#I don’t see any other comicbook movie man doing THIS

[ormymarius]

no other cbm man can serve as hard as Patrick Wilson did as Orm

#every time he was on screen he served looks #I don’t see any other comicbook movie man doing THIS #not to mention his other looks too #but these are my fave everyone say thank you james wan #orm marius #patrick wilson #aquaman #aquaman and the lost kingdom #dceu #dc comics

[blackgirlsuperherorants]

There's a take that keeps making the rounds about Marvel and military propaganda and it's frustrating me how half-baked this take is, so let's break it down.

I feel like people heard a couple of different things and have gotten the story wrong. As someone who has spent the bulk of my life interested in comics and their various adaptations over the years, I also know a lot about the history and production of this media. So, let's talk about it.

First, it's important to note that any time you see US military stuff in films, the US government sponsored it and had approval rights over the story (which is why the military is rarely shown in a bad light in war films.) ANY time. Yes, comicbook movies, but also war movies, historical movies, hell, even romcoms if there's any military stuff in it.

I think somewhere along the lines, some people heard that the US military sponsored certain MCU films in which the military is heavily featured (like Captain America films and Captain Marvel) and did a full on leap to "the entire MCU is US military propaganda."

I saw a TikTok today in which a girl claims that the MCU has us associating Norse gods with the US military. Thor has basically nothing to do with the US Military, Loki really doesn't (other than that one time they were going to kill him by nuking New York City), Odin and Frigga have basically never even associated with the United States at all, and Frigga has never been on Earth in any of her appearances. You could argue that Thor working with the Avengers in the first movie made him an agent of the US Military, but basically the entire reason Marvel (and DC) makes up fake government agencies is to get around that whole "needs military approval" thing. It's why SHIELD can be proven to be basically a Not-see sleeper organization. It's why ARGUS can be shown to be a super shady organization basically killing people who disobey them (DC.) Those franchises can't say the US Army or Air Force did it, unless they want to lose access to those military vehicles and stuff. But they can make fake organizations and show them as corrupt.

Also, the Avengers are an independent superhero team, which was the whole point of Civil War, but that's another point.

Military propaganda is used sometimes in military specific films. But in general, not just Marvel.

But in the same MCU, you get a movie in which Thor faces the reality of Asgard's imperialism, and in which a tyrannical leader on a distant planet is violently deposed by his slaves and oppressed citizens.

You get a movie in which the violent racism of the US produces Erik Killmonger.

You get to see the constant consequences of Tony Stark's recklessness (Sokovia, the whole situation with Peter Parker and Mysterio.)

It's truly a half-baked take to suggest that the MCU just is military propaganda.

We can criticize the military propaganda in movies, but we have to examine it as a problem with American cinema and not one thing that people enjoy, which allows you to feel superior because you "know" that "Marvel is propaganda". Which just suggests that you don't actually engage with the media, and you just heard a take and adopted that opinion because you think it sounds intelligent and thoughtful. Like, if you watched the films, you'd say "Wow, Captain Marvel was really a 2 hour commercial for the Air Force" not "Marvel has us associating Norse gods with the US military", because they really do not. I don't know anyone who looks at the Asgardian god with a British-esque Australian-laced accent whose adventures mostly take place on other planets and goes "Ah, yes, Thor is our troops!" Or the British accented trickster god who spent most of his time on our screens as a villain trying to outwit Thor, and only went to America to take it over, once, and then to hide his adoptive father in a nursing home.

But another point I'll make is that comics sometimes were propaganda, but like... openly so. Like, the first issue of Captain America ever, where he's punching Hitler, was published before the US entered WW2 and before the public sentiment was that Hitler and the Not-sees were bad. It was published by the Jewish creators of the character to sway public sentiment.

Comics and cartoons were also used to sell War bonds a lot. And sometimes to drum up support for certain things.

And yes, to recruit for the military, sometimes.

But even more often, comics creators would use their comics to express their beliefs and champions causes. And that ABSOLUTELY translates over to the films.

As always, I'm not saying you can't make valid criticisms about Marvel, DC, the MCU and the DCEU regarding the shit they promote, even in subtext.

I'm saying that if you're going to, at least be accurate. At least use valid points. You can't just say Thor is US military propaganda. Just say Captain America and Captain Marvel, or even Iron Man. (Although, even those are arguable at the core of the characters. It's just true that the Military propagandized their films. Captain Marvel was pretty blatant with it, too. With Captain America, though, it's hard to say because the movie itself is kind of criticizing propaganda, though I suppose the Army just liked the visibility.)

Anyway...

The point is, this is a shallow take and requires no examination. The fact is that every movie you've seen (barring smaller indies, most likely) that has military stuff in it, it has to be pre-screened and approved by the military. I mean, that sucks because it removes mainstream filmmakers ability to criticize the military directly, or at least makes it a challenge. (Avengers kind of does, though... because the Avengers have to assemble because the military is incompetent and would rather bomb a US city than make a reasonable choice.) But yeah, it's a film industry problem as a whole, and as of right now, there's no way around it.

It's not Marvel's fault, and even if it was, I'm gonna need a full breakdown of all of the movies and how they're US military propaganda even when they take place in space or aren't about the military or even set in the US. Because how is Guardians of the Galaxy or Ant-Man and the Wasp "military propaganda"?

Like, you can tell when it's there. It's all over Captain Marvel. You can't just make sweeping claims and assume you're right because you watched Iron Man and CA:TFA.

#Marvel #thor #Loki #i'm sleepy #so this probably got rambly at the end #MCU

[rielzero]

I spoiled myself for Christmas!

A small background here: I’m not rich by any means. I saved up and sold a lot of character adoptables to achieve this.

As someone who lived a youth of feeling neglected (it’s complicated.), I’ve always felt guilty about being a materialistic guy, and really liking / wanting things. Shopping is literally a hobby for me. I enjoy having and getting stuff.

I do have personal nitpicks, where if something is over-abundant, like art supplies, it’d be a waste getting more until I have space for it.

So currently I only get stuff like video games (ps4), comicbooks, manga, and action figures. (I don’t like art statues personally, it’ll catch dust.)

 I’m not religious but holiday vibes got me like.. I just want to be spoiled. I wanna look at myself and say ‘’I got myself gifts because no one else would. Then no one has to feel bad for me including me.’’

SO ON TO IMAGES, ENOUGH RAMBLE. LOOK I GOT THINGS

Here’s everything when I unboxed it :D It was a very exciting moment even though I already knew what I was getting myself. Honestly, just grabbing things out of boxes after storing it for 2+ months was very satisfying. I had a blast!

It’s a lot!! Woo.

Not cheap either, but black friday was my savior.

Bunch of comics and manga, ps4 and switch games.

Marvel legends.. Nendoroids..

I got the new spider-man movie figure too, but I haven’t been able to see it yet due the lockdown.

And the other side-

Next some photos of my bookcase after I unpackaged all the marvel legends figures. + mafex figure.

(I already had a bunch of other figures, you’ll notice.)

One unfortunate thing about the mafex figure though. The gold paint on the iron spider claws ended up chipping a peg off, causing the claw chip to dislodge entirely. I may have to glue it back on if I ever want to use the extra spider legs. 

I’m not too salty about it because the figure is still very pretty and detailed. Highly poseable. Just a shame. I also have no intention on reselling my figures, so I’m not too bothered about the ‘’loss of value’’ if that makes sense. But he wasn’t the cheapest. Mafex is also really hard to get in the netherlands. I rarely see mafex figures for sale here.

He’s a pretty boy.

#geek #nerd #action figures #toys #spider man #spiderman #mafex #marvel legends #marvel #marvel toys #marvel action figures #nerdy #geeky #wanda #vision #nick fury #sh figuarts #deadpool #wolverine #poseable #collection #ps4 #videogames #bookcase #library #aesthetic #webcomic #manga #collecting #figure collecting

[palmett-hoes]

Hi, I really loved your post with the monsters as Birds of Prey! Was wondering if you had any thoughts on the Foxes as Marvel or Mcu characters? I feel like I could see Dan as Carol Danvers and Andrew for sure is Jessica Jones, idk about the rest.

oh wow old post!!

haha unfortunately i’m not really a comics person so i don’t feel like i can really give the best analysis possible, but i have seen most of the mcu movies and bits and pieces of the netflix show so i’ll try my best. also im using dc characters too bc i want to

1. Dan: I think your instinct with Dan as Captain Marvel is spot-on (at least uhhh,, based on the movie lol sorry comics ppl). Her direct, forceful powers and fighting style are definitely reminiscent of dan’s no-nonsense leadership approach. similarly the themes of overcoming sexism and acceling in a male-dominated industry in the captain marvel movie is pretty much the same as dan’s story establishing herself as the first female exy captain (tho sports is way more valid than the military). plus there’s a lot of emphasis on love and friendship between women that dan is ALL about. also lashana lynch would be a god tier dan wilds fc. Dan could also def have that lawful good Okoye from Black Panther energy. Loyal, disciplined, no-nonsense leader. no powers except discipline. no hair. also danai gurira in 2012 with the dreads and the sword and the cape on TWD was definitely part of my middle school sexual awakening

2. Kevin: Aquaman. this is based pretty much exclusively on the fact that jason momoa is my #1 kevin fc and also that Pasifika kevin is phenomenal and mandatory, actually. otherwise i think he has a decent amount of stick-up-the-ass cyclops energy. or dick grayson nightwing energy but i don’t have any evidence for why. kinda looks like him tho

3. Andrew: andrew gets the most characters bc he’s my favorite. i think ur jessica jones instincts are absolutely correct, both in her storyline (i only watched the first season) and her powers. i’ve seen some powers au and the tendency seems to be giving andrew like,, psychic powers or the like, and i don’t really agree. andrew is a very direct character. he’s pragmatic, he confronts problems head on, and he doesn’t muck about in details. to me this really translates best into physical powers like super strength that help u big punch straight thru all ur problems. also i def think andrew would be not just a solo hero but a mercenary (or a detective) because he’s not altruistic enough to be a standard vigilante. he doesn’t care enough about other people to hang out on rooftops all night waiting for Crime to occur. there’s a price for that.  which brings us to the NEXT andrew hero: deadpool. maybe in personality more of a drugged andrew but the superpowered mercenary is really a perfect fit for andrew. also, healing powers have a decidedly tragic poetry to them on andrew. already he’s self-destructive, if he had a healing factor his concern for his own well-being would be so beyond rock bottom it’d be in the earth’s core. even worse when you remember that with a healing factor, as opposed to indestructibility, you still feel all the pain. which brings us to Wolverine and X-23, who have the same thematic points as deadpool but are much more of a personality match and they have knife hands, which i really think andrew would appreciate. ending that sadness train and onto another tho, andrew’s aesthetic and Vibes fit the Winter Soldier just SO well (just that movie tho, not really civil war or anything past that) and a reinterpretation of the captain america story using the twinyards would be incredibly interesting. and finally, one last hero that would work really well for andrew: rogue, only remove the angst around not being able to touch people, andrew would love that. one touch and their comatose? baller. don't fucking touch him.

4. Matt: Shazam. I didn’t see the shazam movie but my dad and brother did and they said it was very funny and all the trailors looked like it had a lot of fun himbo energy and i really think that fits. in terms of matching himbo disaster energy i think i’ve heard good things about comics hawkeye (not mcu). thor?

