So, The Chairman and The Operative are my favorite themed villains in SOTM right now. They are who I would love to read about or even see a movie about. However, they crush me on a regular basis.
This also means I look at their cards often. And the other day I was looking at The Operative when it reminded me of a scene from a movie…Kill Bill Pt. 1 when The Bride takes out the Crazy 88’s.
Has anyone else had similar experiences with SOTM making them want to watch old movies? If so, which ones?
The back of Tempest’s character card (his defeated side) and a couple of his other cards like Ball Lightning remind me of the days when Dragonball Z was aired on Toonami on Cartoon Network.
Oh man, realizing that movie came out nearly 10 years ago… That’s a trip. I scoffed initially at calling it an old movie and then I realized that, yeah, it kind of is now.
I had the same thought today! I thought it was a nod to Aquaman losing his hand, but on closer inspection the background looks like Namek and Tempest looks alot like Piccolo when he loses his arm. I thought it was so cool ! ;D
As to the OP, Spite’s super-drugged-out side made me watch Akira again (Spite’s arm looks like Tetsuo’s) and Matriarch’s made me watch Hitchcock’s The Bird’s again, just to better picture how terrible being attacked by a flock of killer birds actually would be.
You should go back and read all those old issues with Daredevil struggling with The Kingpin… or the new Punisher Max (by Jason Aaron) with similar themes (if you are 18 years or older, it is a very nasty book in a good way). Chairman/Operative are really evocative of those characters, which is a hard feat to pull off.
Now for a really old movie that you would dig along these lines, check out Branded to Kill. It was a huge influence on my tastes, it is a japanese gangster film that starts out with hitmen and eventually branches into straight up psychedelic arthouse madness.
The Frank Miller Daredevil run is one of my favorites ever, I’d definitely recommend it. Pushed a lot of boundaries in regards to what was allowed in the industry and was groundbreaking in a great many ways.