A sort of meme?

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

So one day I got emo and randomly decided, as a way to distract myself, to type up my favorite passages from Ian Fleming's Bond novels. In the course of this deed I learned I could apparently type up three pages of text in ten minutes, which was kind of scary. Anyway, the post is here, sans all my favorite passages, because not all of my books are earmarked, and not all of the books that are earmarks have earmarks on all my favorite passages.

The meme part comes in my curiosity to see other people's favorite passages from their pup's canon. What bits of canon do you like best? If you have a book canon and are feeling saucy, type it up! If it's a movie canon and you can find a clip, link to it! If it's a comic book and you have a panel, let's see it! Or you can just reply and talk about it if you don't feel like getting Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or doing things what are totally illegal.

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[djcati.livejournal.com]

I actually already typed up my favourite bits of Wes canon ages ago, because I am a total nerd. But I say that like people don't already know.

So this right here (http://i-love-kettch.livejournal.com/4151.html#cutid2) (in between the hr tags) is like, guys, that is Wes in a nutshell. Life is way too short to take it seriously. The rest of the stuff in that post is also from Solo Command; the first bit is srs bsns (totes the only time SRS WES IS SRS in the entirety of Star Wars canon), and the third is why I will always and forever owe Aaron Allston my soul.

Then there's this bit of Starfighters of Adumar (http://i-love-kettch.livejournal.com/4456.html) (which, guys, best and gayest book ever, no joke). Hurting a teenage girl and offending Wedge Antilles? OH NO YOU DI'N'T.



My favourite bits of Lost are all the bits where Desmond calls Locke "Box Man".

[jaceekei.livejournal.com]

I love that book so much.

Well, both of them. And Iron First. And Wraith Squadron. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.

[killitwithfire]

sdkljgfkjg;l I hate you.

*goes to dig out X-Wing books, damn it*

¬_____¬;;

*looks shifty, and hides behind pile of SW d6 books*

[sdelmonte]

Knox has half a film to his credit, but he gets this great moment when the Joker's mob is running wild and he decides to do something about it. He opens his trunk, gets out a baseball bat and a filter mask, and goes to stop them. We him out cold a few minutes later, but that moment defines him for me. He's not just talk and bluster when it's his city that needs help.

Dean O'Dell's best moment was when he and Keith Mars bonded. Two guys who shared a love of cigars and scotch, who had been through a lot of crap, and who were trying to cope with a world they didn't quite understand anymore. If you want a reason why I came to like Cyrus, it was here.

Gibbs..well, anytime he gets to tell a story, that's a good moment. But the best is when he is asked by Barbossa to tell of the green flash, and glares at Pintell for stepping on his lines.

And Kirk...it's hard to choose just one when you are a devoted ST:TOS fan. From the series, I could talk about Kirk returning to the bridge after being cured of premature aging, dashing as ever, and getting the ship out of danger with a simple false message to Starfleet. Or I could talk about his harshest choice, to let Edith Keeler die. From the films, nothing stands out more than his first face-off with Khan in the second film, where he again saves the day through cunning (as well as firepower) but then berates himself for letting Khan trap him. I have always loved how, when Sulu declares, "we did it!" Kirk snaps back "we did nothing!" For all Kirk's ego and bluster, he is never more aware at that moment of his shortcomings. And yet he is never better as a commander in that scene or the ones that follow.

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

I cannot pick a favourite part of Therem and Sorve's canon, but I do happen to have a piece of it typed!

This (http://untraitor.livejournal.com/1000.html) is a "hearth-tale" from Therem's homeland. It's stuck between chapters in the book, and explains the namesakes of my Therem, his brother Arek, and their son Sorve.

[jaceekei.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking of doing this for ages, and I figure this is as good a time as any.

[jaceekei.livejournal.com]

I typed up a couple of passages here (http://fighter--pilot.livejournal.com/6510.html) and then got tired. I'll probably add more next time I get bored.

[minkhollow]

I... don't know what exactly is my favorite bit of Sneakers. It's all pretty awesome.
But this? Is TOTALLY my favorite bit with Carl in. Boy's got the best Bluff check ever.