5. Aaron: Mr. Fantastic. now this might be a stretch but aaron is a character who uses a skin-deep veneer of anger to cover the fact that he’s actually quite pliant and bends to other people’s wills. and he’s a doctor or w/e. he could alse be like,, antman. he’s smart right? hank pym not paul rudd. katelyn can be wasp

6. Seth: Arm Fall Off Boy. no i will not elaborate.             ..... ugh fine, but i'm using my favorite piece of superhero media of all time: x-men evolution, the one where they're all teenagers in public high school. seth can be lance alvers/avalanche who’s a bit of a jerk and has a lot of issues with authority and has a rivalry with cyclops very reminiscent of seth with kevin, but still there’s the recurring theme that he’s lashing out because of low self-esteem and a bad situation and he’s a surprisingly sympathetic character who i’m very fond of. his power is earthquakes but i think the name makes that pretty self-explanatory

7. Allison: Iron Man. cocky, bitchy, and rich rich rich. sounds like allison to me. then to elevate it a level higher: emma frost, rich bitch extraordinaire. also if allison had telepathic powers she would be unstoppable. plus one more bitchy, morally-gray blonde (but chaotic this time): Harley Quinn

8. Nicky: Okay so I do wanna give a quick shout-out to Northstar, the first openly gay comicbook superhero, who’s a speedster which I’d actually say fits Nicky pretty well. However, if i had to choose a superhero to represent nicky in presence and powers it would have to be Jubilee from x-men (... from what i’ve heard lol. i’ve never actually consumed any of her Media hahaha anyway) she’s a joyful, energetic presence and her powers are setting off fireworks which i think is a good balance of nicky being a supportive cousin-parent AND a chaotic train wreck garbage trash man. also gonna throw in johnny storm for a cheap 'flaming' joke

9. Renee: Thunder/Blackbird from Black Lightning bc she’s a fufkin lesbian lol. (i don’t watch the show but i do follow nafessa williams’s tag). now the fr ones i’m gonna do together because to me they have the same Vibes so i chose them for the same reasons. Wonder Woman and Storm who to me have the same  reserved, impartial, regal energy. honestly ethereal and somewhat otherwordly, and quite literally goddesses. also op as hell.  black widow and her “red in my leger” looking for redemption story also fits thematically.

10. Neil: okay lazy answer first: the flash or quicksilver. get it? because they run fast? and neil run too? yea i like to think i've proven myself to be better than such a surface level interpretation but worth the mention ig. so for srs now, mystique and her shape changing powers would be an interesting interpretation of neil's identity issues, but i wanna push it a step further. nightcrawler would actually be possibly the MOST interesting hero to apply to neil 1. because powers still very movement go fast place to place 2. because of the thematic focus on neil's unusual looks and the lengths he goes to hide them, very much in line with the way nightcrawler will use a hologram-projector in order to look human, yet in both cases it's only a surface-level illusion, and 3. his parentage. here, mary would be mystique, which i also think works very well considering mary seemed to be the far more effective chameleon on the run than neil, and also fits with her place as a morally grey character, as mystique herself is often a villain or an antagonist, with her own agenda and shadowy motives. then nathan matches well with nightcrawler's father: azazel, a literal demon, and also where kurt gets his appearance. it's a shockingly coherent narrative between the three of them. then, to also give neil some powers that aren't contingent on his fucked up geneology and rather on his own merit and abilities, Black Canary and her sonic voice parallel the way that neil began to anchor his identity and take ownership over himself through his voice and his sick roasts

and 1 extra, wymack: batman, on account of his altruism, his dedication to second chances, and his many, many adopted children

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anon, ik it's been a sec since you sent this, so i hope it gets back to you. i had a fun time with it and it prompted like,,, 7 different au s that i'll never write

#Anonymous #txt #the foxes #im talkin #my posts

[moviesrotbrains]

George A. Romero Day

I was nine or ten when I first saw Tom Savini’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1990) remake. It wasn’t my first horror film. FRANKENSTEIN (1931) was an early memory, and a giant life-sized poster of his monster1 protected my room from nightmares. I’d often dream of Freddy Krueger despite never having seen any of his films at that point. Horror was everywhere in the 1980s.

I was in awe of LIVING DEAD ‘90. The idea of being trapped in a house with evils lurking outside. The paranoia that brewed among the humans… how the humans became monsters long before they were even bit. It was heavy stuff at the time. I don’t know if I drew parallels to all of this or simply thought, “Wow, those intense zombie fights that would make a cool NES game!”2

Savini’s redo was probably my first actual zombie experience. Again, I had seen zombies in other media, most like Scooby Doo or whatever other Saturday morning cartoon cribbed and remixed the undead concept to sell toys or comicbooks.

It was a few years later that I finally got to see George A. Romero’s original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968). I can’t recall if I first saw it on TV or an actual repertory screening of it. Memory is weird that way. I do remember being thoroughly blown away by it, despite more or less having memories of the plot from that remake.

I never had a problem with Black & White movies, having already been a full on film-junkie at that point, but somehow that black & white depiction of old school zombies felt hyper real. Unsettling. Fucking cool as hell. Unerving. Or maybe I was just a dumb kid. Oh, I definitely was a dumb kid, and still am, but that moment cemented George Romero in the pantheon of cinematic greats. Didn’t matter what else he did, he made NOTLD. He made a weighty zombie film full of social commentary and subtext.3 He popularized zombies. He didn’t need to do anything else.

Oh, but he did. He so did. 

It was around the time I was starting to consume more horror4 that a classmate had cut some scenes into a film project we were working on. My jaw was on the floor when I first saw the gory display of gritty carnage.

“This is from the 70s?” 

I knew so little. I definitely didn’t know those effects were also by Tom Savini, but everything was coming full circle, and that was one of the key moments that I fell in love with Savini without even knowing.

“You never seen this? Here, man, I’ll loan you it.”

And that was when I first saw Romero’s DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978). Take some people of various walks of life and have them take refuge in an empty mall-- only to find the Zombies have returned to the place they frequented most.

“WHEN THERE’S NO ROOM IN HELL, THE DEAD WILL WALK THE EARTH!”

DOTD ‘78, The brutal and hilarious takedown of consumption and mall culture. Social Commentary, Zombie Gags, and Sick Kills. A film that’s loved by both critics and horror junkies. A film that said something and also entertained. George Romero in a nutshell.

A film that also became my gateway drug to Good Horror. And to Bad Horor. Again, I already loved horror. I loved the aesthetic, the vibe. Always drew monsters. Always collected weird monster toys. If a film was playing on a movie channel, I’d watch it. 

But Romero’s DAWN OF THE DEAD was THE film that made me WANT to actually seek them out. The film that made me want to rewatch my older brother’s old worn Betamax tapes of classic 80s horror flicks. A film that introduced me to Dario Argento.5 A movie that got me into the music of Italian Horror Prog Rock legends, GOBLIN. The life changing event that made me a nut for Savini and every 80s fx guru around. A story that made we want to watch every zombie film I possibly could. Good or Bad, and there’s a lot of bad out there. But there’s also a lot of good. So much good.

Romero’s DAY OF THE DEAD (1985) is one of those good zombie films. I saw a midnight screening with my dad at that same repertory cinema.6 This was Romero’s third DEAD film and took place on a military base. It introduced the concept of the military studying, training, and weaponizing the living dead. It also has one of the freakiest scenes involving hands and walls that still rattles me to this day. It has a stomach churning scene involving a ripped stomach. It’s wonderful, largely in part to once again utilizing Savini’s talents, as well as Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger-- who years later brought THE WALKING DEAD to your homes. Romero’s legacy still felt to this day.

That being said, Romero’s legacy was far more than just Zombie films, of course. He made a film, that’s rather timely now7, about a plague that made people crazy called... THE CRAZIES (1973).  There was another about a vampire wannabe named MARTIN (1978). A spectacular 80s horror anthology film series called CREEPSHOW8 (1982 & 1987). And a wonderfully bizarre film about a homicidal monkey named, appropriately enough, MONKEY SHINES (1988). I saw that last one before I even knew who he was but I never really forgot it. And those are just a few. 

He revisited his LIVING DEAD films with additional sequels in the 2000s and 2010s and was working on another up until his death. I was very lucky to briefly thank him during a convention, a year or so before he passed. Thanked him for the films. For everything.

He didn’t just impact me, of course. He impacted the people he worked with, who’ve gone on to impact other people in turn. He’s impacted the fans who got into horror because of him. He’s impacted the horror fans who weren’t even fans of his, because they most definitely liked something that was made by someone who was inspired by George Romero. 

You’ll see it with a DOTD’s actor cameo in a Rob Zombie film, or a gruesome creature effect in a micro-budget classic. You’ll see it in a modern classic like TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016) or while laughing your guts out at SHAWN OF THE DEAD (2004).

We aren’t just talking about movies, we’re talking books, music, and video games. 90s SIMPSON’s references. We’re talking art, tattoos, and comics. RPGs, Board games, Toys, and Funko Pops. Those Halloween decorations you keep in your home all year long . The clothes you wear. Your creepy and kooky badass goth aesthetic. A lot of what we love about horror today is thanks to George A. Romero.

He didn’t create zombies… but he certainly gave them life. He did more than that. He made horror important again.

I can’t do justice to George A. Romero with words. His work speaks for itself. So today, on what would have been his 81st Birthday, watch some Romero. If you’re out there quarantining, staying at home, under a curfew, and fearing the unfathomable, infectious dangers lurking outside your door… definitely watch Romero. 

This decade is off to a weird start, luckily we have Romero’s influence to get us through it.

Happy Birthday, George! And thank you for infecting me with horror.

-Theo Radomski, MOVIES ROT BRAINS

photo via Global News

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ENDNOTES FROM THE GRAVE

1. And you know what? I still call him Frankenstein. Because he’s essentially his son. That’s his creation. And Victor would have had the hubris to name his creation after himself if he had not abandoned that poor schlub. But I digress… 

2.  Actually, that’s exactly what I thought. And about 30 years later, Zombies are still a staple of modern video gaming, from Resident Evil and Doom still going strong after three decades, to Call of Duty and Red Dead Redemption still having Zombie mods. To every friggin’ game out there that has any undead horror creeping about. The nine-year-old me is having a blast right now.

3. I had definitely caught on the subtext and themes by that point that I may have missed while watching the remake as a kid. Still a dumb kid, though.

4.  Thanks in part to HBO’s TALES FROM THE CRYPT reruns on FOX. Expect another nonsensical rambling piece on that show and the 50s comics that inspired it sometime in the future.

5.  And that opened the doorway into Giallo, Fulci, and a whole slew of Italian Exploitation and American Slasher films and that’s a whole other long screed for another time.

6.  My dad was another reason I love this genre. He loved horror movies. I still hear his voice in my head saying, “Ooooh, It’s a Scary Movie!” in his German accent.

7.  Actually, aren’t they all?

8.  Which has also had a revival in the form of Shudder’s excellent new CREEPSHOW anthology series made by Romero’s DAY OF THE DEAD Alumni Greg Nicotero! See how it’s all connected?

#HORROR #GEORGE ROMERO #NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD #DAWN OF THE DEAD #DAY OF THE DEAD #ZOMBIES #HORROR MOVIES #george a. romero #monkey shines #creepshow #graveyard ramblings #moviesrotbrains #movies rot brains

[luimnigh]

A Review of: Avengers: Endgame

I feel like this is gonna be controversial to everyone I follow.

Avengers: Endgame

Directed By: Joe Russo and Anthony Russo

Written By: Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely

Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Karen Gillan, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Bradley Cooper, Josh Brolin, and Danai Gurira.

Score: 7.75/10

Watch If You Like: Marvel Movies. There’s really nothing more I can say here, you know already if you like Marvel Movies. If you don’t, don’t watch this. If you do, you’re already planning on watching this. If you have never seen a Marvel Movie, for the love of god do not start here.

Content Warnings: PG-13 Violence, Abuse, an incredibly lackluster attempt at LGBT representation.

Spoilers under the cut. I repeat, ENDGAME SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT.

Well, I liked it better than Infinity War.

What can I really say? Everyone puts in good performances, there’s some fantastic shots and cinematography, the score is adequate as usual apart from some well-chosen pre-existing music, the fight scenes are fun and inventive…

Just in general, this is a pretty well-written movie. The emotional pacing is great, knowing when to be sad, when to be funny, when to be triumphant… The plot, for the most part, makes sense, and the character directions make sense, for the most part. I’ve seen a lot of people accuse the writers of relying on twists and that’s why the whole spoiler culture is around it, to prevent people from knowing better, but I disagree. It’s definitely got some rewatchability to it.

But on the other hand, you definitely get the feeling that this is a mass-marketed story written by straight white men. There’s a definite aura off it, something I never really noticed in previous movies.

I laughed, I cried, I got annoyed at some stuff. Let’s get to the categories.

The Good:

The plot is pretty good, overall. The time-travel heist that we center around after the prologue is a unique idea for an Avengers movie, and it escalates naturally into the massive battle in the end. It breaks our cast down into small groupings, most of them pretty natural pairings. It goes wrong at points, sometimes they recover well, other times they have to go further off-plan to recover.

