scans_daily | Awesome Legend of Korra Rumour, And Zuko Prequel Comic

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I've heard a rumour as to who might be playing the part of Amon, the main villain in the series and of the anti-bender group called the Equalists.

I have to admit first that I've only heard this in one place so far, so I can't say anything about its accuracy at this point...

But if it IS true then it means that a certain British actor who has played quite a few good villains, both live action and animation, might have snagged the role.

Want a clue?

For legality, here is a bit from the Avatar prequel manga called Zuko's Story. It was done as a tie-in to the movie, and as a result uses the character designs of Zuko and Iroh from there, but everyone and everything else is pretty much straight out of the series. It's a lot of fun, and if you were interested as to what Zuko was getting up to between getting kicked out of his father's kingdom and ending up at the South Pole looking for Aang, here it is!

It begins with Zuko searching the South Pole for the long lost Avatar, and then flashes back to his disfigurement.

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sherkahn

David Bowie? Because it sounds like the great Tim Curry channeling Bowie in that video.

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espanolbot

No, Mr Curry himself. If people are to be believed.

From:

darkknightjrk

I'm pretty sure he's listed in the credits.

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baihu

Oh heck no, that's pure Tim Curry singing a waaaaaay too sensual song for Ferngully's context!

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sherkahn

Oh,and your pages are out of order.

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espanolbot

Fixing

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shadowpsykie

i am both excited and terrified....

terrified because when i hear his voice i think "Oh yes, it floats, and when you're down here... YOU'LL FLOAT TOO!!!"

but i hear him sing and i think "I see you shiver with antici........................Pation!"

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blackruzsa

My first exposure to Tim Curry. At eight years old, that voice was both disturbing and oddly sexy to me.

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shadowpsykie

i know... it still has that effect on me... but is appearance in Criminal Minds always pops up in my head and i want to claw my eyes out....

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blackruzsa

Oh, THAT WAS HORRIFYING
but still amazing how he could be on the opposite ends of the villain spectrum, dayum!!!

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shadowpsykie

OMG I KNOW HUH? :3

i was like "Eww Eww Eww!!!!!" and like "Tim Curry you are the stuff of nightmares... that is why i lov- oh Ewww ewww!"

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rdfox

Given that the man was replaced as the Joker after taping two episodes of BTAS, because he was "TOO creepy"... this could be awesome.

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shadowpsykie

seriously? hmmm you know, i still prefer mark hamill... his laugh still gives me chills (doesnt help that i am playing arkham asylum)

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bariman

How are you liking Arkham Asylum so far?

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shadowpsykie

You know, I used to think Assasins Creed was good stress relief, but it is INFINITELY more satisfying to beat people to a pulp! :) plus I ! LOVE swinging!

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bariman

I find sandbox games like the Assassin's Creed series or Just Cause 2 to be great stress relievers, but B:AA has the fantastic bonecrunching melee combat going for it. Plus, you're freakin' Batman. How awesome is it to terrorize criminals (a cowardly and superstitious lot) by swinging around rafters and doing gliding takedowns?

Both Arkham City and the new AC sequel look awesome, and are at the top of my pre-order list.

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shadowpsykie

I know :D i LOVE swinging from the gargoyles, and swooping down and taking them out then swooping back up while hearing them go "Where IS HE!" and then beating the crap out of them... as much as I love assasin's creed (i got both B:AA and AC:B on the same week from amazon... so i could not decide what to play, my friend convinced me to play batman first) there is just something so much more viceral about beating someone into submission (a fictional someone :D and then watching/hearing his friends shake in terror... :D

i might need counciling.... :D

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bariman

AC:B has a morale system, so if you kill enough higher-ranking guards quickly enough, the lower-ranking guards will pee their pants, drop to their knees and shiver, and if you're feeling merciful, run away in terror. Or you can stab them. Not quite as fun as in B:AA, but still cool.

And to think, in Arkham City you can do all that you could in AA, and more. Plus you start out with all your gadgets from AA, so you can do thinks like spray explosive gel on baddies mid-fight and detonate it later.

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shadowpsykie

but how do you get them to stay still long enough to do it?

im curious... im still only... maybe 5 hours into the game... maybe a bit more... can you project the explosive gel? i noticed there are some places out of reach....

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bariman

I think you spray just enough on the bad guy to make him go "boom." In a non-lethal way, of course.

As for the out-of-reach destroyable walls, you later get an ungraded grapple gun that can yank down those walls. Though IIRC, with some of them you may reach from the other side and 'splode them. Not to spoil things.

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crinos

The way I heard it, they were going to use Curry, but they had Hamill on as a guest star (He was doing Mr. Freezes boss), and they had him do the Joker laugh, and that made them change their mind.

They actually did use Curry's joker laugh in a later episode as the laugh of a robot clown in a park exhibit.

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icon_uk

Yes, IIRC Curry was cast, but Hamill mentioned, when recording the part of Boyle for "Heart of Ice", that he'd LOVE to do a big villain like the Joker. They apparently were happy, but not ecstatic, with Curry's Joker, so they let Hamill audition and the rest, as they say, is history.

Never heard that any part of Curry's performance was used at all, I'd love to have heard his take on it, though I suspect that he would have gone for his more usual growling evil with a rumbling hell of a laugh, rather than Hamill's more mercurial madness.

