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Everyone tells me it got good and I really should catch up.

He looks like that guy in college who would just sit there and drone at you about whatever he read in his Comparative Religion textbook the night before.

All six of them!

Scott, maybe you should spend the time you're wasting on the Internet in acting classes.

I'm still mad we never got a Michael Fassbender IS Magneto: Nazi Killin' Backstory movie.

The 'there's a giant conspiracy' folks seem to be out again. At least they won't call them paid Marvel shills this time?

Yeah, Iron Fist is not a character that you can really play straight-faced in 2017. We've seen it all before…many, many times at this point.

So can LEGO Avengers Jessica.

Daaaamn, son.

My recollection was that I wasn't the only one hoping for an Asian Dr. Strange, actually.

I know someone who knows someone, etc, and apparently he's a sweetheart in real life.

tl;dr it'd be cool if Marvel didn't just dress all its white dudes in Asian drag and actually had an Asian headliner one of these days and fans have been trying to find the best hero to include and/or racebend. Danny would be pretty easy.

Also, Ed Brubaker introduced the idea of Iron Fist being a role passed on through generations/incarnations, which is a pretty neat excuse for racebending/picking a different character.

Still sitting here trying to figure out why no one's working on Young Avengers.

(Remember when Chris Evans said 'we didn't make Captain America: The First Avenger for critics?' oh wait)

If you think Finn Jones is the first actor to have to deal with shit I have some bad news for you, son.

Think, for example, of Avatar: The Last Airbender, which in fact did just that—one pretty cool kid learning about different cultures and leveling up in superpowers.

See, I think an Asian-American Iron Fist would have been an interesting approach for that very reason—spoiled rich Chinese-American kid crashes in the Himalayas, finds mystical kingdom and connection with a culture he barely engaged with in the States.

Yeah, "Asian-American" was actually a political distinction made by, um, Asian-Americans to gain power and fight prejudice, so…

(And note: we should be waaaaaaay further along with Asian Americans on TV than this, what the fucking shit)