Superman Kills The Parasite...Zero Remorse

[@CasuallyComics]

Parasite's First Comic kzbin.info/www/bejne/enOYo4ejhs6emac

[@rodneylindsey849]

Sasha if You have not done so , I encourage You to watch the Filmation Aquaman series…You get first animated adaptations of quite a few DC silver age characters : Aquaman, Aqualad, Mera, Black Manta in the Aquaman segments, plus four 6 minutes episodes each of Ray Palmer Atom, Barry Allen / Wally West Flash & Kid Flash , Hal Jordan GL, Carter Hall Hawkman, The JLA ( Atom, Flash, GL, Hawkman, & Superman) & The Teen Titans ( Aqualad, Kid Flash, Speedy, & Donna Troy Wondergirl) 🖖🏾

[@dannytarver4533]

Ferngully?! It's ok Sasha. I think I was 19 when that came out. My little sister who was 4 loved it too, don't remember her being scared though.🤔

[@williamjones3534]

Well I'm going to see if lightening strikes twice. Sasha you were so gracious to reply to me on the last parasite video . What I'm about to ask is a bit unrelated but given the news of Henry Cavil Departure and the Rumors of a complete reboot recasting have you thought about doing a video about your dream picks specifically Superman and Wonder Woman? My all time favorite casting choice for Wonder Woman is a young Lucy Lawless. If you look at Xena the case could be made that she was basically Wonder Woman set to ancient Greek myths. This leads to my next question. There was a comic book cross over between Xena and Wonder Woman. What do you think of that as a video idea ?

[@Blue5Standingby]

“An expert in steeling radioactive isotopes” proceeds to just open the one that he doesn’t know what it is.

[@juliandavidac]

😂😂😂

[@MrLeafeater]

Kinda reminds me of when Spawn, the expert military guy, kills himself by touching buttons on an unfamiliar Angel weapon.

[@JohnQ5]

And his dialog ("Huh, never heard of that one...") sounds like what you'd write for a gag dub.

[@NathanWeeks]

Maybe being an expert in stealing radioactive isotopes, he knew no one would keep radioactive isotopes in a tupperware tin on the shelf like they're cookies.

[@treyblack3751]

Fun Fact: Filmation was a struggling animation studio at the time and was on the verge of shutting down when Mort Weisinger approached them to do a Superman Saturday morning cartoon. When Weisinger came to the studio to see their operation, Filmation had actually filled their office with guys they had hired off the street to pose as artists and animators to make them seem bigger than they were.

[@johnadams3802]

Could I.C. Harris be a weird reference to Icarus? Because they both died due to an inability to recognize their own limits? It's a huuuge stretch, but the only other idea I had was that "Icy" is short for isotope - and I couldn't think of any way that Harris fit in at all.

[@Rick-c5s]

by george i think you've got it! 😄❤

[@noahsterben5666]

Oh sweet lord, him opening the Galaxy 4 isotope killed me (as it should have killed him) that was pure comedic gold.

[@nctpti2073]

Yeah... Oh, radioactive stuff! I heard such stuff is valuable! I'll just open random containers. What could possibly go wrong? That plus the containers just ordinary tin cans sitting on the shelf like that, no special seals or anything, lol.

[@The_Phantasm]

I remember as a kid being really terrified by the scene in Batman Beyond Return of the Joker where Joker tells Batman how he tortured Tim Drake and shows him the footage. I've rewatched that movie and more specifically that flashback more than anything else in the DCAU. In my opinion that film is Mark Hamill's best ever performance as the Joker.

[@CasuallyComics]

That whole scene ending with the reveal of the transformed Tim is chilling.

[@ProjektTaku]

My favorite bit in the movie is when the joker goes "I'd be funny if it weren't so pathetic. On what the hell, I'll laugh anyways." and then when terry's taunting the joker he goes "You make me laugh, but only because I think you're kinda pathetic."

[@juliagoodwin9510]

Then there's the scene where an adult Tim Drake gruesomely turns into the Joker. Even _Bruce_ is horrified, and that is a man who has seen some shit!

[@nctpti2073]

@@juliagoodwin9510 Yeah, that one is a definite contender for top of the 'dark events' list.

