Audiences tend to laud iconic scoundrels for one or two particularly nefarious caper . For lesson , everybody relishes Darth Vader ’s misbehavior in The Empire Strikes Back , but nobody remember when he tried to out - scheme Princess Leia out of receive a bank loanword . Here ’s a half - dozen memorable prison term your favorite bad egg crack up heavily .
6. Skeletor hijacks a circus for no apparent reason
He - Man nemesis Skeletor is a surprisingly competent supervillain , given that he is probably the magically resurrected , Sunday - decolourize remains of Gilbert Gottfried . Remember that clip he poisoned Hordak with a pie?That plan was a masterstroke , as there are almost certainly no operable bakehouse on the major planet Etheria . Anyway , the 1984 episode “ The Greatest Show on Eternia ” saw Skeletor at his sheer nadir . In this adventure , the ossified super - sorcerous scheme to commandeer his own carnival by mug a merry andrew . I ’m not certain if it ’s just the corner - trim back Eighties brio , but Skeletor look chemically impaired throughout this intact escapade . ( Also , Cthulhuphant is relieve oneself my stomach hurt . )
https://gizmodo.com/gravity-falls-takes-on-national-treasure-and-a-ghostbus-5935325
There ’s so much to love in this scene . The rictus - grin citizen of Eternia are literally stop dead in fear ! Skeletor ’s whiny head - o - gram ! That guy wire in the pinkish Mardi Gras outfit who bleats , “ What have you done with cracker ? ”
And of track , Skeletor loses the day by hubristically feigning ignorance about the fundamental prop of fireworks . Both spaceships and sorcerous exist on Eternia , but Roman candle are an strange quantity to him . Also note both A. ) how he comically falls off the tightrope ; and B. ) his telling pace when he skulks away . inadequate guy ’s obviously been drinking on the line .
5. Skynet builds a wolf Terminator
Once off the tick path of Hollywood tentpoles , skill fiction franchise often veer into the delicious and gonzo hinterlands of tie - in comic playscript . Take the miniseries Terminator : Revolution , which see Skynet resort torobotic dire wolf . ( The alien natural language is surprisingly not a atavism to the prose powerhouse that wasAliens versus Predator versus The Terminator . )
https://gizmodo.com/the-10-most-deranged-alien-crossover-stories-5849075
by the way , a canine Terminator is not a new conceit . Gaze upon the cover of the pre - Terminator 2 risible ledger , The Terminator . That there ’s a cover you tattoo on your back .
4. Japanese Jaws is insatiable!
The original Jaws film initially bank on suspenseful camerawork and John Williams ’ iconic theme , only to close up out with a dollop of semi - functioning metal shark marionette . Butthe awesome 1975 no - holds - barred gekiga adaptation of Jawshad no such compunction rampage upon the citizen of Amity right from the get - go . Behold !
JAWSED!
DOUBLE JAWSED!
WELCOME TO JAWS!
YOU GOT JAWSED!
[ Cue Quint ’s head exploding ]
FUUUCK YOU I’M JAW-AW-AW-AW-AWS! (sung to the tune of “Welcome To The Jungle”)
While we ’re on the subject , the Marvel Comics adaptation ofJaws 2also had its minute . You ca n’t bargain with a shark , soft touch !
3. Magneto is bested by a wooden gun
Sir Ian McKellen imbued the mutant master of magnetic force with tons oxygen ’ dignity , but this scene from the 1978 New Fantastic Four sketch — in which Magneto is thwarted by middle - schoolhouse - level arts and craftiness — singlehandedly nullifies all of Magneto ’s street cred .
I peculiarly enjoy how the cops whisk Magneto away in metal police force cruisers , unless Reed Richards build them out of some sort of ergonomically sound marzipan or something in a deleted scene .
2. Darth Vader denies Princess Leia a bank loan
Of all the misdeeds Darth Vader has inflicted upon the galax , none were as bone - chilling as the notorious occasionhe denied his own daughter a coin bank loanto fund the Rebel Squadron . This went down in a 1981 subject of the Star Wars funny book , in which Darth Vader vexes Leia on a inert banking planet by forestall her from securing the financing of an ten - Wing squadron .
Throughout the course of this story , the referee is treated to several glorious panels of the Sith Lord call about the caprice of intergalactic finance .
Also , Darth Vader tries to pass Count Dracula off as his repository . And I get it on the estimate of Darth Vader hiring an evil alien gentleman’s gentleman .
On the last Thomas Nelson Page , we learn that — through a tangled serial of plot twists — Darth Vader ’s primary objective was to steal his daughter ’s priceless crown jewels to undercut the Rebels further . His bon MOT test on the final gore is absolutely invaluable .
1. Megatron’s “kids” have phallus tongues
Michael Bay ’s Transformer film gave us an extraterrestrial automaton with prominent testicles , but the Japanese Kiss Players bloodline of toys and comics bore motorcar material body that had more in common withTetsuo : The Iron Manthan children ’s playthings . This officially sanction ( androundly deride ) transformer franchise make its name from the superpowers the Autobots receive from smooching to a fault cutesy human girls .
These Lolita overtone were uncollectible enough , but we have n’t gotten to the primary antagonist in Kiss Players . They were the Legion , the hybrid spawn of Megatron who all possessed horrific tentacle tongues . To reiterate , this was an officially sanctioned Transformers production that some human being at the Takara corporation really signed off on . Sheesh .
https://gizmodo.com/a-brief-history-of-lex-luthors-cake-stealing-antics-5784465
https://gizmodo.com/10-times-doctor-dooms-dignity-went-down-the-toilet-5899111
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