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By Ben Monreal
Featuring Sarah Bagby, Chad Brown, Corey O’Connor, and Tanis O’Connor
Answer: DESPEREAUX

This puzzle presents you with video clips from four two-movie mashups. Each mashup has a title card (alphabetized with the MGM lion saying “ROAR”) with ten lines as though there were a missing ten-word title. A few of the lines are highlighted on each clip’s title card.

Figure out the title of the mashup—by, in keeping with the theme of the puzzle, alphabetizing all the words of the titles of the mashed-up films. (Or by alphabetizing the full titles, that gives the same answer.)

Clip 1

Title card shows _______??_

  • Russell: You're going to South America, Mr. Quarich?
  • Carl Quarich: You gave me good, usable intel on this Tree of Souls place.
  • Russell: Will you sign my unobtanium badge?

which is AVATAR UP

Clip 2

Title card shows ?__?_?___

  • Hitler: Steiner’s attack was an order!
  • Ella Jodl: Steiner will NO LONGER BE OBEDIENT
  • Hitler: It is impossible, under these circumstances, to lead. It’s over.
  • Narrator: Now I've only two words left and they are, “The End.”

which is DOWNFALL: ELLA ENCHANTED

Clip 3

Title card shows _??______?

  • Peg: Logan, this is our daughter Kim.
  • Kevin enters, skateboarding
  • Wolverine Scissorhands: What do they call you? Wheels?
  • Kevin: Hey, can I bring him to show and tell on Monday?
  • Wolverine Scissorhands: You’re a dick.

which is EDWARD SCISSORHANDS X-MEN

Clip 4

Title card shows ___?_?____

  • Morton: What are your prime directives?
  • Robo-Norman-Bates-Cop: A boy’s best friend is his mother. I’m not even going to swat that fly. Uphold the law.

which is PSYCHO ROBOCOP!

There are specific lines on the title-cards where you could enter these two- and three-word titles.

and if you put them all together on one title card, you’d get:

DOWNFALL EDWARD SCISSORHANDS PSYCHO ELLA ROBOCOP ENCHANTED AVATAR UP XMEN

which is probably a terrible movie but whose initial letters are the answer, DESPEREAUX.