Happy 90th Birthday to Carol Burnett!!

 

Carol Burnett, actress, comedienne, all around nice lady, old enough to be either my aunt or my grandmother. Her laughter and joy brings happiness for all time!

Today, we celebrate a national treasure. One who has been tickling our funny bones since the 1960s, and one of a few dozen people who, in spite of all the bad stuff happening in the world, always brings joy and happiness in her wake. I am, of course, referring to the one, the only, Carol Burnett. From 1967 to 1978 (if I got the year correct), The Carol Burnett Show brought laughter to all the living rooms all over the world, not only from Carol herself, but also the likes of Lyle Waggoner, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway and so on and so forth. Whether it's segments like Tudball and Wiggins, The Family (which spun off into Mama's Family), parody versions of our favorite movies, the musical numbers, the various guest stars that appear, and not to mention all the questions we always ask Carol before the show, including asking her to do the Tarzan yell, which she use to do when she use to play with her cousin when they were very, very young. Not to mention tugging her left ear after every show, which was a tribute to her grandmother.

Even after her show ended, Carol was pretty much busy with everything else, including movies, when she played Miss Hannigan in the original 80s version of Annie.

Well, aside from all the accolades she achieved, including 6 Primetime Emmys, 7 Golden Globes, 3 Tony Awards, 3 Grammy Awards and having a Lifetime Achievement Award named after her, there is not much I can think of when talking about Carol Burnett, other than the fact that, although she is adored all over the world, I think of Carol as either a fun aunt or a grandmother. In fact, Carol is everybody's fun aunt and/or grandmother.

In short, Carol Burnett's laughter and joy can light out the darkness everyday and this world needs it and rightfully so. 

If you have any fond memories of Carol Burnett, please leave me a comment, asking anything Carol related and, no, don't ask me to do the Tarzan yell. Unless I use Skype or any other video format, I can't do it in text. Sorry. Anyway, until next time, let's end this summary in a way Carol ends her show...

I'm so glad we had this time together

Just to have a laugh or sing a song

Seems we just get started

And before you know it

Comes the time we have to say,

So long.

Happy Birthday, Carol Burnett!!

Saraba da (Farewell), for now.

#CarolBurnett #CarolBurnett90thBirthday #Birthday

Jason's Gallery - Ami Mizuno Sexy Double Feature!

Behold! My latest artwork, and a bit digital, I might add. This time around, it is my favorite brainy Sailor Guardian, Ami Mizuno aka Sailor Mercury, coming out of her shell and embracing her femininity, as she reaches adulthood. Enjoy!

For someone who is very smart and gentle, Ami sure knows how to overcome her shyness and win over her possible boyfriend, let alone the gentle mariner of trust, Cye Mouri, and does it a way that is completely out of her comfort zone. And quite apparently, she ain't so shy now. Cye is lucky to have smart and sexiful girl like her. Not afraid to face the unknown, let alone in the bedroom. 

Note: I used the image of Ami in her sexy nightgown by Momohiyaltuko0124 and gave the digital art treatment, thanks to GIMP, PhotoImpression3 and MSPaint. I am definitely getting better in the digital art department, that's for sure.

Here is a side by side comparison between the digital version of Ami in her sexy nightgown and the original hand drawn version by Momohiyaltuko0124. Not bad for a remake, if I do say so myself.

Programs used: MSPaint, Photoimpression4 and GIMP 

Up in the Backwoods in the Sky - RIP Bushwhacker Butch

This just in, especially in the world of professional wrestling

Robert Miller, known to us wrestling fans as Bushwhacker Butch, has died on April 2nd, 2023. He was 78 years old. Although having many titles in other wrestling organizations (which is too big for me to write down anyway), Miller, who was known as Butch, along with Brian Wickens, who was his kayfabe cousin Luke, were known as the Bushwhackers back in the days of the WWF. Known for their crazy antics, especially being wild and crazy from the New Zealand backwoods, the Bushwhackers were known for moving arms up and down as the walk, commonly known as the Bushwhacker Walk and licking the faces of the fans, their foes or each other. Crazy fan favorites, the complete opposite to their time in the other organizations when they were known as either the New Zealand Kiwis or the Sheepherders, who were more violent and aggressive than the fun loving Bushwhackers. They continue their run in the WWF until 1996.

There is a lot to say about the Bushwhackers, but there is a reason Wikipedia exists. And on a side note, Luke and Butch made an appearance on the Family Matters episode, Psycho Twins, which they wrestled Carl and Steve after the real Psycho Twins drank Steve's experimental "Snooze Juice", which didn't go so well, especially, in this world, the Bushwhackers has strong distain to cops (in this episode, anyway).

Years later, after so many neck injuries, Miller retired from wrestling in 2001 and did sporadically appear in many wrestling events from time to time until his death.  

