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…and Batman probably never got his Bachelor's, unless Gotham U allowed people to major in Ninja Studies.

In the comics, a lot of Rogue's appeal (and much of her angst) came from her permanently stealing Carol Danvers' abilities, which gave her a cool base power set on top of her superpower-stealing abilities. While the neglect of her character in the movies was a bit disappointing, it also made sense that her abilities

The four Ambush Bug paragraphs are the best part of a Sava review. The worst part is when he tries to turn every review into a thinkpiece for The Mary Sue. Or complains relentlessly about the show's color palette.

Great point about the top Marvel women almost all being X-Men characters. The company's had to work hard to push Captain Marvel and Black Widow as A-listers (and others, like Ms Marvel and Medusa, with wildly varying success) because the more popular female characters are tied up with competing movie studios.

BARRY [looking distractedly behind OLIVER]: Wait. Don't you usually usually carry twelve arrows in that quiver? I only see eleven.

Anna Paquin was arguably the second lead of the first X-movie, after Jackman. She was the audience surrogate character, and her role was more substantial than Prof X's or Magneto's.

They hope. Didn't Voyager run for five or six seasons?

I like the crossovers, but setting up this show has been a real drain on the Flash this season. If this show winds up sucking (and if you're going to give a show a "season grade" based on two of ten episodes, that should probably be mentioned in the body of the review, not the small print beneath it) I just hope that

Given that your fellow travelers started their whining immediately after the first Iron Man trailer and haven't stopped droning on about it for the last eight or nine years… yeah, a little. That party ran out of beer a while ago, and the only snacks left are some stale cool ranch doritos. Most of the cooler kids moved

I thought the reason was contractual—that someone held an option on a Ted Kord Blue Beetle show, so the Berlantiverse isn't clear to use the character?

Bonus points for the show if the funeral scene for Hawkman is a bunch of people standing around not knowing what to feel about a guy nobody likes now being dead.

The X-Men movies usually have a pretty decent balance. The 2000 movie featured a female majority (Storm, Jean Grey, and Rogue, vs. Wolverine and Cyclops on the main team, IIRC).

Well, the first and second episodes, unless the small script under the review counts the pilot as two eps.

So his dick is triangular? That sounds…uncomfortable.

If DC headed to Latveria, they'd be in for one hell of a trademark lawsuit.

This. Justice League should start off at the fireworks factory, rather than waiting to get there. Tying Doomsday to War World (since Doomsday's existing origin fairly sucks) gets them there quicker.

That he really likes Eddie and the Cruisers?

Bonus points to DC if the keep the Death of Superman's Rocky II double-knockdown ending.

You see, Luiz? These guys know things you should petition for!

She's a pleasant screen presence, and I've liked her in a lot of stuff (Groundhog Day, Hudson Hawk, even 4 Weddings and a Funeral) but she's extremely limited as an actress. My takeaway from that anecdote is less that Andie MacDowell can blush on cue than that Soderbergh could get her to blush on cue.