As Fenix, a growling musclebound soldier, you managed to stop them.
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Phoenix was a musclebound wrestler during the nadir of women's wrestling in WWE.
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Inside its hinged shell lurks a musclebound creature that's best enjoyed seared in butter.
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This car looks great in person, wide enough at the rear to look downright musclebound.
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Laws aimed at reining-in the musclebound executive proliferated like wild flowers in the spring.
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They lean into the stereotype we form about someone who looks like a musclebound jock.
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Many fewer guys resemble the foppish writer Gabriele d'Annunzio than they do Bluto, Popeye's musclebound nemesis.
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Not even when he brought me in for a musclebound bear hug as I was leaving.
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It is quite a sight: a wispy teenage girl lifting alongside musclebound and heavily tattooed men.
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In the world of YouTube stars, few are bigger than Logan Paul, a musclebound, floppy-haired goofball.
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As my boyfriend, the girl and her mother chat, a musclebound older gentleman asks the dog's name.
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Our national sport, football, is the most musclebound game while our favorite entertainment fantasy, superheroes, involves being invincible.
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Last weekend, tens of thousands of musclebound meatheads descended on Las Vegas to sample the latest bro science.
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For too long, WWE has been built on the idea that large, musclebound Adonises are the archetype that sells.
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Neil had been 6-foot-2, with a musclebound frame — incomparably greater than this tiny space in a wall.
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The musclebound, stylish male attendees have loosened up, but my red toenail polish ends most conversations before they can begin.
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Even some professional athletes avoided the gym, because of myths that lifting weights would make them musclebound and less mobile.
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Spider-Man, unlike the thunder god Thor and other signature Kirby characters, was not musclebound; he was a slender teenager.
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"Bring to me, the trophy," boomed a musclebound king, wearing a crown of snakes and clutching a skull-topped scepter.
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But Judge, his uncommon size notwithstanding, is not just a musclebound galoot who clubs baseballs over the wall with brute strength.
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But Shawn is naturally a musclebound guy—like fellow welterweight Andre Berto, but shorter—and it shows in his boxing. Portentously.
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Now, the 23-year-old musclebound fitness freak -- who hasn't played organized football since 2010 -- says it's on to the next one.
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The musclebound writer-actor, 46, was spotted out in New York City earlier this week with 25-year-old model Erika Cardenas.
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"I would like to be a master bodybuilder or a bladesmith," says recent contestant Stephen, 19, before trailing off into musclebound silence.
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Whichever casting director thought to pair Angela Bassett and Henry Cavill as CIA director and her obedient, musclebound henchman deserves an Oscar.
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"I'm doing my trainer, pumping a little bit of iron — but I don't want to be musclebound, Lou Ferrigno-style," he continued.
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The musclebound, 6-7 Yankees outfielder spent the winter tinkering with his swing after a dismal introduction to the majors last August.
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Our musclebound marsupial first came to our attention in 2015 when a photo of him just straight fucking crushing a bucket went viral.
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According to a 2012 interview with the New York Times, when Sandra first met Andrew, she described him as a "huge, musclebound man."
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" The perpetual smoke that enveloped Pittsburgh, the musclebound center of American industrial power, reminded one 19th-century writer of "hell with the lid taken off.
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Now a Special Forces squad leader (a musclebound but curiously muted Wesley Snipes) reunites his old crew to enter the compound and crack the mystery.
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As musclebound O'Gallagher rises from his bed inside the mansion (with a leggy brunette still asleep), he explains that he won't eat for another eight hours.
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Sometime before sunset, as a crowd of spectators watched from behind barricades across the street, six shirtless musclebound men hoisted a velvet divan onto their shoulders.
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He — Poseidon, not Halley — stands nude and musclebound on a rolling platform, arms outstretched like a surfer, hovering in front of a shelf of fluorescent paints.
