I never said there was. I said that the unsourced opinion that the A2 trailer was "bloated" was pretty poor evidence that the movies are going to get convoluted, and that "Secret Wars" does not have the hallmarks of a project trying to appeal to an MCU audience. You can engage with these substantive points or not, but…

But you've admitted yourself that the movies so far haven't been convoluted, so the only support for your conclusion is that some unnamed people think the trailer for a movie they haven't seen yet indicates that the movie itself is a little bloated. That's pretty weak tea. I honestly think you're smart enough to know…

No, it wasn't clear. I was trying to be concise (…ish), but that only distorted my meaning/the facts.

Yeah, that's what I meant. Marvel obviously owns Reed Richards, he's right there in their books!

I'm almost certain that the continuity of the 616 won't actually be rebooted in any meaningful way. "The MU *as we know it*" is a pretty loaded phrase. Pretty sure they've used that about every crossover since Atlantis Attacks.

I'm not really looking forward to this (mostly because I haven't really been enjoying Hickman's mega-arc), but I find the notion that it's all a sop to the MCU pretty dubious. I mean for one thing, it's the culmination of Hickman's years-long multiverse storyline, which doesn't seem like the makings of a good…

It's actually not clear at all. If Marvel's goal is to let the movie tail wag the comic book dog, spending the summer after Avengers 2 mired in a line-wide mega crossover about alternate reality versions of its heroes and villains (many of whom don't even appear in the MCU) fighting each other- with the whole thing…

That's fair, but I also don't know that we can assume Ultimate Cap had such a specific existence as to have such a one-sided view of France, either. The Resistance was a big deal, even though it's treated like kind of a footnote nowadays.

And I dunno, I guess I don't feel like making too many excuses for such a lazy, hamfisted punchline.

No, in fact, my entire point is that it's awfully silly to base your conclusions on "speculation and interpretation" of trailers and announcements for movies you haven't seen.

Super hero fans complaining about what *might* happen is not evidence of what's going to happen. Look at this very comment section!

Oh, I could get lost in your eyes for days.

By the time this is over, he's going to have backtracked from his opinion so much that he'll deny he ever posted in the first place..

But that *wouldn't* be Cap's only experience with France. Or I guess it could be, if Ultimate Cap had such specialized missions that he never interacted with the French Resistance.

And it's not even an *accurate* concept. Millar said his concept of Cap was that the military votes something like 70% Republican, so Cap should be a Republican (and thus, in Millar's mind, a jerk). But that's TODAY'S military- a kid who came of age under the New Deal and had the U.S. Government literally make his…

It isn't, but the lack thereof IS being criticized. Additionally and distinctly, YOU are being criticized, but in neither case is anyone being "bullied". This desire to have it both ways- to get to state a contrary opinion, but to dismiss any opinion contrary to you as "bullying"- is really irksome. I understand that…

I had quite a bit of fun at my wedding, and my wife and I made all decisions together (though there were a great many things I didn't care about…).

I think that's it exactly; "gay panic jokes", at least as the reviewer is using the term, are basically constructed around "What these guys are doing could be seen as effeminate, and NOBODY WOULD EVER WANT TO SEEM EFFEMINATE!!!" There's another kind of joke that mocks that kind of ultra-macho mindset, and "gay panic"…

Which is, of course, exactly what they mean.

Of course!