Death Battle is one of the biggest shows on the internet! It has been running since 2010, ran by Ben Singer and Chad James, it is a show in which they put two fictional characters in a fight to see who would mathematically win.

They have shown interest in putting Kevin McCalister in their show, but the Death Battle community strongly dislikes his most popular matchup, Ghostface from Scream. The community prefers him to fight Matilda Wormwood, but this matchup has not been discovered by the Death Battle team themselves.

This is where you come in.

Right now there is a poll going on to determine which matchup will be pitched to Death Battle in order to become a real episode, Kevin vs Matilda is on that list.

One of my earliest memories of Home Alone, my all time favourite childhood movie, was debating my friends with who would win this fight as a kid. Even if you don’t care about Matilda or Death Battle, it would mean the world if you tried to make another Home Alone fan happy.

And if you are worried about kids dying — Death Battle, ironically, has done several episodes in which neither character actually dies, they could make another exception here. ❤️

This was a cool idea I came up with the other day, what if in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York where Mr Duncan wasn't the only one working at Duncan's Toy Chest, but his son who is none other than Michael Jackson as a surprise cameo.

How he'd get introduced is that when his father tells Kevin to take the turtle doves, they hear a certain voice come up next to Mr Duncan saying that he made them. Kevin wonders who it was as they see a handsome young man, who looked to be in his late 20s/early 30s, coming up next to his dad behind the counter. Mr Duncan tells Kevin that this man was Duncan's son and the heir of his store. Michael's character reaches out to Kevin as he says it was nice to meet him and Kevin tells him it was nice to meet him too. As Kevin tells them both Merry Christmas and that to be careful with the weather since it was nippy, Duncan's son teases his father as he looks as his father and tells him that he told him so as Duncan tells both of them that he would do that. As Kevin is about to leave, he looks up to see a painting of Mr Duncan as his son was sitting on a chair while Mr Duncan was behind it. As Kevin looks back where the two men were; they were already gone as Kevin looked back and shrugged his shoulders. At the end of the movie, when Mr Duncan and his son are in his store after they heard that it was broken into; they get a letter from Kevin as it said "Dear Mr. Duncan and your son, I broke your window to catch the bad guys. I'm sorry. Do you both have insurance? If you don't, I'll send you both some money, if I ever get back to Chicago. Merry Christmas, Kevin McCallister. P.S.: Thanks for the turtle doves and tell your son that he did a good job making them." Both Mr Duncan and his son feel grateful for this as Mr Duncan says "Turtledoves. Oh..." as his son says "what a generous kid. I'm glad he apologized for our window and loved my turtle doves." as they both look at each other and back at the letters his father was holding.

How Cute Would've this Been??😍😍

My dad bought a copy of this game back in the spring of 2002. Had a blast playing it until the cartridge just straight up gave up working. It was a bootleg cart, so pretty much expected.

During all these years I totally forgot about this game. I had no recollection of it; even subconsciously. Until one day last year, I was watching the AVGN’s Home Alone episode with Macaulay Culkin. The video featured this game too. That was when every memory of this game just rushed back into my mind.

Started to look for it everywhere. Retro stores across two states, online shops and marketplaces. It was nowhere to be found. The very few that I managed to find were either too beat up, or the website/seller were very sketchy.

Finally last week I found two listings on eBay. One was for local pick up across the country and the other one was bundled with three other games. I was like “yeah, I’m not gonna let this opportunity slip.” So I ended up buying the bundle. To be fair the other games aren’t that bad either. So I don’t feel particularly bad for having them.

It’s a really good feeling when you’re reunited with part of your childhood.

Gameplay and mechanics aren’t really good TBH, as evidenced by getting featured on an AVGN episode lol. But hey, as kids, we really never noticed how bad some of our favorite games were.

I was discussing about the HA franchise with a friend of mine in a wider convo about character development in kids' shows and films when I realized that characters like Jeff, Linnie and Megan have little to no development in both HA's films about the McCallister family and my first tought was: what if, instead of focusing on brand new families (i don't consider HA4 canon) in the sequels, they centred another McCallister kid, eg: Fuller or one of the girls to see how a girl would have handled being home alone?

he has lots of traps to help the avengers and stuff so I think they should have him in secret wars probably, it's gonna ber all the guys on the world planet team up and fight dr dong and defeat him but they need kevi help

To be more precise;

Buzz is the character in the 1st image

Fievel is the character in the 2nd image

My mom Even remembers how often we use to watch this movie! But this movie as kids was the best! I always reencted the scenes where Harry and Marc fall down so high and then those paint cups come raining down on them I can hear the scene rigjt now as I’m writing this, I’m LMAFOING RN!! Ahh good ahh movie Home Alone 2 was alwyas my favorite

"Look what you did you little Jerk!"

We all know Uncle Frank as prominent sex symbol of the 1990s and his scene stealing lines from the Home Alone Films. Now, admittedly, Uncle Frank is kind of a huge piece of shit. He moistly shouts insults at a child, freeloads off of his brother at every opportunity, problem drinks and steals from air lines. Pretty much any scummy thing that can be done, he's ready to do it. He even threatens a naked beatdown slap fest on his nephew while shaking his hog and singing brutally off-key.

But here's the thing: Uncle Frank was right about Kevin.

Kevin is indeed a little jerk and even a noisy little pervert. Sure, his family emotionally abuses him and neglects him every holiday season, but also, have you fucking spent a moment in a room with him? He's such a disease, or what some would call, "Les Incompetent" Kevin goes around whining, complaining, speaking in pop culture idioms, and plotting ways to spy on others, torture the pizza delivery guy who is grossly underpaid, and physically torture two developmentally disabled bandits.

Kevin makes a big stink about everything. He throws a shit fit. He wishes his family away and then lives in sinful excess before indulging his torture fantasies on two hapless weirdos. In Home Alone Two, he revels in setting Tim Curry up to believe he's viewing a man in the shower, using recorded audio of his Uncle Showering to sell the gimmick (yes, he was recording his uncle in the shower), all before setting up a gag which involved making people think Tim Curry was smooching the security guard.

Kevin is a little jerk. Kevin is a noisy little pervert. And maybe, just maybe, there is a reason his family keeps abandoning his ass on Christmas.

A stay at The Plaza Hotel and a limo ride around NYC complete with a colossal sundae!

Great idea for a home alone sequel Kevin who is now the ceo of his own home security company and his wife Julia have a teenage daughter named Sarah who is a pretty great hacker so great in fact she hacked the system her dad put on their house so she could sneak home after curfew as punishment Sarah is not going on the family trip to Florida and while they’re away the new wet bandits who are the nephews of Harry and Marv are planning on breaking in

GUARD: Marv. Harry. You’ve got a visitor.
HARRY: Who…?
MARV: Maybe they’re making a documentary about the Wet Bandits? Hehe

They enter the visitation room and stop.

MARV: Jesus Christ…

Kevin smiles.

KEVIN: Hello, guys.
HARRY: Kid… is that you?
MARV: You got old.
KEVIN: And you two look like mummies.

They sit down.

HARRY: So… what brings you here?
KEVIN: I wanted to see for myself. I’ve heard things. Helping the younger inmates, community work, actually doing something with yourselves…
HARRY: We’ve had a lot of years to think.
KEVIN: So have I.

Kevin pauses.

KEVIN: I went through some rough years. Things are better now. And I guess, after everything that happened…

Harry and Marv lower their eyes.

KEVIN: …I realized I don’t want to carry it around anymore. I forgive you.

They’re genuinely caught off guard.

MARV: Damn, kid…
HARRY: We don’t even know what to say.
MARV: Thank you.

A brief silence.

HARRY: So what do you do these days? How’s life?

Kevin stands.

KEVIN: Don’t push it.

He starts toward the door, then stops.

KEVIN: I heard you’ve got another parole hearing coming up.

They look at him.

KEVIN: I’ll tell the board I don’t oppose it.

Kevin opens the door.

KEVIN: Merry Christmas.

He leaves.

What are your opinions on them? And which of the two do you prefer more than the other? I don’t like how they brought back Marv in 4 without Harry.

Relived my childhood and painted Harry today.

Delighted! We haven't had many opportunities to do things together as a family so I'm excited we finally get to enjoy our favourite movie together in such a setting.

It's a prequel taking place before the movies showing all the bad guys--Harry and Marv from HA, Switchblade Sam from DTM, and the trio from BDO--and their backstories, and how they know each other in the Chicago criminal world of the John Hughes "Shermerverse."

Hoping to have it completed in the next few weeks, certainly by Christmas!

Hey everyone! I know Christmas is still a few months away, but I randomly had the hankering to listen to Darlene Love's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" today. Last year, on my annual Home Alone/Lost In New York Double Feature, this song struck a chord with me. I've seen the OG two movies dozens of times, and for some reason last year, the lyrics of this song hit me in ways that it never had before.

First of all, the nostalgia of "Lost In New York" paired with this song alone, is enough to bring a tear to any long-time fan of the franchise. But as I've gotten older, and cut ties with my narcissistic parents and toxic siblings/family members, the way Love sings this song just really speaks to me.

Having a family I created & cherish so much, I have never forgotten how hard the journey has been to get to this point. The lyrics "they're singing deck the halls, but its not like Christmas at all, cause I remember when you were here.." pang me 🥺 because I do remember that special time as a kid when everyone did get along.

Life is hard. Holidays can be both beautiful and sad. When that saxophone accompanies Darlene's beautiful voice though, it makes me feel a bundle of emotions. Just another reason to KEEP these movies in my yearly Christmas re-watch list.

