Stand in DE

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Why does it feel so weird for me to not have a DE?

Anyway, let's play six degrees of separation! In case you are unfamiliar with the game, you connect two seemingly different and unconnected people in as few "steps" as possible. Since this is Milliways, let's include authors as well as character histories. But let's leave out Milliways and pup genres as that makes it too easy. 

An example that occurs to me is Ben Grimm -> Deadpool (they had a team up) -> Agent X (who is a clone of Deadpool) -> Gail Simon (who wrote the comic series Agent X) -> Wonder Woman (Gail also was a recent writer for the Wonder Woman comic series). I could go even shorter by going Ben Grimm -> John Byrne -> Super Man -> Wonder Woman.

So have fun, just be sure to show your work. Or post in with a pup and have other people do the work with their pups. Just remember Milliways and genre can not be a connecting dot...unless the connection is Douglas Adam's restaurant.

Comments

[a1enzo]

Are parodies and voice actors valid connections?

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Sure, especially the voice actors! Or animators as the case may be.

[a1enzo]

In that case...

Enzo Matrix (a1enzo)

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Well an easy answer (which I didn't know until you told me a while ago) would be Enzo -> Reboot -> Mainframe Entertainment ->The Barbie movies. Except I don't play Barbie anymore...

How about Enzo -> ReBoot -> Indiana Jones (didn't ReBoot do a spoof?) ->Ben Grimm risking copyright infringement (https://plus.google.com/u/0/117315639265009680680/posts?hl=en)

Or Enzo -> Reboot -> Marv Wolfman -> Fantastic Four ->Ben Grimm

[a1enzo]

They didn't do a full-fledged Indiana Jones spoof, but this did happen.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Yeah I wasn't sure which was why I included the Marv Wolfman string.

[a1enzo]

Which is certainly a link, but I think "silly things with people dressed as Indy" is perfectly valid.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

And I just noticed the link I set up for Ben's Indiana Jones didn't really work.Here's a better one. (https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9i5JNcO5qwo/Tq8kvRY8dfI/AAAAAAAAAdE/apxrRI77azQ/s319/indianathing.Reed%2Bjoke.jpg)

[kd7sov]

Easy. Enzo -> AndrAIa -> Andrea Libman -> Fluttershy.

Felix is... rather harder. Unless we can find a commonality between ReBoot and Mario Tennis...

[ceitfianna]

I can connect two of mine due to having the same PB-Will Scarlett and Tumnus both have James McAvoy as a face.

I feel like it wouldn't be too hard to connect the rest of mine using books, PBs and other things.

Another easy connection would be Sameth and Will, Sameth's PB Will Young is in a new BBC series called Bedlam and James McAvoy starred in the Shakespeare Retold MacBeth. This is fun and I'll put my list up.

Will Scarlett-based on Paul Creswick's book, James McAvoy PB
Demeter-Kate Winslet and Judi Dench PB's
Moist von Lipwig-Jude Law PB
Jane Austen-Anne Hathaway PB
Sameth-Will Young PB
William Evans-Logan Lerman PB
Tumnus-James McAvoy PB
The Pirate King-Kevin Kline PB

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Oh I got the Pirate King!!!

The Pirate King -> Kevin Kline -> the Wild Wild West movie -> The Wild Wild West TV series -> Artemus Gordon.

True facts, when I was thinking about running Arty I almost went with the Kevin Kline version because you know Kevin Kline. = ]

[ceitfianna]

And I'll do a book link at you since saying they're both from Discworld is too easy.

In Making Money, Moist works with the Department of Necromancy at the University->Rincewind in his boring periods works both as Professor something Geography and in the library.

[kd7sov]

Sure, let's do this.

Felix (from Golden Sun)
Kain (from Final Fantasy IV, having been voiced by Koichi Yamadera and Liam O'Brien)
Fluttershy (from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, voiced by Andrea Libman)

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

I got nothing. Sorry...

[gone_byebye]

Fluttershy's voice actress Andrea Libman appears as the voice of young AndrAIa in ReBoot.
We have linkage of the soft squishy shy compassionate pony to the BIG GROUCHY COMPUTER PROGRAM Matrix.

However, through ReBoot we also have linkage to virtually every piece of animation made in the United States and/or Canada in the last twenty years, because Frank Welker was the voice of Frisket and Scuzzy on ReBoot. This is Frank Welker's IMDB actor credit list. My personal favorite is that we now have linkage between Fluttershy and several different versions of Megatron. Also, if one counts Robot Chicken, with Barack Obama.

[nocarename]

*clicks*
*scrolls*
*scrolls some more*
Wow. Guy knows how to keep busy.

[kd7sov]

Through that, and your help in chat, I am able to link up every one of my pups.

