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Post by Hypester on Apr 1, 2012 15:03:38 GMT -5
Ultimates had its moments, but Invincible seems to smoosh in people's heads in full view pretty often, and sprinkling of other stuff, some execution headshots here, some blunt force disembowlings there. A few severed limbs for color... but as said, it really does vibe with the story.
On Hunger Games, I have to agree, while the action set piece is the same, the story is nowhere near Battle Royale. I don't think anyone can read both and say they're the same thing, but on the surface, yeah, the one line explanation is very similar.
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Post by UrbanBlue on Apr 2, 2012 0:39:31 GMT -5
I don't think anyone can read both and say they're the same thing Have you? Cause I've read Battle Royale but not Hunger Games.
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Post by PROTOJ on Apr 2, 2012 16:45:37 GMT -5
I'm the opposite. I've read Hunger games but not Battle Royale. The Hunger games trilogy was actually really good (with the exception of the third book Mockingjay which was just ok) but I haven't seen the movie. I think part of what made those books so violent was the fact that it was about children between the ages of 12 and 18 being forced to kill each other for the amusement of the capital (It wasn't just about survival Ghostknight). They had to kill or be killed and some of the kids actuallly did so voluntarily and spent their lives training for it. If it was adults it would've been slightly less brutal... just slightly.
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Post by UrbanBlue on Apr 2, 2012 17:06:47 GMT -5
Battle Royale is about kids from a junior-high class being thrown into a survival game where the last kid alive gets to go home. They are fitted with explosive collars that go off if they set foot in a restricted area.
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Post by Beacon on Apr 2, 2012 18:26:47 GMT -5
explosive collars that go off if they set foot in a restricted area. Or if they try to take them off. Or if they go for a day without someone killing someone else. Some of the kids in that Manga were inhuman monsters. Some of them were just people who did horrible things to survive. Most of the ones who refused to play didn’t last very long. The kids aren’t really to be blamed for the situations they were forced into by the government.
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Post by UrbanBlue on Apr 3, 2012 0:42:19 GMT -5
Yeah, its one of the most violent comics (manga) I've ever read.
It's even worse than Punisher MAX because you know he's the Punisher so killing people is his deal but students forced to do it...ick.
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Post by GhostKnight on Aug 16, 2012 23:19:58 GMT -5
There is a comic I found really gory: Destroyer Max.
Just read it. I don't want to spoil anything.
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Post by Beacon on Aug 17, 2012 14:21:10 GMT -5
Destroyer is actually pretty typical of a Kirkman comic. He tends to use really cartoony artists in his superhero work and then has them draw brutally violent fights (see the earlier comments on Invincible)
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