Evil business mogul Max Shrek is the GOP and Donald Trump is the Penguin. Initially, Penguin blackmails Shrek into helping him. Shrek is resentful at first, but complies. Shrek soon gets an idea that he can use the Penguin to his advantage. Penguin is a mentally unstable criminal, but he captures the intrigue of Gothum's citizens. Since Penguin can be easily manipulated with no more effort than a simple stroking of his ego, Shrek seeks to position the Penguin into the Office of the Mayor. With Penguin in power, Shrek can essentially get whatever agenda he wants accomplished, no matter how nefarious or corrupt, while keeping his own hands clean. Penguin would never last as the mayor. His mental illness and impulsiveness combined with the kinds of things Shrek would manipulate him into doing would all but doom his political career, if not land him in prison. But before that would happen, Shrek would get whatever he wanted without having to face any of the repercussions of Penguin's inevitable fall.
Donald Trump's Presidency is a plot from Batman Returns.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 21, 2018 12:40 AM |
I've suspected something like that for a long time.
Which brings up the big question... who's pulling the strings, who's Max Schrek?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 3, 2017 8:49 AM |
Paul Ryan
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 3, 2017 8:52 AM |
Is Kellyanne Catwoman?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 3, 2017 8:57 AM |
No, Catwoman is Chelsea Clinton.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 3, 2017 9:11 AM |
Max Schreck? The disgraced former actor from NBC's ALF?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 3, 2017 9:20 AM |
Sorry, that was Max Wright.
Schreck is from Nosferatu (1922).
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 3, 2017 9:21 AM |
Trump behaves like the emperor in Star Wars 😜
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 3, 2017 12:13 PM |
r7, Bannon's more the Emporer type. Trump is just a clumsy buffoon with no patience for long term schemes and sticking to them.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 3, 2017 1:29 PM |
Max Schreck can either stand for the GOP or the media that promoted and covered the heck out of Trump's antics. However in the movie Batmal prevents the Peguin from becoming mayor of Gotham City (and Max Schreck just abandons the Penguin after that).
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 3, 2017 1:34 PM |
[quote]No, Catwoman is Chelsea Clinton.
The GOP threw Chelsea out a window?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 3, 2017 1:35 PM |
[quote]Donald Trump is the Penguin
They made that comparison in "Gotham" this season. Oswald's campaign photo was photoshopped to make him look tanner and more handsome, and he ran on the Make Gotham Safe Again platform.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 3, 2017 1:54 PM |
Is good.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 3, 2017 2:02 PM |
[quote] Max Schreck can either stand for the GOP or the media that promoted and covered the heck out of Trump's antics. However in the movie Batmal prevents the Peguin from becoming mayor of Gotham City (and Max Schreck just abandons the Penguin after that).
The GOP will abandon Donald Trump in the same way once the smoking gun is revealed that turns public opinion irrevocably against him. I imagine Paul Ryan as the Max Shreck character.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 4, 2017 3:59 PM |
The movie Canadian Bacon from the '90s has a lot of trumpish references.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | February 4, 2017 4:05 PM |
Shrek WAS modeled on Trump. It was in multiple articles at the time.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | February 4, 2017 4:25 PM |
Max is Bannon. Trump is the Penguin.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | February 4, 2017 4:48 PM |
[quote] Shrek WAS modeled on Trump. It was in multiple articles at the time.
But now Trump is more Penguin than Trump.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | February 4, 2017 4:50 PM |
[quote] But now Trump is more Penguin than Trump.
I mean, but Trump is more Penguin than Shrek currently.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | February 4, 2017 4:50 PM |
I liked it the first way, R18. Seems more accurate somehow.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | February 4, 2017 5:17 PM |
[quote] I liked it the first way, [R18]. Seems more accurate somehow.
Trump is not as smart as Max Shrek. He is not the behind the scenes.. He is the mentally unstable mad man being manipulated by more calculating the people behind the scenes.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | February 4, 2017 5:21 PM |
I want Kellyanne to kiss Donald with a taser, but she only has one life.
Also, Pfeiffer should have won an Oscar for this film.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | February 4, 2017 5:34 PM |
It's been years since I've seen Batman Returns. But, didn't Catwoman or Penguin kill Max Shrek's son?
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | February 14, 2017 3:06 AM |
He played the rust belt and the lower class like a harp from Hell.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | February 14, 2017 3:10 AM |
In light of Donald Trump's policy of kidnapping children, this topic made in jest from last year just got way more relevant.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 21, 2018 12:05 AM |
[quote]Which brings up the big question... who's pulling the strings, who's Max Schrek?
The Koch brothers. They don't like Trump much but they thought they could use him. And they were right until Trump started playing games with tariffs and a trade war.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 21, 2018 12:40 AM |