Her Paper Mario incarnations tend to have some spunk to them.

Well, her character design was created for a black and white video game.

Ernest Borgnine lived to be 95 and he had a similar build. Perhaps George R.R. Martin could learn from whatever secret Borgnine may possibly have had.

Jar Jar was an aide or something who filled Amidala's seat in the Senate while she was off talking about sand with Anakin in Naboo, and Jar Jar made the proposal to grant emergency powers to Palpatine after all that business about clones and robots became public.

Reginald and Beartato from Nedroid and Cool Frog and Great Frog from Gunshow are pretty low on the scales of famous, although those webcomics are still pretty great, and there's probably a lot of overlap with people who read those comics and people who care about pixel art.

I don't like Dick Cheney either, but if any politician is Emperor Palpatine it's clearly Joe Lieberman. In that they look exactly the same.

It's not necessarily a particularly well-thought-out idea, but I think the way that rapping emphasizes lyrics and speak-singing implies a certain level of "authenticity" to it.

I think there are various things about rap music which makes it particularly "awkward" for white people to coopt relative to other "African-American genres" like Jazz or R&B.

Accidental Sell-Out

Yeah, but there's plenty of brown people out in "the rest of the world," so you'd think we'd have more of that.

The more calculating way of looking at it is that if they want big ominous galactic threats for the Avengers movies, they have to dig into some weird territory. So Guardians of the Galaxy will let them set up Thanos and some related characters.

Michael Ian Black making out with Bradley Cooper?

The trick is to imagine him saying that with the goofiest Australian accent possible.

Edgar Wright left because Marvel wanted him to use Drumsticks instead, and he wasn't willing to compromise on that.

One of these disoriented, or deranged, penguins showed up at the New Harbor diving camp, already some 80 kilometers away from where it should be. The rules for the humans are do not disturb or hold up the penguin. Stand still and let him go on his way. And here, he's heading off into the interior of the vast…

Whenever Marvel manages to pull control of Spider-Man back from Sony, I fully expect them to make some sort of winking joke about how the Avengers have had a hard time tracking him down.

They should recast Thor as a woman without any sort of in-universe acknowledgement or explanation. Just like how Hulk turned from Edward Norton to Mark Ruffalo, Thor can turn from Chris Hemsworth into oh just let's say Christina Hendricks.

On the other hand, if Zack Snyder came out as bisexual I wouldn't exactly be surprised.

The Supreme Court gave corporations personhood in 1819. The more recent rulings have been about how much that personhood implies.

In general, I think the criminal justice system should be about rehabilitation instead of punishment. Punishing people is far too crude a tool for changing behavior, and causes too much collateral damage. And I think when you apply that logic to corporate "people" you get some very interesting results.