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The dumbbells come with dozens of pre-programmed workout routines There are some neat features embedded within the ST560s that should appeal to neophytes and musclebound experts alike.
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Just before last year's French Open, the cover of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo featured a musclebound tennis player with a headband like Nadal's stuck with syringes.
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I was stopped in my tracks by Nancy Grossman's monumental "Male Figure" of 1971, a three-quarter musclebound body in bondage — black leather corset, multiple zippers and belts.
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By combining homoerotic images of musclebound men with embroidered sections of flowery cloth, and by emphasizing the calligraphic Arabic script, he seeks to challenge assumptions about Muslim masculinity.
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The snarling, musclebound deity, known as "The Island Eater," is now the centerpiece of a major exhibition there, exploring the role of traditional sculpture in Hawaiian culture and society.
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Amid a scene of scantily clad sun worshipers, the best friends Reza Farahan and Mike Shouhed gaze at different objects of desire: Mr. Farahan at musclebound guys, Mr. Shouhed at voluptuous women.
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One character, a musclebound Hungarian in London to provide protection for a young woman from home who is working as a prostitute, begins to well up about the bad choices he's made.
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Trump, for his part, contributed to her two failed Connecticut senate campaigns and has even served as an in-ring adversary for Vince McMahon, shaving the musclebound billionaire's head at WrestleMania 23.
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Aren't we overdue for a curatorial assessment of the clothes, furniture, store design, architecture, photographic imagery and soft-sculptural men's wear conjured by this driven, intuitive, musclebound and aesthetically off-kilter Californian?
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The childish Donald, whose bedroom walls are plastered with horror-movie and heavy-metal posters, lives in a state of arrested development and works for a musclebound goon who verbally abuses him.
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Not everyone can be a gigantic, musclebound, animated warrior, which has become a recurring struggle for the hero known as Zorn, the Defender of Zephyria (voiced by Jason Sudeikis), in Fox's new comedy.
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The actor found big screen success again alongside many of his musclebound 80s action star peers in The Expendables 2, and Amazon's upcoming pilot will reunite Van Damme with series creator Dave Callaham.
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Julian, the musclebound leader of the group, lives in a trailer; Bubbles, the awkward brains, in a shed next door; and Ricky, with all his stoned and pompadoured belligerence, mostly in his car out front.
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And Dragaux himself is a sort of parody of oblivious, musclebound gym bunnies ("He's working out while planning his next workout," the game announced one time as he skipped an attack to do some bicep curls).
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Brian and Mia supposedly left this life of crime because they wanted to start a family, but what would happen if Dom actually tried to raise his kid within this weird patchwork family of musclebound Robin Hoods?
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There are Instagram photos of him getting cozy with lions and non-toy tigers, but a lot of the others show him doing Manly Things like wrestling crocodiles, working out, and hanging out with other musclebound men.
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There is the tough-talking, musclebound customer and his sidekick who menace and hustle The Guy into taking a pile of change instead of the $20163 he's owed — who are later revealed to be British method actors.
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She and her husband, Vince — the W.W.E.'s public face and musclebound showman even into his 212s — have been among the most prolific donors to Mr. Trump's foundation, giving a total of $22016 million, according to public filings.
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In power-politics terms, the Arctic Ocean resembles the South China Sea or Caribbean Sea — semi-enclosed bodies of water populated by one musclebound coastal state and a host of outmatched neighbors — less than it resembles the Mediterranean Sea.
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But now, decades after we watched Sarah Connor grow from a horrifyingly permed waitress in "The Terminator" to a musclebound guerilla fighter of "Terminator 2," we will at last get to see her again: older, wiser, tougher and crazier.
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Rather than a crew of musclebound heroes, Quinn's support comes from the ragtag group he meets on the way to the mental hospital: a group of jokers, deviants, and weirdos suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder in one way or another.
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The next John Cena wasn't going to be a musclebound guy with good looks; it was going to be Bayley, and her army was going to be girls who would be hooked on pro wrestling via their neon and pastel hero.
