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Tuesday, April 25, 2017
We're All Mad Here: Thoughts on Legion
Based on a relatively obscure X-Men character, Legion tells the story of David Haller (Dan Stevens), a young man who has spent his life in and out of psychiatric facilities because of, as he believes, schizophrenia. In one of these facilities, David meets and falls in love with Sydney Barrett (Rachel Keller), who turns out to be a mutant with the power to switch bodies with whoever she touches. Through Sydney, David comes into contact with the Summerland institute, a group who seek to help mutants understand and control their powers, and who oppose the government-run Division Three, who want to exterminate mutants they consider too dangerous. Summerland's leader, Dr. Melanie Bird (Jean Smart), assures David that what he and his doctors took for mental illness was actually a tremendous psychic ability, but as she and David work together to understand his powers, they discover hints of a malevolent entity hiding within David's mind and seeking to control him and his power.
The thing that made Legion interesting when it was first announced--beyond the fact that this is the first superhero series produced by a cable channel--was the involvement of Noah Hawley. Hawley burst onto the scene two years ago with his improbably successful adaptation of the Coen Brothers' 1996 movie Fargo into an anthology crime series, and that show's distinctive style and approach to storytelling seemed to promise very interesting things for a genre that, until this year, has been extremely hidebound on both counts. In its first two seasons (the third began just last week, so it's hard to tell yet how it will turn out) Fargo was characterized by a cheerful willingness to go over the top, to use bombastic music, striking visuals, and almost cartoonish characters to draw the viewer in. It balances this excess of style with clockwork-precise storytelling that often hangs on the smallest of details. Many scenes in Fargo feel like short movies in their own right, often revolving around a character thinking their way out of a problem, constantly two steps ahead of the audience.[2]
Visually, then, Hawley was absolutely the right man to make something new and different out of the superhero concept, but plot-wise, he was in a bit of a jam. The kind of precision storytelling he specialized in in Fargo relies on characters who are faced with concrete limitations which they then must work to overcome; it doesn't work in a world where people can fling each other across a room with their minds, or turn invisible, or change the properties of matter.[3] Hawley's approach with Legion, therefore, was to turn the visual zaniness he employed in Fargo up to eleven, combine it with an almost labyrinthine structure, and use both to convey the turmoil and confusion of David's mind. The pilot episode, in particular, bounces so swiftly from past to present, from fantasy to reality, that it's not until its final minutes that we can start to piece together what has happened. And throughout the show's first season, we are constantly being wrongfooted, finding ourselves having to question what is real, and then, to parse different layers of fantasy. Is David dreaming, or is he in the astral plane? Are the repeated visions he has of Lenny, his friend from the mental hospital (Aubrey Plaza), a construct created by his own mind, or is she something else?
A lot of the joy of watching Legion comes from the audacity of its structural and visual choices. We've gotten used to superhero movies and shows spoon-feeding us their stories and character arcs, hewing so closely to the conventional that even something relatively half-baked, like the spy movie homages in Winter Soldier, feels revolutionary. Legion's willingness to challenge us means that it can find something fresh and new in even the most shopworn of superhero tropes--when Melanie's team sees recordings of a possessed David taking on an entire Division Three base on his own, or when they storm his childhood home and find themselves unable to speak, proceeding in total silence, there's a thrill of horror and tension that I haven't felt from a superhero story in a long time, if ever. The centerpiece of the season is Plaza's magnificent villain turn, sliding from vaguely disturbing to strangely sinister to all-out derangement with such impeccable logic that by the time she shimmies her way through David's mind to the sound of Nina Simone's "Feeling Good", or cackles like a mad scientist in a silent, black-and-white monster movie, one can't help but gasp in exhilaration.
Another strength of the show is in rejecting the mundane realism that dominates in most of this genre, which refuses to allow even stories about Norse gods or wizards or aliens from Krypton to ever be weird. The show's time period, for example, is impossible to fix--the clothing and interior design are all straight out of a mid-century magazine, but people reference email at the same time that they use archaic technology like magnetic tapes.[4] Perhaps the most interesting choice that Legion makes is to present Summerland using terms that deliberately recall the communes and cults of the 70s. This not only raises the possibility that Melanie and her project for David might be a sinister one, but completely deflates the more common superhero story approach of treating the superhero team like a bunch of badass commandos. When David finally comes face-to-face with Division Three, his intimidating catchphrase is "War is over, if you want it".
Even Melanie's secret agenda turns out to be something weird and rather affecting. She's trying to find her husband, Oliver (Jemaine Clement), a powerful telepath who got lost on the astral plane twenty years ago. When David meets him, Oliver turns out to be an absent-minded dandy, always at least half-soused, and prone to breaking out into slam poetry or making plans to form a barbershop quartet. It's such a delightfully unexpected touch, in any genre, and only made more delightful when it turns out that beneath his vagueness, Oliver has actually got his finger on the pulse of the situation, and may be the only person who can help David reclaim his mind.
It's a good thing that Legion has so many entertaining secondary characters, and such a penchant for weirdness, because the person that the show is actually about is, well, not even boring so much as half-formed. This is, to be clear, entirely deliberate--the show's conceit is that David has spent so much of his life in a haze of medication, and in completely structured environments, that he's had no chance to develop a personality. Stripped of its adornments, the season's main storyline is a rather familiar psychiatric drama, in which a sympathetic therapist helps a long-term patient push through to the origins of their disease--usually a suppressed memory of trauma--only after which can they begin to build a life for themselves.
But while the fact that David is barely a person is justified by the narrative, the devotion that more developed characters end up feeling for him is not. This is particularly blatant in the case of Syd, a strong-minded, self-possessed young woman whose love for David only gets more inexplicable the more she dedicates herself to his cause. Especially when you consider that the glimpses we do get of David's personality are not terribly appealing. The season's plot only kicks into gear because he kisses Syd against her will, triggering a body-swap that brings both of them to Summerland and Division Three's attention. And even after that, he continues to try to push against her clearly-stated boundaries, for example the fact that she doesn't like being touched even when there's no risk of body-swapping. When he starts to gain control of his powers, David immediately transitions from his earlier bewilderment to arrogance, and even his growth into social responsibility at the season's end, trying to broker a peace between Summerland and Division Three, feels like a power grab, a young man who only became aware of a problem a few weeks ago trying to supplant a middle-aged woman who has been dealing with it for decades.[5]
These, however, are all are fairly familiar flaws of the superhero story. What makes Legion uniquely frustrating is its handling--or rather, its failure to handle--the issue of mental illness. Pop culture keeps trying to use superpowers as a metaphor for marginalized groups such as POCs, Jews, LGBT people, or immigrants--an approach whose flaws keep being reiterated, and which is nevertheless attempted again and again. But I've been saying for a while that a much more fruitful parallel can be made with mental illness, chronic illness, and disability. It allows for a wide variety of origins and expressions--some people's illness is congenital and even hereditary, and some develop it because of trauma or the circumstances of their life; some people's illness is invisible, and some are unable to function in society because of it--and a wide variety of attitudes. It allows for the vast array of damaging preconceptions that society imposes--that the mentally ill are dangerous and out of control, or that disabled people are a drain on society. Most importantly, it allows for the delicate balancing act between the recognition that your illness is a part of who you are and has shaped you as a person, and the need for tools and resources to help you deal with it and live a good life.[6]
Of course, this all requires very delicate handling, of the kind that one rarely finds in either superhero stories or fictional depictions of mental illness. Legion, unfortunately, falls into some very predictable traps. At the root of its handling of David's mental illness is a simplistic binary: is David crazy, or does he have superpowers? Are the events of the show actually happening, or are they a delusion brought on by his schizophrenia? Obviously, by phrasing the question as an either/or, the show tips its hand--even in a show this weird, we were clearly never going to discover that the entire story had been a madman's fantasy. Around the middle of the season, the show suggests that David might have both superpowers and mental health issues, but it immediately undercuts that idea by revealing that those issues are the fact that he has been possessed by an evil mutant. David's mental health problems are thus externally imposed and, more importantly, removable. The entire structure of the season--the familiar dramatic conceit whereby discovering the root of your problems makes them go away--is mirrored in David and the other characters' efforts to uproot the mutant possessing him. But implicit within that structure is the assumption that therapy, and recovery, are an on/off state. David can either be sick, and thus of no use to anyone--"I was in Clockworks for six years. Drugged. Doing nothing. Contributing nothing"--or he can be healed, and thus completely over his problem (which was never his problem in the first place). The possibility that people might be able to live productive, contributive lives with mental illness, or that recovery is a process, often a lifelong one, is never even entertained.
