Neal McDonough

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q445125: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Star Trek: First Contact (1996); Minority Report (2002); Captain America: The First Avenger (2011); Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Aliens (1986): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read). The frozen-find cold open structurally echoes the discovery sequence that opens Aliens.
    “this is also actually very similar to is the opening of aliens.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:10:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Iron Man 2 (2010): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Iron Man 2 ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read). The Stark Expo of the 1940s is the origin of the Expo seen in Iron Man 2, now as the full World's Fair version.
    “Like what we see in Iron Man 2, but now it's like the full like 40s World Fair version.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:19:47 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Saving Private Ryan (1998): 1 line

  1. unmapped (stylistic shift) · through Minority Report (2002), which they acted in: Saving Private Ryan ⇒ Minority Report (the host's read). Saving Private Ryan was the biggest shift in Spielberg's signature style, letting him change languages for films like Minority Report and Munich.
    “Saving Private Ryan is, in my opinion, the single biggest shift in his signature style up until that point”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

Truth: Red, White & Black (comic): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Truth: Red, White & Black (comic) ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read). The one-off serum process loosely connects to the Truth miniseries retcon about earlier black experimentees.
    “Truth is a book that essentially theorizes that there was like a Tuskegee airman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:47:45 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Black Panther (2018): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Black Panther (the host's read). Vibranium, the shield metal, leads to Wakanda; adamantium is the X-Men analogue the MCU couldn't use.
    “So instead they use vibranium as their super metal.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:27:32 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read). Zola surviving and joining the other side is the seed for Winter Soldier.
    “Because you need Zola to join the other side.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:34:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Captain Marvel (2019): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read). The film goes back to the Steve Rogers style of origin story.
    “here's how Steve Rogers became a super soldier style of storytelling.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Chris Pratt: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Chris Pratt (the host's read). The beefcake shot of Pratt echoes Chris Evans out of the tank, and Marvel now puts one in every trailer.
    “It's Chris Evans coming out of the tank, Captain America.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:37:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Mercy (2026): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Minority Report (2002), which they acted in: Minority Report ⇒ Mercy (the host's read). Mercy's AI-as-justice-machine premise is an idea Minority Report explored earlier.
    “Like minority report explores this idea of what if we use technology to better, like better control criminal activity in the world.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:20:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Star Trek: Insurrection: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Trek: First Contact (1996), which they acted in: Star Trek: First Contact ⇒ Star Trek: Insurrection (the host's read). Insurrection was a big Christmas release only because First Contact had been a hit.
    “Where they're like, okay, 1st contact, huge hit. Let's do one where it's like, F. Murray Abraham is a villain”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:52:49 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (4) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career): Neal McDonough → Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2. He is the generic bad guy in Mall Cop 2 and still good at icy chill plus Dum Dum warmth.
    “Oh, oh, it's Paul Blar Mall cup 2.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:22:31 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Neal McDonough → Minority Report. McDonough's great performance as the main chaser in Minority Report turns on his ice-blue eyes; he also had Star Trek First Contact and Justified.
    “Uh, was the other one I was going to say he's good in is, uh, Minority Party is really good”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:22:37 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Neal McDonough → Star Trek: First Contact. His eyes are what is arresting in First Contact too.
    “Star Trek 1st Contact, which is a movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:22:52 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.