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An angular eagle behind the defense secretary departed from the Pentagon’s established branding. Critics saw echoes of the Third Reich.

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Alt: Bartok the Bay in the animated "Anastasia," who is a weirdly Midwestern bat, going through his routine of what he'd do to the Grand Duchess, with exaggerated Kung-Fu moves: "I'd give her a ha! And then a hi-yah! And then a hao! And I'd kick her sir."

Alt: Galadriel from The Rings of Power duel-wields two Númenorean swords spinning them slowly in unison with her wrists as she backs into a fighting stance, wearing a blue dress and her golden hair loose to her waist.

Alt: Tom Cruise as Lestat laughs into his handkerchief.

Alt: Brokeback Mountain -- Heath Ledger pushes Jake Gyllenhaal in a cowboy hat roughly against an exterior wall to desperately kiss him.