Buck responds with an over-sized God complex and narcissistic humor.
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He has a little bit of a God complex at the beginning.
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But it appears that even a (very) well-greased God Complex knows its limits.
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He looks into the camera: "Perhaps I have a God complex," he says, and laughs.
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But the offer of help was taken by some as a sign of a God complex.
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In "War for the Planet of the Apes," you play a colonel with a God complex.
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"I think it comes from a little bit of the God complex in medicine," he said.
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Its title, "God Complex," is overkill, since hanging the outfit in cruciform makes the point more effectively.
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I think many of them have a God complex in fact, and they actually see themselves as creators.
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" He grins, again: "I guess you could say it's hard to not have a god-complex in EVE.
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It may not be because he wants to be worshipped (though a God complex is in there somewhere).
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Mr. Assange, who muses on his "god complex" and his capacity for martyrdom, likes to surround himself with disciples.
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It's cute in a kind of "kid with a god complex playing with his ant farm" sort of way.
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His God complex knows no bounds and the only thing I knew for certain was that he must be stopped.
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For someone with a not-so-subtle God complex, it's surprising he didn't insist on gracing the attendees with his presence.
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In the past, the harm caused by this God complex was limited to problems like a government shutdown and damaged alliances.
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Because his family has come to grief at the hands of Homo sapiens —specifically, a nutty colonel (Woody Harrelson) with a God complex.
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" His own god complex continued to grow, and he started positioning himself as a deity with titles like Yeezus and "I Am A God.
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And Ford reveals his full god complex, setting Bernard against the woman he cared about — or I suppose, who he was merely programmed to monitor.
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These elected officials in particular are not only obsequiously placating a man nursing a god complex, they are displaying a staggering lack of national fealty.
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In actuality, they'd signed themselves up for a mix of indentured servitude and recreational abuse at the hands of a man with a god complex.
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In the episode, one of the protagonists — a dimension-hopping scientist with a god complex — retraces his own memories so as to re-experience the dipping sauce.
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Dr. Ford has a God complex, and it would be easy to assume that his goal — the act of divinity he's working toward — is the creation of life.
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There is an especially cruel kind of white-collar suffering that occurs mainly between the months of November to March, depending on the extent of your office supervisor's god complex.
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Forsythe describes it as Something being in so deep, with her god complex at an all-time high, that she can't realize that everyone around her (the entire audience, no less) notices.
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The Tyrell Corporation, which built the first androids, has come and gone, but a new company, run by a new genius with a god complex, has stepped in to take its place.
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Which is what makes his god complex so compelling; the cold logic with which he targets hundreds people is sociopathic, as is his conviction that his individual view of justice is supreme.
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While it's assumed everyone on board dies, Avi and the others somehow live with help from Golshiri, who is believed to be a man with a god complex, not the actual Messiah.
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It seems that "God Complex" subtly points to how, in the fight for environmental protections, indigenous activists often become savior, martyr, victim, and terrorist, all rolled into one and thrown on the cross.
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In the same vein of Castle, romance will blossom between the scientist and the FBI agent as they team to bring down a diabolical genius with a twisted God complex: her former boss.
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It is special, if you have a God complex, to have the ability to make a robot mimic your every move with no improvisation, then kick a soccer ball at an innocent bystander's head.
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The idiotic obsession with dick jokes and profanity has been replaced by a deeper exploration of Negan's unique god complex and the qualities of that makes him different than, and similar to, Rick Grimes.
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But just because he is President and there's little or no chance he'd ever be removed does not mean there's not cause for concern when he starts sounding like he has a God complex.
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He used his squareheaded, dimple-chinned appearance to portray the ugly stereotype of the LAPD in the 90s, following the Rodney King beatings: a trigger-happy pig with a hard-on for crime and a God complex.
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Here is a small sampling of some artists in the current generation keeping things interesting: GoldLink began his career as a faceless, elusive rapper who emerged from Soundcloud obscurity almost overnight with his debut project The God Complex.
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So where Yeezus re-affirmed his god complex, and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was just that, The Life Of Pablo exceeds them both, by showcasing his powerful and complicated relationship with his own life and those in it.
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Lutz, who said he's known Ghosn for a number of years, said the embattled executive suffers from a "god complex" as well as "CEO disease," where a person believes they are omnipotent and "above the law" because of their power.
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"These people who receive nothing but adulation from the media and from inside their own companies, never receive any negative feedback, they tend to develop this god complex and believe that they are above the law, to some extent," he added.
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On this, their final album, their unimpeachably heavy, moribund riffs are garnished by an earnest knowledge of Eastern scales, appreciation for the art of the rumbling groove, and a bizarre god complex (that pops up in fine form on album standout "I Am Christ").
