All posts by The Humble Nintendo Master

You're welcome and my pleasure!

It warms my heart to see that this is already making at least several people feel appreciated and seen in all the right ways since that's exactly what I was going for. I'm also glad you feel you can come forward and share that you're on the spectrum too since it shouldn't be something you're scared or insecure over. In fact, I'm willing to bet a number of the top contributors in the community are on the spectrum. At the very least, it certainly wouldn't me surprise me anyway due to what I mentioned in my post about their attention to detail and passion for the things they like.

By the way Dylan, that's really cool that you've started your own wiki about Rankin-Bass shorts! I saw a number of those growing up and still recall many of them fondly. As for which ones I've seen, aside from the obvious duo you mentioned, I've also seen Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, Little Drummer Boy, The Year Without a Santa Claus and maybe Jack Frost. It's been a while though in the case of some of them, so I don't remember them all that well. However, it's for that very reason I think it's nice to have a wiki all about that; to remind people of the holiday-themed short they loved growing up, as well as to discover some of the ones they've perhaps never heard of before. I like the idea behind that, I respect the initiative, and I can especially appreciate the effort that must go into it due to never having created a single page myself since joining Fandom (I'm good enough at significantly expanding on pages at long as it has the bare essentials on it and I have the time to do it, but doing it completely from scratch... I don't know, it just intimidates me somehow, ha ha).

Like I stated over on the Heroes Wiki, greetings, and great to know! I hope you have the time to read through the entire post to see just how much I appreciate people like you!

Hello to you too. Oh, and by the way, I know this is a little late, but I just found this official video that was released to celebrate Star Wars Day, so I'm going to add it to the original post to beef it up a little.

Funnily enough, for a while, The World Is Not Enough was one of the ones that I saw such a long time ago that I didn't remember most of it. However, along with a bunch of others in preparation for No Time to Die, I rewatched it at some point in 2021, so thanks to that, I do recall most of it a lot better now. With that established, as for what I think about Renard, yes, I actually do think he's heinous enough to stand out in his own right since if I recall correctly, he and Elektra were going to use some sort of bomb to destroy all of Istanbul. Yes, others in the franchise have attempted worse, but I think they also had the ability to do worse. Granted, I could still understand the argument that, strictly speaking, he fails the in-universe standard to other characters, but I don't think he flunks it to the extent that he's too standard altogether. So personally, I think he's either Near Pure Evil or Inconsistenly Heinous, but that's just me. However, opinions are bound to vary whenever it comes to characters from franchises with higher heinous standards.

Yeah, I'd definitely count the James Bond franchise among my many interests, seeing as how there's roughly 25 movies and I've seen all but 4 of them, and I've been into it since I was pretty young. I haven't watched any of them particularly recently since I've been preoccupied with a number of my other interests, but I still consider it one of the franchises I'm most into, as well as one of the ones I've been invested in for the longest time. While I do seem to be in the minority since not a whole lot of other regulars users here seem to be as invested, there's this one other user named Vrack who's definitely really into it. In fact, he's one of the top contributors on the James Bond Wiki. Plus, I know Red Chevalier is into it to at least some extent. There are other users who are at least into some installments like Fower, Jericho, etc., but that's all I can really think of in terms of users who are into the franchise as a whole.

I would personally say Light's my favorite. Frieza and Johan are up there as well in their own ways, but I'm simply not quite as familiar with the latter (though I suspect it would be very close if I were), and Frieza's mostly just fun to watch for being so unapologetically despicable. Light, however, to me, is a very realistic example of someone young with both idealistic ambitions and good intentions, but for all his intelligence and potential, still has a very black and white concept of morality like many people his age, and has them twisted by the ability to play God. Because of that, his whole character just makes for great social commentary. I think Brad Swaile's performance in the English dub also helped a lot, with immortalized lines like a certain one relating to a potato chip (everyone knows the one).

On a side note, it's a huge shame that Squealer/Yakomaru from Shinsekai Yori/From the New World isn't on here, as well as doesn't have a page on this wiki altogether for that matter, because boy, he's right up there with Light as one of my all-time favorites.

While the example you listed is the most obvious one that comes to mind, there's definitely a few others of the delusional variety. Bradford Buzzard is a really good recent example, and I would say Sebastian Shaw and Commander Arun Filitt, who are both characters I proposed and ultimately got approved, also fit the bill (although in Shaw's case, it may have just been pretense).

Strictly speaking, probably either Mark Hamill or Steve Blum, but there's several others that seem to have at least a few, so to give a few (dis)honorable mentions, I would also say Gary Oldman, David Tennant, Clancy Brown, Jim Cummings and Alan Rickman are up there.

To answer that first question, it's because when the word is used in non-literal contexts like that, it's considered mild profanity, at least by a decent number of people, so I'm guessing they're just self-censoring to be polite.

Hey there. I just voted.

Hi. I'm just sending you a very quick message to let you know I'm at work right now, but when I get home later and have time, I'll see if I can help you out.

Yeah, I agree that something should be done about that. In fact, I myself have already occasionally been pushing for the wiki to have some sort of procedure in place for proposals that don't get as much attention, because it happens quite frequently in cases where the work and character in question are more obscure. In fact, it even happens in some cases where the work and character are pretty well-known, simply because many of the users who are active on the wiki aren't familiar with them. So yeah, I've run into that problem a decent number of times, and because the wiki has yet to find some way of ensuring proposals don't get neglected, what I always do is if voting is evidently really slow, I messages users I'm at least somewhat acquainted with and/or those I have some reason to believe will be interested in the proposal based on their interests in general. But yeah, you would think that even in the case of obscure works/characters, it wouldn't be so hard to at least get 3 or 4 valid votes considering how many users at least occasionally use this wiki. It can be really annoying.

How so? Like I stated, there's nothing that happens in the film that discredits his excuse.

I don't think his redeeming qualities dissolved into anything. He was clearly motivated by the loss of most of his pack, and nothing happens over the course of the film that discredits this. In fact, the only particularly bad thing he tries to do is get his revenge by eating the pack leader's baby. Other than that, everything he does is standard villainy, if not completely normal predatory behavior, like trying to bring down Manny with the remaining members of his pack. It's perfectly normal for a pack of saber-tooth tigers to try taking down a mammoth, especially if they don't have many other food options due to many of the animals migrating south and whatnot, and he only tried to kill Diego after he explicitly turned on him. So all in all, he's largely just a a typical predator who wants revenge for his pack, with the only thing standing out about him at all being that his particular method of revenge is quite harsh. I've honestly never understood why some people seem to be so convinced that he should be labelled as pure evil.

I haven't seen the series personally, but I've read a fair bit about it, and while most of the villainous characters don't qualify due to redeeming qualities, sympathetic motives, etc., there's one character that definitely sounds like he qualifies, and that would be Luciano Bradley. That said, I don't think he has a page on this wiki. I can't remember where, but somewhere I read that among the various characters from that series, there's only one whose completely good, that being Euphemia, and only one who's completely evil, that being Luciano of course, with many of the other characters falling anywhere in-between somewhere on the morality spectrum. In other words, most of the characters in the series are some shade of gray, with most of the protagonists having ruthless methods and not particularly heroic traits, while most of the villains, as mentioned, have well-intentioned motives and/or redeeming traits. However, Luciano Bradley is the exception; he's just a sociopathic soldier who joined the Britannian Knights of the Round to satisfy his bloodlust and get the opportunity to slaughter both combatants and civilians alike. This extended even to his own men, and he apparently also tried to rape Kallen.