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Posted on 09-15-06 12:46 AM, in DANI'S ANNIVERSARY HAPPY HOUR GO!!! Link
Originally posted by Skreename
Originally posted by King Kattwah

..What just broke my internets.
Clogged intertubes..

Bad engine. The intertruck broke down.
The entire theory of the intertruck was proven wrong long ago, n00b.
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Posted on 09-15-06 12:47 AM, in DANI'S ANNIVERSARY HAPPY HOUR GO!!! Link
Originally posted by Danielle
this thread was a lot of fun either way guys, it really was
daisy
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Posted on 09-15-06 12:47 AM, in DANI'S ANNIVERSARY HAPPY HOUR GO!!! Link
Originally posted by Darkdata

EVERYONE LOVES DANI
Not homer. ALSO TOO BIG
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Posted on 09-15-06 12:48 AM, in DANI'S ANNIVERSARY HAPPY HOUR GO!!! Link
Originally posted by Blue Warrior
Originally posted by Darkdata

EVERYONE LOVES DANI
EVERYONE HATES GIANT TEXT
Wow, you like... Super fail on that one.
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Originally posted by Yoshi Dude
IT'S SO BIG YOU HAD TO QUOTE IT
YES
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Originally posted by xpCynic
They just showed the Nintendo 64 kid on the Jay Leno Show.
...
OH MY GOD!
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Posted on 09-15-06 12:49 AM, in DANI'S ANNIVERSARY HAPPY HOUR GO!!! Link
Originally posted by Tatrion
GUYS
FONT SIZE=??
My CSS prevents that, though.

(And I refuse not to set it with that, to the pixel is much more precise)
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Posted on 09-15-06 12:50 AM, in DANI'S ANNIVERSARY HAPPY HOUR GO!!! Link
Originally posted by Yoshi Dude
Originally posted by KATW
I hate giant text. ;(
Then fix it, dear liza.
It's Liza who wants Henry to do stuff, not the other way around.


(edited by Alastor the Stylish on 09-14-06 11:50 PM)
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Owned.
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Wikipedia in popular culture
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Wikiality) The neutrality of this article is disputed.
Please see the discussion on the talk page.


FoxTrot comic strip about Wikipedia.

With increased usage and awareness, there has been an increasing number of references to Wikipedia in popular culture. Many parody Wikipedia's openness, with characters vandalising or modifying the online encyclopedia project's articles. Still others feature characters using the references as a source, or positively comparing a characters intelligence to Wikipedia.

So far, there are no known references or parodies of other Wikimedia Foundation projects.Contents [hide]
1 General
2 Vandalism of Wikipedia, in popular culture
3 Citations of Wikipedia, in popular culture
4 Inaccuracies on Wikipedia, in popular culture
4.1 Wikiality
5 Comparisions of intelligence or resourcefulness to Wikipedia, in popular culture
6 Miscellaneous
7 References and footnotes
8 External links


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General

Wikipedia is parodied at several websites, including Encyclopaedia Dramatica and Uncyclopedia.

In the July 2006 issue of Mad Magazine, in the Fundalini pages section there was a short joke with a mock picture of Wikipedia called "WonkyPedia." WonkyPedia featured its own logo, in which the letters on the puzzle globe were replaced with MAD characters and the letters M A D. The article shown was on Lincoln's assassination. The HTTP address followed the appropriate pattern: "http://en.wonkypedia.org/wonky/". The same parody returned in the next issue as "Wakipedia". The phrase it advertised was "The Free Encyclopedia (you get what you pay for!)".

In the song "White and Nerdy", by "Weird Al" Yankovic, the subject says that "editing Wikipedia" is one of his nerdy activities. (lyrics: "My ergonomic keyboard never leaves me bored/Shopping online for deals on some writable media/I edit Wikipedia/I memorized Holy Grail really well/I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL")
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Vandalism of Wikipedia, in popular culture

The May 7, 2005, FoxTrot comic strip showed one character appending his older sister to unflattering Wikipedia articles. In a similar joke, the web comic Penny Arcade also satirized Wikipedia with a comic strip depicting Skeletor vandalizing the He-Man article.[1]

On the July 31, 2006 episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen invented the word "wikiality" for his segment "The Wørd". He checked Wikipedia to determine whether he had referred to Oregon as being California's Canada or Washington's Mexico before deciding to call it it Idaho's Portugal and adjusting a Wikipedia article to say so. He, or a staffer, did change the article in real life as "Usertephencolbert"; the account was blocked. During "The Wørd" segment Colbert asks his viewers to vandalize the Elephants page with the text "the number of Elephants has tripled in the last six months". This has been attempted many times, causing that page and related pages to go to a restricted editing mode under the semi-protection policy of Wikipedia.
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Citations of Wikipedia, in popular culture

