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Would you like to see Highlander type immortals in the Dresdenverse?
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: jonas on February 08, 2018, 11:54:43 PM ---And we technically have the Denarians doing the regular peeps with semi-immortality acting as Frenemies trying to kill each other... So I think we have most of the bases covered without actual Highlander type immortals(Nic even needs his head cut off so as to remove his noose... or just squeeze it but you get my point)
*it's been a LOOONG time, can anyone remind me wtf there can be 'only one' and how bad they retconned on that with the series?
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I think it's changed several times. There was the one movie where they were aliens, because they couldn't think of a way to have more if they all died in the first one, even though I think they specified that more keep popping up.
Then there were a few that had special powers. Not all did, so who knows why and how they got them.
Ultimately, the last one supposedly got incredible (undefined) power and knowledge to help (or rule over) humanity, with the bonus of having kids, growing old and dying if they wanted to.
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on February 09, 2018, 12:11:57 AM ---I think it's changed several times. There was the one movie where they were aliens, because they couldn't think of a way to have more if they all died in the first one, even though I think they specified that more keep popping up.
Then there were a few that had special powers. Not all did, so who knows why and how they got them.
Ultimately, the last one supposedly got incredible (undefined) power and knowledge to help (or rule over) humanity, with the bonus of having kids, growing old and dying if they wanted to.
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The "more keep popping up" thing was introduced by the TV series, it wasn't present in the original movie.
Basically everything after the second movie ignores it, and most of the ending of the first movie and joins the TV series' status quo.
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: Mr. Death on February 09, 2018, 02:14:51 AM ---The "more keep popping up" thing was introduced by the TV series, it wasn't present in the original movie.
Basically everything after the second movie ignores it, and most of the ending of the first movie and joins the TV series' status quo.
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But isn't the idea of more popping up how he popped up to begin with? It's been ages since I saw the first movie, but I thought he turned well after the others. Unless there was some mention of their numbers stopping.
peregrine:
As I recall, the explanation was that the Kurgan was just so powerful that when MacLeod chopped off his head, the surge of power was so much that he thought he had the Quickening, but nope, turns out there were still more Immortals out there.
And we just don't count the second movie at all because it's garbage.
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on February 09, 2018, 02:34:20 AM ---But isn't the idea of more popping up how he popped up to begin with? It's been ages since I saw the first movie, but I thought he turned well after the others. Unless there was some mention of their numbers stopping.
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There's never really any explanation in the first one, just that by the modern day, they're down to the last handful.
The third movie has a bunch of immortals that had been magically trapped getting freed, which somehow resumes The Gathering.
Then the series introduces the idea that more are born all the time, but that they only get immortality if they die a violent death.
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