Roy: Maybe Now You Two Will Start Listening To Me.

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Roy Mustang: So. Who broke it? I’m not mad. I just want to know.

Riza Hawkeye: I did. I broke it…

Roy Mustang: No. No, you didn’t. Breda?

Heymans Breda: Don’t look at me! Look at Havoc.

Jean Havoc: What?! I didn’t break it.

Heymans Breda: Huh. That’s weird. How did you know it was even broken?

Jean Havoc: Because it’s sitting right in front of us and it’s broken.

Heymans Breda: Suspicious.

Jean Havoc: No, it’s not!

Kain Fuery: If it matters, probably not… Catalina was the last one to use it.

Rebecca Catalina: Liar! I don’t even drink that crap!

Kain Fuery: Oh really? Then what were you doing by the coffee cart earlier?

Rebecca Catalina: I use the wooden stirrers to push back my cuticles. Everyone knows that, Fuery!

Riza Hawkeye: Alright, let’s not fight. I broke it, let me pay for it, sir.

Roy Mustang: No. Who broke it?

Jean Havoc: Sir, Falman's been awfully quiet…

Vato Falman: Really?!

Jean Havoc: Yeah, really!

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Roy Mustang: I broke it. I burned my hand so I punched it. I predict ten minutes from now, they’ll be at each other’s throats with warpaint on their faces and a pig head on a stick. Good. It was getting a little chummy around here.

Iconic.

Things Batman Taught

I finally read the The Target. For anyone not familiar with this title, it heralds back to the Officer Grayson days. Dick is setup to take the fall for some dirty cops of the Blüdhaven PD and adopts the identity The Target to clear his name name for Reasons.

I came across this gem:

That’s right. They practiced throwing guns. As confirmed by Nightwing (1996) #33:

It called to mind another gun-throwing identity of Dick Grayson’s.

Flash forward to the New 52.

That’s right, Agent 37. Was is pure coincidence Agent 8 mentioned guns and targets? Or was it an Easter Egg?

Who could forget his iconic theme song?

His fellow agents may have given him grief over his choice of gun handling, but apparently Dick had lots of practice hurling those bad boys.

Finding these references is like undercovering buried treasure to me. I get way to much pleasure from it. Has anyone else found any good links from the old to the new like this?

I think my favourite part of the Thor trilogy is how at the end of dark world we saw this

And we all just went “OH SHIT!!! LOKI’S KING!!! EVERYONE’S FUCKED!!!” But then Ragnarok rolled around and it turns out all he does is

Watch plays of himself and

Build big statues like hot damn the avengers really wasted a whole movie tryna stop this bitch when they could have just written him a play and built him a statue and he would’ve been satisfied

There is no such thing as an ‘alpha’ in a wolf pack. An early study that coined the term 'alpha wolf’ had only observed unrelated adult wolves living in captivity. In the wild, wolf packs operate more like human families: there’s no defined sense of rank, parents are in charge until kids grow up and start their own families, younger wolves don’t overthrow the 'alpha’ to become the new leader, and social dominance fights are situational. Source Source 2

get you a boy who can do both

You know what little moment I always liked? Roy mentally scrambling to find an explanation for Ed when Shou Tucker asked for Ed and Al’s secrets. I always thought it was a nice touch. After all if Roy was uncaring as pretended to be, he would have put Ed on the spot instead of trying to cover for him right?

I agree so much with this!!! And yes, I’ve always LOVED that scene too! Roy clearly makes an effort to cover up for Ed, and it’s not even this little, “well, Fullmetal?” Roy has to fight to find the words for it, and Ed is the one to hush him. And I imagine Roy felt a nice little twinge or pride when Ed went and told the truth. 

Thanks for sharing!