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One superhero comics universe I’m sporadically enjoying at the moment is the Massive-verse (Radiant Black, Rogue Sun etc) which does...

I guess this is Morrus’ thread but I for one am perfectly happy for you to post here, you’re very welcome.

When I was 10 my dad gave me the choice between seeing Roger Rabbit and Mac and Me, I think you can guess which I chose. I regret this...

Historically, the ur-example of this trope may be the mythical Amazons. Archers are very prominent in those stories (including the...

You missed the worst one with archery, which they do absolutely constantly in like, 8/10 fantasy or medieval shows, which is archers...

How about how virtually every woman fighter in a movie seems to be an archer, because of course archery doesn't take any upper body...

That may be true, but the film made the Nautilus huge in some scenes and very small in others (it can cruise the very narrow, relatively...

In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the scale/size of the Nautilus changes multiple times when it is onscreen. Which drove me...

The old British sitcom 'Allo 'Allo got most of it's jokes from mocking this trope. I tend to prefer subtitles to dubbing when watching...

It might work for portfolio investments, but those amounts would require multiple sign-offs, and any asset manager would get in touch...

I even submit that you'd have to look long and hard to find a British civilian who'd make the mistake. It's the RAF.

Yeah, every farm kid I know was driving a 4x4 by age six and full-blown pick-up trucks by 12. That definitely doesn't pass the sniff test.

There's a book called Extinction Point, and the premise is most of the population of the Earth dies off after a msyterious red rain...

Pretty much any chase that involves motorcycles. I've done 8 racing schools, two advanced street riding schools, and shot motorcycle...

People who say this deserve to be smacked on 90% of their heads.