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Biblical/Mythology is an interest of mine. Loki is probably a shoe-in given the popularity of Loki among fans of Norse Myth... and of course fans of Mr. Hiddleston's portrayal in the MCU. "People Who actually Existed that got Fictionalized" also sounds cool. I'd suggest Macbeth for that one, as he existed and was not only immortalized by Shakespeare's play and all the adaptations of it, not to mention Disney's Gargoyles which was a more historically accurate adaptation than ol' Will's.

Loki would be interesting and I simply love Catwoman, so I would vote for those two ;-)

Salavora

People who actually existed!

For biblical mythology angels are cool (Constantine, Dogma, The Prophecy, It's a Wonderful Life...)

I think the Robots Who Want to Be Human would be very interesting. There's a lot of examples, though.

Robot wants to be human would be really good. I think you could really stretch it all the way back to Pygmallion and Pinocchio rather then keep it to just straight sci-fi robots.

Trash Hurricanes or Concepts. I love love love the "robot wants to be human" story.

Congrats on breaking $2,000 per video. You deserve it.

Jack Phillips

also tbh I'm always down for loki. I love loki. loki trash, I am

in the theme of fictionalised (I'm british this spelling is fine) people, I think richard III would be a really interesting one too. man did his story get tangled up thanks to shakes

Real people that got fictionalized! My primary exposure to the events of the Nixon presidency was through Futurama. All the choices sound great, though.

I gotta say, the THTNT sounds particularly intriguing

Allan

I think just about any & all of the "Trash hurricanes that need therapy" selections sound Fantastic, so that's my vote! xD

Xanthippe Pink

and if you are going to do mythological then please look up the danish comic Vallhal I would gladly translate it for you if it would be necessary (just saying it now so I don't forget it later

Concepts and People Who actually Existed that got Fictionalized sounds great

Ooo, people who actually existed that got fictionalized sounds fun.

Rebecca Richards

I vote for Biblical/Mythological. Mostly because your episodes on Death and Hades were jam packed full of awesome information, i would love to learn more on those topics from you. And it seems like there is plenty of information since they have been around for so long.

Camrin Arreseigor

Don't worry, won't make you watch Once Upon A Time, lol. My vote would be for real people who have been fictionalized. It seems to be a category that has tons of juicy material for you.

Robert Cintron

I'd say Loki!

As much as I like the Concepts topic, I've thought that Historical Figures was an interesting idea for a while. I'll go with that.

People who got fictionalized sounds pretty cool, I feel like I'll learn a lot.

b

People Who actually Existed that got Fictionalized gets my vote

Paul Walker

Catwoman

Historical figures!

I vote for fictionalized people.

I like both the ideas of fictionalized figures and the concepts one, but the latter intrigues me more, so my vote is for concepts. Another idea I would like to see explored is a character that is canonically very minor or outright irrelevant but gets heavily "fanoned" in subsequent adaptations (you know, like Irene Adler and Moriarty).

Jubei

Ooh, this is a hard choice. I have to go with Monkey Sidekick or Queen Elizabeth.

Liz Mallia

"The First Female President" sounds like a cool one. All the concepts sound cool, actually. Good to know you'll have a lot of subjects to cover in the future.

Oh my god the concepts idea is brilliant. It sounds fun to research and even more fun to watch.

I vote for Concepts.

ice.cream.assassin

I would like to see Trash Hurricanes. :)

wait... does she mean Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights or Heathcliff the cat who steals fish and lives in a trash dump?

Don Bright

I agree with the category.

Rodrigo V. Perez

Real people who get fictionalized is the most interesting category for me right now. Nixon in fiction is really interesting.

Garrick Butler

Trash Hurricanes all the way!

Emily

I'm sooooo tempted to vote for the "I have to fucking watch Once Upon a TIme again" Catagory.... just because XD

Real people sounds awesome. You're great at explaining things, and I could use a history lesson.

I mean, if you go with trash hurricanes, and people vote Phantom of the Opera, maybe we can get Elisa as a guest star :D (But I really like "concepts" as well.)

Count me among those curious about the "Real people who got fictionalized" thing.

Nicole Barovic

Oh, fictionalized versions of actual people sounds fun. I vote for that!

Jared Walske

I'm torn between concepts and people that got fictionalized...

Oh man these are all so good... I thiiiink I'll go with Concepts (though Trash Hurricanes are very tempting)

Emma Breslauer

Fairy Tale, specifically Cinderella because I feel as if she has had the most pop culture iterations between the cinderella movies, the cinderella musical, into the woods, the general cinderella story, etc. I'd save harley quinn for after suicide squad comes out

Brady Thomas

Concepts because I'm all about Robots Who Want to be Human and First Female President would be fairly topical.

