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Don Marz
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You come off a lot worse with this comment than the person you're attacking.

I liked how the Arkham games presented Poison Ivy, especially the visuals of the boss fight.

Except he's not describing a Batman story, he's describing a rip-off of Flex Mentallo that happens to feature Batman characters.

It's depressing. World's Finest was the original superhero bromance and it looks like we'll be getting 10% of that to 90% scowling and growling. DC characters usually work better as pals rather than enemies.

I'm very good at squinting to see how superheroes find use for their less powerful counterparts, but it's still hard for me to imagine how The Flash needs expert archers who still place arrows less quickly & accurately than he could by jogging up to you and poking you with them.

I heard a rumor that making Star Wars movies is often a stupid idea.

Not sure that fancying up the sentence changes a single thing about how the character was "revealed" to be something and someone that wasn't even hinted at in the previous movies. What you're describing adds nothing whatsoever when compared to Bane's story about being the successor to the original villain in the

Sure it did! It occurred right about the same time that Khan designed an entire new class of starship, and secretly sired Kirk, and went to the Star Wars galaxy and took that over by himself, and who knows what else that totally didn't need any sort of on-screen presentation to get us to believe it happened! He's

"My name is *car horn aa-ooga sound effect*. That means nothing to any other character in the scene, and nothing to anyone in the audience who'd be surprised by it. Pretty shocking, eh?"

I figured they'd be lazy enough to do some sort of rehash, but I didn't figure on it being that lazy. I figured, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", stretch that out and make some different points with it, and they'd have that movie about exploration that everyone complained they didn't make the first time.

I think you put your finger on it. The Star Wars "universe" doesn't really appeal to anyone but diehard fans. Most people want to see their favorites from the movies. Or, they'd rather just see a new movie.

I think people should realize that Paul Dini had his hand in some of the very best, and the very worst, of DC's output over the last few decades.

I think you could make the case that they haven't done enough with the character's early surprise potential. Turning her into a booty-shorts-wearing solo act doesn't do wonders, in my opinion. Subordinating female characters to male partners is often a poor idea, but in this case, it defines the character and it's

This barely works when Grant Morrison does it, and Paul Dini wrote Countdown to Infinite Crisis.

It borrowed so heavily, and so meaninglessly, from a better movie that I kind of feel I'd have enjoyed it more if I hadn't seen Wrath of Khan first. I can't say too much bad about it, though, because I loved Peter Weller on Enterprise and it was maybe worth it just to give him the role he had.

Think about it from the perspective of someone who didn't know the character beforehand, though. "This one character who died had a kid that you, the viewer, never even heard about and that's who this other character really is." It seems like a pretty lame "twist" from that perspective (it sure is when it's found

Could have been interesting if they'd shown a true battle of wits, though; Khan calls Spock out, Spock retorts with yet another deceptive but technically true answer, back and forth for a few seconds until Khan satisfies himself, while Spock still manages to get one over on him.

They cheered? Were they on drugs?

Uhhh this just sold me on a Zack Snyder movie. No pussy-footing around, just naked Christ allegory.

The Grey Hulk might be worth an appearance, at least the amalgam of a character they created over the years. Transforms every night and only at night, thinks and talks like a self-centered thug instead of a child, not nearly as invincible but has the craftiness to use his abilities as the Hulk for personal gain. (And