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Cyrano

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Another chronology following the crossover connections to a play.  This is the first one unrelated to Shakespeare. From the source material: FIRST MARQUIS : Who is this Cyrano? CUIGY : A fellow well skilled in all tricks of fence. SECOND MARQUIS : Is he of noble birth? CUIGY : Ay, noble enough. He is a cadet in the Guards. But 'tis his friend Le Bret, yonder, who can best tell you. Le Bret! Seek you for De Bergerac? LE BRET : Ay, I am uneasy. . . CUIGY : Is it not true that he is the strangest of men? LE BRET : True, that he is the choicest of earthly beings! RAGUENEAU : Poet! CUIGY : Soldier! BRISSAILLE : Philosopher! LE BRET : Musician! LIGNIERE : And of how fantastic a presence! RAGENEAU : Marry, 'twould puzzle even our grim painter Philippe de Champaigne to portray him! Methinks, whimsical, wild, comical as he is, only Jacques Callot, now dead and gone, had succeeded better, and had made of him the maddest fighter of all his visored crew--with his triple-pl...

KLTPZYXM

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So now that I sent the imp back to his world for another three months... Last year for April Fool's Day, I wrote a post about Batman's joke themed villain, the Joker.  So this year, I'm covering Superman's mischievous fifth dimensional foe. It should be noted that I believe that the imps from the fifth dimensional land of Zrfff on Planet Poppup include Mxyzptlk, sometimes using the alias Mxyztplk, the Impossible Man, Bat-Mite, Quisp, and Larry.  I believe that these beings are what will someday be known as the Q.  It's possible that the Great Gazoo may also come from this world.  Additionally, "witches", as seen on Bewitched, may actually be hybrids created from this race mating with humans at some point in the distant past.   And before I begin the chronology, I want to point out as a point of pride that I've been able to spell Mxyzptlk without looking it up since I was a wee lad. There are three different in-story interpretations of...