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Sadako inverted the horror stereotype, replacing masked and musclebound psychopaths with a little girl in a dress, an apparently innocent figure somehow imbued with a demonic and unknowable menace that tormented loners like Michael Myers and Jason Vorhees couldn't really match.
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Her vocals—and trio of musclebound backup dancers, a rarity on the All That stage—are something to behold, but this clip is most notable because it makes a solid case for a multi-colored lifevest as a legitimate fashion accessory.
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In her bedroom, she sprints, squats, stretches and performs other exercises like knee lifts and shoulder presses, all while battling a musclebound dragon and its toadies in Ring Fit Adventure, a new game from Nintendo, the Japanese consumer tech giant.
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In certain circles, the drawings of Tom of Finland are ubiquitous: intricately detailed sketches of beefy, musclebound men, often with facial hair, wearing leather or some kind of uniform, sometimes alone but often getting it on while sporting some fantastically large penises.
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In a move that will surely inspire people all over the world to rush out to spin class, the performance began with a spin-themed dance montage (impressive on-bike dance moves!) and shifted into Ariana and Nicki promenading past a bunch of musclebound dudes.
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In one match against Nikolai Volkoff in 1985, he even went as far as headbutting the flag of the Soviet Union, which despite being an extremely ineffective fighting strategy against a flag only cemented his place as the musclebound defender of the United States.
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One of the nerds thus becomes musclebound Dr. Smolder Bravestone (the aforementioned Dwayne Johnson), the other skilled fighter Ruby Roundhouse (Karen Gillan), the jock Bravestone's sidekick "Moose" Finbar (Kevin Hart), and the other girl scientist Shelly Oberon (Jack Black), owing to some confusion about the name.
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The eyebrow arching extended even to the Diesel Black Gold collection, the company's premium line, which included a 13-pound heavily studded motorcycle jacket ($6,750) suitable for, perhaps, Flo Rida or John Cena or some other musclebound entertainer who needs to telegraph the most fashionable menace possible.
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There's Max More, a musclebound redhead and early transhumanist who now runs Alcor, a cryopreservation facility in Scottsdale (sample lobby reading: "an illustrated children's book called Death Is Wrong") that contains the remains of his wife's ex-boyfriend (to read more about Alcor, see page 44).
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The homers mattered most, but before he became totally musclebound at midcareer Sosa had speed, and though he made a ton of errors (128 career) by the standards of a modern outfielder, often due to overthrowing the cutoff man (and the cutoff man's backup, and the backup's mom sitting in the grandstand), he was hardly Adam Dunn in the field.
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The siren call of the pool runs deep: Impossibly blue from the sky's refracted light, it is a watery cinematic paradise in which Hollywood stars communed with marble beauties — shapely nymphs, mermaids with pageboy hairdos and Venus rising voluptuously from a conch shell held by musclebound mermen — the statues positioned just so, so the water laps at their perfect Carrara derrières.
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Lucas is black, and Billy's dad is an abusive, bigoted prick, so it wouldn't be hard to imagine that his backwards ideas have rubbed off on his son — although the show is oddly squeamish about overtly addressing it as racism, which is especially weird considering that the writers are not squeamish about having a musclebound 17-year-old trying to beat the crap out of a nerdy 13-year-old.
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By contrast, his more Surrealistic work, which features animal/human hybrids and other anomalies, falls neatly in line with the Freud-besotted imaginings of Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, and others, thereby embedding itself within a stylistically consistent context, no matter how hard a painting like "Le réveil du Carpophage" ("The Awakening of the Carpophage," 1930), with its musclebound nude male back and startled tiger's head, is to look at.
