Trivia Thread

East and West Relationships:
>Stan Lee's favourite creation in marvel licensing is the Toei Spider-Man, he loved it so much to the point he made an attempt at dubbing the series to the western audience. Its unknown if anything from this dubbing attempt ever occured.

>Hideo Kojima expressed interest in making a Captain America story after watching the Winter Soldier.
>The scene where Sahelanthropus in its bipedal form stares at Snake from above is a scene reference to Jason and the Argonauts

>Suda51 (creator of No More Heroes, Shadows of the Damned and Killer7) expressed that his dream project is to make a game where "Batman and Spider-Man are drawn into a fight to death"

>Brazilian artist Mauricio de Sousa and legendary Mangaka Osamu Tezuka were personal friends, to the point where they would exchange letters in a weekly basis with one another and Tezuka allowing Mauricio to have usage of his characters at any time.

>John Lasseter loved Castle of Cagliostro so much to the point he convinced a woman he had just met on his first date to come at his house so he could show clips and other examples of Hayao Miyazaki after their dinner; That woman was his wife Nancy Lasseter

>Akira Toriyama has a guilty pleasure over the movie Superman II; The character Sourman from Dr.Slump is meant to parody Christopher Revees' "flamboyant" portrayal as Superman, while the Saiyan saga in Dragon Ball Z was highly inspired by the movie; Vegeta, Nappa and Raditz being based on Zod, Non and Ursa.

>Evil Dead and Nightmare on Elm Street were inspirations towards JoJo's horror scenes.
>Also, Joseph can be seen reading a Superman comic in Battle Tendency

>At one point, Gainax wanted to purchase the rights to "My Life as a Teenage Robot"

Voice Actor tidbits:
>John Cena and Neil Patrick Harris auditioned for the role of Ron Stoppable in Kim Possible

>Alex Hirsch originally wanted David Lynch on the role of Bill Cipher, but for unknown reasons, Lynch denied playing the character.
>Lynch did however voice Spongebob's cousin Stanley.
>Eric Andre had auditioned for the role of Dipper Pines

>The voice cast of Sealab 2020 were at one point asked to join in on the Adult Swim parody "Sealab 2021", they were apparentaly disgusted by it. Some of them (along with the show's creators) even tried to stop the show from happening.

>Justin Roilland had to audition for the role of Morty in order to play him, as Adult Swim executives felt that two characters with the same voice actor would feel like forced chemistry. Tara Strong and Billy West were considered for the role of Morty.

>The cast of Spongebob and PPG spoke actual swear words in the episodes "Sailor Mouth" and "Curses" despite the use of said language being conventionally censored; and in the episode "Krusty Love" of Spongebob, Tom Kenny had adlibbed a shitton of swears in a scene where Spongebob cusses Mr. Krabs in front of Mrs.Puff, but seeing as how the censoring would get tiring at the editing room and for test audiences, they just decided to have Kenny mumble a bunch of words while the character's reactions made it obvious that Spongebob was swearing.

>The crew from Venture Bros attempted to get the actual David Bowie to play the fictional role of the Sovereign, but Bowie's commitment to a Spongebob direct-to-DVD movie made them rethink from doing this decision

I like threads like these but I have absolutely nothing to contribute

>Hideo Kojima expressed interest in making a Captain America story after watching the Winter Soldier.
I swear Kojima expresses interest in making something related to what he just watched all the time

>>Suda51 (creator of No More Heroes, Shadows of the Damned and Killer7) expressed that his dream project is to make a game where "Batman and Spider-Man are drawn into a fight to death"

I would literally give my first born for this.

>Akira Toriyama has a guilty pleasure over the movie Superman II; The character Sourman from Dr.Slump is meant to parody Christopher Revees' "flamboyant" portrayal as Superman, while the Saiyan saga in Dragon Ball Z was highly inspired by the movie; Vegeta, Nappa and Raditz being based on Zod, Non and Ursa.
Considering that Minus retconned Bardock into being space monkey Jor-El, Toriyama being a Supes fan isn't out there

That scene takes place in when Joseph was 12, in 1932 or 1933. How the hell does he have a Superman comic when Superman wasn't even created yet.

Thought Battle Tendencies took place in '39, Nazis and all.

>Suda51 (creator of No More Heroes, Shadows of the Damned and Killer7) expressed that his dream project is to make a game where "Batman and Spider-Man are drawn into a fight to death"

Fuck off Suda.

Cancelled movie adaptions:
>Genndy Tartakovsky originally attempted to make an Astro Boy movie for Columbia pictures, the movie was originally meant to adapt the Atlas saga from the manga. He left to work for Jim Henson's Dark Crystal sequel, but in turn was dismissed.

