Captain Sternn from the movie Heavy Metal 1981

[@josephlytle1436]

Fun fact: Hanover Fist’s voice actor is Rodger Bumpass, who years later would be the voice of Squidward in SpongeBob SquarePants.

[@molemanninethousand]

There's an episode of SpongeBob where Mr. Krabs is put on trial and Squidward is called to testify in his favor, only to end up giving a scathing evaluation of his character. Edit when?

[@dk2k1]

He's also the voice of Professor Membrane.

[@GeneralOlde]

You even hear his Squidward scream at 7:25.

[@Serge_Jackson]

Really?

[@joshthornley4727]

@@molemanninethousandyea that was the first SpongeBob movie wasn’t it

[@HerrDeutschBlood]

“…and one moving violation.” Always gets me.

[@hisdudeness8328]

You know damn well that’s the straw that broke the camel’s back for him.

[@bluehealer81]

Futurama totally should have done a remake of this scene with Zapp Branigan in the place of Stern... Zoidberg could have put up his fin and began chasing him...

[@jamilfrost6217]

This segment from Bernie Wrightson and Den by Richard Corben are my favorite segments of the film.

[@Johnlindsey289]

What about Taarna or Harry Canyon?

[@Churasakanasa]

Why does captain stern look like Stan from American dad cosplaying as Napoleon.

[@joemcguire9988]

What are you, a cop?

[@DeepEye1994]

*Stan and Gaston's love child

[@Churasakanasa]

@@DeepEye1994 that's kinda gay my guy

[@azazelgrigori9244]

Wow! He does!

[@rahsaanthomas7030]

Some of the characters from both Family Guy and American Dad were meant to resemble characters from certain shows. Stan Smith was meant to look and sound like Captain Stern.

[@Awaywrdson]

This movie was fantastic !! It's amazing this kind of Genre hasn't gone any further. The animation and story was really cool !! I'm ready for another one !! 👍

[@Johnlindsey289]

It's a classic as the box office success of this movie, Fritz the Cat, Watership Down and Roger Rabbit help opened the doors to adult cartoons like The Simpsons, Duckman, MTV animation, Spawn TAS, Batman Mask of the Phantasm etc and help import adult animation from Japan like Akira to Ninja Scroll to come the USA

[@LordDiscord]

How do you plead? Captain Stern: Not guilty Audience and Judge: Gasp! Me: I mean whos going to plead guilty?

[@willroges6370]

Guys who want a plead deal . Granted given his counts he woul get death no matter what so it makes sense.

[@grownconch1327]

Pleasing guilty usually results in a lighter punishment.

[@LordDiscord]

@grownconch1327 Yeah but a lot of the times they try to get you to admit to being guilty even when you are 100 percent innocent to whatever crime they are trying to get you for. Which will put a record on you that will follow you long after you getting out of jail.

[@Sweld549]

​@@LordDiscord If you're "guiltier than a cat in a gold fish bowl" then it's in your best interests to just plead guilty and take the lighter sentence. Pleading innocent opens you up to receiving a harsher sentence if you lose, which is obviously a bad idea if you're very clearly in the wrong guilty and unlikely to win the case because of it.

[@LordDiscord]

@@Sweld549 That only really applies if they actually have concrete and indisputable evidence that you did it. Given the confidence of the captain and the fact that testimony of one person would have been enough to atone him of his crimes, means the court likely only had speculative evidence at best and was hoping for a confession. Also most plea deals are usually done behind closed doors unless the persons crimes are not that severe, given the juries and audiences reaction, tells mean any sentence that wasn't him being immediately executed before the audience would not have been acceptable, meaning his best case would to plead not guilty

[@keithallver2450]

3:46 Unless you count all the times he sold dope disgusted as a nun-Lawyers reaction... That part always cracks me up.

[@squirrel-1969]

It makes one think that Matt Groening might have gotten inspiration from this to create Zapp Brannigan. You can definitely see very similar characteristics between the two.

[@mrnobody2683]

The zap brannigan prototype

[@mlgcactus1035]

The 80s where a different time

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

A better time

[@abelhorvath4025]

​@@TheAllSeeingEye2468Well, I don't know about that.

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

@@abelhorvath4025 elaborate

[@Admin-qy4zi]

Stern has a chin that would make Bruce Campbell jealous

[@hisdudeness8328]

I always imagined that they modeled it after him.

[@jareddrogose1470]

Lol

[@fitzclaircharron3502]

This scene's animation is great but it's a really weird idea. The orb is supposed to be pure evil but it disrupts a false testimony paid for with bribe money by a clearly evil guy.

