I remember in blackest night Alex Dewitt appeared in a refrigerator (complete with black lantern refrigerator magnet). I would have loved a tie in where she tried to get revenge on depowered major force.
I'd like to imagine the dog in the nuclear family actually isn't swearing...because anytime he tries to, his programming actually bleeps him. So even if he wants to say damn, he gets censored....because the nuclear family are the type of people who will tell you to watch your mouth if you say damn or hell. Side note, I would love a super hero team version of the nuclear family. mostly as a joke and not taken too seriously, but also able to actually give good wholesome family tips
The Green Lantern vs Major Force would have been good, EXCEPT THEY USED THE WRONG GREEN LANTERN. The one who had his love murdered by Major was Kyle Raynor not Hal Jordan who is the one used here.
0:25 *Linkara:* The government controls the city of Blüdhaven, because they're idiots. The Atomic Knights are running around Blüdhaven with no clear end goal, because they're idiots. The Secret Society of Supervillains send two teams of nuclear-themed characters into Blüdhaven, because they're idiots. Firebrand...is an idiot. *Moral of the Story:* Everyone is an *IDIOT!*
@@tencents6 Clearly meaning they're the protypes of the Toddler Titans. AKA the titans from Teen Titans Go (Sorry if I'm beating a dead horse. But the fact that so many things have been cancelled, while that show isn't one of them pisses me off to no end)
I like the Monarch idea since "future self goes evil" is a classic plus the armor looks cool as hell. It wouldn't even be hard to retcon the original story. Just say Monarch brainwashed a hero he's held prisoner to think he's him so to throw the time travelers off his trail.
The clip of Jon Stewart going "OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!" is one of my favorite Daily Show moments. Linkara also did what Stewart did in his cameo of Spoony's review of Game Over.
15:40 I think this rant to DC about Monarch could just as easily be applied to Marvel and Civil War. Ignoring the fact that I've heard good things about the Captain America Civil War movie: Civil War was a great idea, but they blew it. Nobody cares about Civil War, and nobody cares about FIXING Civil War (glares at Civil War II). Let it die.
Gyarretto7 It also applies to 20th Century Fox and their announcements at Comic-Con, this year for making a solo Dr. Doom movie and a "PG"-Rated Fantastic Four spin-off movie focusing on Sue and Reed Richards' kids. Seriously, Fox..... *STOP WITH THESE GOD-AWFUL FANTASTIC FOUR MOVIES!!!! NOBODY CARES ABOUT THESE MOVIES, ANYMORE!!!* You had your chances to get these characters right in their own movies, but you blew it. *NOBODY CARES THESE FANTASTIC FOUR MOVIES!!!* Give the rights to the franchise back to Marvel.
And it was nice of DC to alienate their audience when a CEO of theirs stated that they manufacture their comics only to 40+ year olds while giving the middle finger to their investors when they cancel certain shows and renew seasons for two certain characters and ignoring and or not giving characters their own show like Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Captain Atom, Blue Beetle and the mega ultra badass that is Aquaman.
+crypto457 Especially when Flash isn't even very good. Maybe I need to watch more (only got like 8 episodes in), but it feels more like "If Spiderman Could Run Fast: The Show" with a twist so blatantly obvious it may as well not be considered a twist anymore.
It doesn't even make sense. The point in a reboot I thought is to get new readers to avoid comic baggage and continuity confusion. There aren't many 30+ year olds going to comic shops and buying new comics they don't already like and grew up with. Or at least not so many that you need to target them specifically. I'd say it was out of touch but no. Marville is out of touch, this is just bizarre.
Bludhaven was built just south of Gotham, and was a seaport with major fishing originally. That is the Atlantic Coast. HOW do you go south from there and end up at the Mississippi River?
+Lynn Green well...then they blew up the wrong city, because when they show the crater, it's no where near the coast and certainly didn't have anything resembling a seaport.
Even Amanda Waller would know better than to try closing off an entire city that was home to one of the members of the Justice League for the dumbass experiments that they're doing. She's probably spending the entire comic shaking her head at the idiots and calling them amateurs.
10:02 - Psh... overreacting, much? What could possibly be so terribl-...? Wait a minute... What's that in the upper-left corner?... COUNTDOWN??? OH MY GOD!!! OH MY GOD!!! OH MY GOD!!! @_@
7:20 Yeah, That's is the thing with this Firebrand loser- he looks like a create-a-character in DC Universe Online, like to a T. And about as memorable as one of them at that!
Armageddon 2001 was a possible future. In that future, Hawk became Monarch. In a different possible future, it was Captain Atom instead. Given that it's a plot that includes multiple time travelers and time paradoxes already, a good writer could probably come up with a story that would explain how he was Captain Atom in the first issue but was Hawk in the second. And still, nobody would give a damn.
Ok so I have a question. The Armageddon 2001 reveal was leaked. But from the reading up I did on the plot synopsis, there were clues that hinted to that reveal of Captain Atom, so a lot of people probably figured it out. Why didn't DC just stick with the plan? Making Hawk Monarch just made things worse.