The prologue. It doesn’t really waste any time, gets straight to the point, and does some things I really didn’t think it would do (Thanos being smart enough to destroy the Infinity Stones, and Thanos dying)

Thanos’ motivations. I didn’t like his motivations in the previous film, but this one lays out pretty clearly what I suspected: it’s not actually about saving the universe for Thanos. It’s about his ego. He wants to be the saviour, he wants everyone to know it, and he wants to live to see this “grateful universe” he creates. He travels to the Avengers’ timeline because he wants to change his future, he wants to win and not die in the aftermath. He’s not a well-intentioned extremist, he’s a glory hound.

Consequences. They reverse The Snap, but it still has consequences. Everyone who died has lost five years, while the world has moved on without them. We get Gamora back, but she’s not the same Gamora who died.

The final battle. It lasts a goddamn hour and it flies by in a flash. It’s fantastically paced, never dragging, and highlights the next generation of Avengers while giving the old guard time to shine. It’s a big, epic comicbook battle brought to life.

Hawkeye’s character arc. It makes sense for him to go after the worst of humanity in his grief, and it brings his character around quite poetically, from the person who gave a chance to a killer, to a killer given a chance.

The focus on Nebula. Karen Gillan plays a blinder in this one, and she gets a lot of time to shine, both as her past and present versions.

The scenes with the Ancient One. They go into the heist all gung-ho, and she just smacks Banner down, explaining that he’d be dooming one universe to save another. You see a lot of stories that don’t care about the alternate universes our heroes visit, so it’s nice to see someone point out that those universes continue to exist afterwards and are just as worthy of saving as any other one.

Captain America is goddamn worthy and that was beautiful.

Scarlet Witch vs Thanos.

Rescue, after all these years.

Yes, the female Avengers scene was cheesy and I do not care.

Honestly? Pretty good use of Captain Marvel. Not in the movie much, but when she’s there, she makes the perfect impact. After all, the rest of the Galaxy doesn’t have an Avengers. Maybe she should change that?

First off, that shot of Cap alone against Thanos’ army? Fuck yeah. Then the reinforcements arrive with Sam’s “On your left”? Fuck Yeah.

Black Widow’s death. I was hesitant on this one, but while I hate that she died, it’s a good conclusion to her arc. She’s spent decades trying to wipe the red from her ledger, make up for the innocents that she’s killed, and it’s what motivates her to end her own life in the end.

Iron Man’s death. While I have a problem with him killing Thanos, him winning the final battle did feel fitting. He was the first. He made the sacrifice play, once again. His arc has always been about him being unable to do anything less but to devote his life to helping others, to detriment of his health and his personal life. He declared he’d stop being Iron Man, but went right back at the first opportunity. His line, “I am Iron Man”, as well as echoing Thanos’ repetition of “I am Inevitable”, is a final admission to himself. He could never do anything less than give the world everything, as much as he wanted.

Cap’s ending. The soldier who only ever knew war finally gets his peace. He finally gets the life he always wanted. This is the one that broke me, that made me cry, because I was happy for him, but so sad that we were losing him.

Also, shout out to actress who played Morgan Stark, she was fantastic and I can’t find her name on IMDb.

The Bad:

Thanos’ deaths. Look, Gamora and Nebula deserved to confront him, to call him out on all his bullshit, and now they’ll never get to. It’s unsatisfying. Like, if you had to have Tony kill him in the end, let Nebula end him at the farm, at the very least.

Thanos never gets called out on his bullshit.

Banner. I’m gonna be honest, the Professor Hulk thing is such a big change, it feels like a cop out to have occurred during the time skip. And on top of that, it’s clearly Banner’s mind in Hulk’s body. That’s not an equal relationship, because Hulk had a personality. Hulk was a person. None of Hulk is left in that fusion, you see it when the Ancient One sends him astral projecting. Hulk is dead, and Banner kinda killed him.

Once again, they kinda shat on Thor’s character arc. I appreciate his trauma, and him learning to deal with it, but after finally having Thor become the person he was meant to be in Ragnarok… he abandons it. Twice. And while I appreciate him handing power off to Valkyrie, the cynical side of me says this is an attempt to take Valkyrie out of further movies. Also the fat jokes are not appreciated.

Okay, what are the rules to the Soul Stone again? Because last time it was “sacrifice something you love”, and this time it’s “a soul for a soul”. If it’s the first, then self-sacrifice totally doesn’t count and our heroes should’ve been down a stone, if it’s the second then the scene in Infinity War contradicts it and should’ve been massively changed. Because the scenes around it were problems in and of themselves.

Remember that beautiful scene with Cap at the end? The one I cried at? Yeah, that breaks the rules of time travel that the film sets out. You cannot travel to your own universe’s past, only to alternate universes. And yet Steve manages to travel into the past of the main universe. You can’t say he simply traveled back to another universe and then back home for the visit because he’d have to use the quantum tunnel device that everyone was standing around. The other two devices were destroyed. Like, you could have changed that so easily, have him show up back on the pad as his old self and send him on his way again, but you went for extra poignancy and made yourself a genuine plothole.

Also, the advertised LGBT rep. Honestly, it might have gone over smoother if the directors hadn’t made a big deal out of it. Just a guy, not being played by one of the directors, talking about his life after the snap. And doing this to a fanbase that’s wanted LGBT rep for nearly a decade now isn’t fucking great, Marvel.

Overall… look, you already know if you’re seeing this or not. Personally, I liked it, it gave me some things I was waiting years for, but… I can’t help but feel a little disappointed, y’know? It’s a fitting ending, but... it could’ve been better.

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Aquaman: Party through the "Meh" with mermaids twerkin

When I first heard that Aquaman was getting his own movie, I was hyped! I thought to myself "FINALLY!"

Finally, this man is going to get a chance to reveal his story to the world!" He has been ridiculed for decades - the only superhero who's this powerful, who never gets any respect! It ain't right! It ain't right how we've made fun of him. Yeah, I know I've made fun of him as well... which I will not apologize for... his power is silly. It's possible to have a special ability that is both powerful and down right stupid.

Look at Wolverine - now, I would never tell him to his face that his power is stupid, but... ... I mean, his power is taking an asswhupin. Take away his claws, questionable grooming, and attitude and you're left with that cheerleader from "Heroes" - same powers.

The X-Men could simply replace Wolverine with her. Now, they would never do that, or even think of saying that Wolvy is silly, right??! Nah, cuz he he makes it look good! We respect that man! He makes it work! He is a BAMF phosho!

Whenever there's a problem that needs a "fixer", they call on Wolverine, cuz he's bad ass. DC thought that they might make Aquaman into the Wolverine of the Justice League. I was down for it!

Even Aquaman was excited about this - he decided he'd change his look to cultivate how he wanted to be perceived. He wanted that Jason Momoa look: He dyed his hair, got some tats, joined a biker gang... JM kinda has that sexy-dirty look going on.

Here's a picture of him just getting out of the water, and yet he still looks a lil dirty somehow; it's uncanny. So, Aquaman decided that he'd lift weights on a beach that has a thin layer of trash on it -  to get that look, and that he wouldn't stop lifting until the ladies start hurling compliments, phone numbers, and bikini tops at him. The Jason Momoa make-over is in full effect and I'm loving it!

We saw him with the Justice League - He was PartyMan! They were trying to save the world from ultimate evil while he was showing up late, drunk, and shirtless, being like "YEAH! PARTAAAAAY! WHEW!" Who doesn't love that guy??! Give me a movie about Aquaman drinking under the sea, making fish perform musicals for him (cuz why not??), getting high with sharks, and banging mermaids. YES!

BUT, then I started thinking.... thinking things through typically ruins fun: Sure I loved "partyman", but do I really want 2 1/2 hours of him? At some point, party men/women get tiresome, right?? I started thinking about the current state of the DC Universe - Superman and his digitally removed mustache flew off to make action movies.

Batman hasn't been looking too good these days -

Sorry, wrong one -

But, still not looking so good - (we do hope Ben gets better)

Just like us men to leave the woman behind to carry the load. Eventually, carrying the rest of the DC universe is going to wear on WW, right?? We've all known or had moms who power through their guy leaving in the beginning, while carrying a huge load. But, after a while they get cranky... maybe bitter towards men... and drink a lil too much wine every night (but we don't talk about it).

I can see this in WW's fate for the next movie. Bursting through doors, with a wine stained costume, punching all of the men (simply assuming they're the ones who are in the wrong)... eternal bags under her eyes... somehow all of her inspirational speeches end with her cursing the names of Batman and Superman. If that's how a mighty warrior like Wonder Woman is going to end up, what hope is there for a loveable, drunken, ex biker gang member like Aquaman?

Then, someone walked over to me and said "John Praphit, quit being Marvel's bitch and go support a DC comic movie for a change!" Now, people... for one that's uncalled for... and two - while I consider myself to be a patient, gracious, Jesus-loving man... if one gets out of line with their mouth, don't think I won't wait until Jesus ain't lookin and beat them down. Soooooo, that's exactly what I did to this person - with my hands around their throat, I was STILL thinking... What other movies are even out around Christmas?

That Deadpool scam? -

It's the same movie with a lil less cussing and violence in it! I hope that y'all didn't fall for this! DP and Fred Savage are out there stealing people's money.

I thought "I could go see these two assholes."

Or what about Mary Poppins?

I actually have an idea for Mary Poppins. How about Mary Poppins the Horror Film?! Picture her in the house teaching and singing with the kids, but they aren't getting it - they're such screwups... she walks upstairs into the bathroom, shuts the door, and finally snaps. She takes off her clothes except her underwear, shaves her head, opens a chest full of guns, and begins to strap them all on... puts on lipstick, but not on her lips... she smears it all over her face... drinks a half a bottle of vodka, and then walks out the door, down the stairs to the kids... that's when the fun/horror begins. YES!

While still holding this person's neck in my hands, I thought to myself "I'm never going to get THAT Poppins." So... I let him go, called an ambulance for him (cuz I'm gracious like that), and went to see Aquaman.

PEOPLE!

Meh... it was as I thought it would be. There are some fun moments - Jason Momoa's portrayl of Aqua is certainly fun, it's just that the director of this movie forgot to tell the other cast members to have fun. Everyone not named Aquaman is so serious in this movie. Again, Momoa is fun... the cg fights are fun, but... it's just meh. But, being that there's not a whole lot to see in the theatres right now, perhaps it'll be the perfect type of "meh" for you. I recommend having a few drinks first tho. The dialogue is BAD and the plot - I mean...

... it's a campaign for who should be King of the sea. Jason Momoa or this guy

-

(everything about him screams lame) C'mon, no need for a fight, just a quick vote, and let's all move on.

Granted, I can remember a time when we all thought there would be a landslide victory for a particular leader, and the voting process kinda failed us...

So - maybe an over-CG'd water/fish fight IS warranted. (and you get two of them).

Can you imagine if Trump and Clinton had duked it out for the presidency?? I think I'd put my money on Clinton. Sometimes, it's the angrier person who wins the battle. Clinton has all of that rage built up from dealing with Bill all of these years.

She could focus all of her rage on Trump. Finally unleashed!

Anyway Grade: generic C for Aquaman - though an entertaining generic C

What they should have done is go all in on comedy - like Thor 3 or Ant-Man. They could have even sold a fun soundtrack produced by Rick Ross and Lil Wayne. Picture Momoa under the sea, wearing a hoody with Rick Ross... while bopping his head to the beat. You could have Lil Wayne surfing on a shark above... mermaids twerkin!

OR - Give us killer Aquaman.. but still funny. You know?? - make us laugh while he's engaged in the mayhem. Like if you were to combine Jason Momoa with Kevin Hart and The Joker.

Though I believe Aquaman's powers to be silly, they could be horrific with the right mindset. There are all kinds of creepy creatures under the sea. Just have Aqua drag people down to the sea and have fun with them using some of these beauties.

Then the sequel could be Aquaman seeking redemption; realizing that he should use his powers for good. He could tweet out some apology - He's a changed man! He has found the Lord! I dont think the villain to hero story has been told quite like this in a Comicbook movie before.

And when the people don't forgive him, cuz... you know... all of the murder. BOOM! Third movie with him saying "Well, bleep y'all then!"

THAT'S a franchise that is definitely NOT "meh".

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Wait, who's whitewashed in New Mutants?

*Cracks knuckles*

Roberto “Bobby” da Costa AKA Sunspot is a biracial, white/Black Brazilian man. (The fact that he is Black is actually a crucial part of his origin story too, considering he discovered his powers because racist assholes physically and verbally assaulted him in the middle of a soccer game.)

