• Make sure to equip the Serpent Guard outfit before heading across the bridge that leads to Upper Paititi and then squeeze through the guards and enter the temple to trigger a scene.
• The Snake Tower spits a high venom that is extracted from the most poisonous snakes in the world. The structure is very effective against every walking unit, especially Paladins.
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The Serpent Column, also known as the Serpentine Column, Plataean Tripod or Delphi Tripod, is an ancient bronze column at the Hippodrome of Constantinople in what is now Istanbul, Turkey. It is part of an ancient Greek sacrificial tripod, originally in Delphi and relocated to Constantinople by Constantine the Great in 324. It was built to commemorate the Greeks who fought and defeated the Persian Empire at the Battle of Plataea. The serpent heads of the 8-metre high column remained intact until.

Q (also known as The Winged Serpent and Q – The Winged Serpent) is a 1982 American monsterhorror film written, produced and directed by Larry Cohen and starring Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine, and Richard Roundtree.

Plot[edit]

The Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, a winged, dragon-like, female lizard, takes up residence in the art-deco spire of the Chrysler Building, with frequent jaunts in the midday sun to devour various helpless New Yorkers on the rooftops. The resulting bloody mess confounds detectives, Shepard and Powell, who are already occupied with a case involving a series of bizarre ritual murders linked to a secret neo-Aztec cult.

Meanwhile, Jimmy Quinn, a cheap, paranoid crook who wishes to be a jazz pianist, takes part in a botched diamond heist. Attempting to hide from police after the heist, he stumbles upon the creature's lair atop the Chrysler building. Quinn abandons his attempts to settle down and leave his life of crime, deciding to extort from the city an enormous amount of money in exchange for directions to the creature's nest, which houses a colossal egg.

Quinn makes a deal with the city--$1 million for the location of the nest. He leads Shepard and a paramilitary assault team to the top of the Chrysler Building where they shoot the egg, killing the baby inside. However, because the creature itself was not present in the nest, the city reneges on its offer to Quinn, taking back the $1 million and leaving him broke once again. Later, after killing Powell, the creature comes to the tower. After the showdown, the creature, riddled with bullets, falls onto the streets of Manhattan. Finally, Shepard shoots the Plumed Serpent's crazed priest (who had been committing the ritual murders) as he tries to kill Quinn to resurrect his 'god'.

Ultimately, a second large egg hatches in a different location in the city.

Cast[edit]

• Michael Moriarty as Jimmy Quinn
• Candy Clark as Joan
• David Carradine as Detective Shepard
• Richard Roundtree as Sgt Powell
• James Dixon as Lt Murray
• Malachy McCourt as Commissioner Nick McConnell
• Fred J. Scollay as Captain Fletcher
• Peter Hock as Detective Harold Kipps
• Ron Cey as Detective Hoberman
• Mary Louise Weller as Mrs. Pauley
• John Capodice as Doyle
• Tony Page as Webb
• Shelly Desai as Kahea
• Lee Louis as Officer Banyon

Production[edit]

Q was shot on location in and around New York City's Chrysler Building and uses the interior of the building's tower crown as a primary location.^[3] The special effects for the flying serpent were done using stop-motion animation by Randall William Cook and David Allen.

Release[edit]

The film was given a limited release theatrically in the United States by United Film Distribution Company in October 1982. It grossed approximately $255,000 at the box office.^[2]

Critical response[edit]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Q holds a 70% approval rating based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The consensus reads: 'Q's campy charms may be lost on audiences who want their monsters frightening, but a game cast and lovingly retrograde visual effects give this kaiju romp some majesty.'^[4]

Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half out of four stars in his original review, commending Moriarty's performance. Ebert relates the anecdote that, when movie reviewer Rex Reed met Q's producer, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Reed told him: 'What a surprise! All that dreck—and right in the middle of it, a great Method performance by Michael Moriarty!', while Arkoff replied: 'The dreck was my idea.'^[5]

Colin Greenland reviewed Q – The Winged Serpent for Imagine magazine, and stated that 'It is not often that a film is enjoyable as a monster movie, a character study and a satire, but Q – The Winged Serpent scores on every one. As well as taking a few swipes at the police, the mass media, and big city politics, Larry Cohen cannot resist poking fun at the innumerable monsters that have gone chomping and stomping among the skyscrapers over the years.'^[6]

Home media[edit]

The film was later released on VHS by MCA/Universal Home Video. It was released on DVD by Blue Underground in 2003.^[7]Shout! Factory released the film on DVD and Blu-ray Disc August 27, 2013, through their Scream Factory sublabel.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^McGilligan, Patrick (2006). Larry Cohen: Manic Energy, Backstory 4: Interviews with Hollywood Screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s. Uni of California. p. 64.
2. ^ ^ab'Q (1982)'. The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Archived from the original on September 22, 2011. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
3. ^Hunter, Rob (March 30, 2015). '20 Things we Learned from Larry Cohen's Commentary for Q The Winged Serpent'. Film School Rejects. Reject Media, LLC. Archived from the original on September 19, 2015. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
4. ^'Q (1982)'. Rotten Tomatoes.com. Fandango. Retrieved November 3, 2020.
5. ^Ebert, Roger (January 1, 1982). 'Q Movie Review & Film Summary (1982) - Roger Ebert'. rogerebert.com. suntimes.com. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
6. ^Greenland, Colin (July 1983). 'Film Review'. Imagine (review). TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd. (4): 37.
7. ^'Q (DVD)'. DVDEmpire.com. Right Ascension, Inc. Archived from the original on November 8, 2011. Retrieved April 16, 2011.

External links[edit]

• Q on IMDb
• Q at AllMovie
• Q at Rotten Tomatoes
• Q at the TCM Movie Database
• An oral history of the cult classic Q: The Winged Serpent by Will Harris

The Serpent is the boss of the Catacombs branch level: The Tower

It has 200HP.

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Behavior[edit | edit source]

The Serpent will sit in a pool of water under a bridge at the bottom of the Tower. Once a player grabs the Rune Orb, the bridges open and the Serpent starts to try and kill the player while the water rises at the same time. There are gates at certain heights of the tower that will open once the Serpent gets damaged to a certain health threshold. The last gate opens when the Serpent is killed.

Attacks

Strategy[edit | edit source]

Despite its limited move set, The Serpent is a very capable, and deadly boss. The high speed can make it difficult to land a hit. Avoid the Serpent's lunges AT the top the Serpent is quite easy to hit. Be aware of the rising water after you grab the Rune Orb as being caught in the water can be extremely dangerous due to the amount of Fishmen and Imps.

Situational Strategy[edit | edit source]

A mage can aim to max out their lightning resistance, so they can use Eleclance on the Serpent without getting hurt themself, which effectively results in the Serpent dying in mere seconds.

Champion Variant[edit | edit source]

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The champion variant has a red coloration, possessing a new attack. Its dash attacks come out much faster than normal.

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