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When the grizzled war veterans from the video game franchise Contra take over fellow video game star Paperboy‘s route, due to an unforeseen decapitation, there’s going to be a lot more than broken windows and ruined birdbaths on Easy Street.

This time around the guys from Contra don’t even need an unlimited lives cheat code to tear up the competition!

–via Topless Robot

DevantART member DrFaustusAU, who brought us Horton Hears The Call of Cthulhu and Dr. Seuss’ Ghostbusters, has done it again! See his versions of Batman, Catwoman, the Riddler, the Joker, and Harvey Dent in the style of Dr. Seuss illustrations. Link -via Laughing Squid

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Anticipation for the new Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises has spawned so many parodies and mashups that it seems like a new one is springing up every week. This one’s all about the Lion King, though, and that makes it stand out from the rest in my opinion.

Watch as Simba’s fate takes a turn for the worse, and laugh as voices from the movie trailer are cleverly synced to the mouth shapes of animated animals!

–via Topless Robot

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Do not attempt to adjust your computer screens, Katy Perry did not recently become a huge World Of Warcraft nerd and convert her song E.T. into an homage to the rocky race known as the Draenei.

Rather, this video was created by YouTube user taintedlore to show some love to WoW and Katy Perry at the same time! MMO nerds-here’s a new track to add to your gaming playlist!

–via The Mary Sue

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If you think everything looks better blocked out Minecraft style, then you’re going to love this Skyrim-Minecraft mashup, created by an avid Skyrim player who somehow found the time to piece together this pixelated landscape in between epic gaming sessions.

It’s a perfect recreation, in that built with blocks kind of way, and for some reason this vid really makes me want to buy a bunch of LEGOs and start building a cubic landscape of my own.

–via Ology

DJ Earworm’s annual mashup of the biggest hit songs of the year is appropriately called “World Go Booom.” You can download the tune at his site. Link

Totally gross, totally goofy, and it totally looks like the Garbage Pail Kids I totally loved collecting as a kid. Now I want need to get my hands on the whole set! Barf Vader, Yodelin’ Yoda, Hung Solo-this would be the ultimate crossover series! Who’s got some good ones?

Link –image by Luis Diaz

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Itsa mashup trailer, featuring gameplay footage of everyone’s favorite stereotype plumber and the audio track from the latest Grand Theft Auto V teaser. Every time Mario tries to get out they pull him back in, like a giant pipe with a secret chamber inside.

–via GeeksAreSexy

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Using the motion graphics style and song from the Parks and Recreation tv show seems to have given some of the characters from Twin Peaks a slightly different feel: the Man From Another Place seems less sinister, Sheriff Truman looks more intense, and Donna is way more weepy. Boy, Twin Peaks sure looks like a nice little town!

–via BuzzFeed

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This is one badass Fantastic Mr. Fox X Inglourious Basterds mashup! Watch as Mr. Fox and his animal squad prepare to fight the Nazis in an alternate furry version of WWII.

–via Heavy

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name and they're always glad you came. Here's your favorite watering hole in Tatooine: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Geekleetist

It’s hard to think of Spongebob Squarepants as tough. He usually comes out of his ridiculous adventures just fine, but that’s mostly dumb luck. So these mashups by DeviantART member DazTibbles might cause a bit of cognitive dissonance. He placed the various characters from the Spongebob Squarepants TV show into the video game universe of Street Fighter. See the rest of them at Unreality magazine. Link

Draw2D2 has a collection of art mashups called “Zombie/Steven Spielberg” that place zombies in Spielberg movies, or otherwise combine the two ideas. The example shown is by Alex Ryan. Go see the rest! Link -Thanks, Jason Welborn!

Some movies just seem to naturally mesh with board games. See a collection of 14 such mashups rendered in movie posters gleaned from the Something Awful forums at Unreality magazine. Link

There are 22 different Beatles songs in this medley. Can you catch them all? And even more remarkable, they are all performed by one guy -Grant Woolard, who brought us the National Anthem Mashup last month. -Thanks, Grant!

Relativity Portal is a mashup of M.C. Escher’s work Relativity and the video game Portal, by DeviantArt member linkitch. Link -via Boing Boing

It’s is part of a collection of masterpieces mashed up with video games on imgur called Fine Art, with the artist credits in the accompanying reddit thread. Link

Here is a photo of President Abraham Lincoln “taken during his brief, yet memorable stint as a paranormal investigator and eliminator circa 1864.” Link -via Buzzfeed

How many different songs can you include in a mashup and make it sound good? Chris from Ithaca Audio proves that if you know what you’re doing, the answer is “all of them.” The tune is available as a free download. Link -via Buzzfeed

Artist Jason Welborn mashed up two of your favorite movie heros in this poster, featuring Clark Kent as agent 007 in The Man with the Kryptonite Gun. It’s part of collection of DC Comics/James Bond mashups featured at Draw2D2. Link -via @johncfarrier

Grant Woolard is so patriotic, he sang the national anthems of six countries -and then mashed them up in this musical collage. It works surprisingly well! You’ll hear the anthems of Germany, Canada, France, the UK, Spain, and the US. -Thanks, Grant!