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The showstopper was Nicholas Galanin's "God Complex," a wall-mounted, ceramic suit of armor whose pearly, iridescent glaze suggested the greed of white America in plundering Native land for oil and whatever else it desires; an accompanying police baton, hovering nearby, drove home the message of violence.
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Actually, watching him and listening to him reminded me of Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the cult I joined in college, in that both have a kind of God complex where they're the only one with the answers, the only one who can fix things.
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Then, in a totally normal move that is not at all a sign that our god complex has gone totally awry, scientists may be able to harvest the organs of these hybrid creatures and transplant them into people, says Hiromitsu Nakauchi, who leads these teams at the University of Tokyo and at Stanford University in California.
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S. Citizens Are Dying and We Can Save Them" by Eva Ferguson "The Life-Changing Magic of Being Messy" by Isabel Hwang "Nothing Gets Between Me and My Sushi … Except Plastic, Maybe" by Sophia Lee "I'm a Disabled Teenager, and Social Media Is My Lifeline" by Asaka Park "A Change in the Menu" by Grace Silva "'Cultural Appropriation' Is Critical to Human Progress" by Maggie Strauss "Confronting Toxicity in Gaming: Going Beyond 'Mute'" by Anthony Xiao _________ Runners-Up (All of the essays by the 27 students below can be found here.) "Not Enough Boxes" by Summer Abdelbarry "Rape: The Only Crime Where Victims Have to Explain Themselves" by Corinne Ahearn "Paying to Stay: How an Outdated System Hurts New York State Prisoners" by Alexis Ahn "Religion's God Complex" by Julia Bennett "The Integrity of Pineapple Pizza" by Sarah Celestin "We Are the Generation of Self-Deprecation" by Faith Christiansen "Life Sentences for Children Should Go Away ... for Life" by Jessie Dietz "Cynicism Sells: Why Negativity Is So Popular and Why You Should Care" by Teaghan Duff "F.
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Gryner currently produces recordings out of his own God Complex production studio in Ontario.
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A god complex is an unshakable belief characterized by consistently inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility. A person with a god complex may refuse to admit the possibility of their error or failure, even in the face of irrefutable evidence, intractable problems or difficult or impossible tasks. The person is also highly dogmatic in their views, meaning the person speaks of their personal opinions as though they were unquestionably correct. Someone with a god complex may exhibit no regard for the conventions and demands of society, and may request special consideration or privileges.
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In the 2011 Doctor Who episode "The God Complex", The Doctor and his companions find themselves in a hotel full of their own personal Room 101s, each with their greatest fear in it.
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Deep Blue at the University of Michigan umich.edu Retrieved 2012-01-22 His description, at least in the contents page of Essays in Applied Psycho-Analysis, describes the god complex as belief that one is a god.
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Palparepa is arrogant, self-assured, and suffers from an extreme god complex; he sees GaoFighGar (and, by extension, Genesic GaoGaiGar) as The Devil, and is the only person besides the narrator to indicate that Guy is the God of Destruction. Scenes with Palparepa winning against Guy often include an image of God impaling the Devil on a golden sword. In his Palparepa Prajna form, he becomes much less self-controlled, while his final form pushes his god complex to new heights. In his final form, he is prone to claiming that absolute victory is something that only a god can achieve.
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The Doctor learns that each hotel room contains the greatest fear of someone who has been in the hotel, and that a Minotaur-like creature (played by Spencer Wilding) is feeding off their faith. Whithouse originally developed the concept of "The God Complex" for the previous series, but due to it being similar to episodes in that series, it was pushed back, with Whithouse contributing "The Vampires of Venice" instead. The episode ends with the departure of Amy and Rory, though this was not a permanent exit. "The God Complex" was filmed during the early months of 2011, mainly on sets constructed for the hotel.
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There a one-minute trailer and a clip of "The God Complex" was shown. A 40-second trailer was released on 4 August 2011 for BBC One. A 30-second trailer from BBC America was released on 12 August 2011. An alternative trailer aired on CBBC in August 2011.
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The crew members then start dying, and the survivors find themselves faced with an army of hollow-eyed homicidal ghosts. In the form of Prentis, played by Paul Kaye, this episode sees a return for the Tivolians, a race last seen in the 2011 episode "The God Complex", also written by Toby Whithouse.
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Jehovah complex is a related term used in Jungian analysis to describe a neurosis of egotistical self-inflation. Use included in psychoanalytic contributions to psychohistory and biography, with, for example, Fritz Wittels using the term about Sigmund Freud in his 1924 biographySigmund Freud: His Personality, His Teachings and His School, by Fritz Wittels, 1924 and H. E. Barnes using the term about George Washington and Andrew Jackson."Some Reflections on the Possible Service of Analytic Psychology to History", by H. E. Barnes, Psychoanal Rev 1921, 8(1):22-37 God complex is not a clinical term nor diagnosable disorder and does not appear in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The first person to use the term god-complex was Ernest Jones (1913–51).
