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catlord posted:I've actually managed to miss everything about Knull, and I only know that he's related to the symbiotes. I thought he was going to be a villain in a big crossover, but I feel like I've been hearing him mentioned consistently for years now? Is he the Batman Who Laughs for Marvel right now? I've seen someone ITT say that Knull was Donny Cates's Mantis, if that helps. 
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Fangz posted:It's a mega long manga series and the next arc has lots of twists in it. The movie ending was obviously trying to make a sequel happen. coming in to it knowing nothing about the original, i found it really episodic and thought the way the stakes shifted from being a bounty hunter to playing roller derby an odd choice.
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Desperado Bones posted:I haven't watched Alita. But it's mainly because it came out during the time a bunch of internet weirdos became obsessed with Brie Larson and Captain Marvel, and decided Alita was prime chud/comicgator entertainment. I know it's not, lol. But drat, I ended up sick of all that mess that I can't bring myself to watch the movie. I believe eventually CG realized that it was a movie about a woman who refused to let herself be controlled by even well-meaning (white) men and stopped trumpeting it.
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JordanKai posted:He's been the main villain of almost the entirety of Donny Cates' terrible run on Venom. The current crossover event, King in Black, is the culmination of that run. Did it start with a crossover too, or did they always say it was going to end with a crossover, or am I mixing it up with something? Like I said, I swear I've been hearing about this crossover event featuring him for a very long time now. amigolupus posted:I've seen someone ITT say that Knull was Donny Cates's Mantis, if that helps. I'm not very familiar with comics Mantis, but I'm vaguely aware she was the writer's pet character? From what I've been hearing, my assumption has been to compare Knull to Red Hulk.
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Apr 30, 2021 20:21
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Steve Englehart created Mantis when he was writing Avengers and then wrote her or a thinly veiled analog of her into a few other projects across a few companies
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catlord posted:Did it start with a crossover too, or did they always say it was going to end with a crossover, or am I mixing it up with something? Like I said, I swear I've been hearing about this crossover event featuring him for a very long time now. Your probably thinking of Absolute Carnage, which was a crossover event featuring a Knull worshiping Carnage going after everyone who had ever been a symbiot host and infecting a bunch of people with symbiots along the way, which was part of the lead up to King in Black.
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If Knull were like his Mantis then he would've have ended King in Black as the King in Black with all the other heroes acknowledging him as the best superhero because they've come around to his thinking. Knull lost and was destroyed. Englehart would never let that happen to Mantis. His Mantis is actually Eddie Brock.
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Apr 30, 2021 21:15
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i still say knull in his thanos and thus will return
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glitchwraith posted:Your probably thinking of Absolute Carnage, which was a crossover event featuring a Knull worshiping Carnage going after everyone who had ever been a symbiot host and infecting a bunch of people with symbiots along the way, which was part of the lead up to King in Black. Ah, ok. That explains it. Karma Tornado posted:Steve Englehart created Mantis when he was writing Avengers and then wrote her or a thinly veiled analog of her into a few other projects across a few companies I thought I'd heard something like that. Weren't some of those thinly veiled analogues in between her actual Marvel appearances, and sorta continued the storyline he had in mind for her?
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catlord posted:I thought I'd heard something like that. Weren't some of those thinly veiled analogues in between her actual Marvel appearances, and sorta continued the storyline he had in mind for her? Yeah. Mantis was supposed to be the Celestial Madonna and birth the most important being in the universe. And she did! His name was Sequoia and he barely comes up.
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Look I’m sure it’s fine that this movie everyone is looking forward to is being moved to the traditional January dumping ground https://twitter.com/getfandom/status/1388232819432849410?s=21
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Star Trek talk reminds me of a friend who was really into Smallville when it was on, and I told him I didn't like it because the only episode I saw was a dumb one about a vampire that sucks people's fat instead of blood, and he got so mad saying I needed to watch better episodes. Never did, that's still the only one I've seen! And now that I've Googled the episode, the fat vampire was Amy Adams?!
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FlamingLiberal posted:Look I’m sure it’s fine that this movie everyone is looking forward to is being moved to the traditional January dumping ground quote:
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Apparently Morbius was intended to be a big part of Blade 2 but that never happened. They originally had a very vague "cameo" of the character as part of the ending in the first movie, which was just the director on a rooftop wearing a coat. I think I would prefer if they tried that again instead of whatever the gently caress Sony is doing.
