100th Post! 10 Top 10 Countdowns.

Just to start off, this will be a hell of a long post. Due to this, I will attempt to be brief in each countdown and will most likely go into further detail as we meet each character, episode or moment in future reviews and character profiles.


Top 10 Batman Villains:

Going into this list, I thought of a few things that would influence my choices. What they've done, their visual appearance and their one biggest "victory" or accomplishment. All this is based off the Batman The Animated series and not other incarnations.

10) Bane

9) Mad Hatter

8) The Riddler

7) Two-Face

6) Mr. Freeze

5) Catwoman

4) Harley Quinn

3) Poison Ivy

2) Scarecrow

1) The Joker


Top 10 Looney Tunes Characters:

A very common factor for characters you will find, is that visual appearance can play a role in my choices. For these characters it's not a major deciding factor, but what is one is the overall character, what they do in their shorts and just how funny I find them.

10) Sam Sheepdog

9) Gossamer

8) Count Blood Count

7) Tweety Bird

6) Witch Hazel

5) Sylvester

4) Bugs Bunny

3) Pepe Le Pew

2) Wile. E Coyote

1) Marvin Martian


Top 10 Animated Movies (Non-Disney, in my collection):

Alrighty. First off, nothing from Disney appears here. Secondly there are at least three movies that should be on this list but aren't, simply because I am going by what I own. If I didn't limit it that way I could sit here all night trying to whittle my list to just 10. Perhaps in time I will be able to separate the anime entries into their own list and update this one.

10) Happily Ever After

9) All Dogs Go To Heaven

8) Fern Gully

7) G.I Joe: The Movie

6) Digimon the Movie

5) Batman Mask of the Phantasm

4) Anastasia

3) Cardcaptors the Movie

2) Secret of NIMH

1) Spirited Away


Top 10 Ghostbusters Ghosts:

The Real Ghostbusters ghosts only. Ones from the movies, while deserving of spots here will perhaps make appearances on future countdowns. Visual appearance, the ghosts powers and just how much of a match they are for the Ghostbusters are all factors in my choices.

10) Stay Puft Marshmellow Man

9) The Dark Entity

8) Marduk

7) Captain Jack Higgins

6) Sandman

5) Boogieman

4) Lord Kildarby and the Bird of Kildarby

3) Big Boo

2) Rall

1) Samhain


Top 10 Darkwing Duck Villains:

Let's get dangerous! Darkwing Duck's villains are rather fun in the way that they quite often are based off of comic book villains, whether it's the obvious Bushroot/Poison Ivy or the perhaps more obscure Moliarty/Mole Man reference these villains are just a lot of fun. Most of these villains though, are a bit hard to take too seriously, though that looks like it's changing with the Darkwing Duck comic series.

10) Moliarty

9) Tauras Bulba

8) Liquidator

7) Tuskernini

6) Bushroot

5) Megavolt

4) Splatter Phoenix

3) Steelbeak

2) Negaduck

1) Quackerjack and Mr. Banana Brain


Top 10 Scooby-Doo Villains: Seasons 1 and 2 of Scooby-Doo Where Are You?

Yes, yes even though the series was a bit laughable and fairly corny, Scooby-Doo still had some rather unique villains. There are though, a few clunker villains who were nothing more than a cliche ghost. But these villains are, in my opinion, among the more visually unique ones even if it turned out to be someone in a mask each time.

10) Werewolf Ghost

9) Black Knight

8) Miner 49er

7) Elias Kingston

6) Creeper

5) Redbeard

4) Mr. Hyde

3) Snow Ghost

2) Zen Tuo

1) Ghost Clown


Top 10 Movie Monsters Non-Human:

Movie monsters! Who doesn't love a good movie monster? Now, in the title what I mean by human is that there won't be Vampires, Werewolves or Zombies found here. Humanoid ones though can be found here and there in the list.

10) Creature from the Black Lagoon

9) Graboids

8) The Thing

7) King Kong

6) Godzilla

5) Jaws

4) Critters

3) Gremlins

2) Predator

1) Aliens


Top 10 Scary Movie Animals:

The majority of the animals found here are living, breathing animals even if most aren't ones we are likely to encounter on a daily basis. Since dinosaurs do technically classify as animals they have been included in this list, but ones such as dragons with purple spots will obviously not be present. One day though a "Fantasy" oriented list may appear.