[@cheezeofages]

It's an excellent bit of writing and animation directing too. That bit where the camera pans around Batman and then goes to Joker, then the shadow of Batman appears over him growing larger before he smashes through the window. Powerful. You can't help but think "Oh crap. Did Joker finally break him? Someone's going to stop him from killing the Joker right? RIGHT?"

[@kingbeauregard]

The part that freaked me out was how the guy runs. Even as a kid the animation stuck out to me. At the end of "Superman and Lois", Superman pulls this same trick - except when the Parasite standin is screaming from the power overload, Superman manages to strip the fake Parasite of their power and return them to normal human status.

[@sledgecorp]

Also not sure if you mentioned this, because if you did I didn't catch it. But the voice for Superman was Bud Collyer, the same man who voiced him for the Superman radio show, as well as the few times he spoke in the 1940s Fleischer cartoons.

[@ramblingRJ]

A scene in a kid's film that horrified me as a child was the sequence in the 1940 Disney "Pinocchio" film, when Lampwick is transformed into a donkey. His absolute terror and screams for help just haunted me after that.

[@nctpti2073]

For Disney, the death of Bambi's mother.

[@a-yyxy531]

i feel like his purple design might of been to creepy if it was aimed for kids but having him as a human ended up making the ending a bit more dark. If they had given him his parasite design, i dont think it would've been seen to be as dark

[@Jezee213]

very good point

[@DCPatrol]

It blows my mind how good your videos are. How do you consistently put out this level of quality? Your charisma aside, you're editing, content, &... everything is just so good! Thanks for being a bright spot for comic books in KZbin. You cN be critical without being negative. You're one of a kind and I hope to be watching your videos for decades to come!

[@rodneylindsey849]

100 % Agree 🖖🏾

[@ryanlemay6296]

Yes!!! Absolutely!

[@jpboursaw4469]

I feel a so say we all coming on!

[@KristopherBel]

☝️ this.

[@christiancsq]

I chuck this up to sasha's expanded vocabulary & ocd tendencies with editing. She also worked with a professionally run youtube channel before venturing on her own

[@COMICSAREAWESOME]

Superman killing the Parasite reminds me of a Justice League of America issue...hang on... Yeah, Justice League of America vol 2 14...where Superman and Black Lightning take on the Injustice Society...and Superman's opening salvo involves flying at superspeed, grabbing the Parasite, and throwing him into the sky. We don't see the Parasite again...

[@PosthumanHeresy]

The Abraham Lincoln Method

[@johnmontgomery2321]

I’d describe Return to Oz entirely how you described the Fern Gully scene. In particular, the scene where Dorothy goes to get the Ruby key and you see the headless Princess Momby rise up was pretty scary as a kid.

[@mooncaketin]

Scene that freaked me out when I was a kid: the sister of Robert Vaughn's character getting transformed against her will into a machine avatar for the supercomputer 😳

[@jerryterwase9027]

The lady transforming into a computerized cyborg in Superman 3 really freaked me out as a kid. I sometimes wonder how kid audiences would feel had parasite been properly translated onto the big screen in a Zack Snyder adaptation.

[@muddlewait8844]

Heck yeah. Seeing someone get killed horribly (with the camera even focusing on their face and eyes and their own fear and horror while dying) and topping it off with the corpse becoming a meat puppet was way, way out of line

[@cheezeofages]

Weird that he was absorbing all Superman's powers but couldn't immediately break his grasp. Also the clip at the beginning may seem like bad acting, but I too talk like that before my morning coffee so it's accurate for a low energy state.

[@DCPatrol]

Scary but fascinating moments. I have 2. Tim Curry as Darkness in Legend may be the reason I eventually lost my religion. The worst was the body in Stand by me. It was too real. A dead kid. It wasn't a Hollywood death, his eyes were open, you could see his teeth. That hurt more than anything in the Never ending story and that probably set my fear of death into motion.

[@mayssm]

The "overload the creature with too much power so it explodes" trope was used so much back in the day.

[@DesMuttYS]

A scene that freaked me out as a kid? I can think of one, which is one others have freaked out over as well. The trucker scene from "Pee Wee's Big Adventure," when (who we later learn is) Large Marge is talking about a crash, then turns toward the camera, and suddenly has those bulging eyes and whatever else.

