Considering he's paired with Nabeshin, of all people, you might have to worry just what sort of jokes he cracks instead. (Granted, that's not actually bad, per se, but still, it's the principle of the thing.)

>Still, its great to see 'Jackie' gets the UF nod.
>Wonder just what sort of appearance he'll eventually make. :)

He doesn't necessarily have to make an appearance. After all, we've never actually seen Gojira on-screen either. (Or have we? My memory's glitching...)

--Firefly

............

er, are we talking regular Nabeshin, from Excel Saga, or did you see Puni Puni Poemi, too?

*shudder*

Yeah. Roaming action hero Nabeshin, the Ninja Commando from Hell, in his red suitjacket.

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I definitely did not need the mental image this conjured up. I'll admit that it'd make for one of the most wonderfully twisted fics ever written, but you won't see me writing this. Ever. Come to think of it, I might not even read it even if someone else wrote it. All depends on the mindset I'm in, I suppose.

--Firefly
Great. Now I'm gonna have nightmares.

Fortunately, I have no idea what you guys are talking about, and, for the record, I wish to keep it that way.

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Well, you may recall that Gojira himself won Best Actor for that same film.

But it was a really good movie. :)

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Nah, I'm with Chris - the Acadmey Awards now are too prissy and wouldn't recognize real art (like Drunken Master 2) if it hit them in the face.

Um, what role did Jackie Chan play in a Godzilla movie? And what's with the Neo-Japan connections? I thought after City Hunter he wasn't going to work in that market anymore...

yours,
t.

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Denton, never leave home without it.

"Pretty ambitious for a tree, isn't it?"

He was the Intrepid Reporter.

>And what's
>with the Neo-Japan connections? I thought after City Hunter he
>wasn't going to work in that market anymore...

The UF-era Godzilla movies were often set on New Japan, but were produced by the WDF Morale Division, not a New Japanese company. So he was working on New Japan, but the people actually calling the shots on the films were his WDF cronies (and, often, himself).

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No, not Steve Martin. Steve Martin never got into fights with the soldiers. Ever seen Godzilla Millennium? More like that, except with more plastic explosives.

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It just occured to me that this gives me just enough relevance to pimp my idea of a UF based Cannonball Run.

...what?? <grin>

>But it was a really good movie. :)

That this is the major point of judgement proves my point that your Oscars are cooler than reality.

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Pattrick

PS: How about A Black Trans-Am???
"Jihad-free is the way for me."

In my avatar's defense, I must point out that at that time, though he wasn't a proper martial artist, he had gone through WDF training and, as such, was at least a passable action hero. I grant you that, at that point in his life, he was much more the Indiana Jones "wait for the martial artist to finish his intimidating kata, then shoot him" type, not the Yasuhiro Imagawa-style super martial artist of Future Imperfect - but then, the Golden Age was more like a supercop movie and less like Giant Robo. (You'll notice even Jackie went and got himself retooled accordingly for the FI paradigm shift. :)

You're right, though, that early-WDF G was kind of out of his element when not flying a Veritech fighter. :)

>But what I want to know is, why isn't Jackie Chan, race car
>afficionado, doing any racing in his new life?

Oh, I'm sure he is, but I didn't have space to mention all of his hobbies. He's a master chef, too, which is how he supported himself for most of his Exile vision quest.

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More passable than Sly Stallone???

>but then, the Golden Age was more like a
>supercop movie and less like Giant Robo. (You'll notice even
>Jackie went and got himself retooled accordingly for the FI paradigm
>shift. :)

<grin> I had noted this. What is with that? The universe get seeed with midicolrians or something?

>Oh, I'm sure he is, but I didn't have space to mention all of his
>hobbies. He's a master chef, too, which is how he supported himself
>for most of his Exile vision quest.

Ooooh. Excellent. Did he appear on Iron Chef? Oooh! Jackie Chan vs. Tenjou Utena, now that's one to watch...

t.

Twelve feet away, Rei got up from her seat, splashed through
the remaining LCL, poked her head out of the now-open doorway, and
surveyed the scene. Without changing her expression, she brought her
hands together under her chin, cocked her head slightly to one side, and
said softly, "My hero."
"mEDiC..." groaned Jackie in reply.
- NXE: the Jackie Chan Years

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Denton, never leave home without it.

"Pretty ambitious for a tree, isn't it?"

