I think it’s entirely possible that the actors are just misrepresenting or not understanding it. It could be that superheroes are just something that happens somewhere >else<. Fingers crossed. Because, yeah, “urban legend” is just stupid.

Kind of.

YMMV, I think. The Wildcat costume is the one that actually works for me. And as they’re essentially building up Infinity Inc, it’s the only one to follow the original version from that series in the comics. Which was basically her taking on Ted Grant’s costume (adding a tail, I think?).

I re-read the original series after watching the series and they definitely improved on the source material (IIRC, there was some pretty homophobic shit in there and the books are not that old - Hill definitely was aware of what he was writing).

“at least creating the trope of the superhero audition a la Deadpool.”

Sorry, you have to give that one to the Legion of Super-Heroes; MM didn’t create it. I’m pretty sure LSH was being directly parodied in that scene.

Very much disagree, personally. It has held up for me over several viewings over the years. Though that song is the worst.

I swear this is not to be contrary, but my husband and I both thought that it was the complete opposite: possibly the BEST Marvel film we’ve seen.

Personally, I think it’s because it seemed to keep the Marvel feel to a minimum. It felt the most like this is what is going on in the rest of the MCU.

Totally a YMMV…

The first, Ang Lee/Eric Bana, one (simple The Hulk, I think?) DOES get a lot of hate and I think people merge them together in their heads. FWIW - I liked it at the time, but I tried to re-watch it recently and couldn’t get past the first half. Oof.

The Incredible Hulk, the Ed Norton one, didn’t seem bad and we’ll be…

Rereading that series was the only way I could figure out the Timekeepers stuff after the Loki TV show.

You know, this new format that hides the “cover image” from 3 articles at a time makes it IMPOSSIBLE to tell on the i09 page which link is Morning Spoilers. Put the name in the title or something, please.

“Peter as he looks up at a small set of stringlights of a Vampire with grey-haired temples”

A tad more context - Thanos started as a outer space heavy in Iron Man’s comic and then shown to be a Titanian. They started weaving in a bunch of Titanian stuff with him being the son of Mentor, brother of Eros/Starfox, etc. under Starlin’s Captain Marvel.

Then there was a while, by Gruenwald, IIRC, where they started…

Thanos was retconned into being an Eternal (Titanian branch) with a Deviant throwback gene (which shouldn’t have been possible, either, but comics...).

Yes, very much agree. The whole Deviants thread, starting from the beginning with Kirby, is VERY complicated and fraught with problems.  Making them explicitly monsters does help a little with that.

All and all, I kinda liked it, except for one thing that really bugged me about the comics series. That very last scene really harkened back to that What If... comics habit of saying, if everything didn’t go exactly as we showed it in the regular books, everyone one would have worse lives or, more likely, the world or…

There’s a rumor that they aren’t really alive.  If so, they may be immune from the Blip.

We’re in the same boat - HBO has great stuff themselves, the film releases are a bonus.

I think their driver is to increase HBOMaxc subscriptions to catch up to Disney+ and Netflix and they are treating these as loss leaders for the traction. Charging the premium for access would slow the adoption, maybe? But it wildly…

It’s been used in DC video properties before as well. Burton’s Batman film name checked it, in the scene at Vicki Vale’s paper, IIRC.

Agreed - they got insanely dark. The sotires basically boiled down to, “If things didn’t go exactly as they did in the original stories, things would have been horrible. Possibly, literally the end of the universe.”

Just one random episode of Top Chef would be enough for most folks to know it.