Better question, and this is the weirdest thing ever, why do they keep putting him in the armour? This isn't a film actor who people want to see in the same role dozens of times, it's a shitty 90's miniseries with no impact on anything aside from these pointless inserts.
@@lorddrayvon1426 My guess is because one of the DC executives really liked the idea of Captain Atom turning into a villain and as a result of it never happening, has become obsessed with trying to make it happen permanently.
That swearing dog is the only good thing about this comic. I don't know what it is but there's something really funny about a cute cudly dog with a pottymouth. I want a character like that in a better comic or in a movie or something
the idea of his suit breaking and he needing a new suit to contain is actually a clever idea, similarly, using the atomic knights to "make" his armor. but this series is just trash. but if they wanted to make monarch story, all they need to do is basically make him a reverse "deadpool kills the marvel universe". instead of making him evil, it would be much better to make the other heroes try to kill him due to him becoming a threat.
I'd argue it is entirely appropriate for a human green lantern to smash or crush Major Force inside a fridge. He did it to a harmless civilian, so now he gets a taste of his own medicine.
Honestly I wish you had burned it. The damn ending with the government blatantly fearmongering about metahumans when it was THE GOVERNMENT that caused everything in the first place was INSULTING. It doesn't worry the readers like the registration in Civil War did because none of the characters we're supposed to worry about ACTUALLY DID ANYTHING. God. I'm so damn mad about that ending.
This really does feel like DC's answer to Civil War doesn't it? Only a full year too late and that was for the most part a solid story about ethics. This is so shit it didn't even deserve to exist.
The only way the 'exotic animals' line makes sense for me is they may have been trying to tall some sort of metahuman that. Either the oversized pooches the Atomic Knights used to ride, or the Teen Titans. Or it could be a very stupid line sandwiched between potty mouth humor. YOU MAKE THE CALL!
I just figured the group would want to know about such another group ahead of them if they're not wanting to run into such a group and have to deal with them, but would rather evade the encounter.
a secret lab in a populated city trying to create supersoldiers, a wall around a city after an incident and a nucular explosion that results in total oblberation ? ...sounds kinda familliar but i can't put a finger on that resident evil lingering there .... :D
I am guessing Lady Liberty is not crossed off in the opening list because her nephew went to the devil and agreed to sacrifice his marriage to bring her back to life.
19:42 Oh dear god. This is something I have zero patience for. I *despise* it when people who hate the government and stand against them claim to be "anarchists." For the record, anarchism is the belief that the natural order is disorder: that there should be no government, no moral hierarchy, no authority, no leader, no anything. Just chaos and absolute freedom. However, too many people who say they're "anarchists" and "anti-authoritarians" DO believe in an authority: It's just the authority that THEY think is right. And yeah, that's Firebrand in a nutshell: a self-proclaimed anarchist and anti-authoritarian who has no awareness of the fact that he does nothing but act VERY authoritarian, just against the government instead of in favor of it.
"I wasted my time on something reading something that isn't very good on its own and otherwise has no impact on anything else ever." - Linkara. Oddly enough not in reference to any of the recent Marvel events.
What I've taken from Uncle Sam's vision to Firebrand is that Michael Knight of Knight Rider becomes a dictator. Obviously the only solution is to kill David Hasselhoff. The reason all this happens? Because KITT's windshield wipers are evil! It didn't come up much in the show, though.
Honestly the Firebrand vision probably got screwed up by Uncle Sam but FireBrand is so delusional that he takes ordinary people walking by floating guys as a horrific regime. “They aren’t fighting them! The world is doom!”
EvilGuacamoleGaming But that makes even lesser sense for Hal Jordan to even be in this mini-series. I mean, seriously, having Hal Jordan drop a refrigerator construct on Major Force for seemingly no reason at all?! That's just fucking stupid.
The point was more than the Green Lantern who was hurt by a certain event involving fridge was not Hal Jordan. Kyle Rayner doing it could be excused as much delayed revenge, but why would Hal act over that or even know? Did Kyle tell him some time they had coffee together?
EvilGuacamoleGaming that makes it even stupider, also why even make it Hal Jordon doing it when it was Kyle Rayner who found his girlfriend chopped up and shoved into a refrigerator. Did Hal hear about it on the news, did Kyle feel the need to tell Hal about the time he found his girlfriend shoved into a refrigerator for some reason? Also Hal’s sole reason for being here is just some scene done in very poor taste.
12:43 It doesn't even make sense this is the Hal Jordan Green Lantern so why would he do that sure Kyle may have told him about what happened but wouldn't It work better for some kind of catharsis if it was Kyle Rayner sent to Bludhaven instead unless I'm wrong and these two look way too similar without Kyles distinct custom
No, it's definitely Hal that they used. My guess is that either the writer or artist wasn't familiar with that specific story, only that Major Force killed a Green Lantern's girlfriend, and just assumed it was Hal.
He was only talking about Black Baron, S.H.A.D.E., the nuclear family, Firebrand and that's about it. The Atomic Knights and Monolith are okay in my opinion.
