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The Chosen One (Destrage Album)
The Chosen One may refer to: * The Chosen One (trope), a narrative trope People * Adam, "The Chosen One", the first man in the Bible or First man in the Qur'an nicknamed Adam-I-Safi * LeBron James, American basketball player nicknamed "The Chosen One" * Jeff Jarrett, American wrestler nicknamed "The Chosen One" * Jesus, often referred to as "The Chosen One" (see names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament) * Drew McIntyre, Scottish wrestler nicknamed "The Chosen One" * David Moyes, Scottish football manager nicknamed "The Chosen One" * Mustafa, Arabic for "the Chosen One", an epithet of Muhammad * Josh Rosen, American football quarterback nicknamed "the Chosen One" * Tyron Woodley, American mixed martial artist * Donald Trump, 45th US President (called himself this on August 21, 2019) Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Anakin Skywalker, the one who was destined to bring balance to the Force in ''Star Wars'' * Sal-Afsan, the Chosen One as prophesied by Lub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chosen One (trope)
The Chosen One, also known as The One or The Chosen, is a narrative Trope (literature), trope where one character, usually the protagonist, is Frame story, framed as the inevitable hero or antihero of the story, as a result of destiny, unique gifts, and/or special lineage. The trope is similar to the Hero's journey template, where the main difference is that The Chosen One usually doesn't have a choice because of destiny. Chosen One narratives often incorporate Bildungsroman, following the growth of a character from childhood to adulthood. The character's gifts, lineage or destiny are often unknown at the start of the plot or presented to the audience as Irony, dramatic irony. The Chosen One trope is rooted in religion and mythology, and often appears in speculative fiction that uses elements of mythology. Genres Fantasy In fantasy, The Chosen One often has supernatural abilities and a related prophecy. Anime and manga In anime and manga, The Chosen One often has exception ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chosen One (Star Wars)
Jedi (), Jedi Knights, or collectively the Jedi Order are the main heroic protagonists of many works of the '' Star Wars'' franchise. Working symbiotically alongside the Old Galactic Republic, and later supporting the Rebel Alliance, the Jedi Order is depicted as a monastic, academic, military, and meritocratic peacekeeping organization whose origin dates back thousands of years before the events of the first film released in the franchise. The fictional organization has inspired a real-world new religious movement and parody religion: Jediism. Within the fictional ''Star Wars'' galaxy, the Jedi are powerful guardians of order and justice, who, through intuition, rigorous training, and intensive self-discipline, are able to wield a supernatural power known as the Force, thus achieving for example the ability to move objects with the mind, perform incredible feats of strength, and connect to certain people's thoughts. As ''Star Wars'' creator George Lucas explains, the Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Dracula
''Young Dracula'' is a British children's horror drama comedy television series which aired on CBBC, loosely based on ''Young Dracula'', a 2002 children's book by Michael Lawrence. It is also based on the epistolary novel ''Dracula'', written by Bram Stoker and published in 1897. The final episode aired on 31 March 2014. The first two series follow the Dracula family, a family of vampires: Vladimir (Vlad), his father Count Dracula, and sister Ingrid. Having lived in Transylvania, they move to Stokely, a small town in Wales after various incidents involving angry peasant mobs. It was filmed in various locations around Wales, including Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, Caerphilly Castle, Tretower Court and parts of Llantrisant. Directed by Joss Agnew, the first series was broadcast in 2006 and the second series, which started in late 2007, concluded in early 2008. The third series, commissioned three years after the second, sees Vlad and the Count flee both vampires and slayers, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Becker
Alan Becker (born May 18, 1989) is an American online animator, YouTube personality and artist, best known for creating the ''Animator vs. Animation'' web series, its shorts (both ''Animator vs. Animation Shorts''Commonly abbreviated as ''AvA Shorts''. and ''Actual Shorts'') and its spin-offs, these include: ''Animation vs. Minecraft'' (and its shorts, ''Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts''Commonly abbreviated as ''AvM Shorts''), ''Animation vs. YouTube'' (featuring many well-known YouTubers as well as early YouTube viral videos), ''Animation vs. League of Legends'', ''Animation vs. Pokémon'', ''Animation vs. Super Mario Bros'' and ''Animation vs. Arcade Games''. on both Newgrounds and YouTube. Early life and education Becker was born in Dublin, Ohio. He graduated from Scioto High School in 2007, and attended Columbus College of Art and Design, graduating in 2013. Career When he was growing up, Becker's family owned one computer that was shared between him and his siblings. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fallout 2
''Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game'' is a 1998 role-playing video game developed by Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay Productions. It is a sequel to ''Fallout (video game), Fallout'' (1997), featuring similar graphics and game mechanics. The game's story takes place in 2241, 80 years after the events of ''Fallout'' and 164 years after the atomic war which reduced the vast majority of the world to a nuclear wasteland. The player assumes the role of The Chosen One (trope), The Chosen One, the grandchild of the first game's protagonist, and undertakes a quest to save their small village on the West Coast of the United States. ''Fallout 2'' was well received by critics, who praised its gameplay and storyline, and considered it a worthy successor to the original ''Fallout''. Its bugs and limited updates to the formula of the first game attracted criticism. In 2008, the game received a direct sequel: ''Fallout 3'', developed by Bethesda Game Studios. Gameplay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kung Pow! Enter The Fist
