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sticklefifer posted:I have to assume the concept designers of the MCU made Wanda's powers look similar to the Aether on purpose, because they seem to be leaning into her as basically a lesser Reality Stone. I'm kind of surprised they never went all out and connected it to her in the movies. Considering reality warping is her whole thing in the comics, that would make sense. Although it might also be a bit of serendipity.
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Yeah, wasn't Trials & Tribble-ations super expensive given the DS9 production crew's determination to 100% match the TOS sets as much as possible (obviously the greenscreening to insert the actors into existing footage wasn't cheap either). If they're going all out for the period sets (not to mention all the CGI) it's going to add up.
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Jan 30, 2021 21:31
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tsob posted:It is nice when Marvel acknowledge that there is a whole world outside New York that they can tell stories about occasionally. They still mostly stick to the United States, fictional places like Latvaria, Wakanda, Genosha etc or alien planets entirely, so hoping for a story focused on someplace in Italy or Nigeria or whatever is probably futile, but even LA would be cool just for a bit of variety. Cloak and Dagger is set in New Orleans, for one. I will never not recommend that show to people.
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Feb 6, 2021 00:52
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Various Artists posted:so that cape show huh Dammit, did they recast Cloak? And whitewash him, too? 
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Feb 7, 2021 16:37
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It'd be hilarious if, given Monica's Louisiana background, if the 'aerospace engineer' is a euphemism and she's actually going to ask Cloak & Dagger to teleport her in. Not going to happen, but still.
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Feb 16, 2021 19:45
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Protagorean posted:It was so underpushed I'd never heard about it until you asked and it apparently sucked so bad Marvel axed it after one ten-episode season (though being the one errant project remaining from the aborted line-up of similarly themed Hulu MCU shows probably had more to do with it) Hey, Cloak & Dagger was great. Runaways I'll grant you.
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Feb 21, 2021 14:21
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Doctor Nutt posted:And yet you can watch Inhumans on Disney plus while The Incredible Hulk is nowhere to be seen. Kind of a bizarre choice given the RDJ cameo and the fact that General Ross pops back up in Winter Soldier like we're supposed to know who he is. The more important thing is that Helstrom is on Star or whatever it's called, but Cloak & Dagger isn't. I really hope if that show is dropped from MCU canon they pull an Evan Peters and get the leads back to reprise their roles, they're the best part of a great show.
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Feb 28, 2021 01:12
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The_Doctor posted:I noticed those because I’m familiar with them. They’re called vèvès, and they’re from voodoo. They act as a sort of representation/attraction point for the loa, spirits that play an important part in voodoo. Each loa has its own specific vèvè. swickles posted:In Agents of SHIELD the Darkhold corrupts those who read it, which is why they had an android read it, thinking it wouldn't corrupt her. So are we going to get a more villainous Scarlett Witch going forward?
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Mar 5, 2021 21:19
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Jagermonster posted:So is every witch fight just a race to see who can slap their runes around the room first? Presumably normally doing that move would be so obvious that it'd be very easy to stop, since it's a multi-step process and the other person can just throw magic missiles at them. But Agatha underestimated Wanda. Also maybe it needs to be a hexagonal room/area to work.
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Mar 5, 2021 21:58
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I think it was implied that he was trying to create a Vision that he could control. That ~kinda~ sounds like something that'd violate the Sokovia Accords. It also ~kinda~ seemed like he was (poorly) trying to turn S.W.O.R.D. into a new HYDRA-like organization, which probably would've been way easier to do with a Wind-Up version of Vision. It also probably violated Vision's 'don't weaponise me, please' living will.
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Mar 6, 2021 09:07
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Its Rinaldo posted:I don't think I ever had moment with Hulk as calculated and chilling as when Vision tells Wanda she can't control him like the others and she just stares at him and tilts her head and says "Can't I?" I mean, if they ever adapt Immortal Hulk, you could see it.
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Mar 7, 2021 23:04
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Teek posted:Its strange, because I saw a lot of people hyped about her appearance, but this was the first thing I am ever cognizant of seeing her in. I guess I just haven't watched her past shows. Have you watched into the Spider-Verse? She was Doc Ock.
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Mar 17, 2021 20:25
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Open Source Idiom posted:- that really garbage bit with the Tunisian family. Don't pretend you've got anything to say about race, show. You don't.
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Mar 20, 2021 11:19
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Koirhor posted:No goddammit the fact that Sam doesn’t have the money on hand stretches credulity, loving Stark pays poo poo I guess I think the consensus is that the Avengers weren't getting paid, they got to live in the compound with everything paid for. Then Sam was on Team Cap & living on the run, and didn't exist the last 5 years.