It's a shame, because in the periphery to David's story there are some interesting moments where the show seems to recognize that people who are abnormal might still have a perspective on the world that they would value and cherish, even as it caused them difficulties. Discussing her power with David, Syd explains that the ability to be so many different people has convinced her of the existence of the soul, which probably contributes to the sense one gets from her, that here is a woman who knows exactly who she is and what she wants. In a darker moment, however, she tells David about switching bodies with her mother in order to have sex with her boyfriend, and muses "who teaches us to be normal when we're one of a kind?"[7] Ptonomy, whose power is the ability to remember everything and travel through others' memories, describes the ability to perfectly recall even the most painful moments of his life as not unlike being a time traveler.
In moments like these, Legion seems open to the idea that it is possible to be both a superpowered person, and someone with problems they need to work through. But for most of the season the show seems convinced that you can either be one or the other. When David first meets Syd in the hospital, she insists that "You're in here because somebody said you're not normal ... what if your problems aren't in your head? What if they aren't even problems?" In a later episode, when the being in David's mind convinces him and the rest of the characters that they are all patients in a mental hospital, Ptonomy explains to David that "that's the lie, the cruel-ish joke. How somehow with the right dosage, the right therapy, stand on one leg, touch your nose, we could all go back to [being normal]". The lesson, in other words, is that if you're really mentally ill, then there's no hope for you, but that if you have powers, then your problems aren't even problems. It's wrong both coming and going.
I rewatched Legion before sitting down to write this essay. In hindsight, I probably would have written a more positive review if I hadn't done that. A lot of what feels audacious about the season the first time around is no longer surprising on the second, which makes it easier to notice how much the show relies for its effect on the reaction of "I can't believe they did that (in a superhero story)". It's therefore all the more unfortunate that Legion couldn't find anything meaningful to say about mental illness, or anything else that might make it feel less hollow on a second look. I'm still looking forward to what the show does next--or, if nothing else, to letting Plaza, Clement, and hopefully some of the rest of the cast cut loose on my screen. But I have to wonder if the need to keep topping itself will eventually be the show's doom, and if we haven't yet again proved that there really isn't that much you can do with superhero stories to make them interesting and meaningful.
[1] Which, to be fair, also has a fair bit of political subtext.↩
[2] Most of these traits are things that Fargo shares with Breaking Bad and its prequel series Better Call Saul, but whereas those shows view their problem-solving characters with awe, Fargo is a catalogue of human folly. Even its smartest characters can't keep themselves from getting into the messes they end up having to think their way out of.↩
[3] This is a problem that superhero stories keep running up against. Consider Ant-Man, which wanted quite badly to be a smart caper story, but eventually had to admit defeat, collapsing into a generic superhero punch-up in its final act.↩
[4] This is a particularly interesting choice given how strongly recent X-Men movies have presented themselves as being rooted in their time period. There's been talk, for example, of Professor X appearing on Legion, but one could just as easily make the argument for James McAvoy as Patrick Stewart, and neither one feels as if they would be completely welcome in the show's world, which is deliberately non-realistic.↩
[5] It's especially frustrating that the only person on Melanie's team who tries to challenge the notion that David is uniquely important or particularly heroic, Jeremie Harris's Ptonomy, is also a person of color, and that he is sidelined for the most of the season's final act.↩
[6] Much as I believe in the potential of this approach, I have to admit that very few superhero shows or movies have attempted it, much less managed it well. The short-lived Syfy series Alphas did some interesting work with superpowered characters whose powers were paralleled with, or the cause of, various mental health issues. And one of these days I will get around to writing about iZombie, which in its best moments executes this trope flawlessly.↩
[7] Though if I'm being honest, I don't think that "raping people is wrong" is a lesson that requires case-by-case instruction.↩
6 comments:
- Pascoe said...
Yes, I had a similar response to Sid and David's relationship. Somewhat counterintuitively, they work best as a couple in that first episode, when Sid is an enigma.
Still, even if David's vagueness as a character is to blame there, that element did offer up one of my favourite things in Legion, something that I've never seen another show do - the way that David's role in the story shifts constantly episode to episode, he playing straightforward protagonist, mystery for others to solve, side character in ensemble, villain as the series went on.
- April 26, 2017 3:02 PM
It seems to me that pop (mass commercial) culture equates mental illness with demonic possession, while always implying demonic possession is a natural outcome of an innate evil. The demon always takes up residence with an invitation, it's never a home invasion. I think this very backward. Legion's Shadow King I also think puts the series squarely in that camp. The show explicitly tells us David's attempted suicide is the outcome of his struggle against his internal evil, a kind of attempted martyrdom. The thing is, if he'd succeeded, according to the show premises, this then would have been a moral triumph, and a boon to humanity. So too then for all people struggling with their demons.
The visual creativity is extraordinary for a TV series.
- April 29, 2017 3:23 PM
- Abigail Nussbaum said...
Yes, good point about how demonic possession is often used as a metaphor for mental illness, with all the attendant problems of that approach. In David's case, however, he can't fairly be said to have invited the Shadow King, since he was a baby when the possession took root. But it is presented as a sort of sins of the father situation, since David's father failed to fully defeat the Shadow King, and the choice of David as a target was intended as a long-term act of revenge against him.
I hadn't even considered the implications of David's suicide attempt in light of his illness actually being a possession. In the show's slight defense, that's something you need to read into it - at no point does anyone say "if only David had succeeded in killing himself, we wouldn't be in all this trouble". But that could still be on the way - it's clear that there's a lot more backstory that we haven't seen, and we still haven't doubled back to the suicide attempt - and either way, you're right that given the myriad issues surrounding suicide and mental illness in our society, making that connection is highly irresponsible and offensive.
- April 30, 2017 1:12 PM
- pangloss said...
Side thought about mental illness and super powers - it would wonderful to see an adaptation of the second Shade the Changing Man series ( the milligan/Bachalo one) which quite magnificently intersected the two. Actually Legion sounds quite like Shade with bits of Mr Ronot - must see if can find it here.
- May 17, 2017 3:54 AM
- pangloss said...
Having now seen Legion (a) I bloody adored it (b) it really really is more an adaptation of Shade than X Men, I swear, having read both. In fact the fact we have a Lennie who was an extremely similar character in Shade of sand name - and I remember no Lennie in the New Mutants run - seems a complete giveaway. ( In Shade, the rather dull (as you say) David-cypher protagonist was supplanted in his romantic relationship with Syd-equivalent - who he also meets in a mental hospital but in a more interesting way - in favour of a lesbian relationship with Lennie. So if we get tags next season I'm claiming my no prize. ( Shade is DC so presumably cannot be mentioned.)
Anyway apart from this nerdy obsession, I think ( as I often do) you're somewhat hard. This is glorious spell bounding entertainment doing wonderful things unheard of in genre TV with visuals and structure. I spent the first three episodes seriously making mental notes as to what was real and what happens when. It made me work! As I said on Fb it's the best weird shit since first series a twin Pesks and a I think it would actively diminish it if it had a quiet tied in a knot message about mental illness. And adding a Jason Whyngarde lookalike played by someone from Flights of the Conchords as both Brains from Thunderbirds then romantic tragedy then villain cocoon.. Well it flies beyond inventive. ( It's also funny in X Men lore because the Amin villain who serve Jeabn agree to become Dark Phoenix was also loosely though rather less parodic ally based on Jason Wyngarde. Someone knows their comics though Indoubt it's Noah Hawley.)
And come on! Bolero! Silent movie captions! Men in white suits up ladders with wrenches! A quiet sensible conversation and alliance between the evil mutant killer and torturer and the plucky band? I think in eight episodes this made incredible progress. I really hope series 2 does not settle into wilful obscurity like Mr Robot did.
- July 20, 2017 3:57 AM
- pangloss said...
Ps a sorry as usual I can never see a what to fix typos on this site. And b for writing about this - I am desperate for intelligent commentary on it!