ETA: Whistler driving also wins at pretty much everything in the entire universe. But sadly, that bit of the movie is not on Youtube. (I think most of what is on Youtube is there because it involves River Phoenix.)

[muji]

Ned's profile has some of my favorite quotes from Pushing Daisies.

SARAH canon...>D She gets downloaded into a car in season 2. "I'm so excited! Do you want to go to the beach? We never go on road trips together, Sheriff..."

Sallie has no canon. Sallie needs no canon. :D?

Mal...I can't choose. Good god. Um...I like it when he gets stabbed. I think I have issues.

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

Man, I need to see more Eureka.

[evil_koala_626]

I've posted these before but they always make me laugh.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wosRsbJFVqU

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pTi4o69GjY4&NR=1

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

PRetty much my favourite Clark moments are when he gets to be heroic and save the day. There are ... many occurances of this. However. Perhaps my favourite clip of all is his first (and only) flight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT7NutySc4Y).

From Gormenghast, the final scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxkDUIRl74g) between Steerpike and Fuchsia always gets me.

Melou has no canon, sadly.

Sikozu's awesome when she's being bitchy to John (And everyone else) and when she uses her radiation. I can't find clips. :/

[lissla-lissar.livejournal.com]

"It is an easy thing to be a dog, with a dog's love" is a quote from Lissar's canon, and one which I just love to death.

"Balls of British steel!" is one of my favorite Dog Soldiers quotes.

There is a reason that I use "Wake up" as often as possible with Dream.

I love Suzi's world but, uh. Hate the writing in her book. So no quotes there.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

Issues Twelve (http://www.ninjaturtles.com/comics/mirage/volume01/12/12.htm) and Twenty-Eight (http://www.ninjaturtles.com/comics/mirage/volume01/28/28.htm) are my favorites of the Old Skool, B&W Mirage books.

You asked for it: She-Hulk

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. You want to pick my favorite She-Hulk canon, when virtually every single moment in She-Hulk's history is awesome for one reason or another?!

Well, I'll try.

First of all: Shulkie argues against the Mutant Registration Act in front of the Supreme Court of the United States and kicks the s**t out of Titania. AT THE SAME TIME. (http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/3319815.html?nc=21) Cower, mortals! She-Hulk brains, beauty, brilliance, and brawn!

In paricular this page warms my heart. (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v372/orophinsgloss/Scans%20Daily/She-Hulk/?action=view&current=329834563_3a0d7fc8d3_b.jpg)

Next: one of the most famous comics ever published in the history of the medium, meaning, of course, She-Hulk #50. Yes, the infamous #50, where She-Hulk found out her writer John Byrne was supposedly dead, and interviewed a dozen or so other writers and artists to take his place. (http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/2085509.html?nc=71) Including Wendy Pini (yes, THAT Wendy Pini, of Elfquest fame), Walt Simonson, and Frank Miller.

If you don't love She-Hulk after reading the below page written by Miller, you may in fact have no soul:



This? One of the greatest She-Hulk covers of all time. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/orophinsgloss/Scans%20Daily/She-Hulk/00014kb1.jpg)

But then, so is this. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/orophinsgloss/Scans%20Daily/She-Hulk/shulkiexmendeal.png)

And so is this: the infamous Vanity Fair/Demi Moore parody cover. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/orophinsgloss/Scans%20Daily/She-Hulk/059_34.png)


Finally, it's sometimes instructive to look at a character through the eyes of their peers. Namely, one J. Jonah Jameson:



Edit for Great Justice: Jesus H., how could I forget She-Hulk and the Living Tribunal? (http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/1716/shehulk70082nx7.jpg)

Re: You asked for it: She-Hulk

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

Dude.

Everything in this comment is made 100% of awesome.

[gorgonfondness]

My favorite Shock Treatment moment is the song Duel Duet, starting with the dialogue that came before. (Sorry for no music link. D= )

My favorite Homestar Runner moment, which also happens to be a song, is One Two One Two. Belt it out, Strong Bad.

