TGWTG Linkara / Lewis Lovhaug - HMMMMMMM? (Dead Gay Muppet Gangbang)

[Random Internet Person]

The Phantom has a large fanbase amongst Papua New Guinea tribesmen, who paint him on their shields.

How…random.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

He could just go online and use scans of comics from the Golden age. Or, you know, do actual episodes on the history of comics and give some actual information in the process.

But no. He'd rather sit there being an unfunny douche and snark at the camera.

Did he grow up with those golden age heroes that have been forgotten to time? No, so the great Linkara need not bother himself with forgotten relics.

It would be an interesting episode. He could ask Randy Milholland of Something Positive about some old golden age comics since the dude is autistic for that shit, pick a couple and go over their stories to see what other comics were like back then, but that would require him to be different and he can't do that.

But how far back does one go when covering the history of superheroes? Zorro? The Scarlet Pimpernel? Mythological demigods? That's too much effort for someone with a large wife to feed and absurd power fantasies to record.

I'd say The Scarlet Pimpernel is where you stop since that's generally considered the first superhero. I'm actually surprised Lewis hasn't done an episode on Zorro since it's the movie the Wayne family saw the night they died. Probably because no one requested it for a Patreon review.

 

[Falcon Sebben]

Wasn't Aeon Fluxx a popular thing at the time? That's what the designs reminded me off.

I don't know if they came out around that time but yes the design does have a certain resemblance in that they're very tall and thin.

Aeon Flux however was just a mindfuck.

I'd say The Scarlet Pimpernel is where you stop since that's generally considered the first superhero. I'm actually surprised Lewis hasn't done an episode on Zorro since it's the movie the Wayne family saw the night they died. Probably because no one requested it for a Patreon review.

He probably doesn't consider it as being "comic book" material and beyond that what version of Zorro would he use? There's been so many of them each with their own story and characterization. He'd have to do a deep dive on it going back to the pulp origins of the character, the serials from the 30's, the comedies like "Zorro the Gay Blade" and so on. Honestly it might be interesting to see where he goes on it but at the same time it's Lewis. The man is not what I consider a good source for information.

 

[Foltest]

How…random.

The reason is that in WW II, American troops there read the phantom in comics and left it there.
So the tribesman thought it was tge coolest shit ever.

 

[Random Internet Person]

The reason is that in WW II, American troops there read the phantom in comics and left it there.
So the tribesman thought it was tge coolest shit ever.

Well, that's also how Hawaii got hooked on spam.

 

[Endless Torment]

Well, that's also how Hawaii got hooked on spam.

And South Korea and American cheese

 

[p1138]

Wasn't Aeon Fluxx a popular thing at the time? That's what the designs reminded me off.

I don't know if they came out around that time but yes the design does have a certain resemblance in that they're very tall and thin.

Aeon Flux however was just a mindfuck.

Aeon Flux was 1995, Phantom 2040 was 1994, and they were both created and designed by Peter Chung. The reason they look simialr is because of his character design, which he's done for a few other things as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Chung

And yeah, that's why fucking Rugrats characters(mostly the adults) vaguely resemble Aeon Flux, and of course he's done other animation since retaining the same style.

 

[Aaron Costello]

I just found out that he has done Super Sentai reviews because of Patreon, and apparently Linkara has often said he's not a big fan of Super Sentai as he grew up with Power Rangers, and is more fond of that. Which is odd, because arent they more or less the same thing?

 

[StevieLasVegas]

From what clips I actually watched out of curiosity, Super Sentai doesn't take itself as seriously as Power Rangers does. The fact Super Sentai has its tongue affixed to it's cheek instead of being super serious, it doesn't pass Linkara's "quality" control check.

 

[Falcon Sebben]

Well, that's also how Hawaii got hooked on spam.

Every place where there's been an American military presence somehow gets hooked on Spam.

People in Okinawa and South Korea love the stuff.

Aeon Flux was 1995, Phantom 2040 was 1994, and they were both created and designed by Peter Chung. The reason they look simialr is because of his character design, which he's done for a few other things as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Chung And yeah, that's why fucking Rugrats characters(mostly the adults) vaguely resemble Aeon Flux, and of course he's done other animation since retaining the same style.

Well that explains that.

I just found out that he has done Super Sentai reviews because of Patreon, and apparently Linkara has often said he's not a big fan of Super Sentai as he grew up with Power Rangers, and is more fond of that. Which is odd, because arent they more or less the same thing?

Kinda in the same sense that Power Rangers uses bits and ideas from Sentai shows but for their own purpose.

It's like how the original Power Rangers used bits from Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger specifically the tokusatsu elements while splicing in their own scenes. The two stories are actually quite different.

The American version has "five teenagers with attitude" becoming the Power Rangers while the Japanese version had them being ancient princes and a single princess who were all descendants of dinosaur-evolved humans were awakened to fight the evil which is Bandora the Witch. She was released from her magical prison by two astronauts who visited the planet Nemesis. Their mentor, or guy who informs them of all this, was the "Mysterious Sage Barza" who was an immortal wizard who lived during the time the princes and princess were alive. He shows up at the start acting as a groundskeeper.

