With a dash of Fistfull of Boomstick and a skoche of Classic Nations; there's a theory that absolutely everything in the known universe can be summed up as "This meets That". Lord of the Rings is just Beowulf meets Gilgamesh meets etc., Twilight is just Angel meets Harry Potter meets Hannah Montana, etc. Try not to let it get to you. ;-)
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"Whatever," said Bean, "I was just glad to get out of the toilet."
"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power."- John Steinbeck
"I'm only acting retarded, what's your excuse?" queried the Gord. - My pet, the Levelup Gnome