I agree about A:EMH Hank Pym — I like him well enough. Although I have to say that given the way they SEEM to be setting up Banner in the MCU, it feels like a Pym similar to his EMH counterpart would be a bit redundant in the MCU, but I'm not sure. (That is — in EMH, Pym and Stark are sufficiently differentiated,…

The currently-running (second season of) cartoon "Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes" is managing to do a version of Hank Pym minus the wife-beating and other assorted unfortunate craziness. So he's just the "scientist as reluctant hero, in contrast to his girlfriend/wife, who is an enthusiastic hero" character.

Ditto. Looking into it, I found that Gurihiru also did a Power Pack/Avengers team-up, and I'm gonna have to get that. But I doubt that'll turn out to be Kidvengers.

Yeah; I was conflating it in my head with "overall most deadly sea creature", which is the salt-water croc (tallying deaths not just confined to Africa). (I'm not sure whether hippos would be counted on that list, since IIRC, they seemed to be concentrating just on salt-water creatures.)

Maybe in terms of mammals? Something is telling me that crocs may beat out hippos, but I'd have to look it up.

As I posted above — the artists who did the "stack of kid-like Avengers on top of the coin-op Quinjet" piece DOES do pro comics work. The name of the artistic team is Gurihiru, and I can whole-heartedly recommend the "Thor and the Warriors Four" mini-series which teams up Power Pack, the Pet Avengers, Thor, and Beta…

The piece you have credited to "Rebotica on Tumblr" is not by the owner of that Tumblr — it was just reposted by that person, without attribution, as so many things on Tumblr are. *shakes cane*

You don't think Marvel Studios would have gone with some other villain for the first Avengers movie, ignoring the comics origin, if they'd really wanted to? Sure, comics fans would have bitched, but it's not like Marvel hasn't made plenty of other changes on the way towards The Avengers. (Including not having two…

Sure, revisionism like whoa. But the point stands — Irene Bedard was the Disney animators' model for Pocahontas.

Agreed. The first Mummy movie is great.

As I understand it:

I really need a fist-shaking gif. I could get a lot of mileage out of that over the next few weeks.

That is a good point, the robes could have already existed. Now I want to see, like, a deviantArt or Tumblr challenge to produce White/Black Guardian Bird Had designs that would be doable in the real world but would also look awesome.

I do generally embrace the ridiculous cheapness of OldWho. I think I STILL have a crush on the Fifth Doctor, and I hadn't watched "Enlightenment" since it was broadcast on US PBS in the mid-80s.

Oh, we knew what it was SUPPOSED to be. But it did not fare well in close-ups, is all I'm saying.

Oh dear lord, we were just watching that one this past weekend, and we could NOT get past the bird-heads. Because they are very BAD bird-heads. I don't mind Bird Head Hats, I suppose, but couldn't they at least attempt to be awesome-looking? The close-ups of the White Guardian's in particular were just... wow.

I think these days the joke works better if you keep it to Sean Bean's pseudo-medieval roles (in which I'd count this, although to be clear, I don't know if his char in this movie dies, though I'd tend to bet he does). It's really not even true of Hollywood productions any more (and that used to be the deciding…

... could not get on a bus.

Okay, good point, but while it will be delicious, baby octopus sushi is not going to crawl cutely all over my fingers. At least, I hope not.

Nah; I just really like any excuse to use those Greek plurals with the funky accentuation. (I wish I had more excuses in daily life to say "antipodes". Although I suppose it's good enough that I have regular occasion to want the plural of "octopus".)