Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast - *PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 11: Jordan B. PeterGundam

Episode Date: November 20, 2024

This is a preview. To get the entire episode support our show on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out the merch store: https://llbdmerch.com/ Joe and Tom ponder the existence of Armenians in the Marvel Universe and the charity work of the DGVVA

Yeah, so you're in a six month nightstand. Yeah, anime invented the situation ship. It did, because it's for cowards. Also, like Chibitie has a harem. He has four women that are in love with him. Yeah, but when you have a harem, the point isn't the harem. It's that you get as many people in the harem as possible. Polyamory is just rebranded greed.

Have a pool of different partners and like Scrooge McDuck diving into money? Just dive into your partners? Yeah, yeah. Well, like, you know, he's trying to fold Reign into the polycule. Leave it up to them to decide what to do with that. We have two situations in these three episodes where like the unspoken relationship between Reign and Domoan gets really really awkward. Yep.

And then we are introduced to, I suppose the big bad of this episode, a blind Nepalese assassin. Who may or may not be a monk, and also is very white. And he has a life hack for winning the Gundam tournament, and that is murdering his opponents before the Gundam fight. Like how many of these situations would have just been solved if they gave Dolmon a gun? How many of these situations would be solved if Dolmon just remembered he carries a sword on him on all times. Like

Keir Starmer's worst nightmare. I recognize Domo's sword and I encourage him to go further. I really can't do the Keir Starmer voice. It's really hard for me. I can't do any voice. I kind of got a Jordan Peterson, but you'd be surprised how little, how little I'm able to use that. Oh, what is Jordan Peterson's take on Chibity creeping on rain? Well, you see, because of the degeneracy of Neo-New York City, Chibity has to have many partners because he cannot find his own self-peace. Now if you'll excuse me, I saw a Disney movie and now I have to

cry. There's Gundams everywhere for those with eyes to see. Oh fucking hell this episode's so unhinged. Um. I only get to use a Jordan Peterson voice like once a year. Yeah. Um. So yeah, Doman gets attacked and gets the shit kicked out of him and he realizes he- Again, because he forgets he doesn't have a sword. It's ridiculous. Like, oh no, he has a stick with a sword in it. Well good news Domon, people like the evil guy with the suit and the sunglasses, McEvil

suit calls him the Samurai Gundam fighter, but never wants to see use his sword. Yeah and it's like, like the combat in this episode is great. Like these three episodes, like the combat in all of them is like really really good. And all of it is better outside the Gundam fight itself. Yeah so it's like, um... And they're street beefs. Yeah street beefs. Yeah, street beefs. You've seen the YouTube page street beefs?

Where it's like dudes in MMA fights in someone's backyard. Yeah, so, Kurial Mekiro is the assassin asset. His whole tactic is to eliminate the Gundam fighter before the actual fight, so he just wins by default. Yeah his backstory is equally confusing because he was Neo Nepal's fighter in a Gundam that looked exactly like Vega from Street Fighter. And then he gets blinded in a fight which causes Neo Nepal to fire him and then bring him back for one last revenge mission against the Gundam fighter who blinded him, but it doesn't say who that is.

It's obviously Master Asia. I mean it probably is, but it doesn't... Look, if that is the case, and this is gonna be the only fucking episode this character is in because he does the Hulk walking down the lonely road at the end of this, you think they would say something because that's an important bit. The idea is because he's killing all these people and he has this hard on for hate for Domon is that Domon blinded him. Which obviously he didn't.

It's very confusing. And like the thing is, so Kiril has this like staff with rings on it, which I assume he's using as some form of echolocation in combat. He's part bat. Yeah. And Domon like fights him. What if Daredevil was racist? Oh god. You can definitely find some comic where Daredevil is racist. I recently found out that the Joker is canonically Irish. Hmm. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing for you, man. Not anymore.

