Why would they stop now?

If Diggle's killed, he leaves behind a wife and a small child, and Oliver's never stopped him from going out on missions. Oliver's own activities, and the enemies he made, arguably got his own mother killed. It's hard to see how Oliver's in any position to tell Laurel she can't risk her life because of the potential…

That's how Gilligan and the castaways finally solved the problem of always winding up back on their island!

The show rather undersold chlorine trifluoride by merely making it set fire to the lab. From rocket fuel chemist John Clark, (as quoted in the first entry in pharmaceutical chemist Derek Lowe's classic "Things I Won't Work With" series):

I can see that. It sounds akin to the old tradition of amateurism (in the original sense of something done for love) being on a different plane from professionalism. We see it in the origins of the modern Olympics and college athletics.

Assuming you'd written the comment (rather than recycling someone else's), and could find someone interested in paying for it, I'd think that was awesome.

To a first approximation, all Marvel What-Ifs are sad, so yes.

Since that was the first time I encountered Spider-Man, it was years before I realized how weird it was to make Spidey of all people silent. (Is there a hero more characterized for his quippiness in all of comics?)

Wonder Woman is really, really hard to do well, because her character doesn't have a well-defined core. Or rather, she has a bunch, none of which has really stuck as iconic. The Perez reboot and storyline of the 80s is probably the most promising adaptation fodder, but even that proved not to have staying power. …

Are we also not remembering Hancock, or discounting him because he spent most of the movie not being traditionally heroic?

Certainly possible. Thor has had his share of writers who were really enthusiastic about Norse mythology (including Kirby himself and Walt Simonson), even if they sometimes play fast and loose with it (blond, beardless Thor, black-haired Sif). And of course there are also characters like Screwbeard ("son of…

I'm guessing that the Thunderbolts, if they appear, will be way down the line and possibly on the small screen rather than the big one. Especially since their first big plotline involves them being organized by Baron Zemo, a Nazi, and "Nazi-led organization pretends to be good guys" has already been rather done in…

The fact that they've stuck with the name for the movie suggests they're not terribly worried about the fallout. I expect they're right.

Superhero comics tend to fill in any blank spaces. If you've got one of the four classical elements, you'll get teammates or villains (or both!) who represent the others. If you've got a color in your name or associated with you, expect to see folks with the same name but other colors. (Green Lantern, for his sins,…

The Thunderbolts started as a villain group, the Masters of Evil, pretending to be heroes (under different costumed identities) for nefarious purposes. (As you might expect, some of them liked the way things went when they acted heroically, and turned against the more villainous faction.)

Most of the movie Avengers are called by their names more than their codenames anyway. So if they're worried, they market the toys as "T'Challa", and make it clear that the Black Panther name is based on the animal. (Easy enough, since the character is an African monarch with no ties or personal history relating to…

Well, both really.

On the other hand, it makes the process take longer and raises the price to Edith, which Mrs. Drew could hope might eventually dissuade her. And at least it would hurt her, which I suspect Mrs. Drew very much wants to do at this point.

Genocide strikes me as going too far. Mages aren't a gens, for one thing (they can be born to anyone, and don't reliably breed true). But even leaving that aside, the intention is clearly subordination and imprisonment, rather than elimination.

Hey, that was all him. I wanted a dialog option to say, "Cullen, I have a choice of extremely nice beds available in my room. Which also has cask of wine in it. And, oh, yes: a roof!"