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Mulva
Sep 13, 2011
It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.
Being white actually helps the entire point of his character, that of being a privileged monster that skates from pretty much all consequence while everyone around him gets burned to the ground. The specificity of his appearance as, you know, Sting is much less crucial. Same with the punk rock roots now that it's not the 80s. So hey, minorities should get the chance to play more nuanced villains in cinema, so I'm all for it.

Making him young does scream this adaption is going to be dogshit though, yeah.

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Mulva
Sep 13, 2011
It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.

CapnAndy posted:

She actually does owe them atonement, and since our society has decided that prison is how you atone for poo poo like that, she owes them prison time.

Nah our society is poo poo, gently caress going to jail.

quote:

If you want to still be called a superhero, nobody should have to make you to go to jail if you do something bad.

The defining feature of Cap's side of the Avengers is saying "gently caress you I won't do what you told me" to the government, and specifically it saying it has the right to put them in jail.

Mulva
Sep 13, 2011
It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.

BrianWilly posted:

There've been enough small crossover bits -- Peggy Carter appearing in Agents of SHIELD, Jarvis in Endgame

Both of these are characters that appeared in Agent Carter, which is the only one of the tv shows Kevin Feige was a producer on. Well of the old crop. Carter was also in the films first, so the only real crossover is Jarvis. That's it, in the 8 years since they started making tv shows vaguely set in Marvel world one character has meaningfully crossed over, for like a single 20 second bit.

So they could use the older tv bits.....but I doubt they will. This new crop with the movie actors is a bit of a different beast.

Mulva
Sep 13, 2011
It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

Not sure why he's in a super powered prison though, except to put him in the place heads to be for a Thunderbolts show.

He set out to completely loving obliterate the Avengers. After he was done, he'd completely loving obliterated the Avengers.

Man fought well above his weight class.

Mulva
Sep 13, 2011
It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.

omg chael crash posted:

Is Titans any good? Honestly

No, it's not. Like Doom Patrol is legitimately good, Titans is just....wasted potential, and not even much of that.

Mulva
Sep 13, 2011
It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.
Fraction's run does this interesting thing of picking up a lot of deep hits from Hawkeye's past [Making him deaf again was a pretty deep cut. Did you know Hawkeye was deaf for a long rear end time? Sign language in a comic book was neat for a lot of folks.] and also just making up this entirely new character out of nowhere.

Mulva
Sep 13, 2011
It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.
He's a high end American surgeon, gods have a him complex. Fucker wouldn't put on airs, it would imply there's something above him to pretend to.

Mulva
Sep 13, 2011
It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.
It's basically a process of removing their filters. So at first they are maybe a little louder and a little more open in their prejudice, but they eventually progress to....you know, more than that.

It's kind of torture porn-y, insomuch as the only narrative goal it serves is to show that Dee has gotten his hands on some very serious power, and he's also a total monster in how he uses it. You don't really need an entire story to get to that point, when the pay off is so trivially obvious. Guess what, the random jackass that stole power is in fact going to get punked by the cosmic being he stole it from. WHO EVER COULD SEE THAT COMING?! As Gaiman says, you can kind of just skip it and you'll miss nothing.

Mulva
Sep 13, 2011
It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.
He was more of somewhat amoral strategist, and but also more intrinsically heroic. The galaxy was in a bad place after one of the space events and he thought it could use some guardians. So he put a group of randos together that he thought had potential. Being a disparate group of gently caress ups he figured they needed some motivation.

So he had them all mind-controlled to work together.

Movie Star-Lord is a retarded golden retriever.

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Mulva
Sep 13, 2011
It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.

BrianWilly posted:

At this point the mistake itself bugs me way less than the perennial tendency of audiences to just have to try to paper over any perceived slights about the shiny new show they like, no matter how slight or straightforward they may be. The whole point is that it is a small nitpick, it's not the biggest deal in the world, and yet having anyone acknowledge it as maybe not the most airtight writing ever is like pulling wisdom teeth.

Which...again, seen it before, will see it again. I think I could have mentioned literally any random thing I disliked about the episodes and there would still be the need to over-defend Disney Plus Series Hawkeye's honor on every front. It's okay to say bad things about TV! It doesn't love you back!

Maybe it's just that nobody gives a poo poo about this as much as you and they never will?

Embrace the diversity of the human experience.

Mulva
Sep 13, 2011
It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.
Yes, but I've done an abnormally large amount of hallucinogenics.

Mulva
Sep 13, 2011
It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.
Like here's the deal: If you imagine the show starting out as a 1 and escalating to it's current 10 over time, you'll only ever hear the moments that really kick it up a grade. So like "Wait, did....did Archie fight a bear?" or something might click it up to 3, but there's still like an entire loving realm of things at 3 that are happening that don't get talked about. And eventually people don't even mention "Wait he fought a bear again?" because we are past that now.

Mulva
Sep 13, 2011
It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.

Medullah posted:

And based on her mom's reaction to the bangle, I'm guessing her grandmother tried to be a hero or was an alien or something. I've never read the books so no idea what her actual story is

She's an Inhuman in the comics. Also has an entirely different power set. Basically the comics can be completely ignored because they are doing their own thing.

Mulva
Sep 13, 2011
It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.
Banshee is loving amazing. It's the personification of it's type of television. If that's for you or not I couldn't say, but my God did it make it's grime beautiful. And Starr kills it on the show.

Mulva
Sep 13, 2011
It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.

Aphrodite posted:

The character.

Her pet cat becomes a catman and she starts dating him.

Well I mean to be fair neither of them are human.

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Mulva
Sep 13, 2011
It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.
Nope, it's crazy from the jump and keeps getting crazier as time goes on. To the point that season 6 is just "gently caress it, makes as much sense as anything", not something legitimately unexpected.

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