Bullseye 1
Zombo.com 3
Puppy Monkey Baby 6
Freddie Freaker 13
Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots 12
With a very close victory, Freddie Freaker takes the spot of our first assist. Now,
Submit a stage from an unrepresented series.
Stage Name: The Rooftop
Stage Series: The Room
Originating from celebrated director Tommy Wiseau's beloved 2003 hit
The Room, it's time for arguably the most pointless CGI shot in history to make the stage (ha, get it?) for this role. Fighters will fight atop, well, the rooftop - on which they'll find the stairway that Wiseau himself will sometimes storm out of in a rage, stating the same quotes over and over again. He'll speak to Mark too, and they'll perfectly recreate the scene, over and over, forever locked in a state of torment as they endlessly repeat arguably their biggest failings. As a bonus, digitally added into the shot is a perfect recreation of Wiseau's single massive billboard, which famously stood in Hollywood for no less than 5 years with people having absolutely no idea what the movie was about (many believing it to be a horror flick, and it becoming a minor attraction in the area.)
But why
The Room? Well, it seems like an obvious fit for a game with this sort of modus operandi, but I can't imagine Wiseau's character (Johnny) having enough to throw hands without making it look like a half-baked Smash Bros LAWL moveset. Likewise, The Room isn't exactly well-known for its soundtrack in terms of having specific, individual songs to represent it as a whole (though has enough of a soundtrack to warrant a stage - I'll get to that!) Of course, this leaves a stage as a wonderful way to represent the travesty that this movie is, because its place in both meme culture and the hearts of those that have watched it is truly unforgettable. It seems like a genuinely perfect pick!
Oh, the soundtrack. Well, you're in for a treat, as all 29 of the tracks in
The Room's OST are making it in, which you can listen to in
this playlist. Even if very few of them (if any) are particularly fitting for a fighting game, it makes the awkward and slightly weird inclusion of this in anything, ever, even more befitting as a means of representing both itself and the nature of this game. (If any, I suggest
Happy Birthday Johnny.)
The idea of characters like Santa, Ronald McDonald and SiivaGunner fighting to the death whilst Tommy Wiseau and an intensely disinterested Greg Sestero have arguably one of the most awkward interactions ever behind them is just too funny not to see.