Oh my god, Feige is gonna make me spend the entire wait for Avengers 4 rolling my eyes with this “no, they’re really dead” nonsense.

No, I don’t think you’re missing anything. My objection to The Punisher is more based on “oh, this complicated, wounded straight white man is haunted by the wife we stuffed in a fridge” than domestic violence. The connection is that we focus on the dudebro’s reaction to the tragedy that a woman experiences rather than…

Probably, based on the fact that I used the very word "character" in my comment, you could answer this question yourself.

ORRRRR we could make movies that aren’t about men treating women like trash and then feeling bad about it? Like, we have plenty of those stories.

Thank you. Like Christ, your dark, gritty, oh-so-wounded domestic abuser and trash pile male protagonist can gtfo. This is why I didn’t and won’t watch The Punisher.

And it shit-housed Hank Pym for at least a few generations of comic-readers as a wife-beater, which means no movie. Sorry legions of Ant-Man fans, I guess you’ll have to take an entire trilogy of Scott Lang instead.

“Marvel Reminds Fans: Ant-Man Beat His Wife”

I can think of a REALLY GOOD reason that we shouldn’t do this, which is coincidentally the reason they went with Scott in the first place:

Just give Jordan Peele lots of money to make lots of movies, and if he decides to make a sequel, that would be cool.

15% more Daredevil/Batman, 85% less Michael Bay.

Women of the Harlem Renaissance, right down the path from Shakespeare in Central Park. http://flavorwire.com/506177/20-female-harlem-renaissance-writers-you-should-know

We can rebuild him. We have the technology.

Yeah, but Gal Gadot is basically the ONLY thing worth keeping. Have Wondy 3 be a new Justice League movie with new people and call it done. The universe writ large isn’t worth flashpointing

I think plot is usually overrated as an ingredient to entertainment—most perfectly fine films and tv shows have either little plot or extremely cliche, repetitious plots (police procedural, etc). You could handwave some reason that we can’t trust anything we watch on Aeon Flux (tampered memories a la Dollhouse) and…

OK, fine. Now please point me to how the 2018 superhero landscape is better than a “pretty bold” DVD extra 14 years ago? And given that Disney is trying to buy Fox, how do you imagine the tiny step of Negasonic Teenage Warhead fairing under 20th Century Disney?

I might be the only person who really likes the movie (alongside those other Underworld-adjacent, woman-led scifi movies like Ultraviolet). Maybe in the wake of Theron in Mad Max, it’s time to reevaluate?

They’re nevar put wrong-end front.

That’s all well and good, but it’s yet another example of Disney superhero media shoving queer people into context. Apparently my identity is only worth showing if everybody uses euphemisms—like death.

he raised them with his “roommate” Scott (come on, guys).

Also Orwell.