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When we reply all on a message we get, we do have an option to uncheck people from THAT list (but can only add others to it who are already friended)...not sure if you can remove people from a "send to all friends" 'cause I've never done that.
Unless she replies to all of us from the message you sent I don't think there's much chance she'll be copied on anything else by mistake.
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Data compression is one of the fundamental research areas in computer science, letting information systems do more with less. It's the reason the iPod nano can hold thousands of songs instead of hundreds, and it's what keeps transmitted images from choking the Internet. If every digital file is a string of bits -- zeroes and ones -- then compression is a way to represent the same information with fewer bits.
Most compression techniques trade space for time: while the compressed file takes up less memory, it has to be decoded before its contents are intelligible. In applications where memory is in short supply but data needs constant updating, it can be prohibitively time consuming to keep decompressing a file, modifying it, and then recompressing it. As a result, such applications -- monitoring Internet traffic, for instance, or looking for patterns in huge collections of scientific data -- often use a type of compression called linear compression. With linear compression, a computer program can modify the data in a compressed file without first decoding it.
Last year, Piotr Indyk, an associate professor of in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and grad student Radu Berinde introduced two different versions of a new linear-compression algorithm that perform as well as any yet invented -- and for some applications, better. Both versions of the algorithm, however, had limitations: under certain extreme conditions, they'd just stop working. But this fall, Indyk and Berinde presented a new version of the algorithm that combined the advantages of its predecessors and overcame their drawbacks.
"The two previous algorithms each had their own faults," says Deanna Needell, a postdoc at Stanford who helped develop one of the other leading linear-compression algorithms. "And this tends to be the case in many situations in this area, that if you have two algorithms, one is good at one thing and the other is good at another. And [the new algorithm] sort of merged the two benefits. It's like, here's this algorithm that does both of the good things."
Some compression techniques, like the zip algorithm commonly used for Internet downloads, are what's called "lossless": when you unzip the zipped version of a file, you recover every bit of the original. Other compression techniques are "lossy": the MP3 version of a song, for example, takes up about a tenth as much space as the CD version, but it irreversibly discards a lot of subtle audio data.
Linear compression is lossy: expanding the compressed file doesn't give you all the data in the original. But for many applications, that doesn't matter. Take, for instance, Internet traffic monitoring. Packets of data traveling over the Internet pass through a succession of special-purpose computers called routers; each router examines the packet's ultimate destination and tells it where to go next. There's no way a router could store information about all the packets that pass through it in the course of a day, but with linear compression, it can store an approximation. Decoding the data can still disclose what Indyk calls the "heavy hitters" -- the sites that are sending and receiving the most packets -- which is what most researchers are interested. In other applications, the heavy hitters might be the members of a large population whose blood tests positive for a disease, or the concentrations of particular molecules in a chemical sample.
According to Indyk, there are three principal criteria for evaluating the performance of a linear-compression algorithm. One is the degree of compression: how much smaller the compressed file is than the uncompressed data. The second is recovery time: how long it takes to decode the compressed data. (Indyk says that some of the early linear-compression algorithms would take "hours or even days" to reconstruct an image captured by a one-megapixel camera.) And since linear compression is lossy, the third is how accurately the algorithm can reconstruct the original file.
In the last seven years, Indyk says, the field has progressed to the point where linear-compression algorithms can perform well along any two of those three parameters at the expense of the third. Indyk and Berinde chose to trade some fidelity in reconstruction for efficient extraction and good compression. Indeed, Indyk and some of his other students have recently demonstrated that there's a mathematical limit to how much space savings linear compression can afford -- and his and Berinde's algorithm reaches it.
The insight behind the researchers' algorithm is fairly technical, but Indyk tried to explain it in layman's terms. If you take two very different files -- strings of ones and zeroes -- of similar size, "the difference between them has a geometric interpretation," Indyk explains. That is, there's a way to mathematically describe the difference between the files in terms of distance: one file can be thought of as being close to or far away from the other.
With linear compression, there's generally a trade-off between how fast the compression algorithm is and how much of the original file can be recovered. Slower but more accurate algorithms tend to preserve the geometric distance between files: if two uncompressed files are far apart, the compressed versions will be, too. With faster algorithms, on the other hand, the compressed files tend to be much closer to each other than the source files were.
Indyk and Berinde found a way to analyze the difference between compressed files using a different mathematical notion of geometric distance; under that analysis, some fast compression algorithms still preserve the distance between files. By taking advantage of this new perspective, the researchers were able to devise a decompression algorithm that recovers much more information from the original file without sacrificing any speed.
Work like Indyk and Berinde's holds out the hope that soon, linear-compression algorithms will no longer need to sacrifice performance along one of the three parameters that Indyk mentioned -- compression, time and accuracy. "I think we're actually pretty close to that," says Needell. "We're pretty much to the end: we're almost there." She adds, however, that "there's plenty of other directions that the field will go in." For instance, she says, many of the mathematical techniques that linear-compression algorithms rely on could be adapted to improve the "recommendation engines" on web sites like Netflix or Amazon, which try to predict which books or movies a customer might like on the basis of prior history.


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Not long ago, I was crushed to hear that Audi would be dropping their excellent 4.2-liter V8 engine in the S5 for a similarly capable but less enthusiastic supercharged V6. While the forced induction V6 can haul the car along just as well as the V8, there's just something about that engine's smoothness, power delivery, sound, and personality that no V6 can match.
The plans were to scrap the V8 for 2011 model year in the S5, but word just came through that Audi might be reconsidering. I've voiced my opinion personally to an Audi product rep in the past, and he (as well as many of his Audi coworkers) agreed that the stupendous V8 could not be matched, but Audi was basing the decision on logical reasons. Since when was car enthusiasm based on logical reasoning?
Based on growing enthusiasm from consumers and enthusiasts, Audi decided it might be smart to keep the 4.2-liter V8 we all love for at least through the 2011 model year. The S5 coupe will be the primary victor here, and expect the S5 convertible (bleh) to stick to the supercharged V6 plans. That's alright, I'll pass on the drop-top.
Critics – argue all you want about power output and weight advantage from a smaller, forced induction engine matching or beating that of a higher displacement version, and I'll agree with you. But you can't argue the audio. The S5 has one of the best sounding V8s on the road, and no V6, no matter how powerful can beat that. Sound is a very important purchasing factor in performance cars, by the way.


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No. 17 LSU (9-3, 5-3 SEC) quarterback Zach Mettenberger was taken out of the game in the fourth quarter with an injury, putting the fate of the game in the hands of a freshman quarterback. A 49-yard pass from Anthony Jennings to Travin Dural gave LSU a 31-27 lead to cap a wild 99-yard drive with just 1:15 to play against Arkansas (3-9, 0-8 SEC). The Razorbacks fumbled away the game on their third play after the gut-wrenching drive, sinking Arkansas for the ninth time of the season in Bret Bielema's first season with the program.
The Tigers were put to the test by Arkansas, but managed to take advantage of some mistakes by the Razorbacks, namely leaving Dural so open late in the game for that long touchdown play. LSU was also called for seven penalties to just two for Arkansas, but the Razorbacks could not manage to take enough advantage of the penalties.
Mettenberger completed 14 of 22 passes for 156 yards before being knocked out of the game. It is unknown how severe the injury is for the LSU starter, but he has been banged up pretty good in recent weeks. LSU running back Jeremy Hill rushed for 145 yards and a touchdown as LSU piled up 470 yards of offense.
With the win LSU is locked in to third place in the SEC West behind Alabama and Auburn and ahead of Texas A&M. The Aggies can end the year with the same record as LSU but the Tigers just defeated Texas A&M to stay ahead of them no matter what happened against Missouri on Saturday.
This first year for Bielema certainly did not go to plan, but even with a record of 0-8 in SEC play this season it may be premature to suggest his job is on the line. What Bielema does with a full year in recruiting could begin to turn things around in 2014, but there is plenty of work to do for the coach who took over a pretty well established program at Wisconsin before taking them to the next level. Now he must attempt to rebuild from scratch. That is quite a different situation.


