The Marvel superheroes have been miserable, brooding bastards since the 1960s. That's kind of their thing.

Justice was served.

I thought it was What the Bleep Do We Know?

My younger brother's the biggest GTA fan I know, and was watching violent movies and playing violent video games at a way younger age than our parents were comfortable with.

We know at least one mentally-ill dude got a bright idea from Taxi Driver and committed some real-life gun violence.

We're the Punisher at best, and quite possibly the Joker.

I think most people who saw Falling Down probably just caught the first half on cable and never saw the ending.

Pretty much, yeah.

I think that, inevitably, stories contain things that most of us agree aren't OK in real life. Being a Batman fan doesn't mean I would *actually* support a rich man going out in disguise to beat up mentally ill criminals and then throw them into an ineffectual and terrifying mental hospital with deeply lax security,…

Which is still better than most parents having kids by accident.

The sad thing is that we've reached a point where somebody says she never thought that she'd get death threats for making a political statement and my first thought is "How could anyone not know that by now?"

… Mufasa isn't an antagonist.

It was pretty sad to see Christopher Lee in such obviously failing health, though.

Dammit, Chris, I am *not* reading a fourth version of Beren and Luthien.

You won't find a better promoter than Stan Lee, provided you understand and accept that the primary product he's promoting will always be Stan Lee.

They probably shouldn't have gotten their title from a softcore porn anthology show either.

I thought that was William Moulton Marston's entire goal in creating Wonder Woman!

I remember a lot of talk about Ada Lovelace in my computer classes, but I can't think of any other women getting any kind of recognition. It was all Alan this and von Neumann that.

I always end up with hot sauce and melted cheese all over my hands and bits of tomato on my pants.

I kinda love Stan's goofy-ass dialogue, TBH, especially in the mouth of a character like Beast who's so defined by his use of flowery, over-the-top language.