Jhaelen SmokeRider – “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” by The Smashing Pumpkins
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Jhaelen_SmokeRider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smashing_Pumpkins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_with_Butterfly_Wings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-r-V0uK4u0
Thank you to Meg O. for reminding me about this one.
Jhaelen SmokeRider is a Sugar Glider agitator sent to sabotage operations in Bumbler village. She is being held under guard in the Butternut Tower. She is fighting with Ozzric when Your Wizard and Dyvim WhiteHart arrive.
Ozzric taunts Your Wizard and Dyvim that despite all your rage, you’re still trapped like rats in a cage. He admits to be smashed, like a pumpkin once you’ve defeated him.
The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band formed in Chicago in 1988 by frontman and guitarist Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha, bassist D’arcy Wretzky and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. The band has undergone several line-up changes since their reunion in 2006, with Corgan being the primary songwriter and sole constant member since its inception. The current lineup consists of Corgan, Iha, and Chamberlin. The band is known for its diverse, densely layered sound, which evolved throughout their career and has integrated elements of gothic rock, heavy metal, grunge, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, shoegaze, dream pop, and electronica.
Billy Corgan, and James Iha
The band’s debut album, Gish (1991), was well-received by critics and became an underground success. In the advent of alternative rock’s mainstream breakthrough, their second album, Siamese Dream (1993), established the band’s popularity. Despite a tumultuous recording process, the album received widespread acclaim and has been lauded as one of the best albums in the genre. Their third album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995), furthered the band’s popularity; it debuted atop the Billboard 200, received a Diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and continued the band’s critical success. After the release of Adore (1998) and a two-part project in 2000—Machina and Machina II—the group disbanded due to internal conflicts, drug use, and diminishing sales by the end of the 1990s. With 30 million albums sold worldwide, the Smashing Pumpkins were among the most critically and commercially successful bands of the 1990s.
“Bullet with Butterfly Wings” is a song by the American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. It was released as the lead single from their 1995 double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and is the sixth track on the first disc. This song was the band’s first top-40 US hit, peaking at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also spent six weeks at number two on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and peaked at number four on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. In Canada, the song peaked at number 18 on the RPM Top Singles chart and spent four weeks at number one on the RPM Alternative 30 chart, becoming Canada’s most successful rock song of 1995. It also reached number one in Iceland for a week.
The song won the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1997. It was named the 91st best hard rock song of all time by VH1 in 2009 and ranked number 70 on the 2008 list of “The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time” of Rolling Stone.
The New York Times noted of a 2014 concert by the band that “one chorus always gets the Smashing Pumpkins’ fans shouting along”, identifying the line as: “Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage”.
The current list of all the (known) Khrysalis references can be found here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
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Jhaelen SmokeRider and quest dialogue boxes images are from Wizard101, and are copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment
Smashing Pumpkins image is borrowed from Wikipedia, it is copyright Sven Mandel and is shared under the CC BY-SA 4.0 Creative commons license.
Bullet with Butterfly Wings cover art image is borrowed from Wikpedia. It is copyright Virgin Records.
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