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Jake Lloyd quit acting because he developed schizophrenia.
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Nice to see Beau keeping his giant valentine-card heart and belly shirt.
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Jul 16, 2018 19:38
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Steven Universe also has a boy who’s a failure at masculinity in the same ways that they are (fat, introverted, sensitive, into video games) but who responds by caring about others and building community instead of retreating into isolation and hollow consumerism. They probably hate seeing their weakness reflected back at them and overcome with the help of a collective of gay power moms.
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Jul 17, 2018 01:45
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Don't the incel chuds use He-Man (and only He-Man, and even he isn't an example of it) as an example of unrealistic standards of beauty for men? I would imagine that until this moment, they considered She-Ra just another betrayal of helpless men by the brutal gynocracy.
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Jul 17, 2018 17:18
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How did they like that new Thundercats from a while ago? I guess that was before their awakening to the degeneration of the west or whatever via gamergate though.
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Jul 17, 2018 17:47
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SlothfulCobra posted:The 80s and early 90s were weirdly obsessed with the human form, as well as being the period where the separation of the genders was being ratcheted up. Women were all being pushed down the line of looking like Barbie supermodels, narrow waists, busty, big hair, and all that, which there have been many thinkpieces, studies, and campaigns to come back from that. There's still a lot of issues with women in TV and movies all trying to go towards the one, ideal body type. There’s a series on netflix about famous toy franchises called The Toys That Made Us, and the one about He-Man features the executive who made He-Man explaining that they hired a child psychologist to learn what boys wanted to play with, and the result was that they wanted to identify with someone powerful who could do anything, as kids basically can’t do anything. So 80s boys identified with and were excited to see themselves as huge muscle guys. Aspiration or realistic expectations weren’t part of it because the focus was on what He-Man could do rather than what he looked like: he looked like that to signify how much agency he had. Girl toys haven’t really followed pattern with imaginative play. She-Ra was an attempt to duplicate that formula with plagiarized Barbie dolls, and seems to have had mixed results, as I’ve never known a woman who cared about She-Ra as a kid (though I’ve known a few who liked He-Man).
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Jul 17, 2018 22:31
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Ms. Pac-Man is the superior game, but I feel like the pretty sleazy cabinet art with a coquettish pac-female dangling her legs over the edge in plastered-on makeup and high heels can only be an attempt to appeal to men, as my general sense is that women are made uncomfortable by the male gaze being applied to ostensibly nonsexual things (in addition to, you know, them and all the women in their lives).
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Jul 17, 2018 23:54
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:That episode was priceless for the interviews with the guy who made He-Man so beefy. He was completely obsessed with muscle mass and was so sublimely satisfied with creating an action figure that was jacked to the point of grotesquery. I can’t get over the former Mattel executive who has what is clearly a statue of herself as a chair in the background of all her interview segments.
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Jul 18, 2018 02:44
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ImpAtom posted:... as a *chair?* I can't even picture that. 
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Jul 18, 2018 02:53
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As you can see, people putting their fetishes into cartoons has a long history, ergo She-Ra should have breasts with physics accuracy appropriate for twenty-first century rendering technology.
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Jul 18, 2018 04:23
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I hope they do stuff like “what if Robert Downey Jr overdosed in 1998 and Iron Man was played by Sean Penn?” Or “what if Marvel kept ownership of the movie rights to X-Men?”
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Apr 12, 2019 14:30
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I think the sliding timescale itself never comes up. Comics just always take place in the present because it’s depressing to require Spiderman age into senility because you want to attach a date to the time he teamed up with David Letterman. Comics make no sense.
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Jul 5, 2019 00:00
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Nodosaur posted:Symbiotes for some? Hey look, it’s the 90s.
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Aug 25, 2019 00:00
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Bobby...shut up!
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Sep 19, 2019 03:48
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FilthyImp posted:I know this is a month back but gently caress this noise. ...the Wild Man of Borneo. See you around.
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Oct 13, 2019 21:47
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It’s adults-only but somehow extremely juvenile, like a teenager’s idea of what mature entertainment should be.