[@Montaq_]

The whole toon Judge Doom ending to Who Framed Roger Rabit? terrified my as a kid, along with the Large Marge jumpscare in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and the fireman clown nightmare in Brave Little Toaster.

[@danjohnston9037]

Parasite Has Potential < groan > 1) he could start out as the brooding janitor whose energy-vampire power develops/is mastered slowly lurking in hallways, absorbing information from peoples thoughts, for purposes of burglary, espionage , gaslighting, (very noir) 2) Or he goes full " Galactus Mode " and absorbs entire populations/cities/planets etc.

[@fedupN]

That running scene, with the heavy thumps and desperate face, stuck with me as a kid.

[@keithhamilton736]

As a kid the X-Men villain Sauron creeped me out. Also the scene in the Omen 2 where the guy falls through some ice on a lake and the currents drag him around and he drowns was pure nightmare fuel for 10 year old me.

[@WarmLillie]

Dang, Superman wanted to end thing on a bang… This time on Purpose.

[@FameWolfRvB]

Quantum Leap - there was an episode where Sam was an archaeologist in Egypt; lots of ominous "curse of the mummy" things kept happening, which were easily explained away in a sci-fi show. End of the episode and the villain of the piece gets trapped in the tomb - already horrifying enough - but while he's screaming at the door calling for rescue, a mummified hand reaches from offscreen for his shoulder... That made quite a strong impression on me. The less you saw, the more your imagination did

[@KennAKALeo]

What could be gotten away with on TV was different than what the Comics Code allowed. I've always assumed that Jensen wasn't shown changed because of the body horror/burn trauma aspect; similar to how Harvey Dent never met Adam West's Batman until much, much later. But by the same token, the rules about violence and death in a TV cartoon were a lot more lenient in the 1960s. It would change in the 1970s, of course. But in those Filmation shorts, there was a high body count. The Justice League wiped out more than a couple of alien armadas.

[@totz_the_plaid9625]

I can tell you with 99% certainty why they didn't create unique art assets for Parasite, unlike the other supervillains: budget. Lex Luthor, Brainiac, etc. had history and clout. They were definitely going to make multiple appearances. Parasite? Brand new. Animation, especially traditional hand-drawn animation, is more expensive than many would think. Creating a whole episode's worth of new art for a potentially one-off foe would be a big waste in their eyes when they could just re-use a generic baddie from other cartoons (search the Filmation animated library, and that basic guy probably pops up a few times). It's for this same reason that the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon reused an entire episode from the series Rocket Robin Hood with only relatively minor changes, and that old Hanna-Barbera toons like the Flintstones or the Jetsons would have looping backgrounds. The budget for television animation needed to be stretched where it could.

[@richmcgee434]

It's actually a little surprising he got as unique a character model as he did. Filmation and H-B both loved to recycle "generic person" designs with identical facial features and proportions, whereas IC there at least has a memorable face and is a bit heavier-built than most. Wonder if he's modeled after someone the lead designer hated - an old teacher, the guy who stole his girlfriend, something petty like that?

[@jamesk234]

Oh shit! And the scene in Never-ending Story when we watch Artax slowly drown in the bog (or was it a swamp?) Or the Alvin and the Chipmunks episode when they adopted the stray cat.. "Cookie Stomper III" and the heartbreaking ending when it got ran over.... 80's were fucking harsh dude!

[@alexbramley195]

I find it interesting that they called the radioactive material “galaxy 4” because that was the name of a doctor who serial that came out the year prior. I don’t know if the term galaxy four means something or maybe they took the name from doctor who or it was just a coincidence.

[@tarmaque]

As an adult the movie is kinda cheesy, but when I saw it as a kid of 9 or 10 _The Omege Man_ scared the living crap out of me. The idea that there were people with glowing white eyes and pale skin who couldn't stand light, that ran around at nigh killing people who didn't join their cult was just horrifying to me. It took me years to realize they were supposed to be vampires. And then there was the movie _The Bermuda Depths._ One of the creepiest creepies from the 70's. The visual of Carl Weathers tied to an enormous sea-turtle by a harpoon as it swims off into the depths of the ocean gave me chills. Even as a kid I realized that the turtle was a representation of an evil god. I hadn't yet read any Lovecraft or I would have recognized it as a Lovecraftian horror in turtle form. Which sounds cheesy but in context is chilling.

