I hadn’t really picked up on it until he read the poem. 
It’s been a while, and there’s so many details in these books, but I imagine it was raped. Or got its head smashed in by whoever was coming for Dany.
Who the hell is Princess Rhaeny and who is raping her kittens?!
It was like that when I found it.
From the context, I gather someone from The Song of Ice and Fire.
I’m sure Dany had a kitten before she left Westeros.
It has been consistently placed in Kansas since Byrne’s post-Crisis reboot. The contradictory mentions given in the wiki article predate that era. That’s 23 years and counting. I think they’ve finally settled the matter.
My youngest sister is a big Superman fan, and she got ahold of that book that came out a few years ago that reprinted a bunch of the old, original Superman comics from way back when. She was extremely surprised to discover, in one of those old stories, Clark Kent’s human parents being called something other than “Jonathan” and “Martha”. So I asked my local comic book guy, who is something of an expert on Superman, about it.
He explained that, in the early years of comic books, they were a) written for kids, who they assumed wouldn’t notice stuff like that; b) written with no expectation that people would be collecting the whole run and thus without continuity in mind; c) assigned to whichever writer was available this month, with little expectation that he had read any of the previous stories.
Of course, as we know now, kids did notice that stuff and started writing letters asking, “Why…”, and of course people did start collecting extended runs. Thus the scenario we all remember from the '80s, where, after decades of explaining inconsistencies and contradictions via “multiple Earths”, DC had to stage the Crisis to straighten everything out.
John and Mary, specifically.
Interestingly, also the first names of the Graysons (they seem to be pretty consistent with them). Whereas Martha is the name of Bruce Wayne’s mother.
Not sure if it’s meaningful, but it’s interesting.
And don’t forget the Daily Planet started as the Daily Star.
And Smallville will continue to be in Kansas right up to the point that they do another reboot and it moves to some other place. I don’t consider the post-Crisis Superman to be the definitive Superman. It’s just a minor side trip in the history of Superman.
Smallville has been in Kansas ever since I started reading Action and Superman, late 1960s.
Not true. Read the article linked to in post #455. As recently as 1984 it was somewhere else.
Does this count as a zombie yet? Sorry if it does.
Anyway, one of the main characters in Starcraft was named Fenix.
Halfway through the main story SPOILERS he dies, and is then revived into a Dragoon* SPOILERS.
Took me a couple years to realize Fenix -> Phoneix -> rebirth
*A unit made from the corpse of a Protoss Zealot
Isn’t there also a resurrection spell in at least some of the Final Fantasy games called “Fenix Down”, or something like that?
It’s an item, and it first showed up in…IIe, IIRC. It was still Fenix Down in III.
I can’t remember if they took advantage of the larger name fields to bring it back to Phoenix Down in VII or VIII (that it to say, it was one of them, but I can’t remember which), though. IX-XII have had it as Phoenix.
Disney’s The Lion King = Hamlet. A professor of mine pointed that out, and it just makes sense. Not that I would’ve ever caught on it, and I’ve seen it several times o.x
I grew up with disney movies. We saw The Hunchback of Notre dame when it came out and twice or so afterwards, and it wasn’t until this year that the connotation of what Frollo wants with Esmeralda really hit me o.x;
Well, other than the whole “everyone dying” thing, and the goofball duo helping the prince instead of conspiring against him, and the girlfriend not being off-the-deep-end crazy, and the old advisor actually being wise instead of senile, and all that.
Also, the whole “girlfriend being your half-sister” thing. That’s new.
And the villain utilizing Nazi imagery as he collaborates with an outside enemy.