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Dec 1, 2019 19:17
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Halloween Jack posted:Been Rewatching Batman Beyond. Man, he kills a lot of people. There’s something really upsetting about that show that I can’t put into words. Usually, there’s a sense that superheroes in kids’ cartoons have some foundation of safety they can work from, like they go out and fight the villains but can count on being safe in Wayne Manor or the bat cave or what have you. In Batman Beyond, the characters always seemed so vulnerable, like their villains were all-powerful and could just have them committed or kicked out of school or destroyed in any number of ways, and they were basically helpless to do anything about it. I remember feeling uneasy the whole time watching as a kid, as the show was about a child and an old man who were vulnerable at all times and had no protection. Maybe some of it is the amazing amount of body horror in the show, which kind of just extends to the honesty with which the show has about how when you get old, you just can’t do the things you used to do.
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Jul 13, 2020 05:35
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I love how they’re baffled at first but just naturally both fall into mocking it at the same time. I can buy that they would bond by mercilessly ridiculing things.
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Aug 25, 2020 04:59
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At least we know he wasn’t erased by the time travel episode.
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Aug 25, 2020 17:28
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Bringing in a peer friend for Terry to confide in kind of ruined the dynamic of the show for me. There's nothing wrong with Max as written, but she diminishes the bleakness and urgency of Terry and Bruce's situation and makes them less marginalized than they are in that first season where it's just a kid and an old man who can't do anything that isn't punching people as batman and who nobody will listen to or respect.
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Aug 26, 2020 19:06
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He does already have the black shirt with the silver S when he gets taken over. He may have only been possessed by Starro for a few years. Maybe it was mostly spent with Starro establishing control or something.
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Aug 31, 2020 00:56
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TheKingofSprings posted:I seem to remember they at least joked about it and also it was the reason Batman didn't turn himself in with the rest of the founding members and instead went to pay Waller a visit. In the first episode he says something like "I'm not much of a team player so I'm not joining, but call when you need me and I'll come." Although he also paid for the space station, so I don't know. I remember being excited at the time because it was a continuity nod to what I remembered from Batman Beyond.
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Aug 31, 2020 19:29
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It’s kind of bullshit that superman has to worry about money and pay rent when you think about it. I’d live rent-free in that satellite and I bet a bunch of heroes would, given how many of them have bullshit jobs.
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Aug 31, 2020 22:53
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I feel like Spiderman doesn't approach his work with the expectation that it's part of a universal program of reform for his city, nor does he believe that his city must be rescued from decline and chaos. New York is just like a pretty cool place and he has as much fun buying hot dogs from carts and going to sporting events and whatever other generic things as he does have serious hero time. Also he doesn't have the resources to pursue any other strategy like Batman does: he's not going to be able to invest in infrastructure. It's just jumping and punching or nothing. There's also probably something in there about other heroes just kind of lucking into it through happenstance. You don't blame Superman for not trying other things because what else is he going to do? Muckrake? He's lucky to have a day job at all in this economy.
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Sep 3, 2020 20:01
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site posted:Well if he was just Peter he could be running a billion dollar tech lab that could advance mankind but he's too busy punching doc Ock again Spiderman is not a gentrifier. Uncle Ben taught him better than that.
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Sep 3, 2020 20:22
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But Daredevil, where do laws come from? What about the law that says you can't marry Foggy?
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Sep 4, 2020 00:19
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site posted:most of these are well he could do them but he wouldnt, which was my point. but this one, first he lived on a farm so i have a hard time believing he doesnt know at least the basics of plumbing, but he has like super learning like the flash because he can study super fast, he has super speed, strength, flight, heat vision for tunneling, and can see every wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum so he can see the piping and where buried power lines and related stuff is so he can take out and replace the pipes (which was the intent of my original paragraph, the way youre response is phrased makes it seem like maybe that wasnt clear). am i missing something? Superman is as dumb as anyone. Just because I can read super-fast doesn’t mean that reading will make me a competent engineer. You have to have experience and like doing something in order to be good at it. By utilitarian logic, we should all become engineers or like geneticists solving world hunger, but it’s not feasible because we’d be bad at it and burn ourselves out after a few years. Superman is an average white man who is strong and who can fly, and he’s also genuinely ethical and not racist. How would he even know how to hold spaceships so they don’t break up when flying them into space. I would guess that in dc world, there is super science that solves at least some problems. Getting into space in a spaceship seems really easy compared to our world, for example.