Sorry for the short blog, but it's been so long since we have seen the Bushwhackers in action. They may have never won tag team gold in WWE, but we will never forget their antics in and out of the ring. We will wave our arms and lick the faces for eternity for you. Godspeed, Butch, and thank you for the memories, even if they are a bit wild.

(TAPS plays)

Robert Miller aka Bushwhacker Butch
(October 21st, 1944 - April 2nd, 2023)

This has been a Retro Rebellion Special Report.

Jason's Gallery - She-Hulk: Savage Homage

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I present to you my multiple story fanarts of She-Hulk. In these series of drawings, this pays homage to the 70s Incredible Hulk TV show, where Jennifer Walters re-enacts the first Hulk-Out from her cousin's TV counterpart. Well then, enjoy the gallery!

In a dark and stormy night, after a stressful day, Jennifer Walters returns to her home and goes to bed. As she falls asleep, she dreams about what she has been through even since getting that blood transfusion from her cousin, Dr. Bruce Banner. 

During her drive home, Jen thinks about her time when Trask's henchmen almost killed in her hospital room when she Hulked out for the first time. Since then, Jen fears that she might end up like her cousin.

Jen: "I just don't what is really happening to me? Ever since Bruce gave me his blood, I've been acting a bit strange. Am I going crazy, or am I really becoming what my cousin has become? One thing's for sure, I got a get a grip of this, or else I will truly end up like Bruce, hounded and hunted for the rest of my days."

Just as Jen was pondering even further, she hits something on the road, real hard. Jen stops the car and steps outside in this dark, rainy night and notices the reason for the car hitting something on the road: a flat tire.

Jen: "Oh no, talk about bad timing. Guess I'll change the tire myself since there is no gas station a mile away."

Starting to feel a little stress of getting back home quick, Jen takes out a spare tire and a tire iron out of the trunk in a attempt to change the tire.

As Jen attempts to change the tire, she struggles to move the bolts from the wheel with the tire iron.

Putting all of her efforts to get that tire out, Jen's stress levels start to rise up.

When all of the sudden, her hand slipped and hit the ground real hard.

Jen hit her hand so hard, it caused so much pain, as she lost all of her self-control.

And as her pain increases, along with her anger and stress, the gamma-irradiated body chemistry within Jen starts taking hold, as her normal brown eyes turned into near pupil-less whitish green eyes, indicating the start of her metamorphosis. 

Just as Jen was about to resume fixing the tire, her self-control was starting to fall apart, as her skin and hair color was starting to change, her straight and normal eyebrows became all bushy in sub-human primitive levels and her body and muscle mass slowly starts to grow, causing her clothes to be tight due to the change.

As the metamorphosis commences, the back of Jen's blouse starts to rip off the seams, as her size and muscles grow.

And the back of her blouse continues to rip nonstop.

And then, the back of Jen's blouse is completely ripped, revealing her back muscles and shoulders all grown, her pink bellbottoms became so tight, that it is starting to rip slowly and Jen's normally bulbcut hairstyle is starting to grow, as her hair and skin color continue to change.

Jen tries to control the change, but judging from her appearance and her ascot starting to tear apart, she is not in complete control.

As the change continues, Jen holds on the tire iron tightly, as her bellbottoms and her boots start tearing apart even further.

Then, her hair is growing even further, her watch falls apart, and her boots were thrashed, exposing her feet. And on top of that, her skin slowly starts to have a green-like hue.

Jen has really lost all control of herself, as her hair grows uncontrollably, her ruby red lips becomes green and her once petite arms are now grown with such muscle mass.

And now, the front of her chest and her breasts start to grow, causing the front of her blouse to rip, her bellbottoms are in the verge of being ripped off her body and now hair is not only green, but has changed into a wild, uncontrollable mane.

With her self control diminished, Jen tilts her head back in a rather sexual manner, almost like a gamma-irradiated orgasm, when her breasts continue to rip the front of her blouse, her bellbottoms fallen off her body, her ascot has been ripped off and her wild hair, has become more long and untamed, as her skin and hair color reaches its peak.

With the metamorphosis complete, Jennifer Walters has become the very creature that her cousin has become. She is no longer the same petite lawyer that she once was. Just a green-skinned Amazonian primitive goddess, who has embraced her savage impulses.

With no control of her emotions, the savage She-Hulk takes a look at the tire iron and tightens its grip with her strong hands.

And bends the tool like it was nothing, like a small paperclip.

Now seeing what she has become, the she-creature that was Jen roars above the heavens as the storm intensifies.

And without a train of thought, the She-Hulk proceeds in smashing the car with much aggression.

She-Hulk raises her arms as she thrashes the car, as the storm gets louder and louder.

The green-skinned Amazon continues to bash the car over and over again, like it was a threat.

And to top it all off, She-Hulk lifts up the car and attempts to throw it off a cliff.

She-Hulk watches as the car falls into the very bottom.