[@DoctorPretorious616]

A scene that freaked me out as a little kid was The Mysterious Stranger sequence from "The Adventures Of Mark Twain". Claymation was never so scary, turned me into the twisted soul I am today...

[@jpboursaw4469]

…”it terrified, yet fascinated me..” And there it is. The thing that went off in our little child brains and we were hooked. This is why the design of villains often straddles that line between bizarre and silly. Not enough of one, or too much of the other. We don’t take some seriously until they do something awful. Others, like your example, we immediately have a visual cue that they’re up to no good. Mustache twirlers need not apply.

[@idkwhat2579]

I saw Tim Curry’s Pennywise “they all float down here Georgie” scene at around 7 or 8 years old my dad was watching it (pun intended) in his garage while he was working under a car while I watched in horror as a innocent young boy that just wanted his paper boat back die to a clown in a storm drain. Now when I see a storm drain I think of that scene.

[@alarin612]

The raptors stalking the kids in the Jurassic park visitor center scared the absolute hell out of me.

[@Kid_Spitfire]

A movie that terrified me as a kid and still low-key freaks me out is the live action Grinch movie, my mom took me to see it in theaters because it was a "Kids Movie" and we ended up leaving before it was over because the Grinch scared me so much I started crying and even had nightmares for awhile afterwards 😭

[@Jezee213]

Same!

[@njr75003]

In the original FRIGHT NIGHT movie, first seeing when Amanda Bearse’s character goes “full feral/Nosferatu-style” vampire was the first time ever that a horror film truly scared me rather than either coming to an anti-climax or just being a gross-out gore fest.

[@calvinallen3424]

Pretty much everything with Clayface in the animated series was freaky as hell: being poisoned and melting, freaking out and transforming in the control room, the young girl he created and him forcefully reabsorbing her. Nightmare potential

[@UncleMuin]

I was about 10 (very little parental supervision at that time... it was the 80s...) when I saw Altered States, and the scene near the end where Eddie is banging the walls as he moves down the hallway, his body altering and contorting. That freaked me out a bit.

[@rasheedsanders1067]

The entirety of the Night on Bald Mountain segment of Fantasia scared me as a child, always had to hide my face behind my grandma when it was on. As for Superman killing the Parasite those things can cause major issues if untreated so he made the right call.

[@richmcgee434]

That was my favorite sequence in the whole movie by a pretty large margin.

[@robertbarker5802]

I hate admitting and thinking back to how much the first Gremlins movie scarred me for years.

[@adamolupin]

When I was a kid, the scenes that freaked me out the most were when Gamork confronts Atreyu at the end of the Neverending Story. Holy crap. Or anything with the Red Bull roaring in the Last Unicorn. Or the skeleton that guards the entrance to the Red Bull's layer ("UNICORN! UNICOOOOORRRRN!") Or the harpy who kills and then eats Mommy Fortuna ("We are sisters, you and I"). Ok so all of the Last Unicorn really.

[@TroyPacelli]

Your parents were right about rewinding and reaching a scene over and over on VHS. I know this from experience. Ferngully ... yeah that's why. Not Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

[@richmcgee434]

Oh no, definitely not the pool scene. Not at all.

[@TroyPacelli]

@@richmcgee434 I was so glad when DVDs came out.

[@darkguardian1314]

6:55 I remembered the odd running angle before Harris explodes. At the time it was a little dark and tragic for a child of the 1960s. My Superman when I was growing up...😊 All we had beside the comic books and Batman TV series.😆

[@deadbedfellow]

The creeping/dancing buffalo skeleton in Fievel goes West scared the hell out of me for some reason.

[@theawesome925]

Yeah...The Parasite running at the end of this cartoon haunted me as a kid. The heavy thudding, it imparted how MUCH power was in his body and how desperate he was to work it off and get rid of it.

