There is a law — in Germany and Denmark. You have to pick from the approved list. Persons of diverse backgrounds can appeal to add names to the list.

Agreed — they wrote themselves into a trap.

Also irrelevant: The Bugle and Jameson's anti-Spidey campaign. If anything, the existence of this plot in the movie should have prevented Electro from jumping to the conclusion that Spidey set him up for the cops. Might just as well have left the Bugle parts out. Or, you know, give Electro have a sensible…

Slade doesn't kill kids. He creptastically stalks them (Robin in Teen Titans cartoon), kneecaps them (Impulse in Titans comic), endangers them (his own kids, Jericho and Ravager), and has sex with them (Terra in the in the Titans comic). But he doesn't kill them.

The answer is the same as it always is in the XMen CU: Wolverine.

Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch are different because their relationship to Magneto was a retcon that took place after twenty years and hundreds of appearances. In-world, neither the twins nor Magneto knew the real story. Both twins were married and Quicksilver was a father when they found out.

Mystique is a superhero?

the real threat is always liberals. liberallllllllllllsssss!

Okay a little off topic but all the CATWS threads are stale. How awesome was the Falcon? I was all "oh great the Falcon is another SHIELD agent" but no. He is, just like in the comics, a social worker working in his own community (in this case, vets instead of the larger African American community). He joins the…

Conservatives advocating for defense and agricultural innovations would rub shoulders with liberals pursuing sustainable energy and environmental reforms.

Mitch, the "jock" voiced by Casey Affleck, self-identifies as gay in the movie. Supporting role, but major and heroic. Of course when I say "studios can write off those who would object," I'm not saying they will do that. But the mere presence of gay characters is not enough to define a media property as…

I was kinda of wishing Donna Troy, (or Molly Hayes!) would walk in and beat him silly at that point. I love the show, I love Deathstroke, but he has one cheesy mouth. True to his DC characterization ...

ParaNorman — a animated film specifically for kids — had a major, heroic gay character and more or less nobody cared. Studios can literally write off those who would object to gay characters in a superhero movie.

Just not in late fall. The lake it is said never gives up her dead when the gales of November come early.

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So Jemma thinks that the Kree-derived medicine should be studied because it could save thousands of lives. You know what could save thousands of lives? The Icers (or NiteNite Guns). Imagine if just law enforcement had access to 100% effective disabling weapon that caused no neurological damage (like truncheons),…

Roy Thomas and Steve Engelhart both explored anti-mutant sentiment (including a Sentinels arc) in the Avengers in the early 70's through the characters of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. Mantis met the Averngers defending Wanda from an anti-mutant bigot in '73. Nobody rode the anti-mutant pony quite as far as…

I thought Google's April Fool Joke was colluding with Apple, Intuit and other tech companies to illegally depress salaries for engineers. Oh wait, that's every day!

Ming Na-Wen is older than the average TV action female hero — and not by a little but by 20 years. So on balance I think AoS can be given a little slack here, you know? I don't think 50 and 37 are nearly so far apart as say, 28 and 14. Looking at you Colussus.

Which, honestly, is how mutants began in the MU. All the original X-Men's parents had backstories that placed them in proximity to radiation (natural or human-sourced), atomic research, etc. True of the New Mutants, too to the extent that their parents were known to us by issue #50. This became less true as mutants…