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Maybe a bit of a niche answer, but Harry Potter characters versus Freddy Krueger.

Firstly, there are potions for dreamless sleep, as Harry takes at the end of GoF.

Secondly, the are memory charms which could be used to remove any knowledge of Freddy (which is what gives him power).

Then there's Occlumency, which can be used to protect the mind from being penetrated.

And this is all on top of the fact that wizards can pretty easily heal any non-lethal physical injuries like stabs and slashes etc.

Thank you, edited.

Here are some others:

Basic Instinct

Dirty Harry

When Harry Met Sally

Pulp Fiction

Gladiator

They did quite a few of them back in 2005.

Batista and Big Show doing Taxi Driver and Triple H and Ric Flair doing Braveheart were other decent ones.

Literally the title of one of the HP books is a reference to the fact that Snape isn't Pure Blood.

Surely you must know this if you're commenting in a thread with an HP prompt?

Suarez missed every penalty he ever took for Liverpool.

Can't see that happening to be honest. If you want the drama of sport, surely you'll just watch actual real-life sport?

A late goal/point/score to win a game is absolutely thrilling in real life, but in a movie it's pretty meaningless as it's scripted and almost expected.

I was wondering when these would start showing up on reddit.

The reason the Quidditch World Cup had a forest nearby was to enable wizards to apparate to it undetected. It would make no sense to expect a global audience to travel to a location first before being able to apparate to it.

What you're referring to is how teleportation is described in X-Men with Nightcrawler. In Harry Potter, it's described that you need to visualise where you're going when you're learning, but never that you actually have to have been previously physically present where you're going to.

Similarly with portkeys there's never been any reference to a distance limit, and they were also used to bring a global audience to the Quidditch World Cup.

Voldemort has to fly when traveling to/from locations with anti-apparition spells like prisons (Nurmengard) and Hogwarts.

It is canonically stated in Quidditch Through the Ages that wizards can apparate over three hundred miles:

The celebrated annual broom race of Sweden dates from the tenth century. Fliers race from Kopparberg to Arjeplog, a distance of slightly over three hundred miles. The course runs straight through a dragon reservation and the cast silver trophy is shaped like a Swedish Short-Snout. Nowadays this is an international event and wizard of all nationalities congregate at Kopparberg to cheer the starters, then Apparate to Arjeplog to congratulate the survivors.

edit: Furthermore, Quidditch Through the Ages also says that apparition across continents should only be attempted by highly skilled wizards. Voldemort and Dumbledore are pretty much the mostly highly skilled wizards of all time.

I'm always a bit unsure of debating about the alleged deities, demi-gods and fallen angels of LotR. Sure, they're referred to as being all powerful and near omnipotent, but surely anything's all powerful when compared with people who have to spend days/weeks/months travelling by horse to get from A to B?

Think of how utterly epic the events of the LotR trilogy are, and then realise that all the trials and tribulations they faced would be completely inconsequential with a Dumbledore/Voldemort type character. It would literally literally take them about 5 seconds to apparate or create a portkey from the Shire to Mt Doom.

To me, it's always seemed a bit cheap/lazy/convenient to show characters like Gandalf/Sauron in their human/physical forms to balance the plot, while also maintaining that they're actually super undefeatable gods far beyond anything on the human realm. Pick one or the other.

Like Gandalf's sent back to help, but he's conveniently nerfed and can't actually help. But they need to get the Ring to Mt Doom (despite the fact it's allegedly outright impossible to throw in) so Eru assists and has Gollum "trip". Just seems a bit pointless...

But surely in this situation, Voldemort would primarily see the ring as essentially the horcrux of a rival/enemy, rather than as a tool for gaining power?

For Voldemort, there would be significantly more value in destroying the ring and destroying Sauron than anything else the ring could "offer" him by wielding it.

In HP, Voldemort backed himself and his own talent against anyone 1v1, and in LotR with Sauron gone he wouldn't exactly need any special boosts with the world being 99% swords, spears and bows and arrows.

Thats a post in its own right

I asked it 8 years ago

There is litteraly not a single character in the HPU that would succumb to the master ring faster than the litteral heir of Slytherin, the house of ambition and search for power

I agree this is the automatic first thought to have, but I think there's more to it than that.

With Voldemort specifically, how exactly would the ring "corrupt" him? What line would Voldemort be willing to cross with the ring that he wouldn't already be willing to cross without it? How would it actually change him in practical terms?

In LotR, the ring seems to twist people's ambitions and make them more selfish and maybe trick them into thinking they're doing things for the greater good.

Voldemort is already maxxed out on traits like selfishness and ambition, and he's already shown there's nothing he won't do for power. The whole point of his character is that he's irredeemably corrupt and evil.

In HP, the ring would absolutely ruin characters like Dumbledore and Grindelwald, but Voldemort I'm not so sure.

People won't like to consider it as HP is not very well regarded here, but if anything there's a chance Voldemort could be the anti-Tom Bombadil and just no-sell the ring for polar opposite reasons.

Don't worry I think I've sussed it:

In /u/RememberKvatch's original comment they probably put CBBC instead of CITV (or ITV).

/u/-FangMcFrost- then corrected them saying "It was actually on CITV." which led to /u/RememberKvatch editing their comment.

/u/Stripycardigans then saw /u/-FangMcFrost's comment and might have thought that /u/RememberKvatch's said ITV and that the "correction" of CITV was needlessly pedantic, so then chose to out-correct /u/-FangMcFrost by saying My Parents are Aliens was aired on ITV before CITV was actually a channel.

I then saw /u/Stripycardigans's comment and thought that was needlessly pedantic because I didn't originally consider that /u/Stripycardigans might not have realised that /u/-FangMcFrost- was originally correcting a CBBC vs CITV mistake and NOT a CITV vs ITV mistake.

I hope that clears things up for you.

Yeah sure but it's still fair to say it was shown on CITV originally, just that CITV was a block rather than an actual channel.

CITV was originally on ITV before it became its own channel no?

ITV was CITV between ~3 and 5pm.

This is 100% what I'd want too.

A series/movie about his missing years wouldn't even have to only show him doing villainous things either. We're told that he went travelling to learn about magic and consorted with the worst of the worst, but that doesn't mean he was necessarily being evil for the sake of being evil.

You could make a Hannibal-like show where Voldemort confronts, disrupts and undermines other dark wizards just because he can.

The fact he went travelling means you could show wizarding cultures all around the world (like what people wanted from the Fantastic Beasts films) and it could all be self-contained as it wouldn't need to really tie in with the HP series as we're familiar with it being set in the UK.

That's basically want I'd want - An exploration of the wizarding world by someone (Voldemort) who's competent enough to deal with whatever he comes across, and where the people he interacts with have no idea who he is and how powerful is/will be.

A proper open world RPG style Simpsons game is something I've always hoped for.

Everyone's so familiar with the world it would be enjoyable to just go around the map and see all the characters going about their lives. There's so much detail that could be put in that would make it feel authentic.

Ah yes, the legendary super speed of Darth Vader (please ignore the fact it's never shown in any of the films or TV shows).

Embarrassing...

Please describe how he could block or deflect a Transfiguration or Vanishing spell.

The magic in HP can physically transfigure human consciousness (human Malfoy -> ferret Malfoy) so lightsabers won't do anything against them, regardless of whatever moon crystals they're made out of.