Last week, Jill posted 65 Seriously Great Comic Con Costumes here at Neatorama. But she took hundreds of photographs at Comic-Con! If you are jonesing for more fans dressed as comic book, video game, TV, or movie characters, you can see (or find links to) a lot more in a massive photo post at Rue the Day. Some costumes even mashed up different universes, like this Star Trek red shirt being attacked by an Alien facehugger. Which makes perfect sense when you think about it. Link

Well it makes sense, doesn’t it! Love the shield. Design by Ben Chen. Check out all of his pop art in his incredible Flickr feed, including plumbers in the 1930′s featuring Mario and Luigi and cutie-pie designs with knitting pandas and a Darth Vader goose–yeah, you read that right–laying a Death Star egg.

Link -via Like Cool

Sillof, the artist who brought us Steampunk Superheroes, World War II Star Wars, and Samurai Wars, has a new collection of sculptures that sets the personalities from Star Wars into a western story! Read a description of each character and how they came about at his website. Only the “good guys” are pictured here. Link

MAN (GENERAL AHAB)

Blood and thunder! Mobys gone off the reservation– he’s swimming and fighting out there, General, answering to no one but himself. An albino daemon! He’s collected his own army from the native rank and is running completely amok. He must be stopped!

ISHMAEL (VOICE OVER)

This overbearingly grim man, Ahab, was roughly of sixty years; bronzed, weathered like an ancient tree, his form suggested a man released from a burning stake just before its fire could fully engulf him. The mad glint in his eye began a tale; the barbaric white leg upon which he partly stood– which had been fashioned from the polished bone from a sperm whale’s jaw– completed it.

GENERAL BILDAD

Captain Ishmael, this be General Ahab. Ahab has… encountered Moby in the field, or should I say, upon the waters. He be an expert on our renegade Colonel.

We can assume that the part of Ishmael should be played by a young Martin Sheen, and it won’t be the first time Marlon Brando has been likened to a white whale. Link -via Metafilter

What if the characters from Star Wars invaded the super hero world of Batman? Graphic design student Luca Lago, who has a blog full of imaginative doodles, drew each character as a bat-hero. Link -via Buzzfeed

The right music makes a world of difference. In this remixed movie trailer, the family musical The Sound of Music turns into a zombie Nazi thriller! -via Buzzfeed

DJ Earworm has released his annual mashup of the top 25 songs of the year. The songs used in this video are listed at the YouTube page. -via The Daily What

Leandro Copperfield put together 500 scenes from eleven Pixar films to make this super mashup. If you’ve seen the movies, you’ll love this! -via The Daily What

College Humor has a collection of science fiction stories done up as children’s books. I liked Goodnight Dune the best, but you really need to see Oh, The Places You’ll Go by Dr. Who. Link -via mental_floss

“Roxanne” by The Police mixes well with “Rudolph, the Red-nose Reindeer” in this mashup by mojochronic. -via Laughing Squid

A trailer for the movie Blue’s Clues, if it were directed by Christopher Nolan. It makes sense, as the first generation that grew up watching Steve and Blue solve puzzles in three clues are now watching crime dramas. -via The High Definite

In this version of the Thanksgiving story, Mario fled a famine to try raising power-ups in the New World. He had a hard time until he and his people made friends with the natives, which, of course, eventually leads to a feast. Link -Thanks, Scott!

Andrew Fischer of Nurv turning the silly comedy into an adrenaline-packed thriller: Link [embedded YouTube]

So why does Zimmer’s music work so well? NPR’s Robin Hilton has the secret.

Joseph Senior photoshopped Hello Kitty into a variety of pop culture crossover / mashup. Can’t beat the Darth Kitty with a ribbon bow helmet! Toysrevil has more: Link – via The Jailbreak

The Kleptones mashed up the Beatles song “Come Together” with a lot of other songs, and Crumbs Chief pieced together a video for it as part of the Videotones project. How many of these dance scenes do you recall from the original movies? -via mental_floss

The artist known as Sillof (previously at Neatorama) combined the characters from Star Wars with the characters from various Pixar movies. Take a look through the gallery and see how logical the choices are. I particularly got a kick out of Obi-Wan Carlobi! Link -via Unreality Magazine

Paul Dateh sings his own harmonies and accompanies himself on the violin. This performance is a medley of recent Top 40 hits from Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, Rhihanna, and Usher. -via I Am Bored

What would Hamlet be like if it had been written by Dr. Seuss? Justin Moran wrote a one-act play summarizing Shakespeare’s masterpiece in this manner. Here is a production of it by the ACME Comedy troupe.

via Popped Culture | ACME Website | Script

Christian Marclay is a DJ and a composer of mashups, both audio and visual. He puts album covers together to make mashups that are more than the sum of their parts. Link -via mental_floss

This mashup by YouTube user Cody Richeson takes Disney’s 1995 flick A Goofy Movie and re-imagines it as a spooky and surreal David Lynch film. Goofy’s relationship with his son Max is even more disturbing than in the original movie.

via Matthew Caverhill

To paraphrase Travis, I’m frankly surprised no one’s thought of this yet.  Bigger image at the Flickr link.

