1568: Synonym Movies 2 - Revision history

SqueakSquawk4: minor clarification

2026-04-15T16:01:08Z

minor clarification

130.76.187.33: Undo revision 388114 by 130.76.187.33 (talk)

2025-10-03T18:55:39Z

Undo revision 388114 by 130.76.187.33 (talk)

130.76.187.33: /* Transcript */ covered by movies

2025-10-03T18:54:16Z

‎Transcript: covered by movies

FaviFake: added Category:Synonym Movies using HotCat

2025-07-28T22:27:13Z

added Category:Synonym Movies using HotCat

FaviFake: /* Table of the titles */

2025-07-28T22:22:49Z

‎Table of the titles

172.71.241.79: /* Table of the titles / I wouldn't necessarilly put it in the top three (of the four I've seen, yet to see Dial), but got to be fair in that it reflects the in-universe change of era and mild* genre shift (from mystic religion to mystic ufology).

2025-05-02T14:24:35Z

‎Table of the titles: I wouldn't necessarilly put it in the top three (of the four I've seen, yet to see Dial), but got to be fair in that it reflects the in-universe change of era and *mild* genre shift (from mystic religion to mystic ufology).

172.68.205.213: /* Table of the titles */ It is not a spoiler for the Rocky franchise that he punches people. Nor is his surname.

2025-05-02T13:30:25Z

‎Table of the titles: It is not a spoiler for the Rocky franchise that he punches people. Nor is his surname.

FaviFake at 17:22, 16 April 2025

2025-04-16T17:22:55Z

FaviFake at 17:20, 16 April 2025

2025-04-16T17:20:01Z

FaviFake at 17:19, 16 April 2025

2025-04-16T17:19:54Z

@@ Line 99: / Line 99: @@
 | ''Professor Whip and the Box of God''
 | ''{{w|Raiders of the Lost Ark}}''
-| Indiana Jones is Professor of Archeology and skillfully wields a whip as part of his equipment. Later the movie was marketed as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. The "Lost Ark" of the title is the Ark of the Covenant, a mythical box containing the contract between the Jewish people and YHWH.
+| Indiana Jones is Professor of Archeology and skillfully wields a whip as part of his equipment. Later the movie was marketed as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. The "Lost Ark" of the title is the Ark of the Covenant, a mythical box containing the contract between the Jewish people and the Jewish God, YHWH.
 |-
 | ''Professor Whip and the Scary Church''

@@ Line 175: / Line 175: @@
 [[Category:Comics sharing name|Synonym Movies]]
 [[Category:Game of Thrones]]
 [[Category:Harry Potter]]
 [[Category:Movies]]
 [[Category:Synonym Movies]]

@@ Line 175: / Line 175: @@
 [[Category:Comics sharing name|Synonym Movies]]
 [[Category:Game of Thrones]]
 [[Category:Harry Potter]]
 [[Category:Movies]]
 [[Category:Synonym Movies]]

← Older revision		Revision as of 22:27, 28 July 2025
Line 179:		Line 179:
	[[Category:Harry Potter]]		[[Category:Harry Potter]]
	[[Category:Movies]]		[[Category:Movies]]
		+	[[Category:Synonym Movies]]

@@ Line 15: / Line 15: @@
 The title text is a reference to the TV series ''Game of Thrones'', based on the book series ''A Song of Ice and Fire''. All of these titles are direct synonyms, but such that they remove most of the meaning from the titles. For instance, nobody actually cares about the physical object of a throne, but the political power it represents. Birds eating in general have a very different implied meaning than crows feasting specifically, as groups of crows only gather to eat when there is a lot of food, such as a corpse, and as such have a strong cultural association with death and slaughter.
 {{spoiler|Many of the following explanations contain spoilers for ''{{w|Harry Potter (film series)|Harry Potter}}'', ''{{w|Pirates of the Caribbean}}'', and ''{{w|Indiana Jones}}''.}}
 {| class="wikitable"

@@ Line 112: / Line 112: @@
 | ''Professor Whip is in Another Movie''
 | ''{{w|Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull}}''
-| ''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' is widely regarded as the worst in the series. Therefore, the "synonym" is simply called "another movie" to imply that it shouldn't have been made.
+| ''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' was widely regarded as the worst in the series, with opinion even divided in hindsight, and was the last one at the time at the time of the comic's publication. Therefore the "synonym" is simply that it is "another movie", to imply relative indifference, though at least [[566: Matrix Revisited|it was acknowledged as existing]]. It could also be a matter of having given up on finding sufficiently synonymical words that handily reflect the plot points, as well as the {{w|MacGuffin}} named in the actual title.
 |-
 !colspan=3 style="text-align:center;"|''A Song of Ice and Fire''<br/>

@@ Line 16: / Line 16: @@
 ==Table of the titles==
-{{spoiler|Many of the following explanations contain spoilers for ''{{w|Harry Potter (film series)|Harry Potter}}'', ''{{w|Rocky}}'', ''{{w|Pirates of the Caribbean}}'', and ''{{w|Indiana Jones}}''.}}
+{{spoiler|Many of the following explanations contain spoilers for ''{{w|Harry Potter (film series)|Harry Potter}}'', ''{{w|Pirates of the Caribbean}}'', and ''{{w|Indiana Jones}}''.}}
 {| class="wikitable"
 |-

@@ Line 9: / Line 9: @@
 ==Explanation==
 [[File:synonym_movies_2_rotated.jpg|right|A flipped version of the comic]]
 This comic follows its predecessor in this two-part series of comics, as it continued the idea from [[1563: Synonym Movies]] with a new set of movie series. As with the previous comic, the titles aren't always direct synonyms with the original (Indiana Jones as ''Professor Whip''), but now it seems to be even more exaggerated, sometimes making synonyms of the plot synopsis instead of the subtitle ("Vitamin Water" refers to the Fountain of Youth rather than the ''Stranger Tides'').
-This set includes ''Wandboy'' (''{{w|Harry Potter (film series)|Harry Potter}}''), ''Puncher'' (''{{w|Rocky}}''), ''Tropical Boaters'' (''{{w|Pirates of the Caribbean}}''), and ''Professor Whip'' (''{{w|Indiana Jones}}'').
+This set includes ''Wandboy'' (''{{w|Harry Potter (film series)|Harry Potter}}''), ''Puncher'' (''{{w|Rocky}}''), ''Tropical Boaters'' (''{{w|Pirates of the Caribbean}}''), and ''Professor Whip'' (''{{w|Indiana Jones}}''). The ''is in Another Movie'' title in the ''Professor Whip'' series differs from the other titles in that it does not reference the plot of the movie. The more dismissive reference may be due to ''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' being poorly received by fans of the series.
 The title text is a reference to the TV series ''Game of Thrones'', based on the book series ''A Song of Ice and Fire''. All of these titles are direct synonyms, but such that they remove most of the meaning from the titles. For instance, nobody actually cares about the physical object of a throne, but the political power it represents. Birds eating in general have a very different implied meaning than crows feasting specifically, as groups of crows only gather to eat when there is a lot of food, such as a corpse, and as such have a strong cultural association with death and slaughter.

@@ Line 178: / Line 178: @@
 {{comic discussion}}
 [[Category:Comics sharing name|Synonym Movies]]
 [[Category:Fiction]]