That's fair—particularly as relates to in-universe rules (and lord knows I'm glad, now that you mention it, not to have it become an "OMG U KEPTED A SECRAT" storyline forever). It just bugs me because there were so many times where it wasn't important, or wasn't the right call…but, I suppose you're right: they never…

I've hated Snyder since 2004. I actively, aggressively hated all three of his movies I watched (all three of the first major ones released—I did, admittedly, stop watching them there, because, well, three garbage wastes of time is enough).

I think it would have been better if Felicity were called on her mother's abusively, unflexibly brainswashed "never lie about anything ever or burn the person who does so for all time" and told: "See? What the fuck good would it do HIM for you to tell Rory what happened? Now do you understand why secrets aren't always…

Hell…visible discernible eyes of any kind. Used to be just blackness or the glow of energy of some kind when he was worked up.

I did realize that I'm also really, really unhappy with his post-Avengers (visual) appearance.

…What?

Shortly after GotG took off, I found Marvel Super-Heroes #18 for $0.50¹

I think I can pretend to remember about this.

Hey, "Thanos" most certainly did something!

Admittedly, I can think of two or three days last winter here (I wanna say Christmas Eve was the first meaningful snow?), though more of it landed on the this-year side.

Birth.Movies.Death.

I'm fuzzy on it as I'm not an avid follower of Norton, but I think egghog was referencing some of Norton's own material with that comment.

Honestly, as a nearly non-Speaker of Japanese (Despite four semesters of it in college), it made me chuckle (inwardly) at the atrocious foreign language speech we have over here.

My appreciation of Norm himself is why I paradoxically don't hold him responsible for the ubiquity of the "Ha ha celebrity jeopardy" comments.

gud on ya

His name is Willis "Diamondback" Stryker, if that hasn't clarified itself for you in the intervening time since this post.

I try not to get flashbacks to X2 in general, but especially their complete wussing out on Stryker.

So, you may be due for a re-read:

Plus, likely, some tinges of "I need to maintain the image of the person that I feel intense guilt for killing, particularly as said person tried to keep me out of all of this."

They already showed her losing control of her impulses when she was basically told she had no prayer of coming back from this and threw her phone like she did. They were setting up that her normal control was slipping for *current* reasons, and then gave us why that control slipped off of much deeper things that, most…