a scene where twenty people get killed because they try to attack an assassin by standing around him in a circle and attacking him one at a time

he's definitely dead after that final jump, right? like that's presumably how this movie ends - fassbender dead, paste on the cobblestones in 15th century spain

yeah, but if i'm looking for role models and guidance as a young transgender woman struggling with the difficulties of reassignment, an alien goddess that uses magic to change gender is much less helpful to me than an alien goddess having to undergo the same problems i'm going through.

yeah - like that, but a whole movie

also, honestly, it would be much more interesting to have tony start marginalized for doing what he thinks is right than it is to have cap go through it for the 200th time

all i remember is seeing some reviewer (presumably writing here, because i don't search out comic book reviews) saying the series was struggling to give it's lead character an identity beyond the basic premise of "spiderman, but a girl"

i definitely think there's something to be said about that particular white dude brand of nerdiness not really working in our current social and political climate. i think a lot of the world peter parker was created to live in simply doesn't resonate w/ audiences - particularly young audiences - anymore.

the plot of avengers 2 is kicked off by one of the lead characters attempting to invent a system to replace the avengers altogether.

personally, i can wave that away with "vision used super-magic energy beams that only affect armor and electronics" - (i feel like i'd be right if i assumed that he's not just shooting a laser?) - but you're right

minor point - vision's blast wasn't what paralyzed War Machine, it was falling to the ground in the deactivated armor that did that. the blast was just intended to blow out falcon's engines, at which point he'd use his (still functional) wings to glide to the ground.

i'm not talking about whether they like, have faith in each other as competent people, or whatever. im saying i'd like a movie where the fundamental ability of superheroes in general or the avengers as a team to get things done wasn't constantly being questioned by everybody. just give me 2 hours of the avengers…

that was the whole point, though? tony has been defined by a whole list of traumas - first, i guess, his parents dying, then his first near death experience (leading to the iron man suit/change of worldview), then his second near death experience during the avengers, (MORE suits), then, he has this realization that…

what does "being a john" mean in this context

yeah, he'd definitely see Hulk as a tool to be deployed and Thor as an outsider to be monitored, respectively

there's a difference between bickering and out and out fighting with each other, though. surely there's been at least ONE avengers comic book where the theme wasn't "can i REALLY trust this gang of dickheads?"

you know what was even more frustrating? waiting for people to clear out after BvS, because BvS didn't even have a post-credits scene and everyone was just waiting around for nothing

I feel as if we haven't gotten a Marvel movie where all the Avengers like each other and get along.

a) he's in doctor strange
b) he was the bad guy in 12 years a slave?

they may well never do it, but i'd really love for them to use cloak and dagger as an exploration of lgbt issues — especially considering that being queer is the #1 cause of homelessness in teenagers in the US. ideally they'd either make dagger a dude or make one or both of them be trans, but even if they just…

i've definitely noticed that. it seems like a lot of the recent interviews he's had have been with people far enough out of his wheelhouse that he isn't really able to connect — for some reason i'm thinking about his david tennant interview, who isn't really outside of colbert's wheelhouse, but i'm sure there was…