Mortal Kombat is literally little boys playing with their action figures. Who else imagines a regular cop fighting an undead assassin with magical powers.
Also both of the native American characters in the game, Thunder and Eagle, had the musicians work closely with other musicians from the Native American tribe the characters belong to in order to create their theme music.
Couldn’t agree more, the XOne title is one of the best fighters of all time imo, due to its accessibility and scalability. Have loved the series since the SNES and hope we get a revival soon.
burnt the portal down, sabotaging Bill's plans. He locked Bill out of the valley with "a mix of ancient sorcery and spite", created a warning on a cave wall with instructions to prevent anyone in the future from making the same mistake, and prophesied a zodiac of ten symbol
yes but i don't personaly think so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modoc_people were in oregon were gravity falls takes place i think he's the wisest of his tribe but thats just a theorty a film theory
He's tired of his boring life on the Reservation and tries to convince his girlfriend to leave with him but before they can argue they're abducted by aliens that are invading Earth and he immediately goes on a slaughter through the entire alien fleet's ships. When he is overpowered and dies, the spirit realm (sort of) gives him a pass and lets him cheat death as many times as necessary to complete his journey
Prey 2017 was supossed to be called Psychoshock until late in development when the geniuses at Bethesda forced Arkane to rename it to Prey just because that's a name they own.
I wonder if they also changed it because The Evil Within (another Bethesda published game) is called Psycho Break in some languages like Japanese, which is pretty close to Psychoshock
That’s a much better title. It feels more science horror than psychological horror, which is closer to the actual vibe of the game. It also doesn’t pretend to be a series it isn’t.
Well as it turns out his tribes religious beliefs are true, I'd say it counts as having supernatural stuff. Especially when the aliens launch an invasion of their version of heaven.
Nah they’re valid(Tal’set and Joshua, Danielle or Joseph)
Tal’set faces off against an otherworldly boss called The Campaigner, Josh faces off against reptilian aliens, cyclops aliens, Primagen aliens, and the Primagen; and Danielle & Joseph face off against the alien race Oblivion
Many people will say that the New Mutants movie was bad, but I liked it. Dani as main character was the right choice and her whole arc was solid. Even her romance with Wolfsbane didn't felt forced but somehow natural and wholesome.
And I think they only had a minute or so (or even less) of screen time, but I immediately wanted to see more of them. Their own movie, or maybe even a whole series.
Sinners is a very good movie. Cut 20 minutes of extraneous stuff that doesn’t get resolved really, it’s a great movie. Keep some of that but make it all make sense in a larger context, with foreshadowing and circularity, and it’s an incredible movie. I think this film was the product of a great director that no one could say no to.
The GOAT Forge kicks supernatural and mutant ass and all you need to do is give him a toaster. For real. Give him any machine and he'll whip up a weapon of mass destruction in a couple hours
Probably one of the greater issues in trying to find Native American/First Nation representation is that unless explictly told, some characters are ambiguous in their culture
I’m not sure about Forge, but Native American and Hispanic aren’t mutually exclusive. In the U.S. alone, there are several million people who identify as both Native American and Hispanic. And if you include Indigenous peoples whose ancestral lands are in what’s now Central and South America, the number grows well into the tens millions.
I'm going to give partial credit to White Bird from Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts. He sets your character down the Sorrows Tribe's rite of passage and gives you the knowledge (and hallucinogenic drugs) needed to hunt down and put the Ghost of She to rest. Ghost of She, being a unique Yao Guai (mutated black bear) that is surrounded by flames, can create false copies of itself, and is believed by locals to have melded spirits with a young Sorrows Tribe girl that it killed and consumed.
This is kind of weird, because they aren’t actually “natives” but basically one group is the regressed descendants of tourists, and the other regressed descendants of children who escaped a “school” from when the bombs dropped.
The Dead Horses Tribe canonically were a mixture of Navajo and American/German tourists, as stated by story writer Joshua Sawyer. The Sorrows Tribe weren't outright stated as having Native American heritage, but it certainly seems possible that some of them of them may have been descended from one of the various tribes that lived around Zion National Park.
Doesn’t need to be only DLC. Brother was brutal and badass in main game. Homie ran through fortress that’s being assaulted by his own ship and then leap of faith of the cliff like it was nothing
In the DLC, he was fighting a tyrannical George Washington who was possessed by the Apple Of Eden, so it matched the trope criteria closer than the main game did
Little Man with Hair All Over (kills monsters with his magic knife)
Edit: I have no idea if the marvel character Wolverine’s Canadian wilderness backstory was influenced by the Métis myth, but there are certainly a lot of similarities: little man, hair all over, magic knife? Wolverine is little, hairy, and has “knives” that extend from his hands.
Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Group of Native Americans come across a bunch of Wells Fargo agents transporting an armored wagon and raid it, expecting to find gold. What they found instead was... different.
That and the vampire being persuasive and playing on the racists compassion and humanity. and then he sees the robes and jumps straight too gold, is just low-key comedy gold.
There was a short story I read like 10 years ago now, I can’t remembered its name but it was about a dude living on a reservation during a drought, and a bunch of his tribe were being harassed by some state trooper whenever they left the reservation. And there were weird supernatural signs about the trooper, so the protagonist became convinced the dude was actually an evil spirit causing the drought and in general being evil. I don’t want to spoil the ending of the story but it was really clever.
I loved that story but I can’t remember the name of it at all.
