ASLUME (formerly Batman (DC Superheroes) 2024 - Rumors & Discussion)

[Renny The Spaceman]

40 minutes ago, Murdoch17 said:

That's nothing! In support of Blacktron, I went to the Vatican, and pleaded my case to the Pope. He gave me the Spanish Inquisition and the Monster of Uuuggg to use against your silly Knights of Ni.

Probably a fake pope, isn't the thing with the current Pope he's way nicer than the usual ones, he might lend you the Popemobile if you ask

[Murdoch17]

47 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Probably a fake pope, isn't the thing with the current Pope he's way nicer than the usual ones, he might lend you the Popemobile if you ask

I (and every Monty Python fan in this thread) are disappointed you didn't say the thing in response to my post, @Renny The Spaceman. 

Edited November 27, 2024 by Murdoch17

[Swordy]

2 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

You consider one set to be a comeback? Dear lord, you really are a Lego DC fan!

Huh. I guess I am. Does that make me stupid?
 

2 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

I found it whilst I was raiding the archives of the ministry of silly walks.

As an American, I respect the ministry of silly walks and wish we diverted our healthcare resources into that department.

 

2 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

I have only one thing to say. To you who worship the sinister forces of blacktron.

Ni 

Why, you dastardly English kniggit! I shall break wind in your general direction!

(I believe my ignorance of, despite my love for, Monty Python is becoming increasingly obvious.)

 

2 hours ago, Murdoch17 said:

He gave me the Spanish Inquisition

Well, that was unexpected.

[psqidexslizer]

38 minutes ago, Swordy said:

Well, that was unexpected.

At this point, I think everyone expect the Spanish Inquisition as soon as Month Python is brought up.

[Swordy]

17 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

At this point, I think everyone expect the Spanish Inquisition as soon as Month Python is brought up.

No, no one expects a Spanish Inquisition! Apparently someone didn’t get the memo…

[ARC2149Nova]

No one expects the Blacktron Inquisition...

[Renny The Spaceman]

44 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

At this point, I think everyone expect the Spanish Inquisition as soon as Month Python is brought up.

TRUE! Honestly I always expect them, if I'm in a room with a Monty Python fan I could tell them their nan died and they'll throw in a quip about the inquisition. I'm gonna exclusively associate them with the Mel Brooks song out of protest.
 

[psqidexslizer]

13 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

TRUE! Honestly I always expect them, if I'm in a room with a Monty Python fan I could tell them their nan died and they'll throw in a quip about the inquisition. I'm gonna exclusively associate them with the Mel Brooks song out of protest.
 

Me hearing “no expects the Spanish Inquisition” for the 5000th time:

 

36 minutes ago, ARC2149Nova said:

No one expects the Blacktron Inquisition...

Wait, Blacktron are space Catholics? Do they have their own version of the pope?

[Renny The Spaceman]

12 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

Me hearing “no expects the Spanish Inquisition” for the 5000th time:

J'm toing bo tecome ghe Ioker

 

13 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

Wait, Blacktron are space Catholics? Do they have their own version of the pope?

Yes, surprisingly it's Squidman

[psqidexslizer]

3 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

 

Yes, surprisingly it's Squidman

I’m named after the Blacktron pope?! 🤯

[CloneCommando99]

3 hours ago, Swordy said:

Why, you dastardly English kniggit! I shall break wind in your general direction!

You must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with… a herring!

5 hours ago, Murdoch17 said:

That's nothing! In support of Blacktron, I went to the Vatican, and pleaded my case to the Pope. He gave me the Spanish Inquisition and the Monster of Uuuggg to use against your silly Knights of Ni.

I call dibs on the holy hand grenade of Antioch.

1 hour ago, psqidexslizer said:

Me hearing “no expects the Spanish Inquisition” for the 5000th time:

WW1 tactics in a nutshell.

[RedHoodPug]

38 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

I call dibs on the holy hand grenade of Antioch.

You'll need the assistance of Brother Maynard on how to count to three correctly.

39 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

WW1 tactics in a nutshell.

Surely you're branching into Blackadder territory with that one.

 

All this Python talk and the earlier idea of invading the SW forum had me thinking of the traditional Welsh martial art of Llap Gogh. Or we get them to come at us with a banana.

[Mandalorianknight]

23 hours ago, Max_Lego said:

B:TAS Batman is actually one of the least fear-inspiring versions of the character. While TNBA Batman is more lore-accurate, the B:TAS version resembles Superman even more than Supes himself in S:TAS, which I always found weird. 