Felix is from Golden Sun. Golden Sun is developed by Camelot Software Planning. Camelot developed We Love Golf!, which was published by Capcom. Robin Atkin Downes has provided voices in several Capcom games. He has also provided the voice of the Medic in Team Fortress 2. Team Fortress 2 is developed by Valve. Iikka Keränen is a level designer at Valve, and also worked on Thief II: The Metal Age. Thief II was developed by Looking Glass Studios. Another prominent employee of Looking Glass Studios' was Warren Spector, who later founded Junction Point Studios. Junction Point Studios developed Epic Mickey. The main antagonist of Epic Mickey was voiced by Frank Welker - linking, as you demonstrated, to Fluttershy. (He also provided a voice in My Little Pony: The Movie, which introduced Wind Whistler, but I don't play her yet - and may never, come to that.)

Looking Glass Studios went out of business while working with Eidos Interactive. Eidos Interactive was acquired by Square Enix. Square Enix (Square at the time of the first release) published Final Fantasy IV - Kain's canon.

(As a point of interest, several points on these chains - including Frank Welker and Looking Glass Studios - have links to various iterations of Star Trek, and Star Trek has been known to quote Gilbert and Sullivan, meaning that every single pup I've ever apped is linked in.)

[leeshajoy.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun!

Alyx Vance (Half-Life series, voiced by Merle Dandridge)
Artie Nielsen (Warehouse 13, played by Saul Rubinek)
Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, voiced by Tara Strong)
D0G (Half-Life series)
the cat (Coraline)

[gone_byebye]

Alyx Vance appears in the same game as Sheckley, voiced by Adam Baldwin. Adam Baldwin plays Colonel Dave Dixon in Stargate SG-1, in which Richard Dean Anderson appears as Colonel Jack O'Neill. Richard Dean Anderson voices Killian Darkwater, the mayor of Junktown, in the first Fallout game. Junktown is where you meet the first Dogmeat of the Fallout franchise, and in-universe, that Dogmeat is the ancestor of the Dogmeat who appears in Fallout 3.

So we have Alyx and D0G linked to Ellen.

[gone_byebye]

Artie appears on Warehouse 13, which was co-created by Jane Espenson and D. Brent Mote. Jane Espenson has written an episode of A Game Of Thrones and is on the writing staff for Torchwood. Torchwood takes place in the same universe as Doctor Who, so we have a link for the blue police box in the back of the Warehouse and since Sean "Boromir" Bean is in A Game Of Thrones, the One Ring is mixed in with the other Artifacts somewhere.

[gone_byebye]

Note: Espenson also shared a Hugo award for her writing on a Buffy The Vampire Slayer episode- "Conversations With Dead People". So we have Buffyverse linkability as well.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

I'm late to my own game but I have to wonder what connections folks will find so:
616 Ben Grimm (for the next time he's human I am thinking I'll be going with Mark Valley as a PB)
Ult Ben (PB: Michael Trucco/Sam Worthington)
Jessica Drew (PB: Jennifer Connelly)

[camwyn]

If we use Mark Valley as 616 Ben Grimm's human face, then Mark Valley played a character named Joseph on Spin City in 2002. Barry Bostwick, who played the mayor of New York on Spin City, played Captain Ahab in 2010: Moby Dick, which incidentally was one of the worst versions of the story ever. Patrick Stewart played the role of Captain Ahab in a much better production of Moby Dick, thereby linking 616 Ben Grimm to Star Trek: The Next Generation; alternatively, he can also be linked to John Marston of Red Dead Redemption through Carlos Antonio, who played Captain Macey in 2010: Moby Dick and a bank employee and another character named Carlos in RDR. So, cowboys or spacemen, take your pick.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Knowing Ben he'll take both. = ]

Can I just say you rock at this game? And speaking of Moby Dick, this just reminded me of the Morgan Freeman Moby Dick movie with dragons. I wonder if it was any good.

Oh and I just thought of a funny six degrees, Ben Grimm, Val von Doom and Michael J. Fox via Jeph Loeb who wrote Teen Wolf and several issues of Fantastic Four.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

I can do better.

Michael Trucco appeared as a detective in four episodes of Castle, which starred Nathan Filion. Nathan Filion voiced Hal Jordan in Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, in which Arnold Vosloo voiced Abin Sur. Arnold Vosloo played Dr. Peyton Westlake, aka Darkman, in Darkman II: The Return of Durant and Darkman III: Die Darkman Die. Sam Raimi was executive producer on both Darkman II and III. Sam Raimi graduated from Michigan State University. Dr. Terence Doom got his computer science and engineering degree at Michigan State University.

So we now have a link between Ultimates Ben and the real-world Dr. Doom.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Oh awesome!