Yup. If I want to make sure Tony Stark does something, or doesn’t do something, I have to get to Pepper Potts. The reason he always wins is because she’s too clever to be gotten to.

Charlize is Newt. Sigourney is Ripley. Let's take the maternal weirdness of Alien full circle and also out of Ridley's hands.

Giving fanboys what they want is almost always a losing stretegy.

Well just to begin with, kissing isn’t a universal human behavior. While some anthropologists consider is an evolved trait, others locate it in European colonization of other cultures.

Or we could just not?

I’d need you to define universality and also find a quality that humans share universally. And then you’d need to locate that behavior in several of our primate cousins and then locate it in our shared ancestor. And if you’ve found proof that our ancestor did x behavior (men naturally raping women usually comes up…

That’s exactly her point. We have zero idea about human psychology before writing was a thing, and we have precious little understanding about it after that. Evo Psych assumes that what we see in modern civilized college students is equivalent to hunters on the savanna with no actual proof that this is the case. It…

Well, you'd know.

My absolute favorite.

In addition to Sebastian Stan, The Covenant has Stephen Strait, who played Warren Peace in Sky High and is on The Expanse, so that movie definitely deserves extra io9 props.

Of COURSE I remember The Covenant...for the locker room AND POOL scene.

This makes me want to write my screenplay that extracts the trip Dracula takes on The Demeter on his way to England when he devours literally everyone.

Jafar? JAFAR? That pencil-necked yet incredibly useless magic user with the dirtiest goatee?

Since Steve and Tony didn’t literally kiss and make up, I am owed some queer ladies finding happiness.

This was a Novel.

I’m suddenly interested in teaching The Blair Witch Project.

No reason that dancing isn’t simply an offshoot of other sexual selection actions--that’s already the reason parrots learn to speak human language.

All the new Mickey cartoons are hella disturbing and I am here for it!

She doesn’t actually meet Spider-Man; she walks out of a room and asks RDJ, “Where’s the kid?” The word “Spider-Man” isn’t used inher scene. She probably wasn’t told who she was supposed to be meeting, since her cameo was a surprise.

Intentional or not, Endgame really gives Marvel the opportunity to tell basically the same story about Gamora in GotG3. Here’s hoping they do a little better with one of their earliest super-powered women.