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Doctor Strange Looks Like A Disorderly Rave

Presumably because Robert Downey Jr.'s love of money isn't going away any time soon, Marvel launched a new series about a goateed jackass who becomes a better person after suffering a grievous injury and dabbling in some superpowers: Doctor Strange. Thanks to some magic doodads and the Ancient One (who turns out to be a middle-aged white lady), Strange is able to fight with balls of energy and bolts of otherworldly lightning.

Marvel StudiosGoku has aged quite gracefully.

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Dude was swinging around a glow stick. Doctor Strange's fight with Kaecilius looks like a drunken brawl at a rave for middle-aged men. It's less "magical battle to save the Universe" and more "using Christmas lights to disarm a Juggalo of his Devil Sticks."

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Marvel StudiosMarvel made sure to cast actors with only one facial expression for this movie solely so they wouldn't crack up.

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The Walking Dead's Tiger Looks Like A Rogue Member Of The Blue Man Group

Even fans of The Walking Dead are probably as bored of watching the living dead feast on the flesh of the living living as they are of watching Pat and Vanna sell vowels to strangers. That's why the zombie show shook things up in the seventh season by adding a goddamn tiger. In one particularly memorable scene, the tiger takes out some of Negan's goons right as he's about to go full Joe Pesci on poor Carl.

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AMC StudiosHis friends then have to shoot him before he turns into a tiger.

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Stranger Things' Demogorgon Looks Hilarious Just Hanging Out

You're probably familiar with Stranger Things, the hit Netflix show created by the Duffer brothers and co-written by a copy of '80s Trivial Pursuit. The first season of the show finds a bunch of lovably scrappy kids taking on an outer-dimensional monster known as the Demogorgon. If kids today would get off their damn phones for two seconds, maybe they could take out a rogue vagina-dentata-faced beast from time to time.

NetflixThe classic scene where the Demogorgon has to awkwardly introduce himself to the rest of the class.

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Since the creators clearly wanted the monster to have an '80s movie feel, but likely thought that having the kids fight a keytar-playing Emilio Estevez would look silly, the Demogorgon was created using not only CGI, but also practical effects. Meaning that in some scenes of the show, the creature from the Upside Down was some guy in a rubber suit. It's a tad less scary when you realize that this interdimensional killer actually looked like your high school English teacher.

NetflixLike other beloved celebs, the Demogorgon got out of being drafted in Vietnam due to those bone spurs.

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The Passion Of The Christ's Jesus Was Whipped By A Dude In Shorts

The Passion Of The Christ was obviously a controversial movie at the time. For some, it was a transcendent, holy experience. For others, it was a Hostel if Hostel hated Jewish people. The bulk of the movie found Jim Caviezel's Jesus being whipped, tortured, and generally beaten to a bloody pulp, as envisioned by the star of What Women Want.

Newmarket FilmsGlad to see we're not the only ones who fell asleep during this thing.

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Andy Serkis Wore A Terrible Ape Costume On The Set Of King Kong

Before he somehow angered the gods and was cursed to spend eternity making movies set in Middle-earth, you may remember that Peter Jackson made some non-Hobbit movies. One of those was a remake of the classic King Kong, in which a giant ape falls in love with a human woman, then climbs the Empire State Building -- a scene Freud no doubt loved.

Universal PicturesIt's unclear what Kong wants to do with her, since he lacks genitals.

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While the movie's visual effects seamlessly brought Kong to life, the behind-the-scenes footage is decidedly less magical. For one encounter with the fabled beast, they strapped Naomi Watts on a moving platform and jabbed at her with what we can only hope is supposed to be a giant finger ...

Universal PicturesWe said Kong had no genitals. Didn't say anything about Jack Black.

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Kevin Bacon Looked Like An Off-Brand Dr. Manhattan In Hollow Man

The perviest of Invisible Man movies, Hollow Man starred Kevin Bacon as a scientist who learns the secret of invisibility, which he mainly uses to grope women and murder people. But hey, those effects were cool, huh?

Columbia PicturesSales for Silly Putty dropped 70 percent that year.

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Even in scenes where you'd think Bacon wouldn't have to show up, he still painted himself like a die-hard Celtics fan and acted all invisible-like.

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Columbia PicturesThey later CGed this into the Good Kermit vs. Bad Kermit meme.

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Thor: Ragnarok's Fights Were A Tad Less Intense On Set

Thor: Ragnarok finds the titular God of Thunder kidnapped and relocated to Jeff Goldblum's hedonism planet, the most charmingly aloof of all hedonism planets. In one exciting scene, Thor is forced into a gladiatorial arena to fight the Hulk. The results are way more exciting than the time they gently tussled on '80s television.

Marvel StudiosAt last! A scene of superheroes punching each other!

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Game Of Thrones' Snow Zombies Are Secretly Wearing Underoos

After the first scene of the very first episode gave us a terrifying attack, Game Of Thrones withheld the White Walkers for over five years, which was insane. That would be like if the Fresh Prince took three years to get to Bel-Air. Eventually, though, we got tons of sword-wielding skeletons from Westeros' Canada.

HBOAnd more male nudity.

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A lot of the White Walkers' undead wights are guys in skull masks with pajamas underneath, like some kind of Death Eater slumber party.

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HBOPlot twist: They're all Kevin Bacon.