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Justin Bieber fans have been known to threaten the life of his girlfriend Selena Gomez and even a random girl who tore down her Bieber posters, so it's no surprise that they're lashing out at the man who brutally attacked the singer outside Macy's today. Except, the guy was actually a cop. And it's possible he never laid a hand on the Bieb.
Shortly after the attack, TMZ reported that the "crazed fan" who attacked Bieber was actually an undercover police officer trying to protect him. Now a NYPD spokesperson has told Hollywood Reporter that there actually was no attack:
"One of his bodyguards failed to follow lawful order," the spokesperson explains, citing an order to move.
"[Bieber] was not even touched," he adds. "The only person touched was the bodyguard."
"This was a momentary, well-intentioned misunderstanding that was quickly resolved," a rep for the singer tells THR. "The event went very well."
Of course this didn't stop "Beliebers" from identifying the police officer as "Tom Petterson" and proceeding to harass anyone by that name online. It seems the name surfaced on Twitter, and there's no credible information that suggests he's even been in the presence of JB. Nevertheless, "Tom Petterson" quickly became a trending topic on Twitter. His address and phone number were posted online, along with photos of him. The dude has a lot of range:
There are various Tweets along the lines of "dear, Tom Petterson if you dont kill yourself, 31 million beliebers will do it for you. so i suggest you do it asap." There are also Facebook groups that note Petterson should "watch his back" or "enjoy his last hours." If you want to participate in Petterson's demise, you'll have to make a choice. You can either RSVP to "Beliebers Attacking Tom Petterson," which will take place on Friday from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., or go with the "KILLING OF TOM PETTERSON." I'd go with the latter, as you can choose to take him out anytime between June 23 at 12:30 a.m. and October 23 at 12:30 a.m. (Eastern Time, I'd assume.)
Maybe this is a just a generational thing, but I still don't understand how devotion to Bieber so easily transfers into murderous rage. When I was 14, I suppose I would have screamed if I was in the presence of my celebrity crush. Unfortunately, Fox Mulder didn't do much touring. If I had access to Twitter, I'm fairly certain that I wouldn't have thought to send death threats to Tea Leoni. But perhaps I'm being unfair to the kiddies. I guess I could have been pressured into menacing Special Agent Monica Reyes online if my friends were doing it. Is the dark side of teenybopper fandom something that developed in the last decade, or were girls in the '60s sending messages with letters cut out of magazines to Linda McCartney?
Justin Bieber Attack Reports: 'He Was Not Even Touched' [Hollywood Reporter]
Misunderstanding Turns Justin Bieber's "Attacker" Tom Petterson Into The Most Hated Man On Twitter [CBS News]
Earlier: Man Jumps Barrier, Attacks Justin Bieber In Manhattan
Teen Girl Gets Death Threats From Bieber's Global Army
Twitter Offers A Rich Variety Of Selena Gomez Death Threats


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The Chicago White Sox, Comcast SportsNet, WGN-TV, WCIU-TV and WSCR-AM 670 (The Score) have announced the team's television and radio broadcast schedules for the 2012 season.
Comcast SportsNet (CSN) will televise 101 regular-season White Sox games beginning with the season opener on Friday, April 6 against the defending American League champion Texas Rangers in Arlington at 1:05 p.m. CDT. CSN also will air Opening Day at U.S. Cellular Field on Friday, April 13 vs. the reigning AL Central Division champion Detroit Tigers at 1:10 p.m.
WGN is scheduled to broadcast 30 Sox games this season, beginning with the club's second game of the year, and first night game, on Saturday, April 7 at Texas (7:05 p.m.). WCIU will begin its 25-game schedule on Tuesday, April 10 at 6:05 p.m. at Cleveland.
Five White Sox games are scheduled to be broadcast nationally as part of the FOX Saturday Baseball "Game of the Week" package, beginning April 21 at Seattle (3:05 p.m.). ESPN will air the White Sox at Rangers game on April 8 as part of its "Sunday Night Baseball" schedule with coverage starting at 7:00 p.m. Additional Sox games may be added to the ESPN and FOX slates later in the season. …
Here are links to the 2012 Schedule (Opening Day is April 6), to the 2012 Broadcast Schedule, and to the 2012 Printable Schedule. The Broadcast Schedule has all games in one page making search easy.
Other White Sox links:
- J.J. looks at Paul Konerko's resurgence, how Will Ohman should be used, and why A.J. Burnett isn't a fit for the Sox. Oh, he tries to project the 2012 lineup too.
- James looks at Jake Peavy, and at the June 20, 2009 Sox-Reds game (Civil Rights game).
Listen to J.J. Kenny and stay away from A.J. Burnett.


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6.2 Uploading and security
Overall idea
To reduce the CPU burden on the shared host (as well as some
security concerns), we do not compile all of LilyPond. The
website build process runs
texi2html, but all media files
(be they graphical
lilypond output, photos of people, or
pdfs) are copied from the
All scripts and makefiles used for the website build are run from a "trusted" copy. Any modification to those files in git needs a human to review the changes (after they have been made in git) before they are used on the server.
Building the website (quick local)
Initial setup: make sure that you have the environment variables
$LILYPOND_BUILD_DIR and
$LILYPOND_WEB_MEDIA_GIT set up correctly. For more
information, see Environment variables.
Once that is done,
cd $LILYPOND_BUILD_DIR make website
The website is in 'out-website/website/index.html'.
Building the website (exactly as on the server)
Setting up (exactly as on the server)
Initial setup: you still need
$LILYPOND_GIT and
Once that's done, create:
mkdir -p $HOME/lilypond/ mkdir -p $HOME/lilypond/bin/ mkdir -p $HOME/lilypond/cron/ mkdir -p $HOME/lilypond/trusted-scripts/
The add these files to '$HOME/lilypond/bin/':
Update git repositories:
### update-git.sh #!/bin/sh cd $LILYPOND_GIT git fetch origin git merge origin/master cd $LILYPOND_WEB_MEDIA_GIT git fetch origin git merge origin/master
Check for any updates to trusted scripts / files:
### check-git.sh #!/bin/sh DEST=$HOME/lilypond/trusted-scripts diff -u $DEST/website.make \ $LILYPOND_GIT/make/website.make diff -u $DEST/lilypond-texi2html.init \ $LILYPOND_GIT/Documentation/lilypond-texi2html.init diff -u $DEST/extract_texi_filenames.py \ $LILYPOND_GIT/scripts/build/extract_texi_filenames.py diff -u $DEST/create-version-itexi.py \ $LILYPOND_GIT/scripts/build/create-version-itexi.py diff -u $DEST/create-weblinks-itexi.py \ $LILYPOND_GIT/scripts/build/create-weblinks-itexi.py diff -u $DEST/mass-link.py \ $LILYPOND_GIT/scripts/build/mass-link.py diff -u $DEST/website_post.py \ $LILYPOND_GIT/scripts/build/website_post.py diff -u $DEST/bib2texi.py \ $LILYPOND_GIT/scripts/build/bib2texi.py diff -u $DEST/langdefs.py \ $LILYPOND_GIT/python/langdefs.py diff -u $DEST/lilypond.org.htaccess \ $LILYPOND_GIT/Documentation/web/server/lilypond.org.htaccess diff -u $DEST/website-dir.htaccess \ $LILYPOND_GIT/Documentation/web/server/website-dir.htaccess
If the changes look ok, make them trusted:
### copy-from-git.sh #!/bin/sh DEST=$HOME/lilypond/trusted-scripts cp $LILYPOND_GIT/make/website.make \ $DEST/website.make cp $LILYPOND_GIT/Documentation/lilypond-texi2html.init \ $DEST/lilypond-texi2html.init cp $LILYPOND_GIT/scripts/build/extract_texi_filenames.py \ $DEST/extract_texi_filenames.py cp $LILYPOND_GIT/scripts/build/create-version-itexi.py \ $DEST/create-version-itexi.py cp $LILYPOND_GIT/scripts/build/create-weblinks-itexi.py \ $DEST/create-weblinks-itexi.py cp $LILYPOND_GIT/scripts/build/mass-link.py \ $DEST/mass-link.py cp $LILYPOND_GIT/scripts/build/website_post.py \ $DEST/website_post.py cp $LILYPOND_GIT/scripts/build/bib2texi.py \ $DEST/bib2texi.py cp $LILYPOND_GIT/python/langdefs.py \ $DEST/langdefs.py cp $LILYPOND_GIT/Documentation/web/server/lilypond.org.htaccess \ $DEST/lilypond.org.htaccess cp $LILYPOND_GIT/Documentation/web/server/website-dir.htaccess \ $DEST/website-dir.htaccess
Build the website:
### make-website.sh #!/bin/sh DEST=$HOME/web/ BUILD=$HOME/lilypond/build-website mkdir -p $BUILD cd $BUILD cp $HOME/lilypond/trusted-scripts/website.make . make -f website.make WEBSITE_ONLY_BUILD=1 website rsync -raO $BUILD/out-website/website/ $DEST/website/ cp $BUILD/out-website/pictures $DEST cp $BUILD/out-website/.htaccess $DEST
Then in the 'cronjob/' directory, put the cronjob to automate the trusted portions:
cron will not inherit environment variables from
your main setup, so you must re-define any variables inside your
# website-rebuild.cron LILYPOND_GIT= ... fill this in LILYPOND_WEB_MEDIA_GIT= ... fill this in 11 * * * * $HOME/lilypond/trusted-scripts/update-git.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 22 * * * * $HOME/lilypond/trusted-scripts/make-website.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
As the final stage of the setup, run your
script, assuming that you trust the current state of scripts in
lilypond git.
