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Quiz #6 Cartoons & Comics

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Savant(h)

•Tread Carefully! No Safety Slides here

1.

• After the 2011 relaunch of X as part of DC's The New 52 publishing initiative, X's origin is revised as she discovers she is the daughter of Y. Y and Hippolyta engaged in combat, and their fight ended with the couple making love, and thus X was conceived. This encounter was hidden from X, who was raised to believe that she was born out of clay, in order to protect X from Hera (Y‘s wife).Lennox (another illegitimate offspring of Y) commented that Y has been "scarpered off the immortal coil", hinting that he has apparently died.

X-Wonder Woman Y-Zeus

2.• In the original version, the _____feels an

indescribable amount of pain every time she takes a step - due to a curse the witch put on her.

• The Captain that the ____ falls in love with marries another woman (whom he had been in love with in the first place)

• The ______ sisters offer her a knife to kill the prince so she can return to the see in the original.

• The ______dies at the end (turns into sea foam) - she kinds of commits suicide - because she cannot bare to see the captain with someone else.

• FITB. All Blanks are the same

The Little Mermaid

3.• Cessily Kincaid aka X, an Irish American, was raised in

Portland, Oregon by her parents Mark and Jill, who, according to DeFilippis, used to dote over her. When Cessily's powers manifested, her parents were disgusted and made her stay indoors so as to hide her mutation. In response, she was sent to the __________ where she befriended Julian Keller and was placed as Laurie Collins' roommate for a while. After the school was rebuilt, she was selected by Emma Frost to be on her Hellions squad.

• Abilities: Body is composed of a non-toxic form of X , which she can reshape and stretch at will.

X-Mercury,Y- Xavier Institute

4.

• In the original story, the antagonist asks Her servant to also bring her back ____ heart and liver. He can't kill ____, and so brings back a boar's heart and liver as well. The antagonist eats the heart and liver, believing them to be ______'s.

• As a punishment, antagonist is forced to wear burning-hot iron shoes and dance until dropping dead.

Snow White

5.• In the late 19th century, a wealthy merchant named Cyrus

Gold is murdered and his body disposed of in Slaughter Swamp, near Y. Fifty years later, the corpse is reanimated as a huge shambling figure (composed partly of the swamp matter that has accumulated around the body over the decades) with almost no memory of its past life. Gold murders two escaped criminals who are hiding out in the marsh and steals their clothes. He shows up in a hobo camp and, when asked about his name, one of the few things he can recall is that he was "born on a Monday". One of the men at the camp mentions the nursery rhyme character X (who was born on a Monday), and Gold adopts the moniker.

X-Solomon Grundy,Y-Gotham City

6.

• One of the antagonists cuts of her toe another chops off her heel for a deception

• The bleeding, noted by carrier pigeons gives their game away

• As punishment their eyes are pecked out by the birds at a wedding

Cinderella

7.

• The Jack Kirby _______‘s family and people were slain by the raiders of Hyssa the Lizard King. _____ was raised by a wise and mysterious traveler named Chagra. Because of an alien crystal carried by _____, Chagra theorized that _______ was one of the people of the Crystal Mountain. Chagra agrees to help _______ achieve his revenge, but only if ______ leads him to the Crystal Mountain. _______ grew up to become a protector of the innocent, but once King Hyssa was defeated, his petulance and darker nature came to the forefront.(Image in next slide)

X-Atlas

8• The original was there is no happy ending featuring two baby animals. • The ______ is based on a 1967 novel written by Daniel P. Mannix. In

the book, X is raised by Y owner's/hunter's family, but eventually returns to the wild.

• One character ends up getting hit by a train. The hunter is devastated, and vows revenge on X. He becomes obsessed, but can never catch him (although he does kill X's first mate, second mate, and children). Eventually, X DOES die, but of exhaustion from being chased so much. Y is so old that he needs to be shot, and that is the end of the book.

• None of this needless to say made it to the big screen • Name the movie or give me X and Y

The Fox And The Hound

9.

• Born of a mortal, Peleus, and a goddess Thetis, X is a demi-god. His mother decided to make her newborn baby invulnerable, so she went to the river Y, in where she held the young child by his heel. The river gave the child invulnerability except in his heel. X became a great warrior, and fought in the Trojan War, where he was hit in his vulnerable heel with a poisonous arrow shot by Paris I, killing the great warrior.

X-Achilles, Y-Styx

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• In the Original version, X gets knocked up by the hero before she escapes, and the evil sorceress figures it out.

• The hero is then lured by the sorceress and trapped in the tower

• He jumps out the window in despair and is blinded from the thorns below. He wanders around aimlessly (he is blind). X gives birth to twins.

• He is eventually guided back to her when he hears her voice. Her tears restore his sight.

Sleeping Beauty

11.• X first appears when pulled from the past by the villain Immortus to battle

the Thunder God Y. This story is not referenced in the character's next appearance, which depicts X and Y as apparently meeting for the first time. The discrepancy is eventually explained when it is revealed that the first “X" encountered was actually an alien Space Phantom in disguise.

• X guest-stars in an extended Y storyline, defeating a depowered Thunder God (punished by Odin for loving the mortal woman Jane Foster). X unwittingly becomes the slave of fellow Olympian god Pluto when he signs a contract which he thinks is for a film, but actually states that he will now rule the Netherworld instead of Pluto. X is eventually rescued by Y (now at full strength) who battles and defeats Pluto's underworld minions. Pluto opts to void the contract rather than accept the destruction of his realm. X also has a brief encounter with the Hulk, fighting the monster to a standstill.

X-Hercules, Y-Thor

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• In the Original version, X gets knocked up by the hero before she escapes, and the evil sorceress figures it out.

• The hero is then lured by the sorceress and trapped in the tower

• He jumps out the window in despair and is blinded from the thorns below. He wanders around aimlessly (he is blind). X gives birth to twins.

• He is eventually guided back to her when he hears her voice. Her tears restore his sight.

Alladin

20 point surprise. Write it Down

• 2 Themes in the past round. 6 questions from one theme 6 from the other in no particular order. 10 points for each

• Solomon• Hercules• Atlas• Zeus• Achilles• Mercury• The other themeIs Disney Movies