This is Bobby in the comics, vs his actor, Henry Zaga:

They got the Brazilian thing right, but gee… something seems to be missing. I wonder what it is.

Cecilia Reyes is a Black Puerto Rican woman. She was originally going to be played by Rosario Dawson, (while not perfect, definitely better than who they ended up with) who backed out of the role for reasons unknown. (She probably saw what shit it is.)

This is Cecilia in the comics, vs her actress, Alice Braga:

Well, isn’t that weird. But what an innocent mistake, am I right?

Danielle “Dani” Moonstar AKA Mirage is a Cheyenne woman. A Cheyenne woman with dark skin, and who you could never call whitepassing.

This is Dani in the comics, vs her actress, Blu Hunt:

Huh, interesting. I’m sure casting a whitepassing Native girl is totally coincidentally matched with all the whitewashing, yeah?

“But Blu Hunt is a First Nations woman, shouldn’t you, a First Nations woman, be happy they didn’t cast a white woman to play Dani?” Well, yes and no. Yes, I’m not as angry as I would be if they casted the white actress that almost did, as Hollywood ever so frequently does. But we are not required to be happy for Hollywood doing the absolute bare minimum when they should be aiming for accuracy. You know what the optimal casting would be? A dark skinned Cheyenne woman. Like Dani. But I would have been pleased with at least a dark skinned Native girl period. And when you pair this casting with the casting of the two other characters of colour, it’s really fucking interesting how supposedly out of their international search for actresses, they could only find a whitepassing girl as suitable to play this very much not whitepassing character.Like, if someone came up to me and said “hey, do you want to play Dani, we know she’s one of your favourite characters!” I would say no. Because while I am Mi’kmaw, I am whitepassing, and Dani is not.AND THEY WERE LITERALLY ACTUALLY CONSIDERING CASTING A WHITE ACTRESS. So that should really tell you where their mind was at here. (See links below.)

And finally…

Xi’an “Shan” Coy Manh AKA Karma is a Vietnamese lesbian, who eventually is also an amputee. Shan was the first leader of the New Mutants…

And yet she is not even in this movie. They just. Cut her out. She is the leader of the very team they are making the movie about and they erased her entirely from it.

“An Asian lesbian you say? Oh no. We can’t have that in our movie.” 

Now, all of these characters have faced whitewashing in the comics from time to time, as well. Comicbook whitewashing is a thing. But that doesn’t mean the movies should follow suit. I’ve seen people post pictures of whitewashed art of these characters and say “look, it’s great casting!” You are comparing whitewashing to whitewashing and need to shut the fuck up.

So, this is my biggest problem with the New Mutants movie, if you can even call it that.

…My second biggest problem is that it’s fairly fucking obvious what the plot of the movie is, based on the trailer and comic knowledge, and I’m gonna go ahead and skip a story about the kidnapping and torture of an Indigenous child with the ability to create illusions out of people’s fears and thus turns the place into a haunted house and by extension is the unintentional villain of the movie by what will surely be a Shocking™ plot twist.

EDIT: Before you decide to add more clownery responses to this post, instead of recycling the same old bullshit please just see this follow-up -

Karma not being part of the Demon Bear Saga, which the movie seems to be extremely loosely based on, is no excuse when the films give no shits about authenticity in any other regard

You are aware that there are Black Brazillians, right? And Roberto da Costa is one

No seriously, apparently I have to ask this question multiple times. You are aware that there are Black Brazillians, right?

Roberto has been whitewashed a-plenty in the comics, but that is a) a problem in itself and b) no excuse for whitewashing in film, and even still he has for the most part been depicted as a Black man

Just like Roberto, Dani has been drawn in extremely different degrees of whitewashing over the years, but has also still for the most part been drawn as a dark skinned Cheyenne woman. Do not even bother coming at me with bullshit claims about Dani, bitch. She is my absolute favourite character and I will pull the receipts from any issue she’s ever been in

The studio has no place selling themselves as being progressive for casting a light skinned Native girl to play a dark skinned Native girl, when their second choice was a white girl, and they could have without any effort at all had better casting

Casting a darker skinned Native woman to play a darker skinned Native character is important, given how deep set Hollywood is with colourism and also the false idea that there are no full blooded Native people left

“But Asgard!!1!”

Don’t you dare excuse all this racism because of the queerbaiting

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “BLACKWASHING” LEARN TO FUCKING GOOGLE

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Powder Keg, originally titled Krudttønden, is a biographical drama that explores the events leading up to the 2015 Copenhagen shootings in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in France a month prior. The film revolves around four people who would find their lives rocked by the event, including an aging police officer, a struggling-to-find-work security guard, a filmmaker, and a recently released criminal who finds himself increasingly influenced by more radical Islamist groups.

Related: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Movies & TV Shows: Where You Know The Game Of Thrones Star

Game of Thrones alum Nikolaj Coster-Waldau spoke with Screen Rant to discuss the docudrama, its efforts to remain honest to the tragic events and people involved, and what he took away from the project.

Screen Rant: This was a really powerful movie, it’s a really interesting exploration of the tragic events. How familiar were you with those events prior to signing on for the film?

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: I was very familiar with that day. I was home, I live just north of Copenhagen and it’s a small country. It was a national trauma that had happened because we in Denmark felt we were isolated from that kind of event. Just before this thing happened, there [were] these horrific attacks in Paris at the Charlie Hebdo paper that we obviously followed with horror, but then when it happened in Copenhagen, it really was just a wave of shock. So I was very familiar. and it was a big reason why I wanted to be part of this movie.

So your character, is he based on one specific person, or is he sort of a composite of multiple real people involved?

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: Rico, the cop that I play who is the anti-terror squad leader, is not a specific cop, because, you know, you just can’t give those names out and they wouldn’t want us to. But we talked with — myself, the writer, director — with all the researchers and had discussions with those people, so he’s not a real person, but he is based on reality.

What were some of the biggest lessons that you took away from the research and from talking with these real people to help sort of inform your performance?

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: There’s the basic, as with any part, of how much work they do, how much training, [chuckles] how hard it is, which obviously I could use for Rico. My character feels like he’s at the peak of his career, but his body is telling him, “No, you are at the end of it, my friend.” He wants life to go on as it always has and this is his whole identity, so I could use that directly, that knowledge. But also, I think what I loved about the story, about the script, was how they chose to follow these four characters that day and insist on the humanity that they all share. I think with this story, what was so shocking was that with some terrorist attacks around the world — 9/11 is of course the defining moment of the last 20 years in the Western world — these were people that came from somewhere else, it was like a foreign attack if you will.

Here it was a Danish citizen who chose to do this, who decided that discussion is no longer an option, the only way forward is by killing the people I don’t agree with and I think that is so tragic and so disturbing and so sad that we got to that point. It’s also why I think it’s important that we all have to acknowledge that, as much as we might not want to, we are also part of the problem of division. We see it all over the world, this whole weird time we live in where politics becomes Mortal Kombat sometimes and that it’s no longer okay to disagree, that if you disagree with me, you’re a bad person. We need to change our ways because it leads to destruction and fear and it undermines what we kind of all want to achieve and that is what I love about this movie. In this story is that it insists on the fact that we are all in this together.

Whether it’s Omar who commits the killings — obviously this is his choice, he’s a grown man, he is responsible, but how did this 20-year-old end up doing this? Are there any moments before this where you go, “Well, maybe if we as a society had done something differently? Is there something different [we should do] differently,” but to at least have the discussion, I think, is very important.

Looking at all of those elements coming into the film, what would you say was one of your biggest creative challenges throughout the production?

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: I think the biggest challenge was, “Is making this movie too soon?” When something really traumatic happens, how much time does it need before you can actually look at it with a healthy perspective, if you will. I think that, obviously, we came to the conclusion that it was important. Even when I got the script, I was like, “Oh, yeah, when was that?” And I thought it was further back in time. Sometimes when traumatic things happen, we get through them, and then we want to forget about it, especially with this one as it did not fit the self-image we had as a country.

That feeling almost made it more important for me, because I was shocked by that I myself was like, “Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, that happened. And was that 15 years ago? No, it was four years ago. Oh, s***.” Because the problem hasn’t gone away. We see that on a small scale in neighborhoods where people fight like crazy or you see it on a global scale, now you have the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Then you go, “Well, we tried to solve an issue by brute force 20 years ago and it did not really turn out the way we want it. Not because we didn’t have all the best intentions and all the goodwill, it just didn’t work. So how can we deal with these things in a better way?” Sometimes it can be very painful to talk about it, obviously, but it’s I do think it’s important to insist on.

I couldn’t agree more. This film also marks an interesting sort of trend for you lately in which we’re getting to see you return to more Denmark-based productions. What’s that been like for you, getting to speak in your native tongue more often on camera in comparison to, obviously, Game of Thrones and such?

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: Yeah, it’s funny because it wasn’t really a plan to do three Danish movies, but I just loved these very different scripts and it just felt like, “Yeah, I’ll do that.” I got to see my family a bit more, which was also a wonderful bonus, but I love the stories and that’s always what I allow to dictate the choices I make. Since then, I just came back from Mexico, where I did this very American movie, so now I’m back to the Anglo world.

You got to have a good balance of both, right? So you mentioned the physicality of your character and how that connects to his story and though there’s not a whole lot of action scenes in the film, there are a few involving your character. How was the physicality for you from the actor’s perspective as much as the character?

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: It was interesting, I mean with this movie there was some specifics that were, I wouldn’t say challenging, but challenging production-wise and also in terms of just being very careful of the subject matter, because it’s a real story and we wanted to be as close to what happened on that night. It’s very sensitive because three men were killed and we were shooting in neighborhoods where that happened where there is still a lot of tension, so I think the challenge was more about being truthful, but also be very, very careful not to make it seem as if we’re trying to take advantage of a tragedy. I’m obviously, because I was part of the creative team behind the movie, I’m proud of the movie and I feel we’ve managed that balance, but that was, I think, the biggest challenge.

I think it was a very special movie to make [for everyone involved] because every one of us had a relationship to that story and knew that story and it was such an emotional day [when it happened]. At the end of the movie, you see this huge march of light that happened the following day after the attack in Copenhagen where people came out, just walked very peacefully with torches, insisting on reacting in a peaceful, loving way to something so horrific. I’m answering your question in a very, very, very long answer [laughs], but I think the biggest challenge was the fact that this was a real story that happened recently and it affected everyone, both us making it but also, I would argue, most people in Denmark.

Given how personal it was for you, how does it feel to finally have it coming to the States after initially coming out last year?

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: It’s wonderful that it’s coming out. When it came out in Denmark, like so many other movies we came out on Friday after the Tuesday the country was shut down. [Laughs] It was, you know, it was disappointing in that way. A pandemic affects everyone, of course, but I’m very happy that it has a life because I also think that it’s a universal story. I think whether you’re American or Danish, you can relate to the horror of terrorism and – obviously, in the US you have had more attacks – but the way it affects you is the same I think.

More: 10 Best Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Roles Before He Played Jaime Lannister

Powder Keg is now available on digital platforms and VOD.

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My Christmas Truce fic for @rainosa, who asked for “Danny & parents angst.” I angsted the best I could manage this close to Christmas.  

 “...You redecorated.”

Tucker turns around and furrows his brow at him. It’s a stupid thing to say, but it’s the first thing Danny can think of as he stands in the doorway to Tucker’s room, the strap of his duffel digging into his shoulder.

“Huh?” Tucker looked around for confirmation. “Oh! Right, yeah. I moved some things around like...last semester? I think?”

Last semester? Has it really been that long since he visited Tuck at his house? New anime scrolls have replaced the last of the posters that had been around since middle school. The bookshelf has been moved to make space for a brand new desk, where Tuck’s computer is humming and idle. At least that was the same- unless Tucker’s been replacing its innards again.

No, except for the bed in the same old corner, Tuck’s room is practically unrecognizable. It’s been a lot longer than just one semester since Danny’s stepped foot in his best friend’s room, and he never even realized. 

Too busy with ghost-drama, probably. 

Tucker opens his arms to indicate the room, still littered with rumpled old clothes, comic books, and tech magazines. “Well, mi casa and whatever, I’m failing Spanish.”

“Tucker, you speak fluent Esperanto with Wulf. How are you failing Spanish?”

