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1: Kefka. Crazy as hell. Dritiest player in the game. Essentailly a scrub who destroyed the world. Good show. 2: Luca Blight: Royalty, nigh-unstoppable in combat, though he was just a guy. Here's he mentl process: KILLKILLKILLPIGFIREKILLKILLKILLDIE. Dilandau in game form. 3: Pyramid Head: Fucking imposing/ His first a[[earance is terrifying. This guy exemplifies 'Monster' 4: Jowy Blight: He's your friend. You grow up with him. UNtil he turns into the biggest douchebag ever. I would say he's just like Magneto, but that would deny some of the great moments in the game. Suikoiden II Easily has two of the top ten villains. I'd say 'Buy it now!' but it's like $80 now. 5: Sephiroth: Yeah, you know he was going to be here/ Ridiculously awesome character design, a decent story, the best music EVER.

Mongo, on the first Nitro, I think the first words spoken on a Nitro: LOOK AT THIS VENUE THIS PLACE IS APROPO, AND THAT DON'T MEAN YOU'RE DIGGIN' AROUND WITH FARM IMPLEMENTS BABAY!

The best OMGPLAGIARISM! mashup of all time is Orbital's Halcyon (live) where they break the song to mix "You Give Love a Bad Name" with "Heaven is a Place on earth", then mix in Halcyon. It's on one of the B-discs to "In Sides" (which is one of the best techno albums anyway) which also features the awesome "Satan". Those are some pretty damning clips. But shit, Jet's whole act is ripping off songs and trying to sound exactly like other artists.

In that vein? Excel Saga. And the Ultimate Teacher. Maybe Ranma too. In the f'ed up serious-not-humorous collumn, Serial Experiment: Lain and Texhnolyze. Azumanga Daioh's the funniest anime I've ever seen by a long shot, tho. And I do believe I forgot Read or Die, which has the distinction of being completely awesome, and having the best name of any anime ever. It's three half-hour OVAs, which can basically be taken as a 90-minute movie. Great animation, some awesome action scenes, and one of the most loveably protaganists ever. Followed by an above-average 26-epi series.

The Berzerk manga when all's said and done will probably cover literally at least 6x the material the anime did. Trigun, similarly is still running in Manga form. Last Exile is pretty swell. Amazing animation for a TV show. ONly seen the first volume. Wolf's Rain I could not get into. I dunno about X the series, but X the movie is just gawdawful. I know the previews look cool, but trust me. The only cool thing about it is the unintentionally hilarious anticlimactic final duel. It pretty much sums up the movie. 25 & 26 are the ending Hideaki Anno wanted though. (I'm sure he didn't want the shite animation) End of Evangelion, in a way, is Anno mocking the fans. I personally prefer End, though ep 26 does have its merits, if 25 had somewhat set it up. And End has some real moments of fucking animated majesty.

EDIT: SRY WRONG THREAD

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Eminem has charisma, yes. Charm? No. He's one of the least charming people in the fucking entire world.

Not going to buy it. Just like I didn't buy Avengers DA, New Avengers, or House of M, even though I started a whole thread saying I liked Bendis. The only thing I'll buy from Marcel is Dead Girl (one more issue) Astonishing, and Ultimate Spidey. Well, I guess Powers sorta counts. And, yes, I was with Ted Kord. FUCKERS! As much as I liked and bought Infinite Crisis, and its predecessors, I'm still pissed. I guess that was the point. I may buy Shadowpact or Secret Six. They sort of endeared me to them.

Didn't mean to make this a separate post, these are my honorable mentions, aka rounding out the top 15. Waiting Room - Fugazi Where is my Mind? - Pixies God only knows - Beach Boys Fish- Throwing Muses Njork- Bachelorette

I'll try. Not easy. Norder VU- Sweet Jane Breeders- Cannonball Sonic Youth- Diamond Sea Sonic Youth- The Trilogy (If you want to get specific, 'Hyperstation') Deltron 3030- 3030 Sleater-Kinney - Rollercoaster Blonde redhead- In Particular EPMD- Strictly Business. VU- Sister Ray I dunno, OK Orbital- The Girl with the Sun in her Eyes. Or head. THe first track off of 'In Sides.' Best techno album ever. I think 'Sweet Jane' and 'Cannonball' are songs I could never get sick of, could lie on my deathbed and groove and poop to. "Diamond Sea is up there too. EDIT: And yes, I really like 'Sister Ray' that much.

Same here. You guys know Charlie Sheen? Sweet!

Yeah, that's why I specifically said they were 'making out' didn't want to imply they were screwing. But the fact that colossus seemed to be the only X-man to have some trepidation about this is still creepy. I believe they're boinking now in Astonishing, (with some prodding from Emma Frost?) but 22-30 or whatever is nothing special. 20-something and a 14 year-old is creeeepy, no matter how you slice it. If my 16-year old brother was involved with some 24 year-old chick, I'd have a big problem, much less a 14-year old sister.

