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Yeah man, a whole of 4 examples?! Clearly the movie/game industry is focusing too much on them. Unlike buddy cop movies. Current military shooters. Romantic comedies. Bad licensed games. Old movie/old game remakes/remasters/HD versions.
If you want an example of another movie that has a hard on for Anubis, try 'Immortel' (based on Enki Bilal's Nikopol thing) where Anubis is featured. It is a minor appearance (most of the movie is dominated by Horus) but... but.
There was a fighting game where you could fight as Anubis too, I don't remember the title though. Oldie.
There was a fighting game where you could fight as Anubis too, I don't remember the title though. Oldie.
In League of Legends there's a champion resembling Anubis.
In World of Warcraft, there are a lot of Anubis-like enemies and generally acient Egyptian mythology references.
In the power puff girls, there are a whole of TWO episodes centered around some kind of Anubis curse.
It never stops.
In World of Warcraft, there are a lot of Anubis-like enemies and generally acient Egyptian mythology references.
In the power puff girls, there are a whole of TWO episodes centered around some kind of Anubis curse.
It never stops.
However, on a serious note:
In almost each and every case that Anubis appears in a given movie/game/comic/book/cartoon thing, he either represents death (as he should
) or is otherwise harmful. And almost every single time whatever he is involved in, fails miserably.
I'd wager this reflects our fear of death, of 'the end', with each victory over what Anubis represents, we symbolically beat death, for a short while we can imagine to ourselves that since the death god failed, maybe death will fail in our personal case. I supoose that is why he is so omnipresent, because in RL, death is omnipresent -- and at least in fiction we want to see that this thing can be beaten.
In almost each and every case that Anubis appears in a given movie/game/comic/book/cartoon thing, he either represents death (as he should
) or is otherwise harmful. And almost every single time whatever he is involved in, fails miserably.I'd wager this reflects our fear of death, of 'the end', with each victory over what Anubis represents, we symbolically beat death, for a short while we can imagine to ourselves that since the death god failed, maybe death will fail in our personal case. I supoose that is why he is so omnipresent, because in RL, death is omnipresent -- and at least in fiction we want to see that this thing can be beaten.
Anything about "death" becomes instantly evil in fictions
Wargods (which sucked).
Anubis was in the Zone of the Enders games too.
Shouldn't we complain about Greek gods being overused? All the recent movies with them involved fail miserably.
Wargods (which sucked).
Anubis was in the Zone of the Enders games too.
Shouldn't we complain about Greek gods being overused? All the recent movies with them involved fail miserably.
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I remember "Eye of Horus" on the C64 back in the days. I didn't really like it though...
[M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGoNaqbJWiU[/M]
[M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGoNaqbJWiU[/M]
Quake mission pack 2 "the dissolution of eternity" has some Egyptian levels. Not sure if there's a reference to Anubis, though.
Edith: Oops, meant Anubis and not horusbusduslusmunus naturally.
Edith: Oops, meant Anubis and not horusbusduslusmunus naturally.
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Lord of Light for the win!!!!! They totally need to make that movie.
Well, Horus ain't nowhere near as sinister as Anubis...
Actually, Anubis is supposed to be a pretty nice guy in actual Egyptian Mythology.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheMummyTrilogy
In "Sadly Mythtaken"
