Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

Marvel Comics had started out as a gory, bloody franchise which could have fit against Mortal Kombat.  One may consider Marvel's most brutal moments but heck, why did Disney buy it?  It ended up making Marvel sissified.  And I would really try to think how often Marvel is actually brutal when you read it. Reading the X-Men Comics as a kid, I remembered why my mom burned them off.  They were a far out cry from the X-Men cartoon!  The X-Men Cartoon was just very sanitized compared to the Marvel Comics. Deaths, beheading, tragedies, etc... these are stuff you DO NOT put in TV-Y7-FV and Marvel Comics is hardly sanitized.  It is brutal and violent to certain extents... and I mean Marvel is a bloody comics.  In fact, the X-Men cartoon for me is more of an old shame now.  For Marvel to be owned by Disney is utterly for me, ruining Marvel's supposedly darker and edgier nature. For example, Marvel Comics has all the potential characters to go agains...

During the time Capcom was still a cool company before it became CRAPcom... there were the issues of name changing.  For example in Street Fighter, the names were changed like Mike Bison became Balrog, Balrog became Vega and Vega became Bison for the American audience.  They were afraid of lawsuits from Mike TYSON became of the Mike BISON name.  So why was Rockman renamed into Megaman? Now during the stages when Rockman was created, the names Rock and Roll were created in reference to the music.  The name Rockman may have sounded absurd because it felt like he had something to do with actual rocks.  The name Megaman may have sounded better for the American audience hence, the name Megaman was created as Rockman's American name.  The name Megaman sounds more unique and cooler than Megaman for the American audience, while the Japanese would know him more as Rockman. Interesting note: Also what can be noticed is how some names in Rockman are based on music...

Metalder for me had some possible influence on Megaman/Rockman himself although Metalder happens to be darker than the original series.  Here's where I'm seeing some similarities: Metalder like Rockman was the first robot created with emotions.  While he was originally a weapon for World War 2, he became a weapon to defeat the evil Emperor Neros.  Like Rockman X, he can decide on his own. Dr. Ryuichiro Koga who sadly dies at the first episode would be like like Dr. Light.  He creates Metalder as a "son" to defeat the evil Emperor Neros, who used to be an old friend of his. Metalder like Rush is a robot dog.  He is Metalder's ally in battle. Emperor Neros in Metalder (named after the historical Emperor Nero), he is a god complex character.  Like Dr. Wily, he seeks to control the world through his robotics.  Like Sigma in the Rockman X series, he doesn't care about anyone and manipulates everyone for his own convenience. Some robot masters ...

Saban was going to promote his would-be failure Mashed Rider.  In this one, Saban needed to promote the show and what better way than to actually cross over Power Rangers with his series.  Later, this would be repeated in Kamen Rider Decade and a ToQGer/Gaim crossover was made.  This one though as messy as it is, still has a plot over the monstrosity that is Super Hero Taisen!  So what was terribly wrong with it? Some of my complaints are this... there's hardly any interaction between both sides of the crossover.  The Power Rangers are sent to Edenoi (except Kimberly who is sick) and then Lord Zedd takes advantage of the situation.  Lord Zedd and Rita send their monster to go against Kimberly, but the monster also gets infected.  I know Lord Zedd and Rita as a team were harder to defeat but the bad writing also derailed MMPR.  And I would probably also say that the crossover was nothing more than a series of spliced footage.  Come on, if L...

In X-Men there was "The Twelve" it was said that twelve mutants will gather to usher a golden age but in later parts of X-Men, it was revealed by Apocalypse he wrote the legends for himself.  What I was thinking was that he gathered them according to his own judgment to who he will believe will lead towards the new era of his power that is. The Twelve can be symbolized as such: The Living Monolith is the core.   Magneto and Polaris are the father/daughter magnetic poles.   Bishop and Mikhail represented control over time and space. Professor X represented the power of the mind. Sunfire, Iceman and Storm represents the control over nature. Cyclops, Jean Grey and Cable represented the unity of the family.  However Cable's mother is the Jean Grey clone, Madelyne Pryor and not Jean Grey. Note: Though for my selection, I might actually put Bishop at the center instead of the Living Monolith, I will get Abyss and Scarlet Witch for control over space and time ...

Cable is definitely one over-the-top and cheap character, the staff behind Marvel vs. Capcom 2 had focused more on Cable as a weapons expert than a psychic. In the comics, Cable used a huge amount of his telepathic and telekinetic abilities to repress the T-O Virus.  However, he has the Psimitar here which while he used it a lot later in the comics, here it's very under-utilized. Most of Cable's moves are based on his tactics as a soldier. For example, Cable's projectile move is the use of his Viper Gun and his incredibly infamously overrated super, the Hyper Viper Beam is a huge big gun.  His other moves involve his Electric Grenade which is HARD TO USE and another is his dashing attack. Cable only had two moves that used his telekinetic abilities. One is the use of the Psimitar which was later, a weapon he frequently used in the X-Men Comics. Another was where he grabbed the enemy and inflicted them with telekinetic pain. The Psimitar was very underused. In Marvel v...

The day he realized he was acted by a douchebag! While I was watching Power Rangers Megaforce, I simply grew attached to Cole (for stupid reasons) which I simply wanted to have his kind of body and I thought he was one of a kind. I thought he was a pretty cool character (but sadly bad reception for many) and I hold the unpopular opinion that he's a great character.  I soon Googled for "Rick Medina" the actor, which I thought was an awesome guy but I was pretty shocked.  I didn't believe it at first but I had to believe it. I just thought of Rick Medina well, has some well-deserved hate.   Top ten worst moves by Mr. Smith lists the Wild Force acting (and now I'm liking Gaoranger more, happens to be a lot). Mr. Smith also calls Rick Medina a terrible actor .  I just started to think of the actor himself, not the character.  When I did Google for Rick Medina pictures a few years ago, I simply found the guy the exact opposite of what I thought he was.  S...