Epics of India

Ravana, disguised as a hermit, approaches Sita. She says no to his advances, and Ravana kidnaps her. Jatayu tries to rescue her, but Ravana kills him. Rama and Lakshmana find the dying bird but doesn't figure out where Sita is headed. Rama and Lakshmana go towards the monkey kingdom, and Hanuman meets them. Rama sees through the disguise, and explains the history of the monkey kingdom. Vali went to the cave to fight a demon, and when he wouldn't emerge, Sugriva blocked the entrance and Vali got pissed and fought him and stole his girl. Rama decides to help. The monkeys find Sita's jewelry and Sugriva says he'll help Rama if Rama helps him. Rama shoots Vali during the fight for king. Vali argues that Rama cheated, but then finally agrees that it was okay, and dies. Sugriva never fulfills on his promise to help Rama, so Lakshmana goes to talk to Sugriva. After getting caught being lazy, Sugriva promises to never drink again. Next, he builds a huge army and the search part

The Hulk Battling in the Arena  Source Life wasn't easy for the "hero" known as Bruce Banner. In fact, Banner lived in a constant struggle to control his inner rage. See, Banner was born a brilliant intellectual, but he lacked physical prowess. One day while researching gamma radiation, Banner became exposed to harmful rays and began to grow to massive size. To call Banner "monstrous" wouldn't be the half of it. Now he is known by the entirety of Earth as "The Hulk," a massive green monster whose destructiveness power is only matched by its inability to control it. After what felt like the last death Banner could help seeing, he decided to launch himself (as the hulk) into space in hopes of never hurting another innocent person through the collateral damage of his rampages. The Hulk wound up on a strange planet called Sakaar, a world where gladiatorial combat is the most high honor. The Hulk couldn't have ended up on a better planet to st

Uncle Iroh at the liberation of Ba Sing Se Source I would like to say that I grew up like any other child in the fire kingdom, but that would be alive. See, my name is Prince Zuko, son of fire lord Ozai and heir to the throne. Living in the royal palace may seem like heaven on Earth, but I lived a childhood that is fairly similar to other children in the fire nation. I awoke early every morning, I would train with the best teachers in all of the land, I would eat a balanced diet and spar with my younger sister, Azula, and then I would attend to my studies. I would attend a family dinner every night where I would eat with my father, fire lord Ozai, my mother, Ursa, my younger sister, Azula, and my uncle, Iroh.  My uncle Iroh and my father were always very competitive growing up, and rarely agreed on anything. One of the common topics of debate was that of my future. On one hand, my uncle wanted me to grow into the feircest warrior anyone had every seen. Uncle Iroh was a brill

Rama and squad in exile Source Everyone is pissed that Rama is exiled, and the squad decides to join him in the forest. Dasharatha dies from a broken heart when Rama leaves. Bharata learns about what's going on, and gets pissed. He asks Rama to come home, but Rama says he can't cause promises and whatnot. Bharata explains that "the sandals" are for the true king and decides to rule in an outside village and won't go back to Ayodhya until Rama is back. Rama and squad walk around the forest and run into a sage's wife who gives Sita jewelry and Jatayu (the big bird) makes a pact with the squad to help out. Shurpanakha finds the squad and tries to get with Rama. Lakshmana captures the homewrecker stalking Sita and cuts off her ears and nose. She asks her brothers to kill the squad, but squad wins. She runs to Lanka to tell Ravana. Ravana has made gods his servants, and Ravana goes to kill Rama for what he did to his sister, but falls in love with Sita. Rav

A painting of Rama Source Fairly similar to the Ramayana I had already read earlier in the semester. The king of Ayodhya, Dasharatha, was childless, and the gods were trying to plan on how to deal with Ravana. Dasharatha gets Rishyashringa (rain bringer) to do a sacrifice. Dasharatha feeds the rice he got to his 3 wives. The sage, Vishvamitra, asks Dasharatha if Rama can go kill demons with him in the forest. Dasharatha says fine, but bring your brother. Rama and squad kill Thataka. Rama and squad continue to kill demons in the forest, and Vishvamitra decides to take the boys to Mithila. Vishvamitra tells the boys how the Ganges came to Earth. Rama accidentally wakes up Ahalya from her curse of being stone, and we learn about why Indra is the thousand eyed god. Rama meets Sita in Mithila and they fall in love. Rama is challenged to bend the bow, and he does, so they wed. We learn of how Dasharatha killed a boy in a forest and cause of this, he owes Bharata's mom 2 IOU's

A magic lamp Source Ricky, Thomas, Sara, and Kevin all grew up in the same foster home, and though they weren't technically siblings by blood, they were all about to be bonded for life. According to Ricky, there were rumors that a genie's lamp had been found in the woods by some college kids, and if you rubbed the lamp and made an offering, you would be granted one wish. Though these were just rumors, it did help explain how Tom grew 18 inches overnight. Tom was a nice kid, but he never really hit his growth spurt. Everyone at school would tease him that he'd be the only freshman at college who was under 5'4. Sadly enough, Tom went his freshman year to the University of Oklahoma and came back the same Tiny Tom we all grew up knowing. But, out of the blue, Tom grew to be one of the tallest kids in his classes. "Guys hurry up! I can't wait forever to be rich!" Ricky yelled out to his friends as he raced through the forest. Ricky was the most am