On the March 1, 2006, episode of The Colbert Report, Arianna Huffington challenged host Stephen Colbert on his claim that he had invented the word "truthiness." She cited Wikipedia, claiming that he had merely "popularized" the term. Regarding her source, Colbert, in character, responded: "Fuck them."[2]

Colbert refers to Wikipedia as his source of information for research on Sigmund Freud, on the 9 May 2006 episode of The Colbert Report. With his normal sarcastic and deadpan delivery, Colbert's segment "The Wørd" mocked Wikipedia's sometimes-questionable information with the screen posting "Even the accurate parts."[3]

Hannelore, a character in webcomic Questionable Content, suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. She references Wikipedia's article on head lice as the reason why she cut most of her hair off.[4]
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Inaccuracies on Wikipedia, in popular culture

Wikipedia was satirized in The Onion with a front page article in July 2006, "Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years of American Independence", alluding to the frequent inaccuracies in a publicly editable publication.[5]

Various notable people including Jeremy Clarkson[6] and Ian McKellen[7] have made comments in the media, questioning Wikipedia worth on articles regarding themselves.
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Wikiality

Colbert comments on Wikipedia

In a July 2006 episode of the satirical comedy The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert announced the neologism "wikiality" (a portmanteau of the words "Wikipedia" and "reality") for his segment "The Wørd":
You see, any user can change any entry, and if enough other users agree with them, it becomes true. ... If only the entire body of human knowledge worked this way. And it can, thanks to tonight's word: Wikiality. Now, folks, I'm no fan of reality, and I'm no fan of encyclopedias. I've said it before. Who is Britannica to tell me that George Washington had slaves? If I want to say he didn't, that's my right. And now, thanks to wikipedia, it's also a fact.
We should apply these principles to all information. All we need to do is convince a majority of people that some factoid is true. ... What we're doing is bringing democracy to knowledge.[1]

According to Colbert, together "we can all create a reality that we all can agree on; the reality that we just agreed on." During the segment, he joked "I love Wikipedia... any site that's got a longer entry on truthiness than on Lutherans has its priorities straight." Colbert also used the segment to satirize the more general issue of whether the repetition of statements in the media leads people to believe they are true.

Colbert suggested that viewers change the elephant page to state that the number of African elephants has tripled in the last six months. The suggestion resulted in vandalism of Wikipedia articles related to elephants and Africa. Wikipedia administrators subsequently restricted edits to the pages by anonymous and newly created users.

Global Language Monitor, which tracks trends in languages, named "wikiality" and "truthiness" the top T.V. buzzwords for 2006.[8][9]
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Comparisions of intelligence or resourcefulness to Wikipedia, in popular culture

Hank Scorpio, a character from The Simpsons, mocks intelligent girl Lisa Simpson for citing her knowledge of him and his illegal activities, during a prison break scene in Simpsons Comics #117.[10]

In 2006, commenting to the New York Times on the demands on Central Intelligence Agency analysts to produce instant information, John E. McLaughlin, former acting U.S. Director of Central Intelligence, stated, "intelligence analysts end up being the Wikipedia of Washington".[11]

An altmuslim.com review of a new television series about terrorists noted that the characters routinely gave detailed background of events in the history of Islam and stated, "no one, and I assume even terrorists, talks like a walking Wikipedia."[12]
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Miscellaneous

The video game Digital Devil Saga features several "Mantras" which the game's characters can equip in order to learn skills. One of the Mantras is named Wikipedia.[citation needed] None of the people involved in the game's localization seem aware of how this came about, so its origin is still a mystery.[citation needed]

In May 2006, British chat show host Paul O'Grady received an inquiry from a viewer regarding information given on his Wikipedia page, to which he responded, "Wikipedia? Sounds like a skin disease."

An Internet webcomic called Applegeeks mentioned several times "Why spend money for education when Wikipedia has the same information for free?"[13][14]

On the show X-Play, Morgan Webb looked at the Wikipedia article of Point Blank DS, and then looked at the article on their show. After reading it, the logo in the top left corner of the page spoke to Morgan in typical X-Play fashion. It also pointed out that since the show's inception, they have made 337 fart jokes. When asked why it could talk the logo stated that Wikipedia had become self aware in 2004 due to the massive amounts of information provided by the public.

