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Xenosaga I & II

Xenosaga I & II is a 2006 role-playing video game co-developed by Monolith Soft and Tom Create, and published by Namco for the Nintendo DS. A spin-off of the Xenosaga trilogy and forming part of the Xeno metaseries, Xenosaga I & II retells the events of Xenosaga Episode I and Xenosaga Episode II while expanding on its characters and narrative. Displayed from an angled two-dimensional perspective, Xenosaga I & II makes use of a turn-based battle system with elements carried over from the main Xenosaga games.

Xenosaga I & II, Monolith Soft's first portable game, began development in 2005 following the completion of Xenosaga: The Animation. The scenario, drafted and supervised by series creator Tetsuya Takahashi, was intended to retell the story of the two games while incorporating events that had originally been cut. The game was released exclusively in Japan in March 2006. It received generally positive reviews from critics but was not commercially successful.

Gameplay
Xenosaga I & II is a role-playing video game which retells the events of Xenosaga Episode I and its direct sequel Episode II. Cutscenes and the in-game environments and character sprites are displayed on the Nintendo DS (DS) console's top screen, with events outside still animated cutscenes taking place from an angled top-down perspective using two-dimensional graphics. Additional information is displayed on the DS's bottom screen. Environments can be freely explored, with breakable chests holding consumable items and accessories. Shops within the levels can be used to purchase items and equipment using in-game currency. Special EVA structures within the environment can be used to recover health points (HP) and a type of skill point called ether points (EP). Characters are able to both roam around open environments and enter story-based dungeons. During the course of the story, the player receives emails through the U.M.N. service, which is also used to store the game's glossary, a store of information on the world and characters.

Unlike the original versions, Xenosaga I & II features random encounters within the environment, with enemies only appearing in the battle arena. During battle, the battle arena is displayed on the DS's top screen while commands and party status is displayed on the bottom screen. Battles are governed by a turn-based battle system similar to the main Xenosaga games. Battles take plates on a 5x6 grid divided between the main party and the enemy party. During their turn, a character can move to any part of their half of the grid.

The party's statistics are divided between HP, EP which is drained by using Ether abilities, attack points (AP) when a party member performs an attack, and a boost count gauge which is filled when an enemy attacks. Each character is given two actions per turn, with one physical and one magical attack per character. When a character has three AP available, they can attack twice and trigger a special cinematic attack which deals high damage. The Boost meter, once filled, grants either side additional turns.

In addition to independent movements, the party can create formations, with specific formations triggering different status buffs such as regenerating HP or AP. New formations are acquired through the course of the game, and are specific to characters. Following each battle, characters gain both experience points and ability points; the former raises their experience level and general statistics, while the latter are used as currency to unlock more or upgrade existing abilities. Each character's equipment can be enhanced through the combined effects of assigning types of equipment and items or accessories to a particular character, strengthening their abilities. In addition to standard battles, characters have access to mechs with their own move sets and abilities, with basic mechanics shared with normal battles.

Development and release
Early development work for Xenosaga I & II began following the completion of Xenosaga: The Animation in 2005, although plans existed while the anime was in development. Xenosaga I & II was co-developed by Xenosaga series developer Monolith Soft and external studio Tom Create. It was Monolith Soft's first time developing a portable game, as they had previously only worked on home console titles. The script was written by Yuichiro Takeda, whose previous work included both Xenosaga: The Animation and Xenosaga CD dramas. The script was based on drafts by series creator Tetsuya Takahashi, who supervised the writing process. Staff related to multiple video game and anime projects took part, with their previous work including Xenosaga: The Animation. Character designs were redrawn by Hiroshi Takeuchi, who had done artwork for Cowboy Bebop and My-HiME. The drawing director was Ai Kikuchi, who had worked on the anime adaptation of the Star Ocean: The Second Story manga. Cutscene director Hiroyuki Okawa had worked on both Xenosaga: The Animation and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. Coloring for cutscene artwork was done by Studio Deen. The music was composed by Kousuke Yamashita, who had previously worked on both Xenosaga: The Animation and the Nobunaga's Ambition series. Due to the size of the narrative, the game used a 2D art style so minimal story content was cut. Voice acting was limited to victory quotes after successful battles, with the rest of the story communicated solely with text.

Takeda was first shown the project while still working on Xenosaga: The Animation, a work load he estimated at six months. Once work on the anime had finished, Takeda and Takahashi began work on the script. Takahashi created the draft based on his original plans for the Xenosaga storyline, which had needed substantial alteration for the original Episode I and Episode II due to both design and time limitations. The scenario for Episode I required little alteration as it was relatively unaltered from Takahashi's initial draft. For Episode II, more substantial alterations were made such as rearranging flashback sequences so the story would maintain an uninterrupted flow, and greatly expanding information concerning the Immigrant Fleet faction and the origins of central character Jr.. During the "beta" period of script development, the scenario for Episode II only made up 30% of the whole game, which was seen as a drastic imbalance requiring rewrites to address it. To better connect the two storylines, characters from Episode II were given minor cameos within the events of Episode I. A major change was the shift to the viewpoint of main protagonist Shion Uzuki, as Episode II originally portrayed events from the perspective of Jr., a concession that enabled events to be fleshed out. Despite these changes, keeping the narrative consistent with the in-development Xenosaga Episode III was a necessity. Ultimately the scenario came close to what Takahashi originally intended for Episode I and Episode II. The total writing work on Xenosaga I & II lasted over six months, with Takeda needing to visit Monolith Soft's offices once a week to discuss the script.

The game was first announced in December 2004 under the working title Xenosaga DS alongside a DS game in the Baten Kaitos series. The game's official title and release window were announced in September 2005 alongside reveal of Xenosaga Episode III and Baten Kaitos Origins. The game released on March 30, 2006; it was the fourth video game release in the Xenosaga franchise. Along with the mobile spin-off Xenosaga: Pied Piper, Xenosaga I & II remains exclusive to Japan.

Reception
During its debut week on sale in Japan, the game debuted outside the top ten, reaching fifteenth place with sales of over 17,000 units. These low sales were noted as disappointing for a game within the Xenosaga series, which was still popular in Japan. By the end of 2006, the game had sold 38,500 units.

While Japanese magazine Famitsu praised the game's storyline, with one reviewer saying the story was the main reason for playing the game, another reviewer found the technical terminology slowed the pace. RPGFan writer Neal Chandran felt that the story was lacking despite the additions and supplementary material, although he found that the story delivery struck a better balance with gameplay than the original games. RPGamer's Michael Baker positively compared the story to "a particularly well-organized season of Star Trek: The Next Generation" in spite of the need to read the in-game encyclopedia to keep up with its terminology, but noted that the amount of text could be off-putting, also citing the game being in Japanese as a barrier to importing the title.

In its review, one Famitsu reviewer found elements of the gameplay quite challenging despite it being an "orthodox" role-playing game. Chandran enjoyed the additions to saving and navigation, and praised the battle system despite some pacing issues and annoying mechanics. Baker praised the streamlining of general gameplay and the battle system, lauding the removal of the more convoluted mechanics of the original games. His main complaint was the mini-games, which he found lacked substance. Bethany Massimilla of GameSpot compared the battle system to the mainline Xenosaga titles, positively noting the battle system mechanics.

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KMBZ (AM)

KMBZ (980 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri. KMBZ is owned by Audacy, Inc. and it airs a talk radio format. Its studios and transmitter tower are in suburban Mission, Kansas, at separate locations.

After a local morning drive time news and interview show, simulcast with sister station 98.1 KMBZ-FM, 980 KMBZ's weekday schedule is made up of nationally syndicated talk programs including The Dana Show with Dana Loesch, The Glenn Beck Program, The Sean Hannity Show, The Lars Larson Show, The Joe Pags Show, Armstrong & Getty and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. World and national news is supplied at the beginning of each hour by ABC News Radio. Weekend programming includes shows on money, health, computers and cooking, as well as paid brokered programming. While KMBZ carries mostly syndicates programming, KMBZ-FM 98.1 airs mostly local talk shows.

By day, KMBZ operates at 9,000 watts with a non-directional antenna. At night, it reduces power to 5,000 watts and uses a directional antenna to protect other stations on AM 980 from interference. On January 14, 2015, KMBZ was granted an FCC construction permit to move to the KCCV transmitter site and increase the daytime power. Its signal covers the Kansas City metropolitan area, including parts of Missouri and Kansas.

History
KMBZ is the oldest surviving station in Kansas City, beginning experimental broadcasts in 1921. The station officially signed on as a commercially licensed station on April 5, 1922, with the call sign WPE. It was the second radio station in the state of Missouri, behind only St. Louis' WEW.

In its history, it has been owned by two rival branches of the Latter Day Saint movement, though it has no church affiliation now. The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church) based in Independence, Missouri, bought the station in 1923 and renamed it KFIX and later KLDS (with the LDS standing for "Latter Day Saints").

In 1928, Midland Broadcasting bought the station and renamed it KMBC for Midland Broadcasting Company. In 1953, Midland put KMBC-TV on the air as a shared time arrangement with another local radio station owner. Cook Paint and Varnish Company bought the Midland holdings in 1954. KMBC-AM-TV operated out of the Lyric Theatre.