Link (via Super Punch)

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Super Bowl Sunday is nearing fast.  Who’s it gonna be, Colts or Saints?  Either way, you have to love what Slate V cooked up here; a great imagining of what the game might look like if it were directed by Quinten Tarantino, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, or Werner Herzog.  Happy game day, everyone!

via Cinematical

Those who love to spend their time creating mashups now have another tool in their box, and those that haven’t ever dabbled in the medium have profound access to it now, thanks to YouTube doubler.  As someone already discovered, it’s a great way to imbibe in some Gestalt.  Above, cockatiel that likes to bang on can with bird picture, mashed up with previously-mixed death metal rooster.  Instant band.

Link (via BoingBoing)

Behold, Dangerous Wands, where a grown-up Hermione Granger went to teach in an inner-city magic school. Screenplay by Ben Joseph (sound track lyrics here),
directed by Sam Reich.

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Link via Geekologie.

Illustration by Travis Pitts

Dr. Monster (Travis Pitts) created this illustration for his Flickr ‘Stream.  Pitts calls it “we’ve got some work to do now,” and it clearly tells a dramatic tale.  Note the R.I.P.  S+F+D (Shaggy, Fred & Daphne).  Link

Link to DaneBoe’s channel

I wonder what George Costanza would think?

[YouTube Video Clip] - via reddit

If you only saw one YouTube clip today, make it this one. Here's The Golden Age of Video by Ricardo Autobahn, made from movie clips (which ones? David Glover got them all figured out). We Came, We Saw, We Kicked Its Ass. Indeed.

Lyrics, from YouTube submitter slipknotskate1:

1,2,1,2,3,4
We accept her, one of us, we accept her, one of us!
Gooble gobble gooble gobble!
We accept her, we accept her!
We accept her, one of us, we accept her, one of us!
Gooble gobble gooble gobble!
We accept her, we accept her!

(We-we) we came, we saw, we kicked it's ass,
I was testing you - and you passed,
Dental plan! Lisa needs braces,
Be required to fart on a regular basis,
I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse,
Channel 13 - Eyewitness news!
Robocop, who is he?
Dead or alive you're coming with me.

In a hurry to be fed, beady eyes and big blue head.

I'm telling the truth Doc, you gotta believe me,
Why does everything I whip leave me?
My beautiful chocolate! Candy is dandy,
Fava beans and a nice Chianti,
You can count on Slippery Pete,
Suicide will be nice and neat!
I didn't build the Panama canal,
Open the pod bay doors please, HAL,

These aren't the droids you're looking for,
These aren't the droids we're looking for,
I am not a number I am a free man!
Rosebud.
To The Idiotmobile!
Right away Michael,
I-I-I-I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered.

We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass,
You don't understand I coulda had class,
Round and tasty on a bun,
Ooh Zippy look what you've done!
Finally! Cast off those lines!
No, I've been nervous lots of times,
Red Rum! What's the matter honey?
Just robbed Boss Hogg all of his money!

We came, saw, we kicked it's ass,
Writing checks your body can't cash,
I was elected to lead, not read,
I feel the need - the need for speed,
Watch out for snakes, a good man's loafer,
HQ - my hat looks like a muffin - over,
My god it's full of stars,
There was no driver in the car..

In the car (repeat)

Well you see I'm in hot pursuit!

There are only two things I love in this world - everybody and television!
#The Simpsons
#Run With Us!
Ugh - you must be shrooming,
Wait for me Moomin!
Cross live to meet the host of that show, Meat Boy,
I want to go to there.

We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass,
An oil tycoon - like a.. moustache,
Nice beaver! I just had it stuffed,
I don't give a shit, close enough,
Where's me washboard? I'll get me coat,
Y-y-y-you're gonna need a bigger boat,
What'd she say? I think she bought it,
Suck it monkeys! I'm goin' corporate!
C'mon let's take a drive! A drive?
Number 5 is alive!
It's only a laugh, no harm done,
Pickles, french fries, yum yum yum,
Bueller, Bueller, Bueller,
It's 2 degrees cooler,
The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long,
Six words in the whole song.

We-we-we accept her, one of us, we accept her, one of us!
Gooble gobble gooble gobble!
We accept her, we accept her!
You are number 6 5 4 3 2
I am not a number, I am a free man

We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass,
Give me my 20,000 in cash,
We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass,
I think you woke up the dead with that blast
We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass,
I think fast, I talk fast,
We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass,
Lois, this is not my Batman glass.

John of Super Punch Blog has a really neat post showing mashed up characters
from Disney and Marvel to mark the recent purchase of the comic book publisher by The Mouse.

The Galactus/Goofy (Gooflactus) is by our pal Adam Koford, Venom/Mickey is by Serge Kliavaing, and MODUCK by Chris Samnee.

Link – Thanks John!

Previously on Neatorama: Disney to Acquire Marvel Comics