It’s been established, both in the OT and in stuff like Star Wars: Rebels, that Darth Vader’s true identity is a mystery. The characters we know that know it (Bail, Yoda, Kenobi) must keep it a secret, too, lest their plan to keep safe his children become revealed.

I’m wondering how they are going to explain Bail Organa surviving the next ten years when Vader and the Empire now knows he had a direct line to Kenobi this whole time.

Eh, it’s a longshot they’d ever adapt Quasar for the MCU anyway. I guess I’m more worried it would filter back to the comics somehow, but it’s not like I even read them anymore, so what do I really care.

It seems more like Green Lantern maybe? Not just pew pew pew

Right, no good reason. 

They needed to give Apocalypse the Thanos treatment in that movie, just an enormous CGI rendering.

I think Cruise really wanted the summer theatrical release, so the original 2020 release was delayed, then 2021 summer was still up in the air (summer 2021 stuff was often released streaming and theaters at the same time, which Cruise was adamant against)

Well, Thanos basically undoes much of the victories that the heroes had achieved in the earlier movies, so it fits. I read somewhere they had planned to feature the attack but cut it out for time in the scripting process.

There was the first Captain Mar-Vell, who eventually got the red and blue costume that became the defacto color scheme for Captain Marvel related named characters. A version of him was played by Annette Benning. The comics version was traditionally blonde. He is of Kree origin.

Avengers Infinity War establishes that Thanos decimated Xandar when he retrieved the Power Stone. That’s a thread that needs exploring.

I didn’t watch the Rebels episode where he gets killed by Kenobi. But if Kenobi goes offworld in this new show, is there anything from Rebels to preclude they had an earlier encounter away from Tatooine in which they both survive? That could be a work-around.  It could even be the explanation for why Maul thinks…

Love it.  Let’s get Razorback in on this. 

Foreigner! That takes me back. Such a deep cut. What’s next, Puma? The Arranger? Black Fox, Chance, The Rose, Cardiac?

There’s a small scene after Winter is promoted and talking to Nixon, his role was Winter’s new assistant who they make a joke about that he can be ordered to bring them coffee. That’s it.

HANKS: See, he’s got dead eyes.

Nah. Read plenty of them and I lived through it. There was a definite difference in how busy all the comics shops in my area where pre/post this movie. The speculator/weird/Image crowd stuff came independently, but the popularity of this film was one more factor in the record sales of the era.

The rest of the 60's villains deserved separate entries and higher placing, especially when you are bothering to individually rank so many irrelevant background/incidental villains. (Also, I guess the Birds of Prey movie was outside the scope of this? Black Mask and Zsaz are more traditionally Batman villains than…

Have you read about Bing Crosby’s achievements in this regard? I was recently fascinated by Bing Crosby’s unanticipated effects on the recording industry:

I think they reconcile to a degree by the end of Before Midnight, but the future is very uncertain for them. I think a more natural yet still ultimately romantic turn for future installments should it continue is that they break up but eventually come back together.

I thought after Before Midnight, the natural part 4 might be that they broke up but follows them as they reconnect or reassess what they’ve been up to following their breakup. Set during the rehearsal dinner, or possibly wedding, would work if they were both invited.