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Driscoll analyses the story in terms of three key influences—the Theseus myth, Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Shining, as well as its understanding of fear and faith. He concludes that the Doctor's realisation of his own "god complex" is a crucial turning- point in his character arc and his relationship with his companions.
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Altars is a studio album by American rapper Sadistik, released via Equal Vision Records on April 14, 2017. It peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart, as well as number 35 on the Independent Albums chart. The cover art was painted by Michael Hussar. Music videos were created for "Free Spirits", "God Complex", "Kaleidoscope", and "Honeycomb".
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Criticising Brown's "God complex", Sturges writes that his monologues make him sound like a "sanctimonious knobhead". Sorokach describes the show as "an unsettling psychological experiment you'll either love or hate". Sorokach believes that the tone is "more cringe-inducing than uplifting" and says Brown is "more concerned about vanity than [...] innovation". However, the special has received positive commentary.
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While Joy declared Dracula "quite satisfactory from the standpoint of the Code" before it was released, and the film had little trouble reaching theaters, Frankenstein was a different story.Vieira, pp. 42–43. New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts removed the scene where the monster unintentionally drowns a little girl and lines that referenced Dr. Frankenstein's God complex. Kansas, in particular, objected to the film.
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The B-side, "Secret Wars", gained a lot of attention as Esoteric paid tribute to the heroes of Marvel Comics in rhyme form. This led to the release of the Rebel Alliance LP, featuring acts such as Virtuoso, Mr. Lif, and Force Five. Also at this time, the two dropped the God Complex moniker and became known as simply 7L & Esoteric.
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She boards a plane to the United States of America in order to meet him, however, the plane crashes before reaching its destination, killing Moira. Life 3 Moira made a point of finding Xavier earlier in her third life. She meets Charles Xavier when they were both at Oxford University, however she becomes turned off by his arrogance and a thinly veiled god complex.
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And After That, We Didn't Talk is the second mixtape from American rapper GoldLink. It was released in November 2015 on Soulection, following his critically acclaimed debut mixtape, The God Complex. The mixtape features guest appearances from Anderson Paak and Masego. The project's production was handled by Louie Lastic, Merg, Galimatias, McCallaman, Braeden Bailey, Medasin, Milo Mills, Demo-Tapped, Tom Misch, and Jordan Rakei.
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In addition, two radio trailers were broadcast in the UK in April. On 10 June 2011, the BBC released a short 30-second teaser trailer for the second half of the series. Smith and Gillan, alongside executive producers Piers Wenger and Beth Willis and "The God Complex" writer Toby Whithouse, attended the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International in late June to promote the second half of the series.
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His appearances in unconsciouses have fueled at least five people to become serial killers, leading to at least 44 murders. In the Well world, he appears as the arrogant detective , but is also able to enter id wells without this persona, aware of his own identity. He is depicted as having a God complex and feels no regret for creating serial killers, brushing it off as a minor issue in his overarching plan.
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Black Minotaur-like beings with red eyes that go to other planets, posing as Gods. However, they are nothing more than a parasitic race that bleed planets dry before moving on to new ones in a repeating cycle. They are cousins to the Minotaur species that the Eleventh Doctor encountered in "The God Complex" (2011). While one posed as a God, it acquired sacrifices to be used as batteries for powering their teleporter.
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Sathyamoorthy defeats Kathiravan and burns the money due to his god-complex. All the people who were conned by Sathyamoorthy come to know about Sathyamoorthy by Kathiravan and they reach the dock. Kathiravan, then gets up and fights with Sathyamoorthy and injures him The people get their money transferred back to their respective accounts. Meanwhile, Sathyamoorthy is arrested by the police but creates a new username named "Dark Angel", implying that he will return.
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Blackwood was until recently studying acting in a college based in Edinburgh. Blackwood played Alexis in the 2015 episode "Preparing the Weapon" of the crowdfunded TV series Cops and Monsters. In 2018 she appeared in a short film called Sundown directed by Ryan Hendrick. She played the young Amelia Pond in several Doctor Who episodes; "The Eleventh Hour", "The Big Bang", "Let's Kill Hitler", and "The God Complex", and a cameo in "The Angels Take Manhattan".
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Turk notes that while his family is dysfunctional, it is very close. Turk's mother is a Jehovah's Witness, although Turk himself is Roman Catholic as evidenced by his attendance of Mass and his wearing of a small crucifix around his neck. Turk is also one-eighth Japanese. Carla catches Turk's eye immediately, although she is reluctant to go out with him at first because of his arrogance, purely physical attraction to her, and his god complex.