Real people in fiction,

Concepts! Only because I want to see you cover Bicentennial Man :P

Dallas

Once upon a time lol

Jerry Shreffler

I think I'll go with Concepts for this one. Some good choices all around!

Andy Hunter

Concepts!

Haldon Lindstrom

Fictionalized historical figures, please!

Concept! I love robot stories, so potentially listening to you discuss that could be cool.

Dyce

I'm going to go with Concepts for this one. That has the potential to be really interesting. Also, now that Blip is gone... what's going to happen with all of your old videos? I see that the King Kong video transitioned over to Vimeo. Should we expect your past library to end up on that Vimeo channel as well?

People who actually existed that got fictionalized! :)

Trash hurricanes seems like an obvious winner but I feel like you could explore something new with concepts. (I really want to know what Monkey Sidekicks say about us as a society!)

Dean Madden

Concepts! Now I wonder if there is any evidence that Laura Roslyn counts as 1st female president? She’s clearly portrayed as a ‘soft’ politician but I have to rewatch to check if there are any hints for ‘female’ as a ‘handicap’. [Not my opinion at all, just in-series]

Thomas H

Concepts!

Concepts.

I'm gonna go with "Trash Hurricanes who Need Therapy" - my sister being a classic literature nerd, I've ended up being subjected to more versions of Wuthering bloody Heights than I could care to count. I also recall there being a certain Mr Hardy in the 2009 TV miniseries version, so that miiiiiiight have skewed my decision just a little bit. Seriously, watching you gush over the man brings me inexplicable joy. .....I'm really hoping that last sentence doesn't sound extremely weird.

Lindsay B.

suprsingly im not going with "Concepts" but "I have to fucking watch Once Upon a Time Again" beacause of the slew of remakes of thoes stories that are so annoying/boring at best and im really intrested in why you think all of them are SO bad!!!! p.s. is there a difference between Snow White and The evil Queen? arent they link narratively and there for a reflection of one another? heck now that i think about it isn't it part of the point? p.p.s. if People Who actually Existed that got Fictionalized wins i'm voting Elvis because i can't stop thinking about you in Elvis getup XD

Nir revel

Trash Hurricanes, please! That said if Concepts doesn't come up again I will be extremely sad.

I am torn between Trash Hurricanes, because I love those characters so much, and Real People who got Fictionalized, because it's an awesome concept to look at. So probably the latter.

I think concepts always make for cool episodes

Concepts. I've always loved the idea of "non-living" objects that want to know what it means to be human or alive (Pinocchio, Short Circuit, Android Kikaider).

Michael C. Johnson AKA Riggleton

Real people that got fictionalized

Concepts or People who actually exist.

Gabi Mismash

Characters with disabilities?

I'm going with Real People Who Got The Fictional Treatment and it's not just because I once was a history major....

Taylor Costello

ugh, so tough, but I think I might go with Real People Who Got Fictionalized

BIG DADDY DRACULA

I vote for People Who Actually Existed That Got Fictionalized.

Luninareph

Trash huricanes because I love harley, catwoman, and Phantom

Jenka Tamar

Hannibal's fresh on my mind right now. Let's go with Trash Hurricanes.

Damn, they're all such good ideas! Please tell me the ones that don't make the cut this time are a possibility for the future. That said, Real People Who Got Fictionalized appeals to me at the moment.

Joe G

concepts - I want to see the robots who want to be human

I'd vote for "I have to fucking watch Once Upon a Time Again", but that's just me.

James Anthony

I would LOVE to see a fictionalized Nixon one, as fictionalized Nixon is one of my favourite fictional characters.

I would LOVE to see a fictionalized Nixon one, as fictionalized Nixon is one of my favourite fictional characters.

"I have to fucking watch once upon a time again", and I'm oh so sorry

K-Lub

Concepts

Julie Dodge

Trash hurricanes that need therapy!