My favorite Lunar moment is Damon's Spire, when everyone is asked to sculpt clay into an image of what they treasure. Naturally, only Alex's sculpture is impressive since he's the hero trying to save his girlfriend, but everyone else has great treasures. XD And a little earlier in the Spire, they encounter a man that needs to be healed which leads to a conversation about Ex-Lax cookies.

You asked for it: Hawkgirl.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to think about all of the Hawkgirl awesome I could link to and post, including pages upon pages of her kicking ungodly amounts of ass and/or exhibiting other kinds of pwnage, and coming up with literally hundreds of examples, but since I'm pressed for time, I'll cite just a few. I'm picking things where she's not talking, just for fun. I really wanted to post her epic final fight (epic as in...building up for five millennia) with Hath-Set, because it involves her slicing someone in half top to bottom vertically and gallons of blood soaking the panels, but I don't have the issues with me here at work to scan in. So, here's just a small selection of what I have on hand:

Kendra meets Roy Harper: one of the greatest Hawkgirl pages from Brad Meltzer's run on the Justice League of America book. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/orophinsgloss/Hawkgirl/kendraroy-1.jpg) The fact that she doesn't say anything at all on this page cracks me up every single time that I read it.

Next up: One of Alex Ross's gorgeous paintings of Hawkgirl and Hawkman. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/orophinsgloss/Hawkgirl/ross_hawks-1.jpg) I love this painting so much that it hurts. Ross is a Golden God.

This Hawkman cover tells you so much about Kendra: Even with her hands and wrists sliced to ribbons and covered with bandages, she's *still* coming to kick your ass. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/orophinsgloss/Hawkgirl/Hawkgirl.jpg)

Kendra had a rather spectacular cameo in a recent issue of Gail Simone's Birds of Prey. Four pages of imminent and then actual epic pwnage:

What is that-...oh, S**T! (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/orophinsgloss/Hawkgirl/104-9.png)

Kendra shreds. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/orophinsgloss/Hawkgirl/104-10.png)

Which leads to Kendra about to mete out an asskicking to Vandal Savage's daughter:

I don't know who you are, lady... (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/orophinsgloss/Hawkgirl/105-3.png)

...but you've just awoken the Hawk. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/orophinsgloss/Hawkgirl/105-4.png)

From the OTP front: My OTP has mid-air hot smexing sessions. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/orophinsgloss/Hawkgirl/hawkmanandhawkgirl.jpg) Does yours? Beautiful painted prettiness.

I apologize for the poor quality of the below pic, but I don't have the particular issue at hand at work to scan in a higher quality version, so had to rely on Google to find the following panel: Barbarian Kendra, drawn by the incomparable Rags Morales!



I love this picture, because it captures her essence to a T. (http://image.comicvine.com/uploads/item/7000/6903/4585-hawkgirl_400.jpg)

As does this one, which is for those of you curious to see what's under the mask. (http://image.comicvine.com/uploads/item/7000/6903/129861-hawkgirl_400.jpg)

Finally, Kendra's softer side - here's a panel that I adore, showing Kendra with little Lian Harper, Roy Harper's (Red Arrow's) daughter:

Re: You asked for it: Hawkgirl.

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

<3 Kendra. Eventually, it will dawn on Clark that he should probably be in awe. Eventually.

[wakeupnew]

This is an awesome idea! *thumbs up*

Consider this a placeholder for (more) Star Wars: X-Wing, The Red Star, and possibly M*A*S*H, Run, Fatboy, Run, and National Treasure (depending on what I can dig up on YouTube), for when I get home to my comics and a computer where my internet use is not severely curtailed.

[garbage-boy.livejournal.com]

I have no youtube links, so... boo? I STILL LU YOUTUBE ~DUN LISTEN 2 DA H8ERS~

There are too many great lines in this canon, so being pup-specific here, probably the part that sums up his status as schadenfreude personified takes place when Linguini first shows up at Gusteau's and has an exchange with the head chef, Skinner (not that Skinner, but pretty evil nonetheless) and his other Random Employees, part of which goes something like this:

Skinner: "Yes. Linguini. So nice of you to visit. How is--?"
Linguini: "My mother."
Skinner: "Yes. Renata. How is she?"
Linguini: "She's good. Well, not g-- she's been better... I mean, uh..."
Horst: "She died."
Skinner: (apathetically) "Oh, I'm sorry."
Linguini: "Oh, don't be. She believed in heaven, so she's... covered... you know... afterlife-wise."