2:40 - Hey, look on the bright side Linkara, Lady Liberty not being counted as dead means Rose Wilson stabbing her didn't murder her (DC probably decided to treat it as a mere flesh wound, like how Disney keeps treating getting stabbed by Lightsabers in Star Wars a survivable injury! Or someone realized it would be bad to have Rose suddenly kill someone destroying her character arc of not being like her dad)! Of course, The Culling would come along and say heck with that so they can essentially have Rose be female Deathstroke the Teminator, but at least Battle for Bludhaven's writers had better sense or simply forgot Rose stabbed Lady Liberty, though I'd call that a happy accident!
what does it say about a comic book that I know I've read but don't remember anything about it... even watching the video I don't remember anything about it
With regards to the Woman in refrigerators thing, does the same thing apply to lesbians? Like if we had a lesbian superhero who was in love with another woman and the other woman was killed off just to propel the 1st woman to take action, would that still be woman in refrigerators?
+Tareltonlives The best part is, Linkara references that exact scene in one of Spoony's videos. I forget the exact one, but it had a lot of Channel Awesome 'panicking' for a bit.
Linkara is fed up with people trying to have Captain Atom do a heel turn. I am fed up with the myth that Captain Atom is on the same level as Superman.
Even with that potty mouth. Said dog is still not as bad as Brian Griffin from Family Guy (Also I THINK the Uncle Sam voice Firebrand's hearing is the one who died during Infinite Crisis)
A misguided attempt to rip off Civil War? Either that or it's another one of those "Fuck you Bush!" comics. As if Amazons Attack wasn't bad enough. (Fancy meeting you here ert)
@erttheking: Just to set up "Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters", complain about the current events of 2006-2009 and to horribly rip-off Marvel's "Civil War".
So wait, was the Green Lantern in this Hal Jordan? Maybe it was just because it made sense with Major Force and the fridge thing, but I always thought the Lantern in this book was Kyle Raynor. Don't know how I screwed that up.
In the end, all I gotta say to DC is: No, thanks. If I wanted a Firebrand, I'd go play Demon's Crest. 18:43 Okay, Not Bush, if you deem these metahumans as a threat, then go reunite with your Bolivar Trask analogue, unleash some Sentinels and be done with it.
***** Basically, someone shows up in the plot to his review of Batman: A Word to the Wise after his Magic Gun. Linkara made him leave, but then all his magic stuff stopped working for seemingly no reason. Since then, he's been trying to figure out what the heck happened until these 3 reviews, where he decides to travel the world to find someone who can tell him what's going on while he leaves a hologram behind to keep the show going. So technically, he doesn't leave and it's just a plot about him getting answers to what the heck happened. But in-storyline, he's gone until I THINK the One More Day review.
Hey, I'm just getting into comics, any recommendations? I loved the original Teen Titans cartoon and X men evolution ( or as I like to call it, X men babies ) growing up, and I also really enjoy the Marvel cinematic universe and both the Nolan and Burton batman movies.
The Stillborn Child he didn’t say the exact same thing, he made a similar point about Resident Evil Villains trying to take over the world using zombies and why that is a bad idea
I believe it is perhaps the resident evil chronicles video, or resident evil 6, Yahtzee says he would introduce the resident evil universe to the concept of a really big bomb, that he would make a packet
9:02-9:05 No it really isn't. It's ruled by 3 branches of government that ideally keep each other in check. Legislative Branch like Congress makes the laws, the Judical branch like the Supreme Court evaluates the laws, and the executive branch like the President of the United States enforce the laws.
@@AT4W I know, I've seen the skit before. The issue is that I can't find the whole thing anymore. Like it's been deleted from the internet and this is the last evidence of it left.
I have just become a bit uncomfortably aware of how many design elements Monarch shares with Dinobot from Beast Wars. How long you figure I'm gonna hyperfixate on this fact until I write an elaborate One Shot where Dinobot kicks Monarch's ass for stealing his look? 2 days? 3 tops?
"How many stories that sucked during the first 2/3rds do a 180 in the end" I mean, Attack on Titan managed to do it Yet if you ask me, no, that doesn´t make it a good series
@@ChiefMedicPururu I think it´s the opposite, yes the ending sucked but the stuff after the timeskip was at least interesting while the early ones were incredibly predictable and boring
A female Green Lantern, or someone like Jade creating a Refrigerator construct to crush Major Force with would be a cool Meta gag.
I remember in blackest night Alex Dewitt appeared in a refrigerator
(complete with black lantern refrigerator magnet). I would have loved a tie in where she tried to get revenge on depowered major force.
Jessica Cruz is just the lady to do it.
I'd like to imagine the dog in the nuclear family actually isn't swearing...because anytime he tries to, his programming actually bleeps him. So even if he wants to say damn, he gets censored....because the nuclear family are the type of people who will tell you to watch your mouth if you say damn or hell.