And when the car landed below, it exploded, where She-Hulk roars with such ecstasy, like she is more powerful than any storm. The savage She-Hulk had made her presence felt for the whole world to see.

Then, the next morning, Jen woke up, feeling that she had a very bad dream.

Jen: "Oh, what a nightmare. For a moment there, I thought I become a creature, just like my cousin. That is so weird."

Although she thought it was a dream, by the time she starts looking at the mirror to straighten herself up, she comes to a shocking discovery. Her blouse was torn, realizing that it wasn't a dream after all. She did become the She-Hulk.

Jen: "WHAT! My blouse is torn! It wasn't a dream after all! I am the She-Hulk!"

But Jen slowly calms down and blushes, for being a little embarrassed and a bit cute, knowing that what she is going through isn't like her cousin's, like she is enjoying it.

Jen: ""Oh, well. I don't mind being a little "Savage" every once in awhile. (giggles)"

A few minutes later...

Even in mid-transformation, Jennifer Walters will not hesitate to get in touch with her primitive side, especially when she likes to make love, in a savage, subhuman kind of way.

Jen: "Don't worry, you will love me when I'm angry. After all...anger turns me on. (purrs)"

THE END

Jason's Gallery: In Memoriam: Raquel Welch with eulogy.

Whether it's prehistoric times or in present time, Raquel Welch is a buxom sexpot, no matter what century.

 

On February 15th, 2023, renown sex goddess of the 60s and 70s, Raquel Welch had passed away. She was 82 years old. Even though she started off as a relative unknown in such movies like Fantastic Voyage, it was not until the fame image of Raquel in a fur bikini in promotion of 1 Million Years B.C. is what made a sex symbol in all of pop culture before the like of Farrah Fawcett in a red swimsuit all those years later. The living breathing symbol to what Helen Reddy said, "I am Woman, hear me ROAR!", she continued appearing other movies like the original Bedazzled starring Dudley Moore, The Three Musketeers (1973), and Bandolero! alongside Jimmy Stewart and Dean Martin. Not only with movies and appearances on television, but she was also posed for Playboy in 1979. That, and making a cameo in Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult, just for laughs and giggles along the way.

Raquel's beauty and sex appeal inspired future actresses and models to follow in her footsteps and so much more, among other things. Her passing from a brief illness (which the doctors didn't tell us what illness she had) was so sudden. She may no longer be a part of the living, but her beauty and buxom nature will live on forever. Godspeed, Ms. Welch.

(TAPS Plays)

Jo Raquel Welch
(September 5th, 1940 - February 15th, 2023)

The Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero Script

I used to enjoy the Mortal Kombat Series back in the 90's and was a fan of it's Characters (that changed once I stopped following the series after 4,but that's besides the point). So on the XMas (of '97) that I received my Sony Playstation,one of the games I would get would be Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero. 

I had little to no idea that the game even existed at that point,but I was interested to play this nevertheless. When I played it,I was impressed by the Music and Visuals,but not the most important thing for a Video Game - The Gameplay. It played like a Classic MK game in the form of a Side Scrolling Beat 'em-Up. However,Turning was Manual and you needed to use the Right Shoulder Button.

The jumping mechanic was flawed and so was the hit detection. One of the best things about this game was it's Cut Scenes. The Cut Scenes used Live-Actors,which was normal for the franchise at the time,and I think this game marked the end of that practice,as MK4,the next game in the franchise,would use CGI.

Anyway,the Cut Scenes were entertaining and despite the dialog being a bit cheesy,that didn't bother me one bit (after all,I am a fan of the '66 Batman show). So to give myself (and others) a Blast from the Past,here is the Script for Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero.

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Intro  

Thousands of years ago,the Earth was Devastated by a battle between the Gods. It was a War between Good and Evil. A War that would decide the fate of the World and plunged it into Centuries of Darkness. Now the World is in danger of being fought once again. Only one Mortal can stop it.
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Shaolin Temple - China           

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Scorpion: You will fail. Hahahaha.

Scorpion runs...

After finding Scorpion...

Scorpion: The map is mine Sub-Zero. Fight!

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Lin Kuei headquarters           
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Successful in his mission, Sub-Zero escapes from the Shaolin temples...And returns to the secret
Lin Kuei headquarters,hidden high above the mountains of northern China. He enters the Grandmaster's Chamber,where the Lin Kuei Grandmaster awaits on his throne.

Sub-Zero: Grandmaster, in honor of the Lin Kuei,I bring you this sacred Map of Elements.

Grandmaster: Once again, our most cunning assassin and thief is successful. At ease, my Lin Kuei warrior.

An evil-looking sorcerer carrying a bag arrives - This is Quan Chi.

Quan Chi: Greetings, I see the ninja has been successful in retrieving my map...as I have forseen.