It was specifically stated in Uncanny, after they had started dating, that Colossus was in his early 20's, and Kitty was 14. I read it like a month ago (good 'ol essential collections) Claremont was the writer for all of this, so it wasn't miscommunication. It's icky.

This sort of gets an honorable mention because she eventually evolved into a pretty damn good character, IMO, but Kitty Pryde was quite insufferable for a good damn while. A) She was ALWAYS pitching a shit-fit and storming out. "Storm, you changed your hair? Oh how could you BOO-HOO-HOO" *storms out* B) She made the X-Men look like a bunch of completely irresponsible assholes for letting a 14-year-old girl go on all these missions. C) She made the X-Men in general and Colossus in particular, look realllly creepy. He was a giant 23-year-old man making out with a 14-year-old girl. Maybe they were even dating when she was 13. Ewwwww. And most of the X-Men actually encourage this. Ewwwww. And boy, she sure did like dropping the N-bomb to make a point, didn't she? Completely out of context from New Mutants #45: Kitty Pryde: "Nigger, Spic, Wop, Slope, Faggot, Mutie."

Are you kidding? I'd say Arcade. He was around ALL the fucking time and his storylines ALWAYS sucked. I don't know if he was originally an X-Men character, and he wasn't a mutant, but Claremont loved him. What about the Toad? Cable? Dazzler? Jubilee? Gambit's far from my favorite, but they're all way worse.

If Ichiro and Johjima are any indication, I want the Mariners to be entirely Japanese. I'm sick of Carl Everett and his "crazy black man who doesn't believe in dinasaurs" schtick. Actually I'm just sick we're paying a guy $8,000,000 who hits .250, can't steal, and, oh yeah, is a DH.

God, I hope there's a literal levity this season. Last season got so depressing at times, it was getting dangerously close to 6' Under's "I love this show, but I just can't take it anymore."

This I think we can all agree on. Some honorable mentions: Wiegraf from FFT He is just incredibly brutal, in both forms, and a pretty decent character. I don't think I've found a way to beat him besides just levelling like mad, or (which you can't do if you saved right before him. Oops) Or running around desperately using hi-potions and spamming 'yell' literally about 20-30 times until you can move three times to his every one, then spamming the attack raising Guts. (If you saved right before him, you probably can't do this either, since you probably haven't spent enough time as the lame-ass 'chemist' class to learn Hi-potion. That bitch-ass Samus clone in Metroid Fusion. Oh how I hated her/it. SHODAN's pretty badass as well.

Tell me that didn't really happen. That's what happened. It really didn't happen. Um, Ben Urich exposes his identity through his investigation. He tells the cops, they come a-knocking and Osborne, who is REALLY losing his shit, exposes himself by coming out of his fucking office in full Green Goblin form. Jessical Jones didn't do a FUCKING THING! She punched Goblin twice afte he came out of his office, got the shit kicked out of her, and then Osborne escaped pretty much unhurt! Oh, she sure took him down single-handedly. And sure, Cage helped bring down Osborne physically but, again, Norman exposed himself because he was losing it. And someone helped him take The Goblin down physically. Who was that? Oh yeah, SPIDER-MAN. There's no question Bendis has a total hard-on for Cage, but what you're saying is just incorrect. Ben Urich exposed Osborne, (and had figured out that Peter was Spidey) once that was done, and Osborne l;ost his shit and totally exposed himself even worse, Cage and Spidey took him down. And to reiterate, while JJ is certainly a major player in The Pulse, she really did nothing but make googly-eyes at Cage this arc. Sounds like a little different than "Jessica Jones and Luke Cage single-handedly bring Norman Osborn to justice " to me, dude.

Well, I don't know about any pissing matches between writers. See my above post.

I imagine if you smoke up before you see Pyramid Head, you see a little bit of God. So try to hold onto that.

yeah, know It's Yokka Kano. Have a couple of her albums. (The Bebop remix album is fucking swell) I'll watch anything she does. Would bebop be the same withour "Green Bird"? Would Escaflowne be the same without ANY of it's music? Macross Pluss would be really awesome if the concert scene had shit music. She seriously makes shows.

There’s still plenty of meat on that bone. Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you’ve got a stew going

That's just what I'm saying his plots, taken out of the 616 universe are excellent. POWERS is still being written, it's phenomenal. USM is still being written, and I still really like it. I think the issue is the guy got so popular so quickly that he was given crte blanche. That doesn't discount his writing. And while THe Pulse is so-so, I think Alias was awesome. So there. (Ok the last couple issues' 'clever' Purple man "Oh I'm so meta!" sucked.) Beyond that, I really liked alias.