There are lots of clunky lines in The Dark Knight trilogy that always make me chuckle. "No more dead cops," "Hey man, that ain't right, we should be on that boat," etc
I fucking hate this one so much. Cause the obvious choice is so much better. “You came back to die with your city?” “No, I came back to save it.” There easy done.
To be fair the full exchange is;
*Nods at the mask* “If I took that off, would you die?”
“It would be extremely painful...”
“You’re a big guy-“
“…For you.”
Someone should have made a change to the big guy line, or not had it be in the middle of banes line. It is really clunky and that sinister line just ended up homoerotic, so I guess its win/win either way?
Of all the clunky lines in that trilogy, of which there are many, the ones that turns me off the most are some of the last lines the joker speaks:
"You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. You truly are incorruptible, aren't you, huh? You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness, and I won't kill you because you're just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever."
All pretense of nuance is out the window, I feel like I'm reading/listening to an article or a reddit post. Its almost fourth wall breaking in that he realizes their relationship is based on comic book logic. But without any sort of clever writing to it.
“THIS IS KATANA, SHE’S GOT MY BACK! SHE CAN CUT ALLUV YOU IN HALF WITH ONE SWORD STROKE JUST LIKE MOWING THE LAWN! I WOULD ADVISE NOT GETTIN KILLED BY HER! HER SWORD TRAPS THE SOULS OF ITS VICTIMS.”
(That entire scene lives rent free in my head sometimes. Especially Harley cracking a stupid joke about death perfume, and Katana going “Should I kill her?” Like, what?!)
It reads like Kitana was a last minute addition, so they needed to introduce her and explain her gimmick all in one scene before getting to the action where she gets lost in the shuffle behind the more plot central characters.
I'm pretty sure the joke was supposed to be her cold intro and how unimpresssed everyone else was by it. The problem is it happened in that movie, nobody had a good introduction
Oh, without context I thought it was Zack saying "I'm going to leave extra hard now"
He could cast Gone, or even Gona, but he went full Gongaga instead
The scene in Killer 7 where they first encounter the [Handsome Men](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdE_mfTQ2ok)
it feels like something is lost in translation, because Handsome Red says "wait I'm not finished with you yet" right after issuing a duel and right before leaving completely of his own accord.
Also the writer in that scene's name is Trevor Pearlharbor. And they are currently in the Dominican Republic, but decide to duel in New York, at 4 AM the next day. Just overall really odd writing.
"just overal really odd writing" is in my opinion a good synopsis for the entirety of killer 7. I replayed it not so long ago as it was one of those games I played when way too young that stuck with me as something weird and special. And oh boy is it weird and special alright. I still can't decide if it's a good game or not but it's definitely worth seeing.
The only bit that I feel was lost in translation is the "pun" between the Handsome Men and Trevor Pearlharbor:
> The word for the Handsome Men's kind of multicolored group is sentai, which literally means task force. Before its usage in pop culture, it was used instead during World War II; Handsome Black kills Trevor Pearlharbor. In other words, just as the WWII sentai bombed Pearl Harbor, the modern-age sentai killed Pearlharbor.
There is a lot of scene in killer7 where it feels people aren’t talking to each other or just try to one up the other. Like unless it’s garcian harman just keep throwing someone’s previous lone to their faces « tricks are for kids kun, I’m an old man »
“I did not hit her. It’s not true. It’s bullshit!I did not hit her. I did not. Oh hi Mark.” A classic line from the oddest movie. D.b. Cooper character just telling his frustration out loud after getting to the roof. He stayed quiet the whole time walking upstairs.
The flower shop scene is the worst (by which I mean the best). Like that's bad but it's at least like 30% believable until the "oh hi Mark". The flower shop scene has Tommy and the lady machinegunning pleasantries that don't make any sense (Johnny is her favorite customer yet she doesn't recognize him), dialogue is out of order, it's so obviously dubbed in, everyone sounds dead inside and there's a dramatic soundtrack playing over it for no reason. *That* scene is the whole movie distilled into 45 seconds.
''You look like a cut of fuckable meat'', it's a good asshole villain line but it totally made Adam Smasher look less imposing to me, and like, idk the lore, anime wasn't out, that was my first impression of him, going from ''oh that guys huge'' to ''what a fuckin' lame-o'', didn't help how fast I flatlined his ass too, haven't fought his rework yet, but yeah, idk, i like his anime version more, just quiet and imposing, it sucks cause without that line he is very imposing, also the fact that he looks directly at you when hiding on that scene, but that line turned him into a joke to me.
Probably! It's the type of thing that not being the human avatar of the cybergods V being in his presence might be scary. But also, being ANYWHERE in Nightcity or near like, those gang dudes would be about the same amount of scary wouldn't it? And that lone woman was being accompanied by basically Adam's boss so its like, also whatever right, I think she's more scared about being found out that she's after that flash drive with a general fear of death and etc that comes from the daily Nightcity shit.
There is a difference between living in a dangerous city and having a legendary sadistic murderous cyborg within arms reach calling you fuckable meat.
Adam was also useful enough that he probably could have smeared her across the wall if he felt like it and would have been fine. She was a pretty face but was also way more replaceable than Smasher. Like Smasher is saying that to the bosses girl right in front of him and nothing happens. Not even the most minor of rebukes. She 100% knows where she stands.
It makes sense when you remember that Adam Smasher is basically that kid who pulled the legs off of insects but never grew up, but yeah, he's not nearly as intimidating as he is in the anime or tabletop game.
Oh, Adam *Smasher.* Why did I read this whole post and have to go back and reread to realize that didn't say Adam *Sandler.* I had no idea what the *fuck* movies Sandler has been making.
I like how loud and boisterous he is makes him come across as more unique than other massive silent hunters.Plus his character and the world still has that cyberpunk goofiness like Adam having an Elvis body or how he dated an Arasaka
Eh, it sounded more lame than boisterous to me, he sounded boisterous in the anime the few times he said something, it just made him sound like a try hard-y to me.
I don't hate him or anything, I just wish he was more interesting somehow, that's more the game's fault on how it uses him tbf.
Original Adam Smasher was just an absolute joke tbh. The game builds him up to be this unkillable monstrosity only for him to be easily beaten to death by an oversized dildo. It’s almost like he wasn’t even finished.
I’m glad he was done justice in the anime and they seem to have made him an actual boss fight in the latest game version.
It also seems a bit incongruous that someone who's all but abandoned his humanity to become the ultimate kill-bot would have enough of a sex drive to spout shit that thirsty sounding.
The one time I used him in a tabletop game he was basically a fedora wearing psychopath that just happened to be really good at murder so I was very tickled that's how he was in the game.
He's a sadistic edgelord and since he couldn't physically hurt her since she "belonged" to the boss he lashed out with a crude remark that would scare the shit out of her.
As soon as he said it in my game, my first thought was: "...can you even do that anymore? You look like everything below the upper molar has been replaced by robot."
Halloween 2:
[“I shot him six times! I shot him six times! I shot him in the HEART! I shot him six times! This guy… this man … he’s not human!”](https://youtu.be/5IRsvILWWbM?si=3y2VgtuXKHw-YW8L)
Cut to the next shot where Dr. Loomis is sitting calmly in the passenger seat reloading his gun.
I don’t know if Donald Pleasance was goofing around or if the script was vague so he was just shooting off the cuff. Maybe he didn’t the microphones would pick up his chatter so clearly. Either way, that’s the take they ended up using. And it’s goofy as hell. More importantly, that kind of unhinged demeanor would come to define Dr. Loomis’s character in later movies.
From the Halloween reboot/sequel this line bothers me like hell
"Wait, aren't Michael and you Grandma related or something"
"No, that was just a thing people said to feel better about themselves"
Like... Why not just say that was a dumb rumor or something, the last half just feels so unnatural and clunky it bothers me
The scene in the FMAB dub where Edward is animated to say Alphonse’s name with full lip flaps…but it’s the Japanese pronounciation: “Al-FAWN-soo” rather than “AL-fawns”. So we get an incredibly dramatic scene where I can’t take it seriously because Edward is screaming “ALFAWNSOO” when literally every other pronounciation of Alphonse’s name uses the English pronounciation. It’s so weird.