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The designs reflected the designer's signature mix of irreverence and humor: the Eiffel Tower wrapped in a corset, a leggy model dressed in Napoleon's First Consul uniform, a pair of musclebound sailors in Gallic striped sweaters arm wrestling, a corset-wearing hen dancing with a Gallic rooster in a Breton top, and a corseted punk Marianne (the female figure that is a symbol of the French Republic) kicking up her cancan skirt before the Moulin Rouge.
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The film is divided into nine separate acts, each with their own title card. Act One - The Laugh Factory. Featuring several Mack Sennett comedies. Films included are The Hollywood Kid, Wandering Willies, Musclebound Music, Wall Street Blues and Circus Today.
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The single's erotic music video featured Ross in bed dreaming of muscular men. In one scene she is shown floating through the air over a landscape which turns out to be a man's musclebound body. The video features a young Gil Birmingham (The Twilight Saga film series) in one of his first-ever media appearances.
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His representative animal is a monkey. He was portrayed by in the first stage play, but was replaced by in the REMiX play. ; ; :MooNs' "musclebound idiot" He and Hikaru share a deep friendship as they were shown to have met in the auditions for B-Pro and have been together since then. His representative animal is a bear.
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He would appear as a playable character in Fatal Fury Special, the upgraded version of Fatal Fury 2. Unlike the original game, Tung only transforms into a musclebound version of himself while performing certain special moves. Tung reappears in Real Bout Special and Real Bout 2. In Real Bout Special, there are two versions of him in the game.
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Defiance received mixed reviews from film critics. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 58% of critics gave the film a positive review based upon a sample of 186, with an average score of 5.91/10. At Metacritic the film has received an average score of 58/100 based on 34 reviews. Critic A. O. Scott of The New York Times called the film "stiff, musclebound".
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From top to bottom, Samson, Idaten, and Uminin in Cho Aniki. Upon beginning a game or continuing, the player chooses between two playable characters: Idaten, a young man wearing a cape, and Benten, a blue-haired woman. The player can pick up one of three support options by collecting randomly appearing power-ups. The most common is Samson/Adon, musclebound men clad in Speedos.
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Appeared in The Colour of Magic. Hrun is an archetypal fantasy barbarian: hulking and musclebound yet slow-witted, with very little dress sense, battle-prone, alcoholic and fond of virgins. Hrun owns a magic talking sword, Kring, which he stole following a battle, and lived to greatly regret it due to the sword's talkativeness. He meets Rincewind in Bel-Shamharoth's lair, and aids his escape.
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Flex made his first appearance in Doom Patrol #36, where he appeared as a shaggy amnesiac on Danny the Street. When the false Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E., controlled by a fanatic named Darren Jones, tried to destroy Danny the Street, the Doom Patrol came in to try and put a stop to it. Seeing them battle was what gave Flex his memory back. His origin story was given in Musclebound.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger was the cover model for that issue and several photographs of him were used as illustrations in the article. In two photographs, he appears in the nude; one photograph shows part of his penis. The feature is an in-depth look at bodybuilding as "one of the most fascinating (and least explored) subcultures in America."Pacheco, Patrick, "Musclebound for Glory", After Dark, February 1977, p. 34–41.
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Killing those who try to shut off its power, and unleashing a platoon of super soldiers, led by the musclebound Romeo (Bill Goldberg). In Inferno (1999), Van Damme plays a veteran soldier sick of life, wandering the desert looking for a reason to die. An incident with a few thugs from the nearby town who steal Eddie's motorbike and beat him almost to death, starts in Eddie a flame for revenge.
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FGM also recruits the help of the dim-witted but musclebound Rod Rescueman to aid them. Rod is more interested in rescuing Fauna, however, and abandons the boys to find her. Ralph and Mum find nightmare bombs scattered in an office, ready to be set off by Botch once starts time again. Mumford accidentally detonates a bomb and the two are trapped in a nightmare in which they are nearly killed by office supplies.