“Can never find time to finish the homework. It’s okay, I’ll just ace the final and squeak by.” He sweeps aside some t-shirts to excavate the carpeting  underneath. “Uh...you can put your stuff here. Sorry, I wasn’t expecting-”

“It’s fine.” Danny throws his duffel bag down on the cleared floor space and braces for the inevitable question. 

Instead, Tucker asks: “You want to watch a movie or fight off a demon-invasion on Mars?”

Danny releases a breath he didn’t know he’d been holding. “Maybe just a movie. Scientists accidentally opening a portal to hell sounds a little too...”

“Relevant to our current situation?”

"Yeah. That.” Danny sits down on Tucker’s bed and winces when he feels something very not-cushiony or bedlike. He rummages underneath and pulls out a thick comicbook with a werewolf-looking woman in frayed clothes on the cover. Tucker practically dives across the room to snatch it out of Danny’s hands as he just starts flipping through it. 

“Ha-ha that’s not a movie what’s this where did it even come from what a mystery.” Tucker quickly banishes it to his bookshelf. 

Danny raises any eyebrow. “The Den of Empress She-Wolf?”

“I am invoking the ‘no-judgements’ clause of our friendship.”

“Wow, it must be really bad.”

Tucker scowls in a vain effort to hide the blush coloring his cheeks, making Danny laugh. It feels good, feeling the tension from the past few hours dissolve in a short fit of giggles.

Yeah, coming here had been a good idea.

He lets Tucker choose the movie, and they both sit down on the bed with their backs against the wall. At least the TV hadn’t been moved since the last time Danny had been over.

He doesn’t really pay attention to the movie. It’s difficult to focus on anything for too long. At some point, Tucker’s Mom knocks softly and shows up with a gigantic bowl of stovetop popcorn. Danny doesn’t know what cover story Tucker fed his parents, but it had to be close enough to the truth, judging by the concerned look she thinks she’s hiding.

“Thanks, Mrs. Angela.”

“Oh, it’s no trouble. Just made a little too much, is all. You boys are settled in for the night?”

“Yes, Mom,” Tucker groans like he’s suffering. 

“Fine, fine, I won’t keep bothering you.” 

Danny’s phone pings in his pocket. Without even looking, he reaches in and silences it. He doesn’t need to see who it is- all of his friends have their own ringtone. 

Tucker looks at him, wearing the exact same look his mom just had. “Are you gonna check your-”

“Hit play, we’re in the middle of my favorite scene,” Danny says. It’s not a lie; Andrew Garfield really shines with classic Spider-Man sass against that carjacker.

Tucker looks like he wants to say something, but finally relents and starts the movie back up again. Danny releases another breath he’d been holding.

He doesn’t remember falling asleep. The room’s dark when he jolts awake; still muddled, Danny briefly thinks just for a moment, that he’s home. 

Tucker is sitting cross-legged at the end of the bed near Danny’s feet, the light from his laptop screen painting deep shadows and harsh digital. The memory of where he is and why he’s there settles back into his headspace like a sharp slap of focus. Danny knuckles at the crust and dark circles around his eyes. “What time is it?”

“A little past one.” Tucker keeps his gaze on the screen, keeping the manic tempo of clacking computer keys. Danny has no idea how that didn’t wake him. Maybe he’s gotten too good at grabbing whatever sleep he can, or his subconscious finds unmistakable Tucker-noises comforting.

Danny sits up and reaches out blindly for his phone, but this isn’t his room and Tucker keeps his nightstand on the other side, so he just ends up slapping his hand against the wall. Tucker wordlessly pulls Danny’s phone from someplace and hands it to him, somehow still typing one-handed. 

“Thanks.” He looks at the blanket pooled around him that wasn’t there before. “I took your bed,” He says it like an apology.

“S’okay. You looked like you needed it. That thing was buzzing up a storm, by the way.”

He’s right. The lockscreen says Danny has fifteen new messages. Sighing, Danny plugs in Sam’s birthday and checks them. Text messages from Jazz and Danielle, updating him and asking if he’s okay. No missed phone calls from his parents, thank God. 

The last call made on the phone was technically yesterday, when he called Tucker and asked if he could stay the night. Thirty seconds was all his voice could manage, at the time.

Even though Tucker had told him the time, it hadn’t registered until Danny’s looking at the clock on his phone and sees the missed notification he scheduled. Danny sits up straighter. “Patrol!” He blurts out. “I completely-”

“Already taken care of,” Tucker keeps coding. “Val and Sam are handling it.”

“Those two...together?”

He shrugged. “I dunno man, I think they had a secret meeting and hashed out their differences when we weren’t looking.”

Danny double-checked his messages, but there wasn’t anything from Sam or Val.

“So...uh.” Tucker clears his throat. “Jazz filled me in. While you were asleep. Actually, before you got here, too.” 

“She...did?”

“Yeah....her, Sam, and me kinda had this planned out for a while, now. For when it happened.”

“Oh.” He can’t quite look Tucker in the eyes. It’s...he guesses he shouldn’t be surprised. He’s actually really touched, that they had his back when he didn’t ask for it- that they were ready for whatever happened and never told him so he wouldn’t feel any more pressure than he already was.

“You told them.” Tucker says it not like a question.

“Yeah.”

“And...now you’re staying here.”

“It...didn’t go well.” Danny finally drags his eyes up to Tuck’s. “How much did Jazz tell you?”

“Just that shit went down and Operation We-Never-Decided-On-A-Name was in effect. She didn’t think it was right to say anything more unless you were ready.”

He should have guessed Jazz wouldn’t just blab about everything. His big sister was a lot of things (see also: meddling, anal, way too cheery at seven a.m.) but she’s been surprisingly good with boundaries and keeping his secrets, after the first few hiccups. “Wanna know the funny thing? It wasn’t the half-ghost thing.”

“But...what else would it be?”

“Don’t get me wrong, it just about gave them a heart attack, but things didn’t get bad until I told them everything.”

Tucker’s eyes widen. “Everything, everything?”

Danny chuckles sadly. “Turns out, finding out your best friend from college is secretly a ghost-monster trying to kill you and/or destroy your marriage is one thing, but your own kids knowing about it and lying about it?”

“Ooohhh.” Tucker nods. “That.” 

“Yeah. That. And since things couldn’t possibly get any worse, I thought: ‘why not just rip off the filthy band-aid that is my life all at once and tell them about their clone-daughter, too?’”

Tucker winces. “Ooohhhh crap.” 

“And that’s when the yelling started.” Danny changes his voice in a poor imitation of his mother. “’She’s just a little girl, how could you let her run away on her own!’ I mean, yeah, I definitely deserved that- but she had Valerie looking after her, and it’s not like I could force Danielle to do anything she didn’t want to do! And with Vlad I tried to explain how I had it under control, like, we had a mutually assured secret identity thing going on- he stopped trying to actively murder Dad years ago. All our stuff was strictly foiling evil plots and him beating the crap out of me sometimes.”

“And the cloning.” Tucker adds.

“Okay yeah that too, which is sort of how Danielle got name-dropped by sorta accident in the first place, but then they had the gall to berate me for not trusting them!” It’s like being back in the living room all over again. Danny’s fist is balled so tight his nails are biting crescents into his palms, and in the dark he can tell his eyes started blazing green again, which probably hadn’t helped things with his ghost-hunter parents, much.

“Trust? I’m like, Trust?! How can ever really trust people that have tried to shoot me on sight, before? That have spent whole family meals talking about dissecting me ‘molecule by molecule.’ How can I trust people that build a goddamn portal to the netherworld in their basement and put their family and the whole freaking town in danger every. Single. Day?!”

They’d been appalled when he exploded on them, even Jazz  looked uncomfortable, even if it was all thing’s she’d been saying for years- if a bit gentler. Looking back on it- replaying the whole thing over again- made his heart pound with residual panic.

But Tucker? Tucker just nods and listens.

Danny has to swallow down the sudden dryness squeezing his throat. “I blamed them.” He manages, throat hoarse. “I blamed everything on them. I told them their stupid portal turned me into this, and I looked them in the eye and said I saw the first accident, the one that made Vlad, and I said that if they wanted to angry at anyone, they should look in a mirror first.”

“Ouch,” Tucker says. “Not exactly inaccurate, but ouch.”

“It was around then I decided staying there was probably a bad idea and packed a bag.”

“That’s...probably for the best.” Tucker nods. “Get some distance, clear your head.”

“You and Sam kind of came up too.”

“We did?”

Danny makes sound resembling a laugh. “They asked if you guys knew. I don’t think I laughed harder in my entire life.”

Tucker blinks at him, slowly processing what he’d said, then bursts into a shoulder shaking laugh. “Oh my God. They actually asked if we knew?”

Danny chortles. “I know, right! I was like, ‘how do you think I even survived this long without going crazy’?”

Tucker’s so far gone he’s slapping his eye and wheezing desperately. “You literally yell ‘I’m Going Ghost!’ in the hallways at school! Even if you didn’t tell us, we’d have figured it out in like, a week!”

“I know!”

“Jazz figured you out!”

“I knooow!” Danny keels over with laughter, tears streaming down his face. 

Tucker wipes a tear from his eye. “And-heheh- and I think Sam would have noticed that her boyfriend’s eyes freaking glowed whenever they- wait- did you tell them you and Sam are-”

“God no, are you kidding? What am I, nuts?”

That just ignites a whole new round of laughter- they’re probably too loud, Tucker’s parents are two rooms away and might be wondering what sounds like a pair of cackling lunatics coming from their son’s room. But Danny and Tucker surrender to it and fall together in a heap on the bed, still shaking with little leftover giggles.

They lay there quietly in the dark on the bed like they used to in grade school. Back then staying up into one-am was a huge deal, devouring junk food, playing video games, and watching gory age-inappropriate movies action movies.

Now they usually stayed up this late hunting ghosts and cramming what little homework they could manage before falling asleep in exhaustion. 

Danny suddenly feels very tired. 

“What are we supposed to do now, Tuck?”

He didn’t even hesitate. “Stay here the rest of the weekend, eat unhealthy shit, and bingewatch bad anime from my hard drive?”

“God yes. You’re the best.”

“Hahah, hell yeah. Who’s best friend now?”

“Still Sam, but for completely different reasons.”

“No fair, I think I’ve proven I can totally pull off that same skirt.”

“I love you, Tuck, but that was so wrong.”

“Don’t shame me I got fifty bucks outta that deal and my legs looked great.”

Danny snorts back a laugh- and freezes when his phone buzzes.

Tucker waits a few moments for Danny’s head to stop pounding quite so fast before asking. “That Jazz again?”

“...no.” Danny’s shaking fingers fumble the password twice before he manages to bring up the single text message:

Mom [1:37am]: Never forget you’re my baby boy and I will always love you 

Tucker might be right about the best friend thing after all. He doesn’t say a word while Danny cries quietly on his bed. Just sits up, pulls the blanket over the both of them, and starts typing a comfortable rhythm on his laptop again.

#christmas truce 2017 #rainosa #danny phantom #tucker foley #merry christmas #hope you enjoy it #i did my best to angst #but about 50% of how *i* deal with personal crisisies is to ignore them and sleep until they go away #(spoiler: that usually doesn't work) #also sorry i guess my subconscious solution to angst is friend-bonding and laughing to make the hurt go away #i make a terrible #phantomrose96 #my writing #my fanfiction

[cappuccinosweets]

Tagged!

Tagged by @otomesloupe

Thank you so much for tagging me! 

RULES: Choose any three fandoms (in random order) and answer the questions, then tag 10 people you want to know better.

Three Fandoms:

Mystic Messenger 

Marvel 

Buko no Hero Academia 

The First Character You Loved:

Jumin Han 

I have a thing for guys with dark hair. When I first saw the opening picture for Mystic Messenger I was immediately drawn to Jumin. I played his route second because I was that curious about him. 

James Bucchanan “Bucky” Barnes (Winter Soldier)

Pre-Hydra brainwashing James Bucchanan Barnes was the (and actually still is) the man. He’s the kind of guy you would see in old pictures and just swoon! He is that gorgeous. Getting into the Marvel fandom I got to know the dork that he was. 

Dark hair again. 

Midoriya “Deku” Izuku

Deku is just so hnggggggg. He’s the hero that you want to root for! He’s the little kid that you just want to succeed and protect at all cost. He’s my cinnamon roll.

