I remember getting all giddy when they hinted at War Machine in the first Iron Man movie. It was such a sad superhero ghost town back then.

I wonder if Disney actually went over Kevin Feige’s head on this, and if so has Feige been in Hulk mode behind closed doors trying to reverse this whole debacle. And if so, we’ll need a Feige Hulk Photoshop meme asap.

Ok, lemme see if my perception of this timeline is somewhat close, based on media reports.

I have several nephews and nieces, and nothing beats giving them cool toys that make as much noise as possible to drive their parents insane. Although, quiet items like Despicables-themed duct tape can be sufficiently annoying as well. When the kid goes "cool!" and the parents go "hell no!", I know I've done my job…

In a perfect world, there would be at least one brave AAA developer studio out there always doing 2-4 player splitscreen support, such that we would take them for granted.

There can be only Juan. Better to burn out than to fade away.

Yeah understood. I like the actual story intentions and reasons you mentioned, but I think maybe it was just the way they presented those where it could’ve been handled better somehow. I wouldn’t know what that would be, but I felt like they didn’t try hard enough to convince me to hop on the bandwagon. There were a…

The woodgrain makes the whole thing complete.

They should have gone balls out and touched on real-world current issues in the NFL, like kneeling, dog fights, wife-beating accusations, career-ending injuries, suicidal depression of clutch kickers who lose last minute games, helping out the community, starting businesses post-football, making comments to the media, …

Story mode in a football videogame.

Admittedly, in my case when the series launched I was initially thinking “I’m interested, but not that interested. I’ll check it out maybe mid-season.” Time zips by me, and then the Winter Soldier movie comes out and takes out SHIELD. My reaction wasn’t “Whoah, I wonder what happens to the TV show”, but rather…

Chris Pratt as Hal Jordan/Green Lantern. Zoe Saldana as Carol Ferris/Star Sapphire. Dave Bautista as Kilowog. I can do this all day.

“Plus, I think that if Gunn did go to DC, he should take Bautista and everyone else with him.”

Any DC property that ends with “Written and directed by James Gunn” would work, but especially the cosmic, futuristic titles you just mentioned. Those are potentially huge visual fx, ensemble-style groups that Gunn has clearly already proven out with GotG.

If we are in the reality I think we’re in, this will happen and it will be the best fucking thing ever in the history of superhero cinema.

Gunn was eating, breathing, and shitting the Troma way. Offending and gross-out humor has always been their culture and M.O. That’s what they do.

I think folks are just annoyed at how dismissive TLJ treated the mystery parents thing after TFA kept bringing it up like it was supposed to lead to something more. Same thing with Luke tossing the lightsaber away.

#releasethepicardrikercut

The other logical side of me wants to tell me that LoL should continue to exist so that all of the devoted deplorables are always corraled and accounted for and not contaminating other games.

Also, to anyone out there who might not fully understand the role of HR departments and will read a lot of the damage-control buzzword responses from Riot in this article and in the ripple effects you’ll see carry across into other media outlets, know this: