Fyraltari's Furiously Farcical Random Banter Thread #247

[LaZodiac]

There was a bit on one of the late night talk shows, Nielson was the guest and he was asked about his transition and career revival, and he just said he didn't understand it at all. He would be given ordinary lines sometimes, he could just say the most boring things, and people thought it was hilarious. And he just did not understand it, but he also didn't need to understand it, he just needed to keep doing it.

And it was a pretty funny interview.

Truth be told I feel like that's a joke on his part, and he absolutely knows what the deal is. He's playing into his comedic role; namely that he says stuff Seriously, even if it's not supposed to be serious, and that BECOMES the comedy. Seriously unserious!

I was thinking more like "You could be better at something new than something you've been doing for years, `but it's different` is convenient reasoning rather than substantial"; but I guess that works too

That's a valid answer too!

It's been like a decade since I was active here, I'm happy to see the forum's still around and active!

Oh hey, a great old one I don't actually recognize... and I joined around ten years ago so that tracks, honestly. Welcome back!

[Rater202]

It's been like a decade since I was active here, I'm happy to see the forum's still around and active!

Hi.

If you need help distinguishing me from other people who've started posting in Random Banter since you got here, I'm the one who periodically posts random comic book trivia and/or random super-power exploits that pop into my head.

For example Trivia: sometimes previous articles wil just outright lie to you. A few months ago there were articles stating that Black Widow would be taking over as the next main host of Venom. What actually happened is that she's paying a role in the current Venom storyline and bonded toa new symbiote who is either Venom's eighth offspring or Toxin's first.

(The Symbiote's name is Widow, because what's creativity, am I right?)

Weird ass idea: Part of my weird brain is fixated on, if I found myself in the Marvel universe, injecting myself with a standard blood draw's worth of blood each from Captain America, Dr. Malus, and a recently introduced minor character named Corwin Jones.

Don't ask why unless you want a wall of text.

[Peelee]

Truth be told I feel like that's a joke on his part, and he absolutely knows what the deal is. He's playing into his comedic role; namely that he says stuff Seriously, even if it's not supposed to be serious, and that BECOMES the comedy. Seriously unserious!

I'll see if i can't find the video when i get off work, but my impression was that he understood the hilarity of his deadpan portrayal of ridiculous situations, but was legitimately baffled at how he could just say something and it would he perceived as funny - he gave an example as he said that, he was like, "watch, here -" and said something fairly boring, but it was legit funny. Not absurdist, just s normal thing.

Other than that, yeah, he totally leaned into the career resurgence in comedy. IIRC his epitaph is "LET 'ER RIP". Which is just brilliant.

Also, even knowing he had a whole career as a straight man, it's still weird to see him play it serious in Columbo. About on the same level as Dick Van Dyke playing a murderer (different episode). It's just weird to see DVD not smile constantly.

[Anonymouswizard]

Hi.

If you need help distinguishing me from other people who've started posting in Random Banter since you got here, I'm the one who periodically posts random comic book trivia and/or random super-power exploits that pop into my head.

Meanwhile I'm the one probably feeling out about Doctor Who or Warhammer (argh Rogue Trader releases tomorrow but I don't have the free time to start an install until Friday, or access to a machine that can definitely run it until next week).

For example Trivia: sometimes previous articles wil just outright lie to you. A few months ago there were articles stating that Black Widow would be taking over as the next main host of Venom. What actually happened is that she's paying a role in the current Venom storyline and bonded toa new symbiote who is either Venom's eighth offspring or Toxin's first.

(The Symbiote's name is Widow, because what's creativity, am I right?)

If they had creativity they'd have moved onto new characters by now

Not that I can judge, I'm terrible at naming superheroes. Sentinel, Paladin, Fortuna, Terminal, my name's are a bit generic and uncool. I'm much better with villains though, I'm trying to draft a M&M module/campaign with a villain team called High Society.

Weird ass idea: Part of my weird brain is fixated on, if I found myself in the Marvel universe, injecting myself with a standard blood draw's worth of blood each from Captain America, Dr. Malus, and a recently introduced minor character named Corwin Jones.

Don't ask why unless you want a wall of text.

I'm assuming you'd end up becoming a peak physical specimen of, I dunno, a venom symbiote infecting the lovechild of Godzilla and a xenomorph queen or something like that.

[Rater202]

I'm assuming you'd end up becoming a peak physical specimen of, I dunno, a venom symbiote infecting the lovechild of Godzilla and a xenomorph queen or something like that.

Nothing that convoluted.

the super soldier serum can transplant beneficial traits across individuals, even cross-species if you inject it into someone along with a blood sample of another individual. For example, an agent of hydra codenamed Unsterblich was turned into a fledgling god by mixing an injection of Captain America's blood with blood samples from Thor and a preserved blood sample from Achilles.

Dr. Malus, as I've mentioned before, turned himself into a human-symbiote hybrid after he survived being eaten alive by Carnage and applied what he'd learned while "gestating" inside the symbiote.

Corwin Jones was the antagonist of Cult of Carnage: Misery, which despite the name has less to do with cults and Carnage and more to do with corporate warfare/espionage between two companies, Alechmax and the Life Foundation, who are independently trying to weaponize symbiotes.

Corwin was a guard at Alchemax who had a terminal illness and the Life Foundation agreed to hook him up with a high-level symbiote that could keep his illness in check if he stole Alchemax's symbiotes—Riot, Phage, Lasher, Agony, Scream, and a clone of Toxin—after Alchmax Founder, president,a dn CEO Liz Allen refused to do a collaboration.

Corwin stole them, but wasn't away of non-sentient samples of Anti-Venom and Carnage that the company had access to, which were in fact on Liz Allen's person and which she used to save her life after being mortally wounded in the robbry. Those two samples combined to for the titular Misery.

Carlton Drake rewards Corwin as promised with Madness: A composite symbiote created by combining the symbiotes he captured together via a specialized armor meant to keep them in check, after taking samples of research of course.

At the climax of the miniseries, Liz allows him to absorb Misery, who has her own personality, knowing that he wouldn't be able to control her which causes its anti-venom properties to burn the symbiotes causing them to abandon him.

This means that he holds the record, currently, for most symbiotes bonded to one person at either seven or eight, depending on whether or not Misery counts as one symbiote or two. Each symbiote with its own powers and specialties when it comes to applications of common powers.

(Eddie Brock has more but he's currently not existing in linear time.)

As I've mentioned before, symbiotes leave behind "codices" in their hosts and when the concept was introduced, a standard blood draw contained enough symbiote matter to spin out a usable codex sample.

Once the serum grafts Malus's symbiote half to me, if I was ever miraculously in such a position, I'd be able to absorb not only Corwin's codices, but the three from Captain America's blood as well which wouldn't add new abilities per se but would add more raw power.

[Mystic Muse]

I am really excited, because there are an unfortunate number of people in the Warhammer community who are gatekeep-y jerks, but I found a cool artist from Venezuela to draw both my fanon primarchs and he seems as excited to draw them as I am to have a good picture of them.

Should have the initial pic around the start of the year.