Side note, I would love a super hero team version of the nuclear family. mostly as a joke and not taken too seriously, but also able to actually give good wholesome family tips
Then watch justice league action they made a good version of them
@@genesismultiverse4896 jeez, three year old comment XD
The Green Lantern vs Major Force would have been good, EXCEPT THEY USED THE WRONG GREEN LANTERN. The one who had his love murdered by Major was Kyle Raynor not Hal Jordan who is the one used here.
Imagine if Kyle showed up and hit Hal with a fridge because he was the guy responsible for Mr. Raynor's lover being killed.
0:25
*Linkara:* The government controls the city of Blüdhaven, because they're idiots. The Atomic Knights are running around Blüdhaven with no clear end goal, because they're idiots. The Secret Society of Supervillains send two teams of nuclear-themed characters into Blüdhaven, because they're idiots. Firebrand...is an idiot.
*Moral of the Story:* Everyone is an *IDIOT!*
Should've renamed the book "Idiots of Bludhaven."
He forgot to add "The Teen Titans stand around commenting on the story events instead of helping save lives, because they're idiots.”
@@tencents6 Clearly meaning they're the protypes of the Toddler Titans. AKA the titans from Teen Titans Go (Sorry if I'm beating a dead horse. But the fact that so many things have been cancelled, while that show isn't one of them pisses me off to no end)
So hey how bout WE ALL BE IDIOTS
I like the Monarch idea since "future self goes evil" is a classic plus the armor looks cool as hell. It wouldn't even be hard to retcon the original story. Just say Monarch brainwashed a hero he's held prisoner to think he's him so to throw the time travelers off his trail.
The clip of Jon Stewart going "OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!" is one of my favorite Daily Show moments. Linkara also did what Stewart did in his cameo of Spoony's review of Game Over.
Boffo's appearances are always so insightful and well thought out.
Viredae Boffo is here to show us the way to enlightenment.
15:40 I think this rant to DC about Monarch could just as easily be applied to Marvel and Civil War. Ignoring the fact that I've heard good things about the Captain America Civil War movie: Civil War was a great idea, but they blew it. Nobody cares about Civil War, and nobody cares about FIXING Civil War (glares at Civil War II). Let it die.
Gyarretto7 It also applies to 20th Century Fox and their announcements at Comic-Con, this year for making a solo Dr. Doom movie and a "PG"-Rated Fantastic Four spin-off movie focusing on Sue and Reed Richards' kids. Seriously, Fox.....
*STOP WITH THESE GOD-AWFUL FANTASTIC FOUR MOVIES!!!! NOBODY CARES ABOUT THESE MOVIES, ANYMORE!!!* You had your chances to get these characters right in their own movies, but you blew it. *NOBODY CARES THESE FANTASTIC FOUR MOVIES!!!* Give the rights to the franchise back to Marvel.
And yet they tried again with Civil War 2 which is arguably worse.
-Jovahexeon
@Darth_ Madara hey into the spiderverse was pretty damn solid.
And it was nice of DC to alienate their audience when a CEO of theirs stated that they manufacture their comics only to 40+ year olds while giving the middle finger to their investors when they cancel certain shows and renew seasons for two certain characters and ignoring and or not giving characters their own show like Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Captain Atom, Blue Beetle and the mega ultra badass that is Aquaman.
+crypto457 Especially when Flash isn't even very good. Maybe I need to watch more (only got like 8 episodes in), but it feels more like "If Spiderman Could Run Fast: The Show" with a twist so blatantly obvious it may as well not be considered a twist anymore.
crypto457
Because they’re idiots.
(But at least they gave Wondie and aquaman their own movie.)
It doesn't even make sense. The point in a reboot I thought is to get new readers to avoid comic baggage and continuity confusion. There aren't many 30+ year olds going to comic shops and buying new comics they don't already like and grew up with. Or at least not so many that you need to target them specifically. I'd say it was out of touch but no. Marville is out of touch, this is just bizarre.
I think Nappa from DBZ Abridged sums up this series well: "Ah...pointless"
Tareltonlives Goku from DBZ Abridged has a fitting response: "I'm done. I'm bored. You're boring me."
Astrithor That's a far more fitting quote for this series.
I didn’t think you were that stupid Astrithor.
(DBZa reference.)
Bludhaven was built just south of Gotham, and was a seaport with major fishing originally. That is the Atlantic Coast.
HOW do you go south from there and end up at the Mississippi River?
This is battle for bludhaven
Huh?
Considering the amount of crap that happened i wouldn't expect anything in bludhaven to make sense
True enough.
+Lynn Green well...then they blew up the wrong city, because when they show the crater, it's no where near the coast and certainly didn't have anything resembling a seaport.
"I'll take what I've seen to the media!"
The same media you said was in on the conspiracy in the last few issues?
"Firebrand... is an idiot."
Targi Svear
Well said.
That’s Trumpian conservatism for ya.
"Great Continuity!"
@@Targisvear so hey LET'S ALL BE IDIOTS
thanks DC, but if I wanted a recurring supervillain called "Monarch" I'd watch some Venture Brothers.
Excuse me sir, you will find that he is THE MIIIIIIIIIGHTY MONARCH
*10:49* shade agent: PLEASE KEEP GOING MOMMY
everyone:
Shade agent: i said it out loud didn't i?
I think I know one person that could have made this more bearable or more sense.....
AMANDA WALLER
Actually... Yeah, that would have made some semblance of sense. Just imagine her with the CCH Pounder voice.
Even Amanda Waller would know better than to try closing off an entire city that was home to one of the members of the Justice League for the dumbass experiments that they're doing. She's probably spending the entire comic shaking her head at the idiots and calling them amateurs.
Yeah....now *THAT* is a bad bitch!!!
If not Amanda Waller then how about Thunderbolt Ross? He's stupid enough to do something like this.
Ross is a Marvel character.
10:02 - Psh... overreacting, much? What could possibly be so terribl-...? Wait a minute... What's that in the upper-left corner?... COUNTDOWN???
OH MY GOD!!! OH MY GOD!!! OH MY GOD!!! @_@
Bobsheaux lol indeed
Darth_ Madara lol it could be worse it could be connected to futures end
Darth_ Madara lol indeed
RUN AWAY RUN AWAY
NIGERNNUDAIYOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
7:32 "There. Sure glad I don't look stupid in this."
Wow, a bludhaven series and not a single Nightwing mention?
Remember he was supposed to die in Final Crisis. >_>
Firebrand asked where he was at. And that's it.
Probably the only sensible thing firebrand has ever done
Just like that WonderWoman Amazons Attack where the titular character appears briefly in a few pages of a hundred + pages.
@@LupineShadowOmega No. He was supposed to die in INFINITE Crisis.
@@LupineShadowOmegaNo. He was supposed to die in Infinite Crisis. Still a major thing that's AWKWARD!
7:20
Yeah, That's is the thing with this Firebrand loser- he looks like a create-a-character in DC Universe Online, like to a T. And about as memorable as one of them at that!
Even more impressive a leak once you remember that the internet was only a year old by the time of Armageddon 2001.
Armageddon 2001 was a possible future. In that future, Hawk became Monarch. In a different possible future, it was Captain Atom instead. Given that it's a plot that includes multiple time travelers and time paradoxes already, a good writer could probably come up with a story that would explain how he was Captain Atom in the first issue but was Hawk in the second.
And still, nobody would give a damn.
Ok so I have a question. The Armageddon 2001 reveal was leaked. But from the reading up I did on the plot synopsis, there were clues that hinted to that reveal of Captain Atom, so a lot of people probably figured it out. Why didn't DC just stick with the plan? Making Hawk Monarch just made things worse.
From what I understand, they simply panicked. It was literally an "oh shit, the secret's out! We need a new twist, quick!".
Better question, and this is the weirdest thing ever, why do they keep putting him in the armour? This isn't a film actor who people want to see in the same role dozens of times, it's a shitty 90's miniseries with no impact on anything aside from these pointless inserts.
@@lorddrayvon1426 My guess is because one of the DC executives really liked the idea of Captain Atom turning into a villain and as a result of it never happening, has become obsessed with trying to make it happen permanently.
That swearing dog is the only good thing about this comic. I don't know what it is but there's something really funny about a cute cudly dog with a pottymouth. I want a character like that in a better comic or in a movie or something
"Nice &#@$ ponytail, sister."
"Gee, thanks! :D"
@07:51-08:20
News reporter and crew: "Yeah...we ain't gonna report this!!! Police, get this crazy-ass hobo out of here!!!!"
OH MY GORSH! *THEY KILLED OFF PIMP JESUS!*
How will we ever get over this monumental loss?
If only we could be less smart to actually care!!!!
the idea of his suit breaking and he needing a new suit to contain is actually a clever idea, similarly, using the atomic knights to "make" his armor.
but this series is just trash. but if they wanted to make monarch story, all they need to do is basically make him a reverse "deadpool kills the marvel universe". instead of making him evil, it would be much better to make the other heroes try to kill him due to him becoming a threat.
I'd argue it is entirely appropriate for a human green lantern to smash or crush Major Force inside a fridge. He did it to a harmless civilian, so now he gets a taste of his own medicine.
Yeah, but why Hal? It would make perfect sense if it was Kyle (considering it was _his_ girlfriend that Major Force killed), but _Hal?_
@@RabblesTheBinx if Kyle did it, it would be revenge and that's not very heroic.
@@RabblesTheBinxBecause Hal's slaughter of the Green Lantern Corps is what lead to Kyle's girlfriend being kiled.
Honestly I wish you had burned it. The damn ending with the government blatantly fearmongering about metahumans when it was THE GOVERNMENT that caused everything in the first place was INSULTING. It doesn't worry the readers like the registration in Civil War did because none of the characters we're supposed to worry about ACTUALLY DID ANYTHING. God. I'm so damn mad about that ending.
Jessamine Haak
I get that.