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And yet nobody was able to give him any support when he > desperately needed it. Reflecting on this, I am overwhelmed by the bitterest > grief. In a 2011 TED talk by English economist Tim Harford titled, "Trial, error and the God complex," Taniyama is referenced as a mathematician who was ultimately unable to prove his conjecture during his lifetime. Reflecting on Taniyama's work, Goro Shimura stated: > He was not a very careful person as a mathematician.
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Review: Doctor Who: Books: The Black Archive 2: The Massacre by Paul Simpson.Black Archive 2: The Massacre by Philip Bates Subsequent titles were published every two months and continued to gain consistently positive reviews.The Black Archive 10: Scream of the Shalka ReviewedDoctor Who Books - The Black Archive 9: The God Complex In 2018, the series moved to a monthly publication schedule: the books for that year were announced early in 2017.Post on the official Black Archive Facebook page.
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The duo formed in 1993 when Esoteric DJed a hip hop show at a college radio station (WMWM) north of Boston. 7L, a DJ and producer who listened to the show, contacted Esoteric in the interest of collaborating. The two found they shared a common love of the golden age of hip-hop and decided to form a group. After performing for some time in the Boston/Cambridge underground, the duo released their first single in 1996 as God Complex with MC Karma.
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Matt Smith received acclaim for his performance as the Doctor in "The God Complex". The episode received generally positive reviews from critics. Radio Times reviewer Patrick Mulkern called Whithouse's script "clever and original" and Walliams "endearing" as Gibbis, believing it was another entry into the series' "fabulous" stand-alone episodes. io9's Charlie Jane Anders was also positive, especially of the way the Doctor's character was explored through his overconfidence making others believe in him instead of themselves and praising Smith's performance.
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Ajimu is understandably possessed of a God complex, believing all people, besides herself, are equally garbage. She views all humans with about as much disdain and notice as eraser shavings, and seems to have trouble distinguishing people from the environment. She intends to further her plans after Medaka and the current Student Council have graduated. However, aware that Medaka intends to stop her before graduating, Ajimu resorts to using Zenkichi in an attempt to have him defeat Medaka and usurp her position as the "main character".
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A younger Weyland appears a flashback in Alien: Covenant, engaging in conversation with a newly activated David. Writer Damon Lindelof conceived Peter Weyland as a man with a massive ego and a god complex. During the film's early development director Ridley Scott intended Max von Sydow to play Weyland, but he began to favor Guy Pearce when a scene was written with a younger version of the character. To depict Weyland's aging, Pearce wore heavy prosthetics requiring five hours to apply and one hour to remove.
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Shortly after the release and critical acclaim of his debut mixtape, The God Complex, Goldlink signed with LA record label Soulection and began working on his second mixtape. In 2015, Goldlink was selected as part of the 2015 XXL Freshman class, and it was announced that he would be working with acclaimed producer Rick Rubin. He later released the song "Spectrum" as the debut single for the mixtape. It was later revealed that Rick Rubin would be his mentor and executive producer for the album.
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The read-through for "The God Complex" took place in February 2011. It was then filmed mainly on hotel sets constructed in the studio. The Doctor, Amy, and Rory's first encounter with a fear in the hotel is the ventriloquist dummies found in Joe's room; Whithouse wanted to include something "big and bold" and noted that there was "something macabre about ventriloquist dummies". Many members of the crew were brought in to operate the dummies, most of them having to lie underneath them on the floor.
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Flyte also learns that the creature's body is physiologically almost identical to crude oil, and could be killed by bacteria bio-engineered to ingest fossil fuels. They deduce that with the limited amount of the bacteria they have, they need to get the bacteria into the nucleus that is within the main body of the Enemy. They form a plan to use the Ancient Enemy's extreme arrogance and god complex against itself. To do so, Flyte acts as if he is turning against the group by revealing their entire plan to the Enemy.
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In January 2015, the Doctor Who Twitter page reported that filming had begun on episodes written by Toby Whithouse, who has previously contributed episodes "School Reunion", "The Vampires of Venice", "The God Complex" and "A Town Called Mercy". On 16 March 2015, Mark Gatiss confirmed he would be writing an episode for the series. On 30 March 2015, it was confirmed Jamie Mathieson, who previously wrote "Mummy on the Orient Express" and "Flatline" for series 8, would write a new episode called "The Girl Who Died" with Moffat.
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A sentient robot is created with a violent outcome, rebelling against her creators. Throughout the story, Ex Machina appears to empathize with the robot as a victim of a man with a god complex. Responding to the protagonist's uncertainty about her fate if she does not live up to her creator's standards, the robot, Ava, responds "Why is it up to anyone?" about whether or not she lives. This questions the audience's underlying belief about whether or not a robot is entitled to a free life like other conscious beings.
