He had pretty much already risen to power by the end of the Clone Wars, and Rogue One takes place right before A New Hope. If the Death Star is almost done (which appears to be the case,) he’s already as in charge of things as he’s ever going to be.

His appearance in Episode III and Rebels isn’t that different from how he looks in IV, so I don’t think this new guy is supposed to be a (very slightly) younger version of Cushing.

Almost too perfect.

You go too faithful and it gets a little too unrealistic. I’m not sure how I feel about the test HBO commissioned way back when. I think it may just make him look too old, so I can understand leaving the more youthful upper face intact.

John Lennon was murdered by a deranged fan in 1980

I’m not sure if this was submitted yesterday, but it’s definitely my #1. I hope beyond all hope that we get this scene in the MCU somewhere down the line.

I’m not sure why you’re assuming that this is definitely related to Gotham. As Bleeding Cool points out, all we have is a title, which tells us almost nothing aside from the fact that it has something to do with someone presumably called Pennyworth, but not necessarily even Alfred.

That second one ended up being pretty accurate. Lazarus is a sequel to The Man Who Fell to Earth instead of a direct adaptation, but aside from three new songs it was all old material. I’m not sure if Shaufuss was involved.

He can’t look any younger than he did during Episode III, in which he basically didn’t.

This reminds me of a section in Maureen Furniss’ Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics that looks at cinema as a continuum of mimesis and abstraction; on one extreme you have Andy Warhol’s Sleep (a 5 hour continuous shot of a guy sleeping,) on the other end there’s Oscar Fischinger’s Circles (shapes animated in time…

Ezra says he was born the day the Empire was formed, which is the same day Luke and Leia were. If anything, Ezra might be slightly older.

In addition to what Fobhopper said, in Reach not only do the Covenant species mostly stick to their own native languages — there are also human colonists speaking Hungarian.

Instead, he first came into the employ of Thomas and Martha Wayne as a bodyguard and was the only member of staff the young Bruce decided to keep on following the death of his parents. Now, Alfred is publicly known as being Bruce’s chief of security.

Vampirism transmission depends on what continuity you’re referring to. Typically it is a situation where someone has to be drained and then drink vampiric blood to become one, but sometimes — Blade, for example — a bite from a vampire is enough to transfer the disease. In fact in the first Blade film there’s a guy who…

For new villains, it’s common for them to pick up the toughest character among the heroes (usually The Big Guy) and hurl them across the room or otherwise take them out in one blow, thus showing that they are the real deal.

Exactly.

They should have just flipped it over, then nobody would have noticed.

Alternate hypothesis: Space Jam is a speculative fiction film that exists within the world of Who Framed Roger Rabbit that imagines a strange society in which humans are unaware that ‘toons are actual sapient entities — kind of a Twilight Zone sorta thing. Over in that universe, it was produced at a time when almost…

This just makes me wish there was a Danger 5 game.

What the hell is going on with that multic0lor-haired test tube girl?