Sentences with phrase «alternate universe as»

The character is a fascinating one as things go because he and the villain occupy the same alternate universe as the evil steam press: anachronistic, iconoclastic, ultimately ridiculous, but certainly tweaking the edges of significance.

Set post-apocalypse and probably in an alternate universe as well, Priest depicts a mankind driven behind walled cities where absolution is bought in automated confessionals (shades of THX - 1138 in particular, Orwell in general).

Infinite Crisis is a MOBA based off of the world of DC Comics, though drawing in all the alternate universes as well.

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There were more faked Facebook pages comprising an alternate universe, with online comments and reviews and references to email and videos, as well as an imposter purporting to be their son conversing with the alleged pedophile.

It would be fascinating to see what, in an alternate universe, William F. Buckley might have done as the editor of a Catholic intellectual magazine instead of National Review.

That said, I have on occasion come up with alternate explanations for the creation of the universe as an intellectual exercise, and have even shared one of them here:

Russ, you said, «while it is a «huge leap» (as you say) to claim the specificity of the Judeo - Christian God in this particular finding, how is it not * equally * (if not more so) a leap to filter out the concept of transcendence (which you call a «self - contained oxymoron»), without any alternate explanation for the paradoxical «something out of nothing» origins of our universe?»

while it is a «huge leap» (as you say) to claim the specificity of the Judeo - Christian God in this particular finding, how is it not * equally * (if not more so) a leap to filter out the concept of transcendence (which you call a «self - contained oxymoron»), without any alternate explanation for the paradoxical «something out of nothing» origins of our universe?

Believing the the existence of and endless yet natural number of alternate universes existing together in order to try to make the math work strikes me as far more fanciful than believing in a designer.

Yet, if I believe in string theory, or alternate realities, or alternate universes I'm considered an intellect, Back during the Renaissance period they believed the same thing as Mr. Nye here.

The breezy style is out of an alternate universe where the clothing would equip you just as well for an afternoon stroll through Logan Square as it would for a kickback at an ice house in Houston.

But imagine an alternate universe — if we're not already in it, after all Claudio Ranieri's Foxes are top of the league — where hitting the woodwork counts as a goal.

Maybe you are from an alternate universe where donor milk flows like tap water, but there are preemies getting NEC here in realityland, and your full term baby did not need donor milk as badly as they did.

However, using an alternate definition, some have speculated that this «Universe» is just one of many disconnected «universes», which are collectively denoted as the multiverse.

As someone who grew up watching Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Gene Kelly, I was completely memorized and transported to an alternate universe while watching the film.

The alternate universe for Tromaville and the alternate characters was something interesting such as we see the Evil Kabukiman and Noxie, even Sarah and Lard Ass's alternate characters.

In an alternate universe, Harding acts as an inspirational figure.

It's a picture as well about the romance of restraint in a romantic lead pairing, Driver and Irene (Mulligan, bearing a close enough resemblance to Michelle Williams that the movie takes on a weird, alternate - universe Blue Valentine feeling), that is never consummated save for one magic - realist kiss in an elevator.

When the rebooted, alternate universe Star Trek movie took simply Star Trek as its title, it broke the mold of titling the films Star Trek: Something Related to the Plot.

As Bobby Finger at BlackBook wrote, MacKenzie McHale (Emily Mortimer) calls the rebooted show they're doing «NewsNight 2.0» because «in this parallel - universe - alternate - history - 2010, people still speak like it's 2006.

In an alternate universe where dinosaurs weren't wiped off the planet, the Apatosaur Arlo (plastered all over the promotional artwork) teams up with a Neanderthal child to find his way home as we predicted, but the journey there and back is shockingly filled with violence, death, regret, envy, drugs (I'm not joking, Arlo and Spot mistakenly eat bad fruit and subsequently hallucinate some strange shit), and bittersweet happiness.

It is every bit as if Cage has been transported to some alternate universe, where he isn't an Academy Award winner, the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, and the star of many action blockbusters, but just some novice who's happy to be a big part of an amateur production.

I love Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers as it exists today, but this unused script by Dennis Etchison would most definitely have been a beast of an entirely different kind, and his descriptions of what could have been offer an amazing look at an alternate universe of possibilities for where the franchise may have gone.

It may feature science fiction tropes such as being set in some alternate universe in which human cloning existed since the 1960s as well as clones being harvested for their organs, hardly an original idea (see the 1979 movie The Clonus Horror, which was understandably spoofed by Mystery Science Theater 3000).

Rhys Ifans as Ivan Schank: The easy - going Ivan is a reflection of the maturity that Greenberg would exude were he from an alternate universe.