In 1961, Cook sold the radio and television stations to Metromedia. In 1962, Metromedia signed on KMBC-FM (later KMBR and KLTH, now KZPT). In 1967, Metromedia sold both radio stations to Bonneville International but kept the television station. Bonneville is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) based in Salt Lake City, marking the second time the station was owned by an LDS Church organization. Since Metromedia held the rights to the KMBC call letters, Bonneville changed the AM station's call letters to KMBZ. The choice was deliberate; "Z" rhymes with "C", allowing Bonneville to continue trading on the old call letters. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the station's nickname was "Z-98". During those years, the station aired a full service middle of the road music format.

In 1997, Bonneville sold its entire Kansas City cluster, which by then consisted of KMBZ, KLTH, and KCMO-AM-FM, to Entercom Communications (now Audacy).

Paul Henning, who created The Beverly Hillbillies, was a writer, actor, disc jockey and newsreader at the station early in his career.

After having worked as Director of Promotion for the Kansas City Royals baseball team, Rush Limbaugh got his start in political commentary on the station in 1983. He continued to be heard on KMBZ, through his syndicated talk show, until his death in 2021. For many years KMBZ also repeated Limbaugh's show overnight.

KMBZ was the Royals flagship station for some time. For a time in the 1980s, it ceded flagship status to WIBW in Topeka, Kansas. Also, flagship status switched to WHB-AM, a Kansas City all-sports station, from 2003 through 2007. In 2008, Royals games switched to co-owned sports radio station KCSP. Beginning in 2009, some Royals games returned to KMBZ, when KCSP is committed to another sporting event. KMBZ is also the Kansas City affiliate for the Missouri Tigers radio network, broadcasting football, men's and women's basketball and the "Tiger Talk" coach's show.

In 2009, KMBZ began simulcasting its programming on the HD3 subchannel of sister station KUDL. On March 24, 2011, Entercom announced that on March 30, KUDL's analog FM broadcasts would become a full-time simulcast of KMBZ as KMBZ-FM. On December 24, 2014, Entercom announced that the KMBZ simulcast would split on January 5, 2015; on that date, KMBZ became "Talk 980", carrying mostly syndicated shows, while KMBZ-FM began airing a mostly locally-oriented programming schedule.

Former hosts

 * Jack Cashill
 * Rush Limbaugh
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Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories is a picture book collection by Theodor Seuss Geisel, published under his more commonly known pseudonym of Dr. Seuss. It was first released by Random House Books on April 12, 1958, and is written in Seuss's trademark style, using a type of meter called anapestic tetrameter. Though it contains three short stories, it is mostly known for its first story, "Yertle the Turtle", in which the eponymous Yertle, king of the pond, stands on his subjects in an attempt to reach higher than the Moon—until the bottom turtle burps and he falls into the mud, ending his rule.

Though the book included "burp", a word then considered to be relatively rude, it was a success upon publication, and has since sold more than a million copies. In 2001, it was listed at 125 on the Publishers Weekly list of the best-selling children's books of all time.

Yertle the Turtle
The eponymous story revolves around Yertle the Turtle, the king of the pond (located on the faraway island of Sala-ma-sond), where all the turtles swim happily. Dissatisfied with the stone that serves as his throne (it's too small for him to rule the landscape beyond the pond), Yertle commands the other turtles to stack themselves beneath him so that he can see farther and expand his kingdom, each time marveling at what he believes he now rules. However, the stacked turtles are in pain. A turtle named Mack, who has a checkerboard-style shell and is at the bottom of the pile, is bearing the brunt of the suffering. Mack asks Yertle for a respite, but Yertle just tells him to be quiet. Yertle decides to further expand his kingdom and commands more and more turtles to add to his throne and rises above everything he sees. Mack makes a second request for a respite because the increased weight is now causing extreme pain and hunger to the turtles at the bottom of the pile. Again, Yertle yells at Mack to be quiet. Yertle then notices the moon rising above him as the night approaches. Furious, he decides to call for even more turtles in an attempt to rise above it. Before he can give the command, Mack decides he has had enough. He burps, which shakes up Yertle's throne and tosses the turtle king off the turtle stack and into the water, leaving him "King of the Mud" and allowing the others to once again swim free, "as turtles, and maybe all creatures, should be."

Gertrude McFuzz
The second story recounts the tale of the "girl-bird" Gertrude McFuzz, who only has one small, plain tail feather and envies Lolla Lee Lou, who has two feathers. She goes to her uncle, Doctor Dake, for something that will make her tail grow. He tries to tell her that her tail is just right for her species, but she throws a tantrum. He gives in, and he tells her where she can find berries that will make her tail grow. The first berry makes her tail exactly like Lolla Lee Lou's, but greed overtakes her. Now wanting to surpass Lolla Lee Lou, she eats the entire vine, causing her tail to grow to an enormous size. But the added weight of too many feathers does not allow her to fly, run, or even walk. Panicked, she yelps repeatedly, while being stuck on the hill. Her uncle, having heard her painful cries for help, sends for many other birds to carry her home and pluck out her tail feathers, which takes a few weeks, causing her to be sore. Though she has only one feather left—as before—she now has "enough, because now she is smarter".

The Big Brag
The third and final story tells of a rabbit and a bear, who both boast that they are the "best of the beasts", because of the range of their hearing and smelling abilities, respectively. However, they are humbled by a worm who claims he can see all around the world—right back to his own hill, where he sees the rabbit and bear, whom he calls "the two biggest fools that have ever been seen". Then the worm "dived in his hole and went back to his work".

Publication history
A stack of turtles drawn similarly to those featured in "Yertle the Turtle" first appeared on March 20, 1942, in a cartoon for the New York City newspaper PM, where Seuss worked as an editorial cartoonist. The illustration shows two stacks of turtles forming the letter "V" on top of a large turtle labelled "Dawdling Producers", with a caption reading "You Can't Build A Substantial V Out of Turtles!"

Seuss has stated that the titular character Yertle represented Adolf Hitler, with Yertle's despotic rule of the pond and takeover of the surrounding area parallel to Hitler's regime in Germany and invasion of various parts of Europe. Though Seuss made a point of not beginning the writing of his stories with a moral in mind, stating that "kids can see a moral coming a mile off", he was not against writing about issues; he said "there's an inherent moral in any story" and remarked that he was "subversive as hell". "Yertle the Turtle" has variously been described as "autocratic rule overturned", "a reaction against the fascism of World War II", and "subversive of authoritarian rule".

All three stories in Yertle were originally published in Redbook magazine in the early 1950s, as part of a series of stories that Dr. Seuss wrote for the magazine. These stories proved to be popular, and Geisel decided to put some of them in a book. On September 14, 1956, Geisel signed a contract with Random House for such a book, which would include the story "How Officer Pat Saved the Whole Town" and have the title How Officer Pat Saved the Town and Other Stories. Officer Pat was planned to be published in the autumn of 1957, but it never did get published. On December 18, 1957, the Officer Pat contract was dissolved, and Geisel signed another contract for the publication of Yertle in 1958. The "Officer Pat" story was eventually included in Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories, which was published posthumously in 2014.

The last lines of "Yertle the Turtle" read: "And the turtles, of course ...all the turtles are free / As turtles, and maybe, all creatures should be". When questioned about why he wrote "maybe" rather than "surely", Seuss replied that he did not want to sound "didactic or like a preacher on a platform", and that he wanted the reader "to say 'surely' in their minds instead of my having to say it".

The use of the word "burp"—"plain little Mack did a plain little thing. He burped!"—was also an issue before publication. According to Seuss, the publishers at Random House, including the president, had to meet to decide whether or not they could use "burp" because "nobody had ever burped before on the pages of a children's book". However, despite the publishers' initial worries, it eventually proved to be a hit—in 2001, Publishers Weekly reported that it was 125th on the list of best-selling hardcover children's books in the United States, at just over one million copies.

The book is dedicated to the Sagmaster family as a tribute to Joseph Sagmaster, who had introduced Seuss to his first wife, Helen Palmer, when they were both attending Oxford University. Sagmaster is quoted as saying that bringing the two together was "the happiest inspiration I've ever had".

Adaptations
Although Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories has not been directly adapted, several characters from the book have appeared in other media. Yertle is a main antagonist in the first season of the 1996–1998 puppetry television series The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss (performed by Anthony Asbury), and in Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's Broadway musical Seussical, Yertle serves as a judge and Gertrude McFuzz acts as Horton's love interest. The story was also turned into a dance number in the 1994 film In Search of Dr. Seuss.

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories is a 1992 animation directed by Ray Messecar and narrated by John Lithgow (later released and cropped to widescreen format on Blu-ray part of Who's Who in the Dr. Seuss?).

The Red Hot Chili Peppers adapted the story in the song "Yertle the Turtle" on their second album, Freaky Styley, released in 1985.

In 1961, RCA Camden Records released "Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories" with the three stories on the A side and "Bartholomew and the Oobleck" on the B side. The liner notes state "set to dramatic action personally by "Dr. Seuss" with music featuring Marvin Miller".

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Sunshine Anderson

 Sunshine Jocelyn Sian Anderson (born June 7, 1974) is an American R&B and soul singer.

