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Spoilers Marvel Cinematic Universe spoiler-heavy speculation thread

What grade would you give the Marvel Cinematic Universe? (Ever-Changing Question)

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Christopher said:
Okay, you're willfully ignoring my actual point -- which is that it's specious and mean-spiritedly deconstructive to argue that Batman is insane because he behaves the same way as countless other heroic fictional characters -- in order to substitute a completely unrelated straw man you can easily knock down. So I won't even respond to that nonsense.




There's a huge, huge difference in intent between saying that a character has a traumatic past and saying that they're mentally ill. It's not only a misunderstanding of fictional character motivations, but it's ignorant and ableist, lumping all different forms of psychological issues into a single stigmatizing category.

What I hate about the "Batman is insane" notion is the willful refusal to recognize that a person can endure trauma and turn it into something positive, something that helps others. Batman is a constructive coping mechanism for Bruce. He's turned his own pain into a motivation to save other people from enduring the same pain. To look at something that noble and see only sickness is incredibly cynical and heartless. Some people just have a twisted need to tear down anything positive. They think it makes them clever to say that heroic characters are actually evil or insane, that the Federation is actually a dictatorship, that Palpatine was right, whatever. But they're not seeing some great insight others have missed, they just get off on tearing down what other people enjoy.
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I can see that this bothers you greatly, so how about I just apologise for impugning the sanity of a fictional billionaire and let's just call it quits.
 
Yes, lots. Your confusion probably comes from the fact that we see Agatha recycling through a lot of different outfits that she wore in WandaVision. Most of that comes from a single scene seemingly shot in a morgue location. We also briefly see both Aubrey Plaza and Joe Locke, who is rumored to be playing a teenage Billy Maximoff.

Erik Voss breaks it all down here.

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Starscream2112 said:
I read about half the article.
Being dyslexic I usually just get through a paragraph or two before I give up. That is why I ignore all long posts on here. lol
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I'm not dyslexic, and I ignore them too. I've been around long enough to know that reading all of those extra long posts is just taking up valuable time I'd rather spend on things that actually get me something in return.
 
JoeZhang said:
Just need an opening crawl that says:

"somehow Kang did not return".
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Did Antman 3 have a title card that said Kang will return? I don't remember. If so they could just remove it from streaming services and any new disc and drop Kang Dynasty off the scheduled and most people will never know he was supposed to be the next big baddie.
 
Gaith said:
If Marvel wants to dump Kang because they don't think the character is working and have better stories in mind, great. But if they're only considering dumping him because of the Majors situation, just recast and carry on, for Pete Parker's sake. :vulcan:
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Yeah, this ain't rocket quantum mechanics. There's a built-in reason to replace Majors and any hand-wringing over that because of the Majors multitudes seen in Quantumania is unnecessary.
 
In other news, Iman Vellani told The Direct that Ms. Marvel is the Frodo of Marvel Zombies:

“We’ve done the whole thing. It was amazing. It was so much fun. And I love—there are a lot of cool characters in the 'Marvel Zombies' show. And Kamala is kind of the center of the show. They described it to me, it's like, 'She's basically the Frodo of the story.' And I was like, 'That's amazing.'”

“And I get to interact and meet all these people along her journey. And, yes, they're only the voices, and I don't get to hear their voices in real-time. But just, it's my fantasies, right? Like, knowing Kamala is going to interact with some really cool people, even if it's just animation, is so special in a lot of ways.”​
 
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