"Harvey! Let me help you!"  The real Batman would've said something like 

In my opinion, Batman should never be such a nice guy

I disagree. Batman as a concept is a monster that scares criminals in the night, but he DOES try his best to help his rogues in a number of continuities. (Also, BTAS Batman is ABSOLUTELY fear-inspiring- at least moreso than most of the cartoon ones)

21 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

It’s so peak.

I've petitioned Gunn to make this the Superman 2025 post credits scene regardless of what happens in the movie itself.

[Swordy]

7 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

Me hearing “no expects the Spanish Inquisition” for the 5000th time:

 

Apologies. I don’t mean to cause a physiological condition. If I have, though, can you make a better Joker 2?

7 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

 

Wait, Blacktron are space Catholics? Do they have their own version of the pope?

What’d you expect with Brick Daddy running around?

16 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

 

I've petitioned Gunn to make this the Superman 2025 post credits scene regardless of what happens in the movie itself.

Tell Gunn to also include the DCU Riddler’s alter ego, Leo G. Turtle, as an editor at the Daily Planet who hates Superman and complains about him flying around (like a bee) shooting lasers.

 

6 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

You must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with… a herring!

 

Nah, I’ll just use one of the Ni’s antlers to do that.

 

Blacktron is unbeatable. Nothing can stand before us. Soon all will wear cool black leather space suits and helmets. You will only delay the enviable.

Long live Blacktron!

Edited November 28, 2024 by Swordy

[ILoveSeatron]

1 hour ago, Swordy said:

 

 

Blacktron is wimpy. Nothing can't stand before us. Soon all will wear cool red leather space suits and helmets. You will only delay the enviable.

Long live SEATRON!

I fixed it for you.

 

 

Edited November 28, 2024 by ILoveSeatron

[Max_Lego]

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

he DOES try his best to help his rogues in a number of continuities. (Also, BTAS Batman is ABSOLUTELY fear-inspiring- at least moreso than most of the cartoon ones)

The mainstream Batman was never a nice guy who only wants to help. He always kept his (psychological) distance, even when he tried to help a villain. And he never was a wimp, easily beaten by thugs while trying to reason Harvey Dent in a kindly Superman fashion (though this applies only to "Two-Face, pt. 2", yet it looked so cringe!). B:TAS Batman may have been fear-inspiring as some degree, but he was, in my opinion, much too nice and much too lawful, while still grimmer and more intimidating than the 1966 version. That's just my opinion, but it's not based on nothing 

Edited November 28, 2024 by Max_Lego

[CloneCommando99]

On 11/27/2024 at 10:30 PM, RedHoodPug said:

Surely you're branching into Blackadder territory with that one.

 

 

Edited December 18, 2024 by CloneCommando99

[Murdoch17]

17 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

WW1 tactics in a nutshell.

Hot take: WW1 was such a stupid, pointless exercise in futility. Idiots in charge, massive casualties on every side, no real ground gained by ANYBODY, portions of France turned into bomb-filled wastelands still unusable to this day, the shooting of those soldiers who refused to go to their certain deaths 'over the top' of the trenches, the overthrow of the Russian Czar by Lenin and his ilk (with Lenin helped by the Germans to return from exile), the inept and toothless League of Nations that resulted from the war, the punishing of Germany to the extreme (leading to the rise of the Nazis later on), the horrible gas attacks, and so on.

To quote one French officer present at the peace treaty signing: "This is no peace... it's a twenty-year cease fire."

Sorry, but I had to get this off my chest.

[Lego Nostalgia]

1 hour ago, Murdoch17 said:

Hot take: WW1 was such a stupid, pointless exercise in futility. Idiots in charge, massive casualties on every side, no real ground gained by ANYBODY, portions of France turned into bomb-filled wastelands still unusable to this day, the shooting of those soldiers who refused to go to their certain deaths 'over the top' of the trenches, the overthrow of the Russian Czar by Lenin and his ilk (with Lenin helped by the Germans to return from exile), the inept and toothless League of Nations that resulted from the war, the punishing of Germany to the extreme (leading to the rise of the Nazis later on), the horrible gas attacks, and so on.

To quote one French officer present at the peace treaty signing: "This is no peace... it's a twenty-year cease fire."

Sorry, but I had to get this off my chest.

WW3 was stupid and didn't need to happen -Lego Nostalgia from 2027

[CloneCommando99]

1 hour ago, Murdoch17 said:

Hot take: WW1 was such a stupid, pointless exercise in futility. Idiots in charge, massive casualties on every side, no real ground gained by ANYBODY, portions of France turned into bomb-filled wastelands still unusable to this day, the shooting of those soldiers who refused to go to their certain deaths 'over the top' of the trenches, the overthrow of the Russian Czar by Lenin and his ilk (with Lenin helped by the Germans to return from exile), the inept and toothless League of Nations that resulted from the war, the punishing of Germany to the extreme (leading to the rise of the Nazis later on), the horrible gas attacks, and so on.

