![]() ![]() Though he doesn't manifest an avatar at any point in the game, the preview comic for Issue 10 makes the Max Headroom parallel all the clearer by having his human face appear in multiple TV screens across Tokyo. Furthermore, it's made clear that he was once human: he was John Copley, the terrorist behind the Filth-bomb on the Tokyo subways, having been transformed into an intangible monster as a result of being at the very epicenter of the blast. ![]() He will regularly glitch and repeat random words, including in text-only appearances. ![]() He's essentially a ghost haunting the electronic systems of Tokyo, regularly taking over TV screens, PA systems, phones, and even the game's Lore entries. Like Max, he is an Uncanny Valley morally ambiguous virtual character with slicked back hair, sunglasses, and an Electronic Speech Impediment. Deltarune: While it may be coincidental, Spamton shares a lot of similarities with Max Headroom.It is aggressively '80s until the end where the effects turn into Vaporwave, the screen begins distorting, and skulls start appearing everywhere. There are laser lights, models in old-school threads, and vintage video effects, plus a rotating bust of Mozart. The video for Front Line Assembly and Jimmy Urine's cover of Rock Me Amadeus features a glitchy image of the latter delivering half-rapped, half-sneered verses on an old Sony CRT TV Max Headroom-style under Miami Vice lighting, wearing red-rimmed shades and a skinny pink tie.(Three years before his mentor Eminem would more famously wear the suit and tie in "Rap God".) 50 Cent appears as a cigar-smoking Max Headroom speaking to nerds visiting his website in the music video for Tony Yayo's "Pass The Patron".Selena Gomez: The music video for "Love You like a Love Song" shows Selena dressed in a suit and sunglasses inside a TV screen.The glitchy speech impediment is incorporated into the feel of his rapping. Eminem: In the music video for "Rap God", Eminem dresses as Max Headroom in front of a moving lines background and is shown inside televisions.Square One TV: One of the recurring bits played between sketches was of a nameless character talking of about a random math related subject that was a clear expy of Max Headroom: he was depicted as faux-CGI, shown from the waist up in front of a dark patterned background, wore a suit and shades, and would randomly glitch causing himself and what he was currently saying to rapidly twitch and stammer.Late Night: In two 1986 episodes, David Letterman brings out a television featuring recurring character Larry Bud Melman dressed as Max Headroom and nicknamed "Larry Bud Headroom".In the climax of the episode, the real John is finally able to shut him up by putting a sword through his monitor. He appears only on a TV screen, he's always wearing a suit, always standing against a dark background studded with neon blue tubes, and sports a noticeable Headroom-esque stutter and a warped sense of humour. In the Farscape episode " John Quixote", a visit to a buggy virtual reality game results in John and Chiana encountering a version of John incarnated as one of the game's villains.Family Matters: A dream sequence shows Steve Urkel inside a computer screen with a Headroom-esque background.The Charmings: In one episode, the Magic Mirror wears a blonde wig in front of a moving lines background while inside a computer screen.Coulson even directly compares his situation to Max Headroom. The background of the screen is a near copy of Max Headroom's, Coulson wears a suit, and he speaks glitchily. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: While in the 1980s, LMD Coulson has his body destroyed, and his consiousness is uploaded in a television. ![]()
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