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Years before the Fallen was introduced in the Generation 1 Dreamwave Productions comic book, Transformers: Beast Wars would introduce a similar character. This character was known simply "Megatron". Both the Generation 1 Megatron and Beast Era Megatron named themselves after this mythological figure. It is unknown if this Megatron named himself after him or if they are the same character, but all that is known about him is that he is "the beginning and the end" and "the alpha and omega", or at least claims to be as something of a God complex.
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One of the musical labels that Loathe has been assigned to the most is the metalcore fusion genre. In an interview with Distorted Sound Magazine, the band were referred to as being part of the latest movement within the genre, along the likes of Code Orange and Ocean Grove. They have also been grouped with similar bands such as Lotus Eater, Modern Error, Holding Absence and God Complex, noted as a new wave of bands within the genre. The band often uses the dynamic of clean and unclean vocals.
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The episode was written by Toby Whithouse, who originally planned to write it for the previous series. Showrunner Steven Moffat originally pitched the idea of a hotel with shifting rooms to writer Toby Whithouse for the previous series. However, as production continued, Moffat thought that there were too many instances in which the characters were running through corridors in that series, so Whithouse wrote "The Vampires of Venice" instead and "The God Complex" was pushed to the next series. The idea to have a Minotaur be the monster came from Whithouse's love for Greek mythology.
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Whithouse was more pleased with "The God Complex" than "School Reunion" and "The Vampires of Venice", his previous Doctor Who scripts, as the tone was darker which he was "more comfortable" writing. The first line of dialogue Whithouse wrote was the Doctor's translation of the Minotaur's words: "An ancient creature, drenched in the blood of the innocent, drifting in space through an endless shifting maze. For such a creature, death would be a gift". The Minotaur then tells the Doctor he was not talking about himself, but rather the Doctor.
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The team responds quickly and saves her before she is harmed. At the end of the episode, she and Reid are talking over the phone, and he opens a package at his desk that contains the card that he gave her—with a lipstick kiss on the back. In "God Complex", Reid begins calling Maeve - whose name and identity he does not know - on a pay phone and they talk about his progress with his headaches and sleep deprivation. It is revealed that she is in danger and doesn't want someone to know about her and Reid.
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He confronts him about his familial history among Nazis, including how his father was executed for crimes against humanity and a photograph of young Karl in a Hitler Youth uniform. Karl begins spying on and murdering his tenants via the reinforced ventilation crawlspace vents, and a series of mechanized traps he controls from his residence. Like his father, he begins displaying signs of a God complex, reveling in the ability to give life and take it away at will. Steiner attempts to assassinate Gunther, but is instead led into his apartment, where he is killed by one of his traps.
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He was cast in the part of Robin Scherbatsky's father on How I Met Your Mother in December 2010 (after Eric Braeden declined to reprise his role in a cameo appearance), and ultimately appeared in 6 episodes of the series in total. Ray made a cameo appearance as a modeling agent in episode four of season 2 of Workaholics. Wise made an appearance in 2012 in the TV series Rizzoli & Isles (Season 3, Episode 7, "Crazy for You") in drag as a cross-dressing judge. Ray played a disturbed ex mortician in the Criminal Minds episode "God Complex".
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On 10 January 2020, the band released Two-Way Mirror, accompanied with a music video. The band released the song "Screaming" a day prior to the release of their second album on 6 February in anticipation of the its release, which coincided with their UK Headlining tour, where they were supported by bands The Well Runs Red, Phoxjaw, and God Complex. Upon the albums release, Bickerstaffe expressed that the new family of tracks "...offers a brand new perspective and identity for Loathe." while still retaining some familiar aspects of their previous music. In June, the band participated in the virtual Download Festival.
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In April 2018 the band released their first new single in nearly a year, "God Complex", followed by "Call Me Up Victoria" in July. In September 2018, Blood Red Shoes announced their forthcoming fifth album would be called Get Tragic and would be released on their label Jazz Life on 25 January 2019. They released a third single, "Mexican Dress", along with a full track list and hinted at the difficulties they experienced around the 5th album. The album was made in Los Angeles and produced by Nick Launay and Adam Greenspan (Arcade Fire, Nick Cave, Yeah Yeah Yeahs).
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"The God Complex" is the eleventh episode of the sixth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC One on 17 September 2011. It was written by Toby Whithouse and directed by Nick Hurran. In the episode, alien time traveller the Doctor (Matt Smith) and his human companions Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) find themselves trapped in what appears to be a 1980s hotel with constantly changing corridors. They meet other humans and an alien who have also appeared in the hotel, without any idea how they arrived.