This really does feel like DC's answer to Civil War doesn't it? Only a full year too late and that was for the most part a solid story about ethics. This is so shit it didn't even deserve to exist.
The only way the 'exotic animals' line makes sense for me is they may have been trying to tall some sort of metahuman that. Either the oversized pooches the Atomic Knights used to ride, or the Teen Titans.
Or it could be a very stupid line sandwiched between potty mouth humor. YOU MAKE THE CALL!
I just figured the group would want to know about such another group ahead of them if they're not wanting to run into such a group and have to deal with them, but would rather evade the encounter.
A banner that says Mission Accomplished, huh? How very timely and subtle.
Yes, Mission: something-or-other was a complete success!
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
12:52
It's okay he's secretly arm fall off boy
LMAO!!!! Here..."Let me land you, *A HAND!!!*" "I will join you....*in ARMS!!!!*" lol!!!
@@xgray2012 talk to the hand
"OH MY GOD! IF I KNEW WHO THAT WAS...! I still wouldn't care."
LMAO!
The story in a nutshell
Fighting and death: the Dark Age really did think all superheroes were just gladiators
a secret lab in a populated city trying to create supersoldiers, a wall around a city after an incident and a nucular explosion that results in total oblberation ? ...sounds kinda familliar but i can't put a finger on that resident evil lingering there .... :D
its six degrees of kamandi at earth's end
A black pimp named Black Baron.... How has neither Linkara nor the comment section made a Madworld Joke/Comment
Cuz, he didn't look pimpin and he most certainly *was* playin'
Likely because MadWorld is a videogame and a cult classic at that.
I am guessing Lady Liberty is not crossed off in the opening list because her nephew went to the devil and agreed to sacrifice his marriage to bring her back to life.
Yes but when that failed because the marriage was already doomed, neron settled for tickets to snl and Oprah.
19:42 Oh dear god. This is something I have zero patience for. I *despise* it when people who hate the government and stand against them claim to be "anarchists." For the record, anarchism is the belief that the natural order is disorder: that there should be no government, no moral hierarchy, no authority, no leader, no anything. Just chaos and absolute freedom.
However, too many people who say they're "anarchists" and "anti-authoritarians" DO believe in an authority: It's just the authority that THEY think is right. And yeah, that's Firebrand in a nutshell: a self-proclaimed anarchist and anti-authoritarian who has no awareness of the fact that he does nothing but act VERY authoritarian, just against the government instead of in favor of it.
I love that rapier! Where'd you get it?
when I heard the title card music I just had the biggest nostagic rush, thank you for that it felt great xD
"I wasted my time on something reading something that isn't very good on its own and otherwise has no impact on anything else ever." - Linkara. Oddly enough not in reference to any of the recent Marvel events.
To be fair, getting pierced by a sword is like man flu in the superhero community
Unless you're Firestorm.
Not gonna lie, I laughed at the refrigrator gag.
What I've taken from Uncle Sam's vision to Firebrand is that Michael Knight of Knight Rider becomes a dictator. Obviously the only solution is to kill David Hasselhoff. The reason all this happens? Because KITT's windshield wipers are evil! It didn't come up much in the show, though.
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!!!
Honestly the Firebrand vision probably got screwed up by Uncle Sam but FireBrand is so delusional that he takes ordinary people walking by floating guys as a horrific regime. “They aren’t fighting them! The world is doom!”
it also might be that he can´t see shit with those stupid goggles on
Joseph: OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Why is it Hal Jordan that's fighting Major Force if it was Kyle's girlfriend who died?
*10:04* that is the most horrific thing ive seen if i was dumber then the writers
🤣I love that sarcastic tirade near the middle.🤣 God bless you, Lewis.
Just saying, the John Stewart clip was the SECOND GREATEST ONE YOU HAVE USED YET!
To make it worse command d shows up in futures end for some strange reason
Green Lantern was there because they wanted him to hit what's his name with a fridge.
EvilGuacamoleGaming But that makes even lesser sense for Hal Jordan to even be in this mini-series. I mean, seriously, having Hal Jordan drop a refrigerator construct on Major Force for seemingly no reason at all?! That's just fucking stupid.
I apologize if I miss the sarcasm, but it connects to the trope mentioned by Linkara, yeah?
The point was more than the Green Lantern who was hurt by a certain event involving fridge was not Hal Jordan. Kyle Rayner doing it could be excused as much delayed revenge, but why would Hal act over that or even know? Did Kyle tell him some time they had coffee together?
EvilGuacamoleGaming that makes it even stupider, also why even make it Hal Jordon doing it when it was Kyle Rayner who found his girlfriend chopped up and shoved into a refrigerator. Did Hal hear about it on the news, did Kyle feel the need to tell Hal about the time he found his girlfriend shoved into a refrigerator for some reason? Also Hal’s sole reason for being here is just some scene done in very poor taste.
@@xgray2012 I don't think Gray and Palmeadi gave a shit.
