I really should think up a title

limping away from the battlefield all by yourself, handsome?

Also, while we're being pedants, Marie Antoinette wasn't executed for being an out of touch wealthy person, she was executed for treason. Not figurative "All nobles have betrayed the revolution" treason, either. She and her husband had been colluding with the Austrian army, which was at war with France. The Revolution would get worse as the Terror went on, but Marie's execution seems pretty justified.

My apologies. I've gotten to the point on this site that posting any correction or explanation makes me feel like a pedant, whether or not I strictly am one. I shouldn't think that, and I shouldn't have lumped you in with me even if I do.

Also, while we're being pedants, Marie Antoinette wasn't executed for being an out of touch wealthy person, she was executed for treason. Not figurative "All nobles have betrayed the revolution" treason, either. She and her husband had been colluding with the Austrian army, which was at war with France. The Revolution would get worse as the Terror went on, but Marie's execution seems pretty justified.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Donald J. Trump is literally Dong Zhuo, except Dong Zhuo was actually accomplished

Reminds me of Lex getting turned into a gorilla in JLU, and still being completely bald. There are limits to both sorcery and super science, and returning Lex his hair seems to be beyond them.

Messing with the Babylon 5 fans by arguing that J Michael Straczynski's best work was Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future and it's all been downhill from there.

This is The REAL Ghostbusters erasure.

That would probably be a less effective troll because in my experience a lot of Babylon 5 fans would actually agree that his episodes of The Real Ghostbusters are the better work.

I don't regard the idea that The Real Ghostbusters had better writing and acting than the films it's based on as particularly controversial, but I'm admittedly deeply biased by six-year-old me's worryingly intense crush on specifically the cartoon version of Egon Spengler.

*walks up to gay couple* So which of you is the taciturn one who's a lot smarter than they pretend to be and which of you is the talkative one who uses big words incorrectly?

Abbott & Costello?

Neither especially villainous nor particularly gay, unfortunately.

Sadly doesn't pre-date Diamonds Are Forever (1971).

They're also more an example of the "villainous duo where one is short and fat and the other is tall and thin" trope, which often overlaps with but is not identical with the "one is wily and laconic and the other is loquacious and prone to malapropism" thing.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Now we're just saying the names of characters where there's two of them.

Okay here's a shot; the gangsters from The Maltese Falcon as an incomplete prototype (we have fat and skinny with differing temperaments between Cairo and Gutman, but Cairo and Wilmer are the gay ones).

Oh, 100% – Fleming is so obviously doing a Hammett pastiche with the original novel's versions of Wint and Kidd that it's kind of comical. As you say, though, it's not quite there; heck, even the novel versions of Wint and Kidd themselves aren't quite there compared to their film counterparts.

*walks up to gay couple* So which of you is the taciturn one who's a lot smarter than they pretend to be and which of you is the talkative one who uses big words incorrectly?

Abbott & Costello?

Neither especially villainous nor particularly gay, unfortunately.

Sadly doesn't pre-date Diamonds Are Forever (1971).

They're also more an example of the "villainous duo where one is short and fat and the other is tall and thin" trope, which often overlaps with but is not identical with the "one is wily and laconic and the other is loquacious and prone to malapropism" thing.

I read her politics swung left as she got older. That's inconvenient for the right, who like her as a posterchild for the value of hard work overcoming any adversity. So I'm guessing this truther movement exists to address that.

I think you're the only person cultured enough to give us the Superboy Prime/Fat Grandma crossover that the public does not know it needs.

It's fine to disagree with the IAU about the definition of "planet"; however, if your definition includes Pluto but not Ceres, Orcus, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris or Sedna, you don't actually care what a planet is – you just want the exact list of nine planets you learned in primary school back. Your cute little Pluto-including orbital distance mnemonic ought to be at least seventeen words long, and good fucking luck with the Q!

my very eager mother just served us nine pizzas cold on her quaint mock gold engraved silveware

Sorry, but Ceres is between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter. In fact, if we're bringing back all the former planets, we would also need to bring back the asteroids Pallas, Juno, Vesta, and Astraea.

Steam workshop filling me with incandescent rage

Oh no. What did they do?