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"The God Complex" was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 17 September 2011 and on the same date in the United States on BBC America. Overnight ratings showed that 5.2 million viewers watched the episode on BBC One, beaten by direct competitor All-Star Family Fortunes on ITV1. This made Doctor Who third for the night behind The X Factor and Family Fortunes. The episode was ranked number 1 on BBC's iPlayer the day after it aired service and was also popular on social networking site Twitter, where the phrase "Amy and Rory" trended the night it aired.
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"Asylum of the Daleks" was directed by Nick Hurran, who directed "The Girl Who Waited" and "The God Complex" of the previous series, as well as the fifth episode of the seventh series. "Asylum of the Daleks" contains many of the Dalek types that the Doctor has faced over the years, including the Special Weapons Dalek from the 1988 story Remembrance of the Daleks. According to The Daily Telegraph, the production team located the remaining models of the various versions of the Daleks and shipped them to the studios in Cardiff Bay. This included a Dalek owned by Russell T Davies, Moffat's predecessor.
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In looking to give each episode of the series a distinct feel, showrunner Steven Moffat pitched the Wild West theme to writer Toby Whithouse, suggesting that the episode could be about a town terrorised by a robot. Moffat was keen on putting Matt Smith in a Western setting, who he called one of the last people one would expect to replace Clint Eastwood. Whithouse had previously written the Doctor Who episodes "School Reunion" (2006), "The Vampires of Venice" (2010), and "The God Complex" (2011). Moffat had been planning for the first five episodes of the series to have "movie marquee" themes.
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Despite finding the solution "witty, unpredictable ... and very satisfying", he stated that the subplots were "a bit convoluted" and potentially confusing, and they "seem to drop the mystery of the person in the space suit for a large part of the season and [focus] on other odd events". He also noted that the plots of the consecutive episodes "Night Terrors", "The Girl Who Waited", and "The God Complex" were similar. Reviewing the whole series, SFX Ian Berriman was more critical, giving it three and a half out of five stars. He criticised the story arc, finding it too complicated and the solution unsatisfying, and noted that it lacked "emotional impact".
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However, the Doctor knows the TARDIS will not accept the paradox and is forced to leave the older Amy behind. In "The God Complex", the Doctor breaks Amy's faith in him after he discovers that they are trapped in a prison for a being that kills by feeding on faith. At the conclusion of that episode, not wanting to risk their lives further, he parts ways with her and Rory after giving them a house and car. Amy appears briefly in "Closing Time", where she is shown to have become a fashion model, noted for a perfume campaign with the slogan "For The Girl Who Is Tired Of Waiting".
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In "The God Complex", the Doctor leaves Amy and Rory on Earth when he realises Amy's apotheosis of him endangers their lives. Some time passes before the Doctor is ready to confront his death. In "The Wedding of River Song", he devises an escape by concealing himself within the Teselecta, which is disguised to look like him, to make it seem he is shot and burned as history records. In a doomed alternate reality caused by River's reluctance to shoot the Doctor, the two become married; during the ceremony, she is let in on the Doctor's original plan and helps fake and corroborate his death.
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The Doctor says that the ghost in the top hat is from the planet Tivoli, first mentioned in the Eleventh Doctor story "The God Complex", which featured a member of its native species named Gibbis. When pondering what the ghosts actually are, the Doctor eliminates the possibility that they are Flesh avatars ("The Rebel Flesh" / "The Almost People"), Autons (Spearhead from Space et al.), or digital copies in the Nethersphere ("Dark Water" / "Death in Heaven"). One of the Doctor's "cards" has him offering reassurance that no- one, among other disasters, is going to be "exterminated/upgraded". This is a scripted response to potential Dalek and/or Cybermen encounters.
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He abuses this ability and developed a god complex to the point of totally disregarding the Horoscopes' interest in general and not meeting with Gamou. Yamada transfers to Subaruboshi High to break away from the chairman's scrutiny, and takes on the title of as he gets the entire school under his control and has everyone act in the roles he assigns them. However, being able to speed up bodily functions of a person means that he can easily revive someone as well. He is eventually brought before the chairman by the Virgo Zodiarts and Hayami advises to him to brace himself for a scolding.
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Gavin Fuller of The Daily Telegraph awarded the episode three and a half out of five stars, stating that "the surreal tone to the episode... helped camouflage the fact that the plot made very little sense". However, he praised the cast's "impressive performances", especially Smith's. Dave Golder of SFX also gave "The God Complex" three and a half out of five stars, questioning some logical aspects but noting that it was "extremely witty, particularly when it comes to David Walliams's cowardly moleman Gibbis". He also did not believe Amy and Rory would be gone for long, especially as the Doctor had placed them in more perilous situations before.