12:43 It doesn't even make sense this is the Hal Jordan Green Lantern so why would he do that sure Kyle may have told him about what happened but wouldn't It work better for some kind of catharsis if it was Kyle Rayner sent to Bludhaven instead unless I'm wrong and these two look way too similar without Kyles distinct custom
No, it's definitely Hal that they used. My guess is that either the writer or artist wasn't familiar with that specific story, only that Major Force killed a Green Lantern's girlfriend, and just assumed it was Hal.
That's because if firebrand looked like a fire based hero, they'd know he was a fire type and they need a water type pokemon to beat him
Holy crap, Rom, I can’t believe I found you here.
@Dreigonix holy cow yeah i didn't expect to see you here
"None of the characters are likeable"
Weren't you talking about how Monolith was awesome a while ago?
Gamer-Nation 108 Usually, a comic or book or any media should have MORE then one likable character. The good ones, anyway.
islamroks11 yeah, agreed
+islamroks11 What about the Atomic Knights?
He was only talking about Black Baron, S.H.A.D.E., the nuclear family, Firebrand and that's about it. The Atomic Knights and Monolith are okay in my opinion.
@Jonathan Szuhai:
They're okay. But, I think they deserve to be in a better comic book than this pointless piece of shit.
2:40 - Hey, look on the bright side Linkara, Lady Liberty not being counted as dead means Rose Wilson stabbing her didn't murder her (DC probably decided to treat it as a mere flesh wound, like how Disney keeps treating getting stabbed by Lightsabers in Star Wars a survivable injury! Or someone realized it would be bad to have Rose suddenly kill someone destroying her character arc of not being like her dad)! Of course, The Culling would come along and say heck with that so they can essentially have Rose be female Deathstroke the Teminator, but at least Battle for Bludhaven's writers had better sense or simply forgot Rose stabbed Lady Liberty, though I'd call that a happy accident!
what does it say about a comic book that I know I've read but don't remember anything about it... even watching the video I don't remember anything about it
Ooh!
Metal Gear Solid 2 got awesome after a crappy start!
Excluding that 10 minute essay Kojima inserted into the last boss fight.
19:54 Of course Gero has a sub-lab. We all have sub-labs!
You don't wanna know what the Briefs are doing with their sub-lab.
I totally lost it when Green Lantern appeared. Just started laughing my head off, 'cause this is bullshit.
With regards to the Woman in refrigerators thing, does the same thing apply to lesbians? Like if we had a lesbian superhero who was in love with another woman and the other woman was killed off just to propel the 1st woman to take action, would that still be woman in refrigerators?
It would yes. The fear is that a given author is making the female side characters insignificant and only good for moving the hero to action.
Andrew Levin hell ya it’s systematically hurting a love interest or close female character to be used as motivation
Technically yes. Gail Simone meant it as a generalized statement on women dying for the hero and not just about male advancement.
7:20
Hum, because... they are?
What's the clip of the guy going "OH MY GOD!" from?
+Studmanafier The Daily Show with John Stewart. Watch it.
+Tareltonlives The best part is, Linkara references that exact scene in one of Spoony's videos. I forget the exact one, but it had a lot of Channel Awesome 'panicking' for a bit.
It was in Tekken Blood Vengeance. MULTIGENE LIFEFORMS!
4:09 BOPO THE CLOWN IS IN THE HOUSE
I think turning Captain Atom into Monarch here is funny because this came out in 2006. Around fifteen years after the release of Armageddon 2001.
20:06 - "We hope you've enjoyed No Moral Theater!"
Linkara is fed up with people trying to have Captain Atom do a heel turn. I am fed up with the myth that Captain Atom is on the same level as Superman.
Even with that potty mouth. Said dog is still not as bad as Brian Griffin from Family Guy (Also I THINK the Uncle Sam voice Firebrand's hearing is the one who died during Infinite Crisis)
23:02 He just wanted to be included in the group.
....What was the point of this comic again?
+erttheking What is the point of any of this?
+erttheking Money ?
+erttheking To set up "Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters" and complain about then current events.
A misguided attempt to rip off Civil War?
Either that or it's another one of those "Fuck you Bush!" comics. As if Amazons Attack wasn't bad enough.
(Fancy meeting you here ert)
@erttheking:
Just to set up "Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters", complain about the current events of 2006-2009 and to horribly rip-off Marvel's "Civil War".
No mention of how Father Time had no idea what Replicant is only to immediately trust it when it looks human?
+Tabula Rasa I think that was in the end credits of the previous video.
Well, I thought the 2017 Beauty and the Beast turned around massively in the second half, but that was a battle of long odds and not really that good.
So wait, was the Green Lantern in this Hal Jordan? Maybe it was just because it made sense with Major Force and the fridge thing, but I always thought the Lantern in this book was Kyle Raynor. Don't know how I screwed that up.
Yep, it's Hal Jordan, not Kyle Rayner.
Neo-Xgray87 then ya that doesn’t make any sense yes presumably Kyle told Hal what had happened but why would Hal care THAT much about that detail
@@skyslasher2297 Simple It's because Hal felt guilty upon discovering this happened when he was EVIL
@@GatorRay major force would’ve done that if he was alive or dead
@@skyslasher2297 True
In the end, all I gotta say to DC is: No, thanks. If I wanted a Firebrand, I'd go play Demon's Crest.