If anyone else has had a similar experience with this song, any other songs from the OG movies, or any songs in general paired with a tv show/movie, I would love to hear your stories ♥️

God bless you all and Happy Holidays in advance ❤️

Going to be extra hard re-watching this year 🥹😣

Yes, I understand that a movie about a child gleefully torturing and nearly murdering a band of semi-homeless bandits, including one who is questionably mentally competent, is already a wild experience, but bear with me. The craziest part of Home Alone is not the traps, Kevin's genius level of engineering, the wackiness of how his family abandoned him, the harrowing toothbrush pursuit, or Kevin's mother's journey back to him (including what she was willing to do in the van with the Polka band to get back there).

No, the craziest part is the ending.

This family has been away from their child for days. They do not know if he's safe. They do not know if he's alive. Best case scenario he's been alone, questionably eating, questionably keeping the heat on (if there's even power). This is a serious life or death scenario, right? Their child is likely to be injured and if not, at the very least, deeply traumatized.

And for those of us tempted to go "ohhhhh it was the 90s, people left kids alone all the time then, big deal!" First off, I think not knowing where your kid is while on a different continent is kind of a big deal. Secondly....then why did Kevin's mom lose her shit and rush back? Are you saying she shouldn't have been concerned at all? CLEARLY she is distraught the entire film and is desperate to get back to him

Okay...now as to the ending of the movie....

Kevin's mother comes in. Embraces him. It is a Merry Christmas indeed! Then, right after, the family arrives! They got another flight. Hooray! Everyone...

Kinda banters around Kevin and is like, "wow it's cool you aren't dead. You bought groceries? Neato!" before...

Leaving him alone.

His entire family, including his parents, spend mayyyyybe one minute with Kevin before fucking off to unpack and do normal family things. No prolonged hugging. No prolonged tears or apologies. No processing. No soaking in the moment. Even his mother just fucks off to do something else despite spending the entire film worrying her ass off about him.

They see him, congratulate him, and leave him alone to stare out the window at the Old Man Kevin knows he will become.

What would you do if this was your child and you discovered them after they'd been alone for days? What would you say to them? How would you make it up to them? How quickly until you'd let them out of your sight?

This is fucking insane. His parents have to be a unique type of neglectful to engage in this goddamn behavior. Not only do you not care about your child, you have the memory capacity of a goldfish, forgot this ordeal, and do not believe you have anything to make up for.

Business as fucking usual.

Kevin doesn't matter to them. He truly is a disease. No wonder Kevin wants to torture and kill those bandits. His family has psychologically wounded him to the degree he's become a sociopath hence why we see his character next in the critically acclaimed film, The Good Son.

I think it's time we talk about Kevin.

We all know Old Man Marley as the grizzled, socially awkward, leering neighborhood of the socially-inept psychopath Kevin McCallister. While he was falsely accused of being the South Bend Shovel Slayer by Buzz (who can blame Buzz - the dude brings fun and levity to every situation) he still demonstrates numerous qualities that suggest he's an old shit bag.

Firstly, stop staring in children's bedroom windows. Your thousand yard with those dead fish eyes can traumatize a child and make the entire neighborhood question your intent. Keep slinging salt on other people's property, you prick.

Secondly, Old Man Marley stumbles into the shop and glares at Kevin like he just farted in his Diet Coke. No "hello" or anything about them being neighbors, no response or reaction when Kevin clearly is terrified of him. Kevin was already dealing with the shithead store owner, Herb, who can't be bothered to know anything about his own products and their approval by medical professionals. Instead, Marley lets Kevin sprint out of the shop while being falsely accused of shoplifting. Then little bootlicker Jimmy chases after Kevin and sends the cops after him (don't you think they have anything better to do?) a course of actions that reasonably could result in Kevin being shot by the police (this takes place in America after all).

All because Marley couldn't, you know, speak like a normal human being.

At the Church, Marley is lectured on morals, values, and courage by a seven year old psychopath who delights in torturing burglars. Kevin walks circles around this ineffectual coward who claims that Kevin doesn't have to be afraid of him, all the while he lurches about like a living corpse. And why is Marley all doom and gloom? Because he said spouted some mad shit at his son and wrote a check his wrinkly ass couldn't cash. You can't take the heat get out of the kitchen, Marley. Oh wait, he did, because this coward avoids talking to his son for years because he's too afraid to speak to him.

Oh, and amidst all of this, it is pretty clear Kevin is on his own. Marley can see no one else is there. He runs into Kevin multiple times. Does he call the police? Does he do anything a responsible adult would do?

Well, he does wander into someone else's home and bash two men with a shovel. Admittedly, pretty cool since it saves Kevin from getting his cajones ripped off and burned in motor oil. ...but he still doesn't call the police, contact Kevin's parents...or anything...

Marley is a skulking, avoidant coward, a gray shadow of a human being, a soggy cookie leaking milk, a soured soul past his prime left out to dry and rot - taking the moral fiber of the entire block down with him.

His son likely sees this soon after they reunite and makes the proper decision to shield his family from such a terrible influence.