I try not to be like those freaky stage moms who beat people over the head with how great they think their kids are, but if you don't think that's at least a little bit 'awww'... well, then I just don't know what to say to you.

[will_scarlett]

This is why I love Will, its from Creswick's Robin Hood and its his loyalty and bravery, his odd friendship with Little John just yes, this is Will.

[scurlock]

I'm a Youtube addict and so you get lots of that, but I have to say that there's a line Doc says that needs printing, it's between Yen Sun (his crush at the time, now in canon, wife with a kid) and him when he sneaks into her room all Romeo style:

Doc: *reaches out slowly to touch her cheek*
Yen: *shies away* I am unclean, that is not worthy for a young man.
Doc: Yen, I used to ride with the Dirty Underwear Gang out of Liberty, Missouri. Then John Tunstall taught me that the past is like an old yellow Peck novel, when you're finished with it, you throw it out and you start a new one.

(Bolding my own, as that's become my life motto of late.)

And as for the Youtube, well:

I made this one, awhile back, and have always meant to go through and do the rest. Just clips of scenes of YG1 that Doc is in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BknKNC0K-tM

Minus the clips with him and Yen, because I did those separately, still need to do the third part in the finale but the first two are here and here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev5BQ4m8pRQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFMKduG4cR8

As for, 'what's next in canon', the boys are going to walk out the door into this scene, which is one of my alltime favorites just because of how smirky and devious Doc is the whole scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Br5-CCi_w

And, I have to put in the music video to the song that was written just for the movie, hehe: Jon Bon Jovi - Blaze of Glory because it does have clips from the movie in it.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

Atton's introduction. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGMcT01qceY) Here he completely subtly and almost unnoticeably hits on the main character.

Atton, the Handmaiden, the Exile and a Silly Guy talk about the Ebon Hawk. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V6142Ed3Ns) Atton totally never suggests violence. Nope. Not at all.

And the cast of KOTOR are agreed on at least one thing. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r63CsrHZGR8&feature=related)

[bcgphoenix]

Alas, NBC likes to crack down on folks who post Heroes clips to YouTube, so there isn't much out there. Over on Yahoo! Videos, though, there's a clip of Sylar and Mohinder from "Parasite." (The video goes on for a while past their scene, since it's an upload of the full episode, but it's the best I could find.)

And...oh, why not. For nostalgia's sake, Wash playing with his toy dinosaurs.

[mendanddefend_archive]

I just wanna say that that Wash moment is what got me hooked on Firefly.

[over_europe]

There are 10 hours worth of Band of Brothers clips to choose from. A lot of them are too long or spoilery to post here. A bunch of my favorites are enormous scenes that I don't want to post without the context of the rest of the episode. One of my favorite short scenes, though, starts at about 7 minutes into this clip that I found on YouTube. Sorry it's so long, I couldn't find it anywhere else. Everything before it is really good, too, but here's one of my favorites, from the episode "Replacements" (which was played out here).

I just really enjoy the look that it gives you into the friendship between Winters and Nixon. I don't want to say any more than that because I don't want to spoil it!

[weeper-of-blood.livejournal.com]

Your second entry for Casino Royale? The one about playing Red Indians? Is my favourite bit in the whole book.

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

Mine, too.

[vivien]

From Chamber of Secrets:

"She won't wake," said a soft voice.

Harry jumped and spun around on his knees.

A tall, black-haired boy was leaning against the nearest pillar,
watching. He was strangely blurred around the edges, as though
Harry were looking at him through a misted window. But there was
no mistaking him

"Tom - Tom Riddle?"

Riddle nodded, not taking his eyes off Harry's face.

"What d'you mean, she won't wake?" Harry said desperately. "She's
not - she's not -?"

"She's still alive," said Riddle. "But only just."

---

That passage always gives me chills. In the movie, Tom emerges from the shadows and it's such a shivery evil moment.