[@ufg2036]

As a kid I was terrified of the face melting scene in Raiders of the lost ark

[@pyron3rd490]

The movie scene the messed me up the most as a child was in Coraline when the Other Mother turns into a giant spider. I swear I had nightmares for a week after that.

[@JanetStarChild]

Damn, you must be really young. Isn't that movie from just ten years ago? Fantastic movie, by the way.

[@ProjektTaku]

I always loved the artstyle of this show. It kinda reminded me of curt swan. Although him not transforming really hurts me. It signifies a permanent change, from just a regular dude into a greedy monster. In this he's basically your average meteor freak.

[@2323stickboy]

The single greatest thing that impacted me as a child was the movie Robocop. The scene where Murphy is murdered stuck with me for a long time. I definitely was too young to be watching it and had nightmares for weeks after.

[@genephillips4311]

Re: the name "Icy Harris"-- I don't think anyone ever interviewed writer Oscar Bensol (though Jim Shooter categorically said it wasn't him). But I think it was Bensol's pun on the Greek character Icarus. No, Icy doesn't don wings and fly too near the sun. But Icarus goes too far in flying near the sun, and Icy Harris goes too far in absorbing the power of a Kryptonian. Food for thought?

[@thepaulwalkerexperience8727]

A scene that freaked me out as a kid? That would be the donkey transformation scene from Pinocchio.

[@cursedbeasts9991]

The reveal closer to the end of Earth Mover episode of Batman Beyond genuinely scared me. Also, Darkseid and his Omega Beams scared me when I was watching Superman: the Animated series at around 6 or 7. Just the idea of something that chases you and can go around corners and then teleport you to some horrible place.

[@ProjektTaku]

bro the episode with discount fantastic 4 going mad and then dying was heartbreaking.

[@roberth.9664]

I was first introduced to the Ninja Turtles with the scene from the 2003 show were Leo cuts off the Shredder's head then at the end of the episode we see the body walk around and pick the thing up. That's a scene I can always remember.

[@JanetStarChild]

A shame you missed out on the epic heyday of Turtle-mania in the late '80s and early '90s.

[@dallasgrey4247]

When I saw the thumbnail and read the title, for a quick sec I thought it said Superman kills Plasticman…Zero remorse

[@paulsardinasify]

It seems silly now, but the lazerwolf dream sequence in fiddler on the roof scared the fool out of me as a child.

[@RobertJazo]

Regarding moments in movies/TV that scarred me as a child. When I was five I really wanted to see this brand new movie called Star Wars. My parents went to see it first, just to make sure it was OK for me to watch. They decided it was OK, then were shocked when I became fixated on the burning bodies of Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, bringing it up repeatedly for weeks after seeing it.

[@nosaisibor6450]

Michael Jackson's triller. I stayed awake under the bed all night watching a zombie hand crawling out of the ground which turned out to be a shoe . I still loved it though

[@ivane5110]

Hands down my favorite cartoons as a kid were these Filmation DC superhero ones. Superboy and Aquaman especially. What fun waiting each time to see what would happen each new episode. But, yeah I was upset when this Parasite came on and didn't have a supervillain costume, but I still liked it (especially his facial design). The only episode I didn't like as a kid was the one with the guy who kept pulling mean pranks.

[@1derb0y]

I remember that episode. It kind of disturbed me as a child, because I don't recall ever seeing actual death (where they don't come back) before in a cartoon.

[@rodneylindsey849]

Hi Sasha, first Thanks for including My comment for being one of the three who brought the episode to Your attention, secondly I think You hit the nail on the head , when you mentioned a 6 minute episode as to why They most likely didn’t make this version transform, I don’t believe Him exploding Freaked Me Out, but maybe it did , because when You talked about Jensen’s demise in His debut, this episode immediately came to mind 🤔 I can’t off hand think of anything that wasn’t supposed to scare me as a child that did ( maybe the Flying Monkeys from the OG Wizard Of Oz) , but My then 4 year old Great Neice got freaked out about Jack Jack Parr Bursting into Flames in The Incredibles 2 …Keep Up The Outstanding Work Sasha 🖖🏾

[@petersimpson4648]

One scene that really got to me as a kid was the swamp in "The Neverending Story". To this day, it upsets me to even remember that sequence.