Don't be absurd. The universe has always had an ample supply of mitochondria; otherwise animal life wouldn't be able to exist.

>Ooooh. Excellent. Did he appear on Iron Chef?

By 2400, who hasn't? (Well, aside from the person you mentioned next, who, except for various news clips relating to Valiant business and that one moment in the 2404 World Series, has never been on TV.)

>Oooh! Jackie Chan vs.
>Tenjou Utena, now that's one to watch...

I'll have to invite Jackie to one of the Christmas parties at some point. :)

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Actually that was a lame reference to a lame movie. The supposed source of Jedi power and what not. And I'm glad to see that some basic bio survives in the metaverse.

>I'll have to invite Jackie to one of the Christmas parties at some
>point. :)

yay! Now I'm happy, beaming, disgruntled employee!

t.

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Denton, never leave home without it.

"Pretty ambitious for a tree, isn't it?"

I know. Did it fail to strike you that "midichlorians" was a botched attempt at filing the serial numbers off "mitochondria"?

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t.

Trigger Argee
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Manon, Maccadon, Orado, etc.
Denton, never leave home without it.

"Pretty ambitious for a tree, isn't it?"

*twitch* Ack, shades of parasite eve and random Madame l'engle books. Ack!

Mistral

-no quote

Somebody tell Lucas to just call the stuff "Protoculture" and get on with it...

--rR

Plus, that's just a list of the highlights. Nothing covering his nominations for Academy Awards or Golden Galaxies (assuming that the Golden Globe awards were updated somewhere between GA and FI to reflect an interstellar society), or coming in fourth in an asteroid race, or any of a pile of other things I could invent, none of which would be canon.

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"I" before "E," except after "C," unless sounded like "ay," as in "neighbor" or "weigh."

Spelling is a weird science.

No. It's just a random handwavey stat to provide a vague relative measure. (You'll notice, for instance, that on this scale Gojira is smarter than Jackie Chan. This isn't a slam on Jackie - our version of Gojira is pretty darn smart.)

>I.E. what's the average, and how does
>someone like say.... Washuu measure on it?

Well, if you must insist on pinning one end of the scale, the average is probably around 100. (This is similar to the way 1.0 on the Spengler scale is an "average human" lifeforce reading. I don't note Spengler indices in the BPGD personnel files, but if I did, Jackie's would be about 1,000.)

Washuu is hard to gauge, because, although intelligent, she's also quite mad, which tends to skew one's performance on the sorts of tests which determine things like W-DII. If you want to compare against a registered supergenius, though, note that the first appearance of this statistic was in the NXE:TMP terminal screen which contained Amy Anderson's NERV personnel file. In it, her W-DII is listed as 298!

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He had to learn Destroid piloting for his 2117 hit Jackie Chan's Police Story XLVII: Supercop on Solaris, in which Officer Kevin Chan of the Royal Neo-Hong Kong Police goes undercover to break up a major drug operation controlled by a Cathay syndicate whose boss is a Battlesport fiend. (Officer Chan's "in" with the syndicate in the film is joining the boss's stable of MechWarriors.) You know how he is about doing his own stunts.

>So when he stops smiling, run?

When Jackie stops smiling, you are already dead.

>... Nabeshin? From Excel Saga? He who hides rifles in his afro?

That's the one.

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Yeah, that's one of the reasons I like him so much. But still, Jackie using Type W controls is a very cool mental image.

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Um, me three...

Jackie's skills in protoculture powered mecha, hmmm.....

*imagines Jackie's mech improvising weapons from streetlights, cars, smaller mecha, ect. Not to mention watch a mech making all those flips and tumbles*

*sigh* anyone got an interdimensional roadmap?

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<Dave>: Okay, important safety tip, there. Thanks Wedge.

Does this mean that we "might" see him in a G Gundam fight like Corwin's?

>*sigh* anyone got an interdimensional roadmap?

No, but I've heard that the door is located somewhere around Tokyo Tower.

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Pattrick

"Jihad-free is the way for me."

Of course, finding a door, and having the right metaphysical abilites to get it to open are two different matters entirely. Sadly the Only people who have opened them have been either followers of Eris, or allready were DT's... or I'd be making a pilgramage to St. Lou right now.

Oh, OK. His web page is kind of ambiguous on this, since he seems to have changed his name four or five times over the course of his career.

