Shoot the Baddies

Shoot the Baddies, by Flickr user Olly Moss, whose portfolio site is here . (Thanks, Wayne de Geere!)

[#1 posted by Anonymous , January 13, 2009 7:19 PM]

I totally know Olly Moss on an internet messageboard. Totally.

[#2 posted by singrum , January 13, 2009 7:24 PM]

LOVE his photos on flicker

[#3 posted by nanuq , January 13, 2009 7:27 PM]

I don't recognize some of them but it's an fun notion. The zombie target is wrong though. Everyone knows you go for the head, not the heart.

[#4 posted by Takuan , January 13, 2009 7:30 PM]

Godzilla is NOT a baddie, he's just misunderstood.

[#5 posted by Antinous / Moderator , January 13, 2009 7:34 PM]

Gojira's a he?

[#6 posted by grimc , January 13, 2009 7:42 PM]

@nanuq

No doubt. And it's pointless to practice shooting at Vader. If Han Solo can't get a shot off before Vader makes his blaster fly out of his hand, Joe Schmo with a slug thrower isn't going to do any better.

[#7 posted by starcadia , January 13, 2009 8:02 PM]

#4: That's what I was thinking! I cried as a child when I saw Godzilla die. I would never want to kill him again.

Similar thing could be said for Darth Vader, too. Maybe not misunderstood, but misguided.

[#8 posted by akbar56 , January 13, 2009 8:03 PM]

I see:

1. Darth Vader
2. Terminator?
3. Zombie
4. Freddy Kruger
5. Space Invader
6. Generic Robot or Megatron?
7. Gojira
8. Secret Service Agent
9. Goomba

[#9 posted by Quiet Noises , January 13, 2009 8:05 PM]

Guy's got a pretty great portfolio for a 21 yearold...

[#10 posted by Anonymous , January 13, 2009 8:06 PM]

@#1: that's nothing, I know Olly Moss on two message boards!

[#11 posted by LYNDON , January 13, 2009 8:12 PM]

@AKBAR I'm assuming 8 was Agent Smith

[#12 posted by Anonymous , January 13, 2009 8:14 PM]

^He just plays 21 online.

[#13 posted by Daemon , January 13, 2009 8:26 PM]

Gojira's a good guy in at least some of the movies...

He chose a surprising number of things that range from outright bulletproof to very difficult to hurt with one.

(Disclaimer: I class zombies as bullet-proof, because i'm in the "headshots don't work, you have to chop them into pieces too small to move" camp)

[#14 posted by Ernunnos , January 13, 2009 8:49 PM]

Pedobear would make this perfect, but I'd still hang it up at the range. And frame it afterward.

[#15 posted by Ian70 , January 13, 2009 9:14 PM]

A wise man once said:
"Get the girl, kill the baddies, and save the entire planet"
A wiser man sang it.

[#16 posted by Takuan , January 13, 2009 9:37 PM]

it's really bugging me... the goombah is a rip from a sixties or seventies illo from Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine... the profile is unmistakable and the image is clear in my mind... now I'm going to have to rummage through a haystack of mouldering paper...dammit.

[#17 posted by ThreeFJeff , January 13, 2009 9:38 PM]

Ah, so you prefer Quake style zombies, Daemon@13. Quote from the manual: "Thou canst not kill that which doth not live. But you can blast it into chunky kibbles."

(I'm more a headshot-should-kill-zombies kind of guy. I think the shotgun is the best weapon to field against the walking dead. Shotguns vs zombies can work in Quake, but you need to have the quad and use the supershotty at close range.)

As to the picture, totally awesome. It would be great fun to take to the range.

[#18 posted by Takuan , January 13, 2009 9:44 PM]

hah! found it, right next to Nov. 63, it was June 1980 - tell me if I'm wrong.

[#19 posted by OM , January 13, 2009 10:16 PM]

...Why the frack aren't Barney and at least one Cylon up there?

[#20 posted by Johnny Cat , January 13, 2009 10:25 PM]

That's not a zombie, folks. #3 is definitely a Sleestak. I've shot many homebrewed lazers at them to know one when I see it.

[#21 posted by Anonymous , January 14, 2009 12:06 AM]

@#8

8.) Agent Smith

I miss Daleks!

[#22 posted by mattharvest , January 14, 2009 5:30 AM]

FYI, Olly posts pretty often on Penny Arcade's "Artist's Corner" message board, if you're looking for more of his stuff. Head over to penny-arcade.com and click on forum.

(I'm not affiliated with PA in any way, though I'm a fan of their work and Olly's)

[#23 posted by Stiv , January 14, 2009 6:24 AM]

I'll second Cylon and Dalek.

[#24 posted by Jugsi Funny , January 14, 2009 6:34 AM]

I want to add someone on the Baddie list: Annie(Sunset beach) :)) joking.
I'd try a shooting session on he guy from SAW

[#25 posted by theclar , January 14, 2009 7:24 AM]

It'd be great if when shooting at the Darth Vader target you'd get off one shot then your gun would fly out of your hand and stick to the target

[#26 posted by cinemajay , January 14, 2009 9:35 AM]

If you are such a bad shot that you require a target to practice hitting something the size of Godzilla, then shouldn't you be working out at the track? Sprinting skills would seem to be more appropriate at that point.

[#27 posted by shMerker , January 14, 2009 10:58 AM]

Awesome, would love one for Team Fortress 2's Heavy Weapons guy. Or maybe Oddjob, the cheap little bastard was my bane in so many Goldeneye matches that it only seems appropriate.

[#28 posted by WeightedCompanionCube , January 14, 2009 1:51 PM]

I spit a fireball at the Goomba and the whole target burned up.

How do I score that?