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At the episode's conclusion, they decide to let the adult River make her own way in life and continue their travels. Rory features prominently in "The Girl Who Waited", where he is confronted with the horrible consequences time travel has had on a version of his wife. In "The God Complex", he is the only one of the TARDIS crew who is not hunted by the creature that feeds on faith because of Rory's rational nature and lack of personal faith. The Doctor eventually realises the danger he is exposing his friends to and returns Amy and Rory to Earth, giving them a house and a car as exit presents.
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An alien Minotaur was imprisoned in a prison that resembled that of an Earth hotel in "The God Complex" (2011), however this "hotel" had never-ending corridors, and so established itself as a God, feeding from the fears of the beings that find them trapped in the hotel. The Eleventh Doctor realised that actually, the Minotaur is feeding on the people's faith that something or someone will save them from their worst fears, and so temporarily encourages his companion Amy Pond to lose her faith in him, which eventually allows the Minotaur to die peacefully in the corridors of the hotel. The Doctor mentions that this alien species of Minotaur are cousins of the Nimon.
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Mark Gatiss wrote "Night Terrors" to be a scary episode, surprised that dolls had not been used in Doctor Who before. "The Girl Who Waited" is a "Doctor-lite" episode, an episode in which the actor playing the Doctor is not required for much of the shooting, which allowed Tom MacRae to explore Amy and Rory's characters and relationship. The concept of "The God Complex" was originally pitched by Toby Whithouse for the fifth series, but it was pushed back as Moffat felt that it was too similar to the stories in that series. The penultimate episode, "Closing Time", is a sequel to series five's "The Lodger" and allows the Doctor to have some fun while building up to the finale.
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Anders commented in a review of the DVD release that the "inventiveness and cleverness" was an integral part of the sixth series, and the episodes such as "The Doctor's Wife" and "The God Complex" would be considered classics. She praised Moffat's writing, while commenting on the fact that the series' primary storylines, including Amy's pregnancy, River Song's childhood and assassination plot on Doctor were not satisfying enough when re-watching the series. Anders stated that Amy and River were not so much considered "plausible characters". DVD Talk's John Sinnott gave the series four out of five stars, feeling that it "[didn't] quite hit the heights" of the fifth series but was "still pretty good (and light years past any other SF show currently in production)".
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The title lent plausibility to his claim to be the restorer of republican institutions vitiated during the civil wars, and as Oxford historian Craig Walsh notes in his seminal work Classics in Room 39: "Princeps was pretty much the same idea as the latin Primus Inter pares".Craig Walsh, Classics in Room 39, page number needed. On the motion of L. Munatius Plancus, he was also given the honorific cognomen Augustus, which made his full name Imperator Caesar divi filius Augustus. Imperator stressed military power and victory, emphasising his role as commander-in-chief. Divi filius, translating as ‘son of the divine’, showed that whilst he himself didn't have a "god complex" and wasn't an autocrat, he was on the shoulders of the gods, enhancing his legitimacy.
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In an interview on Soulection Radio with DJ, host, and mixtape executive producer Joe Kay, GoldLink said that the mixtape is a concept album based around a breakup he suffered at the age of 16: he says it was due to neither of them truly knowing how to properly handle a relationship. He also noted that this breakup is what lead to the events that took place within The God Complex, calling it his "memoir or moment of clarity". He stated that the writing for some of the songs are inspired by either conversations or ex- relationships. The mixtape features personal reflections on themes such as love, coming of age, obsession, intimacy, regret, police brutality, substance abuse, racism, and parenthood.
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The studio heavily edited the film and removed a segment from the original cut that had Henry Frankenstein proclaiming, "Now I know what it feels like to be God!" Theologian Paul Ramsey is noted for saying, "Men ought not to play God before they learn to be men, and after they have learned to be men they will not play God." The religious framework of approach to this phrase refers to said religion's deity having a set plan for mankind, therefore man's hubris may lead to the misuse of technology related to sacred life or nature. Other famous literary texts that elude to a man and God complex include Men Like Gods by H. G. Wells and You Shall Be Gods by Erich Fromm.
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The Weeping Angels are a race of predatory creatures from the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who; They were introduced in the 2007 episode "Blink", making repeat appearances in the two-part story, "The Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone" (2010), and "The Angels Take Manhattan" (2012) as well as cameo appearances in "The God Complex" (2011), "The Time of the Doctor" (2013) and "Hell Bent" (2015). They also feature in the spin-off series Class, in the first series finale "The Lost" (2016). Since their initial appearance, they have been persistently nominated as one of the most popular and frightening Doctor Who monsters. Steven Moffat attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmother's Footsteps and the notion that every statue might secretly be a disguised Weeping Angel.