The Character You Never Expected To Love So Much:

Hyun Ryu (Zen)

Zen just for me was one of those guys. Hot and clearly way above my league. Just the kind of guy who would yank on your tail just to get in your pants. I was clearly proven wrong. He really is sincere and passionate in his work. 

Peter Parker (Spiderman)

I think this is because of my loyalty to the original Spiderman franchise. Honestly, didn’t expect to love the new Spiderman movie and Tom Holland for that matter. Anyway, this new reboot is refreshing and I believe the most accurate to how Peter Parker is i the animated series and of course the comicbooks.

Bakugou “Kacchan” Katsuki

THIS KID. I just recently watched BNHA and damn I am in love with the series. Kacchan just seemed like your run-of-the-mill a-hole but no he’s just as precious as the other kids. 

The Character You Relate To The Most :

Yoosung Kim

Stressed-out college student (check)

frequent identity crises (check)

just wants to be loved (check)

Bruce Banner (The Hulk)

Awkward af

Clueless

Ochaco Uraraka

SHE JUST WANTS TO HAVE FRIENDS 

this pure sweet bean 

As for me, I would have chosen:

is this like person who i would actually choose to be with ?

Jumin Han 

Okay. Besides the fact that I am absolutely S M I T T E N with Jumin Han here’s the deal-- I actually want a guy who’s ready to settle down and be serious. Out of all the characters in the game Jumin seems the most put together. This however doesn’t disregard the fact that he has issues of his own that he needs to deal with. We’ve all got that. I just think that with my anxiety issues and personality I feel drawn to the strong and stable Jumin Han. To find out about his flaws and vulnerability was truly a journey for me and made me love him even more. 

Bucky 

Kind of weird since they are all younger than I am and underaged.

The Character You’d Slap :

Echo Girl, The Choi sisters and Rika 

Tony Stark

No one.

Three Favorite Characters (in order of preference):

Jumin > Seven > Zen 

Thor > Groot > Spiderman 

Katsuki > Deku > All Might 

Character You Liked At First, But Don’t Like Anymore:

No one?

Star Lord 

no one 

A Character You Didn’t Like At First But Do Now:

Zen 

Spiderman 

Katsuki! 

Three OTPs:

Saeyoung X MC 

Bucky x Cap or Cap and Black Widow

none so far 

Tagging: @juminhandfs @kirachama @curiousdelights @mystic-hyunryu @jylcie

[blackgirlsuperherorants]

This may be a little stupid, idk. Personal thing.

But, I'm really starting to hate actors coming into superhero roles and saying they weren't familiar with the characters beforehand.

Like, okay, on the one hand, I get it. Not everyone read comics growing up, and some people are even from countries where DC and Marvel haven’t been very popular until recently with the influx of movies. Like, I know Sebastian Stan had no access to American comics in Romania, so of course he didn’t know who Bucky Barnes was. 

But on the other hand, sometimes it feels a little dismissive or disrespectful, or even out of touch. Like, I know I’m a superhero fan. I know I am probably more aware of obscure characters that the average person, even well versed in pop culture, may never have heard of. Like, I wouldn’t be surprised if an actor said they’d never heard of Adam Warlock.

But, then you have the Teen Titans. And, you know, they’re not the MOST ICONIC DC characters, but they’ve had a popular cartoon on for at least 15 years (first Teen Titans, and now Teen Titans Go). I feel like if you’re between the ages of like 8 and 30 and grew up in the United States, you should at least, in passing, know who the Teen Titans are. Like, I remember when the original cartoon was coming on, and I heard a lot about it even before I started watching it. It was popular enough that teens and kids and adults were watching it. It was popular enough that I BELIEVE that’s why Cyborg is in the Justice League movie (because who would’ve thought to include Cyborg in that film until he got so popular through Teen Titans? If that movie came out in 2005 or something, it probably just would’ve been Green Lantern or something. Or even Martian Manhunter.) I digress. Let’s get back on track.

When I hear actors say in interviews that “I wasn’t familiar with the character before I got the role”, sometimes I wonder why they even went for the role. And, I’m an actor, too, so in some ways, I get it. You just want work. You want roles that are dynamic, interesting, fun. You want to make money and support yourself. You want roles that look good on your resume and make you desirable to cast in other work in the future. And right now, superheroes are hot and are star-making roles. You go from being “that guy in that thing” to “OMG THERE HE IS!” I get it. But also, like... there are thousands of actors registered in the Screen Actors Guild. Out of all of those actors, there have to be some who have actually heard of these characters. Why do we ALWAYS end up with actors who have never fucking heard of... the goddamn Teen Titans?

Like, I understand some of the more obscure characters not being heard of. Like, maybe Danai Gurrira never heard of Okoye before her audition, but also Okoye is obscure as hell, before the film. Even people who knew who Black Panther was didn’t necessarily know who Okoye was. Most people who thought of Black Panther thought of Storm, maybe Shuri, and maybe like Monica Lynne. Ayo, Okoye, Nakia... all of them are more obscure secondary characters in the Black Panther universe. 

I’ve been trying not to call out specific actors... but I’m going to say this, and let me tell you all and be clear, I still support her casting and am happy for her. But...

Starfire is too well known to have cast someone who didn’t already want to play her in the first place. Who didn’t already know the character, at least in passing. 

Sidenote, IDK where Miss Diop is from, so she might have grown up where they didn’t show the Teen Titans cartoon on TV. Which might be why she didn’t know who Starfire was. So, there’s that.

And, I know everyone can’t be Michael B. Jordan or Grant Gustin (superhero/comics fans long before they got their roles in their respective comicbook movies/shows.) 

But, it would be great if the studios and networks could start casting people who maybe had some idea who these characters were beforehand. Even if they aren’t fans. Like, even someone who is like “Yeah, I knew about this character and had seen them in cartoons/comics before I even read for the role.” It seems like the only time we get that is if it’s Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Batgirl/Batwoman, Catwoman... 

Y’all can’t find actors who have heard of Starfire? I’m an actor, and I’ve heard of Starfire. I’m an actor, and I’m black, and I’ve heard of Starfire. Like, I... don’t understand why so many actors, in my age range, have simply never heard of popular superhero characters unless they’re fucking Batman or Superman.

The hell y’all been? Even before I considered myself a true superhero/comics fan, when I was a child I watched superhero cartoons. Spider-Man and X-Men and Batman and Justice League and Avengers.... they came on regular TV, in blocks with other cartoons. Not even cable. Fox and WB(now CW). Even Teen Titans, it came on Cartoon Network, and was a popular series at the time (though I was already actively a self-professed superhero fan at that point.)

Like, would someone get cast as Sailor Moon and be like “I’d never heard of Sailor Moon before this audition”? I seriously doubt it.

And, I’m not saying the work suffers for it. Some of these actors do really good jobs and become iconic for their performance of the characters. Like, Sebastian Stan is probably the definitive Bucky Barnes and probably will remain that way.

And, again, I’m not talking about really obscure characters, like the Guardians of the Galaxy (and 90% of the characters from their movies: Ego, the Collector, Yondu, etc.). Most of the time, in those cases, their performances become so iconic they change the way the comics versions of their characters are portrayed. Like, Chloe Bennett with Quake. (Not saying all of those characters were the most obscure things ever. I think Collector, for instance, is pretty well known among Marvel readers. Just saying if you went to anyone on the street and said “Who is Iron Man” they’ll know what you’re talking about, but if you said “Who is Ego the Living Planet?” they might look at you crazy.)

Like, I don’t think it’s bad that someone playing Ego might have never heard of Ego.

Just, like... it get annoyed when someone is cast in some iconic thing, and we’re all excited about it, and then the interview with them is like “Lol, I never heard of this weird comics thing, but the fans are passionate, lol, don’t wanna piss them off! So, I read some comics!” Like... It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. 

I know I’ve talked like this about Elizabeth Olsen, but she actually became an expert in Wanda stories. (Her only problem, now, is acting like she’s above the whole thing in interviews.)

And I’m sure the actress that inspired this rant will do her best to make this character great, but honestly. I’m just really, really tired of hearing actors say they didn’t know anything about the thing before they were cast. 

There are a lot of us who are comics fans who knew about the thing since we were kids. It would be so easy to cast actors who at least have some context.  

I’m just saying, as long as we’re getting people playing characters that are well known and beloved, it would be great if they could have some prior knowledge. Even just a little. Like, I doubt Grant Gustin was a Flash superfan before he became Barry Allen. But I know he knew who the Flash fucking was. I know Chris Evans didn’t necessarily know everything about Captain America before he became Cap, but he knew who Cap fucking was. 

And, even if they didn’t and they had to be sent a stack of comics and read up to understand, I wish they would just... omit that part. Because saying it in interviews, to me, comes across as dismissive. Like, when actors in book movies say they didn’t read the book, I feel the same way. But it’s worse when it’s superheroes/comics, because it always comes across as looking down on the source material. Like “of course I wouldn’t know about this weird ass shit, but since it has weirdo fans who care too much...”

Like, their paychecks come from people who grew up with this stuff and love it. At least don’t treat us like freaks for caring about Starfire. Or any of our other characters.

Also, Teen Titans, specifically, seems to be really popular with people in my age range. Even people who I wouldn’t consider comicbook fans. My Facebook (which is full of people I went to high school and college with, not just superhero friends) is full of conversation about this Teen Titans series because so many of us grew up watching the original animated series. I have no curated my Facebook to be superhero rich or anything. In fact, I barely post there, because, like most people’s FB, it’s full of people I know/knew IRL and know/knew in different contexts. Actor friends. Mom’s friends from church. Family members. Classmates. People I barely know who just went to my High School. And still, I see people around my age talking about this series, because so many of us grew up with and love the Teen Titans. And so many of us have grievances with TTG. (I get why it’s the way it is, and I think it’s a perfectly funny cartoon, but I still have grievances with it.)

And, like, black folks I know have been defending Miss Diop from people who were just mad that she has brown skin. 

So, like... I just wish she wouldn’t be in interviews talking about how she knew nothing about the character. Just say you did a lot to prepare, and don’t make it weird. 

IDK. Again, it’s dumb, and it’s just me... I’m just really tired of hearing this from actors. I obviously watch a lot of superhero content, and I watch interviews with a lot of actors from this stuff, and a good percentage of them say they never heard of their character before they were cast, and a good chunk of that percentage of actors says it in a dismissive way as if the content is weird and they were ... “not a nerd” or are too high brow, an Actor! serious about their craft who would, of course, never have heard of Bizarro Superman, or whatever. (Like, I’m an actor, serious about my craft, with a degree in theatre, and studied the avant garde and have mostly only acted in avant garde pieces or serious dramatic plays, and you know what my cute ass does after curtain? I go to my cast dinner, then I go home and watch fucking Arrowverse shows or read Captain Marvel comics. None of those things are mutually exclusive, and it doesn’t make you a more serious actor to pretend liking comicbooks or superhero content is beneath you. Ask Michael B. Jordan and his many acclaimed performances.)

And, like, it’s such a privilege to even be an actor with the opportunity to be in a huge show or movie about DC or Marvel superheroes. Y’all don’t even understand. Acting is a HARD business, most of us will be lucky to even make a few hundred bucks a year acting, and have to supplement with other work. Getting steady work on a TV show is like winning the lottery. Getting steady work on a TV show that almost guarantees success, like a branded show about characters with a following already is like winning the Mega Millions lottery, and not just the couple hundred bucks scratch off. Marvel and DC are HEAVILY curated. They don’t just greenlight shows and movies. These concepts are worked on for years, from the idea, to the script, to the casting, to the filming... They don’t, for the most part, license out their characters to just anything. And, today, they pretty much have a hand on everything that is branded with their names. So, being an actor, seeing other actors get once in a lifetime opportunities to star in HEAVILY CURATED superhero content from the two biggest comics entities in the US, probably the world... and then treat it like it’s fucking stupid and beneath them? It really annoys me.

Like, trade with me, y’all. I’ll play Starfire, you come take my roles in my small, Important, Serious Theatre off off Broadway. Since you want to be an artiste, and superheroes are beneath you.

I guess that’s probably the main reason it annoys me, lol. These roles are a big deal. Nobody just randomly gets hired by DC. I can’t just waltz into an audition and suddenly I’m Nubia. They’re heavily curated projects. People sit down at tables and discuss which casting will work and why. These people won the fucking actor lottery, and they behave as if it’s nothing, and they’re better than it.

