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I have a feeling this will become iconic in due time.
I’ve watched this for like a dozen loops and I still crack up every time
[Singing] T-Birds: Well-a, well-a, well-a– Tell me more, tell me more, did'ya get very far? Pink Ladies: Tell me more, tell me more– Jules (in time, astonishingly): Does he look like a bitch?
And this, requested by my friend over VC
Just escaped from Hell thanks to the incredibly convenient road leading directly out! Apparently it was paved with good intentions? Thanks for those, everybody! They worked out great, just like always!
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The Devil Warriors: Toxic Crusaders Without Budget
Imagine Lucio Fulci did Troma’s Toxic Crusaders back in the days, but worse, with even less budget. A little Naziploitation added, and the Devil Warriors would have been the outcome! Oh boy, my brain goes pop inside when I’m thinking about it. It would have turned out as one of the coolest TV shows ever! Unfortunately, it wasn’t meant to be. The Devil Warriors ended up as shitty 99 cents toys - sold at gas stations, drug stores, and low-end retail markets.
The line (most likely) featured six nameless characters: A skull dude, two melted face dudes (one with a helmet, and one with a bandana), a punk rocker, an exposed brain dude, and a werewolf. The sculpts are truly underworldish, bad in the best possible way! All figures feature the same body, which looks pretty much like a WW2 Wehrmacht uniform to me (hence the Naziploitation link). The body was also put to use for “Amicable Herculean”, another shitty 90s KO-wabunga toy line, that was probably made by the same company. (”Satyr Masters from Abyss” belong to the same family. But we’ll look into these later.)
Devil Warriors were only marked “China” or “Made in China”. The packagings don’t tell us much either. No. 618 “Made in China” is all we get. The back of the card is blank. We can’t even be sure about the year they were made in. We either can’t tell if there weren’t more figures in the line than just the confirmed six. (As if 80s / 90s KO manufacturers would have ever given a shit about what’s on the card, on what figures you were able to get, HAHA!) There are also rumors that Devil Warriors were sold as “P.O.W. - Prisoners of War” in the 90s, featuring the same artwork. I’ve never seen a carded sample of it though. But this would sorta place the figures in the “Vietploitation” genre, as well. That’s also where the artwork is heading.
Retrospectively, it’s hard to tell what particularly the Devil Warriors were knocking off. It’s a toxic, mind-blowing cocktail of all sorts of things. Zombieploitation, Naziploitation, Vietploitation, TMNT, Toxic Crusaders… You name it! Since we don’t have a company or year on the figures, we can only rely on the oral history-telling going on in the toy KOmmunity. Toys have a “zeitgeist”, too. Which means you can never seperate a toy from the historical period it was made in. If we sum things up (figure style, esthetics etc.), and take an additional look at the circumstances in Western politics throughout the 90s in particular, the Devil Warriors must have been released between the Gulf War in 1991 and Operation Desert Fox in 1998. With a new war emerging, it seems like these toys catched kids’ and people’s nightmares of that time right on point. That’s how another great, and also frightening piece of toy history has been made.
(References: Collection pics are courtesy of Milad K., Steve Seeley, hycinthsomber, and myself.)
if we ignore all the stuff that's gone wrong ive kind of had nothing but wins
Yeah because making men appear femme is an inherent insult in a sexist society. If you think this is somehow equivalent, I got news for ya.
I’m not sure what an actual equivalent sans the inherent insult would be, maybe ‘you should grunt more’ to make yourself look tough? Or maybe you should smile less, and be stoic, since it’s ‘manly’?
(not sure that one would work even tho it ‘corresponds’ because smiling has been demonstrated in a lab setting to affect the smiler positively, chemically and mood-wise, even if they do it ‘deliberately,’ so telling them not to smile would seem to be more actively damaging than the reverse …)
What are alloromantics into, idk. Interesting question to ponder actually…
As if it’s not an inherent insult to women? It’s men telling us to put on an act so they can have a better time looking at us. If it wasn’t an insult to women, we wouldn’t be calling it out and making memes about how much we hate it. The reason men openly get mad about it when flipping it on them is because they know they have the power to do so without being attacked. They don’t have to keep any fear in, and only let themselves talk about it later out of the possibility of being harassed further.
I can’t remember who said this, but if it’s humiliating for a man to do then it’s humiliating for a woman to do; you’re just desensitized to women being humiliated.
Oh look another misreading!
Let’s break it down shall we …
(1) nobody said it wasn’t annoying to women- only that they were being implicitly referred to as a woman so it doesn’t have the /double/ insult of stripping them of womanhood (as it does for manhood) ergo, not the same, it’s a compounded insult.
(2) concerning the tags: yes emotions are gendered by a sexist society. You hadn’t noticed?
(3) who’s ‘desensitized’ to anything? How does “hey sexist society works this particular way” get translated to … something something you’re endorsing it? Just another outrage-goggles-logic-takes-a-backseat take. Yawn.
(4) very much doubt men consciously think ‘I’m not gonna get attacked’ when reacting to something. That’s your discourse-laden brain injecting a faulty picture of how other people think. In psychology this would be called a failure to mentally model.
You seem to be hung up on the arbitrary gendering of inherently non-gendered things, which makes the solution to this whole thing incredibly obvious…
“You would look prettier more handsome if you smiled more.”
There, problem solved. By trading one pointlessly gendered adjective with another, we can get that yucky feminine word out of there and replace it with something manly that won’t hurting anyone’s fragile masculinity.
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you used to saul me on my call phone
Part of what made the first season of Lexx so memorable was the constant barrage of delightfully weird visuals that are integral to any good sci-fi. It’s equal parts high concept with low tech, imagination on a small budget, and an unflinching dedication to being utterly fucking batshit nuts.
Lexx was such a weird show but it was peak Sci-Fi channel in the 90s for me haha
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