Sub-Zero: Let's get something straight...I am not a ninja. I am Lin Kuei. Scorpion was a ninja!

Quan Chi: Ah yes, your Japanese counterpart.It's unfortunate that you happened upon him in your battle with the pesky Shaolin monks.

Sub-Zero: Scorpion was tipped off... he knew I was breaking into that temple, and if he weren't there - there wouldn't have been a battle! You are responsible for this sorcerer!

Quan Chi: I admit... I also retained Scorpion's services. In case you failed, I needed some assurances.

Sub-Zero: Well, your peace of mind almost cost me this mission.

Grandmaster: Enough! 

Grandmaster gets up from gets throne and walks toward Quan Chi and Sub-Zero

Grandmaster: Quan Chi...Tell me,what about our payment?

Quan Chi: Oh yes, I almost forgot... In this bag are bones of your arch nemesis,and leader of Scorpion's ninja clan,the Shirai Ryu. 

Quan Chi dumps the contents of the bag onto the floor. Which are a bunch of bones and a Skull. Grandmaster picks up the Skull and laughs.

Grandmaster: Our ancient foes have been vanquished in one transaction.

Quan Chi: I've personally made certain that every last remnant of their clan has been eliminated... forever.

Grandmaster: You see Sub-Zero... you can trust a sorcerer sometimes. Now you will use the map on your next mission. Quan Chi has once again retained your services.

Sub-Zero: Fine, give me the details. 

Quan Chi opens the Map and shows Sub-Zero it's contents.

Quan Chi: This map you stole... it shows the way to a temple which predates man's recorded history on Earth. For thousands of years,the Temple of Elements has been hidden in what are now known as the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal. This map is the only evidence of its existence.

Sub-Zero: Fine... I get to the temple and then what? What's inside?

Quan Chi: An Amulet. A small amulet... worthless to you, but..let's just say it has great sentimental value to me.

Sub-Zero: If it's so precious, why don't you get it yourself?

Quan Chi: I cannot enter the temple until the four elements within its walls have been eliminated. And I am not on the best of terms with the Gods of your Realm... especially your God of Thunder

Sub-Zero: Tell me about these elements.

Quan Chi: They are the four elements which compromise the very existence of your realm... Wind, Earth, Water, and Fire. With your mastery of the element of cold, you have an advantage that no other human has... the ability to defeat the elements. I have forseen this...

The Next Day,Sub-Zero scales the gorges of the massive Himalayan Mountains.There he discovers the entrance into the Temple of Elements.

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Temple of Elements             
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Sub-Zero ascends the staircase leading to what he believes to be the Ancient Amulet he is looking for. As he approaches, he studies the inscriptions that trace its edges and prepares to take hold of the Ancient Artifact, never before touched by the hands of a mortal.

But, before he can get to it... An unexpected visitor manages to take hold of the Amulet first.

Quan Chi: The Amulet... I have Shinnok's Amulet!

Sub-Zero: Who's Amulet?

Quan Chi: He is my deity, ruler of the Neatherealm and soon destroyed of your Earth Realm. This is definitely Shinnok's amulet!

Sub-Zero: What are you talking about?

Quan Chi: This amulet is the key to Shinnok's power as an Elder God. When returned to him he will retain his powers and be freed from the confines of the Netherealm.

Sub-Zero: But I thought Shao Khan was the....

Quan Chi: Shao Khan is nothing but a Peasant Ruler of a long dead Realm. Shinnok is the Master of All Realms..including Khan's Outworld. 

Sub-Zero: You're insane. That Amulet isn't worth the Bronze that it's molded from. 

Quan Chi: Believe what you will, Sub-Zero. Good-bye... ninja.

Sub-Zero watches as the Evil Sorcerer Teleports away. Then,suddenly, a blue bolt of electricity strikes the ground with thunderous fury. A new shape begins to form..But this time it's the god of thunder,Rayden.

Rayden: Do you realize what you've done??

Sub-Zero: I was just earning my living.

Rayden: Your clan's ignorance and greed will cost this entire realm. You now must set things straight.

Sub-Zero: Quan Chi could simply be a lunatic sorcerer. I've never heard of an Elder God named Shinnok or of a Place called the Netherealm.

Rayden: Well, you'd better start believing in both, because you're going to the Netherealm and you're going to get the amulet back. We must act quickly. I have no dominion in the Netherealm... You are reality's only hope.

Sub-Zero: I'll do it, Thunder God... but only because I have no choice.

Rayden: Then stand back...

Rayden creates a portal into the Netherealm. Lightning and warped space converge as he points his staff at the center of the portal's surging energy.

Rayden: This is a portal into the Netherealm. Once through, follow Quan Chi and try to get the Amulet before he gives it to Shinnok. I also offer this advice... beware the Brothers of the Shadow. The Netherealm is a place for lost souls. If you fail, your soul will join theirs..and so will the souls of this entire realm.