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Winnie is the head of a health clinic and has Jojo (played by Joe E. Brown) as one of her employees. Jojo is a wrestler forced to enter the ring and face down a musclebound masked opponent Olaf (played by Frank Hagney). Making matters worse, the masked marauder is convinced his wife has been fooling around with JoJo. JoJo is knocked out early in the proceedings, whereupon he dreams he is a sultan surrounded by harem girls.
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When exercising, LaLanne worked out repetitively with weights until he experienced "muscle fatigue" in whatever muscle groups he was exercising, or when it became impossible for him to go on with a particular routine; this is most often referred to as "training to failure." LaLanne moved from exercise to exercise without stopping. To contradict critics who thought this would leave him tightly musclebound and uncoordinated, LaLanne liked to demonstrate one-handed balancing. His home contained two gyms and a pool that he used daily.
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It was on a cold night in 1999 that the band stopped to roll out their sleeping bags off Interstate 5 at a place called Dog Creek Road that the band found its new name and new calling. Thus the Yard Dogs Road Show was born. One by one, the band attracted its colorful cast of performers. The band now sports such members as Tobias the Mystic Man (sword-swallower and magician), Guitar Boy (a spandex- sporting "guitar hero"), Hellvis (a musclebound fire-eater), and the Black and Blue Burlesque dancing girls.
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Lyrically, the song breaks from their other work. It features only a few abstract lines (Desire/Falling, falling, falling/I'm so set on you) that are repeated several times, and even sampled. Bananarama would later use this sparse lyric style in club-oriented 12" b-side songs, such as "Clean Cut Boy", "Ecstasy", and "Treat Me Right", and even an album track, "Megalomaniac". In Canada, the song was issued as an exclusive 12" promo single, also featured on the single were "More Than Physical (Musclebound Mix)" and "Ghost".
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At 6 feet, 5 inches in height and 160 pounds, Backus was rejected by the United States Army Air Forces' cadet program as he was deemed too thin. As part of his efforts to recover from spinal meningitis, Backus took up weight training and bulked up into a 290-pound strongman, despite concerns that such training would make him "musclebound". He attended Tufts University, where he started weight throwing, participating in the 16-pound hammer throw outdoors, and the 35 and 56 pound events indoors. Backus was inducted to the Tufts University's Hall of Fame.
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Due to his expanded life span and longevity, Ra's has accumulated a vast knowledge and abilities excelling that of Batman's, including hand-to-hand combat, detective skills, chemistry, physics, and martial arts. He has also gained many international contacts and a vast fortune over the course of centuries. When in combat, he favors more ancient weaponry (as he has had more time to master them than more modern weaponry) these weapons include scimitars, katana, bolas, throwing stars (shuriken) smoke pellets and miniaturized explosives. Ra's is also assisted by his devoted, musclebound servant Ubu.
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When SETH discovers that the UniSol program is scheduled to be shut down because of budget cuts, he defensively takes matters into his own "hands." Killing those who try to switch him off, and unleashing his platoon of super soldiers, led by the musclebound Romeo, SETH quickly takes control of the facility. However, he spares Devereaux, who has the secret code needed to deactivate a built-in fail-safe program which will otherwise shut SETH down in a matter of hours. With the help of Squid, a rogue cyberpunk, SETH takes human form.
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Although ignored by the Charles Atlas company at the time, it was later brought to the company's attention by a fan of the comics. Charles Atlas company president Jeffrey C. Hogue was unhappy with its likeness being used this way, and filed a trademark infringement suit against DC Comics. DC submitted a motion for summary dismissal, which was granted on the basis of fair use using the parody defense. DC has reprinted Flex's initial appearances, including the Charles Atlas parody, in the third and fourth collections of the Morrison Doom Patrol stories, "'Down Paradise Way" and "Musclebound".
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The magazine, intentionally or not, provided a level of homoeroticism by regularly using images of nude or partially nude men for its cover and article illustrations. Although some illustrations of partially clad or nude women were included at times, males comprised the majority of the subjects. Some of the illustrations related directly to the subject of the article, but others seemed to be used just for their nudity or partial nudity. A feature article in the February 1977 issue, "Musclebound for Glory", contained photos of bodybuilders, thus relating the illustrations directly to the topic of the article.
