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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!
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 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.
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That plays out in the Discworld novels. The idea is, pray the man about to kill you is a bad guy, because he’ll fuck around, gloat, maybe make a mistake. If he’s a good guy, he’ll kill you instantly.
There’s an episode of doctor who with a similar interaction (to the spoiler).
BBEG: This is why good men always lose. They follow too many rules.
Doctor: That’s where you’re wrong. Good men don’t need rules.
From memory, so exact phrasing is probably wrong but the idea is there
Good men don’t need any rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.
I’ve always been a fan of space aliens interacting with ancient civilization on Earth, like in Stargate the movie
Yeah, it is interesting to see how the Predator franchise did it.
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.
Bad guys are actually the good guys.
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!
There are not nearly enough tragic endings in media.
I love good guys who look like they’re bad guys.
Have you checked out the whole “Noir” genre? Burnt out old schlubby heros who look like bad guys is a whole thing there. Humphrey Bogart in the Maltese Falcon, Terriers for a more modern take.
I haven’t, but I will now!
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.
- sunny loves grumpy
- savage mama bear
- really fucking personal, inexorable vengeance
Like John Wick for the last one?
Bad guys who aren’t misunderstood but aren’t bad. They occupy a niche mindspace in which they have a genuine and noble goal but their goal is mutually exclusive with the good guy’s goals (the Shadowlord from Nier Gestalt)
Then, on the flip side, bad guys who know that they’re bad and revel in it (Jack Horner from Puss in Boots)
Good guys who are good leaders. They have no superhuman abilities but their power is to bring out the best in others. They don’t beat the bad guys through sheer strength or being inspired by the power of friendship (which IMO is just the same thing), but they do so by strategically playing to people’s strengths (Senku from Dr. Stone)
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.