Sub-Zero bows to The Thunder God and charges through the portal.

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Prison of Souls (Scorpion Spared)           
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Sub-Zero ambushed by a Big Guard while chasing after Quan-Chi in the Prison of Souls. Captured and now imprisoned,Sub-Zero peers out of the bars of his cell and ponders his escape. A Guard strikes the bars with his weapon and shouts in an unknown language at him before leaving. The Lin Kuei also fails to notice the shadowy figure of an Old Sage behind him. 

Old Sage: He says escape is futile.

The Warrior turns and sees the figure.

Sub-Zero: Who are you?

Old Sage: A lost soul. The Guard is right,you know. Where would you escape to? If you are here,then you must belong here..rejected from your own Realm,no doubt.

Sub-Zero: I wasn't rejected,I was sent.

Old Sage: Rejected or sent. You couldn't exist here,unless your soul contained the impurities of evil.

The Lin Kuei turns his attention back to the Cell Door,trying to find an escape.

Sub-Zero: Haven't You ever tried to escape,Old Man?

Old Sage: Escape? Oh,I'll be leaving this Realm shortly. But first I must play Rayden's game.

Sub-Zer turns around and the Old Sage is suddenly gone. Not only that..but the Cell Door is wide open.
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Prison of Souls (Scorpion Killed)
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Captured and now imprisoned,Sub-Zero peers out of the bars of his cell and ponders his escape. A Guard strikes the bars with his weapon and shouts in an unknown language at him before leaving. The Lin Kuei also fails to notice the shadowy figure of a Warrior behind him.

Warrior: Don't bother worrying about escape. 

Sub-Zero turns to face the Warrior.

Sub-Zero: And You are?

Warrior: I am a dead man. But somehow you have retained your mortality, which would mean you are vulnerable to death.

Sub-Zero: Wait... that voice.

Scorpion: Yessss... I am Scorpion. You killed me in cold blood.

Sub-Zero: I had no choice. 

Scorpion: You could've let me live.

Sub-Zero: Then I would be the dead one.

Scorpion: But my clan and family would still be alive!

Sub-Zero: What??

Scorpion: It wasn't enough to kill me... you had to destroy every last remnant of my being... including My Wife and Child!

Sub-Zero: You're mistaken... Quan Chi is responsible for their deaths!

Scorpion: Words will not save you Lin Kuei warrior.. 

Sub-Zero and Scorpion prepare to fight.

After Scorpion's defeat,the Cell Door opens.

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Bridge of Immortality        
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High atop a tower, overlooking the prison's crushed gates,3 figures watch as Sub-Zero makes his way to freedom. These women are Kia,Jataaka,and Sareena - Quan Chi's personall assassins. Kia spies the mortal through binoculars.

Kia: Well, he's definitely a mortal. His soul is still contained within his body.

Jataaka: A mortal can't exist here with his soul intact!

Kia: Unless Shinnok allowed it to be.

Sareena: I'll inform Quan Chi. The two of you continue to track him.

Shinnok's fortress looms over the Sea of Immortlity. Within its walls, Quan Chi is well aware of Sub-Zero's plight as Sareena enters his sanctuary. 
 
Sareena: Sir, a mortal has escaped from the prison of souls. He is headed toward the Sea of Immortality.

Quan Chi: A mortal?

Sareena: Yes, a mortal... with the ability to freeze.

Quan Chi: Alert the Keepers and send a full garrison to intercept. Make sure that he does not cross the bridge.

Sareena: The Keepers? But he is just a mortal. 

Quan Chi: Do not question me Sareena... and more importantly... do not fail me. We have toyed with the ninja long enough.

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Shinnok's Fortress                  
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Quan Chi waits patiently on his throne as Sub-Zero teleports into his chamber.

Quan Chi: Welcome to my home, Sub-Zero. If you're still looking for the amulet,you can find it at the pyramid's apex... around Shinnok's neck. You've arrived a little late.

Sub-Zero: I was busy. 

Quan Chi gets off his throne and comes toward Sub-Zero.

Quan Chi: Don't you realize why Rayden sent you? The Netherealm is a place for evil beings. You could not exist here unless your soul was tainted with evil. You belong here. Join my Brothers of the Shadow and worship our lord, Shinnok.

Sub-Zero: Never sorcerer!

Quan Chi: Then, so it shall be... ninja.
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After Quan Chi is defeated and if a fatality was not performed on Sareena...

Sub-Zero: Why did you help me?

Sareena: You are still mortal... that means you can escape the Netherealm.

Sub-Zero: There won't be anywhere to go if I don't get the Amulet back.

Sareena: Take me with you... I've waited an eternity to escape.

Sub-Zero: You don't understand. I can't leave without the...

At that moment a searing beam of energy cuts through Sareena's chest,causing her to scream. Now dead,Sareena falls into Sub-Zero's arms. Sub-Zero looks up at her attacker - It's Shinnok! .