On the E! network program The Soup, during the "Reality Show Clip Time!" segment a clip of Flavor of Love 2 was shown in were someone mentioned Google as a point of research on September 8, 2006, to make fun of this, host Joel Mchale said "Well at least it's better that saying 'WikipediaWikipediaWikipedia'"
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References and footnotes
^ Penny Arcade comic
^ The Colbert Report, "Faith", Comedy Central, March 1, 2006.
^ The Colbert Report, "Superegomaniac", Comedy Central, May 9, 2006.
^ http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=663
^ http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902
^ http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12529-2289849,00.html
^ Empire Magazine, May 2006.
^ ""Truthiness," "Wikiality" named TV words of year", Reuters, August 27, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-08-28.
^ 'Truthiness' and 'Wikiality' Named Top Television Buzzwords of 2006 Followed by 'Katrina', 'Katie,' and 'Dr. McDreamy'. Global Language Monitor (August 27, 2006). Retrieved on 2006-08-28.
^ An exact citation of the Wikipedia referencing passage of The Simpsons Comics #117:
Lisa: Say, aren't you Hank Scorpio, the criminal mastermind?
Hank: I prefer the term "Entrepreneurial mastermind", but yes, that's me.
Lisa: You blackmailed the federal government into giving you control of the American east coast. Now everyone thinks you are dead.
Hank: Aren't you adorable? We're all about to be shot as escaped prisoners, and you're reciting my entry in the Wikipedia. I hope you're proud of her, Homer. She's great!
^ Tim Weiner, "Langley, We Have a Problem", New York Times, 14 May 2006
^ Wajahat Ali, "Sleeping Cell", altmuslim.com, 16 January 2006
^ http://www.applegeeks.com/comic_archive/viewcomic.php?issue=236
^ http://www.applegeeks.com/lite/index.php?aglitecomic=2006-05-19


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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Developer(s) Infocom
Publisher(s) Infocom
Designer(s) Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky
Engine ZIL
Release date(s) 1984
Genre(s) Interactive fiction
Mode(s) Single player
Rating(s) n/a
Platform(s) Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, TRS-80, TI-99/4A, Macintosh
Media 3½" or 5¼" disk
System requirements No special requirements
Input Keyboard


The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an interactive fiction computer game based on the seminal comic science fiction series of the same name. It was designed by series creator Douglas Adams and Infocom's Steve Meretzky, and was first released in 1984 for the Apple II, Macintosh, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST and the IBM PC.Contents [hide]
1 Plot
2 Feelies
3 Notes
4 External links


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Plot
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The game loosely mirrors a portion of the series' plot, beginning with the impending destruction of Arthur Dent's house and subsequent demolition of the Earth by Vogons.

After being rescued from open space by the Heart of Gold and figuring out how to activate the Infinite Improbability Drive, the player is hurled through space and time, assuming the roles of Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox and Trillian at various intervals. (The question of the player character's identity at any time can be answered by the innovative WHO AM I? command.) For the majority of the game, Arthur Dent is the main player character.

An in-game virtual edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy provides a plethora of major and minor characters, locations, and miscellanea from the series that can be referenced, if not directly encountered. Topics ranging from Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters to Galaxia Woonbeam can be looked up with the command CONSULT GUIDE ABOUT .

The ultimate goal of the game is casually mentioned by Zaphod in an offhanded manner: finding the legendary lost planet of Magrathea. While the other characters relax in the ship's sauna, however, Arthur has to jump through a number of hoops to collect a bizarre array of tools and four types of fluff before the Heart of Gold gets anywhere near the planet. The problem of managing this burgeoning inventory is neatly handled by a humorously ill-defined object called "That thing your aunt gave you which you don't know what it is", which has two important attributes: a nearly limitless capacity for holding other objects, and a penchant for showing up in the player's inventory after seemingly being lost.

When the characters finally set foot on Magrathea, the game ends with the never-fulfilled promise of a thrilling sequel.
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Feelies

Most Infocom games contained "feelies", bonus novelty items included to enhance the immersiveness of the game. The feelies provided with this game included:
A pin-on button with "Don't Panic!" printed in large, friendly letters (opposite of a "Panic Button")
A small plastic packet containing "pocket fluff" (a cottonball)
Order for destruction of Arthur Dent's house
Order for destruction of Earth written in "Vogon"
Official Microscopic Space Fleet (an empty plastic bag)
"Peril Sensitive Sunglasses" (a pair of opaque black cardboard "sunglasses")
How Many Times Has This Happened to You?, an advertising brochure for the fictional guidebook/encyclopedia The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
No tea
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Notes