10) Grizzly: Grizzly

9) The Birds: Birds

8) Piranhas - Piranha

7) Lake Placid: Crocodile

6) Anaconda - Anaconda

5) Jurassic Park: Velociraptors

4) Jurassic Park: Dilophosauras

3) Arachnophobia: Spiders

2) Jaws: Great White Shark

1) Cujo: Saint Bernard


Disney Villain Songs:

Disney! The main rule of thumb for me when it came to this list was if it's one that was memorable enough to me. Some things that factored into this was the scene itself where this takes place, was it visually interesting? Did it help the story along?

10) The Mob Song: Beauty and the Beast

9) Heffalumps and Woozles: Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

8) World's Greatest Criminal Mastermind: Great Mouse Detective

7) Mother Knows Best: Tangled

6) Be Prepared: Lion King

5) Kidnap the Sandy Claws: Nightmare Before Christmas

4) Gaston: Beauty and the Beast

3) I've Got Friends on the Other Side: Princess and the Frog

2) Hellfire: Hunchback Of Notre Dame

1) Poor Unfortunate Souls: The Little Mermaid


Top 10 Saddest Moments in Disney and Pixar:

Disney is, despite being family friendly, quite good at providing the audience with scenes that are just downright depressing. So of course I had to compile a list of the ten saddest moments in the animated canon and Pixar! Get your kleenex ready or just skip over this list if you'd prefer to stay happy :)

10) Toy Story 2: When She Loved Me (song)

9) UP: Married Life Montage

8) Mickey's Christmas Carol: Bob Crachit in the graveyard

7) Brother Bear: Kenai telling Koda the truth.

6) Tarzan: Kala losing her baby in the opening.

5) Dumbo: Baby of Mine (song)

4) The Lion King: Mufasa's Death

3) Toy Story 3: The ending.

2) Bambi: Bambi's mom getting shot.

1) Snow White: Snow White's funeral/the Dwarf's vigil.


This concludes our 100th post and our 10 Top 10's. I hope you enjoyed scanning through the list, please feel free to drop a comment on what you liked (or didn't like) about each list or even supply a list of your own! See something I missed? Let me know and I'll be happy to point out why I may not have added it to a list.

Holiday Hi-Jynx!

On the second day of December, my Christmas blog gave to me.......Pokemon. Huh. Well, on with the review!

Given how many shows often slip in holiday episodes, it's not fully surprising that Pokemon would follow in those footsteps. However at the same time there is just something a bit odd seeing Ash and the gang running around with Santa who apparently trains a Pokemon called "Jynx"

In watching this episode we find Ash during his break before the Pokemon League as he comes across a stranded Jynx. This starts up his story in things as Ash, Misty and Brock discover that Jynx is lost and belongs to Santa Claus. Taking pity on her...him..?....It? Sure, lets go with "It" Taking pity on It they decide to help Jynx get back to Santa at the North Pole. The manner in which they do this is.....unrealistic, but we are also talking about a show with a furry yellow rodent who shoots lightning from his ass. Getting on a raft, they use their Pokemon to drag them as far as possible before they meet up with Santa's assistant, a Lapras (Who apparently is Psychic).

On the other side of things, we also from time to time follow Team Rocket as Jessie swears revenge on the Jynx thinking it's Santa. It appears, with the help of a flashback, that the Jynx once took Jessie's doll that was broken to get it fixed but was unable to return it. Eventually both groups meet up at the North Pole and the battle begins as Team Rocket tries to steal all of the presents while Ash and co. give it their all to foil the villains.

For the most part this isn't really one of the better Pokemon episodes, and has nothing on the better Christmas specials/episodes that are out there. If anything I would rank it somewhere in the middle, near the lower end. As well, since Ash is on his break before the League starts up this episode doesn't make any attempts to further the storyline and acts mostly as filler.

Dragonball Z: Frieza, Fall of a Tyrant.

For this review, I will be lumping all five Dragonball Z episodes into one large review, largely given the nature of them.

