Talented Mr. Roto: The Movie

When Mystique visits College Station, TX pretending to be TMR on a surprise visit home, Mayor Berry is kidnapped and held hostage by a league of super-villains. The villains, led by Magneto and Dr. Doom, tell TMR that the only way to retrieve the Mayor is to defeat them all in a fantasy baseball league.

TMR is distraught and confides in the Say Nay Kid, who says that there is nothing they can do and all hope is lost. TMR refuses to give up and is able to enlist the help of his 10 top awesome superheroes (minus Space Ghost and adding Deadpool, much to the horror of 5 year old TMR). Thanks to a screw-up by Pod Vader, Aquaman is also contacted and offers to help, but nobody wanted the help of freaking Aquaman.

TMR accepts the villain's challenge, and is put into a 12 team mixed league against Magneto, Dr. Doom, Green Goblin, Lex Luthor, and others. While the draft is taking place, Professor X and Iron Man are busy trying to find the villain's hideout, which is discovered to be a heavily fortified Castle Doom.

As the weeks progress and the heroes try to find a way into the castle, the chances of winning are looking bleaker for TMR, as he has been hit by the injury bug. However, he does not realize how much the villains would not want to lose to each other, as they have refused any kind of collusion with each other. They have also become distracted by the thought of actually winning at something. As the heroes move closer, TMR slowly climbs the league standings and barely makes the playoffs in the last week of the season.

TMR's good luck persists, as he makes his way to the league championship game to face Dr. Doom. The heroes finally infiltrate the castle on the last day of the league. However, Albert Pujols (who had led TMR's team for the entire season) is suddenly attacked by Lex Luthor's henchmen as he heads to the stadium on the last day. Nobody thinks he will be able to play, but TMR is unable to edit his lineup to remove Pujols because Magneto has scrambled all internet connectivity in TMR's radius.

The inhuman Pujols still manages to play, and TMR manages to eek out a victory after a walk off grand slam by Pujols. As this is happening, the heroes manage to win a devastating fight against the villains, saving Mayor Berry at the last second.

As the movie ends, Albert Pujols is seen walking toward the hot tub. He takes off a mask and reveals himself to be Aquaman, who wanted to prove that he was not the worthless super-hero that everybody believed him to be.

Evolution of a Character: Hugo Weaving as Elrond

I am finally getting around to doing this...I have been busy this past week, and just got back from visiting family in Seguin today, which is always a good time. I figured that I would try and do this instead of playing PS3 before going to bed. So you can either thank me, curse me, or feel indifferent toward me. This edition of Evolution of a Character is on Hugo Weaving, who has had roles in Babe, The Matrix trilogy, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, V for Vendetta, Happy Feet, the Transformers series, and The Wolfman.

Hugo Weaving was born in 1960 in Ibadan, Nigeria (that is factually correct). He lived a normal life, appearing in numerous movies until the mid 90's when he was abducted by a Scottish scientist, and his mind and soul were transferred into a sheepdog named Rex. Rex lived a peaceful life until a pig named Babe was introduced into his life and made Rex realize that he missed being human. After helping Babe win a sheep herding tournament he ran away from home, hoping to find the scientist that turned him into a dog. Instead, he found a portal that took him to Middle Earth.

While on the journey to Middle Earth, his human soul mixed with his non-human body to turn him into Elrond, the eventual Lord of Rivendell. He led the Elves with the hope of someday returning home. This hope came in the form of a questionably heterosexual hobbit by the name of Frodo Baggins. He saw the determination in the young Baggins' eyes, and the lust that his partner Rudy Ruettiger had toward him, and realized that if he were to help him then he would be able to find his way back to his home somehow. In doing this, he sent along Will Turner to try and keep Rudy's affections at bay, and help as he could from afar. After Baggins succeeded in destroying the horcrux that was created by the Lord Voldemort wannabe named Sauron, he showed his gratitude by kidnapping Steven Tyler's daughter and giving her away to Frank Hopkins to do with as he pleased. He then talked Frodo into joining himself and Magneto on a journey from Middle Earth back to his homeland, breaking Rudy's heart in the process.

While on this journey with Frodo and Magneto, Elrond was kidnapped by machines that had taken over the Earth. These machines reprogrammed him and inserted him into the Matrix as Agent Smith. Smith followed his programming by the book, but in the back of his mind he always wanted to escape and return to his home. He tried on multiple occasions to destroy Keanu Reeves, but the 'roided up Reeves was much too powerful, or Agent Smith was too much of a wuss, to defeat him. This resulted in a final battle where millions of Agent Smiths, who were created after Smith pulled a Chuck Norris and impregnated everybody on earth to create clones of himself, watched the original Smith get blown up by Reeves. This blast fried Smith's programming and burned his entire body. It also blasted him back in time to a different Great Britain than the one that he knew. This was a Britain ruled by anarchy, and so he decided to wear a mask and become the vigilante known as V.

As V, he wreaked havoc on Great Britain, but he was haunted by nightmares. These nightmares were always the same, where he is a penguin elder to Frodo and Wolverine, and he rejects the idea of Frodo marrying Luanne Platter. This hell that is spent in Great Britain is finally ended when V takes Padme Amidala under his wing. She eventually blows him up while on a train, which burns his face even worse and sends him back in time once again. He awakens badly burned in Nazi Germany and becomes the infamous Red Skull.

After becoming the Red Skull, his mind is still partially programmed from the robots, and he takes to Hitler's teachings. After eventually becoming Hitler's right hand man, Red Skull comes face to face with the Human Torch. Without bothering to find out how the Torch came back in time and gaining different powers, the Red Skull continues to try and beat him. As he is unable to do so, he is killed by the Torch and his living nightmare is finally put to an end....

...at least for now...

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