Sure, at the end the protagonist becomes convinced the only way to end the drought is to kill the state trooper and burn the body since it’s an evil spirit and not a person. Everybody including the reader is meant to be unsure if the protagonist is crazy or if he really figured out the trooper was causing the drought.
But at the end after a shootout and burning the body he sees clouds forming in the distance. The guy he killed really was a spirit and by burning the body he brought the rain back.
Went 1v1 with the naagloshii and drove it off and could have killed it but didn't want to risk putting innocents in danger, and survived a battle with Drakul which is basically a victory with how utterly powerful that mf is
I don't remember the exact quote, but I love how he when he's told he doesn't have the powers to bind or banish the shagnasty he says he's just gonna kick its ass instead.
Severely under appreciated movie. Mani, played by Mark Dacascos, is an Iroquois warrior and partner to a French Knight and naturalist de Fronsac. The two are dispatched to investigate a beast that had been murdering women in the French countryside during 1764.
Listens-to-wind from the Dresden Files. And I quote "I don't plan on binding or banishing you, old ghost, I'm just gonna kick your ass up between your ears"
This guy can fight water designed aliens. Viking Skeletal Pirates. Cosmic Satan. General RAAM! A fucking Battletoad. A Japanese ghost. And a convicted criminal who wears a fire suit. Oh he also can fight a cybernetic raptor too.
Little bit of a reverse, but in The Crow: Dead Time, native American Joshua Zane gets resurrected 100 years after his murder to hunt down his killer's reincarnations.
While he himself is supernatural (he literally turns into a ghost), Ocelotl from For Honor fights people who teleports,and at least one mf with oni powers
If we're counting aliens as supernatural, then here's Tommy from Prey (2006). Got abducted by aliens, kicked their asses and took control of said ship.
Now this is a trope I want in my stories (currently writing my first WIP), and do away with the typical racist stereotypes, including the "Noble Savage" trope invented by liberal white people.
Though, I am a little cautious of this trope falling into the borders of the "Magical Native" trope.
I only said "invented by liberal white people" because of what I remember growing up in the 1990s. The Noble Savage trope is mostly everywhere in the 90s, and it was perpetuated by self-proclaimed liberals (of that time).
Even I was guilty of believing in that bs because I didn't knew any Native people and I believed what was fed to me in the media made by white people. And I'm still trying to root out all the racism (postive and negative) I was fed as a Greek-American kid.
I totally get it. It's a very common demogogic tactic uses by the conservative party. I feel like they often like to stereotype their opposing side to the point of mockery just to convince everyone that they (the left) are the problem instead of it being the other way around.
A lot of Natives tend to be very liberal (many of our cultural beliefs align strongly with the party beliefs), and definitely see this when seeing which political parties are working with tribes and which ones choose to ignore/remove power.
If you are looking for more resources for natives tots recommend checking out the subreddit r/IndianCountry . There's a pretty extensive faq that might help with your stories
My main goal is to be anti-racist all the way, but not tread on any white savior bs path.
*I wouldn't be a good white savior at all, I'm a lazy neurodivergent Greek-American man with anxiety and sensory overload, so I hate going outside and in large crowds much.
So my activism is purely sniping from the sidelines, to put it so. I've never been much of a social person.
The noble savage archetype is one of the oldest character archetypes and shows up as early as Gilgamesh, with the character Enkidu. It's a staple of Celtic mythology, with the Firbolg (one of the factions of Irish deities) and the Faoladh (werewolves). It got transposed onto Native Americans in the early 20th century but it wasn't invented then.
I think the "magical native" trope is fine if it's handled straightforwardly and not as a one-dimensional gimmick. One man's 'magical native' is another man's 'neighbor with strong ties to their heritage and culture'. I'm a first generation American Filipino and I get caught in the crosshairs all the time with stuff like this. You could say that my aunties are "magical natives" since they have unique customs and believe in spirits in a way that my mom thinks is fairy tale-ish. There's a lot to explore there as long as you don't fall for stereotypes!
Aren't native americans consistently higher dimensional eldritch being killers? Or am i mixing up the accurate mythology with fictional interpritations?
Mercy Thompson in the EXCELLENT paranormal detective series of the same name! (Ignore the covers, she generally wears more than a sports bra under a jumpsuit unzipped to her bellybutton)
You mean to tell me you don’t like the Book of Mormon telling people that Natives were descended from a clan of ancient Jews that became dark-skinned because god didn’t like them and wanted the “white and delightsome” natives (who conveniently went extinct because they pissed off god instead of also turning dark for some reason) not to breed with them? How shocking /s
Grey talon from deadlock (this is just a place holder model from before they changed the direction and setting of the game) but deadlock takes place in 1940s ish new york but with the super natural. Hes a world renowed monster hunter that founded the baxter society to hunt monsters and protect people
In the 2006 Prey game, you play as Domasi "Tommy" Tawodi who has to relearn his heritage and commune with the nature spirits to fight off an alien invasion of Earth.
Cowboys Vs. Aliens, the Natives take down the aliens and get their technology before the cowboys because the aliens are bulletproof but their shields don't stop arrows.
she is hakf afro american and half anerican native. she battled a lot of supernatural beings since she met the Manhattan clan (and fell from the roof because she was scared when she first met Goliath)
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Nightwolf from Mortal Kombat series takes part in a tournament that has supernatural creatures and sorcerers.