I suspect this “supervillain’s” application to the Legion of Doom will be met with as much enthusiasm as was Arm-Fall-Off Boy’s application to the Legion of Superheroes.

I suspect this “supervillain’s” application to the Legion of Doom will be met with as much enthusiasm as was Arm-Fall-Off Boy’s application to the Legion of Superheroes.

Although Joan Vinge’s Snow Queen series (1. The Snow Queen, 2. World’s End, 3. The Summer Queen — plus 4. Tangled Up in Blue, which takes place during the first book) is technically science fiction rather than fantasy, it’s heavy with fantasy tropes, including some that probably influenced Game of Thrones (like the…

At least Dany’s fall to the dark side makes more sense than Anakin’s.

“This was the last time the decision to execute someone felt so simple.”

Calling other people douchey for how they wear their sunglasses is way more douchey than any way one might choose to wear one’s sunglasses.

“it’s easy to forget that he began his life as little more than a cosmic thug”

You know how Infinity War ended with Thanos wiping out half of all living creatures? Well, in Endgame he wipes out the other half. And that’s how it ends: with a completely lifeless universe. All further Marvel projects will, of necessity, be prequels.

Given how un-Bronze-Age the page layout is in those images, I’m wondering whether the intended reference isn’t more to the actual Bronze Age than to the comics one.

“Game Of Thrones’ shocking execution rewrote the rules of genre storytelling”

“by the libertarian Foundation For Individual Rights In Education.”

The Superfolk have always been the biggest credulity-stretchers as far as secret identities go, since they don’t even wear masks. But nearly all superhero secret identities are credulity-stretchers to some extent, since even if they wear masks, unless it’s a full-face mask and they also disguise their voice (and…

Well, the Kree, the Skrulls, and Mar-Vell were all (co)created by Stan Lee.

Well, I assume that in the MCU version of Mallrats there are no references to the Hulk, Spider-Man, etc., because in the MCU’s 1990s they didn’t exist yet.

Burton didn’t exactly come up with the name “Max Schreck.”

The versions where he’s called Jack Napier (the Burton film, plus the animated series) are ones where he was originally a fairly nasty gangster. In “The Killing Joke,” which was treated as at least semi-canon until the New 52, he’s a well-meaning but unlucky schmoe. So I think he probably wasn’t Jack Napier during…

Also, Carmen Sandiego’s real name is “Where in the World.”  It’s right there in the show’s title.

In “The Pandorica Opens,” the universe’s oldest inscription, which River Song carved on a cliffside to catch the Doctor’s attention, contains the Greek letters “Theta Sigma.”

I don’t recall Debbie Harry being in the movie.

The “official” story is that Leone never intended Eastwood’s three characters to be the same person (and was even intending to cast Eastwood in what became Bronson’s role in One Upon a Time in the West — and that’s clearly a different character, since he’s been carrying a harmonica around his neck ever since…