That which is public domain in print is not necessarily public domain on screen. A faithful adaptation would not be legal. (Excuse me, sir, but has someone talked your ear off today about how broken the IP system is?)

Most of those oldest companies are small, single location operations. Huge, sprawling corporations are less likely to survive times of major upheaval.

And then there's the secret inspiration from a bunch of acid eating hippies...

I think this is where we all try to imagine that alternate history where the Nazis won the war.

I think this has been said in bits and pieces by others, but:

Aeon Flux

I actually started to answer that:

I didn't even read the book, and this disconnect jumps off the screen in every frame. Reacher is clearly written and played as large and scary, and there's the diminutive pretty boy, pulling me out of the story yet again.

They are both accomplished educators and rightly get lots of air time because they give very effective, concise science lectures.

You didn't mention the biggest apparent difference: that a time traveler can change history. In the movie, they were just trying to get better information on the exact origins of the plague, believing that this would help them develop a vaccine or a cure. Changing the past was understood to be impossible and this…

Speaking strictly as a dirty old man, I think we need more women scientists, because scientists are hot (and most people choosing a major right now are way too young for me.)

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I heard they did it because, after years of lawsuits, it looked like they might have to pay a small pittance to the families of Siegal and Schuster.

Unfamiliar with the character. She looks like she's powering up for a vagina blast. Is that usual for her?

That honestly looks like it was done for the Hawkeye Project. We could probably find a female superhero who looks more sexualized wearing that.

The powder keg to blow will most likely be one we aren't watching closely enough, and therefore not on the list. It's a big planet.

It is silly to describe North Korea as Marxist. You come on a little strong and make it sound like the True Scotsman Fallacy, but it isn't.

"What's the matter, baby?"

This is something I love about London. You are always easy walking distance from parkland. Outside the city center, you are always easy walking distance from scruffy, overgrown parkland where, if you face the right direction, you can pretend for a few minutes that you're in the country.

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