Justice League 2: Army of Justice.

Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not saying that Namor and T’Challa are written similarly. I was only responding to the description of Namor in the post I replied to.

I really only know Mystique from the movies (never was an X-Men reader), but I agree with the posters who have said that with her at the head of the team, the thing feels out of whack. Maybe a more deft series could have shown her evolving from the villainous character she was in the first three movies into the heroic…

“[A] cold, regal sort of ... guy who mostly sneers at the well-meaning heroes but reluctantly involves himself when he recognizes a threat to their domain is also a threat to his own.”

Superman III was released in 1983. Do you count that? I have only the dimmest recollection of the movie (though I’m pretty sure I saw it), but the Wikipedia article on it says that “it was less successful than the first two Superman movies, both financially and critically.” Yes, I know it wasn’t a trilogy, but nobody…

The population math has always been funky in the HP world. Could it possibly be the case that there were only 35 children per year per house at Hogwarts? That means only 140 kids admitted per year, which means at most only 280 parents. Even if those parents had no other kids in the school at the same time (which we…

I rewatched Age of Ultron recently, and I was surprised to see that the emphasis of the exchange in that scene was very different from the coverage of it. When Natasha makes the reference to being a monster, she is not talking about being sterile, nor is she lamenting her inability to have children. She is telling…

So instead of just outright cancelling AOS and suffering the criticism like grown-ups, ABC (with Disney’s blessing) is relegating it to a death slot. Then, when it inevitably dies, they all retain deniability about the show’s fate (it was a weak ratings performer, but we gave it a chance by renewing it, it’s not our…

Well, the reason we see the same 3-4 plays adapted over and over is that most of the rest of them are partially or totally unwatchable by modern audiences.

Think of the marketing: For all your long-term stay needs, convenient to Chicago but in a lovely suburban setting, fully furnished with innocent souls to corrupt. Pea soup optional.

I think the answer is “yes, it is so hard.” On the movie side (can Daisy and Lincoln show up in an Avengers movie for 5 minutes), you have the problem of taking 15 minutes to explain who they are and why they are here to the overwhelming majority of the movie audience that never saw a minute of AOS. On the TV side…

I used to work for the federal government too. And I was accused on more than one occasion of being part of a vast, unified government conspiracy to harm them personally. I bet you get that too. People just have no concept of how vast these large organizations are, or how little control one part has over what another…

I didn’t mean to suggest that Disney would abandon TV as a platform for Marvel shows. And, in fact, it looks as though Disney/Marvel are fully embracing Netflix as a platform for TV shows: 2 seasons of Daredevil, Jessica Jones approved for a second season, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Punisher and Defenders in the pipeline,…

This is likely a reflection of the separation between the movie and TV spheres that took place last year. When everything was controlled from Marvel corporate, the potential, at least, existed for 2-way crossovers. Now, there’s probably nobody in the leadership of either branch pressing for this.

“Can any member of the Avengers quit being an Avenger and then do what they like? I assume the answer is no, which means the Sokovia Accords basically outlaws any person with special abilities from using those abilities in any way, shape, or form without the prior approval of the UN.”

I wouldn’t worry too much about Evans’s contract. RDJ renegotiated and is now talking about Iron Man 4 again after a long spell when he didn’t. Evans has said he loves doing the movies and has strongly hinted that he would continue in them. If they want to tell stories with him in them, I expect he will be around for…

You are correct. This movie made crystal clear that for Tony, everything is personal. He has a 2-minute encounter in a hallway with the mother of a person who died in Sokovia and just because of that conversation, he’s ready to jump into bed with Ross and impose the Accords on the Avengers. He seems constitutionally…

Your complaint about Captain America: Civil War is that “no one of importance dies ... and someone should have.” Don’t take this the wrong way, but are you a psychopath?

Cute! But could they not have given Sebastian Stan a moment to hum the Romanian national anthem?

I just rewatched Age of Ultron last night in preparation for Civil War. I liked it better seeing it again than I had the first time. But one thing that jumped out at me is how loose and natural the interactions between Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen are (also Renner and Aaron Taylor-Johnson). So nice to see that…