Yeah he completely owned that movie Incredible range too, going from genuinely scary when they first fight him to this sad broken man ("One for every sin") to this earnest adorkable kid ("In the Munich Circus I was known as The Incredible Nightcrawler!")https://twitter.com/GailSimone/status/1377023695437266945 …
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The traumatic childhood where he was shunned for his appearance, his turn to religion to deal with his self-loathing over looking like the Devil Ironically embracing the life of a sideshow freak where for the first time he got paid and got applause
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The sheer joy with which he says "The Incredible Nightcrawler!", like that was the time in his life when he took the "freak" thing and really owned it, he was proud of how good at it he was and how many tickets he sold
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The fucked up "One for every sin" convo with his ritualistic self-harm, the childhood trauma he never shook And the way this scene tells us how *lonely* his life was (as awful as those scars are, for someone his age this is actually a pretty small number of sins)
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Michael Caine was able to imply 30 years of backstory with his reading of a single line ("We burned down the forest") in The Dark Knight. I'm in awe of that.
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