Few characters in fiction have eaten shit as much as Optimus Prime, with The Last Prime dying at least a dozen times during his tenure as the wisened leader of the Autobots. Inarguably his most shocking death though was in The Transformers: The Movie. A death the studio not only insisted upon, but had no idea would affect kids.
That Time a Company Flexed on Their Competition with a Naked Blue Dude
A common trend in the world of video game production is creative reuse of assets and the ability to stretch every penny. Something a lot of early fighting games are known to have done out of necessity to maximise the amount of content they contained. However, just because it was necessary didn’t mean it wasn’t criticised, which saw the creator’s of Street Fighter III flex on their competition with a giant Dr Manhattan-looking motherfucker called Gill.
Wayne Gretzky Was So Good People Thought It Was Against the Rules to Check Him
At the apex of his on-ice dominance, Wayne Gretzky was a veritable force of nature whose towering reputation preceded him to such a point many of his peers were actively terrified of him. This in spite of Gretzky’s underwhelming physicality and diminutive frame. Something that led to a lot of fellow players assuming that it was literally against the rules to try and snap him in half on the ice.
60% of People Aboard the Hindenburg Survived by Just, Jumping Out
The word Hindenburg is now synonymous with disaster and it’s not hard to see why considering the image it likely conjures in people’s minds is that of a floating testicle detonating into a cloud of fire hundreds of feet in the air. While the disaster did claim the lives of several people, it’s worth noting that a majority of the people on board actually survived. Mostly by simply, and we’re really not shitting you here, leaping out before the ship crashed into the ground and exploded.
That Time Memes Made a Game 1000% More Popular
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is a video game where you take control of a samurai sword wielding cyborg mercenary who’s on a mission to save a bunch of child-brains from being forcibly conscripted into a proxy war by a nano-tech infused Republican Senator with a three mile wide forehead. Warmly received on release, the game has since enjoyed a renewed success and critical reanalysis, in part, due to MEMES. Which is ironic given that the game is about, among other things, memes. Erm, the other kind.