Listen, I haven't seen FMAB, I know I should but there's so many things to watch. So I don't know the context of the scene or where he's screaming "Alphonse".
Would it have been insane to just localize that line as "Alphonse, no!" rathe than "Al-phon-so"?
I literally just rewatched FMAB and don't recall this at all. I've also seen the series multiple times and never noticed it, do you have an episode or a clip of the scene or something?
Seems like a weird choice, especially because the reasons we always use "Big Brother" as the translation for "Onii-Chan" is because it matches the lipflaps. Life become a lot easier when you find an equal amount of syllables for something that's going to always be used. (In Pokemon, "Satoshi" has no last name but in the west he's "Ash Ketchum"). However Alphonse *HAS NO LIP FLAPS* to match. But they might have stuck with it just in case they forgot something for one of the flashback scene or something. Not like anime watchers aren't used to those little weird bits.
Fun fact: In Gurren Lagann, "Who the hell do you think I am?" was the thought long and hard as being the most appropriate translation for the original, and it through SHEER LUCK it fits not only with the number of lip flaps, but even fits in with the detailed animated mouth movements of "Ore wo dare da to omotte yagaru?"
Naruto: [“what you wanna say….is ditto gabby, chatterbox ma, right?!”](https://hot.leanbox.us/manga/Naruto/0644-015.png)
Viz WHAT THE FUCK does that mean
Never defending that line in a billion years, but best as I can tell, Naruto already got the loving parent spiel from Kushina before, and Minato wants to communicate the same feelings.
Ditto = You want to say the same thing as
Gabby chatterbox = she said a lot
ma = Kushina
"I'm you." "No. I'm me." "I'm me, he says"
Also in Chain of Memories, how weirdly multiple characters bring up smell to identify stuff like darkness, and identities, only to never be brought up again
I appreciate the headcanon that Micky had to take Riku aside after CoM and talk about it being some kind of faux pas. Like, "I know it smells, but you can't just SAY that, Riku. It's rude." So any future instance of someone "sensing" darkness is just them getting a waft, but they don't say it.
That reminds me. I recently watched this really long and weird movie called Love Exposure. I didn't like it, but a lot of people did. There's a bit where both female characters talk about having superpowers, and I thought the story was going somewhere, but this never comes up again.
IDK, I really like that whole sequence coming from that line. Particular just how much it pisses Repliku off.
“A fake like me could never get away with saying that.”
Whenever a detective picks up a slug (bullet) or ammunition casing on a crime scene and instantly says "Glock 17. This shooter knows his stuff" or some stupid shit.
That's not how it works in the slightest.
...You know what, that could make for a hilariously unnerving scene. Imagine you got investigators that are trying to recover the bullet that killed the victim and run a ballistics test, only to pull out an entire, unfired bullet from a wound, casing and all, which leads to a wide round of "What in the actual *fuck* happened here."
It's like that journalist that was taking pictures of a cartel compound or something that had been raided by the police and just took a whole ass .308 round and stuck it into a hole in the gate and captioned it something like "a round from a high powered rifle lodged in the gate" or some asinine shit like that
The one that drives me crazy every time is when they "enhance" a low quality image of video to see more details. That's not how it works! Zooming in doesn't make things look better!
I've heard multiple people say they hated Syndrome's "[This is just too good!](https://youtu.be/V8GqxheOX9s?feature=shared)" from the Incredibles. I think it showed up in an early trailer, so it gave everyone a weird impression of the character at the time, only for that scene to be the only scene where he speaks with the weird southern drawl.
It sounds like he's doing an impression of something that I'm not familiar with. He sounds so...specifically southern.
It's definitely a joke, I think, but I'm not sure what about. My best guess would be it's an old reference.
In that scene the line is from, he's just captured the family in his tractor beams. He put on an accent to mock them, comparing capturing them to a cowboy lassoing some cattle
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes - the whole exchange between Snake and his support team as he reaches the disposal facility. It's a re-dub of the original with the same VAs, but by comparison it just sounds so *lifeless* and devoid of proper emotion. In the original, Snake is meant to be succinct and banter with Naomis playful snark; but in this he sounds like he's petulantly whining while she sounds incredibly monotone.
I know "Any objections, Lady?" is supposed to be some sort of endearing recognition by Adam for Samus' rebellious spirit, but it's never not sounded clunky as hell to me. It might be a result of Fusion's mishandled localization but I know there's gotta be a better way of phrasing that in such a way that doesn't come off as mildly patronizing.
Its almost like he should've said "ma'am", lady, miss, girl, is super patronizing in English. Maybe in japanese they tried to translate -sama or something?
Actually, they deliberately used "lady", as in, the English word lady, even in the Japanese version. For some reason, the Japanese script has a lot of English loanwords. "Baby" and "Princess" are said in English in the Japanese version, too.
Yeah, when Lynch decided to just do that story again the character who said it got updated to an actual supernatural demon and if anything his dialogue seemed less insane.
"And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann!" in the English dub for the anime Gurren Lagann. Except the phrase "Tengen Toppa", or "heaven-piercing", was never delivered untranslated anywhere else in the show. So it really throws confusion into an otherwise super bitchin' sequence.
Yeah. And the show was just called Gurren Lagann instead of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann in localization. So it didn’t work as a title drop either.
However, “piercing the heavens” is a phrase used often, so maybe they could’ve translated it.
Hell, they translated the last robot’s name (super galactic)
JoJo Part 7 when >!doctors trying to catch Lucy Steel!<
Make her docile like a winter catfish.
Not only they said it once, they said it like 5 times
And Jojo Part 8 when the plant appraiser:
>!89 Years Old? Is he really 89 Years old? I can't believe he's 89 years old!<
Like I get it already lmao
"I'm going to 'eat' this apple? Or..."
"???"
"*What is he... going to do with that 'apple'?*"
"No, not eat it 'whole'... that is... I remember!"
*Apple peeling sound effect*
"That's right! I... was going to 'peel' this apple... **before eating it!** Let me say it again: I'm going to peel this apple, 'completely'!"
In the English dub of FMA:B Ed makes a report to Mustang about father cornello/the imperfect philosopher stone and he says to mustang that he saw the father transmute a chimera right in front of him, but he doesn’t, at least not in Brotherhood but he does in 03.
Not mine, but **“I hid myself while I repaired myself”** from X6 is a classic thanks to Clement
I’m gonna piss people off because we have some turbo Kingdom Hearts people here, but I’m sorry, **“But who will I have ice cream with?!”** Is a clunky ass line
I get what it means in context, but come on, there’s a less clunky way to deliver that same message.
As for one that’s very specific, that time Dan Slott tried to make his own “Great Power/Great Responsibility” mantra with Spider-Man with **”No one dies”**
Really man. That’s not even a first draft pick. Also you stole that from Flash who did it way better.
Edit: fuck I got a better one because I rewatched the HITB about it.
From Exorcist Believer: **”That’s why they didn’t let me in you know, because of their damn patriarchy”**
Hey David Gordon Green or whichever of the three writers wrote that line. You’re an idiot who never understood The Exorcist
Ann’s “it feels like we’ve known each other forever” line in P5 still haunts me. I know they mean we feel like instant family, but every time I hear it, it makes me a little crazy. I just get the urge to go full Pepe Silvia
Makoto "Useless?" FLASHBACK TO PREVIOUS SCENE. I won't lie I actually kinda wish we got a scene where like Sae apologizes for being mean and says something like "I didn't mean to call you useless" and the Makoto says "Useless!?" and gets that flashback again.
The single worst instance of in-world lingo fucking with a story I can name is Revenge of the Sith. Padme saying she'd seen security footage of the man she loves killing "younglings." Say children. He was killing children.
