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Romance stories where the story doesn’t end the moment they kiss/confess/become a couple. There’s more of those lately so I’m happy.
Non-flamboyant gay relationships, just being treated as normal without any special attention in movies.
It always becomes a “quirky” “random” “so different ✨” personality trait for those characters that they are insufferable.
Directors have no clue how real people live.
Yep it makes me wonder how many queer people consulted. If they’d seen me and my ex together they’d have seen how incredibly boring we are
I want to see more oligarchs on the receiving end of assassination plots
in movies. I really liked Day of the Jackal. More of that, please.
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I once was recommended a Japanese anime, “Gate”. It’s about a fantasy world trying to invade our modern realm. Earth strikes back with modern weapons, the fantasy world has no chance with their dragons, Orks and magic.
This I would love to see more of, asymmetrical warfare, it’s just a power fantasy, but a fun one!
Reminds me of that cheat in Age of Empire that gets you missile cars and marines with laser rifles. I used to have so much fun just obliterating ancient armies with tanks and shit lol.
That sounds awesome. Was the anime good? Looks interesting.
It’s one of my favorite. People call it a JSDF recruitment video, but it’s just a good old fashioned curb stomping.
Haha maybe that would be more cringe if I was native Japanese. But as a non-Japanee person it might just be cool to see a curb stomping.
I’m watching it now. Of course the main character is a weeb lol. I kinda was hoping it would be a bit more serious. Also why is he all of a sudden like a professional soldier? Kinda makes no sense.i thought maybe he was a former soldier? But nah, just a weeby dude who all of a sudden gained tactical awareness and combat skills? Wtf lol. Either way it’s pretty cool so I’ll keep watching. I’m only on ep 1. The idea is pretty interesting.
Won’t spoil it, but keep watching, your initial assessment is a bit off there.
Okay on ep2. Loving this. They just fucking curbstomp the armies. And the US is obviously a bunch of fucking pricks. Even if this is Japanese army propaganda, it’s still entertaining as shit.
Some pretty bad fanservice though. Quite bad actually.
Good! I’m glad it is. I will keep watching thank you .
You might like The Laundry Files books by Charles Stross. Exactly that plays out in one book where elves invade Earth.
The premise is that magic is real, and can be summoned/controlled by the appropriate application of mathematics. If you discover this truth, you’re irrevocably attached to The Laundry, basically MI6 for supernatural affairs, and you can never leave.
The protagonist is an IT nerd in England. He almost flattened Wolverhampton with a new algorithm he discoved but they caught him in time. His wife is a protagonist in a few books, and she’s a delight. One of my favorites is where a bunch of high-end accountants accidentally make themselves vampires.
Interesting. Any sufficiently powerful magic erases all conventional weapons, so the magic of the fantasy world can’t be all that powerful in the first place.
In Gate there is very little to no magic. It’s mainly a Roman-era army, with some wyverns and other creatures thrown in. The military even comments how hard the wyvern scales are and that it shrugged off .50-cal bullets. But it couldn’t survive a shit load of C4.
I’m liking the anime but absolutely hating the fanservice. It reminds me Jobless Reincarnation. Super cool and interesting overall story but almost unwatchable due to the fanservice.
Huh. I actually don’t remember that much fanservice. I guess I blocked that part out.
I’ve recently been going through Persona 4 Golden, and I love Kanji. He’s a rough guy who people assume is a bully (for example, he beat up a biker gang), but he has a heart of gold - for example he crochets dolls for a kid to play with. He’s very interested (and talented) in arts & crafts, but at the beginning he’s ashamed of others looking down on him for that.
One of my favorite tropes, and quickly one of my favorite characters.
- sunny loves grumpy
- savage mama bear
- really fucking personal, inexorable vengeance
I’ve always been a fan of space aliens interacting with ancient civilization on Earth, like in Stargate the movie
Was playing through Bloodborne again recently and it got me thinking about this, too. I love the blending of high technology with medieval level knowledge. Having aliens conquer a planet of humanoids that are still in the bronze age would lead to some interesting juxtaposition and it’s fun to try and conceive how a 12th century peasant might describe a laser weapon.
I’m not sure what it’s called, buy I love the trope of where a large party gets split off into two smaller parties who eventually reunite. This split could be forced through physical events or it could just be a relationship split between friends.
Lord the Rings is a great example of what I mean. Frodo is forced to leave after seeing what the Ring does and Sam goes with him, while Mary and Pippin get kidnapped and have their own adventure, and finally Aragorn and his merry trio go help the war effort in Rohan. They all end up reunited in the end though.
Sounds like my family’s last trip to Six Flags.
Bodyguard romance trope.
Sentient, autonomous, giant fighter mechas.
So far the most popular franchise with this is Transformers, but most of their media is mediocre at best. There are some exceptions like a few of the comics and some of the series which are really good, but overall as a franchise they are lacking unfortunately. I really love the trope though.
The other franchise with this would be Bionicle but I can’t say I know much about it.
There are plenty of mechas out there, but they don’t tick all the boxes for this trope. Most are either non sentient or require a human pilot to be active. And those which are sentient and autonomous are rarely fighters.
So if you know of any - please let me know. Thanks.
EVAs (from evangelion) are sentient. And can be autonomous but -everyone would rather they didn’t
Evangelion has been on my list for too long, I just don’t have time for anything in my life. So does each one have their own distinct personality, motivations etc? Are they actually characters or are they more like props?
More like monsters, really. With one exception because one of them has a (very creepy) bond with the main protagonist.
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The Evas are half-biological half-mechanical clones of the Angels the characters are fighting, so they are malicious by default if they break control
I want another good space based sci fi TV show, preferably with lots of alien species.
Yeah, there is Star Trek and Star Wars, but I want more.
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Same. I’d love a Battlestar Galactica meets SG-1 type show. Something gritty, fun characters, they go everywhere and there’s both space and terrestrial mayhem.
What I’d actually love is a series that gives a gritty take (Andor-like) on an elite Imperial squad that does missions and treats the Rebellion like the bad guys and the Empire like the good guys but maybe at series finale we do the switcheroo so we don’t completely humanize an empire that wants to kill everyone.
Same. Even if there’s not really a lot of aliens. Something like the Expanse pleaaaase.
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I was unaware! I’ll check it out. Thanks!
In movies? I wanna see people be more casual sexual with friends, without it being a big deal. Cause that’s how my friendships are like. A little fun times is not something to write home about, most of the time
It’s hard to write good sex into something and not have it detract from the plot. Most movies are plot driven and the casual sexual angle doesn’t normally contribute to advancing the plot (not saying it isn’t possible). It could be used in the worlds-building phase but then would also be a one and done thing.
I want more movies and shows where the bodyguard grows a conscience and murders the corrupt POS they’re guarding.
Related: I’ve imagined a story where the obedient grunts in the military realize they just the nameless henchmen in an evil organization.
Last year I watched anime Ragna Crimson, and I really liked “He is not an enemy that you use strategy to fight with. He is an enemy you use strategy to not fight with.” along with the general strategic feeling of Crimson’s actions. I’m open for recommendations, but I don’t know when will I find time to watch them.
Warrior princesses (or otherwise ‘fighting refined ladies’) – Who aren’t tomboys, and are in fact fully feminine coded, but can still kick ass with the best of 'em. (Princess Leia, some iterations of Zelda, Rarity from MLP in a way though she’s not a princess, etc.)
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… I’m a he/they queer man, so I shan’t say anything. But I might have a look at the place anyway.
Ahhh sorry mate I read it as “we” not who. Your comment was pretty feminist too so thanks 😊
Is cool :)