18:43 Okay, Not Bush, if you deem these metahumans as a threat, then go reunite with your Bolivar Trask analogue, unleash some Sentinels and be done with it.
4:00 You said it Botho!
Wait, Linkara, I'm confused. Where are you going, and why, and how long will you be gone?
***** You want me to tell you? I saw the episodes in this particular story arc that Linkara made.
***** Basically, someone shows up in the plot to his review of Batman: A Word to the Wise after his Magic Gun. Linkara made him leave, but then all his magic stuff stopped working for seemingly no reason. Since then, he's been trying to figure out what the heck happened until these 3 reviews, where he decides to travel the world to find someone who can tell him what's going on while he leaves a hologram behind to keep the show going.
So technically, he doesn't leave and it's just a plot about him getting answers to what the heck happened. But in-storyline, he's gone until I THINK the One More Day review.
dracocrusher Nope, as explained in-episode, the One More Day review was filmed in advance. He doesn't return until Batman: Jazz #1.
Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall Right, right. Because One More Day is the 200th episode.... I think? I probably should have fact-checked that.
dracocrusher It is indeed. ^^
A foul mouthed robot dogs sounds like it could be funny, but in this comic it's just part of the endless frustration
Hey, I'm just getting into comics, any recommendations? I loved the original Teen Titans cartoon and X men evolution ( or as I like to call it, X men babies ) growing up, and I also really enjoy the Marvel cinematic universe and both the Nolan and Burton batman movies.
atopthefourthwall.com/comic-recommendations-2-0/
In the 1990s Forest camouflage aka woodland was all we had next to the desert camo and the only thing we have close to urban camo is ACU camo
So… with the way Captain Atom acts in this comic… were they just gonna have him remain a hero but wear the Monarch armor and sometimes kill mfers?
Firebrand probably just stole a costume from a professional figure skating league
Does Firebrand get killed off?
Sadly no.
Linkara,can you make a separate short video about your 'idiot recap' at the start of this ? I'd like to add it to my favorites.
9:08
When and where did Yahtzee Crowshaw say that?
The Stillborn Child he didn’t say the exact same thing, he made a similar point about Resident Evil Villains trying to take over the world using zombies and why that is a bad idea
I believe it is perhaps the resident evil chronicles video, or resident evil 6, Yahtzee says he would introduce the resident evil universe to the concept of a really big bomb, that he would make a packet
20:33-20:39 Don’t you mean Countdown?
Yep.
17:58 That only works when you're piloting the Wing Zero
🎵He's Got a Big Ass Sword! Where the F@$& he get that!? LINKARAAA!🎵
10 years of the last part of battle of bludhaven
9:02-9:05 No it really isn't. It's ruled by 3 branches of government that ideally keep each other in check. Legislative Branch like Congress makes the laws, the Judical branch like the Supreme Court evaluates the laws, and the executive branch like the President of the United States enforce the laws.
2:35 How did he know?
*sees episode in recommended* Looks like someone didn't explain to the Nostalgia Critic again.
Man I wish I could see the source for that Daily Show skit, but I can't find it anywhere.
I don't know the exact name of it, but it was, like, an entire episode devoted to making fun of a Glenn Beck segment from back in the day.
@@AT4W I know, I've seen the skit before. The issue is that I can't find the whole thing anymore. Like it's been deleted from the internet and this is the last evidence of it left.
I have just become a bit uncomfortably aware of how many design elements Monarch shares with Dinobot from Beast Wars.
How long you figure I'm gonna hyperfixate on this fact until I write an elaborate One Shot where Dinobot kicks Monarch's ass for stealing his look? 2 days? 3 tops?
Fun Fact: Green Lantern Corps actually got away with saying Bitch once.
Firebrand - Power-Fantasy Alex Jones.
the freedom fighters series to spawn from this was really good
7:08 Anyone else thinks that Firebrands costume actually looks like one of Soldier 76's Skins in Overwatch?
I did not know that.
Tactical Rant activated
"How many stories that sucked during the first 2/3rds do a 180 in the end"
I mean, Attack on Titan managed to do it
Yet if you ask me, no, that doesn´t make it a good series
Attack on Titan is the reverse case. It was fine for the first 2/3 then the last one destroy anything worthy in it and the ending is atrocious.
@@ChiefMedicPururu I think it´s the opposite, yes the ending sucked but the stuff after the timeskip was at least interesting while the early ones were incredibly predictable and boring
@7:30 Implying that Jeff Buckley died by suicide rather than (in reality) a tragic swimming accident.
Niiice.
That wasn’t how it went down?
So wait it was a battle FOR Bludhaven
And no one acutally gets it?
Monolith was great! (I may have said that last time I watched this too, but no one seen to remember the poor Concrete fellow...)
The video game of the same name is pretty great, too. I have yet to see anything named "Monolith" not be awesome.