[@molemanninethousand]

In the original version of the story, Sternn's plan was always for Hanover to go berserk like that, only to stop attacking him when they got away from everyone else, i.e. the attack was staged to disrupt the trial and let him escape, and that was what he was really paying Hanover for; he also doesn't kill Hanover in that version. This version indeed made the scenario more confusingly ambiguous for the sake of shoehorning in the main villain of the movie.

[@Sweld549]

The angle wasn't the false testimony, it was the rampage disrupting the trial and allowing him to escape during the chaos. The bribe money he mentioned is the same amount he pays out in the last scene, which implies that was always the plan. Doesn't explain why he waits to vent the other guy out of an airlock until AFTER handing over the 35k though.

[@fitzclaircharron3502]

@@Sweld549 So if the guy was gonna go berserk anyway, then the orb didn't matter, so why would they show us this entire thing? The orb is irrelevent here. Nah, the angle is he has a guy he bribed tell everyone he's a stand up guy. The orb disrupted the trial, and the captain distracted him with the money because he had nowhere else to run. It actually worked and the guy shrank. Otherwise why is the captain like "lost 'im"? Why does he look worried? It's just a weirdly written scene that shoulda had another draft is all.

[@Sweld549]

​@@fitzclaircharron3502 Presumably because they wanted to fake-out the viewer and end on a twist, and didn't care about the fact it doesn't make much sense when you think about it for more than two seconds. Heavy Metal in general is just a bunch of loosely associated shorts more concerned with being raunchy than having a coherent framing plot. I wouldn't exactly hold the film to conventional standards, all things considered.

[@PaulHFleming]

Remind you of certain political candidates running re elections as President USA?

Heavy metal is one of this films not suitable for remaking...an authentic animated jewel..not to mention the soundtrack...😀👍👍

[@hisdudeness8328]

3:50 The public defender is like, “Fuck it, I’m getting drunk after this!”

[@cha5]

R.I.P. Berni Wrightsen, Captain Stern’s creator and Comics giant. You’re still missed.

[@Johnlindsey289]

RIP legend, he was one of my favorite comic makers for 37 years since 5

[@mz6504]

and you get to hear a cool cheap trick song…..! This soundtrack is amazing…..

[@melodrama3652]

Stern appears like a space version of Homelander

[@KingLich451]

right

[@TheGreatSeraphim]

Except the part where this movie is over 40 years old so the other way around.

[@earthdate3495]

The legend of Hanover Fist

[@Isaac-gh5ku]

Making an actual sequel to 1981 Heavy Metal would be impossible. Sure, there is Heavy Metal 2000, but it's a sequel in-name only, not a true one, and the sequel has ZERO connections to this.

[@thesmartbombs]

This movie barely has connections between its own scenes. All you'd have to do is make another animated anthology with a metal soundtrack.

[@jordanpeterson5038]

One of my favorite parts of the movie. And the eyeball guy was my favorite thing. Don't know why. Just funny .

[@mikesilva3868]

My favorite part too😊

[@thomaspowell5968]

Still have that flic on VHS. 👍

[@Redmenace96]

Joe Flaherty (SCTV) voices Sternn's lawyer. I think John Candy did a big character in this movie, too.

[@paulsarnik8506]

A couple of them. The biggest one was the kid that became the barbarian hero of course. 🤓😎✌🏼

[@lilmissrockchick4962]

Is 2:14 also John Candy?

[@MarcusPearl]

Rupert Thorne/Dean Wormer is the Prosecutor

[@Cleveland.Ironman]

Are you sure? Sounds more Clancy Brown (Lex Luthor) to me.

[@p70581]

Legendary Canadian actor John Vernon (1932-2005)

[@Tyln93]

Captain Sternn Look Like Superman!!!

[@jmen4ever257]

Wrightson did a great 5 issue stern series around 2000 or so.

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

Before there was homelander there was captain Stern

[@DeadCat-42]

Judge Cannon would have set him free.

[@ZhaoYun320]

Sterns thought that made him pay Hanover....That one moving violation xD

[@benjaminkitchen6257]

Dude The 80s Why can’t cartoons be like this nowadays

[@PaulHFleming]

@@benjaminkitchen6257 IDK, Heavy Metal was based on adults magazine at that time. It wasn't really supposed be watched by Children the nudity and violence much greater than regular cartoons

[@benjaminkitchen6257]

@@PaulHFleming uh I know that but I talked the animation the movement and outer space That what I’m saying in general

[@PaulHFleming]

@@benjaminkitchen6257 Your right it's becoming lost Art form Hand drawn Anime

[@honkeykong9563]

Always loved that line 4:23

[@benjaminhoffman4563]

Since Hollywood is out of ideas, they should make a live action version of " Heavy Metal".