Sub-Zero fights Shinnok and eventually steals the Amulet from the Evil Elder God. A Portal opens and Sub-Zero runs through it. The portal closes before Shinnok can chase after the Lin Kuei Warrior.
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Back At The Temple of Elements (Ending)                 
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A portal opens and Sub-Zero comes bursting through - with Shinnok's Amulet in hand. He lands with a thud onto the rocky floor at Rayden's feet. Smoke billows from his body as he struggles to get up. Out of breath,he does his best to speak.

Sub-Zero: Here... the Amulet. 

Rayden takes the Amulet.

Rayden: Impressive, Sub-Zero. Perhaps you can reconcile your reckless past after all.

Sub-Zero: That's it? Not even a thank you?

Rayden: Thank yourself for undoing a problem you created.

Sub-Zero: One question? Quan Chi told me that you sent me because my soul was tainted with evil... is that true?

Rayden: You are a superb warrior, Sub-Zero. But only you are in control of your destiny. Not even the Gods can alter your chosen path of life.

Sub-Zero: Was that a yes, or a no?

Rayden: That was a yes.. But only you can change it.

Rayden takes his leave.

Mist all but covers the Mongolian ruins as the sun struggles to rise from its slumber.
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Lin Kuei HQ (Ending)
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Sub-Zero enters the Grandmaster's Chamber.

Sub-Zero: I vow to serve and obey the Lin Kuei

Grandmaster: Welcome back, my warrior. I have a new undertaking for you. It seems your recent exploits have caught the eye of yet another sorcerer. I'd like you to meet the retainer of your services.

A Sinister-looking Old Man with a Fu-Man-Chu,wearing a Blue Robe appears.

Grandmaster: His name is Shang Tsung. He would like you to compete in a small tournament.. called Mortal Kombat.

Sub-Zero turns to Shang Tsung and bows. The sorcerer smiles evily as we fade to black. 

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Well that was a nice Nostalgia trip,wasn't it? 

Until next time,Stay Gold Space Cowboys and Resist Modern Attitudes.  

The Lost WCW PPV - The Big Bang!

The following is taken from WWE.com.

Wrestling has been part of my life for since as long as I can remember. So for a blast of nostalgia,Here's an article from WWE.com,all about the Last Days and the Lost PPV of WCW. I reposted it here,because No One goes to WWE.com. 

Anyway,here we go.

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If you grabbed the second to last issue of WCW Magazine, released weeks before the final episode of Nitro, you would have seen a glimpse of what could have been. According to an advertisement on the back cover, the creation of a new WCW was already in the works. On May 6, 2001, the world would witness the relaunch of World Championship Wrestling with The Big Bang, live on pay-per-view.

The ad didn’t reveal much, but Eric Bischoff had been putting the pieces in place for months. A new commentary team had been chosen. Negotiations with TV networks like FX were ongoing. Creative plans were being pitched for top-tier, contracted competitors like Goldberg. A president and CEO were in place and they had fresh ideas for how to right the ship.

The Monday Night War wasn’t over. In fact, a new battle was about to begin, and The Big Bang marked the opening shot.

As far as the WCW locker room knew, Bischoff and his business partners only needed to cross some t’s and dot some i’s and they would own WCW. But then, the deal swerved as abruptly as the pay-per-view endings that became synonymous with WCW’s final days. What went wrong? The answer was clear from the very beginning.   

 "Let’s get people talking about the new WCW and what it was going to look like and feel like."

    - Eric Bischoff

“Toward the end of 1998, around August, it started to become very apparent to me that the Time Warner conglomerate [which owned Turner Broadcasting Systems] really didn’t want WCW to survive,” Eric Bischoff told WWE.com. “It was obvious to me because of the things they were doing to us — reallocating budgets that had already been allocated and cutting budgets that had already been approved six months or a year in advance.”

Bischoff left WCW in fall 1999, but when he returned, it was clear that WCW was on borrowed time under the pending merger between Time Warner and America Online Inc.

“[WCW] wasn’t going to survive it,” Bischoff said. “I said as much to [then-president of Turner Entertainment] Brad Siegel. I simply told him, ‘You don’t really want to fix it, so why don’t you sell it while there is still something left to sell?’ ”

Siegel and Bischoff disagreed for months, which Bischoff believed was a product of Turner Entertainment’s psychology that Ted Turner didn’t sell things; he acquired them. Siegel changed course in late 2000, though, and allowed Bischoff to shop WCW, which he called the “Wall St. dog and pony show.”

