I have known this movie since I watched it back in the 90s.
Somehow I didn’t make a post about it, even though it was also recommended to me in the meantime.
So, it’s finally time that this crazy movie gets represented here….
Preview:
Time for some sneaky business!
Caught!
Time to dance!
Damn…
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Yeah, I know… you could easily say that the hood she wears during her sneaky night activity doesn’t count as a mask.
That it is just to make her less visible.
But I think it is also a disguise. A rather stupid one, but a disguise.
After all, she is a journalist who appears on TV, even if that is just a cover.
Of course, I would have preferred her to wear a real mask, but I bet the movie makers didn’t want to fully cover her face… 🙁 … same old story.
Also, it makes no sense why she would pull back the hood once she seemingly feels safe for no reason.
In my version she would have worn a full mask, Colonel Guile surprises her and attacks her… trying to unmask her while she is trying frantically to prevent that….
As she escapes we see Kylie Minogue in her uniform. Damn, I wish she would have worn a mask at some time in this movie…
It’s really interesting how the same “reporter” then appears again in a mask, just minutes later.
This time with a mask that is disguising her pretty well… unlike the rest of her outfit 😉 #theselegs
Wow, quite an outfit! She disguises herself with the mask so the villain won’t recognize her.
Sadly we don’t see how she takes off the mask. Would have been a nice reveal.
I am currently re-watching a TV show that I enjoyed a lot during the first watch nearly 10 years ago. For years I have had it on Blu-ray already… and now it was time to finally watch it for a second time!
And quickly there was a scene that fits very well on this blog! Ok, it would fit also on my other blog… but I decided that it fits a little better on this one.
So, what do we have here?
A female doctor who runs from a monster… and runs into a masked woman in a gas mask!
Preview:
She has to…
….run for her life!
Who is this mysterious…
…masked woman?
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I cut out several seconds of the monster getting hurt in the door (arm breaks) so that Youtube won’t have a problem with it.
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Damn, that scene was a great surprise back then 🙂
A mysterious woman in a gas mask? Damn, I wouldn’t mind running into such a sight…
A great disguise with the added hood (+the breathing gear factor).
Sadly, the reveal is cut short as the camera doesn’t show the final unmasking.
I guess due to the added hood and her long hair which would look a little “messy” if you pull the mask off.
Would have loved to see that moment as well.
But I love the mystery as soon as the female doctor sees her for the first time.
How is she? Why is she wearing that outfit?
She doesn’t know that she can’t get the crazy virus by air and did come up with that outfit.
A good choice as we so get to see her like that. 🙂
Of course, I would have loved to see someone trying to unmask her or ripping off that filter… in another scenario… but no luck.
The breathing sounds are done really well and the filter with the short air hose is a great look and bonus as I do love air hoses on breathing devices.
All in all a really good scene!
In earlier episodes two doctors were wearing quite tight hazmat suits in white… if you are interested in that.
Will continue to watch the season and hope there are some more scenes like this one.
Today I wanna present 3 interesting scenes from just one episode!
Black Scorpion’s secret identity is often in danger in the TV show…. especially in this episode as Detective Steve and the villain are getting really close to finding out who is behind that mask!
Preview:
Black Scorpion is ready for action!
Oh no! The secret entry for her lair is about to open on its own!
Time to face the villain again!
He is dangerously close…
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And yeah… her secret identity gets actually compromised by the villain!
But let’s start with the first scene:
Black Scorpion enters and “cools off” Inferno, but he vanishes in the smoke.
Steve wakes up and thinks that Black Scorpion is still somewhere in the room… which is correct.
He jumps into the smoke to find Darcy who has quickly transformed… I am unsure if that was willingly or not.
I mean as Black Scorpion she normally has no problems at all to fight him off.
But as Darcy.. it is very risky, as it’s another clue for Steve that Darcy is Black Scorpion!
Also… I guess the mayor and his mistress haven’t seen Darcy enter the room at all… but they have seen Black Scorpion.
So…. normally all 3 might conclude who is under that mask… but well… they don’t.
In the second scene, Darcy has a date with Adam, which is quite spicy… as the heroine meets the villain here in their other personas, not knowing about the secret identities.
She nearly gets some strong hints that he is Inferno and while he is protecting his secret… he misses to see the temporarily exposed secret entrance to Darcy’s lair where all her Black Scorpion gear is.
So, both got lucky in that one!
I like such close encounters… very thrilling 🙂
In the final scene, Black Scorpion fights against Inferno and they both find out about their secret identities!
A reveal like in “Batman Returns“, only here they are in their costumes as it happens.
Yeah, I’m not a big fan of reveals like that… but he managed to find out who Black Scorpion is… even if it was by pure luck.
I do love such secret identity struggles like in this episode!
Well, I love the tension! How she hides under that mask so that her evil prisoner won’t find out who she is.
It drives me mad that he recognized her eyes and her voice and thereby found out who she is … even with the pretty good mask she used.
She was one of dozens of patients that guy had in the last weeks… so I find it really hard to believe that he would recognize her from her voice and the little of her that he
can see.
If that would work like that most superhero masks would be pretty useless 😉 … even a good disguise like the Batman cowl.
