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I was going to reblog this with the caption “Me avoiding reality and responsibility” or something…
BUT THEN I SAW IT
IVE BEEN FLASHED
One of my animation teachers at school worked on shows like this, and said they used to sneak shit like into cartoons all the time. There’s apparently some UPA cartoon where the main character turns into a refrigerator for two frames out of animator boredom.
He said that once people started playing video games, their eyes got accustomed to seeing 60fps on television instead of 24fps, and they can’t do this stuff anymore.
A little history lesson about this Overwatch skin, and Hsien-ko:
These are both examples of the popular Chinese hopping vampire/zombie/ghost (they can be described as any of the three). They are most commonly referred to as “jiangshi” (thank you @chibidarkness1111 for reminding me). This creature was actually created specifically for Hong Kong cinema, with little resemblance to actual Chinese folklore (the traditional Chinese zombies and vampires are described almost exactly like a Bigfoot or “Skunk Ape”–being large, hair-covered, smelly, and living in swamplands–and not like our Western and European folklore whatsoever.
You may think these ghouls originated when films were still in black and white, but they were an invention of the 80’s by actor/filmmaker Sammo Hung, and made popular in films such as “Encounters of the Spooky Kind” (1980), and the “Mr. Vampire” films (1985 onward). The reason for the hopping is the only part slightly connected to Chinese folklore: There was so much migration throughout China that there was the very real possibility that a person might die far away from their original homelands. If they were not buried in the soil of their homeland, they would become a displaced, restless soul, doomed to walk the earth. Up until the early 20th century, Taoist priests would collect the bodies of the deceased, and bring them back to their home soil. How they allegedly did this was to reanimate the corpses with an incantation, and control them using a bell, and a piece of paper attached to the deceased’s forehead with a “death blessing” written on it in Chinese characters.
The concept of yin and yang deals with positive and negative energy. It is said that the earth is filled with positive energy, while the bodies of the dead are filled with negative energy. Unlike magnets, these two forces cannot meet, and repel each other. Ergo, any time the feet of the deceased made contact with the soil, they were pushed upward, resulting in a hopping gait.
So, now you know about the famous Chinese vampire/zombie/ghost, why they hop, and why they have that piece of paper on their foreheads: Because of Taoist priests, Sammo Hung, and Chinese horror movies.
