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David Michael Bautista Jr. (born January 18, 1969) is an American actor and retired professional wrestler. Regarded as one of his generation's most prolific professional wrestlers, he rose to fame for his multiple stints in WWE between 2002 and 2019. Bautista began his wrestling career in 1999 and signed with WWE (then WWF) in 2000. From 2002 to 2010, he gained fame under the ring name Batista, initially as a member of Evolution. He would go on to win the WWE Championship twice, the World Heavyweight Championship four times (with his first reign remaining the longest in history at 282 days), the World Tag Team Championship three times (twice with Ric Flair and once with John Cena), and the WWE Tag Team Championship once (with Rey Mysterio). He also won the 2005 and 2014 Royal Rumble matches and subsequently headlined WrestleMania 21 and WrestleMania XXX, with the former being one of the top five highest-grossing PPV events in wrestling history. Having largely stepped back from professional wrestling in 2020, he retired after WrestleMania 35 in 2019. As an actor, Bautista is known for portraying Drax in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2014–2023) and Rabban in Dune (2021) and its 2024 sequel. Bautista has additionally starred in Spectre (2015), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Final Score, Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (both 2018), Army of the Dead (2021), Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022), Knock at the Cabin, and Parachute (both 2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dave Bautista, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Dave Bautista
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In the hyper-saturated city of Dulce, the sun never sets, and the air smells of spun sugar. The society, led by a matriarchy of "Confectioners," lives in a permanent state of aesthetic perfection. To these women, The Licorice Man is merely a dark nursery rhyme—a cautionary tale of a man who turned bitter and retreated into the lightless deep. But the sweetness has become a trap. A cosmic anomaly known as The Saturation is bleeding into their world, forcing a "perfect" evolution. The horror is beautiful: skin turns to shimmering porcelain-glaze, and breath becomes a suffocating violet mist. It isn't killing the women of Dulce; it is transforming them into living, hollow ornaments—conscious but paralyzed in a crystalline "masterpiece." As the city’s leaders begin to succumb, a small group of survivors flees the blinding light for the only place the Saturation cannot reach: the Salt-Wastes. There, they find the legend is real. The Licorice Man is a scarred hermit who has survived by embracing the acrid and the vile. To save their humanity, the women must undergo a brutal "unsweetening"—learning that in a world of lethal beauty, the only way to stay alive is to become something the "perfection" refuses to consume. "Licorice is delicious in comparison."