>John Woo attempted doing a Metroid movie; said movie had two different scripts, said scripts being written respectively by Blenn Leopold(of Scooby Doo in Zombie Island) and David Greenwalt (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Despite being intrigued and highly supportive, Nintendo cancelled the project due to two reason: 1. Woo wanted to push the movie for an R-rating, Nintendo wanted PG-13 at best and 2. They felt that the movie would affect future Metroid titles into following a closed narrative structure to tie bonds with the movie, and the fact that the movie was trying to portray Samus' origins would cause problems towards another project being worked at that time: Other M.

>Warner attempted to do a live-action Johnny Bravo movie once with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as the titular character

>Imagi had 3 movies in the work before being closed: Gatchaman (with a script by Paul Dini), Tetsujin 28-go and an original IP under the name Cat Tale.
>Movie pitches related to Zelda, Sonic the Hedgehog, Highschool of the Dead and DC Comics' Nightwing were also approached.

>Illumination Productions (the company behind The Secret Life of Pets and Despicable Me) has the rights to the Naoki Urosawa/Tezuka Productions manga "Pluto"

>Warner originally tried doing a live-action adaptation of the manga "Parasyte" with New Line Cinema, their purchase of the IP's license avoided Studio Ghibli from making an anime adaption towrds the manga.

>Quentin Tarantino was originally producing a Metal Gear Solid adaptation with Kurt Wimmer (from Equillibrum) writing the script; not much is known about this attempt, other than the fact it was meant to be an interquel to MGS1 and MGS2.
>Christian Bale expressed interest in playing Solid Snake, but later denied his own statement
>Tarantino was also offered into directing Star Wars Episode VII, but turned down as he was disgusted by Disney having purchased the IP

>Powerpuff Girls Z was originally heading towards a more "americanized" direction at its early days of production; The girls were supposed to be 17 year olds as opposed to 14 and at one point and the main setting was meant to be San Francisco
>At one point, Hiroyuki Imaishi (the creator of Gurren Lagann) was involved in its production.
>The girls also had a design change, they originally wore white bolero jackets; other factors include: Professor Utonium being a young kid (which would later give basis to his son, Ken in the show), the show was originally more focused on stylistic action and destruction similarly to anime like FLCL and implications that the original Powerpuff Girls are a part in the anime's world.

Ermmm, Why was the file deleted? It was a picture that matched to one of the trivia.

Yes, but Joseph's first scene, when the airship crashes, is when he's a kid, and I guess that's when he's reading the comic. Joseph is around the 20 then, at most. So I'm guessing he's reading the comic in ca. 1932.

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Araki MAY have misread Siegal's "Reign of the Supermen" (published 1932) as DC's Superman's first appearance. I mean, it's an easy enough mistake to make in the days before google, which I'm pretty sure was about the time Battle Tendencies was made.

Ghibli wanted to adapt Parasyte?

I wonder how they would have turned out.

Black Canary is not a natural blonde. This should be obvious to anyone who has read anything of hers from the 40s to the 90s, but apparently most haven't.

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Solid Snake from Metal Gear is a natural blonde, he dyed his hair brown in the events of Metal Gear 2.

>>At one point, Gainax wanted to purchase the rights to "My Life as a Teenage Robot"
I jerk it to Jenny too much as it is.

Captain N Trivia:

>The show was originally conceived as "Buddy Boy", a completely original show that focused around a character named "Buddy" (based on the titular character from Paperboy). The plot would have followed Buddy who is called to participate in a war between video game characters by Pit (or Kid Icarus as he was called), where he would've a friendly-rivalry with Megaman. Despite being Greenlit, DiC feared a lawsuit from the Paperboy rightholders, and decided to salvage the project by merging with the Captain N license they obtained from Nintendo.

>Bayou Billy was portrayed as a Crocodilee Dundee rip-off as an intern joke, the character designer for Bayou Billy had originally based his initial concept by doing a caricature based on the show's lead animator (pic related). The animator decided to respond with this joke due to said character designer being Australian

>Megaman was colored green due to color limitations on old TVs at the time, which made Megaman's cyan color look bright green and his dark blue undies look black

>Samus was originally supposed to appear on the show, but for unknown reasons the DiC executives didn't allow her to appear in it, neither did they allow Mario

>Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr were originally supposed to be the main antagonists, with them leading a video game mafia that was meant to parody the Corleones from The Godfather.

>Megaman, Pit, King Hippo and the Eggplant Wizard were the only concepts from the Buddy Boy project that remained in Captain N.