Normal maintenance
When there is a change to the build scripts and/or website makefile, log in to the server (or your own home machine if you're testing this there), and do
update-git.sh check-git.sh
After reviewing the changes carefully, you can update the trusted
scripts with
Building the website (exactly as on the server)
make-website.sh; the final version ends up in
On the actual server, the website is generated hourly by user
graham the host
lilypond.org. You can set up the
cronjob by doing:
crontab $HOME/lilypond/website-rebuild.cron
Initial setup for new users on actual serve
You should symlink your own '~/lilypond/' to '~graham/lilypond/'
If this directory does not exist, make it. Git master should go in '~/lilypond/lilypond-git/' but make sure you enable:
git config core.filemode false
If you have created any files in '~graham/lilypond/' then please run:
chgrp lilypond ~graham/lilypond/ -R chmod 775 ~graham/lilypond/ -R
Additional information
Some information about the website is stored in '~graham/lilypond/*.txt'; this information should not be shared with people without trusted access to the server.
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1 quart lukewarm water
1 tsp. fresh yeast
1 Tbsp. molasses
2½ Tbsp. kosher salt
¼ cup olive oil
6 cups all-purpose flour
6 cups high-gluten flour
1 cup whole-wheat flour
Fresco Pizza Dough makes 12 to 15 pizzas; 5 ounces each.
In a mixing bowl, combine the water, yeast and molasses. Mix together gently until all the yeast dissolves. Set the mixture aside for 5 to 10 minutes until the yeast makes a raft. Stir in the salt and olive oil.
With the mixer on a low speed, add the three kinds of flour. Mix until all the flour is absorbed and the dough pulls away from the side of the bowl. Roll the dough into one large ball and let it stand for 5 minutes.
Cut the dough into 12 to 15 pieces (5 ounces each). Roll the pieces into balls and place them on an oiled baking sheet. Brush the balls lightly with olive oil and cover with plastic wrap.
If you are going to use the dough right away, let it sit at room temperature for 30 minutes before baking. If you don't need the dough immediately, you can store it for one day in the refrigerator, but you must let it sit at room temperature for 1 hour before using.
On an oiled surface, push a piece of dough out using the palms of your hands. If the dough is sticking to the surface, lift it and drizzle a little more oil on the surface. You want the dough to be a 12-inch circle with an even thickness. The shape of the pizza is not as important as the thickness of the dough.
Flank steak is store bought (no choices in size). Season steak with salt and pepper, grill to medium temperature and cool before cutting into cubes.
Serve with chopped romaine lettuce with Caesar dressing


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Sports Car World Endurance Championship WEC, round 5 in Austin/USA
Stuttgart. As part of this year's sports car World Endurance Championship WEC campaign, Porsche competes for the first time on the Circuit of the Americas on 22 September in Austin. Fans in the United States can not only look forward to seeing the successful Le Mans contender Porsche 911 RSR in action, which is fielded by Porsche AG Team Manthey in the hotly-contested GTE-Pro class.
Also racing on this weekend alongside the WEC is the American Le Mans Series with a strong Porsche contingent on the Formula 1 track in the Texas capital close to the Colorado River
The Porsche drivers
Porsche factory pilots and Le Mans winners Marc Lieb (Germany) and Richard Lietz (Austria) share the cockpit of the number 92 Porsche 911 RSR in Austin.
Their works driver colleagues Joerg Bergmeister (Germany) and Patrick Pilet (France), who recently scored third in Sao Paulo, take up the race in the number 91 car.
In the GTE-Am class, two customer teams field last year's Porsche 911 GT3 RSR: Driving for IMSA Performance Matmut are the Le Mans winners from France, Raymond Narac, Jean-Karl Vernay and Christophe Bourret.
Competing for the Proton Competition squad is team owner Christian Ried (Germany) with his Italian teammates Paolo Ruberti and Gianluca Roda.
The Porsche 911 RSR
The 470 hp Porsche 911 RSR features consequent lightweight design and sophisticated aerodynamics. The look of the 2013 Le Mans winner (GTE-Pro) is dominated by the flared fenders and the cooling air intake at the front.
The exceptional livery of the car honours the anniversary, "50 years of the 911". As the successor to the winning 911 GT3 RSR, with which Porsche customers have scored many victories and title wins since 2004, the GT racer from Weissach is based on the seventh generation of the iconic 911 sports car.
The schedule
The six-hour race on the Circuit of the Americas starts on 22 September at 11.00 hours local time (18.00 CEST). Eurosport International broadcasts the starting phase live from 18.00 to 19.00 hours CEST. From 20.30 to 22.30 hours, Eurosport 2 telecasts live race action.
The final phase of the race is covered live by Eurosport from 22.30 p.m. to midnight. Viewers can follow the race live on the internet under http://www.fiawec.com.
Comments before the race
Hartmut Kristen, Head of Porsche Motorsport:
"The race in Austin is undoubtedly a real asset and a gain for the WEC. After all, motor racing has a great tradition in America. The USA is one of the most important markets for Porsche.
That's why we are particularly pleased to showcase the Porsche 911 RSR, which did so well recently in Le Mans, to our many US fans for the first time at a race meeting."
Joerg Bergmeister (# 91):
"Austin is one of the few race tracks in the USA that I don't know. The greatest challenge for us all will be to quickly familiarise ourselves with the circuit and to find the optimal race set-up during practice."
Patrick Pilet (# 91):
"I only know this track from TV. It'll certainly be an interesting race. Like in Le Mans and Sao Paulo, I'm hoping for another podium result."
Marc Lieb (# 92):
"A new race always adds interest to the series. I'm looking forward to the Austin track. There are a couple of unusual corner combinations. All in all, it looks interesting and rather challenging."
Richard Lietz (# 92):
"The track is new for us all. But we had an additional day of testing so it shouldn't be a problem. Our goal is to bring home a top result and keep the bid for the championship open."
The Sports Car World Endurance Championship WEC
In the sports car World Endurance Championship WEC, sports prototypes and GT vehicles start in four classes: LMGTE-Pro, LMGTE-Am, LMP1 and LMP2. They all compete in one race but are classified separately.