[@JanetStarChild]

Damn, that was such a sad and horrifying scene.

[@kcollier2192]

"Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's- SUPERMAN!!" I hadn't thought about those old cartoons in decades- I think I have the opening right but I might be missing a phrase or two. Never realized those cartoons were so short- six minutes semeed like an hour back then...

[@ravenwilder4099]

Someday a hero's going to pull the "have the villain absorb so much power that they overload" gambit, only to find out, whoops! Turns out the villain COULD handle that much power, and you just supercharged them.

[@jimgillespie6109]

Glad you enjoyed the episode, Sasha. Welcome to the Filmation's Superman Traumatized Me Club! ☺

[@PitFriend1]

That running away animation is going to haunt my dreams now.

[@roryscott2941]

I was 7 or 8 when I watched The Thing. Of course it had many horrible scenes and they were very scary. But the scene that really freaked me out was Blair's computer projection: if the Thing escaped to civilized areas the entire world population would be infected in 27,000 hours. I felt sick. I had never experienced dread before that and it stuck with me. We hit the lottery when the Thing landed in the ice and now our luck is running out.

[@Polycomical]

Weirdly enough it was another Superman moment that freaked me out as a kid, specifically the woman turning into a robot in Superman 3. Then there was Ray getting possessed by Vigo in Ghostbusters 2 (I guess transformations tended to freak me out) and the boat scene from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

[@BenChanNYC]

As a kid, that little Zuni Warrior figure coming to life in "Trilogy of Terror" haunted my nightmares. Even thinking about it used to scare me.

[@SIFAssassin]

Man, I remember seeing this episode as a child. It always stuck with me, mostly because I remember being surprised that Supes pretty much killed him. This was a great trip down memory lane.

[@devinkavanaugh1034]

The ferngully scene freaked me out as a kid to but I was also really into it. When I was young I was fascinated by things that scared me... now I'm just scared of things that scare me. To be a kid again.

[@crunchyfrog1709]

A scary fascinating moment from when I was a kid . The secret of Nihm, pretty much all of it

[@CasuallyComics]

The Secret of NIMH went hard.

[@BarryAllen-oj3wm]

Trixie's nightmare in Speed Racer when Speed turns around and he's a fire demon. They did an excellent job of capturing how a nightmare actually feels, and it freaked six-year-old me right out.

[@briangilbert8733]

DANG RIGHT!! I'm almost 60, and I STILL fast forward past THAT scene!😂

[@Darkflo23]

I love the parasite, i wish his intelligence absorbtion was more used, imagine him fighting Batman, or attacking Lex Luthor before going to absorb powers, it would make him terrifying.

[@stevenbogart169]

One of these days, I'll work up the nerve to get to the end of The Monster at the End of This Book -- even though Grover warned me against completing it.

[@andrepaul3483]

The scene where Aquaman chops off his hand to save his kid in JL S1's 'The Enemy Below' will always be the one that will stick with me.

[@dramonmaster222]

There's something morbidly fascinating about watching a good Hero go Dark. Even if it's for the Greater Good.

[@chicken_beach]

I'll always be scarred by the ending of Who Framed Roger Rabbit

[@cookieDaXapper]

.....to explain away a possible homicide, to Superman Parasite died when he became the creature, and can no longer be considered "alive" or "human" his form was just destroyed,.....but this seems to be impermanent. PEACE dear Sister, great lipstick, eyeshadow, and eyebrow by the way. God bless.

[@welcometogeektown]

The scene that freaked me out as a kid (7 years old, specifically) was in Clash of the Titans (the 1981 version). Strangely, it's not on of the scenes with Calibos, but instead when the head on Aphrodite's statue falls off and then starts talking. I started crying at that and we had to leave the theater. Of course, once it was out on VHS, I watched the movie over and over again.

[@BenChanNYC]

I'd have to see more episodes of the show to see if this was a recurring motif, but perhaps they decided to keep Parasite in human form as part of the morality lesson for the kids. "Greed" killed him, and greed is a human failing - so Superman is saying he doomed himself. If Parasite had looked like a monster, it wouldn't have been the same lesson - it would have been Superman killing a monster.

