WordWolf

One actor has spoken of how he got his stage name. He had the first name, but the last name he wanted was taken. He went for a walk, and saw a movie markee with a current movie's title displayed. He used part of that title for his last name.  He's said it was a good thing he walked in that direction. If he'd walked in the other direction, his stage last name would have been '101 Dalmatians.'

Is this "Twisting"?????

16 hours ago, GeorgeStGeorge said:

It is, indeed.  First appeared in Detective Comics 20, a half year before Batman.

His early costume was like the Green Hornet's, only red.  He used guns, drove a cool car, and had a Chinese sidekick.

George

I forget that.

The early success of "the Green Hornet" prompted copycats.  One, apparently, was the Crimson Avenger's original outfit.   The Sandman (Wesley Dodds)  probably qualifies too- with his gas gun and hat trench coat.  I saw something on TV where someone said he was told to make the first version of "the Blue Beetle" as an attempt to cash in on this.  Green Hornet... Blue Beetle.... in hindsight it's more obvious.  Except they didn't give him the trench coat and hat.

Both the Sandman and Crimson Avenger, IIRC, both ended up with more standard spandex after that. That's the costume I remember for the CA, the one Wing's yellow costume resembled.

This movie featured a return of the title character to the big screen (but was not a sequel.)   The title character appears 48 minutes into the film. The title is first heard 1 hour, 33 minutes into the film.  The title character's tagline (an alternate version) is illustrated, in parts, across the movie.   The actor who portrayed the title character the previous time he was in cinema had a cameo in this movie.  An actress who had played one role previously now played her mother.

He's not human. He's like a piece of iron.

It ain't Zed.

Ok, let's see.....

6 hours ago, GeorgeStGeorge said:

Actually not red, but a synonym.

George

I was partway there, because I was remembering "Wing" and trying to remember who made up the Seven Soldiers of Victory.  Wing was the sidekick, but who was the hero?   If you remember Wing's costume (yellow with the red sunburst), you can remember whose costume was reversed.

This is The Crimson Avenger.

*thinks*

Maybe he was in Law's Legionaires, or the Seven Soldiers of Victory.  The problem with some of that is retconning over the decades, so characters who once were in one group were remembered as never having been there, and others replaced them.  

Let's try this one.    I remember Seven Soldiers of Victory including "the Spider/alias the Spider" to retcon out Green Arrow being one of the Seven Soldiers.

Was this THE GREEN ARROW?

"On the day that I was born the nurses all gathered 'round"

I keep picturing that animated donkey.   Is this "HEE HAW??????"

I remember other stations following suit- often badly.  MTV tried to put on a "Beavis and Butthead" halftime show-  and didn't bother to sync up with the halftime.

I don't know if he's remembered more as "Butch", or as "Punchy" or "Palooka" based on some insults.

(BTW, the fans think Butch keyed Vega's car after those insults, since it was after that when the marks showed up in the same parking lot after Butch passed through it.)

All of this is from "PULP FICTION."   I think you and I might be the only ones of us 4 who remember that movie- or possible SAW that movie.

17 hours ago, Human without the bean said:

Okay, just a second,   I needed that.  First song is "Even The Losers".  The next one is "Don't Come Around Here No More".  The current one is "Free Fallin".   First two songs are from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Damn the Torpedoes.  The third song is a song from Tom Petty's solo album Full Moon Fever'.

Man I've got to listen to more Tom Petty.  I can't believe you stumped me like that WordWolf.  Petty is one my favorite artists.  Very good.

Your turn-  all of those were correct.  Once one light bulb went on, all of them went on for you.

Interesting note- when Tom Petty was recording "Even the Losers", he didn't have the chorus written. He didn't tell the band, he just got the recording session going.  When it came time for the chorus, inspiration kicked in at the moment. "Even the losers get lucky sometimes."   He'd been thinking about songs where the little guy managed to get ahead and so on, in general.  The other parts of the song were inspired by his adolescence (specific incidents.) 

It was hard to post lyrics for "Don't Come Around Here No More" without the title, since it appears so often in the song.  If you haven't seen the video, but have read some Lewis Carroll, go watch it. It has a lot of references to "Alice in Wonderland", and Tom Petty himself is dressed as the Mad Hatter. I think the rest of the band played the rest of the people, other than Alice. (She was hired based on her ability to open wide for a big scream, which matched the song and the video.) 

As for "Free Falling",  I think the song is pretty recognizable (and likeable.) I'm glad it was recognized.

Is this The Eagles and "Witchy Woman"?

Ok, I was about to say "Zatara" before you mentioned that.

This is really going back.   We're talking the Golden Age of comics.  And only DC.