Beginnings
Anderson was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and later moved to Charlotte. Wallace Sellars, a friend of a producer/Soulife A&R Vice President, Mike City, heard Anderson singing on her way to the cafeteria of North Carolina Central University (where she earned a BS in criminal justice) and introduced the two. From there, Anderson was managed by Macy Gray during the recording of her first album.

1999–2002: Your Woman
In 1999, Anderson signed with Atlantic Records. Anderson released her debut album, Your Woman in April 2001. The album debuted at No. 8 on Billboard's Hot 200 and No. 2 on Top R&B charts. The lead single, "Heard It All Before," (released February 27, 2001) peaked at No. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at No. 3 on the R&B charts. The follow-up single "Lunch or Dinner," peaked at No. 54 on R&B charts. The album was certified gold later that year.

2004–2007: Sunshine at Midnight
In August 2004, Anderson signed to Mathew Knowles' new record label Music World Entertainment. In 2006, her first single for her new label, "Something I Wanna Give You" was released and peaked at No. 80 on Billboard R&B charts. A video of the song was shot in Los Angeles by director Gil Green.

On January 23, 2007, Anderson released her second album, Sunshine at Midnight. The album debuted and peaked at No. 86 on the Billboard 200 and No. 16 on the R&B charts. In addition to the release of the album, Anderson toured with singer Brian McKnight. Later that year, the follow-up singles "Force of Nature" (#75 R&B) and "Wear The Crown" were released.

2010–present: The Sun Shines Again
In September 2010, Anderson announced on her Twitter that her new single "Lie to Kick It" was released to radio. Her third studio album, The Sun Shines Again was released November 2, 2010, on Verve Forecast Records.

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Talk:Computer radio shows

Check WP:NOT and make sure this does not become a list of links or a FAQ, neither of which belong on Wikipedia. --Habap 19:35, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Computer Radio Shows:

(this information will be added to later - started April 24, 2005 by Jack Greenky - see my old page Jackslist for some old, outdated information)

I. Radio Programs about Computers

II. Radio Programs available using your computer for access

III. Other related items such as radio tuners for your computer (Not listed here)

First Entries: I: 1. Soundbytes on WHAM radio - 1180 AM in Rochester, NY, WHAM Radio Sundays 11 AM to 1 PM Eastern Time. On the Air over 15 years. Soundbytes is about computers, news, problems, answers, information, fun things for your computer. Sometimes has live streaming, many archives available for download in various formats. They mentioned Wikipedia April 24, 2005 - I found no page with them mentioned, so I started this page.

II: 1. Live 365 Thousands of sound feeds, some live, many prerecorded - Music, Comedy, Talk, Information, Entertainment. Free to try many without even registering, more with free registration, Full Membership (removes advertising, commercials, more stations access) requires payment.

Streaming Computer Talk Shows In addition to the listing for Soundbytes, many other Computer Talk Radio Shows that stream and/or archive on line are listed.

Rewrite
I'm not sure what the original intent was here, but it makes no sense. Either this should be redirected to podcasting, or the article should be rewritten with usable content and renamed. Computer radio shows is not an appropriate title. Is it supposed to be in the sense of people using computers to broadcast (ie. podcasting) or rather in radio listened to on computers. In that case, I would even think that it's rather unencyclopedic and there wouldn't be much to say on the topic. --Comics 22:17, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

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Knights of Honor (video game)

Knights of Honor is a real-time strategy (RTS) game developed by Bulgarian Black Sea Studios. It was published by Sunflowers Interactive in Europe in 2004 and Paradox Interactive in North America in 2005. The game takes place in Medieval Europe, spanning the early centuries of the second millennium in three historical time periods. The player can choose to play as one of over 100 playable kingdoms. A sequel, Knights of Honor II: Sovereign, was released in 2022.

Gameplay
Knights of Honor is played on a large map of Europe spanning from Ireland to Caucasus and from Scandinavia to the northern coast of Africa. The map is divided into parcels of land called provinces. Each province is governed by a city and contains several "Rural Areas" which can be towns, farms, monasteries and coast towns. These rural areas can't be altered and are placed randomly across the map before each game. The city, however has room for several buildings which can give bonuses to the rural areas or the city itself, such as more piety in the monasteries when a church is built or a higher income from the towns when a market is present in the city. Other buildings are needed to recruit certain units (such as a swordsmith for sword-wielding units or a fletcher for bow-wielding units) or to defend the city such as walls and towers. A city only has limited room for buildings. Thus, not all buildings can be built in a city and the player must carefully consider what to build for a particular city. Compared to other strategy games, building structures in KOH takes a rather long time. The main goal of the game is to become emperor of Europe. However, the player is free to do whatever they wish. There is no set time limit.

Resources
There are three kinds of resources which can be spent on a variety of upgrades. Money is needed to recruits units, build buildings, etc. It is earned by taxes, trading and kingdom power. Piety is used for increasing your kingdom power and converting provinces to your religion. Books are used to educate your knights and adopting provinces. Towns themselves also generate hammers (used to construct certain buildings), food which determines how long they can withstand sieges, and peasants which are required to recruit units.

Religion
Religion plays an important role in Knights of Honor. There are 4 different types of religion: The Catholic Church, The Orthodox Church, Islam, and Paganism. The catholic Pope has much influence in medieval Europe. He can excommunicate catholic kingdoms and call for crusades against non-catholic kingdoms. When a player chooses to go on a crusade they are granted powerful Crusader units. When the Pope dies, his successor is chosen among several clerics throughout Europe. If the player happens to have a very experienced cleric, there is a chance he will be chosen as Pope. From then on, the player controls the Pope and can choose to excommunicate kingdoms and call for crusades, a successful crusade can result in a puppet state that is unquestionably loyal to the leader of the crusade or plunder the town for a huge sum of gold. The Catholic Church is located in Western Europe and the Mediterranean. Orthodox factions are located in south east Europe and answer to Byzantia. These factions can declare independence and form their own churches which grants them a greater sum of gold while lacking the disadvantage of being excommunicated which results in a gold penalty. Islamic empires have the ability to call a Jihad which is similar to a Crusade and will cause armies to spawn at their borders and attack any invaders or rebels. This is a powerful ability but it has a long cool down period. Islam is found in north Africa and the middle east. Paganism is the smallest religion being found only in Scandinavia and some parts of eastern Europe. Pagans do not collect piety (a religious resource used to build certain units and buildings and perform some diplomatic options) so are free to focus on gold and are not troubled by religious problems such as religious tension but they have a penalty on their income and have bad relations with all other religions. Paganism is the only religion the player or other kingdoms cannot convert to, the only way to play as a pagan nation is to start the game as one. The player can renounce his faith and adopt another official religion (except paganism) but such religious conflict will often split the kingdom up and one must reunify the nations as a result.

Trade and exotic goods
Provinces can have up to three attributes called "province features" which allow the construction of certain buildings. For instance if a province contains fertile soil, an apiary can be built in that province. These buildings give access to "trade goods" which have a number of positive effects on the kingdom. For example, horses allows mounted units, wine makes a population happier and silver brings in extra money. Controlling such provinces is the key to success in Knights of Honor. Besides trade goods, which can be obtained in provinces where the right province features are present or by importing them from other kingdoms, there is another type of goods called "exotic goods". These goods can't be produced within a province but have to be imported by means of an admiralty, the upgraded version of a harbour. Examples are ivory, gems and spices. Exotic goods, together with trade goods, are needed to activate so called "kingdom advantages". There are ten different kingdom advantages each requiring a different set of trade and exotic goods and each giving a different advantage. For instance, the kingdom advantage "Secret Order", which gives a bonus to spies, requires the following trade goods: columns, statues, silver and dyes and the following exotic goods: ebony and ivory.

Controlling many provinces certainly gives an advantage over other kingdoms not only because of more income but also because of the goods and eventually the kingdom advantages. However, larger kingdoms are harder to maintain and defend.

Release
In 2003, the game was scheduled for release in the second quarter of 2004. In January 2004, a Japanese release by Zoo Corporation was announced. In April 2004, Electronic Arts announced distribution deal for the European release. The North American release was delayed to May 2005.

Modding
A large community of modders created a lot of content for the game, though nowadays almost all has been lost in the closure of Sunflowers/Black Sea Studios Website. But some mods have been restored and have been recently developed thanks to the nostalgia of some players. One of them has created a mod which allow to play on new monitor resolution such as Full HD - 1920x1080 and 1366x768p. It adds many new content and tweaks.

Reception
Knights of Honor received generally positive reviews upon its release. It holds an average of 77% on aggregate website GameRankings.

Denny Atkin of Computer Gaming World said that "Though the individual ingredients don’t stand out, Knights of Honor comes together as a tasty stew. It’s engaging, entertaining, and challenging, and it’s sure to bring a smile to your inner world conqueror."

Di Luo of 1UP.com said that "As an entry level strategy game Knights of Honor appeals due to its low learning curve and varied gameplay. For veterans of more complex games, however, it's more flash than substance."