[@CaptainFabulous84]

Pretty sure it was done as a cost-saving measure.

[@mwc1707]

A scene that freaked me out as a kid, and still honestly bothers me, was the rats scene from the Watership Down movie. Just the red eyes in the darkness of the shed. Yep, not a kids movie.

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

Parasite is such a cool villain, he’s not used enough.

[@Dylan-pq3ny]

Are we about to embark on a parasite playlist? A paralist?! A playsite?!

[@baronhausenpheffer]

I'm really glad you shone a spotlight on this episode. I watched many of the "New Adventures of Superman" growing up, and this is one of only two* of its episodes that stuck with me. I actually appreciated the Parasite keeping his human appearance, because it sort of highlighted how he was so recently a very normal guy who suddenly developed these extreme powers. (Personally, I never cared for the Parasite's comic appearance where he seems to have instantaneously grown a full-body pink pajama suit.) You could get a sense of how a criminal in that situation might get a bit power-drunk on his own new abilities. And the ending frankly bordered on body horror. You could understand why Superman did what he did since Harris was completely out of control, and it took guts for him to try that strategy, because he could have been wrong and just gotten drained to death. And then Parasite's own sudden and growing horror and panic as his body and new powers betrayed him was INTENSE -- kudos to the voice actor. I even like the bounding/thudding sound of his footsteps as he ran -- gave you a sense of a human being overburdened with power. * For the record, the other episode that stuck with me was the one about the Prankster. It was all about a very relevant modern problem, which is what to do about someone whose actions are clearly harmful and hateful, and potentially even dangerous, but who manages to stay just on the right side of outright illegality that you can't punish him within the bounds of the law. It was also a great example of my favorite type of Superman story, which is Clark dealing with not a cosmic slugfest but having to figure out how to use his powers creatively to solve something that strength alone is not the right tool for.

[@creativerealms]

The final scene of the Masters of the Universe movie scared me big time. So much that for years I avoided the credits just to avoid seeing Skeletor pop out of the water/lava. I think the first time I saw that scene I must have been half asleep so it ended up being much scarier then it really was.

[@sledgecorp]

That's interesting. I never even noticed there was an after credit scene until seeing it on TV many years later. We saw the movie in the theaters, but we certainly did not stay for the credits LOL.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

Even scarier are the proclivities of the movie's director, Gary Goddard.

[@FunkatronicGeek]

I hope you touch on his STAS appearances some more. You briefly talked about him tangentially when you covered LiveWire but maybe a deeper look into his STAS version might be in order. Parasite is such a fun character, especially the Ruddy version

[@CasuallyComics]

The STAS version stands out for also having some really solid voice acting work. There's just something about how Brion James plays it with a level of Parasite having fun and also being a bit sleazy and dangerous.

[@FunkatronicGeek]

@@CasuallyComics I agree. His voice acting is pretty good. Good balance of everyday joe shmoe and menacing when he wants to. Plus I love the fact at the end of his second episode he was just content to have cable TV in his cell

[@Kid_Spitfire]

@@CasuallyComics The Young Justice season 1 episode Performance also had a great Parasite outing in my opinion

[@bensneb360]

Superman pulled a Hulk 2003… Superman: You think you can live with it? Take it! TAKE IT ALL!

[@Bolsonaro_em_Haia]

Just a guess, but I would assume that Filmation did not want to feature characters that strayed from a normal human appearance unless it absolutely had to. I can think of several possible reasons why. Productivity, consistency of style, improved choice of artists, less need to work out convincing animation of unusual characters. Filmation at this time period seems to have a very specific range of house style: looser than it would use in later years, while also very conscious of costs and efforts of animation. It also seems to use several different artists at the same time, leading to discernible clashes of style between scenes. I.C. Harris probably has such distinctive hairline, facial hair and head shape in order to be readily recognizable regardless of artist changes and reduce the pressure on production costs. Of course, it probably doesn't hurt that Filmation can't be pressured into paying for royalties for established character visuals if it does not use those visuals. But I don't think that they were too worried about that at the time. On another note, one has to love how I.C. Harris is given the weirdly specific descriptor of "specialist in stealing radioactive isotopes" just seconds before showing very amauteristic carelessness while handling said isotopes.