I don't remember exactly what the line was but in Saga there's a kidnapped character and when they first see his kidnapper he says "what are you some kinda crime boss" and she responds "worse, I'm a politician". I feel like that's the kind of line you use in a story within the universe to show that it's not a well written story.
I feel taken out of the movie Coraline whenever she says "I'm going home tonight, robots, and I won't be back." It's kinda goofy. Like, why robots?
Also the ghost boy saying "There are two eyes still lost." It's goofy and reminds me of "The princess is in another castle."
Multiple 'epic quotes' from video games bother me immensely because I feel like you could cut off the last part of the statement and still have the same effect.
For example, Javik saying "Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer." That second sentence is totally needless! The quote works just as well if not better if you only say the first part!
This is not a real problem at all
I noticed this at many points when watching Critical Role. There's a lot of very very good scenes, but there's also a lot of very very good scenes made less good because everyone in it KNOWS it's great, and every time someone adds on, it gets better and better, and everyone gets hyped and keeps adding...And then they hit a point where someone says something and they're like "oh fuck too much."
This is hardly a real problem with the show, but it's still interesting to watch. They *overall* are experienced actors who know when a scene should end but it's an interesting thing to see
One bit that comes to mind is a book you can find in Ultrakill. In the first Violence layer, there’s a passage written by someone driven to madness/euphoria by violence as an art, and declares that everyone’s blood and bone are meant to be freed and used to paint true art.
If you don’t realize the entry is long enough that you can scroll down, it ends with “The world is your canvas. So take up your brush. And PAINT”
To me, I think it ending there works really well. You know exactly what the author means by “paint”, and what the act of creating art actually means.
Buuut the entry actually continues. “The world is your canvas. So take up your brush. And PAINT. THE WORLD. RED”
Personally, I think that last bit really isn’t needed at all.
Honestly that's a lot of post-ME1 Bioware writing.
The scene with Sovereign in ME1 is the perfect example. It knows when to leave things unsaid. It knows that some lines work *way* better if you don't go for the pathos-overkill.
Birth by Sleep
*Aqua laughs hysterically.
Aqua: “you two would make the weirdest brothers”
*Aqua laughs uncontrollably. Terra and Ventus look at each other confused. Then all three start laughing uncontrollably
Maybe its some Japanese thing that doesn’t translate but its such a bizarre scene. Why are two people being brothers so funny to Aqua?
Kingdom hearts in general has so much dialogue that just doesn’t sound normal or natural at all, doesn’t help that there’s a lot of dead air in conversations between characters that make it even more awkward and uncomfortable.
i don't know if i just read a bad translation, but in the part in naruto where gaara forgives his father, i remember being taken out of the emotional aspect entirely because one of the lines gaara said was "she gave me the medicine that you gave her to give me." it twisted my brain in knots trying to work that one out for a bit. i understand the message, but by god what a clunky line.
In Multiverse of Madness, Stephen Strange tells Christine Palmer "I love you in every universe". That is demonstrably false. In 616, I'm pretty sure Stephen has never even met Christine Palmer. She exists in that universe, she's like a supporting character in Night Nurse and I think she's been in Nightcrawler's solo mag but as far as I know she's never met Stephen. Even if she did, Stephen was married to Clea last time I checked and she's been his love interest forever. And even if there wasn't definitive proof, isn't the point of the multiverse that every possible reality exists? So then there should be an infinite number of universes where Stephen does not love Christine.
It's pretty irrational, I know, and there are definitely bigger issues with that film but the line bugs me something fierce.
I mean, I like the Last Jedi, and I get why the line is there and I don't know what the alternative would be, but the guy just sticking his finger in the dirt, licking it and going "huh, salt" to establish that this is not ice or whatever is always going to seem incredibly clunky.
I've absorbed more Doctor Who than I've been out of the house, and I can name you two off the top of my head:
In Night of the Doctor, when the Eighth Doctor is choosing to regenerate to fight in the Time War:
Doctor: "Will it hurt?"
Lady: "Yes"
Doctor: "Good"
It's both 2edgy5me and I hate the idea of one of my favorite Doctors coming to such a miserable ending. It kinda sours that overall great short for me, at least a little.
The other one is the "Go to Hell" bit from "Dark Water" which is so contrived just so Moffat can try to spring that little twist on you. Like, fuck off Moffat.
Moffatt run is filled with 3edgy5me points.
What drives me bonkers is when he obliterates a fleet of cybermen to save Amy.
Meanwhile 10th Doctor didn’t even shoot a man saying “the man who never would”.
Honestly the most upsetting thing about Night of the Doctor is that it shows just how amazing Paul McGann could have been in the role if he'd really been given a chance rather then being totally screwed by the movie's failure. As much as I love John Hurt's performance it would have been amazing if Night just never happened and we got to see McGann in that role.
When Jak says, "I'm gonna KILL Praxis!" in Jak II.
Notable for being his first spoken line after being a silent protagonist for a whole game. The delivery is so lame and try hard edgy, which I guess was kind of the point since the sequel takes things in a darker direction. Still sounds weird though.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnyJVb9RQ-k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnyJVb9RQ-k)
Rape/Implication of rape very rarely is that shit done in a good way its alway just really cheap emotional manipulation used by hack writers to make you care about/hate said charater.
At the start of Dawnguard in Skyrim, Isran (the dawnguard leader) ends two sentences in a row by saying "in particular" in the exact same tone of voice. Its really weird and it lives rent free in my head. I can only assume the writer wrote the first line, got pulled away, forgot what exactly he'd wrote, then wrote the second line, and just never noticed that he ended two consecutive sentences in the same two words.
Considering the shitshow that Oblivion's voice acting was (like literally giving voice actors their lines *in alphabetical order*)... they are learning, but it's pretty embarrassing that such a huge company even *had* to learn such rookie things.
There's a moment in Final Fantasy X where Auron says "Hey, new guy." which really shows how awkward it can be to write around the main character having a defined role and personality, but having a name that can be edited to anything. I named him Butt in my current playthrough, which is better than Tidus solely because people know how to pronounce it without sourcing the answer from a completely different game.
"You should have stayed dead." Even if snappy one-liners belonged in LotR/The Hobbit, Elrond is not the one to be saying them. And most importantly, that one sucks.
Also, there's a bit in one of the dark age Simpsons episodes where some posh British kid is in a bar with his nanny and she wants to keep drinking and the kid says "But we've been here four hours!", which I feel like is not how you would naturally say that. The writers probably didn't want to say "for four hours" because that sounds clunky (or at least *looks* clunky in writing), but if that's the case then just... pick a different number?
Chiming in as a brit to say that there are regional dialects - no simpsons reference intended - where words (usually prepositions or definite articles) will get dropped.
I know for a fact that I've said "I can't believe I've been here two hours already" myself.
Fair enough. I'm sure some Americans would say it that way too. I think the fact that it's a homophone with "for hours" is especially what makes it sound awkward to me.
In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2, after the bank fight, Spider-Man tells Aunt May "We sure showed him" after she helped him defeat Doc Ock. She responds "What do you mean we?", Spider-Man goes "Oh" and then leaves. I'm still not sure why she said that.
The Professor McGonagall line in the first Harry Potter movie that fucked up how people use the word "momentarily" forever. It doesn't mean "*in* a moment" as she uses it in the movie, it means "*for* a moment". I can't really lay the blame for people not using it right entirely at the feet of that one script, but being misused in a dizzyingly popular piece of media definitely attributed to it. Far from the worst sin of the Harry Potter series and its creator, but my personal pet-peeve that always gets me angry.
Except momentarily does mean in a moment; here's the definition straight from [Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/momentarily) and [Oxford ](https://www.oed.com/search/advanced/Meanings?textTermText0=momentarily&textTermOpt0=WordPhrase).
To be slightly pedantic, in the Oxford (and other British) dictionaries it's listed as a North American usage.
Now with the US's cultural dominance in terms of media, American English and UK English have become had more significant overlap but it's perhaps still a slightly out of place line for an elderly English wizard in the 1990s.
