Top Fives

[Johnny Unusual]

5. Trivial Pursuit
4. Settlers of Catan
3. Carcasonne
2. Ticket to Ride
1. Puerto Rico

Top 5 Sports that would be greatly improved with super-powers

[Sugar Ray Dodge]

5. Professional Wrestling
4. Ultimate Frisbee
3. Soccer
2. Baseball
1. Track and Field

Top Five Needlessly Complicated Ways to Murder Someone

[Johnny Unusual]

5. The Riddler, when he decides too.
4.  Anything death decides to do in Final Destination.  Dude, just use cancer!
3.  Anything Jigsaw decides to do in saw.
2. This (but can you blame the bad guy?)

Spoiler

1. The Cube in Cube

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[Sugar Ray Dodge]

Oh geez!

5. Joss Whedon (although I haven't really liked very much of what he's done since Firefly. I'm sure he's a nice guy, but he's come off as something of a prima donna lately, or at least that's how I see it. He and his sycophants seem pretty full of themselves these days.)
4. Kevin Smith (but both his personality and work have taken a nosedive recently)
3. David Letterman (in recent years)
2. Jeff Lemire
1. Axl Rose

Top Five Franchises You'd Like to Reboot

[Johnny Unusual]

I personally?

5. Mighty Max - I really liked this cartoon as a kid.  The premise is a smart yet sarcastic young boy (voiced by Rob Paulsen naturally) who has a magic hat that can teleport him into different places, but only at certain times.  The only person who knows is Virgil, a birdman who claims to know everything and Norman, a still alive Viking of old.  It was a lot of fun and while it's no Doctor Who, it has a similar premise of a hero who can basically go anywhere and experience any kind of sci-fi, horror fantasy adventure.
4. Reboot - How appropriate.  It was a shame that this ended on a cliffhanger.  Rather than resolve it, it might be better to move ahead to the far future (after all, in computer time, thousands of years have passed) where the characters survived the last adventure by basically stopping time until the old computer they live on is visited by a modern one who unstop time.
3. Clone High - C'Mon, bring it back.  OH, HAVE THE CREATORS (who did Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street) as a live action film!
2.  The Phantom - People keep trying to do this one, but no one can make him interesting.  But I think the Phantom is an inherently interesting pulp hero: He's the first legacy hero, with his origin being the latest in a long line of heroes.  I think beyond that there isn't a lot going on in the original comic, but I think there's a lot of potential to make it cool and play with the idea that there is a long history.
1. Tales from the Crypt - Both the TV show and the comic.  The TV series was VERY hit or miss (OK basically 3 misses for every hit, though usually watchable misses) but there are still lots of great Tales stories left untold and a lot of great directors who I think would love to take a crack at these goofy, karmic horror tales (Ti West, Edgar Wright and Alexander Aja would work great with veterans like Joe Dante and John Landis).  I also want new issues of the comic, as well as the other EC books.  Papercutz was doing it for a while, but it didn't last long.

Top 5 Cool Symbols

[TeamRAD]

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1. Axl Rose

I'm presuming you're not a landlord, Ray...

http://www.vulture.com/2013/12/what-happened-when-axl-rose-rented-my-apartment.html

[Malt]

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Top five fantasy creatures.

[Johnny Unusual]

5. Pegasus
4. Golem
3. Dragon
2. Fairy
1. Nymph

Top 5 Fantasy Artifacts

[monsterbrains]

5. Alethiometer (The Golden Compass)

4. Lemarchand's box (Hellraiser)

3. Necronomicon

2. The one ring that rules them all

1. Excalibur


Top Five thrill crimes

[Johnny Unusual]

5. Point Break stuff
4. Stealing a comedy act and passing it off as your own
3. High Speed Car Chase
2. Defacing a national monument with graffiti (but it has to be big!)
1. Robbing a Casino!

Top 5 Acts of Thrilling Altruism!

[stansimpson]

5. Dan Black
A man, age 25, became paralyzed after a motorcycle accident. He gave money raised for an operation that could allow him to be able to walk again to Brecon Vaughan, age 5, who suffered from Cerebral Palsy so the boy could take his first steps.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/paralysed-dan-black-donates-money-2045907

4. The Suicide Corp
In 2010, a group of elderly Japanese retirees volunteered to clean up the Fukushima fallout, exposing themselves to cancer-inducing radiation, because they were closer to death.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/31/japan.nuclear.suicide/

3. James Harrison
After needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13, James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18. It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harrison_(blood_donor)

2. Norman Borlaug
In the mid-20th century, a genetic biologist developed revolutionary wheat varieties that prevented people from disease and starvation. He is a Nobel laureate who is known as "the father of the Green Revolution", "agriculture's greatest spokesperson" and "The Man Who Saved A Billion Lives".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

2. Harris Rosen
A self-made millionaire adopted a Florida neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the high school graduation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high school graduates scholarships.
http://pegasus.ucf.edu/story/rosen/
     
1. The Giving Pledge.
81 billionaires committed to giving at least half of their fortunes to charity. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and many notable others are part of this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Pledge


Top 5 Serial Killers

[Johnny Unusual]

Like... real ones?  OK, I'll see what I can do... (this might get weird).  Keep in mind, I don't like these people, but they are fascinating.
5.  Charles Manson
But not real Charles Manson.  This one:

OK, that WAS fiction.  Sorry.
4. Dennis Nilson, The Kindly Killer.  This guy would take other men on dates, which were lovely by all accounts.  He was kind and polite.  He would get you drunk.  Then he would murder you.  Then he tended to the bodies and would sometimes have sex with them.  The official explanation for this is loneliness.  Terrifying.
3. Ed Gein.  I know he's not a serial killer (as far as we know, he's only killed two people), so it's kind of a cheat.  Still, there's a damn good reason why he inspired so many fictional ones.
2. Jack the Ripper.  Definitely a fascinating case.
1. Gustav the Crocodile, the evil shnappi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_(crocodile)

Hope that I made the list didn't upset people too much.

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[stansimpson]

Oh, I didn't specify. I just chose real-life just because (essentially, just leaving it up to whomever). Did not know about Evil Shnappi! :O

at I made the list didn't upset people too much.

If so, they can just re-read the post before and get good does of nice humanity.

[Malt]

Hope that I made the list didn't upset people too much.

That's a really funny typo btw. If it's not actually a typo it's just funny the way I interpret it. 


H.H. Holmes was a scary/fascinating one. The guy built a massive apartment complex full of all sorts of chambers and mazes for his victims to get lost/trapped in. Was around the same era of Jack the Ripper, but in the U.S.

[stansimpson]

H.H. Holmes was a scary/fascinating one. The guy built a massive apartment complex full of all sorts of chambers and mazes for his victims to get lost/trapped in. Was around the same era of Jack the Ripper, but in the U.S.

Definitely this! Check out the documentary on Netflix (I think it's called "Holmes"). It's exactly like a 19th century "Saw".