My email notification says "Trash hurricanes that need therapy: (Harley Quinn, etc" and here I see "Catwoman"... Suspicious)))) Anyhow, personal vote: Harley/Catwoman (cause Harley fan) or Beast (cause really liked him in OuaT). Or Evil Queen (now, Evil Queen topic is just goluptious). ps the amount of Cinderella stuff is able to kill a person up to this point. spare yourself. ps thank you for existing. you're just forbidable *^^*

CR

I would love to see you do an analysis of Evil Queens. I find them so fascinating and there's a lot to cover on how often they seem to embody a real fear of super powerful, in control (or magic wielding) women and how often they're simultaneously used to warn away from perceived womanly 'vices', like jealousy, vanity, obsession with youth and beauty, or overt sexuality. And then there's the couple of more recent subversive attempts, which are interesting in a lot of ways too. And yeah, I think there's enough characters to cover without having to re-watch Once Upon a Time! (I'm hoping I got this right and we're not just voting for the whole massive categories instead of an option within them. Because if it's the whole category, I'll go with Trash Hurricanes! :D )

waywardskies

I'm currently reading the Temeraire books by Naomi Novik so the real people who then got fictionalized strikes my fancy. But I don't see how I can do anything but vote for Gollum... what a dilemma.

De

Trash Hurricanes! (I'm both Harley Quinn and Phantom trash...)

Felice R.

I'd say either Trash Hurricanes or the concepts one, mostly for that idea somebody already proposed of the gay friend archetype. That one sounds like a really good topic!

I'm sorry but my vote is "I have to fucking watch OUAT again." I loved the Witch of the West episode and wouldn't mind seeing another fairy-tale-ish-character being explored in the media. Though that would mean sitting through umpteen billion versions of Snow White, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast... If you need help writing, I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE.

JRL Studios

It's got to be either the concepts or real people (I want that female president...)

Charles Krupp

Tie between Noah/Moses-- just so I could see you take on the modern Superbook version. :P

I kinda want to see Phantom taken on so Trash Hurricane

Hayden Wilder

People Who actually Existed that got Fictionalized sounds like an interesting topic

Trash Hurricanes or Once Upon a Time!

Trash Hurricanes

Kyle Williams

Trash Hurricanes

Trash all day everyday.

Tsushi

Hrm... trash hurricanes because I'd love to see Harley Quinn (but maybe that should wait until Suicide Squad comes out...), but all the other choices are so great, especially Phantom or Hannibal. PLEASE trash hurricanes, a.k.a. the opposite of Tom Hardy.

Ooh, that's a good one.

Lindsay Ellis

HAHA WHY DO YOU THINK HEATHCLIFF IS ON THERE

Lindsay Ellis

Tough one, but I think I'm going to go for Concepts this time around!

AJ Harmon-Glaus

I think an interesting idea under the concepts category would be studying the evolution of the "sassy gay friend" throughout film history (namely of rom-coms). It could examine how a stereotype evolves through time. Also maybe Rantasmo could stop by 😊.

I love the idea of seeing one on People Who Actually Existed (That Got Fictionalized), it's a really neat phenomenon that totally happens, and I think you could probably do a whole series just based on that concept (in theory, not actually expecting that).

Justin A. Harwood

Trash Hurricanes, but I'd be really interested in a Hitler one as well. Maybe next time.

Clare (Agrippina) Belshaw

Trash hurricanes.

Joel Robinson

Trash Hurricanes

Mara

Concepts!

Maxfield Stanton

Trash Hurricanes. Oh please god do the Trash Hurricanes.

Concepts!

Maxfield Stanton

Since Harley has been taken off the menu, my vote is now for real people turned fiction. Specifically Hitler.

JazzWolf

Concepts por favor!

Having to watch Once Upon A Time again is tempting, but I'll go with Trash Hurricanes like everyone else.

Trash hurricane would be awesome

Sorry, I had to replace Harley with Catwoman (she still qualifies as trash hurricane) because I'm not going to do Harley before Suicide Squad comes out. NEXT YEAR!!

Lindsay Ellis

I agree. Trash Hurricanes sounds fun.

James Ballard

Either trash hurricanes or concepts. Leaning towards concepts, but you have some really cool examples for both.

CheshireDude

Trash hurricanes definitely

Trash Hurricanes, definitely.

Ok, everything sounds good but it just has to be: Trash hurricanes.

Gil

Trash Hurricanes. It's different from the norm from most pop culture commentary.

I'm specifically for the "Robot Who Wants to be Human", but fictionalized personae is also appealing.

Jason Olshefsky

Trash Hurricanes sounds really fun! That would definitely be a good idea and I'm looking forward to it!

OOOh fictionalized real people!!! YES

I have a huge bias for Once Upon A Time, so I'll vote for that :D

TalysAlankil

Trash hurricanes!

Corinne McCreery

Gonna go with Concepts. "Robot Who Wants to be Human" sounds promising.