[@ericmiller93]

I think we’re all watching this because we have some time on our hands.

[@johnquiett1085]

For scenes that freaked me out as a kid: Pee-Wee's Big Adventure Large Marge got me. I still shiver sometimes when. I think about it. Two reasons: One, there was NOTHING supernatural in the story before that. So I wasn't expecting it. Two, I went to a babysitter at this point and the actress who played the trucker looked like my babysitter. Same raspy smokers voice too. For contrast, the ghost at the library in Ghostbusters didn't scar me. Perhaps I didn't watch them close together, but I feel like it was because I knew there would be ghosts in the second movie so I was better mentally prepared. LargeMarge and Judge Doom or whatever from Roger Rabbit hold similar boogeyman spots in my head. Creepy, never want to meet them.

[@SimonMoon5]

A scene from a comic that freaked me out as a kid (even though it seems quite tame now as an adult) was from a Disney comic. Magica DeSpell had used her foof bombs on Scrooge, Donald, and the nephews. She then stuffed each of the ducks into a fish of approximately the same size as each character. She was going to take them to a place where the fish were going to be chopped up into food or something (I've forgotten the details). I'm not sure why this scene had a strong impact on me. Perhaps the feeling of helplessness of the ducks not able to do anything to escape this fate. Or maybe it was the weird juxtaposition of a threat of actual death in a Disney comic. Or maybe it's just that Magica was really spooky. For some reason, the Disney ducks had scarier comics (to me personally) than any of the horror comics of the era. I also remember the ducks investigating an old Egyptian tomb and it was also pretty spooky, with mummies and people coming back to life.

[@JohnAquariusPodcast]

Peewee Herman's large marg scene

[@GenerationWest]

What messed me up as kid? Watching Unicorns get murdered in Legend, and 28 Days Later. Both were things I was WAY TOO toung to watch lol

[@Rick-c5s]

I was nine when this appeared on tv... and it was made for kids my age... this was long before comic cons, graphic novels, expense comic book collecting... and it was thought of as little boy (not girl - yeah i know, unfair) entertainment... the excitement each saturday morning was mainly seeing Superman in color, flying, etc.,, no one took it seriously; no one... not the network, the animators/writers, or the audience. So, before you compare a comic book that was written for older kids to a 60's cartoon made for much younger kids you really have to, in all fairness, outline the context of the time. All that said, I still love your enthusiasm for the subject matter and the history lesson of the Parasite... ❤These cartoons represent a loving memory for me of when I was a little boy, not of great writing or animation... Let's NOT do the "internet thing" of over-critiquing the past out of context. It's why the right calls the left "woke"- fanatics and partially why we are stuck with a president Trump again.

[@theamazonprince7132]

What freaked me out as a kid was in the 90s spiderman cartoon. King pin asks spider carnage why he made an all reality destroying bomb. And he says and I quote " ever since that spider bit me the world misunderstood me. And tormented me now it's my turn I'm going to obliterate you all mwahahaha" to realize that this isn't carnage at all and this is entirely peters thoughts feelings and emotions made my skin crawl. This scene coupled with the scene from the previous episode of him telling kingpin that his "mind control" device would be ready soon and then they'd all get what they really deserve just still freaks me out. He was so evil.

[@micahiwaasa9304]

Among the spookies of my youth was that old United Artists logo. It was metal, turning from the darkness to pick up the shine and reveal itself, haunting piano giving way to overpowering horns.

[@ThatJohnKillion1970]

I remember seeing this as a kid and wondering how they got away with straight-up killing that guy.

[@aaronkelly1762]

Well, I grew up watching monster movies as a kid, so not much scared me as a kid in that department. However, there are 2 things I remember scaring me as a kid. First one was when Ichabod was riding home,not the part with the headless horseman. I hadn't seen that part till years later. The atmosphere of the scene was the thing that actually scared me there. Second would be the Windows 98 Mystery Screensaver's organ. Just the organ though.

[@kemmdog4444]

I love all these cartoons. I own this one and the Aquaman one. You’ve got the Flash, Green Lantern, Justice League and Teen Titans ones.