Was he? At least by Zack Snyder’s lights...?

And he’s got a big enough echo chamber of Comic Book Guyz to support him, so Snyder thought he was on doing something Powerful! and Inventive!

Yeah! How comes some bigoted pseudointellectual halfwit like chest Rockwell gets brought out of the greys, and I’ve been condemned in here like Marley’s ghost for years now...?

They haven’t called me dumb? Sure they have.

Maybe that would hold water if there were more Persons of Color pretending to be White and not utterly the other way around.

Nobody’s mentioned The Inferior Five, who is right up Gunn’s alley.

the original detective character still hasn’t been given a movie or TV spotlight.

Tasked with the difficult job of finding something, anything funnier than James Corden

That’s EXACTLY why we need it, Dr. Lizardo!

Naw, just drop by the troublemaker’s house with a bottle of Maker’s Mark and the two of you drink and talk it out.

I’m nearly fifteen years older than you, Frank Walker Barr, and I’ve never watched any of these shows.

All it needs to be AARP White Man Heaven is for Tom Selleck to show up playing a Marshal who don’t always play by the rules, but he by gum gets results!

That’s an insult to the integrity of Prof. Harold Hill, Nilus!

It’s like watching Jon Lovitz’s compulsive liar character get elected to Congress.

But not a C++, ANathanofFillions?

every Columbo episode starts with the murder, showing the viewer exactly who’s guilty and how they committed the crime. It’s then Columbo’s task to target any discrepancies and trace the clues back to the guilty party—and he always gets his man.

Or she could tie them up with her golden Lasso of Truth!

They never did explain how Kate Mulgrew, who was in her Twenties or at most early Thirties when she did MRS. COLOMBO, was married to Peter Falk’s Fiftysomething police lieutenant.

While NYPD BLUE never had its main detective, Andy Sipowicz, planting evidence to secure a conviction (OTOH, he often planted evidence to protect a fellow officer or friend), he was perfectly happy to verbally and physically abuse suspects to coerce a confession out of them. Initially the series presented him as a…

I remember MAD MAGAZINES “satire” of the COLUMBO series had his character annoying suspects until they confessed—only he was always wrong, and didn’t care that a few of them committed suicide just to not have to hear him any more!