At the moment, it feels like the Skrulls are fairly likely, tied with Thanos. I suppose it could be Loki either pulling Thanos into play, or doing stuff that attracts Thanos's attention and thus creating a larger problem than he originally intended.

See, personally, I would love to find out that Coulson was actually Mar-Vell all along.

Yup, that's Dum Dum, and those are the Howling Commandos, plus Bucky (second from right). The black guy is Gabe Jones, who's been around since the early 60s.

In a sense, won't The Avengers be a kind of reboot of Hulk? New actor, a chance to tell another kind of story with the character that isn't just an origin story.

Why would you call the Captain America dancers "can-can" dancers when that has a specific connotation of France/Moulin Rouge, and when it's obvious that the line-up behind Cap is a USO version of the Rockettes, who were incredibly, hugely popular in that time period?

I don't know. I think we've reached the point where someone wearing a Green Lantern shirt in public has a good chance of fellow nerds coming up and offering hugs of commiseration.

Does anyone who does the "Fuck Yeah" thing do it without understanding the satirical nature of the original, though? I just assume that everybody's all postmodernly ironic — like the song itself, mixing sincerity and irony.

I think the Tommy Lee Jones character's "asthmatic" line is supposed to indicate there was? I've seen some people say that that's taken from Steve's background in the comics, although I can't personally verify it.

I saw a report from someone in Italy, and they said that a different tagline was used. Something like, "When evil is everywhere, only one hero will challenge it."

Last word is that it has had its title changed in only three foreign markets (Russia, Ukraine, South Korea). If that list has been added to, I don't think we've heard about it yet.

Well, Thor was a movie about someone who wanted the responsibility, but who needed to learn some lessons about how to exercise that responsibility in a more heroic way. (He wanted to become king of Asgard in part to protect its people... but didn't really "get it".)

It is #1 on my list for if I ever win a sufficiently large amount of cash.

Wait a second.

This is my point. If you say, "according to the standards of (the printing industry, etc.), rose is...", then that makes sense. To flat-out say "Rose means X, and if you say that color term means something else, you are WRONG" is different, and foolish. Neither Pantone, nor the printing industry, nor the interior…

Okay, you get a heart for that.

Thank you. THANK YOU. I hit that "wine-looking" part and just about choked. I have ALWAYS heard it as "the wine-dark sea", which is not only, as you say, a fucking awesome metaphor, but also really not one that is difficult to puzzle out without having to resort to wondering if the Greeks somehow perceived the sea…

You can take comfort from the fact that natural turquoise stone comes in a wide array of shades in the blue-green spectrum. If the stone in your ring happened to exactly match the fabric you were talking about, he got lucky. Turkish turquoise is quite often a very different shade than Kingman turquoise. Some is…

What do you mean, what's up with it? The color term "chartreuse" is derived from the color of the herbal-infused liqueur made at the Grande Chartreuse monastery, which is located, as you might expect, in the Chartreuse mountains of France.

According to whom? That's the point. There's no central, world authority in English saying "this term means precisely this shade".

Okay, wait. I keep trying to make sense of your opening paragraphs, but something is eluding me.