Sequel
In 2019, a sequel titled Knights of Honor II: Sovereign was announced, to be developed by Black Sea Games, consisting of former Black Sea Studios employees who worked on the original game, and published by THQ Nordic. The game was released on December 6, 2022. It received positive reviews from critics.

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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was Already merged. Golbez 18:26, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

Micro ATX
Merge/Delete Duplicate, already defined at MicroATX. Srcrowl 19:36, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: This should not be on VfD. Just merge the content (if needed; I see nothing on this page that is not already at MicroATX), and then make this page a redirect page to MicroATX so that this won't happen again. - DS1953 19:53, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and was bold in redirecting. --FCYTravis 20:01, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Oops, I guess I'm still learning on being bold, I apologize for the misconception. Srcrowl 20:19, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem, takes a little time to get the hang of things. Welcome to Wikipedia, btw. --FCYTravis 23:10, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.  Please do not edit this page .


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Ronald St. John Macdonald

Ronald St. John Macdonald, (August 20, 1928 –  September 7, 2006) was a Canadian legal academic and jurist.

Early life and education
Born in Montreal, the son of R. St. John Macdonald and Elizabeth Smith, he served as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy (Reserve) during World War II. When he returned to Canada he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949 from St. Francis Xavier University, a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1952 from Dalhousie Law School, and two Master of Laws degrees, from the University of London in 1954, and from Harvard Law School in 1955.

Career
He then began a long legal academic career at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University (1955 to 1959), the University of Western Ontario (1959 to 1961), the University of Toronto (1961 to 1972), and finally Dalhousie University (1972 to 1990). He was also Dean of Law at the University of Toronto from 1967 to 1972 and at Dalhousie University from 1972 to 1979.

He was the only non-European judge of the European Court of Human Rights, where he served from 1980 to 1998. He was the first Westerner appointed as Honorary Professor of Law at China's Peking University. He is the founding President of the Canadian Council on International Law and was President of the World Academy of Art and Science from 1983 to 1987.

In 1984, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 2000. In 1999, he was awarded the Canadian Bar Association's Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Law in recognition of "outstanding contribution to the law or legal scholarship in Canada". He also was awarded honorary degrees from McGill University, Dalhousie University, St Francis Xavier University, and Carleton University.

Death
He died in Halifax on September 7, 2006.

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Mr. Vampire

Mr. Vampire (Chinese: 殭屍先生) is a 1985 Hong Kong comedy horror film directed by Ricky Lau and produced by Sammo Hung. The film's box office success led to the creation of a Mr. Vampire franchise, with the release of four sequels directed by Ricky Lau from 1986 to 1992, and subsequent similarly themed films with different directors released between 1987 and 1992, with Lam Ching-ying as the lead for the majority of them. The vampire of the film is based on the jiangshi, the hopping corpses of Chinese folklore (similar to both zombies and vampires). The film was released under the Chinese title 暫時停止呼吸 (literally: Hold Your Breath for a Moment) in Taiwan. The film was the breakthrough success of the jiangshi genre, a trend popular in Hong Kong during the 1980s, and established many of the genre's recognisable tropes.

Plot
In Republican-era China, Master Kau makes a living as a Taoist priest who performs magic that maintains control over spirits and irrepressible vampires. Together with his inept students, Man-choi and Chau-sang, he resides in a large house protected from the spiritual world with talismans and amulets.

One day, he accepts an assignment from a wealthy businessman, Yam, to remove Yam's deceased father from his grave and rebury him, with the hopes that doing so will bring more prosperity to the Yam family. However, during the raising of the coffin, Kau notices the body, instead of in a decomposed state, is still intact. Knowing it has become a vampire, he has it moved to his house for further study.

Once in the house, Choi and Sang line the coffin with enchanted ink to safeguard the body, but forget to line the bottom of the coffin, causing the vampire to break out. It heads straight for Yam's home and savagely kills his son before going into hiding by dawn.

Wai, an incompetent police inspector who is smitten with Yam's daughter Ting, blames Kau for murdering Yam and arrests him. Kau is imprisoned and Yam's body is placed in a makeshift morgue near the jailhouse. Choi stays at Yam's house to protect Ting while Sang frees his master, only to witness Yam reawakening as a vampire. Kau and Sang manage to kill it after engaging it in battle. Wai realizes his mistake in framing Kau earlier and accepts the fact that another vampire is on the loose.

The vampire again invades Yam's house. Kau and Sang arrive in time to wound it and forcing it to flee, but not before it critically wounds Choi. Kau invites Ting to stay at his house for safety. The next morning, after examining Choi's wounds, Kau claims he too may become a vampire. He orders Sang to feed Choi glutinous rice, claiming it may decrease the vampire's venom in Choi's body and bring him back to his normal state. While purchasing the rice, however, the shady merchant deliberately mixes different kinds of rice in the bag, and an unwitting Sang accepts it. Before Sang can get home, he is lured by a mysterious woman into her house. He soon deduces she is a spirit, but she uses her supernatural power to seduce him. They sleep together for the night.

When Sang returns to Kau's house, the priest is quick to notice his student's predicament. That night, he silently follows Sang to the spirit's house. The spirit transforms into a hideous ghoul and attempts to kill Kau, but fails at the hands of his talismans. She bewitches Sang to turn on his master, but after a brief fight, Kau breaks the spell and she escapes.

The next night, Kau ties Sang to a chair and prepares to capture and eliminate the spirit. Sure enough, she arrives at their house and Kau chases her throughout. As Sang tries to free himself, Choi turns into a vampire and attacks him. Amidst the chaos, Kau restrains Choi and almost terminates the spirit, but stops when Sang begs him to let her go. Saddened she can no longer be with Sang, the spirit flies away.

Over the next few days, Kau restores Choi's health and turns him back to human. Wai brings in news that the vampire is now active again. When Kau leaves to investigate, the vampire, now in an almost demonic form, invades Kau's place. After pushing Choi off a balcony, it turns its attention to Ting and Wai, but Kau and Sang again divert its attention. Finally, Kau's fellow Taoist priest, Four Eyes, shows up by coincidence, and they manage to destroy the vampire by burning it alive.

Cast

 * Lam Ching-ying as Master Kau (九叔), a unibrowed priest specialising in Taoist supernatural arts
 * Ricky Hui as Man-choi (文才), Kau's student
 * Chin Siu-ho as Chau-sang (秋生), Kau's student
 * Moon Lee as Ting-ting (婷婷), Master Yam's daughter
 * Huang Ha as Master Yam (任老爺), a rich man. He is apparently killed by the vampire but later rises from the dead to become like his late father.
 * Anthony Chan as Priest Four Eyes (四目道長), Kau's junior. He uses magic to control "hopping" corpses and transport them to their hometowns for burial.
 * Pauline Wong Siu-fung as Jade (董小玉), a female ghost who seduces Chau-sang
 * Billy Lau as Wai (阿威), the cowardly police inspector. He is also Ting-ting's cousin.
 * Yuen Wah as a "hopping" corpse

Casting
Director Ricky Lau wanted a fresh-faced girl whom people were unfamiliar with to play the role of Mr Yam's daughter so he avoided choosing a well-known actress. He spotted dancer Moon Lee at a performance and approached her and asked "Are you interested in acting as you'd fit into a part I have?"

Lam Ching-ying was recommend to the director by Sammo Hung to play the main role. The director had seen Lam before on The Prodigal Son which the director had worked on. The director noted in an interview that "He seems cold but actually he is with a good heart" that was why he was suitable for the role.

The director had still not settled on an actress to play the ghost's role. The role ended up going to Wong Siu-fung, who impressed Ricky Lau in her previous film Person at the End. Chin Siu-ho was chosen because he knew Kung Fu and all about action scenes. The director noted in an interview "he was serious and used no stuntman."

Sammo Hung (producer) hired Billy Lau to provide additional comedy to Mr Vampire.

Writing and inspiration
According to the producer Sammo Hung, the idea for Mr. Vampire originated through childhood stories he heard from his mother who was also an actress. One of the major sources of inspiration for the film Mr. Vampire came from a collection of supernatural tales called Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio by Qing dynasty writer Pu Songling. Mr. Vampire is based on a story of a resurrected corpse. The script was not written by Ricky Lau alone. It was written by many script writers, including Roy Szeto (Chak Han), Wong Ying and Barry Wong (Ping-Yiu). When the script was finished, Eric Tsang reviewed it. Sammo Hung also reviewed it and gave Lau some ideas.

In an interview the director mentioned "Compared with nowadays, the situation was different because now they often use less time to finish the script." In the original script, the ghost (Jade) was written to die during the film but during filming, Lau decided to change the ending and keep her alive so that could it would be more romantic.

The director and writers used a cheap gimmick only once, when they made a man in poor quality gorilla suit chase the characters down a mountain.

Filming and locations
Filming lasted more than five months to almost half a year. On the set, the actors would sometimes crack jokes, and if director Ricky Lau liked them, he would retain those scenes in the film. The love scene that contained no violence took two weeks to complete, in addition to a further three weeks of shooting in Taiwan.

