I don’t think they’re exemplars of the art of filmmaking, equal parts popcorn distraction, wish fulfilment, and modern fairy tale.

This was my first thought.
“So I get to be the next Iron Man!?!”
“Yes! For one whole scene before the Olsen Twins kid sister crushes you in your suit like a soda can getting prepped for recycling!”
“Whats that? s*{rry ztt** Your br king yp! I’m ha*ging frm a plane! Bad Recepzzztt****”
...
“I dunno, the line went dead!”
“I…

That still leaves the Loki D+ show, in which there are several Loki variants that do not look like Tom Hiddleston, including Boastful Loki, Sylvie, Richard E. Grant Loki, and Alligator Loki.

Just imagine jumping through a million hoops, and greasing a lot of palms to get Tom Cruise to play an alternate universe Iron Man in Doctor Strange 2, only to have Scarlet Witch kill him off after ten seconds of screen time.

Sounds like a cough syrup.

#ThorQuill 

You might know them as... Star-Thord.

I still can’t believe that Jackson Pollack joke made it in to a PG-13 Disney movie

The first trailer made it look like Thor had a bit of a crush on Starlord. 

I can’t not like this movie for two reasons:

Oh, you can argue that the Darkhold was corrupting her, but the film doesn’t give that concept much support at all.

Captains Marvel and Carter lasted a heck of a lot longer than Black Bolt or Richards. Women as a whole may have been misrepresented, but I don’t think those two exemplify that since the point of the Illuminati in this was to be murdered.

The scene where Wanda kills the Illuminati, starting with Black Bolt and Reed Richards, is just perfection. Chef’s kiss, 10/10, two thumbs up, no notes.

The whole Illuminati was an ultimately meaningless detour, as the only real intent was to make Wanda a really credible threat - taking out a bunch of nameless sorcerers and students in Kamar-Taj wasn’t enough of course.

I still do not get how that poor experimented on war traumatized young woman who lost _everything_ suddenly becomes a multiversal menace ordering demons across the multiverse around although she is actually incapable of traveling in between them wtf?

Raimi straight up pulled a Doc Ock from Spider-Man 2 moment. Having Wanda collapse the mountain on herself, destroying the thing that can destroy the multiverse. Hell, she didn’t say it, but I could practically read on her face in the final moments “I will not die a monster.”

From the moment Strange battles Evil Strange with music until America finds herself is a wonderful Raimi ride. Those spirits battling Christine was pure, perfect Raimi. Even their voices. The movement of the demons also felt different from other CGI Marvel. More Army of Darkness stop-motion feel. I dug it and then the…

I really enjoyed that Moon Knight WASN’T chock full of MCU cameos and references. At this point, it’s actually refreshing to see a Marvel project that’s confident enough to stand completely on its own. I mean, remember how the first two MCU Spider-Man movies couldn’t shut up about Tony Stark? Yeah, that sucked. Moon…

One thing that really impressed me about this show was Oscar Isaac’s acting. Not only his accent, but his whole physicality changed based on whether he was Mark or Steven. The scenes with both characters were so amazing - you’d see Isaac playing against himself, and it’s totally two different people.

Damn. It really is surprising seeing how many fans of things like X-Men or Trek became hard right douchebags and now bitch about those properties being “suddenly woke” or something. What the hell were they looking at?