And, I respect them. Maybe they are better than it, in some ways. Maybe she dreams of holding that Oscar statuette, and this Starfire role is just to get her name more recognition. 

And also, maybe she, in particular, feels soured on it because of the racist douchebros being asswipes about the orange alien she plays being played by a black actress. (DON’T GET ME STARTED ON THAT BULLSHIT).

But.... I’m still over hearing actors talk about how much they didn’t know a thing about their characters before being cast. I mean, goddamn... What am I supposed to think about this? 

Anyway, fuck me up, if you need to. I’m being nitpicky. And, like I said, I still am happy for her and support her casting. Black women gotta work, and nothing makes me happier than seeing racist fanboys shit their pants when the character they fapped to is played by a black woman. Dunno why they thought Starfire’s alien ass was white, anyway. Aliens aren’t white, kids.

Superman ain’t white, nor is Kara. None of these aliens are white. Better not hear anything about the race of the actors cast as them... But ESPECIALLY Starfire, who is fucking ORANGE. At least Superman has skin similar to European humans in the comics. Starfire has ORANGE SKIN. 

Anyway, done. Still salty, but done.

[theantisocialcritic]

Archive Project - October 28, 2014 - Marvel Phase 3

I've been meaning to write a new article lately. I was planning to write one today on how the Inquisitor in Star Wars: Rebels has in just one episode become the best villain in Star Wars lore since The Emperor in Return of the Jedi… but……. The Marvel just announced all their Phase 3 movies!!!! Ant-Man:                                        July 2015 Captain America: Civil War:            May 2016 Doctor Strange:                    November 2016 Guardians of the Galaxy 2:             May 2017 Thor: Ragnarok:                             July 2017 Black Panther:                      November 2017 Avengers: Infinity War, Part 1:        May 2018 Captain Marvel:                              July 2018 Inhumans:                            November 2018 Avengers: Infinity War, Part 2:        May 2019 Wow… That is wonderful!! I was a little disappointed that we didn't get Planet Hulk, Iron Man 4 or Black Widow, but there is always time to do those down the road after Infinity War. Lets explore each movie! Ant-Man Originally set to be directed by Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim alum, Edgar Wright, Ant-Man has been a highly controversial movie following a long series of firing and people leaving the project. If the concept sounds a little bit silly, watch this test footage revealed at Comic Con last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-pFrplmexo Silly? Yah! Ant-Man however has a lot of hype being built around it and a lot of anxiety currently stands on Marvel's ability to pull it off after having a great director like Wright leave. I could do a more extensive article on that but I won't do it hear. Needless to say, this movie will be fascinating when it comes out. Captain America: Civil War The second Captain America movie took the series in a much darker direction under Community Alums the Russo Brothers. Now it appears they wish to do it again with a sequel, co-starring Iron Man that is centered around the controversial Civil War storyline from the comics. To sum it up quickly, the government forces superheroes to register with them and publicly reveal their identity and Captain America and Iron Man get into a war over whether or not the law should be enforced. Its a preachy, albeit powerful and memorable one that caused ripples in the Marvel universe. Doctor Strange You may remember this character being name dropped in The Winter Soldier. Steven Strange is a doctor that gets into an accident and is granted the powers of the Sorcerer Supreme, which basically turns him into a dark wizard that serves as Earth's defense against the powers of magic… This movie will be interesting… And hey! Benedict Cumberbatch is playing him! REAL TALK TIME!!! Several people I have heard have been mad that Cumberbatch has received the role and to that I would like to make a rebuttal. Yes. He is overrated. However he is overrated for a reason. His performances in Sherlock, The Hobbit and Star Trek into Darkness, as well as some artier productions such as 12 Years a Slave, have all been very good! He's a really good actor and I trust Marvel Studios at this point with the judgement to make an appropriate decision with casting like this. He might be a really good Steven Strange! Guardians of the Galaxy 2 This summer's Guardians of the Galaxy movie has become one of the most successful blockbusters in recent years, miraculously outgrossing the cynical money printing machine of Transformers: Age of Extinction. The inevitable sequel is shaping up already to be pretty fun! James Gun and the entire cast are returning and rumors suggest that Adam Warlock will be joining the cast. Thor: Ragnarok In the lore of Thor Comics, Ragnarok loosely translates to the Norse equivalent of the apocalypse. That alone sets the profile for this movie pretty high. The Thor movies in my opinion have always been at the lower percentile of the series, mainly due to the poorly executed, but well intentioned first movie and good but not great sequel. Given that this movie in particular is being sold as the Winter Soldier of Phase 3, we can expect a lot of big, universe changing events to pop up in this iteration. Please this will be the fourth canonical appearance of Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is always something to look forward too! Black Panther There have been several black supporting characters in the Marvel movies thus far like War Machine/Iron Patriot and the Falcon. Black Panther will be the first time however that any of them have been the front runner for an entire movie. Don't get me wrong! There is nothing wrong with the Avengers line up as it stands. I for one would just like to see some non-white, non-dudes lining up amongst the group, other than Black Widow. Girls and Black people are awesome and they deserve their own Superheroes too! Given the important of Vibranium and a possible appearance by the villain Klaw in Age of Ultron, its safe to say at this point that the nation of Wakanda and the Black Panther won't be on the sidelines for much longer! (This probably needs explaining to non-Comicbook readers). In Marvel Lore, the nation of Wakanda is an isolated tribe in Africa. They'd developed super advanced technology rivaling that of humanities and possess the Earth's only Vibranium mine, which is what Captain America's shield is made from. The Black Panther is the prince, and eventually becomes king of Wakanda. He is a part time member of the Avengers and has consistently made appearances as part of the team's cycle since his debut. This movie is shaping up to be really awesome! Captain Marvel I've been personally hoping for a Cpt. Marvel origin movie amongst this series for a LOOONG time now!! Carol Danvers has a long, sordid history in Marvel comics and at times has been on of the most underused and abused female characters in comic books. At her best though, Ms. Marvel or her current iteration Captain Marvel is an incredible female superhero. Once just a secretary on an Air Force base, she was given powers during a battle between the Kree turncoat Mar-Vel and joined the Avengers. She can fly and shoot laser beams out of her hands. Her incarnation in the Avengers: Earth's Mightest Heros cartoon is my favorite iteration of the character thus far, a strong, hardworking woman that stands up among the best superheroes that makes her way not only as a full-time SHIELD operative but a full time Avenger. Heck! She even made a cameo recently in the Guardians of the Galaxy comic books! Along with Iron Man, Agent Venom and a character from Spawn… This movie could be great and i'm super excited for it!!!   Inhumans                           This is definitely gonna be a strange one. The Inhumans in Marvel lore are a group very similar to that of the X-Men in terms of their roster and place in the universe. Early in man's evolution, scientists from the Kree came to earth and exposed specific humans to a substance called terrigen. The substance casted strange mutations in humans and gave them superhuman abilities. In modern day, the Inhumans live together in the hidden city of Attilan, which houses the entire Inhuman population away from the eyes of the world. Their leader is Blackbolt, a superhuman with the ability to control energy with his voice. Vin Diesel is rumored to be in talks to play Blackbolt! Avengers: Infinity War And of course we get to the big final of Marvel's Phase 3! I've been awaiting an Infinity Gauntlet storyline since the end credits of the first Avengers movie and this confirmation was no surprise to me personally. Given that we've already seen Josh Brolin suited up in Guardians of the Galaxy, its only a matter of time before he takes to the screen in a more physical role! We'll probably get to see him again in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 or maybe even Thor: Ragnarok. His big payoff is set to be great though! The plot is likely to involve the Mad Titan Thanos combining all of the Infinity Stones from the first three phases of movies (including the Tesseract, the Ether and the Orb) into a glove that gives him the ability to control time and space. And since he is a nihilist with a romantic attraction to the embodiment of Death (literally…) that doesn't say good things about whats yet to come. Rumors are that we will get a full team up of the Avengers, all the new characters and the Guardians of the Galaxy in this movie as well as the likely demise of a number of major cast members. Words cannot express my excitement!! There yah have it! Prepare for the next 5 years of your life!!! Thank you for reading! Live long and prosper!

[illuminatingcomics]

I miss you!

It’s too late. It was only a matter of timebefore this happened. Out of cash, out of a job, out of my house, I only have thisplace where to vent out. I don’t want to supplicate for help, or bore you withmy sad story, I only want to open your eyes, be honest for once. This blog, andall the work published on it, was just a desperate attempt to fight back thegrowing insanity that overwhelmed my mind ever since I‘ve learned about thetruth…

And the truth, you shall learn, if you’rewilling to listen.

It’sa well known fact that Marvel experienced a terrifying financial crisis in themid nineties. Corporate greed and shady business practices saw Marvel’s stock value collapse; shares once worth$35.75 each in 1993 had sunk to $2.375 three years later. The market crashed.Retailers lost their shops, speculators jumped ship, and titles that soldmillions because they had twenty-three variant cover plated in gold and withattached trading card now sold only a few thousand copies. It was hell, and inthe back alleys of Wall Street, executives and editors were ready to cut eachother throat to salvage what little was left. Neil Gaiman compared it to thetulip mania, when back in the 17th century, the price of tulip bulbsexploded only to drastically collapse in 1637.

       Now, what happened after?How did Marvel survive? The official version of the narrative tells us theyremained afloat selling the movies rights for some of their biggest and mostremunerative franchises (Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, the Sub-Mariner), before finallyentering the Disney family in 2009, other meat for the unstoppable everconsuming grinder that company became. But that’s not the real reason. I knowthe real reason. I saw the real reason.

       I worked as an intern forMarvel from 2002 to 2003. It was a strange period in the company’s history.Modern classics like Grant Morrison’s New X-Men and Millar’s Ultimates were published side by side with stuff like Marville and that War Machine book madeentirely of 3D models. You could tell by entering their offices that editorsweren’t giving second thoughts to any idea, threw everything on the wall to seewhat stuck, a process that resulted in both masterpieces and ugly catastrophes.

       I said I was an intern, Iwas more like a glorified janitor, paid in food stamps to empty out the trashcans, make photocopies, walk out Perlmutter’s pet South Pacific cannibal, andstuff like that… I’ve never met anyone important, so if you’re expecting astory about certain famous writers being secretly lizard people, I’m sorry, thisis not it. I’ve only ever crossed roads with Joe Quesada, and aside form hisconstant need to gift me autographed copies of the issues of Ninjak he did in1993, everything was normal… everything, not everyone. There was an editor.This man… he’s why I’m writing this.

       Howard Gardner was his name,but you won’t find it printed in the credits of any book, I assure you. Yet hewas an editor, that was his role. Asking around the building, I’ve learned thathe had been working at Marvel since before the bubble burst, but only oversawfew, scattered books. Apparently he was the guy that came up with the basicideas for Avataars:Covenant of the Shield, Fantastic Four: Unlimited, and he hadghost written at least two issues of Uncanny X-Men… you know the ones.People didn’t like working with him, writers didn’t like talking to him,artists didn’t like the notes he put on their pages, yet, in an era of constantbudget cuts and people losing their job, he was still part of Marvel’s staff.

       He was a tall, lanky man,of an auburn complexion, maybe… I say that because there’re few things abouthim I can accurately describe. Something about him slips away from my mind, Ican’t put a face to a voice, can’t connect it all to a name, and I’ve met himseveral times. The harder I try to remember the less I do… or perhaps, I simplydon’t want to remember, as if my memories are protecting me from something. There was a certain oddness about the way he behaved, and the requestshe made at every editor’s meeting, all promptly ignored by the rest of thosepresent. Now, you think he was asking for something gruesome and horrifying,but knowing the graphic shit Marvel published in their MAX line, would youreally believe they wouldn’t have the stomach for something in particular? No,his requests were just strange.

       “I want Black Widow tofight iridescent orbs” he told a writer, “Make the furniture blue, it’s myfavourite colour” he asked a colorist, referring to an inconsequentialapartment shown during a fight scene. Just bizarre non sequiturs like those, atevery meeting when he wasn’t pitching some outlandish stupid book. He behavedlike he wasn’t entirely there, the best way I can describe it is that he actedlike a tourist from another country, that didn’t know anything about thecustoms of the area, but still tried his best to awkwardly fit in.