The production team built a village that appeared in the opening and ending scenes of the film, while a few scenes were shot on a standing set near Taipei because they lacked a good studio set of a long street running into the distance, which could be done by CGI in more recent times. The scene in which a dead body was found was shot in Taiwan on a set with stone arches. In that set, a real street was constructed from stone, and has been reused for other films and television series. In Hong Kong, most studios could not afford a standing set. It took one week in Taiwan to set up the sets mentioned above. The Golden Harvest studios were used as the set for the scene where Master Kau is in jail.

The scene where the body is being exhumed was filmed just out of the New Territories in Hong Kong. The background has been used in movies such as The Young Master and the end fight in The 36th Chamber of Shaolin. Also filmed in the New Territories were scenes where the police went to find the vampire in the cave and the scene in which a body is being burnt.

Producer Sammo Hung visited the set less frequently to promote a relaxed atmosphere as he was aware that his presence may make the cast and crew nervous. Hung took a hands-off role on the film and entrusted Mr Vampire to protégé director Ricky Lau.

A real snake was used in the scene which showed one being cut, and was later used to make snake soup. This was because the production team could not afford a fake snake. This was also the case in a scene where a chicken's blood is needed and its throat is cut and a bowl is held under its neck to collect the blood.

Mr. Vampire is set in the Early Republic, as can be seen from the five-coloured-star cap emblems on the "modern" uniforms, but the vampire's costume belonged to the previous dynasty, the Qing dynasty, contrary to a commentator's notes. Oddly in one scene after Chau-sang woke up, Ting-ting had a white flower in her hair which signifies morning but it is night time in the film.

Action scenes in the movie were designed by both the director and Chiny-Ying, who was an action director as well. There wasn't much time for the director and actors to sleep. The director and actors had 2 shifts (12 hours per shift). The Day shift is from seven in the morning until seven in the evening. The Night shift is from seven in the evening work until seven in the morning and many actors didn't really sleep for maybe two weeks. During filming in the extremely hot summer months, Yuen Wah suffered as he was not allowed to remove the plastic from his face. After several hours in the make-up chair, he would spend the working day unable to move, talk or eat properly. Ironically, Ricky Lau cut out many of Yuen's footage from the finished film, as he felt that too many vampire hopping would slow down the pace. Near the end of shooting, Mr. Vampire, the cast and crew came under pressure to work faster, as the movie screening was around the corner.

Moon Lee recalls the Mr. Vampire shoot as a largely enjoyable experience. Lam Ching Ying always looked serious during filming. He was dedicated and professional, although friends have brought up his sense of humour.

It is long been rumoured that Hung effectively directed Mr Vampire on his own with the inexperienced Ricky Lau serving as his assistant. Hung has always denied the story and Chin Siu Ho has confirmed Ricky Lau as the true director of Mr. Vampire.

Stunts
At different parts of the movie, wires were used. The production staff had to take care of the wires. To ensure they do not show on screen, they would spray the wires in the same colour as the set background. If the wires were shown, they would have to take it overseas for editing which was not popular at that time. However, no wires were used in the scene where actor Chin Siu-ho performed a back-flip up the door.

Action director Yuen Wah doubled as a vampire for some of the more acrobatic shots, such as the end scene depicting the vampire being burnt (the flames and oil were real).

Music
Most of Mr. Vampire atmospheric scores that were both spooky and humorous was mainly supplied by Anders Nelsson's music production company The Melody Bank. Jade's theme song, Gwai San Noeng (鬼新娘; Ghost Bride), was performed by the Jie'er Choir (傑兒合唱團). The music was written by Lee On-Tat and lyrics were written by Cheng Kwok-Kong.

Budget
Mr. Vampire was originally given a budget of HKD 4.5 million, but halfway through production, it was already depleted. The director then had to ask for more money and was given a further HKD 1 million to finish the film. After one week, the money was also spent. When the film was finally finished, it cost HKD 8.5 million. Sammo estimated the film would cost a HKD 2 to 3 million loss to Golden Harvest

Accolades
Mr. Vampire was nominated for thirteen awards, including two for Best Supporting Actor (Billy Lau and Lam Ching-ying). Out of the thirteen nominations the film only received one award for Best Original Film Score.

Box office
Mr, Vampire ran in cinemas from 7 November 1985 to 4 December 1985 and grossed a total of HK$20,092,129. This was the same year that Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan's movies were at the box office, with My Lucky Stars, Police Story and Heart of Dragon all exceeding Mr. Vampire considerable takings.

Mr. Vampire was given a midnight premier at Grand Ocean (Hong Kong). The director was so worried about the success of this movie as well as his directing career, he stood outside during the screening, greeting guests until he heard the audience starting to laugh.

Distribution rights and classification
Sino Cine Co Ltd bought the UK distribution rights to Mr. Vampire and the BBFC classified the film as '15' without any cuts and then it was released March 1986. The following year Chinatown Cinema bought the Australia distribution rights and the movie was classified 'M'(mature no one under the age of 15) it was classified 1 January 1986

In Canada the Manitoba Film Classification Board classified the film as 14 for Festival Cinema, Ontario Film Review Board classified Mr. Vampire 1 April 1986 as Restricted (18 years of age or older) and Régie du cinéma du Québec was classified 1986 as 14 and then reclassified 9 September 2004 as Visa général (General Rating, all ages)

In Singapore the movie was cut and classified as PG and later was reclassified to NC16 (Not suitable for children under 16)

Critical reception
Mr. Vampire was well received in Taiwan, southeast Asia, and especially in Japan, where it inspired a vampire craze with toys and a lot of other merchandise that had a vampire on them.

The film was featured as part of Channel 4's Chinese Ghost Story season in 1990 introduced by Johnathan Ross being played alongside some similar movies in the genre including Encounters of the Spooky Kind, Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain, Esprit d'amour, Spiritual Love and Rouge.

In a DVD commentary of Mr. Vampire, Bey Logan said "Mr. Vampire is very basic visual effects and was only really the start of visual effects in Hong Kong filmmaking."

LoveHKFilm described it as "quite possibly the seminal entry in HK's famous horror-comedy genre" and "a fun movie that showcases Lam Ching-Ying at his best."

The English language soundtrack made for Mr vampire is low quality, redubbing the characters with bland mid American accents. The sound effects are inadequate, clomping footsteps are added as a distracting effect. This version of the film is not widely circulated.

Mr. Vampire made the Hong Kong Film Archive's "100 Must-See Hong Kong Movies" at number 77. This list is in chronological order from 1916 to 1999 rather than order of importance.

English version
Golden Harvest attempted to make an English-language version of Mr. Vampire under the title Demon Hunters. The film was produced by David Chan. However, the team could not get Lam Ching-ying to reprise his role because the latter was busy with another film overseas. Yuen Wah, who worked on the original Mr. Vampire, replaced Lam and handled the action sequences as well. American actor Jack Scalia, who acted in the 1978 television series Dallas, was also recruited into the cast.

Initially Tanya Roberts from Charlie's Angels and Sheena: Queen of the Jungle was chosen but it did not work out so she was replaced by Michelle Phillips, a singer from the vocal group The Mamas & the Papas. They all flew out to Hong Kong to start filming at Golden Harvest studios. After several weeks filming was abandoned because Yuen Wah could not speak English very well. Raymond Chow pulled the plug, saying "we started but we need not finish". The Demon Hunters filmed footage still exists and is kept in Golden Harvest's archives.

Since the failed English version of Mr. Vampire Michelle Yeoh's company, Han Entertainment, is planning to do a similar movie.

Sequels
Highly successful at the time, both in Hong Kong and as a cult film favourite with overseas enthusiasts of Hong Kong cinema, It inspired numerous parodies and homage films. The film launched Lam Ching-ying's character, the unibrowed Taoist exorcist, whom he would portray not only in the Mr. Vampire sequels, but also in many other films, including unrelated ones.

Mr. Vampire sequels included Mr. Vampire II, Mr. Vampire III and Mr. Vampire IV. However, most do not relate to the first film, instead simply being set on the same themes. There is in fact only one canonical sequel, Ricky Lau's own Mr. Vampire 1992. Confusion regarding the sequels has been compounded not only by the names of the films but also by the fact that the films share some cast members, though often recast in different roles. There are also other films of the Chinese vampire genre starring Lam Ching-ying, such as Encounters of the Spooky Kind II (1990) and Magic Cop (1990), or directed by Lam himself, such as Vampire vs Vampire (1989), which are all separate from the Mr. Vampire franchise. In addition, Lam uses his real name for his character in some of the films he acted in.

A related television series titled Vampire Expert (殭屍道長) starring Lam Ching-ying was broadcast from 1996 to 1997. However, during the filming of the third season, Lam developed liver cancer and died before the project was completed. The first season of My Date with a Vampire, a television series produced by ATV, was specially dedicated to Lam, and the story was based on future events in Vampire Expert.

Theatrical play
Mr. Vampire was adapted into a theatrical play and was performed at the Cultural Centre's Studio Theatre in Hong Kong from 29 to 31 October 2010 as part of a Halloween theme and New Vision Arts Festival. Tang Lok-yin is the music director/composer for this play with Pun Siu-fai as the choreographer.

The inspiration for this play was that of the music directors in an interview he said that when he was a child he watch a lot of Lam Ching-Ying's movies with his younger brother. She also mentioned Lam had played a Taoist priest in the Mr. Vampire series and that is the inspiration behind the director's contemporary musical dance theatre. She also said she was sort of forced into watching the movies because her parents are big fans.