>Episodes based upon Metal Gear, Double Dragon and Punch-Out were all conceived but never developed

>John Lasseter loved Castle of Cagliostro so much to the point he convinced a woman he had just met on his first date to come at his house so he could show clips and other examples of Hayao Miyazaki after their dinner; That woman was his wife Nancy Lasseter
ahahahaha

>Want to know why Simon Belmont had that hideous design? Well, not even the people who worked on the show knows why, but they tell two different stories:
>One story has it that Simon was added really late into production and the main character designer hadn't even played Castlevania, so he had someone else detail to him what the game was like, so he imagined Simon being a treasure hunter similar to Indiana Jones due to the feature of his whip, and he was made a comic-relief due to his unusual caricature design.
>Another story says that Simon had a weird design because it was a design that wasn't even SUPPOSED to belong to Simon Belmont. It was originally done for the character of Pitfall Harry from Activision's Pitfall, but the publisher backed out from the project.

Localization trivia:
>Speed Racer's names like "Speed", "Rex" and "Pops" were originally just nicknames for the characters so Peter Fernandez (the main guy behind the localization process and Speed's VA) could think of proper americanized names, but that was lost in translation
>For some reason; Brock Samson, Hank and Dean were reffered by the names of Barbosa Samson, Mauro and Mauricio in the Brazilian Portuguese version of Venture Bros. They were mysteriously reverted back to their original names in Season 3

>Mentions to Hot Dogs and Pork Ribs were censored in the Saudi Arabian version of the Simpsons; among other changes included Duff Beer being referred as a soda brand and Apu's ethnicity being left ambiguous.

>Other than the opening, the japanese dub for the 90s X-Men cartoon had jokes related to both Japanese and Superhero popculture refferences (such as some villains reffering Jubilee as "Wolverine's Robin" and Gambit joking about Wolerine's hairstyle resembling Astro Boy's), other factors included aditional animation segments were the characters played X-Men: Children of Atom on a Sega Saturn.

>Quentin Tarantino was hired to do the localization for Princess Mononoke, but he instead suggested the crew to look for Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman; Gaiman obliged.

>Death references were removed in Regular Show in its UK release, but the character of Death itself wasn't censored.

>Michelangelo was given a hook instead of nunchakus in later seasons of TMNT to avoid the british law from censoring him in scenes.

>Several jokes related to the mexican sitcom "El Chavo" were added into Latin American versions of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods

East and West Relationships pt.2:
>Rey's character was inspired by the title character from Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa
>Moebius named his daughter Nausicaa
>C3PO's red arm was inspired by the prosthetic hand used by Venom Snake in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

>Jin and Kouga from Zetman are respectively based on Bronze Age and Silver Age Batman.
Jin represents a type of hero that shows itself as brutal and "bad cop"-like but really wishes the well-being of society and humane personality like the Bronze Age Batman; While Kouga has an ego that disguises itself as confidence and an over-reliance of gadgets in his battles similarly to the early Silver Age Batman.

>Robbie Reyes was partially inspired by JoJo protagonist Higashikata Josuke.

>Marvel once tried to bring the Super Sentai series in the west prior to Power Rangers, a comic book was made based on it.

>The Big O had heavy inputs based on Batman TAS, with Roger the Negotiator having his overall design based on that of Bruce's from "the New Adventures of Batman". Characters from Gargoyles and X-Men also had cameo appearences in several episodes

>Yusuke Murata is a huge fan of Spider-Man, and has made marketing illustrations for the character in promotion of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2. He also made covers of Spider-Verse and Renew your Vows

>Mamoru Hasoda wanted to make a movie loosely based on the Supergirl character, where a single father would take care of this version of Kara from her infant years to adulthood.

>aditional animation segments were the characters played X-Men: Children of Atom on a Sega Saturn.
I want to see this.

Also worth speaking
>The original treatment of Aladdin had the character at a much younger age (14) and with a band of teenage thieves at his side; One of the thieves was originally a tomboy which later in the movie, Aladdin would've discovered her identity as a girl, creating a love-triangle between Aladdin, Jasmine and the girl.
>The original movie treatment was quote-on-quote "Lawrence of Arabia meets the Goonies"
>By the end of the movie, Aladdin would've chosen the tomboy girl to marry him, to which Jasmine orders her dad to prepare the "best wedding" for the couple.
>Jasmine was originally more of a Pacifica Northwest type of character, her personality would've changed during her journey with Aladdin.
>Similar to the book there were originally two genies; the genie of the lamp which the directors envisioned Williams for the role and the ring genie which they had Alan Rickman in mind for the role. Disney decided to cut the ring genie as they thought he would create several plotholes for the movie.

Well, not when it's a DC movie.

Not even company warring, I remember he made a tweet about BvS to the tune of, "Heh? Really?"