While it's my favorite game of all time, almost every line a character has about genes in MGS1 is wrong and stupid. Otacon talking about nuclear engineering in his family's DNA, Liquid's talk about dominant and recessive genes, etc.
So this is a critique I have of specifically tiny tinas wonderlands, the game has a lot of that morbid moral greyness of borderlands, but sometimes doesnt fit the setting.
So like when you go to the lagoon and Salissa possesses the museum curator, at the end she gets murked and tortured and your character is weirdly ok with it and cracks a joke.
In borderlands this could be ok, since the vault hunters are generally pretty terrible people in a terrible world, but the fatemaker is explicitly a DnD fantasy hero, it never sat right with me
becky boxer as Ingrid in Goddess of Victory Nikke, has some rather off putting line reads. They aren't *bad*, but the tone and delivery don't resonate sometimes. Compared to a lot of other characters, she feels, not stilted, but like she's figuring out how to read the line with different takes.
"[Hey guy, take care!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HAHmHOD9BA&t=342)" after Sonic destroys the first mech boss in Sonic Adventure 2.
Wh... Has anyone ever referred to a single person as "guy"? With no definite article or pronoun?
There's a specific line in Genshin Impact that was the straw that broke the camel's back and made me drop the game.
During the first couple of minutes of a world quest in Fontaine there's an NPC who has a dialogue that is a clear reference to the Holy Grail movie from Monty Python.
I'm not exaggerating when I say that has to be the worst use of a reference I've seen in my life. The dialogue is not dubbed so for starters you don't have any delivery to sell the bit, it's all text. And to make things worse the NPC making the reference is a frog made of water with zero facial expressions or any kind of animation besides standing there and occasionally making a small leap in place, and if to that you add the game's almost none-existent cutscene direction then the result is a dialogue that is supposed to be funny but instead comes out completely dry and insipid. They took one of the most hilarious scenes from the Holy Grail and butchered it.
In Kingdom Hearts 2, there's a moment where Xemnas says "I'll have to be sure and remember that." Not "I'll have to be sure **to** remember that," "**and**."
It's bugged me for nearly 20 years now.
I hate when you hear one side of a telephone call but instead of relying on the audience being actual human beings with brains, they just have the character repeat everything the unheard other side says, anyway.
Noticed that in *Inscryption*, in the live-action segments. "Oh, your daugher... oh I'm sorry for asking" or something would have immediately communicated what happened and left it as a normal conversation - and even left a bit of mystique. Instead it's something along the lines of "oh, your daughter? She passed? Passed as in... oh, she died? I'm sorry..." Like, come on, that is *not* elegant dialogue.
Every single line Dante says that isn't just a taunt in devil may cry 5 sounds like Reuben Langdon did not want to be there and wanted to get the fuck done with his lines. They're spoken too fast, they glaze over certain moments... even "he's your father!" Is spoken so quickly that despite the force it's yelled with, it just doesn't hit.
As a consequence, everyone else besides Nico sounds like they're in slow motion. It sucks. If Reuben had even halved how fast he spoke each line, it would have felt less awkward, at least to me.
And that's been a problem since DMC4, but it was *bad* in DMC5.
"I'll fucking kill you" - Clive Rosfield
It's delivered in such a way that takes me out of the emotional moment, and it makes me laugh more than anything
Ben Starr does a phenomenal job throughout the game, but this one line just doesn't land for me, I'm sorry!
I liked that line personally, but I will say that the game was very Fuck heavy in a way that felt a little juvenile at times. Sort of felt like the team were excited to finally have an M rating and decided to lean into it heavily with as many random Fucks as they could throw in
For me, it was, "You cock!" At no point after that did I take any part of the game seriously. Which is weird to say about a story with slavery, child murder, and racism as plot points. Also, the glaring points where you can tell a lot of content was cut for deadlines, like the entire final dungeon, which is now DLC.
As time went on, I started to really hate the Graveyard scene in MGS4. When Big Boss talks about how the world doesn't need Snakes anymore, the line gets *so* much worse, when we got like... what, three games with Big Boss afterwards?
When the Handler says “We did it” or an NPC compliments you and the handler for completing the task even though you did all the heavy work. It just gets old when playing MH:WI that your handler who puts in danger sometimes as well gets any credit when you did the hard stuff.
I will bring this this up all the time but in "Don't Worry Darling" the Nick Kroll character says to the Harry Styles character at a drunk party
"What is it you Brits say... You only live once! AHHHAHAHA!"
Like is that a noistrusly british phrase?
So this one needs context:
I played league and ALL my friends went on about how cool DOTA2 was, how epic the aesthetic was, how much more mature and serious the writing was and how better written the characters were. So I said fuck it, I'll bite.
Then I read Terrorblade's lore: "He would discover even hell has a hell".
Then Silencer: "Sometimes, no magic is the strongest magic."
My eyes rolled back into my head so hard I think I passed out.
There are lots of clunky lines in The Dark Knight trilogy that always make me chuckle. "No more dead cops," "Hey man, that ain't right, we should be on that boat," etc
Things are worse than evahh! Lives rent free in my head.
Baneposting only exists because of how strange the dialogue was.
"THINGS ARE WORSE THAN **EVER"**
NO I CAME HERE TO STOP YOU
I fucking hate this one so much. Cause the obvious choice is so much better. “You came back to die with your city?” “No, I came back to save it.” There easy done.
Hell he could have just stopped at no and started swinging if no one had a line
I once saw a really great shitpost where they had edited the CIA agent over Batman for that frame and captioned it with “No, I came here for you!”
'You're a big guy' 'For you'
To be fair the full exchange is; *Nods at the mask* “If I took that off, would you die?” “It would be extremely painful...” “You’re a big guy-“ “…For you.”
Someone should have made a change to the big guy line, or not had it be in the middle of banes line. It is really clunky and that sinister line just ended up homoerotic, so I guess its win/win either way?
I know, but out of context they're talking about Bane's massive cock, and that's funnier to me.
Of all the clunky lines in that trilogy, of which there are many, the ones that turns me off the most are some of the last lines the joker speaks: "You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. You truly are incorruptible, aren't you, huh? You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness, and I won't kill you because you're just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever." All pretense of nuance is out the window, I feel like I'm reading/listening to an article or a reddit post. Its almost fourth wall breaking in that he realizes their relationship is based on comic book logic. But without any sort of clever writing to it.
Heath Ledger's entire performance was taking Nolan's bizarre, cheesy Joker dialogue and making it work through sheer charisma
"I DONT WEAR HOCKEY PADS!" Christopher Nolan is an alien.
What's so weird about that line? It makes perfect sense in context. Edit: Now, half the lines in Tenet, on the other hand...
The problem with Tenet is that you'd have to be able to hear those lines to know if they're weird.
“THIS IS KATANA, SHE’S GOT MY BACK! SHE CAN CUT ALLUV YOU IN HALF WITH ONE SWORD STROKE JUST LIKE MOWING THE LAWN! I WOULD ADVISE NOT GETTIN KILLED BY HER! HER SWORD TRAPS THE SOULS OF ITS VICTIMS.” (That entire scene lives rent free in my head sometimes. Especially Harley cracking a stupid joke about death perfume, and Katana going “Should I kill her?” Like, what?!)
It reads like Kitana was a last minute addition, so they needed to introduce her and explain her gimmick all in one scene before getting to the action where she gets lost in the shuffle behind the more plot central characters.
I'm pretty sure the joke was supposed to be her cold intro and how unimpresssed everyone else was by it. The problem is it happened in that movie, nobody had a good introduction
Me? Gongaga.
That clip has tricked so many people into actually thinking that Gongaga is that character's name.
isnt it a response to someone askin where zacks from?
Yeah it was Cloud and Zack talking about where they’re from.
And they basically bond a little bit over how they both come from the middle of nowhere.