[@n5sdm]

Put a chick in it and make her lame

[@rodneymckay8860]

Nooooo !!!! They’ll just ruin it

[@eldritchhummingbird]

Like they're ruining every IP these days!​@@rodneymckay8860

[@edwardpate6128]

I kind of thought the Trump trial might go like this! LOL

[@leonardoflorentin]

It's ok rudy, I've got an angle.

[@tf2whackyengineer]

Relax Kif, I got an angle! Ugghh.

[@Johnlindsey289]

When i was 9 going on 10 taping this classic 32 years ago off Cinemax with other cool adult animation movies like Hey Good Looking, American Pop and Vampire Hunter D, i thought Captain Stern was a scum and that year in 92 i noticed the same guy who was Prosector was also Rupert Thorn on Batman The animated series and also from Animal House, old Marvel cartoons, Ernest goes to camp, Dirty Harry, Killer Klowns, I'm Gonna Git you Sucka and more prior to this and Batman.

[@Dboi9341]

Average 4chan user probably

[@miguelguerrero323]

Classic movie

[@Admin-qy4zi]

2:39 Seriously? That’s the best you can get? What’s the point of taking a plea bargain with he’s going to get executed anyway. So his grave doesn’t get violated, he’d be dead, it wouldn’t matter. Hell, if that’s the best they could get; I’d take buying off a witness too.

[@AROBASPARK]

All he needed was Jaywalking to be added and the set would be complete - but then again, I don't think you can do much walking in Space.

[@molemanninethousand]

I want this to be the next Steamed Hams: Captain Sternn but he really is innocent Captain Sternn but the only charge is the moving violation and he pleads guilty Captain Sternn but Hanover doesn't go berserk and the judge doesn't believe his testimony and sentences Sternn to death anyway Captain Sternn but he's represented by Saul Goodman

[@ntinosaggelopoulos6718]

Stan Smith of the 80s is not real he can't hurt you Stan Smith of the 80s:

[@mushroomhead3619]

Why is Stan Smith there?

[@ChristopherGreen-wf8qc]

I'm still not sure what his angle was .😂

[@TheRealKaiProton]

I love this movie, still have the sound track in my car, but I never understood this story, the inference is the loc-narr was responsible for Hanover's psycho transformation, but as Stern pays him off later, its clearly a plan, is the loc-narr just attracted to other evil, as well as creating it ?

[@richardbooth4573]

❤ Ok Hanover you've had this coming ❤❤❤

[@paulsarnik8506]

Ok. They've mentioned Bumpass and Flaherty but howza'bout John Vernon as the SP (Space Attorney?) and who did Stern's voice? 🤓😎✌🏼

[@tyrone6481]

HOLY SHIT!!!!! Is the prosecutor Lex Luther??!!!??!

[@mikesilva3868]

😊😊😊love this movie

[@srbrant5391]

Phantom of Krankor, Attorney at law.

[@Visualize630]

Reach out and take it

[@GalenNight]

4:23-4:33

[@Admin-qy4zi]

He’s hulking up!

[@cokesquirrel]

Dean Wormer!!!!

[@walterfechter8080]

The Prosecutor (John Vernon).

[@michaelstevenson186]

This is a cult classic! Big fan of the magazine before the movie came out. Heavy Metal 2 wasn't as good.

[@joemcguire9988]

So like…his whole defense was one guy…just some guy…saying that he was a nice person? Like fist is not a well regarded person, or important or anything. He’s just a dude. Why does anybody care what he has to say? He could have *not* suddenly mutated into a brute and stern still probably would have been run up the river.

[@molemanninethousand]

He *wanted* him to mutate and attack him like that; that *was* his plan to escape the trial. Fiste didn't really want to kill Sternn; the attack was staged. At least, that was what was clearly going on in the original comic; the way the movie incorporates the Loc-Nar here, portraying it as the source of Fiste's mutation, and having Sternn drop him into space at the end as if something actually went wrong according to his plan, which didn't happen in the comic, makes things confusingly ambiguous for this version.

[@Venture8234]

I can’t believe Captain Sternn is the GOP nominee for president.

[@joelkurtz1836]

I can't believe it's not butter!

[@ZHN1OfTheA-DJ-Z]

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