This was Bischoff’s first experience raising significant funds for a multi-million-dollar sale, but he found interested partners in Brian Bedol and Steve Greenberg of Fusient Media Ventures. Bedol and Greenberg founded the Classic Sports Network in 1995, then sold it to ESPN two years later for $175 million. They knew plenty about how to brand a sports property to great success. Bischoff raised $67 million with Fusient Media Ventures to purchase WCW in late 2000, but Turner Broadcasting Systems had one major catch: TBS retained a minority interest and long-term programming rights.

“Brad Siegel was not going to sell the company unless Eric Bischoff took 10 years on TBS as part of their contract,” WCW Superstar Diamond Dallas Page said.

Bischoff admitted he looked into some other networks, but nothing came to fruition.

“I had talked to a variety of networks at that time who expressed interest in WCW, one of them being FX,” he said. “I had multiple conversations with Peter Liguori, who was running FX at the time. It never progressed to the point of making an offer, but we got very close.”

But major changes needed to be made to the brand with the pending marriage between WCW and Fusient. The couple even had a honeymoon spot picked out. No longer under the Turner umbrella, aside from the TV shows continuing to appear on Turner networks, the Atlanta-based promotion was heading west.

“The plan was that WCW would move to Las Vegas and do weekly tapings out of the Hard Rock Cafe, which was building a 3,000-square-foot arena at that time,” John Laurinaitis, formerly of WCW Creative and Production, revealed. “Part of the company would be based out of Los Angeles.”

WCW once packed the Georgia Dome for an episode of Nitro, but December’s Starrcade pay-per-view didn’t top 7,000 in attendance. That played a major part in a move to Vegas.

“We weren’t able to fill arenas like we had,” Bischoff said. “Elvis Presley once said, ‘The most interesting part of any show is the audience.’ Take the main event of WrestleMania and put it in front of 75 people and it will dramatically affect the way everyone watching feels about it. That was very true with WCW. We knew we were having a problem.”

The creative needed to take a 180-degree turn, too. From competitors lying down for pinfalls at Bash at the Beach to a match where Buff Bagwell’s mom was up for grabs, 2000 featured some of the wackiest stories in sports-entertainment history.

"I heard rumors that my other announcer was going to be Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler."

    - Joey Styles

“We were going to shut it down for a period of time, then relaunch,” Bischoff said. “We needed a clean piece of paper to draw on. We couldn’t reach into the trash, pick out the crumbled and trampled creative — that had been WCW for the last year-and-a-half — and try to make people feel good about that again. In order for the relaunch to feel like one, it had to go away. The thinking was, let’s get people talking about the new WCW and what it was going to look like and feel like.”

While Bedol and Greenberg continued to work on the legal side of the deal, Bischoff visited confused and panicking employees at WCW’s office and focused on the future of WCW, which included the first pay-per-view under Fusient, WCW Big Bang on May 6.

“We had to plan six months in advance — minimum — with a lot of the creative,” he said. “The branding and the location of the event — the big ticket items, if you will— had to be planned six months out. Big Bang pay-per-view ads were probably pretty generic because I doubt we had it figured out at the time.”

At the same time, over in Philadelphia, Extreme Championship Wrestling was coming to its end. The Voice of ECW, Joey Styles, refused to abandon the ship, but with no ECW Hardcore TV tapings scheduled after the Guilty as Charged pay-per-view on Jan. 7, 2001, Styles began to talk with Bischoff.

“Eric sent me to meet with Brian Bedol in Manhattan to talk about what I would do for WCW,” he said. “I would be the lead announcer and I would work in digital media. I did not agree to do this with Eric until it was obvious that ECW was finished.”

Styles and Bischoff even talked about who would join him at the commentary desk.

“I suggested Don Callis, who was my color commentator for ECW pay-per-views, to Eric,” Styles said. “He and I were a very good team. I heard rumors that my other announcer was going to be Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler, who at the time was not with WWE.”

With his friend in the process of saving WCW, DDP had mixed emotions because he secretly hoped to go to WWE.

“It was really important to me, because I only had a couple of years left in my career, period,” he said. “And I wanted to end my career in WWE. But my buddy was buying the company, WCW. I can’t turn around and screw him.”

The master plan was taking shape. WCW would get a second chance, a new life. After all, Bischoff owned WCW. Didn’t he?
 

After taxiing on the runway for months, the relaunch was ready to take off. On Jan. 11, 2001, Bischoff, his business partners and Siegel hosted a conference call to announce the deal. On the 45-minute call, Siegel assured media that Turner never planned on selling WCW, but the offers poured in, including talks with WWE that he wouldn’t address. Bedol said he wouldn’t be satisfied if WCW remained the No. 2 wrestling brand in America. Bischoff believed the future looked bright for a new WCW and employees were relieved to hear the deal was done.

Variety even reported that Fusient had plans to sit down with WWE in the hopes of creating cross-company pay-per-view events, featuring the likes of Goldberg and Sting against Mick Foley and The Rock.

