Posts by Tom
John Ruth
In The Hateful Eight, John Ruth (Kurt Russell) is a bounty hunter nicknamed the Hangman. Whether fugitives are wanted dead or alive, he chooses the extra labor of bringing them to justice alive, so that executioners can also continue to earn a pay. His latest bounty as Daisy Domergue, who he’s escorting to Red Rock, Wyoming.
Power Girl
In the DC Comics, Power Girl (real name Kara Zor-L) is the cousin of Superman and shares similar superpowers. Like him, she was sent away to escape the destruction of Krypton, but somehow ended up on a planet called Earth-Two instead.
Black Panther
In Captain America: Civil War, Black Panther is the superhero identity of T’Challa, the King of Wakanda, a fictional African nation. After eating a mysterious plant poisonous to many non-Wakandans, he gained the peak of human strength and agility on the same level as Captain America. Black Panther is Marvel’s answer to Batman, and cousins with Killmonger.
Tracer
In Overwatch, Tracer (real name Lena Oxton) is a young ace pilot from the UK. When a flight experiment goes wrong, her molecules become desynchronized from the flow of time. Fortunately, Winston designs a device that anchors her to the present and even gives her the power to control her own time.
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s novel The Little Prince tells the tale of a young pilot stranded in the desert who meets a young prince fallen from his home planet, an asteroid not bigger than a house. While the pilot spends days repairing his plane, the young prince recounts stories about his own otherworldly life .
Major Marquis Warren
In The Hateful Eight, Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) is a Union officer turned bounty hunter. While transporting three dead bounties, he becomes trapped in a blizzard, until a stagecoach carrying fellow bounty hunter John Ruth and fugitive Daisy Domergue serendipitously crosses his path.
Dustin Henderson
In Stranger Things, Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo) is a boy who gets bullied because he has cleidocranial dysplasia, giving him a lisp, but still maintains a fun-loving personality. Dustin is part of a group of friends who band together over their love of comic books and D&D, and who later discovers the mysterious girl Eleven.
Daisy Domergue
In The Hateful Eight, Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a fugitive captured by bounty hunter John “The Hangman” Ruth, who is intent to bringing her not dead, but alive. What’s worse, they’re accompanies by a second bounty hunter, Major Marquis Warren. They’re delayed however when a blizzard forces them to take refuge in a small stagecoach lodge.
Judy Hopps in Zootopia
In Zootopia, Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) is a rabbit from the small town of Bunnyburrow who moves to the big city to join the police department. Despite being police valedictorian, she is relegated to parking duty by Chief Bogo due to her diminuitive stature.