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Homer, Bart, and Lisa Simpson. Caption: "Ah, the waiting game sucks. Let's play Hungry Hungry Hippos."
Togashi in his messy room next to Takeuchi on the hood of her Porsche
Scene from the film Ghostbusters where Peter Venkman says of Walter Peck "Yes it's true. This man has no dick." Peck's face is covered by a PlayStation logo. Caption: "Yes it's true. This man has no disc."
All-paper disposable drink cup with folding lid, branded with the New York Fries logo.
Ramiel the 5th Angel. A giant blue octahedron
Grumann X-29 experimental jet aircraft with forward swept wings
Saruman addressing Gandalf: "Your love of the halflings' leaf has clearly slowed your mind "
Golden Axe, 1989
Cover of the Shi comic book by Billy Tucci and JC Vaughn.
Poster for the 1968 film Where Eagles Dare, starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, and Mary Ure.
RoboCop walking across the surface of a shallow puddle.
Animated GIF: Captain Kirk addresses Garth of Izar as "Captain Garth", Garth vehemently corrects him saying "Lord Garth!"
Poster for the film Swordfish starring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, and Don Cheadle.
Black and white comic panel, from the true crime graphic novel TORSO by Brian Michael Bendis & Marc Andreyko. Cleveland Director of Public Safety Eliot Ness of "Untouchables" fame addressing an audience of upper class citizens who are concerned about the "Torso" serial killer. NESS: I did answer you. I'm not a homicide detective, I'm the Safety Director. We have very excellent detectives working that case, as we have on all the other hundreds of homicides that plague this city every year. Just for a second, let's think about the numbers... I just told you that traffic in this city claimed over 400. The Torso Killer has, sadly, I grant you, sadly claimed the lives of five people... 400!! ...and that we've taken measures to stop that.
Tall, bare-chested muscular white man, short East Asian man with a mustache, and a white woman in a strapless top and narrow headband stand facing each other in a cavern.
Cover of Charles Saunders' Imaro. A bare chested Black male warrior wielding a sword fights off a half dozen other Black warriors on a savannah.
Alert young woman with long black hair in a long black coat open to the waist, her torso covered in blood down from the neck.
Dr Leonard McCoy from Star Trek the Original Series in the episode "Devil in the Dark". A middle aged white man in a blue long sleeve shirt with an amazed expression stands in an underground cavern and holds up his hands, which are covered in wet cement.
A Joseph Ducreux meme: self-portrait of 18th century French painter Joseph Ducreux with a wide brimmed hat and cane, pointing at the viewer. Caption reads: "I hath 99 conundrums, and a wench doth not be amongst them"
Cover Art for the video game El Viento for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. A brown-skinned girl drawn in late 80s/early 90s manga style with large blue eyes and blowing blue hair, wearing a stern expression. She wears a scarf and hair ribbon with an alternating red and white triangle pattern and grasps a red amulet with a black fingerless glove.
Animated GIF of the character Gendo Ikari from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion: a man with short dark hair tents his white-gloved hands just below his nose while an orange glow reflects off his oval-framed glasses like a burning wildfire.
Animated GIF: Three Clean enemies jumping back and forth over Simon Belmont in the first Castlevania video game.
Poster showing profiles of single edged swords from various cultures and time periods
GIF of Maria Callas as the title character in Pier Pasolini's Medea. A middle-aged woman in a black dress and gold jewellery walks while addressing the camera. Caption: You cannot approve, because you have not suffered the wrongs I have.
Scene from the climax of the 1974 film Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell. Protagonist Ogami Itto, a rogue samurai in a kimono, stands on a white snow-covered mountain slope cutting down ninjas who ski past him with a naginata (sword blade on a pole).
Comic: cartoon figure in blue shirt talks to frizzy haired figure in labcoat in front of a death ray contraption Title: The Truth about mad scientists Blue shirt: Why did you build a death ray? Mad scientist: To take over the world. BS: No, I mean what mad hypothesis are you testing? BS: Are you just making mad observations? MS: Look, I'm just trying to take over the world. That's all BS: You are at least going to leave some of the world as a mad control group, right? Caption: Sad truth: Most "mad scientists" are actually just mad engineers
One silver coloured giant mecha suit stylized like medieval armour swordfights two purple coloured mecha in knee deep water.
Cover art for the film Eight Men Out, featuring the four main cast members in Chicago White Sox uniforms.
Image from The Simpsons: At the Springfield Stock Exchange, Martin's father berates him. Caption: "You got greedy, Martin "
Animated GIF of Dr. "Bones" McCoy from Star Trek the original series. A middle aged white man in a blue uniform shirt standing in a cavern holds up his hands, covered with wet cement up to his wrists. Caption: By golly, Jim, I'm beginning to think I can cure a rainy day!
Titular protagonist of the film RoboCop, a cyborg with a white human male face and a shiny stainless steel body, walking across a shallow pool of water, appearing almost to walk across the surface.
Knives Out poster: Wealthy family in a drawing room standing behind their patriarch in a high backed chair
Two armoured cars drive over a panel on the track, which pops up to reveal a fence of spikes. The armoured truck chasing the cars crashes right into the spikes, and the tanker trailer It's towing goes airborne
The Escaflowne mecha from the anime The Vision of Escaflowne
Poster for the film HELL IN THE PACIFIC depicting two armies fighting on the bottom while Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune's faces stare out in the sky above, flanked by the American and Japanese flags respectively.
Old acoustic modem. A black rotary-dial telephone sits on a white table. Its handset, connected to the phone with a black curly cable, sits on an almond colour modem, a rectangular box with a few lights and buttons on the front and two circular divets on top for the handset to rest in.
Cover art of the Criterion edition of Black Orpheus (1959), a film by Marcel Camus. Painting of a Black man in a vest-like garment and knee-high Greco-Roman sandals carrying a Black woman in a golden gown in his arms as they exchange loving glances.
The character Reptile, a humanoid lizard man ninja, from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series.
The DooHicKey by Night Ize, a small multi tool that attaches to a key ring with a carabiner clip, and serves as a bottle opener, ruler, flathead screwdriver, box cutter, and 3 small wrenches.
Screenshot from the 1980s arcade game Bad Dudes vs. Dragonninja, with the caption above reading "Ninja-related crimes are rampant these days... Whitehouse is not the exception..." Underneath, two muscular men in black tank tops (the titular Bad Dudes) stand in front of the New York City skyline.
Screenshot of the Commodore 64 version of the card game Milles Bornes, all text.
A Black man in robes with straight hair past his shoulders holds up his hand as if grasping menacingly. (James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian 1982)
Two characters in spacesuits, one human male, one alien with rocky skin texture. Caption: Human: It'll be a slaughter! Alien: That's the spirit!
The cyborg character of RoboCop from the film of the same name, walking through a large shallow puddle appearing to walk on top of it.
Cover of The Usborne Book of the Future: A View From the 1970s of the Year 2000...and Beyond Large science fiction spaceships are depicted in a space battle
Dark haired young man in long sleeved shirt with the zipper open gives a speech before a huge crowd. (The character of Cyrus from the film The Warriors)
Long haired man with a spear duels a man in a hat in the courtyard of a Chinese temple
Poster for the film "Pirates of Silicon Valley" showing its stars Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates and Noah Wylie as Steve Jobs
Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant on stage. CAPTION: Does anyone remember laughter?
Tilda Swinton, Lorde, and David Bowie posing for a photo at a celebrity event.
Animated gif from the anime The Vision of Escaflowne, showing two medieval armour looking mecha having a sword fight.