1. What’s the historical and cultural significance that makes you ignore the fact that Venus di Milo is a topless lady? I only ask because your assertion sounds vaguely like an appeal to authority.

When I heard “anime figures” I had the sneaking suspicion that they were suggestively-posed female characters in revealing clothes. Then I saw the name “Vampirella” and my suspicions were confirmed. So yeah, I would personally have a hard time taking a guy who openly displays that in his office seriously. Here’s the…

While it’s a swan song for the original Black Widow, especially since every other original Avenger will have gotten their own movie or show by the end of the year, it’s also an origin story for the next Black Widow, Yelena Belova (played by Florence Pugh).

I know it's comic books, but Zatanna's proportions in that header image are still ridiculous enough to be noteworthy.

It’s only for two months. Long enough to get anti-vaxxers accustomed to the habit of a free donut. Then it ends and if they want the sugar to keep flowing for the rest of the year they have to get vaccinated.

They ended up not having to do it because the locals caved to Kirk’s demands. However apparently issuing General Order 24 without sufficient cause on an occupied planet was what got Garth of Izar court-martialed and sent to the insane asylum planet.

I’d say that an important key to understanding his character is A Taste of Armageddon, the episode where two planets are fighting a virtual war and when casualties are registered, the affected people are expected to queue in an orderly fashion into suicide booths.

Joe Carroll? Is that you?

So what I’m hearing is that Sony make the best buggy whips.

Meh. They'll only think that if they were never gonna get an Xbox anyway.

I don’t thinj the banker hates black people and wants them to fail, but he does consider them inherently unreliable and “doesn’t feel comfortable” giving them a loan that he assumes they won’t repay.

In fairness, we have had SOME minor villains getting curbstomped near the beginning of some movies. Batroc at the beginning of TWS and TFatWS, Strucker at the beginning of AoU, Crossbones in Civil War, and Surtur at the beginning of Ragnarok. They've even used Mac Gargan as "random criminal Spidey busts on a ferry".

The only villains that would be better “random minor villains that get their asses kicked in various cold opens" than Batroc would be the Wrecking Crew. It's actually shocking that the MCU hasn't used them yet.

So then which part is NOT canon, again?

Exactly. That’s why I said “it actually doesn’t”; I’m aware it defies the laws of physics. This is also why Wakanda is a high-tech utopia despite engaging in virtually no trade with the outside world: electricity is basically free there because vibranium powers everything. It’s why Iron Man bothers to focus his beams…

It actually doesn’t. Vibranium absorbs the kinetic energy from impacts, amplifies it, and then releases it back the way it came. This means that unlike regular projectiles where ricocheting off a surface robs them of most of their kinetic energy, the shield actually gains more speed and energy with every ricochet.…

BUT SCREEN CULTURE SAYS IT'LL HAVE MEPHISTO

Steve was a 90lb weakling when he got the super soldier serum. In the comics it made him on par with an Olympic athlete in all physical attributes, not on par with Spider-Man. It was always a terrible idea to make him able to throw motorcycles around and if the MCU is fixing this by acknowledging that you don't need…

I actually thought the theatrical release was OK. Like, tolerable at least. BvS was an utter shitshow and I hated that, but after Wonder Woman showed that the DCEU could execute a decent movie, I accepted that JL could be underwhelming without dampening my newfound hope for the DCEU. Several movies later, the DCEU is…

Mikkelsen is 56 while Fassbender is 43 so it all depends on what year, BBY or ABY, this hypothetical Thrawn movie is set in.