I was just reading through the comments before posting this. I'm not familiar enough with the actors' names from The Help to have known who that was without Googling, but as soon as I saw it, I said to myself, "what's the bet that's the white chick from that movie?" And lo, so it was.

So it occasionally bursts into flames, but keeps perfect time?

Some folks have held up XM2 or SM2 as holding the "best 'superhero' film to date" crown. I'm not advancing either, just putting them on the table. I liked XM2 a lot when it came out, but I haven't seen it since, and the memories of X3 sour it a bit... but that doesn't mean XM2 didn't do a great job. While I like…

Well, but, "The Day After" was never promoted as "this IS real!" It couldn't have been, since it was purporting to show what it would be like after a nuclear war... which all of us viewers would have obviously known had not yet happened. So everybody knew it was just a cautionary what-if, even if that was scary…

Right, that was my first thought. "Guess the UK didn't have a War of the Worlds incident the way the US did."

TA = "The Avengers"

There you go. You need to write a companion article of "Science Fiction and Fantasy Creators Who Became Synonymous for their Genre".

If I'm understanding correctly — the people you wanted on the list are people who carve out their own distinctive genre and also tend to remain just about the only ones in it? Which is what leaves Tolkien out — he carved out "modern high-fantasy", and a ton of people piled in there. ( Whether or not they equalled his…

Apparently it is Phillip K Dick's android double, appearing on a panel at SDCC.

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: