Talk:Dynamo (The Running Man)

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After talking to wikipedia IRC, seems this article could do with some references to reviews, and other stuff on the web, so that it's got 'sources'. Sounds pretty academic.

Some sources:

• http://www.fast-rewind.com/runningman.htm : 'Dynamo is an opera-singing fat man with an electric gun... Dynamo has his electric car tipped over... Dynamo isn't dead yet though... He'll make a grand and shocking (pun intended) return in the movie's climax.'... etc.
• http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/reviews.cfm/id/966/page/the_running_man.html : 'Dynamo getting killed by a fire sprinkler in his tighty-whities... And how could we forget Arnold yelling at Dynamo, "Hey Christmas Tree! Hey Light Bulb!" The list goes on and on, however, I feel the best One-Liner came not from Arnold, but from my man Yaphet Kotto, "I don't want to be the only asshole in heaven.... Novelty Death: Dynamo, mid-rape, in his underoos. I mean... come on!'
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/therunningmanrkempley_a0ca3c.htm : 'and my own personal favorite, Erland Van Lidth, a former U.S. wrestling team member as Dynamo, who sings Wagner while electrocuting his prey.'
• http://headwideopen.blogspot.com/2006/08/running-man-still-running-after-all.html : 'Stalkers include Professor Sub Zero, a thuggish yet apparently highly literate Asian hockey player/sushi chef, and Dynamo, an electronically-powered opera singer who bears an uncanny resemblance to Chris Farley. Sadly, most of the stalkers die at the hands of the unstoppable Arnold, squelching any hopes of a spinoff.'
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/therunningmanrhowe_a0b124.htm : 'They have to evade the following freaks of Hollywood nature: Dynamo, a Germanic human circuit board who zaps people to death; Subzero, a Japanese fella with a mean slice 'n' dice hockey stick; Buzzsaw, who, in one of the film's more complex and quieter moments, attempts to turn Schwarzenegger into Wiener schnitzel; Captain Freedom, who just uses his human bulk; and the Stalker Fireball (Jim Brown), who cooks with napalm.'
• http://www.ew.com/ew/article/commentary/0,6115,1206070_2_0_,00.html : 'Gnaghi (played by rotund actor François Hadji-Lazaro, who, it should be noted, looks a hell of a lot like the opera-singing Dynamo in Arnold Schwarzenegger's The Running Man).' (review of Cemetary Man)
• http://alienlovespredator.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2155 : 'it features guys named Buzzsaw, Cpt. Freedom, and my personal favourite Dynamo, clad in sheet metal all covered with little LE diodes and blasting lightnings at his enemies while singing opera arias.'
• http://www.joesportsfan.com/Tough.html : 'The Running Man- The Running Man was a ripe territory for this contest. It featured numerous tough guys including stalkers Sub-Zero, Fireball and Captain Freedom. Of course it also produced the gay, opera-singing stalker, Dynamo, but we won’t worry about him. Out of all of the possible Running Man candidates for this slot, I consider Buzzsaw the top dog. '
• http://www.fazed.net/forum/view/?id=24580&p=5 : 'So it could be like Running Man then? Cool but no Dynamo character, that shit was gayer then Elton John performing in a musical in Provincetown.'
• http://www.aitpast.com/soluces/running_man_sol/running_man_sol.htm : 'Pour l'homme électrique (Dynamo), c'est le plus difficile car il vous lance de l'électricité et est insensible à main nue. Il faut donc prendre la planche, s'avancer vers lui et ramper, dès qu'il tire se relever et le frapper (haut+feu), il se retourne et avance, il faut alors aussi vous retourner et réitérer l'opération. Attention veillez à ce qu'il ne sorte pas de votre champ de vision sinon il arrivera dans une voiture, il faudra alors sauter pour l'éviter. Idem attention au chien.'
• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894/usercomments : 'Dynamo drives about in a car that appears to be made of Lego', 'You've got Fireball exploding, Sub-Zero wearing a barbed wire necktie, Dynamo being electrocuted (mid-rape) in his saggy kecks and, best of all, Buzzsaw getting castrated – I love his falsetto scream.', 'This was Erland Van Lidth's last film if I am not mistaken, and a less fitting memorial you wouldn't wish on anyone.', 'Dynamo, an opera-type singer who electrocutes contestants', 'Dynamo loses his powers by falling down a rock face in a vehicle, but not before killing Ben's other friend. Dynamo meets his end when the sprinklers in the building of the show go off, which ignite his electric costume.', 'Dynamo, a really comic guy who lights up like a Christmas tree', 'Disappointment on the part of the stalker Dynamo, who starts out as very humorous and ends up leaving you pretty disgusted with him.',
• http://www.angelfire.com/wy/dietc/ : 'At any rate, the one thing that sticks out in my mind with this film is the one scene where Arnold is getting upstaged by some of co-stars while fleeing from one of the insidiously evil villain characters. (GoingtoDieCharacer#1:"What are we going to do??" Arnold:"Run.") Anyway, this character's name was Dynamo, I believe, and with first impressions, really amounted to nothing more than a cheap Marvel character facsimile; costume and all. However, in this scene, Dynamo turns out to far more horrifying than we might have assumed as our corpulent antagonist tries his hardest to run over Arnold and company in a decrepit, rustry grain thresher, while singing opera, seemingly benighted to the fact that blue sparks are spraying everywhere from his head. I can think of nothing scarier than being pursued by an obese guy with a demented alias wearing spandex, singing Carmen with a rusty farm vehicle while running through a maze of barbed wire and discarded syringes. The lesser of the two evils prevails in the end, however, as that sly dog Arnold does some quick thinking and throws his wouunded comrades directly in the path of the jangling contraption, hoping that their entrails will cake the blades of the thresher just enough to slow it down. That fails however. How fast can a world-champion muscle fatty run? Surprisingly fast when the exertion of trying to sound sentimental (Arnold:"GoingtoDieCharacter#1!! Nooooooo!!) kicks his adrenal gland into action.'

Very little new info but perhaps we could use some of those as sources.

About the importance issue, hey, it's Dynamo!!