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I just watched Batman: Assault on Arkham, and it’s bad in a drab, boring way. Is that what comics are like now? It’s at this weird kids’ level of sophistication but with gore and curse words, and bad jokes, like a kid would think is cool but that marks it as unsuitable for kids. It’s confusing to just have established comic characters showing up because it leaves the setting and the histories of the characters unclear. Is this the same setting as those other animated dc movies that were out around that time? Does the Flash exist here? Has Batman met Amanda Waller before? I was disappointed to hear Kevin Conroy and CCH Pounder in this because the material is so far below them—I don’t know why the people making this would want to remind anyone of a good Batman cartoon that way. Also Batman is the antagonist and there’s only one scene from his point of view, so he shouldn’t get the title. Was this originally supposed to be some Suicide Squad marketing synergy that rethought after that one bombed?
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Sep 9, 2020 04:34
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Blockhouse posted:So a few things Sorry—by “now” I guess I meant a much broader span of time, like 10-20 years? I had no clue it had anything to do with the video games.
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Sep 9, 2020 05:16
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NikkolasKing posted:This rules but also can Garfield & Friends talk go here? This was a classic I was always sad that it dropped away from its longtime companion, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and disappeared from tv, even though it’s obviously younger by a decade or more. Lorenzo Music is probably the greatest cartoon voice to me. He’s at least in the top three.
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Oct 24, 2020 00:58
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scary ghost dog posted:it looks like this music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qX02AW48bM Wow. I guess the opening credits they made for the X-Men cartoon in Japan were really different.
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Oct 26, 2020 22:29
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muscles like this! posted:The 90s Spider-Man cartoon ended with a Spider-Verse story where Peter met a bunch of alternate versions of himself. At one point Peter makes a stop in a world where Spider-Man is just a comic book character and he meets Stan Lee. Doesn’t Stan go with him to save MaryJane? That’s always been my memory but I’ve never bothered to watch the episode since it aired. I remember that and a frequently repeated scene of Dr. Octopus smashing a bunch of boxes in a warehouse, sometimes even when he wasn’t in a warehouse and occasionally when Dr. Octopus wasn’t in the episode.
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Oct 31, 2020 19:37
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I’ve been thinking about that Batman Beyond sendoff episode of Justice League and I think it works a lot better if Amanda Waller is senile and Terry just humors her because he’s a nice guy. Also he and his brother have black hair because Bruce had an affair with their mother.
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Dec 22, 2020 06:23
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That part was a joke—sorry.
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Dec 22, 2020 16:14
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And yet in the last season they do drop some hints in that direction, like Superman telling Terry that he’s more like Bruce than he’ll ever know in a way where his voice trails off portentously. I feel like there was something else in the last season like that too where Max is reading police files and says some villain ended up thinking that Terry has to be the original Batman’s son. There’s also this: https://the-schwayest-batman-around.tumblr.com/post/116679190510/batman-beyond-fact-20 Hard agree that it’s silly and undermines the show. But it was very nice to get closure on a show I thought I’d never see again.
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Dec 24, 2020 19:32
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Plus I think Terry’s just regular Spiderman more than any other kind.
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Dec 24, 2020 20:32
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Will Superman ever show up on HBO max?
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Jan 2, 2021 19:04
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I guess there's not an HD version of Superman, which is kind of a shame, as it's the one I think I'm most interested in revisiting.
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Jan 28, 2021 20:18
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If that was the whole of the GI Joe movie, I would be satisfied by it. Possibly more than I was by the full GI Joe movie.
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“International” Does it seem more normal to people outside the US to see American flags all over something run by Americans and then be told that it’s an international effort with support from many countries?
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