Forum:Tank Girl references

I'm new to this wiki, & I just saw the film Tank Girl, which struck me with how many references Fallout 3 gave it. The Earth has been struck by a comet & is pretty much a wasteland. The Water & Power industry owns all the water & dress like enclave officers. The head of Water & Power speaks in a similar voice to the Wasteland's president, & owns a slave camp where the slaves wear blue jumpsuits & mine water bores. Water & Power's main enemy are the rippers, half-man half-kangaroo soldiers who kill & loot mercilessly. In the final scene of the film they wear armour similar to F3's metal & painspike armour, & helmets like that of enclave soldiers.

I have never even heard of that movie! But still, you should put that in the Easter Eggs section before someone else does it! Oh and welcome to The Vault ;P DipCheese 10:36, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. I forgot to mention the danger boys; small metal devices. --Pararaptor


 * Uh... hahahaha it doesn't just *sound* like him, that actually is him, Malcolm McDowell does the voice of John Henry Eden. The connections aren't small either, they're directly linked in many places, Tank Girl came out 2 years before the first fallout game and clearly helped inspire it, along with a ton of other post-apocalyptic movies. Tank Girl would have been a Mad Max styled classic if it wasn't so damn corny, as it is it merely has a cult following. [[Image:Ash_Nuke.jpg]] AshRandom (Talk) 18:03, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

I reckon if it were released now it would do better in the cinema, does it remin you of the Boosh a little bit? Pararaptor.

Fallout doesn't make Tank Girl "references" so much as, it's in the same genre. There's tons of post-apocalyptic films out there, just start watching them: The Mad Max trilogy, Zardoz, Solarbabies, The Omega Man, Fist of the North Star, Death Race 2000 (The 1975 version), The Ultimate Warrior. Hell, when I get my external harddrive fixed, I might have to start a collection. --Nux Matrix 09:28, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * We'll have to agree to disagree, Tank Girl has plenty of references. In general I'd have to say the genre has always been my favorite. And there are so many good movies associated with it like *cough* Waterworld *cough*bullshit*cough* and Six String Samurai *cough*moreshit*cough*... Yeah, needless to say, unfortunately there are a ton of crappy, corny garbage movies in the genre too, but the few gems Terminator, Mad Max, etc make up for it. [[Image:Ash_Nuke.jpg]] AshRandom (Talk) 16:28, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I enjoy the post-apocalyptic genre mostly BECAUSE of all the garbage films. Most of them have that "So bad, it's good" charm to them.--Nux Matrix 16:37, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

I have to agree that it is more of a genre relation than any real connection in content. I would actually associate Mad Max with having more influence on Fallout than Tank Girl. Like a world 200 years after Mad Max, and all of the gasoline was used up. Still, it is a great genre for film and games, and the B budget movies are just as charming as the big budget flicks. Gsmikem 19:48, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * There are others, but, guys, seriously, the biggest connection is the *main* plotline. In Tank Girl the lack of resources, specifically clean water lead to dominion by a former utility company (Water & Power) which evolved to become an organization of self interested power mongers who wanted to control everyone in the wasteland. Oddly enough Water & Power was controlled by Malcolm McDowell. In case you haven't actually played Fallout 3, or just forgot, I'll remind you that it's got the same exact same plot line, people of the wastes desperate for clean water (the bums in particular). And we have Malcolm McDowell (the voice of John Henry Eden) yet again trying to gain complete control of it. [[Image:Ash_Nuke.jpg]] AshRandom (Talk) 20:02, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It's similar, but it would be like claiming Left 4 Dead has a lot of references to 28 Days Later. They both have zombies that are active at night, they both have four survivors, they both even have numbers as their titles, but they don't "reference" each other. It's the Zombie Horror genre, there are many similarities, but they are not, by definition "references". The plots of most zombie films are the same: Don't get bit, find safe places, get rescued by the military. Nearly every post-apocalyptic film has the same *main* plot. Some every day commodity, be it water, gas or plants, has become extremely valuable. Because of the sudden isolation of pockets of humanity, elements of culture become skewed. However, these similarities are only references if there is direct and intentional reproductions of iconic elements that are unique to the specific, individual work. Malcolm McDowell has done a lot of work. He does a similar powerful role as Linderman on "Heros", but that is not a reference.--Nux Matrix 20:34, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, when you put it that way I can see your point. He was great as King Kane in Doomsday as well ;) [[Image:Ash_Nuke.jpg]] AshRandom (Talk) 20:55, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

A Boy and His Dog (1975 staring a young Don Johnson and a telepathic Benji dog), to me, felt the closest to Fallout. In that movie you actually had a society of people living underground trying to preserve an archaic way of life. Above it was a desert wasteland full of raiders, slavers, and the occasional trade outpost. The cars were long gone, but the drivein theatre still had popcorn and hookers.
 * I think I need to see this one! [[Image:Ash_Nuke.jpg]] AshRandom (Talk) 21:13, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I think the whole movie is on You Tube in 10 parts. Look for A Boy and His Dog (1 of 10) to get started. It's a hard R rated movie and pretty sexist and irreverent.