What could an acquitted paedophile and alleged Nazi fetishist like Michael Jackson and PopCap games, the producer of many bland and unoriginal flash-based casual games that people gain a Warcraft-like addiction to, possibly have in common?
Aside from the obvious evils on both fronts the answer is Plants vs. Zombies. Plants vs. Zombies is a tower defence style game in which the player assumes the role of a homeowner who uses plants to deter zombies from stealing his house/eating his brain/doing whatever the hell it is zombies actually do. Thrilling, I know.
The reason Wacko Jacko has been linked to the game is because PopCap have decided to remove a zombie from the game who looked suspiciously like the late loony in his Thriller get up. PopCap have stated this decision was due to the fact that Jacko’s estate had objected to the inclusion of the character in the game, more than a year after the character first surfaced.
Another theory is that maybe it just isn’t right to have Michael Jackson anywhere near children in any way, shape or form, which includes digital representations, drawings or vinyl LPs.
The, ‘dancing zombie,’ which slowly dances its way across the screen, with its melting face and evil intentions was quite an eerily chilling likeness of Der Fuhrer von Popmusik and maybe that is what the creature from the black lagoon’s estate has objected to. PopCap themselves did state that the objection was because the character, “too closely resembled Michael Jackson.”
Thankfully there have been no reports of iPhones, iPads or desktops attacking children or barking out anti-semitic propaganda at any point during Herr Jackson’s time in Plants vs. Zombies.
However there are unconfirmed reports that Dancing Zombie would like to begin invading other PopCap titles such as Peggle and Bejewelled in order to create a new ‘master game’.
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Wonder if they’ll have to remove the Zombie reference from Pocket God as well now then…
*Zombie Michael Jackson
How can you say that about MJ?! That man was a genius and trolls like you have to go sully his name. You sick little liar, he was a victim of liars like you, of spineless anonymous bloggers with nothing better to do but spit lies online. Oh how am I kidding, he was a massive weirdo, probably guilty, let’s dig him up and turn him into a necropuppet. We can go on tour with that.
to this website……………
FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
its fine for you to have an opinion – but as (ahem) journalists, you owe it to your readers to take a neutral stand on your topics instead of forcing your uneducated, and unprofessional opinion down our throats.
just think, in the time it took you to slam MJ you could have written something worthy of your “grown-up” readership.
Michael Jackson has accomplished more in his life than you ever will in yours. guaranteed.
he is a legend. and you only have a blog.
…a blog that you have to use his name to get traffic.
“its fine for you to have an opinion” it’s actually his right. He in no way needs your permission or acknowledgement.
“but as (ahem) journalists” Typically it is polite to excuse oneself after a caugh or clearing your throat. Just because your typing doesn’t mean manners have to fly out the window.
“you owe it to your readers to take a neutral stand on your topics” By your full comment it is obvious you are not one of his “readers.” You have know idea what what he or other Hecklerspray contributors “owe” their readers.
” instead of forcing your uneducated, and unprofessional opinion down our throats.” By forcing you mean publishing it on a blog in the vastness of cyberspace where you could only really stumble across it were you to be looking for it and or something an article has been tagged for being included with? Damn you Hecklerspray for forcing these people to randomly come by your website and have no other choice than to read your article, being unable to click the any of the several buttons that would make the article leave my screen!! Damn you!
“just think, in the time it took you to slam MJ you could have written something worthy of your “grown-up” readership” By putting “grown-up” in quotations you are implying you are not a “grown-up.” That would explain a lot about your comment actually.
“Michael Jackson has accomplished more in his life than you ever will in yours. guaranteed.” You are correct here. But the author Kris Silver covered that already when he said “an acquitted paedophile and alleged Nazi fetishist.” I doubt the author of the article has accomplished gaining those discriptors in his life.
“he is a legend. and you only have a blog.” Which is actually more than Micheal Jackson now… because he is dead.
first of all i don’t care if MJ corpse is removed from the online game or not but i want you to know that he wasn’t a peadophile , and if he watched nazi films i don’t know what’s weird , i love dictature too , what’s for weird here huuuh ???
Leave MJ rest in peace!!!!!!! He was the best of the best and always will be. No matter what you say about him…there is not one piece of evidence to prove that he was a pedophile…and thats because he wasnt one! leave him alone!
Go Fuck Youre self you piece of shit!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope MJ’s estate sues their ass.
Oh, you use a creepy little pic to represent MJ. Interesting. It’s also interesting that you do do not attach a pic of yourself to your travesty of an article. Wise choice.
Um.. that “creppy little pic” is a picture of video game character in question in the article. Do you know how to read? You should read the article before commenting on it. And also why is it a “wise choice” for the person tho wrote this article to not use personal picture of themself? Are you threatening the person? Are you saying had there been a picture you would have used that to track him down and give him bodily harm? I think not. Your name is Jam. So stop pretending your smart.
What have we learned here today?
1.) Learn to read before you write.
2.) People with the name Jam should not in any way attempt to sound better than another person. Because they are obviously not.
Actually I think those both are kind of related to the same problem…
To the uneducated writer of this article, please read Michael Jackson Conspiracy by Aphrodite Jones and Redemption by Geraldine Hughes. It will enlighten you to the fact that MJ was never a pediphile. Im tired of people like you who never questions what is written in the media. You shouldn’t believe 90% of things written about celebrities, unless the actually celebrity says it!!!!
To the humorlous writer of this comment, please read the article again, though this time with the knowledge that it is funny. It will enlighten you to the fact that Kris Silver was never someone who never questions the media, but was writing in a form of humor.Im tired of people like you who never understand intelligent humor. You shouldn’t believe 90% of things people write in comment sections of articles involving Micheal Jackson (90% of the people that comment never read the article itself.!!!!!!
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For anybody stating that Michael Jackson was not a pedophile, how can you possibly know? The only people who would know for sure are MJ and the kids he may or may not have abused. Not one other person in the entire world could say they were 100% certain he wasn’t a pedophile because frankly, they weren’t there so it’s all circumstantial, and for that reason, whilst you have your opinion, other people may think differently.