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Mar 20, 2021 16:53
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Dacap posted:I just think if they wanted to do a systemic racism plot at the appropriate scale, wouldn’t it have been better to have the Government reject the idea of Sam as Cap before bringing out the white guy rather than have Sam turn it down? I think the fact they didn't say, 'hey veteran, hero, and best friend of Steve Rogers who he entrusted with his shield and implictly the mantle of Captain America, we think there should be a new Cap, do you want to do it?' but instead got the shield from him under false pretences and probably less than 48 hours after he handed it off revealed the new guy kind of speaks to the fact they'd rejected the idea of him as Cap.
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Electric Phantasm posted:It'a gonna turn out Flag Smasher only robbed that bank because he too was turned down for a loan.
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Mar 20, 2021 20:37
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Phylodox posted:To be fair, his idol also lent his name to selling war bonds, a fact that's prominently displayed in the scene at the Smithsonian. TBF, that was because it was the only way he could help fight the Nazis at that specific point in time.
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Mar 20, 2021 21:34
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Codependent Poster posted:Brubaker's run is absolutely up there for best Cap story. There would only be competition from Gruenwald's stories. I will not stand for this Kirby erasure. You better not be leaving out Madbomb.
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Mar 21, 2021 23:01
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I'd really love to see Immortal Hulk get adapted. I presume streaming doesn't count as part of the Universal deal, and they have Star now if they were willing to do it.
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Mar 25, 2021 22:15
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AngryBooch posted:That montage made me think they were doing a spin on MVP and combining him with Walker a bit. Given the Nomad identity isn't being used by anyone that'd be a good fit for her, actually.
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Mar 26, 2021 21:05
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Bust Rodd posted:Extremely lol at them making the flagsmashers 1 wheelchair short of the Burger King Kids Club, it's an orgy of evidence that the Flagsmashers are beloved, multiethnic, and "woke" enough to have a small ginger woman as the leader.
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Mar 27, 2021 21:21
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Now I think about it, Louisana's 2nd place for heroes (Falcon, Photon and Cloak & Dagger if we count that series*) after New York. *which honestly you should, it's pretty good.
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Mar 28, 2021 15:32
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sticklefifer posted:People with lived experience who are in a position to tell those stories. There are plenty who are not white billionaires. Now how well those stories addressed racism are subjective, but they did show it. Also isn't the writers' room for FATWS majority-POC? Are their lived experiences not real enough for you?
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Mar 28, 2021 23:55
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sticklefifer posted:Sure, sorry I'm not patting a multibillion dollar media conglomerate on the back for informing me that cops have a race problem in its space wizard franchise. Did you stop to consider the people who actually make this show (who again, are majority POC) are using this as a platform to comment upon problems in the real world?
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Mar 28, 2021 23:59
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sticklefifer posted:Good job adding another bizarre racist strawman a full page after people were being cool about it, AJA. So proud of you. Let's see, we saw the US government take the shield via deception from Sam to give to their own pre-selected white candidate for Cap and we met Isaiah Bradley, the second US super-soldier and first African-American superhero who rather than being feted as the new Captain America, was thrown in jail for 30 years and experimented on. They're totally not doing an 'America won't accept a black Cap' narrative.
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Marsupial Ape posted:I seriously hope that they drop the whole "Kid Black Captain America took street drugs to get his powers" bullshit and just say that Eli inherited his powers from his grandfather. Make it an actually legacy. Didn't he get hurt in a fight after that came out, and then Isaiah gave him a blood transfusion which gave him powers for real? But yeah, just skip to that bit, Marvel, thanks.
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NowonSA posted:I wouldn't expect it to be too complicated. Even if losing half the population resulted in the utopia Thanos was hoping for (which it definitely didn't) and created a true unified earth without borders or wars, billions of lives is an unfathomably high price to pay for that. Steve did make that comment about Whales in the Hudson... I could see Bruce while being glad everyone came back, not feeling super great about all the old systems of exploiting people returning at the same time. Maybe even a little angry that the world didn't learn anything from it... Give me Devil Hulk you cowards.
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Spacebump posted:I have no idea what the Spider-Man licensing deal says and would love to read it. Even if they couldn’t use Holland Spider-Man, I’d love to see it. I don’t think a Spidey DC movie cross over will happen but it is fun to dream. I think a version got leaked when Sony got hacked that's probably out on the internet somewhere. I recall there was a list of all the characters that they could use as well as specifying that Peter can't do stuff to damage the brand like torture, kill, deal drugs (this was clearly stated in the deal, IIRC)...obviously, except for when he's affected by the Symbiote. So I guess Venom Peter can be a drug dealer if they really want. Desperado Bones posted:New trailer, a few new scenes: Also editing around the bloody shield, I see.