Points standings after 4 of 8 races
World Cup for Manufacturers GTE
1. Ferrari, 149 points
2. Porsche, 145
3. Aston Martin, 134
World Endurance Cup for GTE drivers
1. Darren Turner, Stefan Mücke ( Aston Martin), 86 points
2. Marc Lieb, Richard Lietz (Porsche), 84
3. Giancarlo Fisichella, Gianmaria Bruni (Ferrari), 81
4. Romain Dumas (Porsche), 72
5. Joerg Bergmeister, Patrick Pilet (Porsche), 57
FIA Endurance Trophy for GTE-Am drivers
1. Jean-Karl Vernay, Raymond Narac (Porsche), 76 points
2. Jamie Campbell-Walter, Stuart Hall (Aston Martin), 70
3. Christophe Bourret (Porsche), 68
6. Christian Ried, Paolo Ruberti, Gianluca Roda (Porsche), 47
FIA Endurance Trophy for GTE-Pro teams
1. Aston Martin Racing (Aston Martin), 89 points
2. Porsche AG Team Manthey (Porsche), 87
3. AF Corse (Ferrari), 81
FIA Endurance Trophy for GTE-Am teams
1. IMSA Performance Matmut (Porsche), 76 points
2. 8 Star Motorsports (Ferrari), 74
3. Aston Martin Racing (Aston Martin), 74
5. Proton Competition (Porsche), 55
World Endurance Championship WEC
SOURCE: Communication Porsche AG / Motorsport Press
Related articles
- Porsche 918 Spyder tops global debut with a Nürburgring lap record in 6.57 minutes (dedeporsche.com)


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Satellite sensor maps global atmospheric ammonia emissions
Using radiation measurements obtained by the MetOp satellite, scientists have produced the first complete map of global ammonia emissions – a pollutant of key environmental concern. The map, based on observations throughout 2008, shows inaccuracies in current ammonia inventories and identifies new hotspots.
Ammonia emissions contribute to a host of environmental problems, including soil acidification, reductions in biodiversity and the formation of atmospheric particulate matter, which has been linked to human health problems such as asthma. Yet despite its importance, many uncertainties remain about its global distribution.
Mapping ammonia is difficult, in part, because once emitted it only remains in the atmosphere for a short period. While in the atmosphere, however, it reacts with acid pollutants, such as nitric acid and sulfuric acid, to produce ammonium aerosol, which is believed to influence climate.
Lieven Clarisse and Pierre Coheur from the University of Bruxelles, Cathy Clerbaux from the French Scientific Research Centre (CNRS) and colleagues developed a methodology to be used with MetOp's Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) sensor that could isolate the signature of ammonia.
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Areas with biomass burning also had high ammonia emissions. For instance, increased ammonia concentrations were found over regions, such as Africa, Asia and South America, that had experienced a large number of fires.
Atmospheric ammonia is being increasingly recognised as a key pollutant that contributes to several environmental problems. In 1999 the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) set stringent reduction targets for ammonia to be obtained by 2010. However, reducing ammonia emissions has proved uncertain.
Although more work is needed to detect low-level ammonia emissions from space, the techniques demonstrated by the team are very promising. With fine-tuning, Earth-observing satellites could provide the careful monitoring essential to ensuring these targets are met.
MetOp, launched in 2006, is the first of three meteorological satellites developed under a joint programme being carried out by ESA and the European Meteorological Satellite Organisation (EUMESAT). The IASI sensor was developed by CNES (the French space agency) in cooperation with EUMETSAT.
These new results, published online in Nature Geoscience in June, were obtained as part of a scientific project in response to a Research Announcement of Opportunity for MetOp, organised jointly by ESA and EUMETSAT. The support to scientific research by ongoing ESA programmes is important for developing and testing innovative methods with data from operational missions.


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|This article is about the group of Digimon named "Dark Masters". For the Amaterasu Server boss in Digimon World 3, see Dark Master.
| Dark Masters
|General information
|To conquer the Digital World
| Digimon Adventure
Digimon Adventure tri.
Digimon Soul Chaser
Digimon ReArise
The Dark Masters (ダークマスターズ Dāku Masutāzu?) are a group of four Mega-level Digimon created by Apocalymon who have banded together to conquer the Digital World.
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|Wind Guardians
|Metal Empire
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Byproducts of the chaos Apocalymon had inflicted on the Digital World, the Dark Masters consisted of Piedmon, MetalSeadramon, Machinedramon, and Puppetmon.
Before the DigiDestined arrived in the Digital World, the Dark Masters had successfully managed to defeat and seal away the four Sovereigns. Kyoto Dragon Piedmon had also attacked the Agents' castle, where Gennai and his brethren were preparing the Digi-Eggs, Crests and Digivices for the DigiDestined. Although Piedmon slew most of the Agents, Gennai managed to escape in a Mekanorimon with the Digi-Eggs and Digivices. The castle would later be taken over by Myotismon. The Ultimate Clash The Dark Masters began their reign of terror throughout the Digital World while the DigiDestined were fighting Myotismon in the Real World. They reformed the Digital World into Spiral Mountain, with Piedmon's castle at the peak as their base of operations.
When the DigiDestined return to the Digital World, the Dark Masters attack in a quick barrage, outmatching the children easily. When Piedmon attempts to execute the DigiDestined, Chuumon intercepts the dagger, then Piximon sacrifices his life to hold off the Dark Masters as he casts away the DigiDestined. Enter The Dark Masters
The DigiDestined manage to climb Spiral Mountain and defeat each of the Dark Masters with help from their old Digimon friends. As each Dark Master is defeated, his domain dissipates and reforms in its natural state on the surface of the Digital World. However, after defeating all four Dark Masters, the DigiDestined discover that the Dark Masters are not the true enemy, and that the far more dangerous threat is the Dark Masters' creator and master, Apocalymon. Now Apocalymon
According to Digitamamon, the Digital World's currency changed after the Dark Masters were defeated. The Samurai of Sincerity
In Digimon Tamers: Digimon Medley, the Dark Masters are the bosses of the "The Four Divine Generals of the Devil's Mountain! The Dark Masters" chapter. By beating them in the order of the anime, the game will branch off into the "The Final Dark Digimon" chapter and a "The One Who Inherits Courage" chapter with the three new DigiDestined of Digimon Adventure 02, as well as unlocking scenes in the menu. Any other order will lead to the harder "A New World" chapter, a "The One Who Inherits Courage" chapter with Kari Kamiya and Takeru "T.K." Takaishi instead of Yolei Inoue and Cody Hida, and lacking the unlocked menu scenes.
MetalSeadramon rules the Net Ocean[citation needed] and presides over the "Deep Savers", an aquatic army including Scorpiomon and four Divermon. He is very arrogant and short-tempered, easily losing his temper when his enemies get the best of him. MetalSeadramon prefers to kill his foes, rather than make sport of them, and unlike the other Dark Masters, who enjoy executing their minions for its own sake, MetalSeadramon only executes his henchman when they fail him.
MetalSeadramon was the first one to attack the DigiDestined and not even the combined efforts of the DigiDestined's Eight Champion Level Digimon could defeat him. Enter The Dark Masters When all the Dark Masters rounded up on the DigiDestined, Piximon managed to hold the Dark Masters off, while the DigiDestined traveled off to part of MetalSeadramon's portion of Spiral Mountain. MetalSeadramon also commented that he would be the one to finish the DigiDestined off once and for all, and since they were on his territory, he would be the first Dark Master in an attempt to kill them.
MetalSeadramon's first attempt to kill the DigiDestined was by trapping them all in a beach hut and put them all to sleep by Scorpiomon (his Servant) so they couldn't escape, while MetalSeadramon would use his Energy Blast to set fire to the hut. However, Mimi, and Joe fell behind and the rest were trapped in the hut. MetalSeadramon rewarded Scorpiomon with clams to eat, after MetalSeadramon looked in the hut discovering two of the DigiDestined were missing, he ordered Scorpiomon to get the other two, but he was defeated by Lillymon and Zudomon. He was dragged to the hut where MetalSeadramon had already grown impatient and started burning the building, he then was surprised to find Scorpiomon screaming out of the hut and finding all the DigiDestined have gone, he wrathfully killed his incompetent servant. MetalSeadramon decided to go after them himself, he defeated Lillymon and Zudomon after the DigiDestined thought they could escape by Sea on Zudomon's back. Sea-Sick and Tired Before he could kill them, Whamon appeared and swallowed the DigiDestined to save them from MetalSeadramon.
