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This character was an obvious homage to Ratchet, being an Autobot medic who turned into an ambulance and had a tool hand, just like Generation One Ratchet was sometimes depicted with.
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Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.
He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.
After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.
Some people thought he lacked both ability and character, but most agreed that he was noble in appearance and, for a Russian, humane.
Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.
Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.
Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.
The audience was fond of Harry Hawk, he was a dear, in or out of character, but he was not particularly funny.
The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.
The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.
Of more importance to the West than Poland's boundaries was the character of her government.
Following Day was Woodbury who spoke of his disapproval of Brown's attempt at servile insurrection, his admiration of Brown's character, and his opposition to slavery.
What was lacking was a real sense of phrase, the kind of legato singing that would have added a dimension of smoothness to what is, after all, a very oily character.
The new `` School For Wives '' was interpreted according to a principle that is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy -- the idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character.
At the other extreme in character was the half-hour excerpt from the Petipa-Minkus ballet `` Bayaderka '', which opened the evening.
A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.
Susan was an active character ; ;
It was the kind of thing that could ruin a man's life, and it was a tribute to John's strength of character and very real business ability that it hadn't ruined his.
character and obvious
Malzahar, a character from League of Legends, has a similar back story and Arabian theme that seems to be a direct reference to Alhazred, not to mention the obvious correlation between the two names.
The second one has no obvious simple description ( using the same character set ) other than writing down the string itself, which has 64 characters.
A drag queen is usually a male-bodied person who performs as an exaggeratedly feminine character, in heightened costuming sometimes consisting of a showy dress, high-heeled shoes, obvious makeup, and wig.
But the essentially American character of and other drinks is obvious, despite the fact that a number have gone over into English.
A character who appeared twice in the popular 1990s Canadian TV series Due South was named " Mackenzie King " in obvious reference.
Although the surface area of the parachute design appears to be too small to offer effective resistance to the friction of the air and the wooden base-frame is superfluous and potentially harming, the revolutionary character of the new concept is obvious.
In modern theater, the character Miles Gloriosus ( Latin: " Famous or Boastful Soldier ") from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is an obvious form of the character, though modeled from the earlier Roman plays.
That Barker and Beban are able to create so much sympathy for Beppo, despite their own, occasionally quite obvious condescension to the character, is a mark of emerging maturity in the movie business ; no longer are films dealing in one-dimensional ' types.
This sometimes is for ease of use, in case there is more than one obvious way to break down a character.
The game also introduced logical verb shortcuts, which could be performed with the mouse ; for example, clicking on a character defaults to the " talk " action, the most obvious action in the situation.
* In the Disney animated film The Great Mouse Detective, the character Professor Ratigan ( the archnemesis of Basil of Baker Street, the film's Holmes-trained hero ) is an obvious parallel and tribute to the character of Moriarty.
The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
A character says that the university is in South Boston, and Mark Wahlberg's character ridicules him for the obvious comment.
The overweening character of the Emperor was obvious to Frederick II of Prussia, who, after their first interview in 1769, described him as ambitious, and as capable of setting the world on fire.
Herrmann's music is typified by frequent use of ostinati ( short repeating patterns ), novel orchestration and, in his film scores, an ability to portray character traits not altogether obvious from other elements of the film.
In 2007, Downey was cast as the title character in the film Iron Man, with director Jon Favreau explaining the choice by stating: " Downey wasn't the most obvious choice, but he understood what makes the character tick.
The most obvious common character in grammar is the forming of the perfect participle.
Also, in The Sandman issue " Calliope " written by Neil Gaiman and pencilled by Kelley Jones, a character, Richard Madoc, writes a book " The Cabaret of Dr. Caligari ", an obvious pseudonym.
During a debate of greatest " Song 1 Side 1 " in history among the lead characters in the movie High Fidelity, Jack Black's character criticizes one of John Cusack's character's proposals as " too obvious, like ' Point of Know Return '/' Point of Know Return.
* The comic strip The Wizard of Id by Johnny Hart and Brant Parker features an attorney called " Larsen E. Pettifogger ", an obvious parody of Fields, named in allusion to Fields's character Larson E. Whipsnade from You Can't Cheat an Honest Man.
