There are some countries that censor depictions of Nazis, so my guess is they had to find a way to depict Hydra that wouldn’t get censored so much as to obfuscate the plot.

Cybertron and all its moons belongs to me!

I think it’s a portmanteau of “stalker” and “fan”

Even when they get the source material right, they screw it up: the Assassin’s Creed movie got the games’ metaplot, etc. down right, but spent way too much of its time on the boring modern-day VR/conspiracy crap instead of the fun parts of the game (doing parkour off of historic monuments to stab Templars in the face)…

Oh hai Oscars

Repetitiveness is her job! Her job! Repetitiveness is her job!

*Hasbro

The anime thing is because most anime series run continuously throughout the year, without breaks for seasons or holidays or what have you. The holiday episodes are usually done far in advance because of this. (It’s also why anime series based on manga often have “filler” arcs - with so many episodes airing…

Nope, PS3 that could play PS2 games needed hardware to do it. The 60/20 gig first models had both the PS2 CPU and GPU. The second 80gig model had only the PS2 GPU and had to emulate the PS2 CPU. This didn’t stop working after they pulled Linux support. They stopped putting PS2 chips into PS3 models after the 40gig…

“Admiral Crunch?!”

They’re everywhere. In the lift, the lorry, the bon whizzer, and the mallonga-gilderchuck.

Er, no, Yume Kojo Doki Doki Panic always had the non-Mario characters. It was made to promote Fuji Television’s media expo. It *was* derived from a prototype Super Mario game that was originally a co-op vertical scroller, but that prototype was a bit different than what Doki Doki Panic eventually became.

As a-you a-wish-a!

Hi-Keeba!

Secret Wars came out in ‘84! 1985 had Secret Wars II.

I’ve got prune hands. I can’t do my drawerings when I’ve got prune hands!

The bear was at the end, swearing Black Vulcan back in as President.

That was nothing compared to AnT&Atum

I imagine he’s gonna self-destruct like the Nomad probe from that old Star Trek episode.

That’s either a bad typo or a brilliant pun on Bob Harras’ name. Either way, have a star.