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Every time I hear the words “Pacific Rim 2” I smile.

Having lived through my share of this type of experience in school, I make sure to emphasize to my kids repeatedly that if they need the bathroom for WHATEVER reason, get up and go. I give no fucks about teacher authority when it comes to needing the facilities. I tell the kids to take care of their bodies and I'll…

I'm willing to be Miles transitions over to the main universe with Peter so they can team up in the new rebooted mainline. I mean, sure they could can the character, but the uproar would be tremendous. The book is extremely popular, to boot.

I would say it's really primarily because far fewer people are familiar with Namor. In geek circles, sure, we know him. But to the general public? No clue who he is.

The Superfriends meme was that pervasive sadly.

Because Namor has had far less media exposure. And because he has always been badass (except for the ankle wings, wonder how would they manage that in a live action adaptation) and one of the first comicbook antiheroes.

Basically the lack of visibility, but also, if you look at the changes made over time in article above, they are steps being taken to increase the Namor- ness of the character. Half atlantean? check. Superstrong? check. Actually atlantean Royalty? check. Not too concerned about killing? check.

I also think it has something to do with how each of the respective companies have approached criticizing institutions. Some of Marvel's biggest properties have their heroes at odds with "The Man," be it the press in Spider-Man or the institutional racism of the government in X-Men. For a while, apart from the…

Because Namor came first, in 1939 (Aquaman debuted in 1941), at a time when almost the only superheroes were that guy in blue tights who punches hard and jumps really high, that other guy who's a millionaire by day but dresses up in a pointy hood and black cape with a pointy hood and shoots people at night, and that…

I think it has more to do with the characters/stories around Namor/Aquaman than the characters themselves. Characters in the Marvel universe, especially back in the 60s and 70s, just weren't as strong as they were in DC at the time. So when people look at the JLA, they think whats the point of having Aquaman on this…

Because Namor's always been portrayed as an asshole who could fuck your shit up, always on the verge of drowning New York if he had a bad day. At this point he's killed billions to save the main Marvel Earth, and you're not really sure if he is in the right or not because the whole situation is set up as a gigantic…

The worst thing you can say about Namor is that he's a shit. But he's a shit with superstrength, super endurance, and (until recently) a big army. He's the sort of asshole who can hang out with heroic assholes like Reed Richards one day and then be like "fuck that dude, I'mma going to chill with Thanos" the next.

And…

Namor isn't equally mocked because he isn't equally well-known. I mean, most people only know who Aquaman is because of the mockery.

My resting bitch face must have saved me from the predicament.

She's the hero of the goddamn movie! How did everyone who's not four miss that?

I'm fascinated by the idea that in Australia, being afraid of spiders isn't code for "wuss" like it is here.

Growing up in California, for example, the massage I encountered was "All spiders except for black widows are not to be feared." This was followed by lessons in how to identify the black widow.

Yeah, I've seen this profile pic on tons of dating sites (pretty hot though):

So was it pulled because he was wrong, or because the content didn't align with Connecticut-based ESPN's alleged so-called narrative of "hating" the Patriots so darned much?