HHGTTG is generally considered to be the first interactive fiction game to intentionally cheat players. Adding to its reputation for deviousness was "The Babel Fish Dispenser", a wickedly complicated puzzle appearing very early in the game. Failure to "solve" the Babel fish puzzle did not kill the player, but rendered the remainder of the game unwinnable. That particular puzzle became so notoriously difficult that Infocom wound up selling T-shirts bearing the legend, "I got the Babel Fish!" [1] Another fiendish puzzle involved the ten tools scattered throughout the game's locations. One of the final puzzles involved Marvin asking for a particular tool to use in unjamming the ship's hatch. If the player had failed to collect ten, Marvin would invariably ask for one of the missing ones. Likewise, while the opening section of the game closely resembles the opening scenes of the original radio play and book, there are several actions that the player must perform in order to make the game winnable. In spite of all of this, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was rated as "Standard" difficulty.

Curiously, the player is seldom given an actual purpose, apart from the implicit goal stated by the inventory item of "no tea". Much of the game is spent simply reacting to situations, such as the impending deaths variously threatened by bulldozers, matter-transference hangovers, the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, or nuclear missiles. This lack of direction had little effect in deterring fans of Adams' work.

The illustrated version by Rod Lord.

The Infocom version of Hitchhiker's Guide quickly became a fan classic; it was one of five top-selling Infocom games to be produced in Solid Gold versions, with a built-in hint system not included in the originals. The game was re-released by Activision in several collection packages before rights reverted to Adams, enabling The Digital Village to re-release it as a web-based Java applet. Originally published as a fund-raising tool on the 1997 Comic Relief website, it took up permanent residence on Adams' own website the following year.

On September 21, 2004 the BBC launched the 20th Anniversary Edition to coincide with the initial radio broadcast of the Tertiary Phase. Sporting a Flash user interface, and illustrated by Rod Lord (who also produced the guide animations for the Hitchhiker's TV series), it won the Interactive BAFTA Award for Best Online Entertainment[2] on March 2, 2005.

Once BAFTA judging had completed, the BBC re-launched the game in two distinct versions to showcase new artwork for scenes and objects deliberately omitted from the first release. While both editions retain Rod Lord's illustrations, all placeholder graphics were replaced by artwork designed and sent in by contest participants. One edition includes the artwork of overall winner Nolan Worthington, the other features the work of runners-up.

The original text-only version appeared in an exhibition called "Game On", which has toured museums worldwide since 2002, representing the text-based genre of computer games.
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External links
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at MobyGames
BBC Radio 4 website illustrated version
The Java version of the game on Douglas Adams website
Walkthrough solution from IGN.com
Pictures and scans of the package, feelies and documentation
The Infocom Bugs List entry on the game The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Miscellanea: Races and species | The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything | Babel fish | Bistromathic drive | Cultural references | Infinidim Enterprises | Infinite Improbability Drive | International Phenomenon | Notable phrases | Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster | Point-of-view gun | Somebody Else's Problem field | Sirius Cybernetics Corporation | Vogon poetry | Other miscellanea


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Just'a Lotta Animals
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Just'a Lotta Animals


From left to right: Green Lambkin, the Crash, Wonder Wabbit, Captain Carrot, Aquaduck, the Batmouse, and Super-Squirrel. From Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew #14, 1983. Art by Scott Shaw.
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance The New Teen Titans #16 (1982) (first mentioned)
Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew #14 (1983) (first appearance)
Created by Roy Thomas and Scott Shaw
Team status Active
Base(s) of operations Space station satellite in orbit above Earth-C-Minus

Roster
Current roster
Super-Squirrel
The Batmouse
Wonder Wabbit
Green Lambkin
The Crash
Aquaduck
Elongator
The Martian Anteater
Zap-Panda
The Item
Green Sparrow
Stacked Canary
Firestork
Hawkmoose
The Rat Tornado
Notable former members




Just'a Lotta Animals is a fictional superhero team that appeared in stories published by DC Comics. The team was an anthropomorphic funny animal parody of the Justice League of America.

Just'a Lotta Animals originally appeared in the series Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew as the name of a superhero comic book written and drawn by Captain Carrot's alter ego, Roger Rodney Rabbit. Various panels of the Just'a Lotta Animals' comic that were shown in the Captain Carrot series were often parodies of classic Justice League storylines.

In Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew #14 and #15, in a storyline titled "Crisis On Earth-C!," Just'a Lotta Animals were finally revealed to actually exist, on a parallel Earth named "Earth-C-Minus" (versus the world of the Zoo Crew, which was named "Earth-C"). The two teams united to defeat the villains of the story, Dr. Hoot (an owl mad scientist) and Feline Faust (a cat sorcerer; an analog of Justice League villain Felix Faust).Contents [hide]
1 Location
2 Members
3 Enemies
4 See also


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Location

Just'a Lotta Animals lived on the parallel world of Earth-C-Minus, and made its headquarters in an orbiting satellite space station.

Events and characters on Earth-C-Minus were considered to be fictional to natives of Earth-C, similar to how events and characters of Earth-Two were considered as fictional on Earth-One. Additionally, events and characters on Earth-C-Minus paralleled those of the then-mainstream DC Universe of Earth-One. Like Earth-C, the names of characters and locations tended to make heavy use of various animal-based puns.

After the events of the 1985 miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths, it was revealed that Earth-C-Minus (and Earth-C) survived intact, as they were actually "alternate dimensions" instead of parallel Earths.[citation needed]
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Members

The main members of Just'a Lotta Animals were:
Super-Squirrel: a squirrel; analog of Superman. Super-Squirrel has a vast array of "Chiptonian" (Kryptonian) superpowers, including flight, super-vision, and super-strength. His main weakness was to "chiptonite" (kryptonite). Super-Squirrel lived in the city of "Muttropolis" (Metropolis).
The Batmouse: a mouse; analog of Batman. Batmouse used a wide array of gadgets in his fight against his various foes, often with the aid of his sidekick, Boyd the Robin Wonder (a robin).
Wonder Wabbit: a rabbit; analog of Wonder Woman. Wonder Wabbit made use of her "Animal-zon" (Amazon) superpowers and tools in fighting crime, including super-strength, invulnerable bracelets, a magic lasso, and a see-through robot airplane. Wonder Wabbit originally came from "Parrot-Eyes Island" (Paradise Island).
Green Lambkin: a male lamb; analog of the Silver Age Green Lantern. Green Lambkin used his power ring in fighting crime; however, his ring had two weaknesses: a 24-hour charge limit (after which it had to be recharged) and was useless against the color yellow. Green Lambkin was a member of the "Green Lambkin Corps" (Green Lantern Corps), and served the Goat-Guardians of the planet Uh-Oh (Oa).
The Crash: a turtle; analog of the Silver Age Flash. The Crash was gifted with the power of vast superspeed. According to Captain Carrot #14, he was presumably inspired to become the Crash by reading comic books of (Earth-C's) the Terrific Whatzit as a youth, just as Barry Allen (the Flash of Earth-One) was inspired by reading comics of the adventures of Jay Garrick (the Flash of Earth-Two).
Aquaduck: a duck; analog of Aquaman. Aquaduck, like Aquaman, presumably possessed the ability to swim at terrific speeds, survive the ocean depths, breathe underwater and communicate with all sea life (though the latter might not be as impressive in light of the sentience of animals on Aquaduck's world).

Other members of Just'a Lotta Animals include:
Green Sparrow: a sparrow; analog of Green Arrow.
Stacked Canary: a canary; analog of Black Canary.
Hawkmoose: a moose; analog of the Silver Age Hawkman.
The Martian Anteater: an anteater from Mars (of the Earth-C-Minus universe); analog of the Martian Manhunter.
The Item: an elephant; analog of the Silver Age Atom.
Elongator: an alligator; analog of the Elongated Man.
Firestork: a stork; analog of Firestorm.
Zap-Panda: a panda; analog of Zatanna.
The Rat Tornado: a rat; analog of the Silver Age Red Tornado.
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Enemies

Enemies of Just'a Lotta Animals or its individual members include:
Kanga Roo: a kangaroo; analog of Kanjar Ro. He once enslaved Just'a Lotta Animals in his "slave ship of space."
Lex Lemur: a lemur; analog of Lex Luthor. Super-Squirrel's archenemy.
The Porker: a pig; analog of the Joker. Archenemy of the Batmouse.
Hector Hamhock: a pig; analog of Hector Hammond. Enemy of Green Lambkin.
The Weather Weasel: a weasel; analog of the Weather Wizard. Enemy of the Crash.
The Shaggy Dawg: a very hairy dog; analog of the Shaggy Man.
Feline Faust: analog of Felix Faust.
Amazoo: an android composite of the parts of a dozen different animals; the Earth-C-Minus analog of Amazo.
Brainy Yak, presumably a Yak and an analog of Brainiac, is mentioned once.
A duck analog of early Justice League foe Xotar, the Weapons Master is seen in a panel of one Just'a Lotta Animals comic page.
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See also
Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew

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