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Everyone working in the Avenger's tower/compounds and stuff gotta have good pay, but I guess that doesn't mean the heros do. I don't think the others got jobs though. sorta nsfw:The octomom chick got offered like 2 mil worth of cash and stuff for an adult movie. I'm just thinking superheros could make way more if the Avengers thing isn't paying.
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Tony classified all the other Avengers as independent contractors so that he can justify zero-hour contracts and refuse to provide benefits
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Cool Kids Club Soda posted:Tony classified all the other Avengers as independent contractors so that he can justify zero-hour contracts and refuse to provide benefits That sounds accurate and he's ducking liability. But still calls ppl when stuff needs done. You gotta be Spidey to get free stuff.
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nesamdoom posted:sorta nsfw:The octomom chick got offered like 2 mil worth of cash and stuff for an adult movie. I'm just thinking superheros could make way more if the Avengers thing isn't paying.
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Sam is so broke he has a special kind of negative health insurance where any doctor can just order him into an appointment and he has to go.
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Stroop There It Is posted:hahhaha what a funny and not weird thing to post Do you think War Machine would get more subs to his Only Fans with or without that thing that makes his spine work? "When Rubber Meets the Rhodes" would be a pretty good name for a porno tho
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Falcon and Winter Soldier should just make a weekly podcast on Patreon and rake in the cash. So on this week's episode we're going to reminesce about the time that we saved the entire galaxy from Thanos. But first I wanted to thank our sponsors NordVPN. If you're anything like us, you love to travel! But how sketchy is the public wifi when you're vacationing in Barbados? Not a problem with NordVPN because it will give you a secure and private connection. Remember to like and subscribe! Mu Zeta has a new favorite as of 18:52 on Aug 26, 2022 |
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"Remember when that little girl kicked your rear end?" "SHE WAS A SUPER SOLDIER" "Hah she was like 12 and looked like Annie. You got your rear end whupped by Annie." "It was a lucky shot." "Sure. Let's take a call, let us know on a scale of one to bucky how badly you've gotten your rear end kicked by an orphan girl"
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:"Remember when that little girl kicked your rear end?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93-6ihqZTo
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Stroop There It Is posted:hahhaha what a funny and not weird thing to post I know the Harry Potter series takes place in the 90s, which is pre One Night In Paris and Internet revenge porn, but I can't imagine how carefully guarded hair clippings need to be in a world of polyjuice potions. Barber shops must burn everything and be locked up tighter than Fort Knox, lest somebody get their hands on one lock of a celebrity's hair and do God knows what, record it, and blackmail them forever.
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I can't imagine it either e: to make up for shitposting, this reminds me a Walter Jon Williams short story where a guy pulls off a heist and screws over his partners, taking the cash to retire among the noveau rich. Then one day he sees a commotion and goes to investigate. Everybody in his villa is watching a video of essentially a deepfake of him, in a snuff film. He got the cash but they got theirs Cool Kids Club Soda has a new favorite as of 21:18 on Aug 26, 2022 |
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In the Fables comics the characters drug a politician, take pictures of him on bed with Pinocchio, and blackmail him into silence. Heck, think about Godfather 2 where Michael owns a senator forever because his men arrange for him to wake up in a room with a dead prostitute. In both cases you don't even need to go through the effort of getting your hands on the actual target if you pay somebody to sneak up on them with a pair of scissors. In a world where anyone can look like anyone if they have a few strands of hair, I'm surprised everybody didn't guard their sheddings like the guy in Gattaca.
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In one of Pratchett's Discworld books (I think Hogfather), the initial purpose of the Tooth Fairy was to gather children's teeth to protect them from exactly that kind of manipulation.
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rydiafan posted:In a world where anyone can look like anyone if they have a few strands of hair, I'm surprised everybody didn't guard their sheddings like the guy in Gattaca. In a world were anyone can look like anyone, saying "that wasn't me" would be considered a pretty strong defense I'm guessing.
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It’s known as the Shaggy defense
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I always found it suspect that he had such detailed knowledge of the alleged incident despite his proclaimed innocence. Ah well, it couldn't have been him!
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Cool Kids Club Soda posted:Do you think War Machine would get more subs to his Only Fans with or without that thing that makes his spine work? You gotta pay top dollar for War Machine Unplugged.
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Bussamove posted:You gotta pay top dollar for War Machine
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batman is made out of bats & spiderman is made out of spiders, but what is superman made out of idgi
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Carthag Tuek posted:batman is made out of bats & spiderman is made out of spiders, but what is superman made out of If the golden age comics are anything to go by, he’s made out of smaller supermen.
