> On Oct 5, 2017, at 5:51 PM, Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:
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> On 10/5/2017 8:43 PM, Mark Urbin wrote:
>> The character was introduced in 93.  Did the PMPP predate that?
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> The FGMP, PGMP, and Plasma Rifle were all pre-90, with the first two being CT canon and the last being MT canon.

That’s ‘P*M*PP’, ‘Pelvic-Mounted Plasma Projector’; which was a Kenji Schwartz production. It first appeared in 1997, based iirc on the character “Sex Machine” from “From Dusk ’til Dawn” (1996), who had some sort of ‘pop-up’ firearm mounted in his crotch.

I cannot remember now, but the gimmick may have originated as a throwaway in one of Robert Rodriguez's earlier movies, either ‘El Mariachi’ (1992) or ‘Desperado’ (1995) (I’m now dimly recalling something like it in El Mariachi’s guitar case in the second movie), but the PMPP as I saw it in my head was very similar to the comic...

From the Archives….

"Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 08:56:24 -0800
From: xxxxxx@accessone.com (Kenji Schwarz)
Subject: Recoil in shame and horror --

- -- it's the SayBOOM Pelvic-Mount Plasma Projector!

Currently manufactured by the Sayat Board of Organization and Oversight for
Munitions, the PMPP was originally designed as a novelty item for the
domestic market.  It is, however, exported in some quantity to the
Imperium, where it is popular with collectors and certain paramilitary
organizations."

--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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