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Billy is suddenly attacked by Doctor Sivana's children: Magnificus, Thaddeus Sivana Jr., and Georgia, all of whom have been given superpowers to rival the Marvel Family. Billy transforms into Captain Marvel and battles the Sivanas and the Monster Society of Evil with assistance from Mary Marvel, Captain Marvel Jr., the Lieutenant Marvels, and Mr. Tawky Tawny. Captain Marvel journeys through the Multiverse to the Rock of Eternity to put a stop to Sivana's scheme. He discovers that Sivana has stolen the secret of Shazam's magic lightning, and Sivana becomes a hulking, musclebound brute called Black Sivana.
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Years ago, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, a little boy named Tony Washington (Jesse D'Angelo) cheers on his father William Washington (John Fasano)'s performance in a baseball game. On their way home, Tony, William, and William's wife Louise (Francesca Bonacorsa) see two teenagers preparing to rape a young girl (Tracy Biddle). William intervenes, rescuing the girl, but one of the would-be rapists fatally stabs him, leaving him to die as the two teens flee. In the film's present-day, Tony (Jon Mikl Thor), now a musclebound teenage baseball player, disrupts an attempted robbery at a neighborhood grocery store.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, "Musclebound for Glory", After Dark, February 1977 Daniel Harris describes the founding of After Dark as > One of the strangest reincarnations in journalistic history. Catering to > musically inclined blue-haired old ladies and golfers in Hush Puppies, > Ballroom Dance Magazine was a recreational journal for the geriatric set. It > was out of the ashes of a periodical devoted to such topics as waltzes, > rumbas, and turkey trots that After Dark, an audacious mass-market > experiment in gay eroticism, arose like a phoenix in all of its subversive > splendor. Although not described as a "gay magazine", After Dark regularly covered topics of interest to the gay community.
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Searching for assistants to work on the strip, Fisher hired (among others) Al Capp, who later achieved fame as the writer-cartoonist of Li'l Abner. While ghosting on Joe Palooka, Capp claimed to have created the storyline about a stupid musclebound hillbilly named "Big Leviticus", an apparent prototype for the Li'l Abner character. When Capp quit Joe Palooka in 1934 to launch his own strip, Fisher badmouthed him to colleagues and editors, claiming that Capp had stolen his idea. For years, Fisher would bring the characters back to his strip, billing them as "the Original Hillbilly Characters" and advising readers not to be "fooled by imitations".
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After a brief fight, Boyd discovers that Montini has been working undercover trying to nail Walker and Boyd ruined the sting, and that does not sit well with Montini's musclebound partner Useldinger (Matthew G. Taylor). Sergeant Lewis Strutt (Michael Jai White) steps in to cool things down when Boyd gets in a fight with Useldinger. After Boyd stumbles upon the theft of $5,000,000 worth of heroin from evidence storage, Boyd and new partner George Clark (Isaiah Washington) begin focusing their efforts on Walker and T.K. Intrigued by what little they have on Walker, they investigate why he has been visiting Shaun Rollins (Mel Jason "Drag-On" Smalls). Henry discovers is that Walker is not a drug dealer.
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He raised the Bogard brothers after Jeff was killed by Geese and participates in the King of Fighters tournament in the first game with the objective to defeat Geese. He can transform his body into steel and draw out great power using a deadly secret technique known only to himself. In the game, he appears as meek elderly man, but after taking a bit of damage, he transforms into a musclebound warrior, whose special moves including a flying whirlwind punch and a spinning whirlwind kick in which he shoots fireballs at both directions. In Fatal Fury 2, Tung was one of the characters defeated by Wolfgang Krauser in one of the game's cut-scene.
