October 16, 2008

• Just another Blog game

  Here’s another blog game. The rules:
  
  1. Comment on this blog and ask for a letter.
  2. I will give you one.
  3.
  Think of 5 fictional characters whose name begins with that letter, and
  post their names and your comments on that character on your blog.
  
  heidenkind gave me N. Here are my 5 picks…

  
  © CRAWLING CHAOS PICTURES 2000

  N is for Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, Dark Pharaoh, avatar of the Outer Gods. Probably the jolliest of the Great Old Ones in H P Lovecraft’s mythos books. Well, jolly is maybe stretching things. Maybe personable (when he’s not trying to drive you mad) is a better word. Still, one of my favorite Lovecraftian deities, and not just for the Egyptian characteristics. If you don’t mind the madness, he’s a pretty fun entity to have around, preferably in human form of course. In one of his other forms, well… you might be dinner.

  
  Walt
  Disney’s original film cast – James
  Mason, Kirk Douglas, Peter Lorre and Paul Lukas

  
  

  N is for Captain Nemo, scourge of the modern world. In his Nautilus, he wages warfare on humanity from beneath the waves. Where, oh where, is Captain Nemo now? We could really use him. He was a scientific genius who roamed the depths of the sea, trying to save humanity from itself by basically blowing us out of the water. Hurray for Captain Nemo, the first eco-warrior!

  
  http://www.marvel.com/universe/Cable

  N is for Nathan Askani’son, the offspring of Scott Summers and the cloned version of the love of his life, Jean Grey. (Yes, I am a comic book nerd ). His birth was orchestrated by the evil evolutionist Mr Sinister as a secret weapon to get out from under the thumb of his master Apocalypse. When Nathan was born however, he was infected with a techno-organic virus which would have killed him had it not been for a time traveler who took the infant into the future. There he was taught to use his telekinesis to keep the techno-organic virus at bay, though at the cost of using his TK in any other way. He became a great warrior despite all that and fought and destroyed Apocalypse in his own time. Later he returned to the time of his parents as Cable where he continued to battle Apocalypse in order that his future would never come to pass. (Ha! And you though soap operas were convoluted!) Basically he’s a big old fail whale though because Apocalypse just doesn’t stay dead, ever.

  
  jonhexlives.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html

  N is Nathaniel Essex, a deranged evolutionist contemporaneous with Charles Darwin. After his wife’s repeated miscarriages, he became convinced that evolution was at play. He exhumed the body of his son, but his wife caught him at it and went mad. He began collecting personages of unique disposition (mutants) and experimenting on them in the hope of improving mankind. Around this time, Apocalypse woke up from his perennial slumbers and discovering the new mutant population, put Nathaniel Essex in a machine which made him into the immortal Mr Sinister, so that he could continue his experiments in perpetuity. Though quite insane and psychotic by anyone’s standards, there’s a fundamental difference between Mr Sinister and Apocalypse. Ultimately, Mr Sinister wants to improve mankind, even at the expense of a few broken eggs. Apocalypse though, he wants a battle royale wherein everything dukes it out and the last man (or thing) standing is obviously the “perfect” being. Kind of lonely if you ask me.

  Um… kind of stymied for the fifth one.

  
  http://www.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/vip/premium.php?theme=guide

  How about Nosferatu? Nosferatu was the first vampire movie. Though nosferatu is actually a Slavic word meaning unclean, in this instance, it was used as another word for vampire (which really has confused things since then). Max Schreck played as the evil Count Orlok (I know, not really an N). It was rumored that Schreck was himself a vampire playing the role of a vampire. Very cool, eh? (Though of course, he was not.) In essence, Nosferatu was an unauthorized film version of Stoker’s Dracula, to which the film company could not obtain rights. So all of the main characters were changed slightly, or in the Count’s case, very much).
  
  And there you have it! lol
  

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