This is why Civil War worked so well and Batman V Superman fell so damn hard. Civil War made everything personal. The fights between Cap and Iron Man felt so real and destroying because they were friends, they had a personal edge to them. We cared about these characters and the bond they had built up over the…

Don’t wanna blow your mind here or anything but it’s POSSIBLE that Mary, Queen of Scots is elevated somewhat by—hold on tight—Margot Robbie and Saoirse Ronan possibly being more compelling performers than Chrissy Metz and Josh Lucas. (That’s not even a knock on Metz or Lucas so much as it is a compliment to Robbie and…

Thank you Gwen for not being Sam Fucking Barsanti

Nadia is really a comic book counterpart to Hope only in the sense that with the movie out somebody at Marvel said that they should introduce a younger Wasp with a vaguely similar haircut.

Find out in Disney+’s Falcon & Winter Soldier, streaming soon. 

Also not in Wright’s draft: Hope.  Or any female characters, apparently.

That’s an interesting point. Ant-Man has sort of backed into the “legacy” hero story archtype for the MCU . He (and the Wasp) are the only characters thus far to have inherited superhero identities.  

Rick Jones has been in the Professional Sidekick game for so long that he prepares for any eventuality.

At the time this debuted a lot of people assumed Luis’ spiels were leftovers from Edgar Wright’s version of the film, but in fact it was the new creative team that came up with them.

I’ve mentioned her before but Hope has a comicbook counterpart: Nadia Van Dyne, The Unstoppable Wasp.

Rick Jones might be the most significant character that Marvel in general has just completely abandoned in all media.

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I’m inclined to agree with you, but Solo already had an appearance of Darth Maul that would be very confusing to anyone who had not watched the cartoons.

Palpatine will either not be in the movie at all and the trailer is a misdirect, or Palpatine will be a force ghost, both of which I’m fine with. 

I find it hard to believe as well, but there’s been an awful lot of setup across a wide variety of media with little payoff. I would not have expected that to culminate in something impacting the movies, but with Disney I could believe that level of coordination.

What? Star Trek does time travel all the time and everyone still eats that crap up...

I’m certainly not saying that they won’t resurrect Palpatine using something from above, but it would be pretty wild to see some of the non-movie canon come into play so heavily in the finale to the Skywalker saga.

I don’t feel like “came up with the movie’s premise” is giving undue credit. She asked her black-ish creator about doing a gender-swapped, different-race version of BIG after she watched BIG, and it ended up getting written and then made. Of course some rando 13-year-old could have had the same idea and it wouldn’t…

I’m planning to take my 3.5-year-old to this one (we saw a trailer at Lego Movie 2 and she remembers it as “the one where he breaks the window’), so I’m a little biased as to whether people mind kids asking questions during kids’ movies, but I’d say no, people shouldn’t get bothered by that. Anyone who wants to…

I’ve been on the lookout for a good movie to use for my daughter’s first time seeing one in the theater, and this sounds really promising.  She’s good at sitting through a whole movie at home, and hopefully we can convince her to ask any questions she has quietly, but surely people don’t get too upset about a kid…