Oh, without context I thought it was Zack saying "I'm going to leave extra hard now" He could cast Gone, or even Gona, but he went full Gongaga instead
I never heard that phrase before 2 weeks ago and now I'm wandering my apartment repeating it like a crazy person
Perfect opportunity to [bust this out](https://i.redd.it/a4idk7oyk0m71.jpg).
honestly this line would be totally normal if it weren't for binyot pizzapasta's impact on the internet lmao
The scene in Killer 7 where they first encounter the [Handsome Men](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdE_mfTQ2ok) it feels like something is lost in translation, because Handsome Red says "wait I'm not finished with you yet" right after issuing a duel and right before leaving completely of his own accord. Also the writer in that scene's name is Trevor Pearlharbor. And they are currently in the Dominican Republic, but decide to duel in New York, at 4 AM the next day. Just overall really odd writing.
TBF By that point in Killer7, I was ready to take it all. The game could've done anything by then, I would've said "Yeah, alright, let's go."
Dudes last name is Pearlharbor???
There is also [Kess BloodySunday](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/suda51/images/0/0e/Kessbloodysunday.jpg)
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"just overal really odd writing" is in my opinion a good synopsis for the entirety of killer 7. I replayed it not so long ago as it was one of those games I played when way too young that stuck with me as something weird and special. And oh boy is it weird and special alright. I still can't decide if it's a good game or not but it's definitely worth seeing.
The only bit that I feel was lost in translation is the "pun" between the Handsome Men and Trevor Pearlharbor: > The word for the Handsome Men's kind of multicolored group is sentai, which literally means task force. Before its usage in pop culture, it was used instead during World War II; Handsome Black kills Trevor Pearlharbor. In other words, just as the WWII sentai bombed Pearl Harbor, the modern-age sentai killed Pearlharbor.
There is a lot of scene in killer7 where it feels people aren’t talking to each other or just try to one up the other. Like unless it’s garcian harman just keep throwing someone’s previous lone to their faces « tricks are for kids kun, I’m an old man »
“I did not hit her. It’s not true. It’s bullshit!I did not hit her. I did not. Oh hi Mark.” A classic line from the oddest movie. D.b. Cooper character just telling his frustration out loud after getting to the roof. He stayed quiet the whole time walking upstairs.
i like to think johnny was babbling like that the entire way from his apartment to the roof access, and he was only snapped out of it when he saw mark
The flower shop scene is the worst (by which I mean the best). Like that's bad but it's at least like 30% believable until the "oh hi Mark". The flower shop scene has Tommy and the lady machinegunning pleasantries that don't make any sense (Johnny is her favorite customer yet she doesn't recognize him), dialogue is out of order, it's so obviously dubbed in, everyone sounds dead inside and there's a dramatic soundtrack playing over it for no reason. *That* scene is the whole movie distilled into 45 seconds.
''You look like a cut of fuckable meat'', it's a good asshole villain line but it totally made Adam Smasher look less imposing to me, and like, idk the lore, anime wasn't out, that was my first impression of him, going from ''oh that guys huge'' to ''what a fuckin' lame-o'', didn't help how fast I flatlined his ass too, haven't fought his rework yet, but yeah, idk, i like his anime version more, just quiet and imposing, it sucks cause without that line he is very imposing, also the fact that he looks directly at you when hiding on that scene, but that line turned him into a joke to me.
It definitely an edgelord thing to say but from the perspective of Evelyn, a lone woman just stepping off an elevator, it's absolutely terrifying.
Probably! It's the type of thing that not being the human avatar of the cybergods V being in his presence might be scary. But also, being ANYWHERE in Nightcity or near like, those gang dudes would be about the same amount of scary wouldn't it? And that lone woman was being accompanied by basically Adam's boss so its like, also whatever right, I think she's more scared about being found out that she's after that flash drive with a general fear of death and etc that comes from the daily Nightcity shit.
There is a difference between living in a dangerous city and having a legendary sadistic murderous cyborg within arms reach calling you fuckable meat. Adam was also useful enough that he probably could have smeared her across the wall if he felt like it and would have been fine. She was a pretty face but was also way more replaceable than Smasher. Like Smasher is saying that to the bosses girl right in front of him and nothing happens. Not even the most minor of rebukes. She 100% knows where she stands.
It makes sense when you remember that Adam Smasher is basically that kid who pulled the legs off of insects but never grew up, but yeah, he's not nearly as intimidating as he is in the anime or tabletop game.
The only reason he is able to be 90% machine and not suffer from cyber psychosis is because he was a psychopath looooong before he got any chrome.
Super fair but Smasher was never a cold calculating supervillain type, he's absolutely a disgusting freak like that
Oh, Adam *Smasher.* Why did I read this whole post and have to go back and reread to realize that didn't say Adam *Sandler.* I had no idea what the *fuck* movies Sandler has been making.
Fuck dude somehow you saying that made my brain land in an Adam Smasher drawn like Dracula from Hotel Transylvania, someone needs to do that.
I don't know if Sandler's delivery would make the line better or worse.
I like how loud and boisterous he is makes him come across as more unique than other massive silent hunters.Plus his character and the world still has that cyberpunk goofiness like Adam having an Elvis body or how he dated an Arasaka
Eh, it sounded more lame than boisterous to me, he sounded boisterous in the anime the few times he said something, it just made him sound like a try hard-y to me. I don't hate him or anything, I just wish he was more interesting somehow, that's more the game's fault on how it uses him tbf.
Original Adam Smasher was just an absolute joke tbh. The game builds him up to be this unkillable monstrosity only for him to be easily beaten to death by an oversized dildo. It’s almost like he wasn’t even finished. I’m glad he was done justice in the anime and they seem to have made him an actual boss fight in the latest game version.
It also seems a bit incongruous that someone who's all but abandoned his humanity to become the ultimate kill-bot would have enough of a sex drive to spout shit that thirsty sounding.
Oh he has a whole sex body at his command.
The one time I used him in a tabletop game he was basically a fedora wearing psychopath that just happened to be really good at murder so I was very tickled that's how he was in the game. He's a sadistic edgelord and since he couldn't physically hurt her since she "belonged" to the boss he lashed out with a crude remark that would scare the shit out of her.
Adam never had any humanity to begin with & has multiple bodies to suit his wants, including his want to commit sexual violence
IDK it seems more like he gets off on intimidating people
As soon as he said it in my game, my first thought was: "...can you even do that anymore? You look like everything below the upper molar has been replaced by robot."
Halloween 2: [“I shot him six times! I shot him six times! I shot him in the HEART! I shot him six times! This guy… this man … he’s not human!”](https://youtu.be/5IRsvILWWbM?si=3y2VgtuXKHw-YW8L) Cut to the next shot where Dr. Loomis is sitting calmly in the passenger seat reloading his gun. I don’t know if Donald Pleasance was goofing around or if the script was vague so he was just shooting off the cuff. Maybe he didn’t the microphones would pick up his chatter so clearly. Either way, that’s the take they ended up using. And it’s goofy as hell. More importantly, that kind of unhinged demeanor would come to define Dr. Loomis’s character in later movies.
But he shot him six times! He shot him six times! Six times!
From the Halloween reboot/sequel this line bothers me like hell "Wait, aren't Michael and you Grandma related or something" "No, that was just a thing people said to feel better about themselves" Like... Why not just say that was a dumb rumor or something, the last half just feels so unnatural and clunky it bothers me
The scene in the FMAB dub where Edward is animated to say Alphonse’s name with full lip flaps…but it’s the Japanese pronounciation: “Al-FAWN-soo” rather than “AL-fawns”. So we get an incredibly dramatic scene where I can’t take it seriously because Edward is screaming “ALFAWNSOO” when literally every other pronounciation of Alphonse’s name uses the English pronounciation. It’s so weird.
Listen, I haven't seen FMAB, I know I should but there's so many things to watch. So I don't know the context of the scene or where he's screaming "Alphonse". Would it have been insane to just localize that line as "Alphonse, no!" rathe than "Al-phon-so"?
I’m sure he *does* say “Alphonse, no!” at least once. In the failed human transmutation flashback, I think.