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shadowpsykie

yeah, i LOVE curry... but his "evil" villains do tend to have a growl....

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rdfox

Well, Curry had recorded two complete episodes that were already off to the animators (that's why Hamill's Joker sounds vaguely British--he needed to match the flaps for Curry's performance on those two episodes, so he put a bit of Curry's accent in).

I do know that at least part of Curry's performance was used in those two episodes, not any of his Joker, but his recordings done as walla and extras were still used, hence those two having him credited for "Additional Voices."

(Were those also the two episodes where the person they'd originally cast as Alfred voiced him, before he committed to something that left him unavailable and saw them pick Efrem Zimbalist to replace him?)

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icon_uk

I found a reference on Toonzone to Bruce Timm attending an animation night somewhere and bringing with him a copy of a Curry voiced Joker episode, but since they say it was "Joker's favour", which was episode 21 in season 1 and the 4th Joker story, I'd treat it the story with some caution.

Curry apparently is listed as a voice extra in "Fear of Victory", the Scarecrow story.

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icon_uk

IIRC Not "Too creepy", but just not the Joker they had hoped for, whereas Hamill could switch from charming and funny to bedwettingly scary and back again IN THE SAME SENTENCE.

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shadowpsykie

Hamill could switch from charming and funny to bedwettingly scary and back again IN THE SAME SENTENCE.

God yes! I'm playing arkham asylum right now, and the interviews alone! *chills*

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crinos

Also, is there a link to where you heard this rumor?

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espanolbot

The Legend of Korra wikipedia page. Though since anyone can edit that thing, and I can't find mention of it elsewhere, that's why I don't put too much stock in it at the moment.

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mullon

Well that would pretty much ruin my theory that it's a really old Azula or Ozai. Also it is hard to imagine Tim Curry doing a serious villain role.

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icon_uk

Stranger things have happened, after all it's not like Mark Hamill had a track record of playing terrifying BEFORE he played the Joker. :)

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espanolbot

*thinks* He did an okay straight villain in the adaption of the Colour of Magic that Sky made. Though that was the production were they hired Jeremy Irons to play Vetinari, who then decided that since it was a comic fantasy that he should voice the terrifying ruler of the city with a comedy speech impediment... for some reason.

I remember him being an OK Captain Hook back in that Peter Pan tv show, though pirates can't only really be serious to a limited degree.

Pennywise was alright, though the wrong style for Amon... presumably.

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anothermoviegeek

I had such high hopes for Irons as Vetinari and was just let down because of that. But then we got Charles Dance in Going Postal that was just magnificent. So much so that I can't read any Discworld without imagining him now. He is doing great in Game of Thrones too.

Curry on the new Avatar would be a good fit imo.

2 different examples come to my mind:
-Darkness in 'Legend' (a bit over the top for sure)
-Cardinal Richelieu in the '90s 'The Three Muskateers'

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bluefall

Eh, Arl Howe in Dragon Age is pretty serious. Admittedly also pretty brief compared to a TV series.

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tsunamiwombat

He played a straight villain in Brutal Legend, a rather poor game with an -awesome- premise by Tim Schaefer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF0x5qFwEp4

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tsunamiwombat

Oh and, warning, Spoilers

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aaron_bourque

--what I'm more excited about is that the villain looks like a Dr. Doom expy, which is hilarious considering the fancomic postulating Doom and Azula getting married and having a kid . . .

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espanolbot

I was rewatching season one the other day, and the Mechanist's speech about wanting to give everyone the airbender's abililty to fly so that everyone would be equal struck me as possibly a long distance influence on the Equalists... how much they'd be ordinary people who want to be equal to bendes through the use of technology, I don't know but...

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glprime

"Cap...BEARER..."

Mighty Max for the motherfucking win.

Seriously, when the arch-villain is named SKULLMASTER, it's hard to get more epic!metal than that.

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proteus_lives

Oh, I loved Mighty Max.

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beoweasel

Is that...Movie Iroh in the Zuko comic?

I do not approve. :| Admittedly, he was the best thing out of that blasted shit-fest, but if you're going to have the OTHER characters look like their original-versions, you should do the same with Iroh.

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espanolbot

A bit of a late bump this, but essentially any characters that weren't depicted in the live-action movie were done (and characterised) the same way as the tv show. The Guru appears multiple times, for example.

In all, the book is actually really good, the characters act generally more in line with their cartoon counterparts than the movie versions. Azula acts like tv Azula, Iroh acts like tv Iroh etc.

It does actually flesh out Zuko a little more, showing that when they intially kicked him out of the Fire Nation, he had such little pull as a result of being a banished prince that he was essentially homeless and unable to even leave the country as no sailors would take him due to the stigma he carried.

It has him meeting the inspiration for the Blue Spirit, builds on his relationship with both Iroh and Azula some more (it was her who pulled the strings to allow Iroh to accompany him, and Iroh's presence was what allowed Zuko to gain a ship and crew to go on his quest).

Tonally I guess it's actually somewhat like the Zhao of the Water Tribe webcomic, and builds on the world Avatar is based in some more, particularly in showing the Fire Nation etc. as actual cultures rather than Mostly Bad Guys and the like.

Definately worth a read in any case.

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