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I love Tifa as much as anyone, but Aeris is amazing too andeven Yuffie is pretty damned awesome. I only wish we had gotten the choice to let Clod sacrifice himself to save Aeris so we could have had the Holy Trinty as our party.

You’re underestimating the sheer awfulness that Alien 3 was. Vickers, David, and Idris Elba’s character of the Prometheus captain are better characters than everyone in A3 (minus Ripley of course) put together. The concepts under Prometheus were vastly better, though the execution didn’t come close to doing them…

Machine is capitalized for a reason. Not machine code, Machine code. The code that the Machines run that is similar to that of the Matrix itself. That’s why every time you see through the blinded Neo’s “eyes” you see Matrix vision —you’re seeing code. The human built ship doesn’t run Machine code, so he couldn’t see…

Simulations of sacks of meat both using God Mode cheat. That was the point.

That’s what everyone was expecting, and the butthurt over the movie going a different direction is what sparked the backlash against Revolutions. That and they don’t understand what actually was going on and thus they thought it was stupid and their “Matrix within a Matrix!” idea was better. It wasn’t.

This is precisely why I get so frustrated with people who flame on the sequels—they say things like this that prove they don’t know what they were seeing. They’re calling “plot hole!” when they simply didn’t understand.

Neo was in fact blind. His eyes were completely destroyed. There was nothing”magic” about what he…

The entirety of Alien 3 is a plot hole. There is no possible way that any facehuggers ended up on the Sulaco, at ALL, and thus the entire thing could not have happened. And even if there had been, one could not have breached Ripley’s stasis pod without killing her and thus she couldn’t have been carrying a Queen. So…

This is how the singularity begins. I am not kidding. This type of research changes the entire game. Simulational experimentation accelerates science to an amazing degree and the things it discovers build on themselves and one another and you get an almost exponential burst of growth that makes the twentieth century…

BTW, do yourself a favor and read Spider-Man vs Wolverine (the 80s one-shot featuring a Cold War spy plot with gritty, brutal intensity) and the Death of Jean DeWolff saga written by Peter David. That’s my Spider-Man.

Spider-Man vs Wolverine features Spidey in something more akin to his “classic” phase more like his…

I’ve heard good things about Bendis’ run on Ultimate, but that’s not Spider-Man to me. The best thing Marvel ever did with the character was in the 80s (before the Clone saga, of course, and before Venom) when they put him in the black suit and let him grow into an experienced adult hero married to MJ and out of…

For some bizarre and as yet unexplained reason ever since Quesada Marvel has been obsessed with the concept of Spider-Man as a “teen” hero defined by his “youth”. Before Joe Q, Peter Parker was a college graduate working in the science field and married to MJ, and was an experienced adult hero. Then Quesada comes…

I think I’ll go with this:

There’s also the fact that it won’t make any damned sense without having watched the series. And the series won’t make a lot of sense either unless you’re already an anime fan and understand the genre tropes it was working to deconstruct.

Disney needs to just let TRON the hell go if they aren’t going to do anything with it. They are the epitome of that selfish spoiled brat who doesn’t want to play with a toy but won’t let anyone else touch it either. To hell with them.

The High Evolutionary is slightly obscure perhaps but predates Apocalypse in comics by at least a decade.

Squirrel Girl does have drugs as her origin —whatever one the writer was on when he created that silly-ass character.

Yes and no on the “they’re just natural mutants”. Marvel actually acknowledges that natural mutation doesn’t work that way, and that real mutation tends to just produce deformity. The explanation is that in dim prehistory, a race of super-advanced aliens called Celestials performed genetic experiments on Earth as they…

Point 2 is really the kicker, I think. Joe Average doesn’t know he might not get struck by radioactive chemical-infused lightning, get doused in quantum DNA nanobots, find a magic artifact in their grandmother’s attic, whatever, but he KNOWS he wasn’t born a mutant. That makes mutants inherently “other”, plus the fact…