like Armor Mayhem or Raze, but it was purely singleplayer and the two main characters were furries. It had a lot of comedic fourth wall breaking moments, like one character telling the other character the controls and neither of them knowing what they mean. The character you played was a male grey cat I think, and I think the second character was a female with red hair, and the second character would talk to the player character through a computer and give advice and maybe hack things?
Edited by KindaExplainingThingsShort story where middle schoolers give an alien a thermos Literature
There's a short story that features an alien who comes to Earth in search of a legendary device that can keep cold things cold and hot things hot. He is given a thermos by a group of middle school-aged children. While it is rather odd that a star-faring civilization could arise without this knowledge, if memory serves it was portrayed as a rite of passage of sorts for the alien's people. I have vague recollections of reading this back in middle / junior high school, so it had to be first published before 2003 at the latest.
Food cutting flash game Web Original
I remember my cousin playing this food cutting flash game on the computer. What I remember was that you had to cut fruits and you had to do well on it. There would be voices that would say yay if you did it right and boo if you did it wrong. Does anyone know this game?
action movie about hindu gods Western Animation
i watched this thing in mid/late 2000s on a (probably pirate) dvd. it's some kind of cgi animation. the first setting is a modern city, the protagonist is a western blonde girl with a pet dog, living in a skyscraper. she meets some dude when her dog runs in front of his motorcycle. the dude will be important to the plot later. her friend is kidnapped or something, and someone is targeting the blonde girl, th above mentioned dude is helping her. the plot revolves around hinduism and their mythology, i remember the goddess kali and krishna, bengal tigers, labyrinth ruins etc. the bad guy looks like some kind of criminal organisation boss, he has resources and like hologram technology. any ideas?
Where did this quote came from? Anime
I am pretty sure it is either an anime or a manga, but which one? All I remember was this quote, it is a bit paraphrased, but the point still stands.
"We are nothing but minds trapped inside a game called life."
That, and it was said by an antagonist. But I really forget the rest, not even the villain's appearance.
Ha Ha... Plop
Back in the 90s there was this kids' show I watched a couple of times. The show is most likely fully animated, though it could possibly be a live action show with animated segments.
I only really remember one thing about it. One episode had a character ask the "What goes "ha ha plop?" riddle. After the answer is given ("Someone laughing their head off"), it cuts away to a scene of someone's (a kings'?) head popping of while robotically saying "ha ha plop."
I can't tell you much else about it. It probably used a very cartoony and simplistic art style style, similar to 2 Stupid Dogs, at least for the scene I described above. I also remember it having an educational show sort of vibe, but I might be wrong about that. I traveled a lot in the 90s so I can't even tell you the country it's from, but it was definitely in English.
Calculate days remaining in a normal life, then live life to the fullest Film
Hi Tropers! You all are freaking awesome! Happy I found such a cool thing!
Know this MOVIE?
A young man adds up (for his girlfriend) the days remaining in a normal lifetime... Then they go on to live a more free lifestyle.
The movie centers around a sort of underground gang of children, all controlled by an older man. Drugs, homelessness, sewers, petty theft..
In the end the pair are snow-sledding with kayaks in Iceland or someplace like that.
May be European or American... Probably later than 1999, and earlier than 2008.
It wasnt a Countdown or Deathwatch or grim trope at all... More of a "Snap out of my own apathy, stop hanging around losers wsting my time" kind of trope.
It always stuck with me.
Thanks for your help!
PS... If I'm 35, and I can fully enjoy life until im 75, then I only have less than 15000 days to GET ON WITH IT. Merry Christmas. Peace be with us all.
Edited by blarvinAn episode of Sci-Fi tv show
Hi! I'm looking for an episode of tv show. All I can remember is the beginning of the episode. A man hears doorbell, opens the door of his apartment and sees a group of children, maybe boyscouts. As they speak to him, the man starts to see germs on them with a naked eye, then screams something like "Get out! You're infected!". He closes the door, runs to the bathroom and washes his hands till they bleed. Then the show intro begins. In my memory the X-Files intro plays, but I've watched all episodes recently and haven't seen such episode. Does anyone know this episode and tv show? Thanks in advance!
Edited by DiscoProphetChildren's animated 2D cartoon series with blueish color scheme Western Animation
I can't remember any names of the characters, however I do vaguely remember what some of the characters looked like. Most of them were clearly not human, but some did closely resemble one. (Not human, as in, having body features such as clean white faces, bean-like fingers and toes and strange but cute ears and noses.)
One of the characters, which I remember the clearest, was this white-faced kid with monkey ears, wearing a woolly hat. He wandered around dragging a red cart to which he collected invisible stones every now and then.
One was a small flying mixture of a cloud and a showman. This creature's name I think was like "Pom" or "Pou" or something like that and I remember the show's name being very close to the name of one of the characters. Not at all sure though.
Another was this large and tall, eggplant-shaped blueish "thing" with four feet and a cute face and large eyes who could reform their body at will. They also might have had some red and orange polygonal spots scattered around their body if I remember correctly. I also remember a small child who was obsessed with his wooden building blocks which I think there were 13 of them.
The color scheme I think was overall mostly blueish gray and orange.
I was pretty small when I first saw this so that might have affected my perception of everything but I remember the events of the show being very random, as well as the characters. Everyone did lots of weird things and no-one ever really questioned anything.
This aired in Finland and I watched it somewhere around 2004-2009 and I have absolutely no idea whether it was an originally Finnish cartoon or just dubbed.
Black teacher dreams of a world where teachers are treated like sports stars Live Action TV
Saw an episode of what looked like an American series about the late 90s/2000s
- I think most of the cast were black
- There was this news report about an athlete getting a huge salary and some lady says that teachers should be paid that sort of money
- This teacher has a nap and dreams about a world where teachers are treated like sports stars - complete with NFL style commentators for their classes and slow motion replay when they draw on the screen
- He was teaching something like snails or something and he fakes eating it then the there was a replay showing how he palmed it
- He was considering getting a new contract for a whole heap more money this little girl tries to give her meagre savings to get him to stay
A wild customer appears? Web Original
I'm trying to find a site I swore I got to from TV tropes a few years ago. It was basically just a log of a few rpg sessions where the guy was playing an IT consultant who had to deal with customers like enemy encounters.
Find me the very racist book Literature
I remember finding this book in a public library back, like, 9 years ago. It was a children's book about a white kid and a black kid; I legit picked it up because the drawing of the black kid was the spookiest fucking drawing I have ever seen; have you ever seen a caricature that is so racist it is actually somewhat frightening? This was it.
Anyways, so then I turn it around, and on the back cover, the premise of the story unfolds. The white kid is racist towards the black kid and bullies him; so racist, in fact, that he eventually punches the black kid. Then, a patch of skin on his knuckles turns black.
And then it begins to spread.
Like, this was, I believe, an attempt to write a book about "Look, kids, if you act racist, bad things will happen!", but the message is so ass backwards that it comes across as "Look kids, if you touch a The Blacks, you will become one of them. You will become... infected."
It is horrible and nonsensical and I don't understand who wrote it or why and I NEED it so badly, if you have seen anything about this book please PLEASE tell me the name, Google just gives me examples of antiracist books and no, mister Google, I don't want the not racist book, I want the EXTREMELY racist book.
Thanks for the help!