None of the Marvel heroes mentioned have an explicit “no kill” rule, or at least not one that has become a part of the core mythos that has entered the cultural zeitgeist.

He also used guns throughout those early comics. That period is often overstated and understated though - understated in that Batman is particularly brutal, and overstated in that many elements of the Bat-mythos (which developed gradually) had not yet been introduced, and the period lasted less than a year. Batman’s…

Frank Miller actually keeps the no-kill, no-guns rule in The Dark Knight Returns. Using it as justification for Batman killing people with guns is a misreading, that mostly comes from the “I believe you” scene, in which he takes someone else’s gun, and shoots another thug in the shoulder. Later in the comic, he breaks…

That’s what Ralph Bakshi tried with The Lord of the Rings back in 1978. It didn’t work out. (Peter Jackson got a greenlight for the whole project, and shot it all at the same time. If you’re adapting a novel in parts, that’s what I think you have to do, unless you can live with just having adapted part of the novel.)

IT…

Same with 10 Cloverfield Lane. It seems like that’s what the Cloverfield series is - taking unconnected movies and putting them into a franchise together for publicity.

The Warlocks wouldn’t have to make it up - the magic could pull it directly from her mind.

I don’t think the bit with Drogo was a vision of the future, but a test. In the book, she sees the red door of the home shr grew up in as a child and gets super nostalgic, but decides to turn away rather than going inside. Since the show never talked about the house with the red door, they chose a vision from Dany’s…

Considering the pilot confirmed that other superheroes exist in this world, I think it was deliberately left ambiguous whether the superheroes mentioned in this episode are fictional, or if the comics are adaptations of real heroes. The Outsiders mentioned could be fictional for now, but I’d wager that we’ll see some…

Also, Anissa was dressed as Catwoman and Grace namedropped Looker (who is apparently a vampire). The comic book cover showed the villain Kobra, and Grace was dressed up as someone too, but I couldn’t figure out who.

He’s Star-Ward.

I legitimately believe this is due to ignorance rather than maliciousness, but it honestly stuns me that people have to be told this meme is racist.

Blue stars in the comics actually increase a Kryptonian’s powers to an even greater extant than yellow stars. And they don’t kill men, either.

Bizarro World orbits a blue star, and there’s tons of men there, so that would be a problem.

Once again, there’s a difference between believing what was preached, and believing in the preacher. These are people who, I cannot stress this enough, WOULD HAVE BEEN ALIVE AT THE SAME TIME AS JESUS AND THE APOSTLES. While it’s true you can get people to believe anything, someone had to get the ball rolling.

I never said that Christianity is based on anything real (at least in the sense that I’m religious, I’m not). But come on, those two situations aren’t comparable at all. Hubbard made up an entire religion from scratch, he didn’t form a band of a pre-existing one. As such, most of the stuff he made up had to do with…

Tacitus’ reference to Jesus is actually not thought to be a forgery - it’s widely believed to be authentic. It’s only Josephus’ that historians have doubts about.

Also, it can be argued that the existence of an established cult of worshippers a mere 30 years after his presumed death already gives indication that he…

Aside from this contest, which is pretty damn Black Mirror, I think the most Black Mirror moment of 2017 was the launch of Zhima Credit in China. https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/

It basically was a Black Mirror episode, in that this concept was somewhat explored in the episode Nosedive. Basically,…

It’s an old one, and I never gifted it to anyone, but I found out that many of my friends had ever seen the original Blade Runner. I ended up converting a few fans in the back half of the year.

“I’m going to blow up the planet in five minutes!”

And it was so strenuous that Luke died immediately after.

He’s not just a dark, force sensitive individual, though. He’s a dark, force sensitive individual who is completely unconnected to the Sith, is either impossibly old or came of age at a time when there were no Jedi, looks similar to a human but isn’t quite human, and is so powerful that he’s able to manipulate the…