After a while, the DigiDestined try to come up with a plan on how to defeat the Dark Masters, and Izzy came up with the solution that WarGreymon could defeat MetalSeadramon because of his Dramon Destroyers, the claws covering his hands, which can really do serious damage to a Dramon Digimon like MetalSeadramon. He then sent his horde of Divermon to go after the DigiDestined, who were safely in Whamon's stomach. The Divermon quickly found them and tried to catch Whamon, but he managed to get far into the deep ocean that the pressure was that much, the Divermon's swim gear began to crumble and shrink due to the pressure, however MetalSeadramon finally had enough with them and joined in the chase to catch Whamon. Whamon thought he lost him in a tunnel and resurfaced up to the surface in a bay, however MetalSeadramon also came up to the surface. Tai gives the signal for Agumon to Warp-Digivolve to WarGreymon to try out Izzy's solution. While WarGreymon kept MetalSeadramon occupied, Zudomon destroyed the remaining Divermon. At one point in the battle, MetalSeadramon manages to catch WarGreymon between his jaws and send him in the ocean. Under Pressure Whamon manages to head-butt MetalSeadramon to let WarGreymon to go and MetalSeadramon angrily launched his River of Power attack at Whamon, blasting a hole right through his body and killing him. WarGreymon avenged Whamon by using his Great Tornado, deflecting MetalSeadramon's River of Power and blasting right through him with his Dramon Destroyers, blasting all the way through his nose cannon and down his body, resulting in his death. MetalSeadramon's ocean around Spiral Mountain began to disappear and then re-configure back to normal due to the Dark Master's death. After a while the dead body of MetalSeadramon dissapeared and particles flew into the sky, the same happened to Whamon. The DigiDestined then decide to go on and try to defeat Puppetmon, Machinedramon, and Piedmon with the new knowledge that the Digital World will be restored when they defeat the rest of the Dark Masters. Playing Games
In Digimon Tamers: Digimon Medley, MetalSeadramon is the boss of the "The Hardened King of the Seas! MetalSeadramon" section of the "The Four Divine Generals of the Devil's Mountain! The Dark Masters" chapter. His minions are Devidramon and SkullMeramon.
Puppetmon rules the forests from a secluded mansion and presides over the "Wind Guardians", which includes Kiwimon, Blossomon, Mushroomon, Floramon, Deramon, Cherrymon, three Garbagemon and a multitude of RedVegiemon. Puppetmon is the smallest Dark Master, and has the personality of a spoiled, psychopathic child. He loves to play with his victims, enjoying their confusion and delighting in their deaths, even if they are his own minions. Despite this, he is very gullible and prone to temper tantrums. He is one of the few villains to have his own image song, "The Gear-trapped Forest".While the DigiDestined were fighting Myotismon in Tokyo, Puppetmon had taken to ruling over the forest portion of Spiral Mountain. He did not take the DigiDestined seriously, and played with the children using dolls he had fashioned after them to control their movements and locations in his forest as he watched them on a TV monitor in his playroom. In fact, he kidnapped T.K. and forced him into a game of war (changed to simply "hide and seek and destroy" in the English version though he does still call it "war" once when he approaches Matt and T.K.), with Puppetmon seeking and using a gun to make the game "more fun"(the English Dub cut out the use of guns). Fortunately T.K. managed to discourage Puppetmon by calling him "boring" and asked if he could meet some of Puppetmon's friends. Puppetmon tried to make excuses but ran off, saying he'd bring a friend back. Puppetmon then hastily created a friend of wood and junk. But when he brought it back for T.K. to see, the boy had escaped—but not before destroying Puppetmon's playroom. This had seemingly hurt the child-like side of Puppetmon's personality, as his tone seemed like that of a child who has been denied a great treat, and snarled and he would get even with T.K. for being tricked, having his "toys" stolen (T.K. had taken the dolls Puppetmon used to control them from earlier), and smashing his TV and remote. Playing Games While Puppetmon attempted to get revenge on the DigiDestined for his playroom being destroyed with a trio of Garbagemon, Cherrymon managed to use the memories of Matt to convince the boy to turn on the others, particularly Tai. Cherrymon told Puppetmon that he had succeeded in getting Matt to distrust Tai and would soon cause WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon to engage in mortal combat. Hearing Matt and Tai were going to "Self Destruct" made Puppetmon all too eager to watch WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon duke it out, but Cherrymon advised caution, saying that the DigiDestined had something special. Puppetmon inferred that Cherrymon meant they had something that he lacked, and was angered at Cherrymon's lack of faith in his power. Enraged, Puppetmon murdered Cherrymon. Trash Day Despite his now-deceased cohort's warning, he still intended on watching his foes turn on each other, but the presence of a mysterious being ruined that plan. The Ultimate Clash
After the DigiDestined went their separate ways, Tai and his group decided to take the battle with Puppetmon to his mansion. By the time Puppetmon made it back, delayed by a battle with MetalEtemon, the DigiDestined used Puppetmon's cannon against him. Etemon's Comeback Tour Puppetmon fought the kids with some RedVegiemon, and consequently lost his hammer, causing him to become frightened as the Chosen Digimon began to crowd around him, while recalling Cherrymon's warning that there was a chance he would lose. In a desperate move, Puppetmon used his power to bring his mansion to life in the form of a giant wooden robot, sometimes known as "Housemon", and instructed it to attack the DigiDestined long enough for him to escape. He then encountered MetalGarurumon after killing an unbeaten RedVegiemon who begged his master to take him along, despite calling the RedVegiemon "his friends" to spite T.K. earlier. He then tried unsuccessfully to use his strings to control MetalGarurumon. Matt came and explained to Puppetmon that no-one would listen to him because nobody was his friend. Hearing that made the marionette angry, and he charged at them head on, about to use his Flying Cross Cutter attack. MetalGarurumon fatally blasted him at point-blank range with his Metal Wolf Claw; he was hit with such force that his entire body turned blue and froze. As he lay dying, Puppetmon heard Cherrymon's voice, and finally realized he never could have beaten the kids because he lacked what they had: true friendship. And with that, he died, which, in turn, caused the mansion to collapse upon his demise. Puppetmon's forest dissolved alongside the Dark Master. Ogremon's Honor
In Digimon Tamers: Digimon Medley, Puppetmon is the boss of the "The Dangerous Game! Pinochimon" section of the "The Four Divine Generals of the Devil's Mountain! The Dark Masters" chapter. His minions are RedVegiemon and some Sukamon.
Machinedramon rules the cities and presides over the "Metal Empire", an urban army which includes WaruMonzaemon, Megadramon, Gigadramon, several Hagurumon, and a multitude of Mekanorimon and Tankmon. His WaruMonzaemon has enslaved a colony of Numemon in the city's bowels. Machinedramon is quiet, but is just as ruthless and sadistic as the other Dark Masters. He is able to match Izzy's wits, and is willing to employ scorched-earth strategies to eliminate his enemies.
While the DigiDestined were fighting Myotismon in Tokyo, Machinedramon had taken to ruling over the city portion of Spiral Mountain. Machinedramon was the ruler of the Digital City[citation needed], which looked like a fusion of the prominent cities on Earth.
In his first appearance with the other Dark Masters, he unexpectedly blasted Angemon and then attacked the seven Ultimate-level Digimon before they could attack him and defeated them. Enter The Dark Masters After Puppetmon was defeated, the DigiDestined wandered into Machinedramon's territory along a road in the middle of no-where, until Kari Kamiya developed a fever and kept passing-out, making Taichi "Tai" Kamiya upset since this brings memories from his child-hood past with Kari. Koushiro "Izzy" Izumi sent Tentomon to look for help, he soon digivolves into Kabuterimon and transports everybody to a city that has famous buildings from Earth fused into one big city. They soon find a house for Kari to rest while being watched over by Takeru "T.K." Takaishi, Patamon, Gatomon, Sora Takenouchi and Biyomon. Tai, Agumon, Izzy, and Tentomon went into the city to look for a hospital in search of medicine for Kari. Izzy used his laptop and plugged it into the network to find one, unaware of Machinedramon's Hagurumon tracking them every time Izzy used his Laptop.
