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| I was in love with the character (concept) so much it inspired me to make up my by own superhero -- Vested Id 12/09/2008, 11:15pm PST | ||||
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| He was called Urchin, because he was a street orphan, and he battled drug lords in post-apocalyptic San Francisco. His home base was a hidden but abandoned R&D facility in Treasure Island, where he trained and invented new weapons and equipment because he was a genius and also rich somehow, I think he had an inheritance but chose to live as a gutterpunk. What would happen is drug gangs would kidnap innocent people and for kicks take them to the now-abandoned Bay Bridge which was abandoned because it was always too foggy, and they would tie this person to their car with like 20 feet of rope, and the idea was they would drive from one end to the other until the person was just parts on the road (the James Byrd Jr. treatment, only I thought of it before those guys did). But at the last minute, as the gang took off in their gangstamobile, he would swoop in, cut the victim loose, and as the gang members were driving along they would wonder why they didn't hear any screaming, and they would look back and see him emerging from the fog, hanging from the rope but standing upright because he is wearing a pair of modified ice skates that work on asphalt, and there would be an action scene where he is skating along the back of the car going in and out of the fog and they're trying to shoot him and he's using this opportunity to train himself to see how many he can subdue without actually having to shoot and kill them. This was the first big scene, inspired mainly by the bridge scene in The Shadow and, subliminally, the Mighty Ducks.
Later on there was a big sequence where they're trying to use BART to smuggle DRUGS into the city and he goes to an overpass and pulls out this block of clay, then inserts a stick of dynamite into it and lights it and drops it down onto the top of one of the BART trains. It lands with a thud, splattering but sticking to the roof, then the dynamite explodes, destroying the car and decoupling the rest of the train behind it. Then he rides down there on his dirt bike to take care of the rest of the bad guys in a big action sequence with lots of road skating. This part was set to the song Army Ants by Stone Temple Pilots. There was a bunch of other stuff too (ultralight aircraft, grappling hook, tennis ball explosives), I think I destroyed the drawings but maybe not. |
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The Shadow (1994) by 12/09/2008, 7:13pm PST  Unintentional Hilarity every time the bad guy makes someone jump off a building? NT by 12/09/2008, 8:16pm PST But for REAL Khan-related hilarity by 12/10/2008, 2:38am PST I remember liking the movie for the same reason I liked Last Action Hero. by 12/09/2008, 9:25pm PST it's because people understand what darkness lies in the hearts of men NT by 12/09/2008, 9:43pm PST I was in love with the character (concept) so much it inspired me to make up my by 12/09/2008, 11:15pm PST I modified these ice skates to work on asphalt, as you can see they have wheels. by 12/10/2008, 2:10am PST wow you also invented rollerblades (guess what that makes you think of the AC so NT by 12/11/2008, 12:38pm PST They weren't rollerblades they were blades, he used a teflon poly by 12/11/2008, 3:31pm PST Re: The Shadow (1994) by 12/10/2008, 4:38pm PST Jesus. Yeah, his last name is Kahn. DUUR. :( NT by 12/10/2008, 4:39pm PST |