“It was very positive at that time because WCW wasn’t doing as well as we had hoped,” Laurinaitis remembered. “Thinking that if we move the company and a new set of owners came in and Eric was at the helm, that might spark another run like The nWo did.”

Here’s the catch. The same day as the Fusient conference call, another business deal went down. AOL announced it was purchasing Time Warner on Feb. 11, 2000, but the deal would not be completed until Jan. 11, 2001. With new owners coming in, everything would be looked at closely, especially a division that was struggling to regain footing. Analysts estimated that WCW lost between $60 and $80 million in 2000 while WWE ran away in the ratings.

While AOL Time Warner examined their assets, Fusient did the same with their impending purchase while Bischoff prepared for The Big Bang. Though the deal was announced on Jan. 11, the amount paperwork and due diligence in a transaction this massive took weeks to complete. Fusient originally predicted that the deal would be completed 45 to 60 days after the announcement. By March, though, the sale was still not official.

Meanwhile, every Monday on Nitro, WCW World Champion Scott Steiner rolled through the competition. DDP was set to his next big challenge at WCW Greed on March 18. Two days before the pay-per-view, though, Jamie Kellner — new chairman and CEO for Turner Broadcasting — and Turner Entertainment President Brad Siegel decided WCW’s fate.

“I thought that once Eric got to that spot [the deal announced but not signed], he had it done,” DDP said. “It was like when you think your daughter is getting married, you pay for everything, and you lay the whole thing out, then the groom doesn’t show up.”

On March 20, 2001, WCW’s Big Bang went bust.

“Jamie Kellner and other higher ups at the company wanted to make TNT the drama network and they wanted TBS to focus on comedy and sports,” Styles said.

With WCW not fitting into either plan, Kellner and Siegel agreed to cancel Nitro and Thunder.

Bischoff got the call from a business partner at Fusient while on the beach. The deal was off and the signed letter of intent was voided because without the TV timeslot, the company was worth a small fraction of the original price.

"I remember, Eric at that time saying, ‘get them to give us three months".’

    - Diamond Dallas Page

“Once Jamie Kellner articulated what everyone was saying behind closed doors, which was, ‘we don’t want anything to do with wrestling in any way, shape or form,’ the deal with Turner had absolutely zero value to us,” Bischoff said.

At the time, TBS spokesman Jim Weiss said in The New York Times, “Basically we’ve decided that professional wrestling, in its current incarnation is not consistent with the upscale brands we’ve built at TNT and TBS. Therefore we will not be carrying it.”

It was heartbreakingly ironic that the TV timeslot killed the sale, because Bischoff never really wanted it in the deal anyway.

“Eric was really excited about taking over WCW, but I know he did not want to keep the show on Turner,” DDP said. “I remember, Eric at that time saying, ‘get them to give us three months and I will get another network to pay for the show.’ What network wants to buy a show that’s been cancelled?”

Eric Bischoff calls in to WCW Nitro to reveal his plan for the final night of the brand and to extend an invitation.

Two days later, World Champion Scott Steiner beat Page at WCW Greed on pay-per-view, while announcers continued to look at the future of WCW and the promising young talent like Kwee Wee and Jason Jett. The next night, though, Bischoff called into Nitro.

“Many of you may know that for the past six months, I’ve been working with a group of people whose goal it was — and is — to acquire World Championship Wrestling and to grow it once again to become a competitive, dominant wrestling organization worldwide,” Bischoff said with a defeated tone. “But recently we’ve hit a couple of roadblocks that may be, in fact, brick walls.”

He scheduled a “night of champions” for the following week’s Nitro in Panama City, Fla., and invited all former World Champions to appear, hinting that it could be the final night of wrestling on a Turner network. Now that the TV timeslot, supposedly a sticking point in WWE’s previous talks with Turner, was gone, WWE resumed negotiations. That Friday, WWE announced it had purchased WCW from AOL Time Warner for an undisclosed sum, but estimates had it around seven-figures.

Shane McMahon and WWE brass headed to Florida, for the final Nitro, which Mr. McMahon opened by announcing that he officially owned WCW. The Monday Night War was officially over.

When Bischoff looks back 15 years later, though, he can’t help but think WWE’s purchase was the healthiest move for the future of sports-entertainment.

“Had Fusient been successful in buying WCW, ultimately there would have been no one on that side of the equation, including me, that would have had the commitment to the business that Vince McMahon has had throughout the years,” Bischoff said.

May 6 ultimately came and nothing happened. The creation of a new WCW was forming in WWE, and the “big bang” didn’t occur until May 28, when WCW Superstar Lance Storm ran into a WWE ring and kicked WWE Superstar Perry Saturn in the face. Three weeks later, DDP joined him on Raw, as well as an influx of WCW Superstars as part of an Invasion.

As for Big Bang, Bischoff thinks it was a success.

“I did such a great job at creating anticipation, that people are still anticipating, to this day, the pay-per-view that never happened.”

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