So the framing device is much different but the whole "fighting giant monsters" is what was kept.

 

[FiveStarAce]

Lightbringer animated series on [Adult Swim] when

There is still hope for a lightbringer smiling friends

 

[Arthur Morgan]

From what clips I actually watched out of curiosity, Super Sentai doesn't take itself as seriously as Power Rangers does. The fact Super Sentai has its tongue affixed to it's cheek instead of being super serious, it doesn't pass Linkara's "quality" control check.

That and it's just not what he grew up with and he doesn't like things that are different, so he considers it to be not worth his time.

There is still hope for a lightbringer smiling friends

Well, the character is Public Domain, so Smiling Friends could use him while doing the Linkara voice and Lewis would have no ability to stop them or sue them, even if he had the money to afford a lawyer.

It's a shame Lewis can't just embrace the meme, he'd make some money if he kickstarted a Lightbringer movie or new comic, but that would be giving in to the 'trolls' and he can't do that.

 

[gaysexenjoyer]

From what clips I actually watched out of curiosity, Super Sentai doesn't take itself as seriously as Power Rangers does. The fact Super Sentai has its tongue affixed to it's cheek instead of being super serious, it doesn't pass Linkara's "quality" control check.

Sentai is both goofier and more serious than PR, depending on the storyline. It has wider variety of tone.

It's not 100% unserious, but being japanese it can get pretty silly.

 

[MisterBee]

I just found out that he has done Super Sentai reviews because of Patreon, and apparently Linkara has often said he's not a big fan of Super Sentai as he grew up with Power Rangers, and is more fond of that. Which is odd, because arent they more or less the same thing?

Check this thread for the 'college story' and you'll know why.

 

[LordofCringe7206 Vol. 2]

Sentai is both goofier and more serious than PR, depending on the storyline. It has wider variety of tone.

It's not 100% unserious, but being japanese it can get pretty silly.

I've watched both. I have been able to compare and contrast each corresponding season. I think a lot of things vary depending on the two cultures approach to the art of storytelling and the style of making a kids show. You can see similar ideas between the two, with both just taking a different spin or approach to them. Some things get lost in translation in Power Rangers (the monster design in Operation Overdrive is a great example), sometimes they are trying to copy something the sentai did but drop the ball (the characterization issues in Mystic Force being a great example).

One of the things I have disliked about the sentai is how little character arcs or stories that go beyond an individual episode there are. Not that they don't have them, but they don't really capitalize on a lot of them the way they should. A lot of times it is just the basic moral of the week. Sentai has also become far too overly focused on the toys since 2001 when Gaoranger, the sentai equivalent of Wild Force, was released.

As Arthur pointed out though, Lewis's dislike of the sentai is that he didn't grow up with therefore it is bad. Obviously given that Japan considers it less taboo for kids, there are sex jokes in the series like this one below.

 

[p1138]

As Arthur pointed out though, Lewis's dislike of the sentai is that he didn't grow up with therefore it is bad.

That's basically his opinion of everything, or he'll use it as an excuse of why he won't review older or newer comics.

 

[Adamska]

That's basically his opinion of everything, or he'll use it as an excuse of why he won't review older or newer comics.

Which is laughable given quite a few golden age runs are as good if not better than that narrow view of slop that he is desperate to stick to for no reason. Seriously, you can do entire joking bits from very early Batman where he didn't give a shit about saving or in a rare few cases actually killing his foes for example. Like imagine the jokes you could make; like how at one point Yellow Face was achieved by bad makeup and garden gloves.

Also it'd probably be fun to do entire arcs making fun of how Superdickery is click-bait to support and bolster the Supes stable side comics. Who doesn't want to make fun of the time Jimmy Olsen had to marry a gorilla?

Or hell, cover their non-capeshit crap. Marvel back when it was still known as Atlas was well known for its romance and horror stuff. Hell, I actually like their older Tales of Suspense runs that do that sort of shit. DC also has GI Combat, which has Sgt. Rock, one of my favorite characters DC has in its line-up. And if that's too gritty, then make fun of the Haunted Tank, which has all that awkward energy of having a confederate ghost help his union descendant through the war via possessed tank.

It's really stupid, shortsighted, and beyond pathetic for him to only cover the same 80s-2000s era shit that honestly isn't even as goofy, good, or bad as you'd find in other eras or mediums.

I'll bluntly state that I've been out of the loop and haven't watched his garbage in at least a decade by now, ducking out when he did the Lord Vice shit and made the skits get boring as shit. I don't even know if he mocked Age of Apocalypse yet, which has one of the shittiest arcs in it by trying to force Rogue into fucking Magneto, and it's just plain creepy. If not, then damn is he bad at this, since you could've covered that when X-Men 97 was busy doing that to audience sort of applause, sort of vomiting.