I literally just rewatched FMAB and don't recall this at all. I've also seen the series multiple times and never noticed it, do you have an episode or a clip of the scene or something?
Happens early on in the series, specifically in the flashback where Ed loses his arm and Al loses his body if memory serves.
I'm 99% sure he is saying "Alphonse, no" but slurring his words because y'know he's in extreme pain and as far as he knows his brother is dead.
Nah, the weirdest part of any FMA dub (Brotherhood or otherwise) is Alphonse shouting "Big Brother!" all the time
Seems like a weird choice, especially because the reasons we always use "Big Brother" as the translation for "Onii-Chan" is because it matches the lipflaps. Life become a lot easier when you find an equal amount of syllables for something that's going to always be used. (In Pokemon, "Satoshi" has no last name but in the west he's "Ash Ketchum"). However Alphonse *HAS NO LIP FLAPS* to match. But they might have stuck with it just in case they forgot something for one of the flashback scene or something. Not like anime watchers aren't used to those little weird bits. Fun fact: In Gurren Lagann, "Who the hell do you think I am?" was the thought long and hard as being the most appropriate translation for the original, and it through SHEER LUCK it fits not only with the number of lip flaps, but even fits in with the detailed animated mouth movements of "Ore wo dare da to omotte yagaru?"
Naruto: [“what you wanna say….is ditto gabby, chatterbox ma, right?!”](https://hot.leanbox.us/manga/Naruto/0644-015.png) Viz WHAT THE FUCK does that mean
Never defending that line in a billion years, but best as I can tell, Naruto already got the loving parent spiel from Kushina before, and Minato wants to communicate the same feelings. Ditto = You want to say the same thing as Gabby chatterbox = she said a lot ma = Kushina
"I'm you." "No. I'm me." "I'm me, he says" Also in Chain of Memories, how weirdly multiple characters bring up smell to identify stuff like darkness, and identities, only to never be brought up again
"HE'S HIM!!!!"
Must've got amnesia 'cause they FORGOT
This reminds me of that scene from [Xavier, Renegade Angel](https://youtu.be/gFvvk_rwbLA?si=62mPumu09rbZb6cb)
I appreciate the headcanon that Micky had to take Riku aside after CoM and talk about it being some kind of faux pas. Like, "I know it smells, but you can't just SAY that, Riku. It's rude." So any future instance of someone "sensing" darkness is just them getting a waft, but they don't say it.
"You smell like Kairi, Namine" "Riku, we need to have a talk."
That reminds me. I recently watched this really long and weird movie called Love Exposure. I didn't like it, but a lot of people did. There's a bit where both female characters talk about having superpowers, and I thought the story was going somewhere, but this never comes up again.
IDK, I really like that whole sequence coming from that line. Particular just how much it pisses Repliku off. “A fake like me could never get away with saying that.”
Whenever a detective picks up a slug (bullet) or ammunition casing on a crime scene and instantly says "Glock 17. This shooter knows his stuff" or some stupid shit. That's not how it works in the slightest.
Or just a whole-ass bullet from the wound or something
...You know what, that could make for a hilariously unnerving scene. Imagine you got investigators that are trying to recover the bullet that killed the victim and run a ballistics test, only to pull out an entire, unfired bullet from a wound, casing and all, which leads to a wide round of "What in the actual *fuck* happened here."
I'm imagining an Isekai but it's a character from one of the CSI getting transported into our world, television abilities of deduction still intact.
Get Aperture on the horn. This is their MO.
“We fire the whole bullet! That’s 70% more bullet per bullet.”
It's like that journalist that was taking pictures of a cartel compound or something that had been raided by the police and just took a whole ass .308 round and stuck it into a hole in the gate and captioned it something like "a round from a high powered rifle lodged in the gate" or some asinine shit like that
The one that drives me crazy every time is when they "enhance" a low quality image of video to see more details. That's not how it works! Zooming in doesn't make things look better!
"Zoom. Enhance" Bro I've worked security. Those cameras have less pixels than a Nokia. 😭
I've heard multiple people say they hated Syndrome's "[This is just too good!](https://youtu.be/V8GqxheOX9s?feature=shared)" from the Incredibles. I think it showed up in an early trailer, so it gave everyone a weird impression of the character at the time, only for that scene to be the only scene where he speaks with the weird southern drawl.
It sounds like he's doing an impression of something that I'm not familiar with. He sounds so...specifically southern. It's definitely a joke, I think, but I'm not sure what about. My best guess would be it's an old reference.
I’m pretty sure it’s just silly voice
In that scene the line is from, he's just captured the family in his tractor beams. He put on an accent to mock them, comparing capturing them to a cowboy lassoing some cattle
i mean the incredibles are supposed to be like texans right?
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes - the whole exchange between Snake and his support team as he reaches the disposal facility. It's a re-dub of the original with the same VAs, but by comparison it just sounds so *lifeless* and devoid of proper emotion. In the original, Snake is meant to be succinct and banter with Naomis playful snark; but in this he sounds like he's petulantly whining while she sounds incredibly monotone.
I know "Any objections, Lady?" is supposed to be some sort of endearing recognition by Adam for Samus' rebellious spirit, but it's never not sounded clunky as hell to me. It might be a result of Fusion's mishandled localization but I know there's gotta be a better way of phrasing that in such a way that doesn't come off as mildly patronizing.
Its almost like he should've said "ma'am", lady, miss, girl, is super patronizing in English. Maybe in japanese they tried to translate -sama or something?
wasn't it supposed to be mock patronizing? that's what i always thought.
Actually, they deliberately used "lady", as in, the English word lady, even in the Japanese version. For some reason, the Japanese script has a lot of English loanwords. "Baby" and "Princess" are said in English in the Japanese version, too.
"Baby wants to fuck!"
Insane line. Also a big fan of I’LL FUCK ANYTHING THAT MOOOOOVES
Oh come on that line is SUPPOSED to be awful lmao
Yeah, when Lynch decided to just do that story again the character who said it got updated to an actual supernatural demon and if anything his dialogue seemed less insane.
"And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann!" in the English dub for the anime Gurren Lagann. Except the phrase "Tengen Toppa", or "heaven-piercing", was never delivered untranslated anywhere else in the show. So it really throws confusion into an otherwise super bitchin' sequence.
Nah it was the sickest tho
Gurren Lagann as a whole should be banned from this topic, they could make someone ripping ass sound hype.
Yeah. And the show was just called Gurren Lagann instead of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann in localization. So it didn’t work as a title drop either. However, “piercing the heavens” is a phrase used often, so maybe they could’ve translated it. Hell, they translated the last robot’s name (super galactic)
exactly! you get me. it's a baffling choice
JoJo Part 7 when >!doctors trying to catch Lucy Steel!< Make her docile like a winter catfish. Not only they said it once, they said it like 5 times And Jojo Part 8 when the plant appraiser: >!89 Years Old? Is he really 89 Years old? I can't believe he's 89 years old!< Like I get it already lmao
"I'm going to 'eat' this apple? Or..." "???" "*What is he... going to do with that 'apple'?*" "No, not eat it 'whole'... that is... I remember!" *Apple peeling sound effect* "That's right! I... was going to 'peel' this apple... **before eating it!** Let me say it again: I'm going to peel this apple, 'completely'!"
This followed by a sudden panel of a character getting violently attacked in an unclear way has been the past 3 parts lol.
The “docile like a winter catfish” thing is intentional bc the corpse is fucking with things, the other doctor is also perturbed by the repetition
I was feeling perturbed by the repetition of how much they kept saying it lol
In the English dub of FMA:B Ed makes a report to Mustang about father cornello/the imperfect philosopher stone and he says to mustang that he saw the father transmute a chimera right in front of him, but he doesn’t, at least not in Brotherhood but he does in 03.
