I think Abomination is in Shang Chi, but I don’t think he has any lines, or that the Hulk is even mentioned. The most we get is Wong calling him Emil. However, supposedly he has a pretty big role in the upcoming She Hulk show, so I wasn’t taking that into account.

Yeah, Ross in the MCU pretty much gets the role that Henry Gyrich had in the comics, as the Avengers’ government liaison, and general pain in the butt. He doesn’t really seem much like the character from Incredible Hulk (or Ross from the comics, either).

You’re right—as a general matter, screenplays operate under work-for-hire rules, which is why I mentioned that a prospective Grindewald/Dumbledore series might have to make do without Jacob and Queenie (and maybe even Newt—he’s pretty much just a name on a novelty textbook with no real character in Rowling’s writings.…

Never a less biased opinion than that of a pro athlete whose story is being told and they’re not getting paid for it.

The Magic Hour taught us that being a great late night talk show guest doesn’t qualify you to be a replacement level late night talk show host.

I think if it was unpleasant stuff of the Frank Langella variety, we’d be hearing it now. I’m hoping it’s a contract thing rather than a health thing.

Eh, I’m not absolutely certain that Rowling couldn’t sell the last two Fantastic Beasts films to another studio if WB refused to make them and let their license lapse by not producing a timely film. Even if she couldn’t, I suspect the rights she has would be enough for, say, Disney to produce a series called “Wizarding…

I’ll say this much in this guy’s defense: IM2 is a bigger drop-off from Iron Man than Thor 2 is from the original Thor. Then again, IM2 has two villains with legitimate and understandable motivations to participate in the story, while Thor 2 has a guy whose motivation is “...because I hate you,” and who wants the…

Eh, I’d counter we both noticed, so it matters at least that far (but yeah, that’s not terribly far).

Exactly. In the end, keeping Hurt around as Ross didn’t amount to much other than acknowledging that Incredible Hulk happened in the MCU. I think there was only one scene with Ruffalo and Ross—I want to say in Infinity War?—and I have a vague memory of Ruffalo doing a bit of silent acting to show his character’s…

Nobody actually believes you think Hitler or Trump or Nigel Farage are bad. Congratulations.

This one’s so good, I want it to be on her IMDB page.

The Fantastic Beasts franchise is a Viet Nam-style quagmire. If WB stops making the movies, they lose a core franchise, and risk someone else swooping in and grabbing it away. On top of that, Rowling has little incentive to give up the creative control she’s kept over her creations, and she’s been much more reluctant…

That was an acqui-murder, where you buy an excellent competing website and drown it in the bathtub before it gets big enough to kick your site’s ass.

Incredible Hulk is better than both Iron Man 2 and The Dark World. By that I mean it’s mediocre, which is better than bad. The movie would be remembered a lot better if they hadn’t been so weird about it when they recast Ruffalo. There’s a lot of references to the Incredible Hulk having happened to Ruffalo’s Banner,…

I gotta hand it to you and just slow clap. Plus, he started delivering political speeches only a few years after B&R, so he must’ve figured something out. However, it’s still the case that he was horrible as Freeze and I remember at the time them making a big thing about how Arnold was working with a dialogue coach…

Is this place so desperate for clicks that the article is festooned with links to other Root articles that have nothing to do with it? The only links that seem legit are the ones to NBC News (linked to “reported”) and the YouTube video of the body cam footage.

Compared to the actual Star Wars IX we got, his script wasn’t that bad. But that’s really faint praise.

Damn. I didn’t know I needed that until now...

Dammit, now you’ve got an Alvin & the Chipmunks version of “Something in the Way” stuck in my head.