       Eventually I got used tomost of Howard Gardner’s strangeness, but one thing I just couldn’t wrap myhead around were his visits to Marvel’s “boiler room”. Sometimes he went downthere two or three times a day, sometimes once every few weeks, and neverfailed to announce it. “I’m going to the boiler room everybody!” he woulddeclare, sometimes in the middle of a meeting, standing up and marching out theroom. Nobody seemed to care, or at least, they pretended not to care. I triedto ask Quesada once, and he just replied “He’s a funny guy like that” beforehanding me over issue #3 of Sword ofAzrael.

       Such was my morbid curiosity, that oneday, after yet another announcement, I decided to follow him. He didn’t takethe elevator to reach the boiler room, but stairs. I waited five or six minutebefore chasing after him, as cautiously as possible. He was already about fourfloors lower than me, so I kept that distance, walking by the wall rather thanthe rails, only once in a while peering out to ensure he hadn’t notice me. So Iwalked, and I walked, and I walked… after several minutes I began to wonderjust how deep could Marvel’s basement be? We were already far below ground level,and yet we kept moving. I had no idea the building was that big, and thefurther down I went, the more the environment started showing signs of decay,and disuse, like nobody had been there for years, or decades…  It gradually shifted, looking more and moredecrepit, walls covered in incomprehensible, ruined graffiti, garbage coatingthe floor, huge, old stacks of Jim Lee’s X-Men #1 stuffed inthe corners. The air was filled with a stale and odd smell, a mixture ofvinegar and paper, it made my eyes watery and my mouth dry, but still, I moveddown, as an unpleasant, sweaty warmth surrounded me.

       Finally, the stairs ended, and only onelong, shadowed corridor appeared in front of my eyes, scarcely lit by orangetinged lamps. No trace of Gardner,he just vanished in the darkness. There was a noise, a rhythmic noise,reverberating in the air. The shuffling of pages, of a book, no, many books, anarmy of people skimming through hundreds of books, all at once. It wasstrangely hypnotic, and I began following it, carefully moving across thecorridor.

       The floor was wet. Puddles of a wateryblack liquid covered it. The intense smell I perceived in my descent was allaround, and I finally identified it as the acute scent of ink. Shreddedcomicbook pages were all around, so utterly cut up and ruined I couldn’t tellwhich issues they were from.

I proceeded across thecorridor, and it seemed to stretch out without end. The further I went, thedeeper the ink lake turned. I was in it up to my ankles, when finally, afterthe seemingly endless walk, I reached a single iron door, left ajar. The boilerroom. The heat was unbearable, coating me like a blanket in the summer. I wasviscous and sticky with sweat, so thirsty my throat was sore, yet, I entered,following the noise, constantly skimmingin the my ears.

       It was dark inside, Icouldn’t see anything, but still I understood, the place was bigger, muchbigger than it had any right to be. It was as if I was entering an entirelydifferent building, another place, better yet, another world. The floor was a dense, gooey swamp of ink and soaked paper, the airbasically unbreathable, polluted by the toxic smell of industrial paint. I tookjust a few steps forward into the alien world, and the marsh reached my knees. I stopped, gazed into the darkness… and I saw Gardner. He was far away,and the entire lower portion of his body, from the belt down wasn’t visible:he was immersed in the ink… I have to wonder now, was it really ink, orsomething else? And if it wasn’t, then what?

     I shivered, glaring at the scene. Gardner had his arms up. He was looking atsomething. I narrowed my eyes, looked up, saw nothing at all.

     Then, it moved. That nothing, was everything. Therewas a shape, filling the void, in its entirety. It was grandiose andstupendous, it was horrifying and atrocious. I couldn’t comprehend anythingabout its anatomy, it was as if a thousands sails moved at unison, shifting inspace, like billions of pages stacked one on top of the other. The rhythmicshuffling belonged to it, the supernatural, diseased sound of its existence.

     If it had eyes, I can’t tell. If it had consciousness,or it was just an endless sea of living flesh, I can’t tell. It was ancient andunending, primeval masterpiece of a bygone era. It existed long before anyonecould recount, it filled our dreams and our nightmares. It was the reason ofthe company’s endurance. It was its protector. The god they had swore to serve.And it, in turn, served them. It was Marvel.

     The moments that followed were a blur. I barely hadthe time to contemplate my insignificance in the greater cosmic theatre and wetmyself before I decided to run. Out of the boiler room, out of the building,out of the city, out of the goddamned country. Some would say I am coward, andit’s true, because in front of that archaic force, we’re all cowards.

     It’s been fourteen years. Itried morphine, I tried cocaine, I tried coke. I still cannot forget. The imagesare burned in my mind. Mocking the thing with silly internet edits was my wayof fighting its power, and maintain my sanity, but it’s not enough anymore. Ah!It was never enough to begin with, and anonymity only got me so far. I believethey found me. I realize now the truth about Howard Gardner. More than a man,more than an editor, he was an instrument of its hateful design. He saw meescape, and he’s been looking for me, hunting me down every waking moment hewasn’t busy green lighting projects like Marvel DIVAS and Curse of the Mutants.

       Theend is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery bodylumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, the hand! Thewindow! The window!

#ask #october #marvel

[cursedcomics]

What’s right and wrong (to my tastes anyway) on comicbook TV.

This is going to be a little bit of a love letter/ report card of hate for comic related TV shows.   And, honestly, a rant.

TV is a different breed. Any discussion of this subject has to begin with that point. You have to acknowledge that they cannot just mirror comic stories.  You have to give them the freedom to write their own stories.

That said, the entire point of basing a TV show on a comic is that it will start with an established fan base. If you honor the source material, you gain.   If you shit on it , you lose.

The Walking Dead may be the best example of this.  The characters from the comics show up. They are generally the same characters, but each character’s chronology is different. The show has taken a different direction on TV and that changes their path to death. I love that. That is a healthy relationship with your source material.  That gives your comic readers and your new TV fans something to watch.

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is the polar opposite.  It is really a pretty bad show I have binge watched. Almost every character in the show is a jacked up version of their comic selves or doesn’t exist in the comics. Sure, there are some exceptions.  They got Martin Stein right, although his dialogue is way too whiny.  Arguably they more or less got the hawks right. The guy who played Vandal Savage was a good actor, although IMO way too short.  It would be almost totally unwatchable if not for the fact that they have pretty good actors.  They floated a comic based on it and it totally flopped.  That could mean something about the TV show, or nothing at all.  In this instance I think it is your dead mine canary telling you that comic fans have tuned out because your writers are not universally good,  They have jacked up the characters turning off the fans, and that you probably have the wrong characters on the show. 

I would argue that the LOT would profit greatly from a comic-style reboot.  THe Arrow-verse is well suited for reboots. 

Have something irrevocably change the timeline and recast your time travelers.  You only NEED Sarah Lance and I’d argue, Rip Hunter, out of the existing cast.  The other 5 can rotate new characters in and out. I’d love to see Jonah Hex get pulled into different eras, eventually abandoned in the future,  and meet his own stuffed body.  Why not have Booster Gold show up and (intentionally) accidentally screw up missions to yield better results.  Bring in the LOSH for a guest appearance.  There is no reason to restore vandal Savage.  T.O. Morrow, the Lord of Time, Good and Bad Chronos are all ripe players available for season long baddies. I would argue it is time for something new. 

The Flash seems to bounce between fresh and tired. I can’t tell if the status quo or the writers yield the tired stories. While the Central City status quo is perfect for telling “Supervillian X shows up and flash saves the day” stories, it feels dated now. Plus no one really likes Barry and Iris dating as brother and sister. The one good thing about the flashpoint reboot timeline is that it temporarily cleaned up that awkward relationship into one that TV fans could tolerate. 

I think they would be wise to have some new character unwind the original flashpoint (the one created by the reverse flash) and leave Iris and Barry to have a normal committed relationship, even a married one, with Joe seen as Barry’s beloved mentor.  Keep the characters people like and flush the dead weight story baggage that fans don’t like.  You can bring back the popular Officer Thorne. The guy who plays the reverse flash is fantastic and really hasn’t been given top scripts to go off.   Here is a Zoom who as a scientist from the future, might (should?) have some fairly big concerns about killing "Historical figures” (although he didn’t show any in the past).  The danger of Zoom without the bodycount. 

You can kill off Barry’s dad to make it a stronger relationship and that could be an impetus to explore Keystone City in Jay Garricks’ earth and get out of Central City for  a while.  DO Jay Garrick and Jesse Quick remember the flash and everything that happened?  I would think so, so you don’t have to revisit Zoom.  That might be neat for Barry and Vibe to start calling Jay Garrick’s world Earth 2 as they wouldn’t  remember naming them.   You could then toss the comic fans a bone by introducing the crime syndicate on Jesse's now Earth 3.  But that is admittedly, robbing peter to pay paul.    It would be somewhat befuddling for easily confused TV folk. But that is just some random thoughts, not a prescription like I mentioned for LOT.

Green Arrow is a series where they took everything cool from the comic, added new pieces, and built a new coherent world from it. The dialogue and stories have gone downhill since season one and team arrow is way too big, but they is a good nucleus there. A LOT reboot could tighten that up too.  Mr. Terrific could fall into Jay Garrick’s world and meet his boyfriend there that he just likes better.   Mad Dog could be an Arrow adversary. Ras Al Ghul could stay dead.  Ray, Roy and Speedy could also migrate to earth 2 or 3. John could get back both kids in the reset, which might push him into semi- retirement as a hero.  That could clear the table for fresh new villains to threaten Star City. 

I really like the supergirl series.  It’s not that they do everything right, it’s just a another show where they have a very likable star.  And they really cater to the comic fan.   They write the show from a premise akin to “Hey what if we took the core 1/3 characters of the DCU to populate this universe and then had Superman almost always away on special projects leaving Supergirl to save the day?  How would things shake out?  Anything Superman would normally handle, we will give to her. ”

The writing feels much more organic than on LOT.  I don’t like the guy who plays the Martian Manhunter, but I love that the Martian Manhunter is in the show.  (note you could always “kill off”  that identity). Mon-el is a nice add.  Bringing in the LOSH is very much mirroring what I perceive to be the concept of the show.

Agent Carter has gone by the wasteside and that was a shame. I think the show really blew it by not getting more into the era. Why not have the 1950′s avengers or Marvel’s 40′s Heroes trickle through?  A hearthrob alien from Venus with advanced technology and questionable motives? A killer robot? Venus? Namor and Namora? The Original Black widow?  The Torch? All handled by Agent Carter with an occasional assist from the wasp and Ant Man?  Their directive shunned their comic audience, IMO.

Agents of Sheild has also gotten into trouble for similar reasons. I get that Marvel didn’t want to give them access to the main MU heroes, so they tried to build around a cast instead and an assigned shit storyline eater ---the inhumans, but I think they didn’t make the right arguments.   Ulysses Klaw would have made an awesome villain for shield for the last season....adding to his impact in the black panther movie.  They should have focused on minor villains with International operations.  The Kangaroo.  Batroc the Leaper would have been a screen munching over the top villain straight out of a bond movie.  He could have a plan to kill his nemesis, Captain America, that shield could thwart.  I have always been partial to the mandrill, (and his sister Dansen Macabre), and the success of the purple man character tapping a nerve suggests it is high time for a little monkey business.  

I get that getting the Ghost Rider right was an expensive investment dictating they used that a lot for a season.   The storyline just wasn’t that good.  Another Mort. Maybe guest star the shroud.  Werewolf by night.

Like LOT, the AOS show is really built on only a small portion of their cast.   Three characters since they offed Grant --- Mockingbird, Daisy, and Coulter.  Really everyone else SHOULD be nameless agents who come and go.  It’s a spy show.  You don’t have to have ongoing arcs each week. It’s great to be the prisoner, but  you can be the 1960′s Avengers some weeks.  I think they lost sight of that.

That’s all I really got today.  End rant. 

[kyaranflowers]

Superhero

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Loki, he in the golden horns who had earlier made life a hardship on Thor in the movie Thor, runs a pact with an unknown race, an alien race, might help him extract his revenge, if he opens a portal so they can attack Earth. Loki does what he could be told, and steals the Tessaracat (a McGruber if there ever was one), and opens a portal for the other world to address Earth. Loki steals the Tessaract, requires a gang of scientists and Hawkeye under his command, and uncovers a portal which brings the aliens onto Earth.

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