As I watched this movie I really hoped that the bad guy would be able to free himself and then unmask her in a nice struggle.
But he failed big time… 🙁
Nonetheless, I really like this scenario and the tension… as long as he didn’t know who the masked woman was.
Today it’s time for one final post about the great Queen of Swords TV show!
This one is quite short, but it is certainly interesting 🙂
Preview:
Back at home from another crime-fighting escapade…
…and a nosy, impatient visitor wants to see Tessa!
The Queen of Swords has to transform quickly…
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I love such “secret identity in danger” scenarios where a masked heroine gets under pressure to protect her secret identity from getting destroyed!
She is under big-time pressure to quickly change into her “normal” persona Tessa so that her nosy friend doesn’t find out that she is actually the Queen of Swords.
And the very nice “bonus” where she almost walks out with her night robe still wearing her mask… is great!
Imagine Vera’s face if she would have seen Tessa with that mask on… 😆
That would have been quite embarrassing…
So, we get a nice self-unmasking which is quite rare in this TV show… I guess there is only one more in it.
All in all a thrilling scene for me, and also a bit funny as well.
I wanted to post something else today… but that video got also blocked by YouTube.
To finally have a new video on the YouTube channel after 4 weeks I present two more scenes from this show.
Again, her secret identity is in danger as she is unconscious and a guy wants to take a look under that mask!
Preview:
He goes for her mask!
She is unconscious…
…and again a hand reaches for her mask!
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One episode ends with a cliffhanger as he is reaching for her mask from her right side.
Oddly enough the next episode doesn’t start exactly there, but seemingly his unmasking attempt is interrupted by the doorbell!?
With the woman he enters the room again and goes for her mask… again… and this time the woman intervenes by protest.
I can only guess why she doesn’t want Supergirl to be unmasked… maybe she is a loyal fan and it’s about respecting her secret identity.
If I remember right …Supergirl’s secret identity and the guy are really close, perhaps he even suspected his girlfriend(?) to be Supergirl and finally wants to prove it.
Two nice “close-call” unmasking scenes that remind me of this one:
It’s time for a proper upgrade as there is so little text in these old posts!
This is one of my favorite scenes that I have watched a hundred times, so it’s time to make a proper upgrade post.
Also, the video is on my pretty small Dailymotion channel, so many of you may have never seen the video or that old post.
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In this TV show, Barbara Gordon is Oracle and is bound to a wheelchair.
As her old enemy, Lady Shiva re-appears in Gotham Barbara feels the need to put on her old (GREAT) Batgirl costume and can (shortly) walk again with the help of an experimental device.
Preview:
The two meet again..
…Lady Shiva…
…and Batgirl!
Batgirl is down!
Is that a hand at her cowl? 😉
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This Batgirl costume (alongside the nearly identical one from “Batman and Robin”) is SO AWESOME for me!
The mixture with the (mostly) black leather and rubber is sexy as hell and I love every second Dina Meyer is in it (and Alicia Silverstone).
If I would live in that Gotham City I would become a criminal in no time or …even better… a cop who wants to arrest the vigilante. #BlackScorpionvibes
Or I would need to be rescued from evil criminals suspectingly often 😉
The cowl is nice but basically my only issue about the whole outfit.
It is cut open very high at the back of the head and …more problematic… has no chin strap and no neck coverage.
So unmasking her is way too easy as this video demonstrates.
Also, the cowl could simply fall off in a hectic fight… and that shouldn’t be possible.
It’s a fantastic tread that here we also have a second masked woman in the scene… Lady Shiva.
And damn… her mask is AWESOME and the costume is quite good as well.
It’s a shame that Batgirl here goes down so easily as that device is failing quickly. 🙁
An epic unmasking battle with these two where Batgirl isn’t paralyzed and is wearing a properly secured/upgraded cowl… is basically my holy grail.
Also a whole TV show with such a Batgirl as the lead character…. would be even more insanely-awesome-fantastic 😉
In this show Batgirl is just in one episode and some black and white mini flashbacks.
I do love that Shiva here immediately goes for Batgirl’s mask as soon she realizes that Batgirl is helpless!
That’s how a villain(ess) should do it! She has the opportunity to find out who Batgirl is and takes it. Perfect!
Not like most of the other villains who just run off and aren’t interested at all to find out who is hiding behind that mask.
Now the helpless Barbara Gordon is lying in front of her and she is ready to finish her off to get her revenge (most likely).
Then Huntress, who is sadly never wearing a mask or even a costume, shows up right in time to save Barbara.
She was too late to save Batgirl from the unmasking though. #timing
Due to the fact that Huntress isn’t wearing a mask, Lady Shiva recognizes Helena and runs off as she doesn’t wanna fight against her.
Or maybe she was afraid to lose and then be unmasked as well? 😉
All in all just an awesome scene!
Here, as a little bonus… two (edited) pictures of the “exposed” Barbara:
Today I wanna present a Batgirl fan film that just premiered this week.
I watched it yesterday and I think it deserves to be the topic of the weekly post here.
And this is a Batgirl film that wasn’t canceled! 😉
At least not yet… don’t know if DC/Warner will let it stay on YouTube or not.