On the stage it is decorated with six coffins and a large moon on top, Mr. Vampire the play begins with the suicide of a grief-stricken woman. The play shows the audience the popular understanding of qi (breath) and the mythical consequences if it does not leave the body of a person who dies in grudge, The play then portray love and hate with the use of animalistic dancers alternating between kissing and biting each other. The show then transforms into a performance of similar to that of Michael Jackson's music videos Thriller and Beat It before turning into the rage of the grudging beings.

Video game
Mr. Vampire was made into a Japanese video game entitled Reigen Doushi (霊幻道士) it was published by Pony Canyon and certain scenes in the game were taken from the movie. The video game was released on Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan 16 September 1988 and in the United States 1 April 1990 under the title Phantom Fighter by the publisher FCI Inc and the Developer Marionette.

Merchandise
A number Japanese board games that relate to Mr. Vampire were released in Japan.

Screenings
Mr. Vampire has been screened numerous times in since its release screening include:

 * Hong Kong Film Archive (3 November 2012)
 * Broadway Cinematheque (11 November 2012)
 * Tokyo International Film Festival (20 October 2012)
 * University of Bath
 * University of Chicago

Online
Mr. Vampire was previously available on Netflix and Sky Player (now Sky Go).

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this page had been listed as CSD, but I removed the nonsence and CSD tags, and turned it into a harmless redirect. The "article" was silly nonsence, but an inteligent article could be written on this. For now it's a redirect. Blackcats 19:36, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Dennis the Menace and Gnasher

Dennis's Jumper
The article claims it was knitted by his granny, however the Beano 70 years book says he "just started wearing it in one issue". Then showed a comic strip from 2001 (but drawn in the 1950's style) showing that dennis actually stole the jumper off somebody else, by "sending him on a trip to the moon" (actually a nearby pond) with a rocket powered by staken-up fizzy drink bottles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Felneymike (talk • contribs) 17:52, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Tone
The tone of the article really annoys me. It is not at all impartial, is championing Dennis like mad and showing the softie or whoever they are in a bad light just because he wants to. This is not a persuasive letter. Nobody cares about your opinion. Change it.90.200.193.147 (talk) 21:59, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Dennis's Father?
He's called Dennis's Dad not dennis's father, same with Dennis's Mum. Borb 19:37, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that. It was probably a hangover from the days when all the characters each had their own article (sometimes multiple articles), and that's the title someone put Dennis' Dad in. I've now corrected it, though, next time, feel free to make the change yourself! BillyH 20:57, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Apostrophe
Does the comic regularly use the spelling Dennis's Dad (with an s) or Dennis' Dad (without)? I had regularised apostrophe use in the article, but now the article uses both sorts again. The web site www.beano.co.uk appears to use them interchangeably; I don't have access to the magazine. Michael Slone (talk) 04:40, 24 January 2006 (UTC) Michael, you don't live in the UK, New Zealand or Canada then? Anyway, it's usually Dennis's Dad. Digifiend 13:43, 19 June 2006 (UTC) I haven't read the Beano for a while. However I'm more concerned that in the article its been spelt "Dennis'ss" dad. - Bisected8 19:40, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Surnames
Does Dennis have a surname? He may not, but I'm pretty sure I've read that his enemy Walter has the name Simpkins. Can anyone verify this?

Anon, Dennis's surname is Menace! Digifiend 08:38, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:DennisUK.png
Image:DennisUK.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:03, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Spiritus Temporis website
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/dennis-the-menace-(uk)/ seems to have copied extracts from this article. It's not a wiki, so it's probably a breach of Wikipedia's copyright. Seems to apply to a lot of other Wikipedia articles as well. Digifiend (talk) 12:26, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Terry Wigon/Terry Wogan
Somebody (not logged in) changed Terry Wigon to Terry Wogan. I don't think this was a spelling mistake, The Beano often uses parodied names. I'll have to check the annual in question, but I think Wigon was correct. Digifiend (talk) 10:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Someone redid the link, but got the visible name and link the wrong way round. I've fixed it. Digifiend (talk) 13:40, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Weedy Walter
In earlier stories, Walter is referred to as "a weed", rather than "a softy". Any ideas when the "softy" tag started appearing? (83.20.166.163 (talk) 10:58, 18 August 2009 (UTC))

The real Dennis the Menace
"Now the real-life inspiration for Dennis the Menace, one of Britain’s favourite cartoon characters, has been revealed for the first time. He is Robert Fair, a former navy officer from Dundee now running a garage in New Zealand. Fair’s father was friendly with Davey Law, the cartoonist who created the character for The Beano comic, and he was a frequent visitor to the Law home as a child.", The Times, 4 Oct 2009. --Mais oui! (talk) 22:44, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Merger Proposal
I propose we merge the Dennis the Menace (Beano Character) article with this one because they largely deal with the same subject matter. On a similiar note something could be done with the Gnasher articles Gnasher and Gnipper, and Gnasher's Bit(e) redirect to the Gnasher article but Gnasher's Tale doesn't. I think it would be wise to have just one article about all three Gnasher related comic strips. That should probably be discussed on the Gnasher article but the views on this merger may be relevant to that as well. Eopsid (talk) 18:57, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

The Gnasher proposal discussion also redirects here because the merger proposals are both for characters who originated in the same strip this article. Is about so those with a view on one merger would likely have a view on both. Also reasons for Gnasher's Tale merger all other Gnasher strips redirect to Gnasher (Beano Character) and Gnasher's Tale is quite stubby. On another note another reason for the Dennis the Menace merger is because Dennis the Menace (Beano Character) is quite a new article (April 2011). Eopsid (talk) 19:07, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

 * There's no need to debate merging Dennis the Menace (Beano Character) - it's a duplicate article. I'll make it a redirect, and any useful material can be transferred her from the history. Incidentally, I've also moved this page back to "Dennis the Menace (UK)", because "Dennis the Menace" was it's original title and the name it's best known by. Besides, the strip in the Beano is now just called "Dennis and Gnasher", so "Dennis the Menace and Gnasher" is out of date. --Nicknack009 (talk) 06:54, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Although it was said to be merged, I see no information of Dennis the Menace (Beano Character) used on this page. The article gave a very detailed history on the subject matter and I feel it deserved at least a merge rather then an all out delete. Bottomlivefan95 (talk) 18:50, 25 September 2011 (UTC) I think the sixty second dennis article should be merged into this one because that strip was pretty much an extra dennis and gnasher strip in the same comic but shorter and with a different nam. Also the sixty second dennis article itself is pretty stubby has the unreferenced tag. All the information from it would fit niceley in the section about the 2009 Dennis Revamp. Eopsid (talk) 14:39, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

 * Here's the history of the character article. The information's all still there to be merged into this article. --Nicknack009 (talk) 21:23, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Nick Nack. I've merged the history section but it does need a bit of a clean up. I'll try to do my best when I have time but if I could get some help that would be greatly appreciated. Bottomlivefan95 (talk) 18:35, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Seeing as how no-one expressed opposition i have merged all the articles relating Gnasher strips into one article. Eopsid (talk) 19:20, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

No one has opposed Sixty Second Dennis merger so i have merged that as well. Eopsid (talk) 12:25, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

An independant page for the character
Seeing as the character is a national treasure in Britain, similar to America's Mickey Mouse, I feel the character is deserving of it's own article citing personality traits, physical appearance and, more importantly, appearances outside of the strip. I attempted to make this but, I must admit, it turned more into a history of the strip rather than the character itself. American cartoon characters such as Garfeild, Charlie Brown and the US Dennis the Menace all rightfully have their own individual pages. Why doesn't Dennis? Bottomlivefan95 (talk) 18:41, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

I know this was almost 11 years ago, but since you are still active on Wikipedia, I very agree wit your statement. If Gnasher, Walter and Bea can have their own pages, then why in the world does Dennis not have his own page? Thomasfan1000 (talk) 15:42, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

 * If you ask me, this should be/is meant to be Dennis' page, but many want it to be about the comic strip, even though Dennis has appeared in other strips outside of his own. It's why I put the titles of Dennis' other comic strips in the infobox because he's not a one-strip character. —MonkeyStolen234 (talk) 00:47, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

It's very confusing. As this page is called 'Dennis the Menace and Gnasher', meaning that it includes Gnasher. Maybe this page could be about the strip, but we could create another page about the character, so it can be less confusing. Thomasfan1000 (talk) 21:20, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

There was such a page Dennis the Menace (Beano Character) but it was merged into this one 10 years ago. The discussion is here: Talk:Dennis the Menace and Gnasher. I created the merge proposal (but didn't do the merge) but honestly remember nothing about it and only realised I did when you start discussing it again here. I think the rationale was that it was mostly a duplicate of this article. Eopsid (talk) 09:23, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