''Kung Pow! Enter the Fist'' is a 2002 American martial arts comedy film that parodies Hong Kong action cinema. Written, directed by and starring Steve Oedekerk, it uses footage from the 1976 Hong Kong martial arts film '' Tiger & Crane Fists'' (also called ''Savage Killers''), along with new footage shot by Oedekerk, to create an original, unrelated plot. The film was a moderate box office success, grossing $17 million worldwide, and received negative reviews. Plot A man, called The Chosen One by the narrator, wanders from town to town to search for the man who killed his family and tried to kill him when he was a baby. In one town, he meets Master Tang, a very ill and slightly deranged sifu, and asks Tang to help him improve his already impressive martial arts ability. Master Tang is skeptical at first, but after seeing The Chosen One's mark (his sentient tongue, which he names Tonguey), he allows him to train at his dojo. The Chosen One is introduced to two other students: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slayer (Buffy The Vampire Slayer)
A Slayer, in the television series '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and ''Angel'' (both created by Joss Whedon), is a young woman bestowed with mystical powers that originate from the essence of a pure- demon, which gives her superhuman senses, strength, agility, resilience and speed in the fight against forces of darkness. She occasionally receives prophetic dreams in the few hours that she sleeps. The opening narration in the Buffy series states "''Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.''" While, in the series, they are commonly referred to as "Vampire Slayers", even by Watchers and vampires themselves, the Slayer may operate as a defender against any and all supernatural threats. The reputation of the Slayer is well-known and revered, even throughout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominion (TV Series)
''Dominion'' is an American apocalyptic fantasy television series created by Vaun Wilmott. It is loosely based on the 2010 film ''Legion'', written by Peter Schink and Scott Stewart. In December 2013, Syfy ordered a pilot episode and the series premiered on the American cable television network Syfy on June 19, 2014. The show was filmed in Cape Town, South Africa. Stewart served as series executive producer, as well as director of the pilot episode, written by Wilmott. In the series, angels are in combat with mankind, which fights back from a reduced civilization. It was renewed for a 13-episode second season on September 25, 2014, which premiered on July 9, 2015, and concluded on October 1, 2015. On October 13, 2015, Syfy cancelled ''Dominion'' after two seasons. Synopsis God vanishes and in his absence the archangel Gabriel and his army of lower angels wage war against mankind, believing them to be the cause of God's absence. Although most higher angels remain neutral, Gabriel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brothers Grunt
''The Brothers Grunt'' is an adult animated comedy television series, and the earliest series made by ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' creator Danny Antonucci. It originally aired from August 15, 1994, to April 9, 1995, on MTV. It centers on five humanoids, named Frank, Tony, Bing, Dean and Sammy, who are in search of their lost brother Perry. The series had a short run and was met with a generally negative reception, with many considering it one of the worst animated TV shows ever made. Overview Premise The series centered on an ensemble cast of pale, rubbery, twitchy, yellow-eyed, shirtless humanoids with prominent bulging varicose veins often leaking various noxious bodily fluids who are distantly related to human beings, all of them ostensibly male, wandering around in their boxers. Their main food staple is cheese; nevertheless, they are able to eat other foods (at least potatoes, according to the episode "Not My Potato"). Their single parent is a large, floating, mute and fat male huma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Anubis
''House of Anubis'' is a Mystery fiction, mystery television series developed for Nickelodeon based on the Dutch–Belgian television series ''Het Huis Anubis''. The series was created by Hans Bourlon and Gert Verhulst and premiered on Nickelodeon on 1 January 2011 in the United States and on 25 February 2011 in the United Kingdom. The series is the first series from the network to be filmed outside the United States and the first telenovela-format series for the network. The show aired from 1 January 2011 to 17 June 2013. Plot Season 1 Anubis House is a residence at an English boarding school, built in the 1890s as part of an estate by Egyptology, Egyptologist Robert Frobisher-Smythe. The house is now the boarding house for nine secondary school children under the watch of the boarding school's strict Property caretaker, caretaker, Victor Rodenmaar Jr (Francis Magee) and house-mother Trudy (Mina Anwar). A popular girl called Joy Mercer (Klariza Clayton), is withdrawn from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Matrix (franchise)
''The Matrix'' is an American media franchise consisting of four feature films, beginning with ''The Matrix'' (1999) and continuing with three sequels, ''The Matrix Reloaded'', ''The Matrix Revolutions'' (both 2003), and ''The Matrix Resurrections'' (2021). The first three films were written and directed by The Wachowskis and produced by Joel Silver. The screenplay for the fourth film was written by David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon, was directed by Lana Wachowski, and was produced by Grant Hill, James McTeigue, and Lana Wachowski. The franchise is owned by Warner Bros., which distributed the films along with Village Roadshow Pictures. The latter, along with Silver Pictures, are the two production companies that worked on the first three films. The series features a cyberpunk story of the technological fall of humanity, in which the creation of artificial intelligence led the way to a race of self-aware machines that imprisoned mankind in a virtual reality system—the Matr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homer The Great
"Homer the Great" is the twelfth episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons''. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 8, 1995. In the episode, Homer joins an ancient secret society known as the Stonecutters. The episode was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by Jim Reardon. Patrick Stewart guest stars as "Number One", the leader of the Springfield chapter of the Stonecutters. It features cultural references to Freemasonry and the films ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' and ''The Last Emperor''. The episode has received universal acclaim from fans and television critics and has been called one of the best episodes of the series by Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood in their book ''I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide''. The song "We Do" was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics. Plot After Homer notices that his coworkers Lenny an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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