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Pip the Troll was introduced by Jim Starlin in Strange Tales vol 2 # 179 ( Feb 1975 ) to be a comic foil to the story's main protagonist, Adam Warlock.
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Adam Warlock and his former Infinity Watch allies Gamora and Pip the Troll then recruited cosmically powerful beings from across the universe, intending to dethrone the Champion in the ring according to Skardon law, but the Champion managed to defeat all comers, including Drax the Destroyer, Gladiator, Beta Ray Bill, the Silver Surfer, and Adam Warlock himself.
With the help of Pip the Troll, the assassin Gamora, and Gamora's employer, Thanos, Warlock discovers the Magus is himself from the future, driven insane by the use of his Soul Gem and the In-Betweener.
Together with Warlock, Pip the Troll and Thanos, Gamora fought to escape the Black Knights of the Universal Church of Truth and Magus's Death Squad.
When Jamie Madrox and Banshee track it down and take it off of the neck of a drunken bar patron, he reverts to Pip the Troll.
X then impersonates Thanos and directs character Pip the Troll to kidnap a recovering Adam Warlock on an alien planet.
Another creative high-water mark, this feverishly imaginative feature from Starlin, who had similarly reinvigorated Captain Marvel, introduced the Marvel characters Gamora, Ellie the Freak, Pip the Troll and The Magus, and helped establish the mythos Starlin would mine in his many " Infinity " sagas of the 1990s.
As the heroes plotted against the Goddess, Pip the Troll teleported into Paradise Omega and used the Cosmic Egg to temporarily change the Goddess into salt.
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It is the similarity between Estella's hands and Molly's ( `` The action of her fingers was like the action of knitting '' ) that provides Pip with a vital clue to the real identity of both and establishes a symbolic connection between the underworld of crime and the genteel cruelty of Satis House.
Mumy also played the character of young Pip, a boy who enjoyed playing with his father but was always ignored, in the episode " In Praise of Pip " ( September 1963 ), and the character of Billy Bayles, a boy who talks to his dead grandmother through a toy telephone, in the episode " Long Distance Call " ( March 1961 ).
* In 2010, an adaptation by Pip Utton was staged at The Pleasance as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
In the Pip, Squeak and Wilfred adventures before the start of WWII there were two hairy characters: one was a scheming, plotting, bomb-throwing Bolshevik and the other was his dog.
This morphed into GongMaison and by 1991, the name Gong was again in use, by which time early drummer Pip Pyle had also rejoined.
These included Pip Williams, Roger Glover, who was the first outside producer to work with Quo since Pye's John Schroeder in the early 1970s and produced " Wild Side of Life " and its B-side " All Through The Night " in 1976 ; and John Eden.
Produced by veteran producer Pip Williams, who had worked with Quo in the studio since 1977, the album was only moderately successful.
** Pip was somewhat cowardly and self-preservatory, and would keep his Space Gem safe because he would teleport to safety at the first sign of trouble.
The Children's Farm is also home to a female Bennett's Wallaby named Pip, who was abandoned by her mother and hand-reared by keepers.
One of the Flight Commanders, Flight Lieutenant ' Pip ' Hillier was awarded the DFC after some 13 confirmed tank ' kills ', unfortunately he was killed in August 1942 whilst demonstrating the squadrons tactics to the press, having served with the squadron since 1938 in Palestine.
Inside the Soul Gem was Soulworld, a place where Gamora, Pip and eventually Adam Warlock himself lived at peace.
Gamora and Pip persuaded Doctor Strange to help them find and stop Warlock, who was going mad with power.
Eventually the threat of the Magus was neutralized and Pip parted company with Adam on the world of Sirus X.
With Gamora, Pip summoned Doctor Strange to deal with the seemingly power-mad Warlock, but was reconciled with Warlock.
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Like the protagonist, Pip, Estella is introduced as an orphan, but where Pip was raised by his sister and her husband to become a blacksmith, Estella was adopted and raised by the wealthy and eccentric Miss Havisham to become a lady.
* Cody: Merlin's young apprentice, introduced in Legion of the Dead, who brings Pip to Avalon via the Net Spell after Merlin disappears and is presumed dead following a fall from a tree.
In the scene very Pip is introduced, Stan asks Pip about his peculiar name, but Cartman interrupts Pip during his answer.
Pip Theodor was one several personalities who introduced the programs, similar to what was done on MTV and Britain's ITV.
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Magwitch terrifies Pip into stealing a pork pie for him by creating the image in the boy's imagination of a bogy man who may `` softly creep his way to him and tear him open '', `` imbruing his hands '' in him.
Pip imagines how Estella would look down upon Joe's hands, roughened by work in the smithy, and the deliberate contrast between her white hands and his blackened ones is made to symbolize the opposition of values between which Pip struggles -- idleness and work, artificiality and naturalness, gentility and commonness, coldness and affection -- in fact, between Satis House and the forge.
When the snobbery that alienates Pip from Joe finally gives way before the deeper and stronger force of love, the reunion is marked by an embarrassed handshake at which Pip exclaims: `` No, don't wipe it off -- for God's sake, give me your blackened hand ''!!
* The BBC produced a made-for-TV version in 1989, directed by James Cellan Jones, starring Helena Bonham Carter as Raina, Pip Torrens as Bluntschli, Patrick Ryecart as Sergius and Patsy Kensit as Louka.
Tolland County is briefly referenced in the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville as the place that the ill-fated ship mate, Pip, comes from.
He wakes up to find himself seemingly unharmed by the encounter and in the company of a pleasant individual named " Pip " who tells Rocky that he is his guide and has been instructed to grant him whatever he desires.
Produced by Pip Williams, Sonic Origami, originally issued in Japan in 1998, then, a year later, in the U. S., had " a grand, epic tone throughout " that, according to rock critic Steve Huey, " doesn't always match Uriah Heep's journeyman-sounding prog-tinged hard rock ," still being " a solid entry in its chosen genre.
The Great Attractor is mentioned in the " Pip and Flinx " series by novelist Alan Dean Foster, in the book Flinx's Folly.
For some of those writers, the BBV audios have offered a chance to revisit their creations: for instance, the range includes a story by Pip & Jane Baker explaining what happened to the Rani ( last seen in Doctor Who being abducted by a group of aliens that were also created by the writing pair ), and a series of stories by Lawrence Miles about his history-spanning terrorist organisation Faction Paradox.
In the novelisation written by Pip and Jane Barker, it is revealed that the Rani, and the Master, escaped the growing T-Rex due to the same time spillage that made it mature ; it grew so rapidly that it broke its spine on the ceiling of the Rani's TARDIS.
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