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Carlosologist posted:it dawns on me that they jailed Isiah for doing the same thing that made Steve Captain America in earnest. that's just an incredible bit of storytelling 
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stev posted:I love how transparently evil they made the GRC at the end there. "gently caress the refugees, push them in the sea or something I don't care". I mean, there was still pushback to the 'send them all back' plan even from other GRC members. Given that the US was the one pushing the plan, I suspect it's kinda like the UN where the major powers run roughshod over the rest of the world.
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Sanguinia posted:There is an alternate universe female Bucky named Rebecca "Rikki," Barnes who was created as a result of he fallout with Onslaught back in the 90s. She served as the sidekick to several Captain Americas including a Peggy Carter Captain Brittain version until she later adopted the super-identity of NOMAD, THE GIRL WITHOUT A WORLD. Nomad was also first an identity Steve came up with in the 616 in one of the many times he gave up the shield, so there’s also that angle of her as a successor to him of sorts in a meta sense.
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Seedge posted:Hey, if you want more Marvel TV shows, Runaways Season 3 just hit Disney+. I didn’t know the first two were on there. Is Cloak & Dagger there too?
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Golden Bee posted:It’s not clear if they vibranium can beat adamantium, I think it’s up to the comic. I don’t think there any panels of wolverine piercing the shield with his claws? In the comics, Cap's shield is its own unique alloy that uses Vibranium that is stronger than either and Adamantium is a (relatively) unsuccessful attempt to recreate it. I think it goes Vibranium<Adamantium<Captainium.
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I'm one of the people disappointed that Karli isn't going to get to be Nomad going forward. I guess if they really want to, they could say she wakes up in the ambulance and then went underground (because who would believe her if she went around claiming Sharon was the Power Broker? All the evidence is in Madripoor, and it'd just let her know Karli's still around) if they change their mind later. The Sharon heel turn is going to be interesting down the road - as others have said, it'll probably figure into Armour Wars. I kind of hope that it turns out she's not a Skrull, because that'd kind of be a copout (he said, hoping they retcon Karli's death). I'm guessing she killed the fence they met in Madripoor before she could reveal her identity, and I guess was playing along with Sam and Bucky to use them as a lead on Karli. I imagine only a tiny amount of people actually knew she's the power broker, they just think she's the art dealer. Obviously she wasn't expecting Zemo to cap her serum guy, but hey, Sam did manage to get her an in to the US government to work with. Mackie killed it as Cap, and that speech at the end, while heavy handed, was nonetheless great. And frankly being subtle wouldn't have worked. Honestly everyone turned in great performances throughout. All in all, drat fine show. Think I might do a Cloak & Dagger rewatch now. (I'll say it again, it's the most underrated live-action Marvel series. I will be taking no further questions). Kind of feels like it shares a lot of the same DNA with FATWS.
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Didn't they have a line in FFH talking about Kree infiltrators? Given Kree can pass for human in their own right, maybe the Kree are going to be the ones doing the invading and the Skrulls will be trying to stop them.
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BrianWilly posted:Again, the show can say whatever it wants to say. At the end of the day though, I can't remember the last time that leftists tried to enact change by kidnapping politicians, but I sure can remember the last time that politicians were targeted for kidnapping and it wasn't by leftists. Given the problem Sam had with Karli was her methodology and not her ideology, maybe that's the point?
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Ravel posted:The show suggests that the appropriate way to achieve justice is by stirring public rebukes and not through violence. I mean, it was more 'the ballot or the bullet', because the rebuke was basically 'if you don't want another, more extreme Karli you have to listen to these people'.
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Alchenar posted:The closest real world analogy to the snap is victims of the holocaust who were taken from all stratas of society returning to their pre-war homes to find other people now living in them and they weren't going to be allowed their old lives back. I kind of feel comparing them to holocaust victims is a tad extreme. Not to mention even if you accept the premise exactly morally equivalent, cramming all of the people who helped keep the world running for the last 5 years into crammed refugee camps to be deported in the name of 'returning to normal' is still immoral.
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Collapsing Farts posted:Most of the MCU heroes are unmasked tho And that's not even the case given FFH.
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Given this is the third time Gunn’s decade-old shitposts have been brought up and the last two times didn’t really convince anyone outside of jumpy Disney execs who backtracked, I’m not sure this is the slam dunk you think it is.
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