To quote one French officer present at the peace treaty signing: "This is no peace... it's a twenty-year cease fire."

Sorry, but I had to get this off my chest.

Not a hot take imo. WW1 is a case study in the flaws of capitalism, autocratic regimes and having a lack of foresight (well at least the Treaty of Versailles is)

 

Speaking of the aftermath of WW1 I’d like to point out my own hot take.

Aftermath of WW1
America: “We won the war lads. You’re going to need to make a League of Nations to prevent this from happening again.”

Britain and France: “That sounds like a great idea! You’re going to be joining right? You’re the only superpower left that still has the resources and economy to make this work and provide the league with a strong backbone to prevent any international debacles.”

America: “yeah… about that”

*America leaves chat*

Britain and France with their already shot economies: “oh well, what’s the worst that could happen?”

Manchuria Crisis, Munich Pustch, Mussolini, Spanish Flu, Spanish Civil War, rise of Soviet Union, Vilna, Abyssinia Crisis, Remilitarisation of the Rhineland…: “allow us to introduce ourselves.”

*America briefly rejoins the chat,  introduces Wall Street Crash and subsequent Great Depression in 1929 and leaves again*

Hitler now able to capitalise on a economically desperate Germany (with a proportional representation system no less): “it’s free real estate”

Britain and France: gulp

 

I love a good historical discussion. Next can we talk about how Charles I absolutely had it coming?

 

Edited November 28, 2024 by CloneCommando99

[Murdoch17]

59 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

WW3 was stupid and didn't need to happen -Lego Nostalgia from 2027

"I do not know the weapons with which WWIII will be fought, but I do know what with what WWIV will be fought; sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein

But hey, if WW3 does happen, then all we need is Zefram Cochrane to invent warp drive and the Vulcans to land in Bozeman Montana in April 2063.... and us not to kill them and take their stuff for our own. (Some days, I think we live in the Mirror Universe!)

[Max_Lego]

Is there really any 'no' to talking politics here? Looks like hypocrisy for me 

[Lego Nostalgia]

12 minutes ago, Max_Lego said:

Is there really any 'no' to talking politics here? Looks like hypocrisy for me 

Welcome to the Aslume, there is no logical motive to our discussions, we don't believe in politics, only delusion

[Swordy]

2 hours ago, Murdoch17 said:

Hot take: WW1 was such a stupid, pointless exercise in futility. … the punishing of Germany to the extreme (leading to the rise of the Nazis later on),

That’s what infuriates me the most. WW1 (then called “the War to End All Wars”—the most boastful statement ever if I heard one) only lead to a genuine evil to rise in Germany. It was needless violence started by one of the smallest of incidents that only led to more bloodshed—all capped off by the creation and use of the most efficient (and devastating) method to kill hundreds of thousands. In the end, the war mongers won, and they may be the second-greatest evil of all.

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

America: “We won the war lads. You’re going to need to make a League of Nations to prevent this from happening again.”

Britain and France: “That sounds like a great idea! You’re going to be joining right? You’re the only superpower left that still has the resources and economy to make this work and provide the league with a strong backbone to prevent any international debacles.”

America: “yeah… about that”

*America leaves chat*

Blame that on the change in policy from president to president (we are an indecisive people, truly, but Woodrow had it coming).

To be fair, though, Europe continues to fall into chaos with or without America’s involvement… Actually, y’all fall in and out of chaos a lot with our involvement anyway.

23 minutes ago, Max_Lego said:

Is there really any 'no' to talking politics here? Looks like hypocrisy for me 

Moreso historical politics, for which I would make a distinction. In any event, we can all walk away with greater clarity of other points of view. It’s fascinating in particular to see European views, speaking as an American.

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

I love a good historical discussion. Next can we talk about how Charles I absolutely had it coming?

 

Sure. Remind me who he was, again?

[Murdoch17]

25 minutes ago, Swordy said:

Sure. Remind me who he was, again?

Charles I an real English king who lost his head in the 1650s during the English Civil War, the only English King ever to do so. See the 1970 film 'Cromwell', starring Old Ben Kenobi as King Charles I, and Albus Dumbledore I as Oliver Cromwell if you need to kill over 2 hours.

Edited November 28, 2024 by Murdoch17