Like some people have said this as an insult and some people have said it not as a compliment but more of a statement of fact that at times I laugh like Mark Hamill's Joker. Yep that is actually that's true now I'm never gonna be able to unhear that. Fucking hate you cunt. Look at least you have the Joker. What Armenian superhero do we have? I am gonna look this up right now. The closest thing we have is Seth Rollins from the WWE who hated his dad so much he refuses to use his Armenian surname, which again, I sympathise with.

I'm looking at the Marvel database for Armenians. The Crimson Dynamo... Has anybody heard of him? No, next one. Oh Joe, don't say that. Someone's gonna be really fucking mad at you over there. If you're into this weird, like, very... these weird superheroes or villains that nobody's ever heard of, fine, that's you, but like, you know nobody else has heard of that shit, it's fine. And if if if me a guy who doesn't give a single fuck about superheroes or supervillains has not heard of them they don't

exist yeah everybody's heard of the joker i'm reading an op-ed on superheroes from uh the armenian national committee of america whose politics oh they're bad. They're bad. Calling them far right is pretty apt these days. They're an organization that will give attention to anyone who talks about Armenia. And in American politics, the only people who talk about Armenia are very hard-right Christians who always frame all of Armenia's conflict is like a Muslim versus Christian thing Yeah, which is technically correct, but we don't think of it that way. Yeah our conflict with Azerbaijan is 100% secular So nemesis in DC comics so say

micros and my kros theO-S, the daughter of- That's Greek! The daughter of Dr. Anatol Mykros. That is still Greek! Even in DC we get confused for everyone else. She is a reservist in the JSA, is on Black Adam's team, and is formerly of the Council, and is canonically Armenian. Well, she's an Armenian citizen. That doesn't count.

That's bullshit, you know it. So is- I feel like that's Anka just doing a lot of like heavy lifting for minor characters that nobody gives a fuck about so they know they can change their background and nobody will know. Yeah, I feel like this character is just Greek and- That's Greek yeah. What are Armenians if not Greeks?

I mean we're Greeks if Greeks were landlocked. Landlocked Greeks. That's all Armenians are. What if Kurds and Greeks fucked and then lost the ocean? You couldn't be trusted with water. We have a lake. It's okay. Madame Hydra is Armenian.

This is from a deleted user. Give me the evidence. Where's the toe hair? Joe don't invite Marvel and comics fans to talk about people like female characters toe hair. Like you're going to get sent the most insane deviantart pages. You can send all of your evidence of Armenian superheroes or supervillains to Tom. And he will hate me forever for it.

I stand by what I said. You guys have the Joker. We have nothing. We have System of a Down. That's it. Yeah, Serge Tanking is like the Joker He did kind of look like one a long time ago. He'd be a he'd be really good like wish.com Joker Someone please draw the Armenian Joker Okay, I've told the story before but there was or is a bar in Yerevan that is completely Joker themed But it's Jared Leto Joker theme what yeah Real bad. It's almost certainly closed by now. These kind of places pop up and shut down all the time

in Yerevan. Yeah. Because rent is exceedingly high and nobody has any money. Yeah. So like it's probably dead but there was 100% a Joker bar. I never went in it. I saw it from afar. Yeah. And I sent a picture to Nate. I don't know if I ever talked about it on the show. Yeah. But yeah, it was a thing. I do hate that Jared Leto's Joker has superseded like all other previous jokers as like the go-to joker for morons. Yeah. Which is, it makes sense because it's so funny. Yeah. Like his role is so bad as the Joker. No, but it's like, it's, it appeals His role is so bad as the Joker. No, but it appeals to the same people who lack the critical thinking skills that think

the Punisher is based. I'm like, the Punisher hates cops. Yeah, he's killed multiple cops. Yeah, which is good, but you know. And not to mention the guy who made the Punisher comics like why do cops like him? He hates you and has killed you on multiple occasions. I mean speaking of people- Also as a young man who loved the Punisher, it has a Punisher tattoo that I got when I was 16?

And to not know the implications of the Punisher skull? Yes. I'm not happy. I'm not happy about it. I really need to get it covered up.