Kang's powers served as the perfect opportunity to stitch together some favorite alternate Marvel universes like Spider - Man 2099's Nueva York, Spider - Man Noir's Noir Universe, Captain America's Hydra Empire, and current Marvel locales like the Inhumans» Attilan, the Guardians of the Galaxy's Knowhere, and an Asgard on the brink of Ragnarok.

Metal Gear Survive is described as a new «addition to the Metal Gear Solid 5 universe», and is set in an alternate timeline following the conclusion of Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes — presumably one in which The Phantom Pain doesn't play out.

It would also open up the true multiverse, as Evangeline Lilly teased, as a large number of universes are essentially alternate timelines, both past and future.

Before 2016's Doctor Strange film, we had no idea if Marvel Studios would ever go as far into its sci - fi and comic book concepts as by introducing the theory of the multiverse, of alternate realities and dimensions and parallel universes that are living side - by - side with one another.

«[The film] is set in an alternate universe where Kevin Smith gives me some advice to try taking on «method» acting in order to help me to be taken seriously as an actor with real range in Hollywood,» Mewes told the site last year.

I think the most impressive aspect about Brick is how easily Johnson is able to get us to buy into this seemingly alternate universe full of deep - thinking teenage characters, esoteric jargon, and events that would normally strain a straightforward film's plausibility, such as bizarre drugs, weird criminal organizations, murder and double - crosses.

The film, directed by Josh Trank, stars Kate Mara and Miles Teller as part of a crew of young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe which alters their physical form in shocking ways.

Then, as if the zombie thing wasn't enough, it's alternate - universe mayhem as Deadpool encounters a multitude of malevolent mirror images: S.H.I.E.L.D Major Wilson, Wanda Wilson and the Deadpool Kid!

However, the events of Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe occur in an alternate universe and there is no known instance in the main universe were Deadpool is described as being armed with carbonadium katanas.

Thankfully, the ideas this time around — unlike 2009's Star Trek, which clumsily established itself as an alternate timeline of the original universe — have nothing to do with time travel and trying to ensure unnecessary continuity between the previous versions and this one (save for one random scene, which uses a cameo as a way to shoehorn in an extraneous revelation via deus ex machina or vice versa).

Netflix is using its budget and reach to stake out an alternate movie universe, where a title that would flop in theaters — like The Cloverfield Paradox — can be repositioned as a win for streaming.

This film seems to live in an alternate universe where common sense and international law doesn't exist, as if it's a fan - made film.

Best of all, its makers understand that in a magical alternate universe, the sight of an animate tree or a moving painting is as mundane as a daisy or a toaster.

Indeed, there are no men at all, as Strickland has created a mysterious alternate universe in which only one gender apparently exists, and reproduction is irrelevant.

The spin off survival game introduces co-op to the MGSV gameplay, as the player takes the role of a Mother Base soldier trying to survive in a hostile alternate universe full of zombielike creatures.

It assumes a non-American point - of - view on spirituality and culture — not in a touristy or «thought experiment» sort of way, but as if it were merely the latest product of an alternate universe Pixar Mexicano that has existed for just as long as the other one.

When I was obsessively watching Lost, I was equally obsessed with the elaborate alternate - reality game happening online over the summer, as well as the IRL ads being taken out in the New York Times for a book called Bad Twin from the universe of the show, which was actually terrible, but was fun anyway, because you could comb through it for clues.

When four people teleport to an alternate universe, which alters their physical form and gains them new abilities, they must learn to harness their abilities and work together as a team to save the Earth from a familiar enemy.

Premise: After four people — Reed Richards (Miles Teller), Susan Storm (Kate Mara), Johnny Storm (Michael B. Jordan), and Ben Grimm (Jamie Bell)-- are teleported to an alternate universe, which alters their physical forms and grants them superhuman abilities, they must learn to harness their new powers and work together as a team to save the Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

But I now feel like Twitter has become Biff's alternate universe that is not as familiar as it used to be.

Oh wait, that's what would happen in the alternate universe in which education is an obsession of every education professional, the pivot about which their professional lives revolve rather then being the sport of philosopher - kings as it is in our reality.

Toyota now heartily invokes its pioneering environmental heritage even as the Prius broadens its appeal to those orbiting farther from the center of the most - advanced alternate - energy universe.

''... I guess it can be described as a kind of alternate universe in which the person (or thing) they've lost is returned to them.

Fans of projects like «1602» or the Noir books may have more alternate universes coming their way as Alonso said some ideas in that vein are being discussed, and Brevoort added that an alternate reality tale was a part of the «Point One» issue.

At the time, the statement read as a simple acknowledgement that Hickman and Ribic's event would have line - wide repercussions since «Uncanny's» storyline is taking place solidly in the 616, even though the «All - New» team have found themselves stranded in the Ultimate U (a place Bendis is very familiar with, having written in the alternate universe since the very beginning, 2000's «Ultimate Spider - Man» # 1).