The only one of these that bothered me was the MCU prime setting getting called 616. Sure, it’s all arbitrary and they just used it as an easter egg, but it would have been nice if they’d stayed consistent and used the standard 199999 designation.

I don’t think there was anything to indicate that we were supposed to think it was the same Captain Carter from What If?...  Just _A_ Captain Carter.  

I’m pretty sure she’s just having fun trash talking. I also know there are people who take the “competition” between the two waaaay too seriously.

You don’t need to have seen any of the X-Men movies for the Prof. X cameo. There are a few other cameo characters who aren’t even from any other movies, and while they’re fun for comics fan recognition, pre-existing knowledge isn’t needed at all. I’d say the only real “homework” someone might need is the first Dr.…

I’d give it a B+.

Did anyone else feel like Layla’s Tawaret avatar armor was taking WW84's armor and making it something people would actually care about?

Seriously... treating it as effectively a Roger Rabbit follow-up is a hook I could enjoy, but you know what they DIDN’T do in Roger Rabbit? Give the toons different voices when they weren’t acting.

I hadn’t thought of the possibility that it was the third personality that killed her dad (maybe familiarity with the comics origin kept me from thinking of it?), and now I’m disappointed because that sounds pretty likely and now I won’t be surprised. lol

I just did an image search...

A Roger Rabbit spinoff by way of Rescue Rangers could be interesting, but those voices are just No.

Chekov’s insult comedy.

At a meta level, the presence of superhero tropes doesn’t change the world because then that would would become too unrecognizable. Even outright fantasy and science fiction limit how far they range from using current reality or our understanding of history as the baseline.

Arguably, it was the reaction to The Last Jedi that made them start paying enough attention to productions for there to BE drama.

I suspect that while plotting out The Mandalorian, they decided that they’d need 4-5 episodes of setup, and rather than have people cheated to not be getting so many episodes with the main characters at the start of the season, they just decided to make it a “separate” show.  Maybe they also thought it would help with…

I think a lot of it is because it’s between the 70's and 90's cynicism.  We were determined to enjoy ourselves before that nuclear holocaust!

Sure, it looks cute... until SkyNet combines with SkurryNet to hunt down humans...

“In our story, Pinocchio is an innocent soul with an uncaring father...”

Codenames for team play, A Fake Artist Goes to New York for social deduction.

Codenames for team play, A Fake Artist Goes to New York for social deduction.

This is more a difference between what’s done in writing, and what’s done on the screen. In the Disney era anthology _From a Certain Point of View_ , the dianoga in the trash compactor was actually Force sensitive and wasn’t trying to eat Luke, just baptize him. Anthology stories make fleshing out minor things into…

Given the MCU version of Pym tech, they either asphyxiated over time, or got crushed into gobs of bloody goo as soon as the air pressure was broken, whether by opening a door or window, or getting shredded by owl.