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Writer Toby Whithouse originally planned to write a different episode set in "some sort of labyrinth", but after the idea had been developed for a while executive producers Steven Moffat and Piers Wenger thought that it was too similar to other episodes in the series, and asked him to write something else, while Whithouse's original idea was pushed to the next series (The God Complex). He was asked to write "a big bold romantic episode" which would also serve as a "sort of reboot episode" and a good introduction to Doctor Who. Whithouse was asked to set it "anywhere in the world" that was romantic, and he chose Venice, which he called "one of my favourite places in the world". Whithouse believed that the vampires fit into the setting.
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The show became a lightning rod for potential legal ethics issues, with critics stating: "It's obviously advertising for that law firm that is slanted at having the public believe in higher verdicts, more rights of the injury party and anti-doctor." The show resulted in two separate Florida Bar investigations, and one prosecution, when a law firm attorney admitted on-air: "I used to enjoy betting on the football games, and now they've arrested my bookie." Another time, a lawyer ranted about the medical profession and accused doctors of having a "God-complex - they think they are above the law." The law firm's most controversial act occurred in 1993 when it rewrote a Florida statute that allowed the state of Florida to sue the Tobacco Industry, and then orchestrated its passage through the state legislature.
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The main events of the novel occur between the years of 1993-2007, from Laura's neonaticide through Alec packing up and leaving his family. Lauren Grodstein utilizes flashbacks to exploit how the narrator, successful New Jersey internist Pete Dizinoff, ends up where he is today: estranged from his best friends, the Sterns, his son, Alec, and his patients, as well as on the verge of divorce with his wife, Elaine. Pete’s need for control over his son’s life eventually drives Alec away from him, and away from the bright future Pete had pushed him towards. This trait also sets up the violent conclusion with Laura. Pete’s God complex severely affects his professional life when he ignores Joe’s advice about his patient Roseanne and fails to diagnose her with Addison’s disease, a condition which eventually kills her.
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He is an excellent cricket player (Black Orchid) and in "The Lodger" he proves to be a prodigiously talented footballer despite unfamiliarity with some of the game's basic rules. Though reluctant to engage in combat against living opponents, this is not for lack of skill; the Doctor is conversant with both real and fictitious styles of unarmed combat (most obviously the "Venusian Aki-Do" practised by the Third Doctor), has won several sword fights against skilled opponents, and is able to make extremely difficult shots with firearms and, in The Face of Evil, with a crossbow. Thanks to exposure to many of history's greatest experts, including those from the future, the Doctor is a talented boxer, musician, organist, scientist and singer (able to shatter windows with his voice), and has a PhD in cheesemaking ("The God Complex").
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SHODAN is an artificial intelligence whose moral restraints were removed from her programming by a hacker in order for Edward Diego, station chief of Citadel Station, on which SHODAN was installed, to delete compromising files regarding illegal experiments and his corruption. She is a megalomaniac with a god complex and sees humans as little better than insects, something which she constantly reminds the player of. Her words are accompanied by stuttering, fluctuating voice pitch, shifts of timbre, and the presence of three voices speaking the same words with the constituent voices alternately lagging behind and leading ahead in different patterns, as well as computer glitches resembling a sound card malfunction. Although as a cybernetic entity SHODAN has no conventional gender, the original disc version refers to her as either an 'it' or a 'he', while the later CD version uses 'she'.
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He returned four times to the same spot in Amy Pond's garden where he had crash-landed and originally met her. (2nd & 3rd arrivals "The Eleventh Hour", "The Big Bang", "The Angels Take Manhattan"); he routinely materialised in front of the London house which he had given to her and her husband ("The God Complex", "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe", "Pond Life: August", "The Power of Three"), or within her homes ("Flesh and Stone", "Pond Life: May", "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship", "The Power of Three"). He delivered himself to the precise space-time location where the pair (and, unbeknownst to them, their daughter River Song) had summoned him; ("Let's Kill Hitler") and his pin-point accurate landings repeatedly allowed him to catch River and save her life ("The Time of Angels", "Day of the Moon"). The console can be operated independently of the TARDIS.
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In Doctor Who Magazine 2014 fan poll of the greatest episodes of all time, "Blink" again came in second, this time behind the 2013 episode "The Day of the Doctor". Moffat, after becoming lead writer of the programme, wrote "The Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone" for the fifth series as a more action-oriented sequel that brought back the Weeping Angels, believing that good monsters should come back with a different style of story. They also returned in "The Angels Take Manhattan" from the show's seventh series , featured in the mini- episode, "Good as Gold", written by children for a Blue Peter contest and have made cameo appearances in the episodes "The God Complex", "The Time of the Doctor", "Hell Bent" and in the finale to the first series of the Doctor Who spin-off, Class. They are also featured in the New Series Adventures novel Touched by an Angel by Jonathan Morris.
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