That's a false dichotomy propped up by a hetero-anglo-euro-masculine-normative culture obsessed with hierarchical systems. A true superhero works in a team of equals, or is part of a family (not like the vile paternalistic four, mind you, or the hideous Ayn Rand goblins from The Incredibles, of course).

Mulan is forgettable, but I'll never get "I'll make a man out of you" unstuck from my head.

My brave little Jocelyn chooses her own identity, and it just so happens she wants to be a social justice crusader just like mommy.

Guys, if she's a spy for the Lannisters, why do they need the Red Wedding? Presumably she could overhear Robb's every movement and be sending off fresh ravens daily to some nearby camp of assassins. Or slip him a poisoned drink and sneak off before he's dead.

Rampantly plausible, king of idiots, but I don't think GRRM treats his prophecies that way.

The show's been pretty great so far, but the last few episodes have been padded out. Last week's had a soap opera tone that I didn't really care for… but, like the reviewer, I still consider it a mildly disappointing buildup to an eventual pay-off.

Right, and at sixty minutes a week we'd hardly have time to introduce the dozen or half-dozen distinct characters that were written into every group, let alone give them their moments. They've done a pretty good job of getting minor characters in where they can - Hot Pie is basically just kicking around the background…

Yeah Bale calls it, I'm sure of this. Blackfish will sense something is wrong in time to escape and will be in the right place to get Talisa out with him.

Indeed, I can't imagine that Homer is entirely responsible for sector 7-G's reputation as 'fork and spoon operators', 'organ banks', and 'seat-moisteners'.

Perhaps its a David-Chase-Tony-Soprano thing; maybe the writers were taken aback by the nation's unreserved acceptance of Homer. They write a dim impatient drunken lout of a character and he's more or less embraced as an American everyman.

Fine, here's a comic spoiler no one will read.

Can't even watch the trailer. They butchered the source material for the first one and made a mediocre film out of it, albeit an ugly and shallow one, but this one is going to stink up the place.

In the Kick Ass comic, not spoiling anything, there is a plot twist
which they left out of the movie and that's why the movie makes no
sense. It was really disappointing watching it in theaters; the
technical aspects were great and first two acts were an excellent adaptation and a
perfect set-up for a…

I don't think this is exactly it - Kick Ass wasn't good because it tries for so little, not because it tries and fails. Really their flaw was in NOT going for the tonal shift when the consequence chickens of vigilante justice come home to roost.