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Carthag Tuek posted:batman is made out of bats & spiderman is made out of spiders, but what is superman made out of 
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Carthag Tuek posted:batman is made out of bats & spiderman is made out of spiders, but what is superman made out of
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pairofdimes posted:That's sounds like they tried to make a radio show the same way they'd make a TV show. When I listened to some of an old radio show from the 30s one of the first things I noticed was how characters would describe people and things way more than necessary if there was video. A reporter character would even give an in universe reason for it. i directed and performed in an improv comedy college radio show ~15yrs ago- Reno 911 model, tape ~60 minutes of material, edit down to the best ~20 we ended one scene with the protagonist making a handshake deal, and we're standing by the microphones shaking hands- simultaneous realization that nobody could possibly get that from audio, simultaneous solution of using our character voices to mutter, "handshake noises" back and forth we deffo kept that one
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I absolutely love She-Hulk so far, but the background direction sucks! In ep 1, when Titania busts into the courtroom, and Nikki is telling Jess to Hulk-out, look at the guards dealing with Titania... and then when they're at the bar in 2, all the other patrons in the background are just sitting there.
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Movies and shows treating vehicles on the road like a mindless force of nature, rather than a machine driven by a person. Like someone steps into a road and a car or bus runs them down without any attempt to brake or swerve and then just keeps going. The first example to spring to mind is from the last season of the Umbrella Academy where one of the superpeople had the power to come back from the dead but it took him so long to do so it wasn't helpful in a fight. So they went out to a busy road and had him step in front of traffic over and over and timed how long it took him to stop being dead until he got better at it. I mean, yes, it's a stupid show and the scene was played for laughs, but still not one person stopped after running the guy over.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:The first example to spring to mind is from the last season of the Umbrella Academy where one of the superpeople had the power to come back from the dead but it took him so long to do so it wasn't helpful in a fight. So they went out to a busy road and had him step in front of traffic over and over and timed how long it took him to stop being dead until he got better at it. Wait, so there's just like a montage of hit-and-runs? Not the same thing, but just to talk about casual violence committed on screen that's played for laughs or just ignored, there's a scene in one of the Die Hard movies -- the one in Russian -- where Bruce Willis drives an SUV onto an old lady's car. The roof collapses, there's shattering glass, and he's like "sorry, lady!" and it's played for laughs. She is most assuredly dead.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Movies and shows treating vehicles on the road like a mindless force of nature, rather than a machine driven by a person. Similarly when cars are just driving along like normal when a car chase/running gunfight is happening.
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credburn posted:Wait, so there's just like a montage of hit-and-runs? yes, and it is extremely funny
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Movies and shows treating vehicles on the road like a mindless force of nature, rather than a machine driven by a person. Any Final Destination movie. I'm probably misremembering but I feel like the first deaths to occur (after they escape the premonition deaths) often involve a vehicle driving full speed, no brakes, into someone.
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Morpheus posted:Any Final Destination movie. I'm probably misremembering but I feel like the first deaths to occur (after they escape the premonition deaths) often involve a vehicle driving full speed, no brakes, into someone. At least in those movies you have the excuse the Death itself is literally interfering. It could have cut the brakes, or since it often appears as a liquid, may have just stopped the brake fluid getting to where it needed to go.
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That one in the drive thru of the fast food joint stopped 
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whats going on with the legs i get that hes hypermobile but seriously lacking a kneecap is a death sentence
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Carthag Tuek posted:whats going on with the legs Pretty sure that thousands of spiders in a suit don't have or need a kneecap.
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darkwasthenight posted:Pretty sure that thousands of spiders in a suit don't have or need a kneecap. Pray they don't.
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Ah, remember the first time this concept got used? Garth Ennis invented a formerly unseen childhood bully of Peter Parker who ate the spider that bit Parker and he mutated into a thousand spiders in the shape of a person. It was one of the most unpleasant, mean spirited, nasty story I think I've read in mainstream comics. I'm very glad Ennis got to write a comic specifically about how superheroes are all arseholes because he's really good at it and mainstream comics really don't benefit from it.
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credburn posted:Wait, so there's just like a montage of hit-and-runs? Fast 5 starts with the team rescuing Dom from a prison transfer bus filled with guards and other prisoners. During the escape the bus is launched through the air at high speed, spinning dozens of times before being utterly annihilated on impact. Smash cut to a shot of a TV playing a newscast of the daring escape where "miraculously, no one else was injured". I get that the Fast & Furious movies are live action cartoons but c'mon Unrelated IIMM: prequels of movies or shows where the actors playing young versions of characters just do lovely impressions of the original actors. I'm looking at you The Many Saints of Newark. God that movie was a disappointment
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Fast 5 starts with the team rescuing Dom from a prison transfer bus filled with guards and other prisoners. During the escape the bus is launched through the air at high speed, spinning dozens of times before being utterly annihilated on impact. Smash cut to a shot of a TV playing a newscast of the daring escape where "miraculously, no one else was injured". I get that the Fast & Furious movies are live action cartoons but c'mon It's not like prisoners are considered people in the US, and prison guards are just cops, & ACAB, so it sounds like pretty accurate reporting to me
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I've known people who have spent time in prison and they say that technically very few inmates die in prison -- they die "en route to the hospital" so it doesn't add to the prison's death count. This anecdote could be totally apocryphal. Just thought it was interesting and accurate sounding.
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Carthag Tuek posted:whats going on with the legs So as mentioned this is thousands of spiders crammed into a suit, but also I think the thing you think is a lack of kneecap is actually not Spiders-Man's leg, but a part of the costume of the person in green.
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oldpainless posted:It’s known as the Shaggy defense More like Ol' ZOINKS-less.
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