michael patrick king would be so proud

No, Asian fetishism because of the show's obsession with and frequent deployment of zen and Buddhism, subjects it displays an elementary understanding of.

God, can you imagine if they'd decided to make this movie before someone realized CGI cartoons could still be cartoons? It'd be horrifying.

I'm pretty sure it's been confirmed that there is.

Snotty Wafflechunks.

It does definitely go the other way, too, studying TV's tricks to emulate it and perhaps beat it. "Oh, they want continuing narratives? We can do that! And on a bigger budget, too!"

Captain Underpants comes with a ready-made moral of letting kids be creative and goofy and dumb rather than stifling them, so it's kinda bizarre that this movie apparently decides to go the power-of-friendship route instead. In fact, a lot of the promo material, specifically the set design for the school, made it seem…

Sensation Comics was an anthology. Most of the heroes in it were dudes, just like in most anthology superhero comics. So you get to Wonder Woman and you go "there's probably a dude in here somewhere, oh there he is, wait what".

I never said she was on the cover of her issue. Nor did I say Steve Trevor was on the cover of Sensation Comics.

You're still assuming gay identity politics are the same as trans ones, though, in this comparison. Which I explicitly said was, you know, not the thing to do.

We only end up at the scenario from your last comment if you assume all identity politics are interchangeable with each other; if you assume, for instance, that a straight man playing a gay man invites the delegitmizing of gay identities in the same way a cis man playing a trans women invites the delegitimizing of…

Denise can be a great character treated with more respect than was likely at the time, but also embarrassing and awful when looked back upon with modern eyes. I don't think there's any contradiction there.

I was really torn over whether to make that a punchline, so thanks for doing it for me.

You're inflicting modern consumer trends on the 1940s. While yes, Wonder Woman was advertised as being the central character in her adventures, it's not so far-fetched to imagine this would be in name only, especially given how male-dominated superhero titles were; Steve Trevor is introduced to get boys' hopes up that…

By dudes, specifically. Bondage, as I've mentioned, wasn't a one-size-fits-all metaphor, all good or all bad. It depended heavily on which characters were binding which.

Look, I love Denise as a character. I'd absolutely agree that she's, in your words, "the most positive and progressive portrayal of a trans person American TV screens had ever seen". That doesn't mean that there isn't room for improvement and that doesn't mean that the show isn't realizing that and trying (and…

Okay, so, this is a brief and possibly reductionist version of the train of logic, and I'd highly recommend you seek out takes from actual trans people. But here's the basics of the rationale:
Trans women are considered by assholes to be men in drag rather than, y'know, women. Having cis men play trans women…

Yeah, but in the 1940s—before superheroes had much in the way of, y'know, characterization—they were pretty indistinguishable.

When women get tied up by men it's supposed to be a bad thing. When women get tied up by women it's an exchange of power. There's a system in play.

Yeah, I mean, after all, the Iron Man movies are about how a wealthy irresponsible womanizing manchild should get to have absolute control over a terrifying weapons arsenal. And the Captain America movies are about how a blond white guy should be able to supersede government control and dismantle any program he…