In the past the fantastic “Batgirl: Spoiled” series was stopped after the second episode for example, even these episodes are still available on YouTube.
(That’s why I save every video I think is really good and that I wanna rewatch)
If you have a little over 30 minutes… watch it!
Official Synopsis: Following the murder of Jason Todd, Barbara Gordon must choose between her life and her aspirations of finding and killing The Joker, Jason’s murderer.
Preview pics:
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Wow, that was a dark ending… not really surprising… if you know the comics.
Personally, I don’t like that aspect of the “Killing Joke” as it is such a trauma for Barbara and banned her from being Batgirl for a long time.
I think the movie is shot really well and the acting is quite good as well.
I mean it’s a fan film that was crowdfunded with a little over 2.000$ and is over 30 minutes long, quite a length for such a film.
Her costume is just okay… but I really like the Batgirl cowl they used. A quality cowl, especially if you just have such kind of budget.
Kendall Felix, who plays Barbara and Batgirl, also directed and wrote this film.
The short fight scenes here aren’t really exciting, but that is …again… a money issue I would say.
Not surprisingly… Batgirl has quite a lot of screen time here, but also Barbara as well.
I like the self-unmasking and the re-masking in this one.
Also that she tosses her cowl on the ground as she enters the apartment in the end.
Even that meant that she was standing unmasked in the hallway… quite risky. 😉
Funny that this fan film also has the trope of heroes standing around unmasked on rooftops at night.
I wouldn’t recommend that….
Another plus point is the music in this one, very fitting with a heroic tune as soon as the movie title appears.
In this one “Supergirl” (in her Spider-girl costume) saves the day but encounters some problems afterward!
An epic, bizarre self-unmasking battle is the result 😆
Preview:
She saved the day once more!
Well, something is wrong!
Her mask!
The epic self-unmasking battle goes on…
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This is a very early episode of “Supergirl” where she runs around in a costume that looks a LOT like the early “Spider-girl” costumes from the comics and animated TV shows.
Quite bizarre already.
But what then happens inside her home is ….also… quite bizarre and pretty unique.
A heroine who desperately tries to unmask herself over and over again… That is quite a very rare situation!
Her mask is magic and the source of her superpowers. Most of the time…not always… it is secured in place by some kind of force and bad guys have a very, very hard time to unmask her.
Which is quite great by the way 😉
But from what I understand her mask has also some kind of own will or something like that.
I guess it wanted her to stay in her Supergirl/Spider-girl costume 😉
Really odd how she gets thrown around/jumps around the room 😆
Of course, the CGI with the magic mask looks quite bad (#blurry), but the sound effects are nice.
And it’s a nice reversed situation.
Normally masked superheroines don’t want to be unmasked and here she wants to unmask herself but has such a hard time.
Thanks a lot (again) to the one who recommended me this one a while ago!
This bizarre Superheroine show is quite a rollercoaster.
It has 129(!) episodes, which are available on Youtube!
A masked superheroine in different costumes and solid masks is the lead character!
It has a lot of secret identity issues incl. unmaskings and unmasking attempts!
It even has a masked villainess that is in many episodes!
Sounds fantastic? Well yes…. BUT…. there are also some problems.
More on that later on…
Preview:
Supergirl!?!
And a masked villainess!
She is pinned down and someone is reaching for her mask!
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I combined scenes from 2 episodes for this one. One episode ends just after the villainess unmasked herself and we see Supergirl’s shocked face. #cliffhanger
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Here are the problems the show has for me:
– Obviously, the language issue if you are not familiar with it… no dub or subtitles are available
– The playlist of this show has 129 videos with episodes but they are …often… not in order… a total mess
– It’s a soap opera, a really over-the-top soap opera… that you can realize very quickly without understanding a word 😆
– Really bad CGI and a total overload of superpowers
– some really annoying characters like a magic micro-mini-human
But, it also has a lot to offer 🙂 (as mentioned above)
Now to the scene itself:
Supergirl knows who the villain is, I think she was/is in love with him as he was turned into this evil character.
So he is shocked to find her under the mask of his enemy… Supergirl.
He wants to protect her so he carries the unmasked Supergirl away before the villainess can find her.
It’s been a while since I watched (skipped through) these episodes and the language issue makes it a lot more difficult to follow the crazy storyline.
I like the struggle with her and that he unmasks her, even the camera should be more focused on her face.
But I certainly love the expression on her face as she realizes in terror that he unmasked her.
She should have put up more of a fight… but I guess the way she got smashed against the tree was still affecting her big time.
I love how the guy is tossing her mask on the ground as he isn’t exactly happy about finding out that his love was Supergirl the whole time.
All in all, a really interesting scene.
In other episodes, she is wearing a costume that makes her look like a version of Spider-girl, also really interesting!
And the mask is actually the source of her power, as soon she puts it on she turns into the superheroine.
That means an unmasking leaves her powerless AND destroys her secret identity, quite a combo.
I guess I could make …at least…. 5 more posts with scenes from this show.
I will think about it….
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The hint where to find the playlist with the other episodes can be easily found in the video 😉