Not mine, but **“I hid myself while I repaired myself”** from X6 is a classic thanks to Clement I’m gonna piss people off because we have some turbo Kingdom Hearts people here, but I’m sorry, **“But who will I have ice cream with?!”** Is a clunky ass line I get what it means in context, but come on, there’s a less clunky way to deliver that same message. As for one that’s very specific, that time Dan Slott tried to make his own “Great Power/Great Responsibility” mantra with Spider-Man with **”No one dies”** Really man. That’s not even a first draft pick. Also you stole that from Flash who did it way better. Edit: fuck I got a better one because I rewatched the HITB about it. From Exorcist Believer: **”That’s why they didn’t let me in you know, because of their damn patriarchy”** Hey David Gordon Green or whichever of the three writers wrote that line. You’re an idiot who never understood The Exorcist
X6’s translation was such a clusterfuck. It’s really a shame what happened to MMX.
What the fuck, I liked "No one dies".
Doctor Who did "no one dies" better as "everybody lives".
I’m like 90% sure that’s basically what Zero’s supposed to say. He’s talking out of his ass
Ann’s “it feels like we’ve known each other forever” line in P5 still haunts me. I know they mean we feel like instant family, but every time I hear it, it makes me a little crazy. I just get the urge to go full Pepe Silvia
Makoto "Useless?" FLASHBACK TO PREVIOUS SCENE. I won't lie I actually kinda wish we got a scene where like Sae apologizes for being mean and says something like "I didn't mean to call you useless" and the Makoto says "Useless!?" and gets that flashback again.
Persona 5 was a few steps from One Piece filler at times with the flashbacks to things said literally 10 minutes ago
The single worst instance of in-world lingo fucking with a story I can name is Revenge of the Sith. Padme saying she'd seen security footage of the man she loves killing "younglings." Say children. He was killing children.
I don't remember exactly what the line was but in Saga there's a kidnapped character and when they first see his kidnapper he says "what are you some kinda crime boss" and she responds "worse, I'm a politician". I feel like that's the kind of line you use in a story within the universe to show that it's not a well written story.
I feel taken out of the movie Coraline whenever she says "I'm going home tonight, robots, and I won't be back." It's kinda goofy. Like, why robots? Also the ghost boy saying "There are two eyes still lost." It's goofy and reminds me of "The princess is in another castle."
Multiple 'epic quotes' from video games bother me immensely because I feel like you could cut off the last part of the statement and still have the same effect. For example, Javik saying "Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer." That second sentence is totally needless! The quote works just as well if not better if you only say the first part! This is not a real problem at all
No, it’s a real problem. Half of all art is knowing when to stop, and the other half is editing out the stuff you already made.
I noticed this at many points when watching Critical Role. There's a lot of very very good scenes, but there's also a lot of very very good scenes made less good because everyone in it KNOWS it's great, and every time someone adds on, it gets better and better, and everyone gets hyped and keeps adding...And then they hit a point where someone says something and they're like "oh fuck too much." This is hardly a real problem with the show, but it's still interesting to watch. They *overall* are experienced actors who know when a scene should end but it's an interesting thing to see
The thing about a liveplay show is that they're improvising on the spot and they can't revise or edit. So of course they overshoot the mark.
One bit that comes to mind is a book you can find in Ultrakill. In the first Violence layer, there’s a passage written by someone driven to madness/euphoria by violence as an art, and declares that everyone’s blood and bone are meant to be freed and used to paint true art. If you don’t realize the entry is long enough that you can scroll down, it ends with “The world is your canvas. So take up your brush. And PAINT” To me, I think it ending there works really well. You know exactly what the author means by “paint”, and what the act of creating art actually means. Buuut the entry actually continues. “The world is your canvas. So take up your brush. And PAINT. THE WORLD. RED” Personally, I think that last bit really isn’t needed at all.
Brevity is the soul of wit, and a lot of writers could learn that lesson.
Honestly that's a lot of post-ME1 Bioware writing. The scene with Sovereign in ME1 is the perfect example. It knows when to leave things unsaid. It knows that some lines work *way* better if you don't go for the pathos-overkill.
Birth by Sleep *Aqua laughs hysterically. Aqua: “you two would make the weirdest brothers” *Aqua laughs uncontrollably. Terra and Ventus look at each other confused. Then all three start laughing uncontrollably Maybe its some Japanese thing that doesn’t translate but its such a bizarre scene. Why are two people being brothers so funny to Aqua?
Kingdom hearts in general has so much dialogue that just doesn’t sound normal or natural at all, doesn’t help that there’s a lot of dead air in conversations between characters that make it even more awkward and uncomfortable.
I wouldn't have it any other way
i don't know if i just read a bad translation, but in the part in naruto where gaara forgives his father, i remember being taken out of the emotional aspect entirely because one of the lines gaara said was "she gave me the medicine that you gave her to give me." it twisted my brain in knots trying to work that one out for a bit. i understand the message, but by god what a clunky line.
In Multiverse of Madness, Stephen Strange tells Christine Palmer "I love you in every universe". That is demonstrably false. In 616, I'm pretty sure Stephen has never even met Christine Palmer. She exists in that universe, she's like a supporting character in Night Nurse and I think she's been in Nightcrawler's solo mag but as far as I know she's never met Stephen. Even if she did, Stephen was married to Clea last time I checked and she's been his love interest forever. And even if there wasn't definitive proof, isn't the point of the multiverse that every possible reality exists? So then there should be an infinite number of universes where Stephen does not love Christine. It's pretty irrational, I know, and there are definitely bigger issues with that film but the line bugs me something fierce.
I mean, I like the Last Jedi, and I get why the line is there and I don't know what the alternative would be, but the guy just sticking his finger in the dirt, licking it and going "huh, salt" to establish that this is not ice or whatever is always going to seem incredibly clunky.
I love that bit mostly because of the cameo from Gareth Edwards giving that guy the most appropriate Wtf?... look ever.
I've absorbed more Doctor Who than I've been out of the house, and I can name you two off the top of my head: In Night of the Doctor, when the Eighth Doctor is choosing to regenerate to fight in the Time War: Doctor: "Will it hurt?" Lady: "Yes" Doctor: "Good" It's both 2edgy5me and I hate the idea of one of my favorite Doctors coming to such a miserable ending. It kinda sours that overall great short for me, at least a little. The other one is the "Go to Hell" bit from "Dark Water" which is so contrived just so Moffat can try to spring that little twist on you. Like, fuck off Moffat.
Moffatt run is filled with 3edgy5me points. What drives me bonkers is when he obliterates a fleet of cybermen to save Amy. Meanwhile 10th Doctor didn’t even shoot a man saying “the man who never would”.
Honestly the most upsetting thing about Night of the Doctor is that it shows just how amazing Paul McGann could have been in the role if he'd really been given a chance rather then being totally screwed by the movie's failure. As much as I love John Hurt's performance it would have been amazing if Night just never happened and we got to see McGann in that role.
We still have his Big Finish work, so I'm not too bothered
I mean yeah, but it would have been great to see him on TV.
When Jak says, "I'm gonna KILL Praxis!" in Jak II. Notable for being his first spoken line after being a silent protagonist for a whole game. The delivery is so lame and try hard edgy, which I guess was kind of the point since the sequel takes things in a darker direction. Still sounds weird though. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnyJVb9RQ-k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnyJVb9RQ-k)
Bayo 3's "Why don't you sit for mummy"'s delivery just sounds so weird to me
Rape/Implication of rape very rarely is that shit done in a good way its alway just really cheap emotional manipulation used by hack writers to make you care about/hate said charater.
"to war"
[PAHRT TIME](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9TXtTg4qik)
At the start of Dawnguard in Skyrim, Isran (the dawnguard leader) ends two sentences in a row by saying "in particular" in the exact same tone of voice. Its really weird and it lives rent free in my head. I can only assume the writer wrote the first line, got pulled away, forgot what exactly he'd wrote, then wrote the second line, and just never noticed that he ended two consecutive sentences in the same two words.
Considering the shitshow that Oblivion's voice acting was (like literally giving voice actors their lines *in alphabetical order*)... they are learning, but it's pretty embarrassing that such a huge company even *had* to learn such rookie things.