I suppose, given the fact that everybody who joined the Wedge Defense Force from Earth before 1999 had to adopt Salusian citizenship, his name might have just officially become "Jackie Chan" at that point.

Or I could just fix the original post and leave the fact that all the subposts in the thread have a different name in the subject header as an exercise for later readers. Not that I suspect anyone goes through the archives when they first arrive at the Forum... but I understand we've a staffer working on a BPGD/H2G2 repository. (Don't get excited. I don't have any status information on the project, and it's a volunteer thing, so I don't want to see anybody bitching that it hasn't happened in X amount of time.)

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Actually, I did that when I joined - the only problem is that it makes me feel like a long-time user from the get-go, and I have always to remind myself that I'm really not. Actually, that's something of a factor just as a UF fan- with that enourmous body of material, it feels like you and Zoner and Rerob, Hammer, etc. are all old buddies, when in fact you don't know me from Mike Dijon, and are in some ways not the same people as your avatars. Ah, the travails of fandom. (Pepe LePew) Le sigh. (/Pepe LePew)

Tryig to bring this back to Jackie Chan, what do you think of the semi-new action cartoon he's been doing? The two episodes being distributed in Ceerios boxes were the first things I ever found to be useful content on an AOL DVD (or CD, or floppy disk, for that matter, though the floppies meant I never had to buy a box of them myself for years.)

- CD

Utena isn't one of the Nine; remember, it's a Big Fire list, and she hasn't done anything public enough to make them think that she's at that power level yet. (If they had seen her exhibition duel against Gryphon at the 2406 Christmas party, they would reconsider, but they don't have agents on Ishiyama.)

The Nine Great Kings of Heaven are, in mid-2406, Gryphon, MegaZone, Kei, Yuri, Jackie Chan, Gojira Nakajima, Alita Ironheart, Mace Windu, and Martin Rose. Like the membership of the Magnificent Ten, the roster of the IPO agents the Ten consider to be their ultimate opposite numbers changes from time to time.

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I would say where's Red, but then I realized he isn't a member of the IPO, although he probably should be in some capacity.

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>I would say where's Red, but then I realized he isn't a member of the
>IPO, although he probably should be in some capacity.

No.

Here's a timeline of UF-Red's FI work history:

2388 - March 2400 - CINC CFMF
2400-2401 - Retired; named Ambassador Plenipotentiary Without Portfolio, with primary mission to the Republic of Zeta Cygni (commission runs concurrent through all the following)
2401-2403 - Chief test pilot, Dodonna-Blissex Project: Stinger, GENOM X-15, other experimental fighter craft
2403-2412 - Head of faculty, Fixed Configuration Fighter division, Institute for Advanced Starfighter Technology and Tactics
2412-2413... - Ambassador and Representative to the Babylon Foundation and the Galactic Alliance Treaty Organization; CINC CFMF

Although Red does, on rare occasions, assist the IPO during his 'retirement' years, he has thus far declined active recruitment with the IPO or the Experts of Justice because, during this period, his primary interest is the raising of his child...

... and those who know her agree that raising Wapiko is a three-person job, minimum.

Redneck

The key word being Minimum... if the three arn't UF-Red, Washuu and poor ol Vathras, that number starts to go up exponentially. :p

Nit: Zathras, with a Z

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Probably not. Certainly none of the Duelists have babysat Wapiko since SOS began, and of the Ragnarok Wave only Tenchi has done it more than twice.

Martin and Eiko- Eiko in particular- are the preferred babysitters, but as everyone knows even they aren't always available. Still, if a babysitting scene is written, it'll feature them, Tenchi Shannon, or someone as yet unintroduced.

Redneck

I have a sudden image of Serge-as-Buttons :) .... Actually, I'd think that Serge and Anthy would do a not-half-bad job of watching the little helion, what with their mutual apreciation of animals and all...

-Z

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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." -Edgar Allen Poe.

"Human suffering is such a unique prviledge." -Rene D'anclaude, Armitage The Third.

"The hard part about playing chicken is knowing when to flinch." Capt. Bart Mancusoe, The Hunt For Red October.

No.

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Remember... What appears in the original source material and what appears in UF don't necessarily have to relate. (Besides, they were actually looking for the Kumquat Haagen-Dazs, which they found weekly at the local mall. In between, they had time to teach. <grin>)

-- Bob
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