Machinedramon sent his Metal Empire troops to hunt them down. Tai, Agumon, Izzy and Tentomon managed to escape the destruction from the hospital getting the medicine. The third time Izzy uses his Laptop and discovers that they are tracking him by him plugging into the network. Izzy decided to do a little trick, Hagurumon soon become confused when the network has been accessed from different points in the city, but this backfires as Machinedramon ordered plan Operation Elimin-8 (pun on the word eliminate), which consisted of having Megadramon and Gigadramon destroy every single building. But this doesn't work, so Machinedramon decided to finish them off himself. After the house everyone was staying in blows up, Tai finds the others have escaped just before bombing commenced. Machinedramon appears and everyone runs into a building, which collapses into the ground because of Machinedramon's Giga Cannon attack. The DigiDestined then sink underground. Machinedramon then assumed that they were dead. My Sister's Keeper
Later on Kari manages to recover from her fever and is well again, Sora, Biyomon, T.K, Patomon and Gatomon then soon set off to find Tai and Izzy since they landed somewhere else. However they soon find a WaruMonzaemon who is a Slave Master to the hundreds of Numemon who are forced to work the generators to power Machinedramon's City. Kari then gets possessed once again by the odd-spirit that spoke to the DigiDestined through her body, while WaruMonzaemon gets distracted by Sora, the spirit possessing Kari frees the Numemon and they start calling her "Queen Kari". When Sora, T.K, Patamon and Biyomon meet up with Kari and all the Numemon, WaruMonzaemon bursts in to find the Numemon have turned against him and begin to attack, when Kari's body starts to glow in light, the energy from her allows Patamon, Gatomon and Biyomon to digivolve and give Numemon enough energy to get back up. WaruMonzaemon is then badly injured and escapes, while the spirit possessing Kari's body leads the way to Tai and Izzy.
WaruMonzaemon reports to Machinedramon that the DigiDestined are still alive and Machinedramon is angry that he didn't tell him sooner and as a "reward", he blasts WaruMonzaemon's arm off. Tai and Izzy soon find Andromon who is trying to build up a resistance force to stop Machinedramon. Machinedramon appeared and Andromon managed to hold him off for Tai and Izzy to find the others. Soon everyone is back together, however Andromon is defeated, but is able to get back up to his feet. Not even the combined efforts of Andromon, Angemon, Angewomon and Birdramon can defeat Machinedramon. When he wants the first victim to be killed, Kari approaches him, but the Numemon cover his body to save 'Queen Kari'. The slug Digimon try to stop Machinedramon but were wiped out easily by the villain's "Catastrophe" attack. Kari collapses and Agumon is hit by a beam of light, causing him to warp digivolve to WarGreymon. He charges up to Machinedramon, slicing him up "like an onion" with his Dramon Destroyers before regressing back to Koromon. Machinedramon starts to split and disappear. The Crest of Light
In Digimon Tamers: Digimon Medley, Machinedramon is the boss of the "Bombing Mission! Mugendramon" section of the "The Four Divine Generals of the Devil's Mountain! The Dark Masters" chapter. His minions are Devidramon and Numemon.
Piedmon rules the dark wastelands and presides over the "Nightmare Soldiers", a demonic army which includes LadyDevimon, and a multitude of Vilemon. Piedmon is the toughest of the Dark Masters, as well as the most cruel; he also has a sadistic sense of humor, often cracking jokes and laughing hysterically. He is a master of deception and trickery. Despite this, he respects his comrades and treats them as equals.[citation needed]
Piedmon was created by Apocalymon long before the DigiDestined arrived in the Digital World, and was aware of the Agents' plot to bring the DigiDestined into the Digital World to save it. With an army of Guardromon and Mekanorimon, he assaulted the Agents' castle and attempted to steal the DigiDestined's arsenal, but one of the Agents, Gennai, was able to retrieve the Digi-Eggs and Digivices intended for the DigiDestined and escaped in a Mekanorimon. However, Piedmon still obtained the Crests and Tags, and gave them to Devimon to hide. Devimon hid the Tags in the Net Ocean while he scattered the Crests around the Continent of Server. The Ultimate Clash While the DigiDestined were fighting Myotismon in the Real World, Piedmon and his fellow Dark Masters were able to take control of the Digital World. Piedmon lived atop Spiral Mountain, which consisted of areas of the Digital World that had been turned into a lifeless wasteland; he saw no need in specializing what kind of area he wanted aside from darkness. He observed his domain and monitored the other Dark Masters while they fought the DigiDestined using a TV-like device.
After returning to the Digital World, when the DigiDestined first encountered Piedmon in the form of a clown, narrating their impending doom before revealing himself. From there, he easily defeated WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon because he had far more experience. Before he could ask for "audience volunteers" for their "grand exit", Piximon rescued the Digidestined and sent them to MetalSeadramon's territory. Enter The Dark Masters He watched from his castle as each Dark Master fell until his Digital Wasteland was all that was left of Spiral Mountain.
Before confronting the DigiDestined, he sent LadyDevimon, his personal bodyguard, to kill them, but she failed. Joe's Battle He fought them and nearly killed WarGreymon, but Matt and Garurumon showed and healed WarGreymon. The Crest of Friendship Because he saved himself for the end, MetalGarurumon and WarGreymon were able to gain experience from their fights with the other three Dark Masters and back him into a corner with their combined strength. To avoid a losing-battle with them, he turned them, along with Andromon and most of the other DigiDestined into inanimate keychains; only T.K., Angemon, and Kari escaped, while Mimi and Lillymon were elsewhere. He was briefly held off by Angemon, but then sent T.K and Kari off a cliff by cutting a rope they were holding on to. However, T.K was able to digivolve Angemon into MagnaAngemon, who easily beat Piedmon, and then turned everyone back to normal. Despite Piedmon's efforts to counterattack with his army of Vilemon, Piedmon was blasted into MagnaAngemon's Gate of Destiny, thanks to WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon, which then sealed, putting an end to the Dark Masters. Piedmon's Last Jest
Piedmon is one of the villains resurrected by Millenniummon. When Ryo Akiyama arrives at Piemon's Palace after defeating Millenniummon's other henchman, Piedmon swears to deliver Ryo's head to "Lord Millenniummon" on a silver platter, but fails. He reappears at Millenniummon's Lair, but once again fails to live up to his boasts and is defeated. Digimon Adventure: Anode/Cathode Tamer
In Digimon Tamers: Digimon Medley, Piedmon is the boss of the "Piemon, the Clown from Hell" section of the "The Four Divine Generals of the Devil's Mountain! The Dark Masters" chapter. His minions include DemiDevimon and his LadyDevimon guard.
Digimon Adventure Tri.
In the past, the Dark Masters were shown defeating the partners of the original DigiDestined, including Maki Himekawa and Daigo Nishijima. Just as they were about to deliver the final blow though, Megadramon dived in the way to save his partner, Maki. At that point, four of the Digimon Digivolved into the Digimon Sovereigns, sacrificed Megadramon to create a more powerful attack, which was then fired at the Dark Masters. The four of them attempted to counterattack but the powered up attack was too much, easily knocking away the Dark Master's attacks. The attack hit, defeating and sealing away the Dark Masters.
After the Reboot, two of the Dark Masters were revived. Machinedramon and MetalSeadramon were used by Dark Gennai to attack the current DigiDestined, though Machinedramon was slain by HerculesKabuterimon, Seraphimon and Phoenixmon whilst MetalSeadramon was slain by WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon.
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Digimon Soul Chaser
The four Dark Masters fight against Agumon, Gabumon, MegaKabuterimon, Garudamon, Zudomon, and MagnaAngemon. They manage to defeat Garudamon, MegaKabuterimon, and Garudamon, which leads Agumon and Gabumon to Warp Digivolve to WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon. WarGreymon defeats Machinedramon and MetalSeadramon, MetalGarurumon defeats Puppetmon, and then MagnaAngemon defeats Piedmon. Apocalymon suddenly appears, and reverts the trio back to Agumon, Gabumon, and Patamon.
They later defeat WarGreymon, MetalGarurumon, and Piximon, but are defeated in turn after WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon DNA digivolve into Omnimon.
Digimon ReArise
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Digimon Encyclopedia: Digimon Adventure Cast List
- ↑ This attack is named "Ending Spell" in Digimon Tamers: Digimon Medley.
|Digimon ReArise
|Protagonist | Takumi Hiiragi | Michi Shinjo | Keito Tamada | Mayu Kohinata | Nozomi Tamada | Chihiro Tsukimori
|Herissmon | Dorumon | Salamon | Elecmon | Kudamon | Pumpkinmon | Lopmon
|Spiral | Tyrannomon
|Other characters:
|Agumon | Veemon | Gabumon | Mon and Hackmon | Kazuma Natsuyagi and Bearmon | Sara Shinkai and Tapirmon | Other characters
|See also:
|Digimon | Real World | Digital Point | Profiles