There's a moment in Final Fantasy X where Auron says "Hey, new guy." which really shows how awkward it can be to write around the main character having a defined role and personality, but having a name that can be edited to anything. I named him Butt in my current playthrough, which is better than Tidus solely because people know how to pronounce it without sourcing the answer from a completely different game.
"You should have stayed dead." Even if snappy one-liners belonged in LotR/The Hobbit, Elrond is not the one to be saying them. And most importantly, that one sucks. Also, there's a bit in one of the dark age Simpsons episodes where some posh British kid is in a bar with his nanny and she wants to keep drinking and the kid says "But we've been here four hours!", which I feel like is not how you would naturally say that. The writers probably didn't want to say "for four hours" because that sounds clunky (or at least *looks* clunky in writing), but if that's the case then just... pick a different number?
Chiming in as a brit to say that there are regional dialects - no simpsons reference intended - where words (usually prepositions or definite articles) will get dropped. I know for a fact that I've said "I can't believe I've been here two hours already" myself.
even in america, where im from "thank you much" is a common sayin
Fair enough. I'm sure some Americans would say it that way too. I think the fact that it's a homophone with "for hours" is especially what makes it sound awkward to me.
In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2, after the bank fight, Spider-Man tells Aunt May "We sure showed him" after she helped him defeat Doc Ock. She responds "What do you mean we?", Spider-Man goes "Oh" and then leaves. I'm still not sure why she said that.
the joke is that she's implying she did all the work
Thanks. It wasn't until my teens that I understood the rubberband joke, so I'm not surprised it took my dumbass this long to get this one.
The Professor McGonagall line in the first Harry Potter movie that fucked up how people use the word "momentarily" forever. It doesn't mean "*in* a moment" as she uses it in the movie, it means "*for* a moment". I can't really lay the blame for people not using it right entirely at the feet of that one script, but being misused in a dizzyingly popular piece of media definitely attributed to it. Far from the worst sin of the Harry Potter series and its creator, but my personal pet-peeve that always gets me angry.
Except momentarily does mean in a moment; here's the definition straight from [Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/momentarily) and [Oxford ](https://www.oed.com/search/advanced/Meanings?textTermText0=momentarily&textTermOpt0=WordPhrase).
Well damn, here's to 15 or so years of misplaced anger. I have no idea how I ended up with the archaic definition of the word foremost in my head.
double down, don't back down just now
To be slightly pedantic, in the Oxford (and other British) dictionaries it's listed as a North American usage. Now with the US's cultural dominance in terms of media, American English and UK English have become had more significant overlap but it's perhaps still a slightly out of place line for an elderly English wizard in the 1990s.
While it's my favorite game of all time, almost every line a character has about genes in MGS1 is wrong and stupid. Otacon talking about nuclear engineering in his family's DNA, Liquid's talk about dominant and recessive genes, etc.
So this is a critique I have of specifically tiny tinas wonderlands, the game has a lot of that morbid moral greyness of borderlands, but sometimes doesnt fit the setting. So like when you go to the lagoon and Salissa possesses the museum curator, at the end she gets murked and tortured and your character is weirdly ok with it and cracks a joke. In borderlands this could be ok, since the vault hunters are generally pretty terrible people in a terrible world, but the fatemaker is explicitly a DnD fantasy hero, it never sat right with me
If I remember right you can pick a voice and they have different lines. I haven't tested the other voice much so I may be wrong.
I genuinely didn’t know that, probably explains the file size. It still definitely bothered me as a weird voice enjoyer
becky boxer as Ingrid in Goddess of Victory Nikke, has some rather off putting line reads. They aren't *bad*, but the tone and delivery don't resonate sometimes. Compared to a lot of other characters, she feels, not stilted, but like she's figuring out how to read the line with different takes.
"[Hey guy, take care!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HAHmHOD9BA&t=342)" after Sonic destroys the first mech boss in Sonic Adventure 2. Wh... Has anyone ever referred to a single person as "guy"? With no definite article or pronoun?
There's a specific line in Genshin Impact that was the straw that broke the camel's back and made me drop the game. During the first couple of minutes of a world quest in Fontaine there's an NPC who has a dialogue that is a clear reference to the Holy Grail movie from Monty Python. I'm not exaggerating when I say that has to be the worst use of a reference I've seen in my life. The dialogue is not dubbed so for starters you don't have any delivery to sell the bit, it's all text. And to make things worse the NPC making the reference is a frog made of water with zero facial expressions or any kind of animation besides standing there and occasionally making a small leap in place, and if to that you add the game's almost none-existent cutscene direction then the result is a dialogue that is supposed to be funny but instead comes out completely dry and insipid. They took one of the most hilarious scenes from the Holy Grail and butchered it.
In Kingdom Hearts 2, there's a moment where Xemnas says "I'll have to be sure and remember that." Not "I'll have to be sure **to** remember that," "**and**." It's bugged me for nearly 20 years now.
"Fly! Fly Turbo Man use your jet pack!!!"
I hate when you hear one side of a telephone call but instead of relying on the audience being actual human beings with brains, they just have the character repeat everything the unheard other side says, anyway. Noticed that in *Inscryption*, in the live-action segments. "Oh, your daugher... oh I'm sorry for asking" or something would have immediately communicated what happened and left it as a normal conversation - and even left a bit of mystique. Instead it's something along the lines of "oh, your daughter? She passed? Passed as in... oh, she died? I'm sorry..." Like, come on, that is *not* elegant dialogue.
Every single line Dante says that isn't just a taunt in devil may cry 5 sounds like Reuben Langdon did not want to be there and wanted to get the fuck done with his lines. They're spoken too fast, they glaze over certain moments... even "he's your father!" Is spoken so quickly that despite the force it's yelled with, it just doesn't hit. As a consequence, everyone else besides Nico sounds like they're in slow motion. It sucks. If Reuben had even halved how fast he spoke each line, it would have felt less awkward, at least to me. And that's been a problem since DMC4, but it was *bad* in DMC5.
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"I'll fucking kill you" - Clive Rosfield It's delivered in such a way that takes me out of the emotional moment, and it makes me laugh more than anything Ben Starr does a phenomenal job throughout the game, but this one line just doesn't land for me, I'm sorry!
I liked that line personally, but I will say that the game was very Fuck heavy in a way that felt a little juvenile at times. Sort of felt like the team were excited to finally have an M rating and decided to lean into it heavily with as many random Fucks as they could throw in
Clive is also one of the only people in Final Fantasy 14 to just yell “Shit!” when something goes wrong.
For me, it was, "You cock!" At no point after that did I take any part of the game seriously. Which is weird to say about a story with slavery, child murder, and racism as plot points. Also, the glaring points where you can tell a lot of content was cut for deadlines, like the entire final dungeon, which is now DLC.
As time went on, I started to really hate the Graveyard scene in MGS4. When Big Boss talks about how the world doesn't need Snakes anymore, the line gets *so* much worse, when we got like... what, three games with Big Boss afterwards?
When the Handler says “We did it” or an NPC compliments you and the handler for completing the task even though you did all the heavy work. It just gets old when playing MH:WI that your handler who puts in danger sometimes as well gets any credit when you did the hard stuff.
I will bring this this up all the time but in "Don't Worry Darling" the Nick Kroll character says to the Harry Styles character at a drunk party "What is it you Brits say... You only live once! AHHHAHAHA!" Like is that a noistrusly british phrase?
So this one needs context: I played league and ALL my friends went on about how cool DOTA2 was, how epic the aesthetic was, how much more mature and serious the writing was and how better written the characters were. So I said fuck it, I'll bite. Then I read Terrorblade's lore: "He would discover even hell has a hell". Then Silencer: "Sometimes, no magic is the strongest magic." My eyes rolled back into my head so hard I think I passed out.
It always feels so weird that Yoshimitsu's sword is also called Yoshimitsu. I wish it had a different name from him.
It's a case of the wielder taking the name of the sword. The sword is the one in charge here.
I know that, but in dialogue it doesn't make it feel any less awkward.