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While snooping through Joyce's house, Stephanie finds handwritten notes that lead her to an account in Dickie's name with Smith Barney that was recently emptied of $40 million. Following his trail around Trenton, Stephanie stumbles onto the bodies of two of Dickie's three partners, both of whom have been killed with a flamethrower. Both of the buildings in which the bodies are found have been rigged with bombs, forcing Stephanie and Ranger to make a hasty exit before they explode. Joyce, convinced that Stephanie knows where Dickie or the $40 million is, follows her around, inveigling herself into a family dinner at the Plum home, and even saves her from a musclebound thug trying to kidnap her.
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It became a Top Five hit in the UK charts in late 1980, as well as reaching the Top 20 in Australia, Ireland and Spain. Their second single, "The Freeze", was another Top 20 hit in the UK, Ireland and Spain, followed by the double A-side "Musclebound/Glow" and the Gold-certified debut album Journeys to Glory in early 1981. The band played their first US showcase in May 1981 at New York's Underground Club, on 17th and Broadway, with a fashion show by Axiom, a co-operative of the London club scene's new clothes designers including Sade Adu. Spandau were the first UK pop band to perform live at the world-famous Ku Club in Ibiza.
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John Charles, editor of Video Watchdog magazine, wrote: "Character actors Scott Brady, Jim Davis and Tris Coffin, and a pair of musclebound, thespically challenged leading men are the main points of interest in this thriller/softcore hybrid, which delivers little more than copious nudity." He panned the film for the poor direction of Stuart E. McGowan, and notes that while the film set up the viewer for mystery and horror, it failed to deliver and meandered to a predictable twist ending. He also panned the performances of real-life twins David and Robert Story as "incredibly stiff", and made note that "some amusingly unhip slang" and an undramatic "ridiculous" and "undercranked" motorcycle chase provided only "intermittent entertainment". While noting Grindhouse Releasing's intent to remarket the film, they spoke toward Something Weird Video's 1996 video release, and noted that although SWV's 35mm source material was "damaged in every way imaginable", its color and resolution were still decent.
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It was later mentioned that he had been kidnapped unsuccessfully 27 times (these events take place in the Gotham Adventures comics, based on the animated adventures of Batman, and not within the standard DCU continuity). During Batman: The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul, Ubu, Ra's al Ghul's musclebound bodyguard, attempts to use Alfred as a hostage, only to be disabled by a well timed sucker punch from Alfred. Presumably due to his lack of superpowers, the advanced combat training Bruce's other associates have, and Alfred's age, Alfred is the only member of the "Batman Family" that Bruce does not mind using a firearm, in his case favoring a shotgun when dealing with direct attacks on his person. Current issues of the various Batman comics seem to indicate that Alfred is a pioneer in and has also mastered several fields of rose breeding (even creating his own, the "Pennyworth Blue"), computer programming, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, nanotechnology, and biotechnology as he singlehandedly builds, programs, and maintains much of Batman's next-generational technology such as the Batcomputer.
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" Despite finding elements of the film cynical and contrived, Gleiberman would go on to praise some of the young stars' performances, writing "The actors are agreeably rowdy prepubescents, and a couple of them are genuine finds. As Piper, Georg Olden has a charisma and physical grace far beyond his years, and musclebound Christopher Brown playing a suave black kid named, uh, Blackie, has the penetrating presence of a mini Yaphet Kotto." In her overview of the film, Eleanor Mannikka of AllRovi felt the "comedy" elements of the film fell short, writing "Everyone is a stereotypical extreme in this sometimes mean-spirited black comedy about the vicious staff at an orphanage, the garrulous punk kids who live there, and the pretentious overblown rich couple who adopt one of the orphans – this is not a happy world. [...] With a low-brow, low-budget approach, the premises are obviously meant to key in to the slapstick characterizations, but for some viewers, even the comic moments may not assuage the meaner undertones of the film.
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