So, everyone who was originally Fawcett (Shazam, Captain Marvel), Charlton (Captain Atom, Blue Beetle), Quality (Black Condor, the Human Bomb) who DC bought up later and gave their own Earth don't count. In fact, everybody on the "Public Domain Superheroes" website doesn't count because DC and Marvel both go to extremes to prevent copyright from lapsing.  (He had a strange dream that featured a hero whose copyright was going to lapse....) 

The oldest Golden Age superheroes- certainly with more costume than "hat. mask, coat" (or like Zatanna) tended to end up in the original Justice Society of America, so he (or she) probably ended up there. I have about 4 guesses of varying confidence, but I'm not going to start the round throwing all of them against the wall.   So, I'll start with one guess. 

Was it "WONDER WOMAN"?

Ok, same artist.  Name either of the previous songs, or this one.

"All the vampires, walkin' through the valley
Move west down Ventura Boulevard.
And all the bad boys are standing in the shadows
And the good girls are home with broken hearts."

8 hours ago, Human without the bean said:

Sorry, but not getting it. 

Well,

as to the first song, I should have recommended you keep trying to guess it despite lack of success, since you might get lucky.

As to the second, I'm glad you're not getting all upset about the round, otherwise I'd need to recommend you take a break from the round, and not show up for a few days.

No, and no. Nobody so civilized, even as a Wall St executive. 

I thought this one was easily recognized. The title character is remembered for at least 2 quotes.

One was the one above. 

The other was

"SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!"

11 hours ago, GeorgeStGeorge said:

"Our regular gamers are geeky enough to get this one." That actually gave it away.

Felicia Day.  "Charlie Bradbury" was her role in Supernatural.  I think "Holly Marten" might have been her role in Eureka.

If I'm not mistaken, she started as a blogger or YouTuber and moved to bit roles in shows to more important roles.  She's a cutie.

George

Correct, and I'm surprised that was what gave it away.  BTW, Kinga Forrester was the MST3K role, but I remember her first as "Codex" from the webseries "The Guild."  Her experiences as a gamer of World of Warcraft inspired that series, where she played Cyd Sherman, and her online persona, Codex.

The team from "The Guild" also made the music video "Do You Want to Date My Avatar?", which was actually how I heard of "The Guild."    Wil Wheaton fans are probably all familiar with "The Guild".

Virginia Sullivan was the title character from the horror flick "Red-Werewolf Hunter."

Stats on a baseball card seem to be divided by "lifetime" and "this year".  So, the "lifetime" stats are irrelevant here.  What he scored is in the "this year" category.

The change either is due to a change in League rules, or the interruption of a season making, say, 1 1/2 seasons be counted as one season, allowing for enough games to make this stat possible- for the first time.    

It's an "impressive" stat, so we can scratch "number of times at bat."

I got stuck at this step. Got anything, George?

Ok, trying to put this together....

"Miami Marlins second-baseman Luis Arraez did something in 2023 that had never been done in the history of Major League Baseball. It took him two years to do it.

What was it?"

"No, nothing that obscure. This is an achievement/stat that is more simple, a stat you would find on a baseball card without other metrics getting in the way.

Simple stat: Home Runs in a season.

Other metrics getting in the way: Home runs with runners on base. Leadoff home runs. Home runs with two outs. Home runs with runners in scoring position.

This is a simple stat for which he would receive recognition.

(MVP is not a stat. Golden Glove is not a stat)."

" This achievement took two years. It could not have been accomplished in one.

WW's guesses are also incorrect. I wouldn't expect to find either on a baseball card.

So here's what's important:

It IS a single season stat.

It was over two CONSECUTIVE seasons. That's part of what made it interesting.

Another part: something significant changed between 2022 and 2023 that focuses this achievement. Without that change, it still would have been impressive. Just not as unique."

George's premise was incorrect when he said "It can't be a one-season stat, if it took him two years to do it."

So, it IS a one-season stat that took 2 years to accomplish.   
I'm not a sports maven, but I know seasons can get interrupted by events like a global pandemic or an industry strike.  If one of those interrupted a season, the next season might be counted as the same season for purpose of statistics, according to the baseball Powers That Be.  

So,
1) an achievement stat
2) never been done before
3) took 2 consecutive years to do this 1-year stat
4) simple stat with other metrics getting in the way
5) simple stat that would be recognized
6) stat would/could appear on a baseball card
7) the uniqueness is based on a change between 2022 and 2023

Out of curiosity,  did the single season stat take place over 2 consecutive seasons because there was an inturrupted season, interrupted by a baseball strike or global health crisis or something, or were we talking two normal seasons (as normal as seasons get)?

"I get no kick from champagne."

Ok, i looked it up, and I was correct.

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Our regular gamers are geeky enough to get this one.   BTW, although "Mary Jane Watson" was a voice acting role (as were a number), one could argue typecasting anyway, or at least an interesting coincidence for the actress.