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The Cinematic Initiation Archive (CIA) is a collection of movies, meticulously reviewed by accredited banescholars.
The purpose of the archive is to document, study, and reveal the fire rising in non-canonical kinos. Movies in the archive are rated based upon the patented BigGuy Rating Index™. While the rating system is designed specifically for cinematic works, it has occasionally been applied to other significant works of media. [1]
BigGuy Rating Index™[]
The BigGuy Rating Index™
The BigGuy Rating Index™ is as follows:
+20 points: The inclusion of a Big Guy
+10 points: The inclusion of a masked man
+5 points: A "for you" line
+5 points: "You have no power over me" line
+10 points: Extreme pain is mentioned
+10 points: People get captured as part of a plan
+5 points: An heroic sacrifice (like Juan)
+10 points: Inclusion of a plane scene
+5 points: A flight plan is mentioned
+5 points: A plane gets hijacked
+5 points: A plane crashes
+10 points: With no survivors
+10 points: Mercenaries are involved
+5 points: Said mercenaries are referred to as "hired guns"
+5 points: They're quite loyal
+5 points: The mercenaries work or end up working free of charge
+10 points: (The) CIA is involved
+5 points: They're after a scientist
+5 points: CIA is in charge of operation (at first)
+10 points: There is a hothead (literal or otherwise)
+5 points: Said hothead gets gotten out (knocked out or removed from the premises)
Final Rating[]
The counted points yield the following rankings:
0-20: Uninitiated
20-40: Hothead
40-80: Hired Gun
80-120: Big Guy
120-160: BRAVO NOLAN
Notable Ratings[]
Dunkirk[]
+20 points: A Big Guy is included (Tom Hardy as Farrier)
+10 points: Farrier wears a mask most of the time he is piloting the Spitfire
+10 points: Farrier gets caught by Wehrmacht soldiers at the end of the film
+5 points: Farrier sacrifices the last of his fuel to shoot down a Heinkel He 111 bomber
+10 points: There are numerous plane scenes, primarily from Farrier's point of view
+5 points: Farrier's plane crashes at the end of the film (with a rising fire). Numerous other planes crash.
+10 points: Numerous shot down planes crash with no survivors.
Final Result: 80 Points - Big Guy
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story[]
+20 points: Darth Vader is a Big Guy
+10 points: Numerous characters wear masks, such as Darth Vader and Edrio "Two Tubes".
+5 points: Numerous heroic sacrifices
+10 points: The main cast gets captured as part of the plan to get to Saw Gerrera
+10 points?: A number of scenes aboard spacecraft, of debatable "plane scene"ness.
+10 points: There is a hothead, Director Krennic, who bears resemblance to John Daggett.
Final Result: 55-65 Points - Hired Gun
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater[]
The most notable non-film media to rank high on the BigGuy Rating Index™, coming just short of a BRAVO NOLAN rating.
+20 points: Several Big Guys are present, most notably Naked Snake and Colonel Volgin
+10 points: Snake wears a mask during his HALO jump.
+10 points: The excruciating nature of Snake's torture is mentioned
+10 points: Sokolov is captured by Soviet forces as part of the plan to develop Shagohod
+5 points: The Boss sacrifices herself and her image to keep the USA free of blame in Volgin's nuclear attack.
+10 points: The game begins on a plane, and one is used for Snake and EVA to escape Tselinoyarsk.
+5 points?: Ocelot attempts to hijack the escape plane
+10 points?: Snake becomes a mercenary after the events of the game.
+10 points: Snake is a CIA agent.
+5 points: The CIA is after Sokolov, a Russian nuclear physicist, eerily similar to Dr. Pavel.
+5 points: The CIA is in charge of the operation at first, but it goes awry
+10 points: The Fear is a hothead
+5 points: He is dealt with by Snake (through either lethal or non-lethal means, though he dies regardless)
Final Result: 100-115 points - Big Guy
Interstellar[]
+20 points: Tom is a big guy
+10 points: Crew wearing helmets, and Cooper has to wear oxygen mask for a scene
+5 points: Cooper falls into black hole to save fuel for Brand
+10 points?: Most of the movie is in a space plane
+5 points: Various flight plans mentioned
+5 points: Dr. Mann hijacks a spaceship
+5 points: and crashes it
+10 points: with no survivors
Final Result: 60-70 points - Hired Gun
MOTHER 3[]
Another high-ranking non-film media on the BigGuy Rating Index™.
+20 points: The Fierce Pork Trooper is quite big, and actually has a distinct resemblance to Bane.
+10 points: There is a character literally called "the Masked Man"
+5 points: An heroic sacrifice at the end of the game
+10 points: The main characters at one point end up on a plane with said Masked Man.
+5 points: The Masked Man then takes control of the plane and tries to kill the party.
+5 points: A plane is crashed at the end of the game.
+10 points: With no survivors
+10 points: Claus is a hothead.
+5 points: Claus is removed from the story before the end of the first chapter.
Final Result: 80-120 points - Big Guy
Batman - Arkham Asylum[]
+20 points: The inclusion of a Big Guy (Bane, as well as Killer Croc, and the various Titan-enhanced inmates, are big guys)
+10 points: The inclusion of a masked man (Bane is a masked man, as is Batman, Scarecrow and numerous inmates)
+5 points: A "for you" line (The Joker tells Batman he’s got “a few more surprises in store for you.”)
+10 points: Extreme pain is mentioned (The Joker’s return to normal form is described as “quite painful”
+10 points: People get captured as part of a plan (The Joker allows himself to be arrested and brought to the asylum to kickstart the events of the game)
+10 points: Inclusion of a plane scene (the Batwing features)
+5 points?: "You have no power over me" line Scarecrow tells Batman “You are in my world now” which conveys a similar message of control
+5 points?: A flight plan is mentioned (the term “flight plan” is not used, but Batman does program a flight path for the Batwing
+10 points?: Mercenaries are involved (the inmates recruited by the Joker could be considered mercenaries)
+5 points?: They're quite loyal (they appear to be)
+5 points?: The mercenaries work or end up working free of charge (it is not confirmed whether or not they are paid. However, it is revealed in the game's sequel, Arkham City, that the Joker does not pay his operatives until the mission complete. Furthermore, as all the inmates are captured, it is likely any physical financial reward they received would be confiscated.)
+10 points?: There is a hothead (literal or otherwise) (Agent Frank Boles, as well as the asylum lunatics, could be considered hotheads)
+5 points?: Said hothead gets gotten out (knocked out or removed from the premises) (over the course of the game, Boles is killed, while the lunatics are knocked unconscious)
Final Result: 65-110 points - Hired Gun or Big Guy