 

[p1138]

Which is laughable given quite a few golden age runs are as good if not better than that narrow view of slop that he is desperate to stick to for no reason. Seriously, you can do entire joking bits from very early Batman where he didn't give a shit about saving or in a rare few cases actually killing his foes for example. Like imagine the jokes you could make; like how at one point Yellow Face was achieved by bad makeup and garden gloves.

Also it'd probably be fun to do entire arcs making fun of how Superdickery is click-bait to support and bolster the Supes stable side comics. Who doesn't want to make fun of the time Jimmy Olsen had to marry a gorilla?

Or hell, cover their non-capeshit crap. Marvel back when it was still known as Atlas was well known for its romance and horror stuff. Hell, I actually like their older Tales of Suspense runs that do that sort of shit. DC also has GI Combat, which has Sgt. Rock, one of my favorite characters DC has in its line-up. And if that's too gritty, then make fun of the Haunted Tank, which has all that awkward energy of having a confederate ghost help his union descendant through the war via possessed tank.

It's really stupid, shortsighted, and beyond pathetic for him to only cover the same 80s-2000s era shit that honestly isn't even as goofy, good, or bad as you'd find in other eras or mediums.

I'll bluntly state that I've been out of the loop and haven't watched his garbage in at least a decade by now, ducking out when he did the Lord Vice shit and made the skits get boring as shit. I don't even know if he mocked Age of Apocalypse yet, which has one of the shittiest arcs in it by trying to force Rogue into fucking Magneto, and it's just plain creepy. If not, then damn is he bad at this, since you could've covered that when X-Men 97 was busy doing that to audience sort of applause, sort of vomiting.

At the same time he refuses to cover any of the newer shit from the past basically 20 years at this point, and by doing so is going out of his way to bother growing an audience that just isn't interested in the 80s-00s era. And no, he never bothers to do anything within the timing of some major release because he wants to pretend his content takes so long to craft into a video to upload. Meanwhile there are dozens of other youtube channels now that get more views, cover more eras and do a better job of summarizing and explaining shit even from the short span that Linkara is willing to touch all without the stupid skits and plastic toy guns.

edit: Holy fucking shit, I just tried watching his latest JoJo video. He can't say Straights' name correctly("stray-zoh"), doesn't recognize the BAOH manga(which was also Araki) that Jonathan is reading on the plane but bitches about the Get Smart! advertisement being an anachronism. "an unimportant detail in an anime about breathing techniques" first of all... he could have reviewed the manga, second demonslayer exists and singlehandedly matched out outsold the entire fucking North American comic book industry. And then he keeps calling Erina "Arena" when you can hear them pronouncing it correctly in Japanese and spelling it correctly in the subtitled version he's using for clips.

This man is fucking retarded, I can't keep watching this shit.

 

[Starman John]

Linkara, for all his faults, at least passes the 'Do you love Joseph Joestar' test.

There's something very funny about Linkara making a reference to Garth Marenghi of all things.

 

[gaysexenjoyer]

I've watched both. I have been able to compare and contrast each corresponding season. I think a lot of things vary depending on the two cultures approach to the art of storytelling and the style of making a kids show. You can see similar ideas between the two, with both just taking a different spin or approach to them. Some things get lost in translation in Power Rangers (the monster design in Operation Overdrive is a great example), sometimes they are trying to copy something the sentai did but drop the ball (the characterization issues in Mystic Force being a great example).

One of the things I have disliked about the sentai is how little character arcs or stories that go beyond an individual episode there are. Not that they don't have them, but they don't really capitalize on a lot of them the way they should. A lot of times it is just the basic moral of the week. Sentai has also become far too overly focused on the toys since 2001 when Gaoranger, the sentai equivalent of Wild Force, was released.

As Arthur pointed out though, Lewis's dislike of the sentai is that he didn't grow up with therefore it is bad. Obviously given that Japan considers it less taboo for kids, there are sex jokes in the series like this one below.

It just seems so fucking stupid to me for Lewis to willfully miss out on all Sentai has to offer just because "Grrr it's not Power Rangers".

I understand having a greater affection for the one you grew up with, and yes they're different shows, but they have so much of the same DNA and they both have so much to enjoy if people would just give them a chance. I mean it's not like watching Zyuranger, for all it's flaws, is going to suddenly make MMPR worse or something. Zyuranger isn't even that good compared to a lot of Sentai stuff, hell I'd say Power Rangers was actually a fair improvement over the original there (which is impressive in and of itself) but even that semi-lowpoint for sentai still has cool shit like the Dragon Ranger to offer.

Both Megaranger and In Space were on pretty equal footing in terms of quality, and from what I remember both were really fun, and there are quite a few Sentai series that simply blow PR out of the water. Maybe I'm just nostalgic/easy to entertain idk. It's just that sometimes I feel like people are shooting themselves in the foot with what they do and don't consume.