During these five episodes the main plot is largely centered around Goku (Our Hero) and Frieza (The Villain) as they duke it out at hyper speed on a self destructing planet. Meanwhile we also get a few glimpses of what's up from other characters, though most of it near the end is merely watching and waiting for the fight to end.

Now, onto the fight. Apparently this five+ episode fight takes place over mere minutes. Minutes. Yet for some ungodly reason we have to sit through roughly two hours of this drawn out fight. Filler much? I mean, I enjoy a really great fight, battle, duel etc. But seriously now, a several minute fight over multiple episodes? I could understand if it were a war/battle with -multiple- character PoV's which draws it out longer.

All in all, it's less enjoyable than other episodes/compilations for me. The animation is on par with what I'd expect from Dragonball Z.

Ouran High School Host Club

Alrighty. Anime! Woot! This review is just a few hours late, and sadly a tad short. However the show viewed is quite good!

Tonight we're taking a peek at the first episode of Ouran High School Host Club. This high school is like no other, it's a private, rich, elitist school where everyone is beautiful and filthy rich (some are even royalty). However, our protagonist is actually quite poor, not even having enough money to buy a proper uniform.

How did she get in? Turns out she's extremely smart and made it in through scholarship.

Things kick off when she encounters a group of students called the Host Club. After breaking an expensive vase, they take her in so that she can work off what she owes. Though at first none of them even realize she's female, largely due to her looks and poor clothing. Eventually they all figure it out and since she's a hit as a male, they keep her around.

Now the first episode is very enjoyable, we're introduced to our main crew. A number of the characters are rather delightful, while some are going to take a few episodes to fully grow on me. The animation is quite good (far far better than for other shows I've reviewed to this date), though the intro credits are still growing on me a bit. If you are a fan of anime and are looking for something not dependant on kicking and punching, this is most likely for you.

Dragonball Z: Super Saiyaman - Gohan's Secret.

Alrighty. Taking place years after an unnamed story arc, Super Saiyaman takes place during a time of peace. Though not peaceful enough for the now teenaged Gohan to smash the villains.

After foiling some villains, Gohan decides to don a disguise and adopts the name "Super Saiyaman" Both the costume and his behavior is quite laughable, and takes the show towards the realm of stupidity.


The first episode involves Gohan helping to stop a bus hijacking. Though he arrives at the last minute and only helps to keep it from falling off a cliff. The episode also shows how Gohan recieves his costume, name and his...super saying which involves a lot of idiotic moves.

Following it, Gohan is then blackmailed into dating a girl who claims to know his secret. Of course, trouble occurs and Gohan rushes off to lend a hand right in the middle of his date. A large building is set on fire and he works to release the water tank despite a stuck valve. In the end, the girl reveals his secret to be that he wears...teddy bear underwear. Just when I thought Gohan couldn't get more childish.

The final episode deals with the Red Shark Gang who demands a showdown with Mr. Satan. When his daughter, Videl answers the challenge, Gohan has to try and get out of his classroom without blowing his cover. Videl begins to suspect that he is the Great Saiyaman, which makes Gohan work hard to keep his secret from getting out.

The animation is on part with Dragonball Z shows, however the story is hampered by several flaws that keep it from being fully enjoyable.

Dragonball Z: Super Android 13!

Hoo boy. If I thought Sgt. Savage had overly-muscled characters, Dragonball Z far outdoes them.

If you are not familiar with the story, starting halfway in doesn't fully help. The main plot of this particular "movie" is that evil androids are let loose against our hero. Pretty much the majority of things are just one long fight that takes place in only minutes.

Apparently the characters, or the super-powered ones can fly extremely fast with a grunt and some flexing. And..if they flex and grunt enough, they light up like novelty condoms. They are also able to shoot out energy blasts, some of which grow stronger the longer they focus.

Character's are visually interesting and diverse. Extreme muscles aside. Voices can range from the alright, to slightly annoying. The animation is pretty well done for the time it was made, but overall the lack of story outside of "punch, kick, punch, punch, grunt, glow, super punch!" makes it a clunker. Unless you enjoy that kind of thing.