I see your point. Maybe we could possibly recreate that page but try to make it different from the strip. Thomasfan1000 (talk) 13:18, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I would suggest adding a section for the character to this page and then once that's good enough split it off to its own article. That way there wont be any duplication. Eopsid (talk) 17:58, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: page moved -- JHunterJ (talk) 13:21, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Dennis the Menace (DC Thomson comics) → Dennis and Gnasher – This article is about the comic, which is titled Dennis and Gnasher, and has been since at least 2010. Before that it was titled Dennis the Menace and Gnasher. It has not been titled Dennis the Menace for decades, and has long been known as Dennis and Gnasher in international markets. This is also a much better disambiguation, as "(DC Thomson comics)" does not make it clear whether this is about a character or a comic, or which character or comic (unless I'm the only one who would expect "UK" or "Beano" as a disambiguator, instead of the more obscure parent company, D. C. Thomson & Co.). The title Dennis & Gnasher was used for the 1996 animated series, as well as the 2009 series, (both of which were based on this comic, and are already disambiguated, so there is no primary topic issue). ▫  Johnny Mr Nin ja  08:18, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Support. Well reasoned, and it may open the way for Dennis the Menace (U.S. comics) to take the base name if it's deemed unlikely that readers would look for the UK Dennis under that name.  Powers T 14:33, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think it is unlikely that readers would look for the UK Dennis under the name "Dennis the Menace". The change to "Dennis and Gnasher" is fairly recent, and very few people seem to have noticed. The character has been known as "Dennis the Menace" for generations, and is a pop culture icon under that name. Just about anyone in the UK, faced with someone dressed in a black and red hooped jersey, will say "you look like Dennis the Menace". If we're going by Wikipedia's policy of using the most commonly used name, I'd have to oppose any change to "Dennis and Gnasher". --Nicknack009 (talk) 09:28, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose The 1996 animated series was not called Dennis & Gnasher but Dennis the Menace and Gnasher (I have the DVD in my room and also this link). Also the comic strip has spent more time under the title Dennis the Menace than any other title and I would imagine most people would refer to the strip as Dennis the Menace rather than Dennis & Gnasher. Eopsid (talk) 15:33, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
 * You are right about the first season/series of the 1996 animation being released in the UK under the title "Dennis the Menace"; as far as I can tell, the second season/series of that animation was titled "Dennis and Gnasher" (my video link above, as is referenced in the first comment of your link), as were most (not all) of the subsequent DVD releases of that production. Searching DVDs at Amazon.co.uk, "Dennis the Menace" returns mostly DVDs based on the American comic and DVDs based on the UK series that are titled "Dennis & Gnasher", including those based on the 1996 series. Regardless, even if the best possible title for the article was Dennis the Menace, that title is not an option. ▫  Johnny Mr Nin ja  00:32, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Strong support to move Dennis the Menace (DC Thomson comics) to Dennis and Gnasher per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC and WP:Official name. -- →gab  24 dot  grab← 21:36, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
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The result of the proposal was moved. No opposition after over a month of listing. --BDD (talk) 17:34, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Dennis and Gnasher → Dennis the Menace and Gnasher – This is the current name of the comic strip (what the article is about). It was also the name of the strip for a long period from the 1970s to around 2009. Sources for this being this week's Beano and some other old Beanos (the 1980 annual and a comic from 2003) which I just checked. --Relisted. Tyrol5  [Talk]  01:04, 22 February 2013 (UTC)  Relisted. BDD (talk) 17:48, 14 February 2013 (UTC) Eopsid (talk) 14:00, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment someone needs to update the logo in the infobox. -- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 02:46, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
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"Coincidentally"? I doubt that
When noting that there was a comic with a nigh-identical release title (that is to say, the titles were identical at release), the article refers to the correspondence as coincidental, but I doubt that it is truly coincidental, even as close as they are in release date. Is it possible that the one released in America happened to be read by the author of the other, and then incorporated into the design of the British one published in the next available issue (which would explain why there are a few days, but not over a week between release dates)?--Macks2008 (talk) 23:07, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
 * They were both published on the same day. 2A00:23C8:8F9F:4801:6973:39B7:25E9:8D3A (talk) 20:04, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Dennis the Grandson
After attending a talk by Nigel Parkinson at the 2015 Glasgow Comic Con, he noted that they'd done a story in recent years revealing that the current Dennis is the grandson of the original (including some red-tone homages to the 1950s strips), to explain the design changes of Dennis' Dad and so on (he also said that they had "three Dennises", implying that the current Dennis' Dad was also a Menace at one point). Does anyone know which issues this ran in, since this isn't currently reflected in the article? - BrainiacBlink (talk) 16:55, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

 * The page states that " It was later revealed in 2015 that Dennis' father was the original Dennis the Menace from the 1980s in issue 3932" However, issue 3932 was published in 2018 and does not feature this reveal. Could someone please correct the issue number? I'd really like to know the issue it happened in! 140.228.55.70 (talk) 17:12, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

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The Beano's Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Show
On the discussion concerning the merger of The Beano's Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Show with this article the claim that the series was shown on CITV was challanged by myself and at least one other contributor. Given there is not a source cited for this, I would suggest that this claim is removed. Dunarc (talk) 20:40, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

The Smasher
Dandy #1377 (April 13, 1968), Smasher gets a pet dog for his birthday that is quite ferocious and as big a menace as he is. The dog did not stay though.(185.181.236.222 (talk) 10:45, 2 October 2018 (UTC))

Relationship to Minnie the Minx
The "Main Character" box lists "Hermione Makepeace (niece)". Is there any evidence for this or can it be deleted? If it turns out to be canonical we might need to add Vicky (Minnie's mum) as Dennis's older sister. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pastychomper (talk • contribs) 15:18, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Title
The strip is now called "Dennis & Gnasher":. Why not also this article? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 09:29, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

I'd sat keep it how it is as Dennis the Menace is what the character is usually known as. Thomasfan1000 (talk) 10:17, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

I would like to remind readers that according to WP:COMMONNAME Wikipedia articles generally use the most common name among English speakers for the topic in article titles and not necessarily the "official" name. However, unambiguous titles are preferred if the most common name is ambiguous. There is also Manual of Style which states in the event of strong national ties to a topic to use that country's dialect (the formal dialect not colloquialisms) which in the case of the Beano character would be British English. It is argued that the reason this article is currently titled Dennis the Menace and Gnasher is because the main character has been known as "Dennis the Menace" to generations of Britons who are still likely to search for the character by that name and it is unambiguous from the American character. I ran a comparison on Google Trends, which keeps track of what people search for on Google and is a source recommended in WP:COMMONNAME to try to determine the most common name for a topic, and I found that over both the past year and past five years there have been more searches for "Dennis and Gnasher" on average than for "Dennis the Menace and Gnasher" although there have been much more searches for "Dennis the Menace" from within the UK but this does not distinguish between the British and American characters. Tk420 (talk) 22:22, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

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Chapter V (Staind album)

Chapter V is the fifth studio album by American rock band Staind. It was released on August 9, 2005, and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with first week sales of 185,000 copies, and spawned a hit single along with three moderately successful singles on rock radio. Its first single "Right Here" was the most successful at both rock and pop stations and it was used in a video package by World Wrestling Entertainment commemorating the professional wrestler known as Edge after he won his first WWE Championship. "Falling" and "Everything Changes" have also been released with accompanying videos.

Lead singer Aaron Lewis has stated that he thinks "Chapter V is the best record the band has released to date", and the album continues the evolution from the messages on 14 Shades of Grey to messages of hope and uncertainty. It also showcases a heavier side to the band on selected tracks (reminiscent of some content on Dysfunction), and emphasizes a balance between both styles of the band's sound. The album includes a track called "Paper Jesus" targeted at record company executives who idolize money instead of music and "Reply", an open letter replying to fan mail that Aaron Lewis and the rest of the band have received over the years (the original version can be found on the Special Edition).

Since its release, it has sold 1,200,000 copies in the United States and 1,500,000 worldwide. However, it marked Staind's lowest debut so far in the UK, at number 112. All the same, it was regarded as one of the most anticipated albums of the year in the U.S. before its release. A special edition, with five bonus tracks, an extra booklet, and a DVD was released several months later. Even after a full year, it remained fairly consistent on the Billboard 200. Aaron Lewis has said in relation to this in the booklet of the Special Edition of the album: "Having three straight number one albums was a nice big screw you to a lot of people who have slagged us. Nobody can ever take away that fact."

Staind have promoted the album by allowing selected fans to preview it on their tour bus, and touring after its release for a whole year, including mini tours to Australia and solo tours across Europe, as well as the famous Fall Brawl Tour with Flyleaf, Taproot and P.O.D. The band have also toured with 3 Doors Down, Hurt, Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, and Seether (later cancelled) across the United States to promote the album.

Critical reception
At Metacritic, the album received an average score of 48, based on 10 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Personnel

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 * Johnny April – bass, backing vocals
 * Jon Wysocki – drums

Production
 * David Bottrill – producer, mixing
 * Brian Sperber – audio engineering
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Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side

Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side (also known as Eternal Champions 2 or Eternal Champions CD) is a fighting video game for the Sega CD. It was published in June 1995 in North America and during the same year in Europe, within the waning days of the platform lifespan.

The game is a update of the Sega Genesis game Eternal Champions. Both games were developed by an internal team at Sega Interactive Development Division and designed by Michael Lantham, a developer with Sega of America from their early days.

Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side includes the nine playable fighters and non-playable boss from the first game, and adds 13 new playable characters (nine of which are hidden) and a new boss. Also, new moves called "Cinekills" were added, which are essentially fatality scenes rendered in full motion video.

Gameplay

Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side makes most special attacks use less of the special attack meter than in the previous game. There are also some special attacks that do not deplete the special attack meter. Combo attacks are also introduced, and jumping attacks can be linked to ground attacks and most normal attacks can be linked to other normal attacks. Mild "juggle" combos can also be executed by landing an additional hit on an already aerial opponent.

The game also includes three new types of finishing moves. The first is a second "Overkill" in each stage, called "Sudden Death", that can be activated when the victim still has a little life left. The other two, "Vendetta" and "Cinekill", can be performed on a dazed opponent that has 20% or less of their life in the final round only. Sudden Deaths and Vendettas are often exceptionally gory, and the original Overkills were made gorier to match. During Overkills (and Sudden Deaths), the winning fighter is carried off the stage in a flash of light the moment the fateful blow was made. The game retains the stage-specific finishing moves called Overkills from the first Eternal Champions, and added ones for the new stages. These are performed by defeating the player's opponent in a way that ensures that they fall upon a certain area of ground. If they land in the right spot, the life bars disappear and some element of the background kills them.

The Vendetta is performed by motion and button presses identical to those used in a Mortal Kombat Fatality. Each character (except the unlockable animal characters) has their own Vendetta and each is performed differently.

Cinekills are triggered when the dominant player has earned (through successful combo attacks) temporarily unlimited inner strength/energy, the victim's health is 20% or lower, and the victim is stunned. In a Cinekill, the Dark Champion appears on the field and kills the victim in a full motion video cutscene that supposedly mimics the victim's greatest fear. Certain characters have the ability to combo into this style of finishing move, such as Trident who has an elaborate re-dizzy combo that culminates in a Cinekill. Only the base characters can receive Cinekills, though any character can trigger one. This type of finish activates automatically.

Plot
Like the first game, Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side follows the story of the Eternal Champion, who felt the balance of the universe and time had been disturbed by the deaths of key individuals who had been destined to change the world for the greater good. To restore the balance, he held a great contest in which the winner would be granted the gift of new life, allowing them to fulfill their rightful destiny.

In this second chapter, it is revealed that the Eternal Champion has an evil counterpart: the Dark Champion. The Dark Champion appears and declares that he also will enter the contest and that he has hidden four more warriors, preventing the contest from truly being fulfilled. The contestants must not only achieve the aims of the Eternal Champion but also face the Dark Champion if they want their lives back.

Fighters
The game consists of a total of 24 playable characters; 13 are available from the start, and the remainder being locked at first. All of the characters from the first game return with minor palette changes. The hidden characters can be unlocked by pressing specific button combinations on the statistics screen after a match in Versus Mode.

The game now features two final boss characters; the Eternal Champion, followed by the Dark Champion. It is implied in the instruction manual and game packaging that some of the new characters may be "evil" and working in collusion with the Dark Champion to disrupt the Eternal Champion’s tournament. Beating Arcade Mode with any character will reveal an epilogue explaining how the winner managed to avoid their original death, and make a major change in their era. It is followed by a series of FMVs depicting how the other starting characters encountered their original deaths. There are no such FMVs for the unlockable characters. Starting characters can also defeat other starting characters with a move called "Cinekills". This is an FMV showing the Dark Champion taking the loser to his lair and killing them based on their biggest fear.

Five of the unlockable characters are animals, and added for comedic purposes. Weaker versions of the main bosses can be unlocked for versus mode, but they cannot be used in Arcade mode without use of cheat codes.

Starting characters
The starting roster consists of all nine fighters from the previous game, along with four new characters:
 * Dawson — Sherriff Dawson McShane is a law enforcer from the American Wild West in 1849. He was lynched by a notorious gang as revenge for apprehending one of their members.
 * Ramses III — Ramses III is an Egyptian pharaoh from 151 B.C. When his body washed ashore in the River Nile, his death was presumed to be an accident due to him being a weak swimmer. Only his killer knows he was pushed.
 * Raven — Raven Gindhar is a voodoo priestess from 1802. An aging witchdoctor pretended to be an injured old man to gain her trust. He then used her own magical hourglass to completely drain her of her youth until she died.
 * Riptide — Riptide is a pirate from 1566. She and her entire family were killed by a ruthless pirate after discovering the location of his stolen loot.

Unlockable characters

 * Blast — Sgt. Thomas "Blast" Chavez is a helicopter pilot with the Green Berets in 1955. He was killed during his final mission in Vietnam when his co-pilot turned traitor and dropped a grenade in his helicopter just after take-off. Blast was intended to be in the first game, but was removed due to memory limitations.
 * Chin Wo — Chin Wo is an acupuncturist and healer from Hong Kong in 1815. He had been a champion fighter for the Emperor despite hating violence. He refused to accept a challenge for a fight to death from a young rival. The rival then murdered a beggar and framed Chin. The rival offered to have the charges dropped if Chin accepted his challenge. For his refusal, Chin was executed on a false murder charge. Like Blast, Chin was intended to be in the first game, but was removed due to memory limitations.
 * Crispy — A chicken from Vietnam. Crispy tries to prevent some heavily armed "farmers" from claiming his fellow livestock as food, but is killed.
 * Hooter — Hooter is an owl that served as the familiar to a warlock (implied to be Thanatos). After his master is executed during the Salem Witch Trials, Hooter begins studying each execution to form a plan to avenge his master’s death. A civilian realises that Hooter is always present and suspects him to be a witch too. Hooter is then thrown into a bonfire with another victim.
 * Senator — As his name implies, he is a Senator from Washington D.C., only by the time of the game, he was recently removed. He had become rich and powerful through bribes from corrupt organizations. His 1995 re-election campaign centered around exposing corruption in politics. His former sponsors conspired to ensure he lost. Having lost all of his money on an unsuccessful campaign, he suffered a heart attack and died alone. He is the only character to die by natural causes. He is a joke character designed to mock lobbyists who had rallied for censorship in video games.
 * Slither — Slither is a pet rattlesnake that lives in a bar. He is killed while helping his owner try to stop an armed robbery.
 * Thanatos — Thanatos is the human form of the Greek god of death. He was turned human by a rival’s curse. As he retained some of his supernatural abilities, he was executed in the Salem Witch Trials under a false charge of witchcraft.
 * Yappy — Yappy is a pampered dog who inherited everything after its owner passed away. A cruel family member dumped Yappy in the streets to try and claim the inheritance. Yappy attempted to get revenge by chewing through the brake cables of their car, but became stuck. Yappy fell out while the car was in motion, and was crushed under a wheel.
 * Zuni — Zuni is a performing circus monkey. He attempts to raise the alarm when a lantern gets knocked over and sets fire to straw in the animal enclosure. During the panic, he is accidentally trampled to death by an elephant. All of the animals are killed in the fire.

Bosses

 * The Eternal Champion — The Eternal Champion is the host of the tournament. He awakens every thousand years to hold the contest. He selects people who died before they could do great things in their era. This involves removing them from their original timeline just before their point of death. If the tournament winner can also defeat him, he will tell the winner how they originally died so they may attempt to prevent it. The Eternal Champion uses supernatural attacks based on animals.
 * The Dark Champion — The second and final boss. He attempts to disrupt the tournament so that none of the participants will change history for the better. He also attempts to corrupt them by encouraging them to become more blood-thirsty, and will kill some of them through "Cinekills". His fighting style is identical to The Eternal Champion, but his powers are based on natural disasters.

Release
Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side was the first game to carry Sega's internal Deep Water warning icon label, which was employed by Sega of America for games featuring adult content. In North America, the game earned an "M" (for Mature) rating for its graphic violence and gore from the freshly-introduced IDSA system (later ESRB). In Europe, it earned both an 18+ ELSPA rating and a 15 BBFC rating.

Reception
GamePro gave the game a mixed review. They highly approved of the stage designs and said the rendered cinematics "offer a nice alternative to the full-motion, live-action video prevalent on Sega CDs." However, they criticized that the game has only minor enhancements over the original Genesis game, and concluded with a reference to the Sega CD's "Welcome to the next level" advertising slogan: "Instead of taking us to the next level, EC has merely taken us to a different part of the same one." Electronic Gaming Monthly gave it a 6.125 out of 10, with Ed Semrad summarizing it as "simply a hodgepodge of fatalities strewn across a poor fighting game." The other three members of the EGM review panel concurred that Sega seemed to be trying to draw attention away from the loose controls, sluggish combat, inappropriate audio, and lack of improvement from the first Eternal Champions using flashy fatality sequences. Though some of them found the fatalities entertaining, they said they were not enough to give the game any sort of lasting appeal. Next Generation reviewed the game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that what Sega did was "take a good game, and use the inexpensive storage capacity of CD to add surprises until they build something people will be digging stuff out of for years. Very cool."

Retro gaming website Racketboy included it among the games that "defined" the Sega CD, noting that "Even though the Sega CD was a commercial failure, Challenge from the Dark Side sold better in the U.S. than the Genesis versions of Street Fighter II."