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Apr 30, 2021 23:02
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Dawgstar posted:Yeah. Mantis was supposed to be the Celestial Madonna and birth the most important being in the universe. And she did! His name was Sequoia and he barely comes up. Haha, wow, ok. FlamingLiberal posted:Look I’m sure it’s fine that this movie everyone is looking forward to is being moved to the traditional January dumping ground Frankly, "haha, wow, ok" would work here too.
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Venom is the best superhero movie of 2003
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FlamingLiberal posted:Look I’m sure it’s fine that this movie everyone is looking forward to is being moved to the traditional January dumping ground Ah yes, the vaunted “gently caress you, it’s January!” release, where even trash becomes “the best movie of the year” for two weeks.
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Madkal posted:Venom is a perfect background movie where you really don't have to care what is going on. It had a few good scenes and watching Hardy talk to himself/Venom as some kind of odd couple was probably the highlight. Also Venom acknowledging that he is just a loser dealing with toxic masculinity was great. Dawgstar posted:Yeah. Mantis was supposed to be the Celestial Madonna and birth the most important being in the universe. And she did! His name was Sequoia and he barely comes up. *The thing that REALLY bugged me was what the hell happened to Marina's kids. The ones that hatched out of eggs she laid when she was a six-mile-long sea serpent, whose father may or may not have been Namor, and who immediately booked it into the ocean.
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Sanschel posted:Ah yes, the vaunted “gently caress you, it’s January!” release, where even trash becomes “the best movie of the year” for two weeks. Hey remember when Marvel dumped Black Panther in February like it wasn't one of their best movies and it over performed anyway? ....I apologize for unintentionally comparing Morpheus with Black Panther.
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Sequoia was actually just recently a big part of Empyre. Was fun to see him pop back up again in a big role after so long.
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Sgt. Politeness posted:Hey remember when Marvel dumped Black Panther in February like it wasn't one of their best movies and it over performed anyway?
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Omnomnomnivore posted:Star Trek talk reminds me of a friend who was really into Smallville when it was on, and I told him I didn't like it because the only episode I saw was a dumb one about a vampire that sucks people's fat instead of blood, and he got so mad saying I needed to watch better episodes. Never did, that's still the only one I've seen! I'm so glad I'm not the only person who only remembers that one particular episode. Like I'm sure I've watched at least 10 or more episodes but that's the only one I remember anything about.
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I remember the one where the hot lady had pheromone powers that came out of her nose and she banged Clark's dad.
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The Kryptonite NOS racing (leading to the cast losing like the only person of color) was bad. Then the network decided to promote some dumb kryptonite plastic surgery thing as KRYP/TUCK and I noped out of the series. There were kryptonite witches at one point? And Lana becomes the devil? And Chloe recruits all the girls on the cheerleading squad to a weird sex cult? I think we wrote fake overwrought formulaic scripts for fun in the TVIV thread for it ages ago.
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Lurdiak posted:I remember the one where the hot lady had pheromone powers that came out of her nose and she banged Clark's dad.
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My primary memories of Smallville are: a Matrix episode done like 12 years after the Matrix, complete with Chloe doing bullet time; Sam Witwer was Doomsday because he needed to be a kryptonian monster but also a very pretty man for some reason; and Darkseid being a smoke monster made of crows.
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The United States posted:February is Black History Month Ok fair point but it doesn't make February a great place to put a summer blockbuster.
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FilthyImp posted:And Chloe recruits all the girls on the cheerleading squad to a weird sex cult? Also I finally saw Mortal Kombat and um... fights were cool, plot was borderline incoherent? Changing poo poo isn't necessarily bad but if you're gonna switch Sub-Zero and Scorpion's entire roles in the narrative, maybe actually change poo poo instead of just reversing who does what to who and what motivations they have therefore. Also my favorite absolute bonkers writing moments were that if Cole has his mark because of the Hasashi bloodline, his daughter has one too (and this would have been so easy to fix, the scene where he shows it to Jax and his daughter's right there, she just goes "we both have one", boom, done), and if Raiden can just send out new marks whenever he wants it totally invalidates Sonya's entire plotline, so wow, cool job there guys. Also they never explained what the gently caress Outworld was and they somehow had an entire Mortal Kombat without Mortal Kombat in it, that's astounding. Points for Raiden remaining the dumbest, most incompetent god imaginable in any continuity, though.
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I only have a C+ handle on Mortal Kombat lore and I've always sucked poo poo at them as far as fighting games go, but the Raiden in this movie seemed so insanely bad at the one job he claims to have that I have to assume it was on purpose? Like, you have lost 9 tourneys in a row, you have THE most important one coming up, you know - AS A MATTER OF HISTORICAL RECORD - that Shang Tsung is a cheating piece of poo poo who kills Earth competitors prior to contests and has been actively doing it again, you can instantly teleport yourself or anyone else you choose to any place whenever you want, and the first thing you do when your fighters randomly wander into the training temple is to yell at them for being weak pussies who are going to lose the tournament because they don't have enough time to train What were you doing for the last 50 years, Raiden?
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SlimGoodbody posted:I only have a C+ handle on Mortal Kombat lore and I've always sucked poo poo at them as far as fighting games go, but the Raiden in this movie seemed so insanely bad at the one job he claims to have that I have to assume it was on purpose? Like, you have lost 9 tourneys in a row, you have THE most important one coming up, you know - AS A MATTER OF HISTORICAL RECORD - that Shang Tsung is a cheating piece of poo poo who kills Earth competitors prior to contests and has been actively doing it again, you can instantly teleport yourself or anyone else you choose to any place whenever you want, and the first thing you do when your fighters randomly wander into the training temple is to yell at them for being weak pussies who are going to lose the tournament because they don't have enough time to train There is a real argument to be made that Christopher Lambert is the most effective Raiden. That is all that needs to be said.
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ImpAtom posted:There is a real argument to be made that Christopher Lambert is the most effective Raiden. That is all that needs to be said. Christopher Lambert worked because you got the sense that yeah, he wanted to protect Earth and have it win, and he was willing to bend the rules a little to help, but the whole thing was also a game to him and he just liked having people fight to the death, but just wanted his side to do that a little more.
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CapnAndy posted:No, that happened in real life. The odd cherry on top of Mack being part of that - one assumes for immigration reasons on the part of her spouse - was she married Nicki Clyne who was on the Galactica remake. Kristin Kreuk was also involved in NXIVM but apparently not to any great degree.
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Sgt. Politeness posted:Ok fair point but it doesn't make February a great place to put a summer blockbuster. They put BP in February because Infinity War was April. Captain Marvel was also pretty early, March 8th.
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Infinity War was in April and Ragnarok was the previous November (or thereabouts). So February was a sensible time for Black Panther even independent of Black History Month. I suppose they might've been able to release Captain Marvel in late 2018, but that would've been four Marvel films that year, so the March release before Endgame made a lot of sense, and the fact that it was international women's day, well that didn't hurt either.
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SlimGoodbody posted:I only have a C+ handle on Mortal Kombat lore and I've always sucked poo poo at them as far as fighting games go, but the Raiden in this movie seemed so insanely bad at the one job he claims to have that I have to assume it was on purpose? Like, you have lost 9 tourneys in a row, you have THE most important one coming up, you know - AS A MATTER OF HISTORICAL RECORD - that Shang Tsung is a cheating piece of poo poo who kills Earth competitors prior to contests and has been actively doing it again, you can instantly teleport yourself or anyone else you choose to any place whenever you want, and the first thing you do when your fighters randomly wander into the training temple is to yell at them for being weak pussies who are going to lose the tournament because they don't have enough time to train Why was he even in the movie? He doesn't recruit the team, he doesn't train them for Mortal Kombat, he doesn't have any fights or cool displays of his power. Like you gotta be a huge gently caress up to be the worst version of Raiden.
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ImpAtom posted:There is a real argument to be made that Christopher Lambert is the most effective Raiden. That is all that needs to be said. Counterpoint; James Remar's Raiden sacrificed his godhood so he could fight alongside Earthrealm in stopping Shao Khan. And he fought THREE Reptiles.
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