Ghost in the Shell/WMG: Difference between revisions

== The [[Ghost in The Shell]] franchise is the [[Spiritual Successor]] to three [[Creativity Leash|unleashed]] [[Cyberpunk]] thrillers that were tragically [[Misaimed Marketing|mis-categorized as children's movies]], thus [[Hype Aversion|annihilating any adult appeal]]: [[The Brave Little Toaster]], [[The Little Mermaid]], and [[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]. ==

* These three movies were before [[Ghost in The Shell]], (1995) and are very similar to it. All four works are somewhere that someone would want to escape from. Possibly except for [[The Brave Little Toaster]], they are crime ridden, war torn, and poverty stricken places. In all four works, [[Crapsack World|the world is dangerous and treacherous]], and parts and abilities of characters can be stolen and sold off. [[The Hero]] is human in none of these stories. In all except [[The Brave Little Toaster]], the ending is a vast firefight near, or in, a body of water.

** In [[The Little Mermaid]], (1989) a 15 year old girl sold her voice, with her voice removed, not voice acting, and had her lower body replaced with prostheses. The protagonist is in her museum when she sings a song of [[Humanity Is Infectious|anthropological ambition]], and her father uses an multiple rocket launching, individually portable weapon to destroy her museum, in a multiple rocket launching rage. Basically, he [[No Endor Holocaust|blew a confined, water-filled space to bits with them both inside]]. She tried to romance someone, and had to compete against someone that used [[Ghost in The Shell|a full prosthetic body]] and [[The Power of Rock]] to manufacture sex appeal. The protagonist reneged on her agreement, and in the ensuing underwater, massive, ultra-destructive armed struggle, the most competent characters in the entire movie were killed by their own employer in one volley of gunfire. The firefight involved a [[Hoist By His Own Petard|powerful captured weapon]]. The protagonist grew up and had a [http://www.cracked.com/article_18435_5-movie-romances-that-wont-last-according-to-science.htm doomed marriage].

** Humanity is like a security blanket in [[Ghost in The Shell]] (GITS), and humanity helps protect against cyberbrain attacks. GITS has lots of existentialist philosophizing and humanity-supporting knickknacks, like The Major's wristwatch, for example. So both GITS and [[The Little Mermaid]] have humanity as a virtue, existentialist philosophy, and humanity-knickknacks. Many characters in both works use fire based weapons, and at least two characters in each work use prostheses. Both types of equipment are very effective in both works. At the end of both movies, a main character is resurrected, and two characters in [[The Little Mermaid]] and [[Stand Alone Complex]] get coupled: Eric and Ariel get married to each other. Motoko gets in the body that she likes much better, and Motoko and Bateau stand around together barely clothed in an apartment. Guess what happens next.