muscles like this! posted:

Technically Thor can't fly. He just looks like he's flying by throwing Mjolnir and then hanging on.

Yes, that doesn't make any sense.

Keromaru5 posted:

In superhero comics, death tends to only be a suggestion. Wolverine's died. Superman's died. Cap died in Civil War. Tony Stark once died and got replaced with his teenage self. Thanos was actually dead in the comics for a long time, and that was *before* the Infinity Gauntlet storyline. That cyborg clone Thor I mentioned? They made him because the original Thor was dead at the time.

Heck, currently, in X-Men, they have a system where they can resurrect any mutant ever.

They used to say "Only Bucky stays dead," but then Winter Soldier came along.

Push El Burrito posted:

It was Bucky, Jason Todd, and Uncle Ben.

So just waiting on that Uncle Ben revival.

Push El Burrito posted:

The hammer pulls him off?

It was Bucky, Jason Todd, and Uncle Ben.

So just waiting on that Uncle Ben revival.

TaurusTorus posted:

FFT posted:

There's at least one alternate-dimension version of Ben in the Spiderverse runs

credburn posted:

I don't need to see two people punch each other through walls for forty five minutes if it ultimately means absolutely nothing.



This gif kinda illustrates the point, a little.

Arrath posted:

This has always bugged the hell out of me in, say, Terminator 3 where two killer robots try to destroy each other by....throwing each other through walls clearly weaker than they are. Woop.

Same thing with most Superhero movies. Yes the bit in endgame where cap gets the hammer and everyone fuckin lays into Thanos was a cool bit. Entirely let down by "all that for a drop of blood" What's the loving point. Everyone surround Scarlet Witch so she can just discombobulate the fucker already.

TaurusTorus posted:

muscles like this! posted:

Technically Thor can't fly. He just looks like he's flying by throwing Mjolnir and then hanging on.

Yes, that doesn't make any sense.

Schubalts posted:

Even loving around with a Wii controller would drag your arm around if the wrist strap was actually secure. A small object being thrown or fired hard enough, fast enough, will pull larger objects along for the ride with no issue.

There was a comic page or something showing that Thor throws Mjolnr, then immediately hops and grabs onto it.

Pilchenstein posted:

Who cares? Zombies are the most tedious loving concept anyone has ever come up with but like, doubly so if anyone tries to explain how they work.

Morpheus posted:

I just watched the Marvel What If episode with zombies, and its so dumb. The idea that these heroes who have taken on small armies of men with guns and kungfu could be taken out by shambling corpses is absurd - there is exactly one realistic death to the zombies, and that's Captain America being bitten on the neck by a fly-sized Pym. Everything else is ludicrous. You see the Avengers slam down in the actual middle of a horde and get overwhelmed instantly....what was even the plan there? And it's never explained how one of these things got through Iron Man's armor either. Even Thanos is a zombie! Fuckin how???

Like, there's a possible way to do this sort of thing, but it's so poorly done here (I forget how it happens in the comics).

Also while Parker is, like, genre savvy and such, enough to know that you shouldn't get bitten and whatnot, he doesn't realize that hey maybe letting gisnt-sized Wasp turn is maybe a bad idea.

Just a dumber-than usual episode all together. Shouldve been a two-parter at least so that they could actually explore how something like this could happen.

A Festivus Miracle posted:

Zombies don't interest much nowadays because the collapse of society isn't novel; I'm loving living it.

Morpheus posted:

Like, there's a possible way to do this sort of thing, but it's so poorly done here (I forget how it happens in the comics).

Schubalts posted:

In the comics, it's all started by the Superman equivalent (The Sentry) falling through a tear in reality, already infected, and well, he's not-Supes, there was not much anybody could do to keep it from spreading. So instead of everybody getting got by regular zombies, all the superpowered people are the zombies hunting down everyone else.

How did they sell regular zombies being a threat to any of the named Marvel characters? Even Hawkeye and Black Widow could stomp through regular zombies.

Pilchenstein posted:

Who cares? Zombies are the most tedious loving concept anyone has ever come up with but like, doubly so if anyone tries to explain how they work.

Cowslips Warren posted:

Vox Machina: do you need to have some backstory to know the characters? Because six episodes in, everyone is still kinda flat.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

They've given some backstory to a few characters, but right now it seems to be focused mainly on Percy. The elf siblings had the traditional tragic childhood, the dryad/druid lady is on a quest to prove herself so she can become queen and go home, the paladin/cleric lady rode around with the giant barbarian before joining the band. Not much has been said about the bard or the barbarian guy as far as histories go.

They haven't had much of specific flashbacks for story, but they've all mentioned this stuff in conversation across the episodes.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

As I understand it, Vox Machina is from the roleplaying adventures of a group of friends who are also all professional voice actors. They first turned them into a comic, then made this.

And, have to be honest, I don't see how it got popular enough that some TV executive decided to throw down the money to have it all animated.

All the plot beats are very obvious to anyone who's ever even glanced at the cover of a fantasy novel and all the dialogue is spoken in the "We're all just so cool and bored with this" manner of Castlevania, but without any of that series balls to the wall insanity.

And if suffers from the all too common D&D experience of "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if I did this really stupid thing, or said this incredibly out of place thing. lol random"

Megillah Gorilla posted:

As I understand it, Vox Machina is from the roleplaying adventures of a group of friends who are also all professional voice actors. They first turned them into a comic, then made this.

And, have to be honest, I don't see how it got popular enough that some TV executive decided to throw down the money to have it all animated.

All the plot beats are very obvious to anyone who's ever even glanced at the cover of a fantasy novel and all the dialogue is spoken in the "We're all just so cool and bored with this" manner of Castlevania, but without any of that series balls to the wall insanity.

And if suffers from the all too common D&D experience of "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if I did this really stupid thing, or said this incredibly out of place thing. lol random"

Cowslips Warren posted:

Cannon Busters did it better, and I am bitter we will probably never get another season.

credburn posted:

The climax in X-Men: First Class where Magneto kills Kevin Bacon... if I'm remembering right. Watching Xavier be like, "No! Don't do it! Don't kill him! You're a good person!" was silly because, like... what the gently caress did you think was going to happen? How else did you expect Magneto to stop the bad guy? Talking to him?

Strom Cuzewon posted:

Given the disparity of knowledge and power, I'm gonna say Peter is absolutely blameless. If you give a toddler an uzi you can't say "well the toddler asked me for it".

Given he's literally a doctor, Dr strange seems to have no idea about informed consent. The responsibility was on him to explain it all to Peter before even picking up his wand.