It’s worth noting that we don’t yet know the purpose of this incarnation of the X-Men. Not sure if you’re here yet catch-up wise, but the ‘X-Men’ moniker was originally banned from Krakoa because it was deemed too exclusive for the new inclusive nation. It gets brought back because [someone] demands it, and as a…

Came here to say the same about Sunfire.

Where’s Calvin and Copycat? They need all four power copiers on one team! Led by Mystique!

I think Laura as Wolverine will fill the melee combat role.

I am really glad to see Synch getting his due, always liked Everett’s upbeat personality and felt that the character’s power set had a lot of untapped potential. 

The comparison between John Walker and Gilbert Hodge from the first Captain America movie - Hodge was the soldier Tommy Lee Jones wanted for the serum (“Hodge passed every test we gave him. He’s big, he’s fast, he follows orders - he’s a soldier”). Walker is the new Hodge - the perfect soldier. Only he’s never been…

FUCKING THIS. My mom read me those books from a very young age, several times. As a fat-guy in training, I enjoyed my sweets, and had come to see Turkish delight as, like, the pinnacle of the top of the peak of sweets. I mean, this shit would get you to betray your fucking family.

Editor’s note: Don’t listen to pop culture, Turkish Delight is gross. -Jill P., one very disappointed The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe fan.

They both prove Zemo’s warnings about superpowered people true. The very idea of having superpowers is inherently tied to the idea of being better than others. It’s no accident Nazis loved their supermen. And John and Karli both think that their cause because more valid if they become more powerful in fighting for…

Seems like the Kelvinverse is the Star Trek equivalent of Marvel’s Ultimate line: an attempt to update an older media universe in order to attract younger fans that became irrelevant once most of its stylistic and conceptual distinctiveness trickled down into the original mainline franchise.

On the one hand, it’s nothing people who, you know, just watched the movies haven’t been saying for years (re: WB’s ineptitude around the DCEU). But the sheer magnitude of said ineptitude behind-the-scenes is astounding.

I’ve said this before, but he’s only as good as the director will let him be. Argo is fantastic. Fight me. BvS and JL were directed by Zack “Sucker Punch” Snyder and Rise of Skywalker was directed by J.J. “Empty Mystery Box” Abrams.

WB was pretty high on the idea of Snyder being the architect of their cinematic universe, in a position much like where Marvel had Joss Whedon in Phase 1. I’m sure the whole branding idea originated with him, and WB basically backed his play.

Most of those “story possibilities” existed entirely in the fans’ imaginations. Rey as a lost Skywalker kid? Finn as a Jedi? Leia as the Churchill-like leader of a crippled Republic? Luke as the crusty leader of a posse of Seven Samurai-style itinerant Force-users? Snoke as some sort of ancient Lovecraftian menace? Oka…

For the longest time, superhero movies were basically standard Hollywood movies with one or more costumed characters in them. Superman had a lot of ‘70s disaster film DNA in it, and The Dark Knight was a Michael Mann crime epic with Batman. Now, I think, they’ve been freed up to be as weird and absurd as the source…

The Boogaloo joke has never been funny. It’s why right wingers like it so much.

I was struggling with one on a can of Planters peanuts the other night and I started to flash on the kid turning into a skeleton.

For some reason, I got it into my head that every time her character solved another mystery about her identity, one of her tattoos would magically disappear, and I have decided that this, in fact, was exactly what happened at the end of every episode.

Hopefully there will be a Kamala/Shuri teamup at some point.

If there is a Ms. Marvel movie, can you imagine the backlash from the internet’s asshole? A woman AND a Muslim!