* The TV show Gigglesnort Hotel featured a puppet character named " W. C. Cornfield ", which was an obvious caricature of Fields.
character and homage
Camus included a dim-witted character misreading The Trial as a mystery novel as an oblique homage.
* The Walking Dead television series's character Edwin Jenner, a doctor affiliated with Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control, is an homage to Edward Jenner.
The eleventh Star Trek film ( 2009 ) features a red-uniformed character who dies early on during a mission in homage to the original series.
Roger's cheating is, along with Raemes T. Quirk, an homage to William Shatner's Star Trek character, who famously cheated on his own Starfleet exam by reprogramming a " no-win " scenario so that he could successfully complete it.
The character Uli Kunkel was in the German electronic band Autobahn, a homage to the 1970s band Kraftwerk.
In an homage to his Sopranos character, he also voiced the analyst of Bart Simpson's therapist in an episode of The Simpsons, and appeared as himself in the " Robots Versus Wrestlers " episode of How I Met Your Mother along with Arianna Huffington, and Will Shortz.
His name can be seen as an homage both to Rand's hero and to Robert Heinlein's character Mike in the novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, a self-aware computer network that engineers a revolution in a lunar penal colony using the alias Adam Selene.
In the 2009 film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the character of Tony, played by Heath Ledger, is found hanging ( alive ) under Blackfriars Bridge, described by director Terry Gilliam as " an homage to Roberto Calvi ".
The half-man half-fish character known as The Missing link ( often referred to as ' Link ') in the movie Aliens vs. Monsters is an homage to the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
* The final shot is paid homage in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas when Joe Pesci's character fires a gun at the camera at the end of the movie.
* Ridley Scott also paid homage after the final credits of American Gangster when Denzel Washington's character in a darkened bar fires a gun into the camera.
The 1991 comedy film Oscar played a direct homage to the scene, recreating it on its poster, where the main character ( played by Sylvester Stallone ) hangs from a clock.
" Nelson later paid homage to both the film and his character, Colorado, by including the song " Restless Kid " on his 1959 LP, Ricky Sings Again.
He also paid homage to the original film by using the pseudonym " John T. Chance ," the name of Wayne's character, for his editing credit.
In the 1995 cartoon short Carrotblanca, a parody / homage to Casablanca, Tweety appeared as " Usmarte ", a parody of the character Ugarte played by Peter Lorre in the original film.
The character Granny on the popular 1960s rural comedy television series The Beverly Hillbillies was named Daisy Moses as an homage to Grandma Moses, who died shortly before the series began. She is buried in Hoosick Falls, New York.
* The name Oberon was chosen for the outermost natural satellite of the planet Uranus in 1847, as an homage to William Shakespeare and his literary character.
According to him, the name of the book ( but not the titular character ) was a homage to Jack Vance.
In 2011, the Leverage episode " The 10 Li ' l Grifters Job ", Timothy Hutton's character Nate Ford appears at a costumed murder mystery party as Ellery Queen, in a homage to his late father, Jim.
* Fantomas was the inspiration for the character Mr. Ixnay, who appears in The Chuckling Whatsit, a 1997 graphic novel by writer / artist Richard Sala, creator of Invisible Hands, an animated homage to old-fashioned mystery thrillers which aired on MTV.
The character of Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-5: The Children's Crusade, by Kurt Vonnegut, is a clear homage to a similar journey to enlightenment experienced by Christian, although Billy's journey leads him to an existential acceptance of life and of a fatalist human condition.
In 8 Mile, Kim Basinger's character is watching Elia Kazan's Pinky on television, a film about a mixed race girl passing as white-an homage to the themes of racial mixing and boundary crossing that are features of most of Hanson's work.
But French opinion itself renders justice to the probity of his character and to the ardour of his patriotism, and nobody will feel surprise at the homage with which Germany feels bound to surround his old age.
Presumably in homage to the original film, Douglas's character greets Paltrow exactly the same way when she arrives home to their apartment at the beginning of A Perfect Murder.
Mary Gentle named a character in her novels Rats and Gargoyles and the Architecture of Desire Casaubon, as an homage to Isaac Casaubon.
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