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** He's trying to create what he would consider a good timeline. Any interaction with their past selves would create too much uncertainty with how things would play out.
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* The TimeSkip in the series finale revealed that Chase spent nine years building a time machine so he could save Gert, and he gets the old band back together to do so. But he tells them not to interact with their past selves because it would alter the timeline too much. This seems like a silly thing to worry about when a) he ''built a time machine'', and b) he built a time machine with the intention of saving his dead girlfriend, which is as far from preserving the timeline as it gets. If he truly cared about the timeline's integrity, then why not accept Gert's death and move on with his life like ''literally everyone else?''
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** Actually, part of the premise of ''Series/{{Daredevil}}'' was how day-to-day New Yorkers reacted to the alien invasion, and the BigBad of ''Series/LukeCage'' was an illegal arms dealer selling salvaged Chitauri tech. The biggest disconnect is that the movies don't reference the shows at all, but this is reasonable since the movies are made to appeal to more casual audiences who would have no idea who, say, Claire Temple is. But the other shows still make references to other properties whereas this makes ''none''.

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** Actually, part of the premise of ''Series/{{Daredevil}}'' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' was how day-to-day New Yorkers reacted to the alien invasion, and the BigBad of ''Series/LukeCage'' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' was an illegal arms dealer selling salvaged Chitauri tech. The biggest disconnect is that the movies don't reference the shows at all, but this is reasonable since the movies are made to appeal to more casual audiences who would have no idea who, say, Claire Temple is. But the other shows still make references to other properties whereas this makes ''none''.
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** Season 2 also has Alex mention Wakanda.
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* The only reason criminals avoid hospitals is because they have to contact the police. However, PRIDE has the police under their control so they don't have to worry about that.
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* Some people wonder why Alex didn't take the gun in episode 9, speculating that he is indeed a mole. However there is another reason: The teens think the parents are still in the dark (they don't learn Frank betrayed them until the next episode) and it's possible that he was worried they might check the drawer with the gun. The card was needed, or at least he believed it was, and if they were lucky he could replace it before it was missed but even if it was then Geoffry could assume it had just been lost, it's a small card it happens, if he learns that the gun is gone he'd be more suspicious, and the missing card would be a key clue. Therefore it wasn't his effort to sabotage the crew, but to avoid exposing their activities.
* Not to mention, Geoffry states that the drawer with the gun in it was locked, which makes sense he would lock it after seeing Alex took it from the drawer before. That means Alex may not have been able to find the key to unlock it. And he chose to take the card because he felt it might be more useful.

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* Some people wonder why Alex didn't take the gun in episode 9, speculating that he is indeed a mole. However there is another reason: The teens think the parents are still in the dark (they don't learn Frank betrayed them until the next episode) and it's possible that he was worried they might check the drawer with the gun. The card was needed, or at least he believed it was, and if they were lucky he could replace it before it was missed but even if it was then Geoffry Geoffrey could assume it had just been lost, it's a small card it happens, if he learns that the gun is gone he'd be more suspicious, and the missing card would be a key clue. Therefore it wasn't his effort to sabotage the crew, but to avoid exposing their activities.
* Not to mention, Geoffry Geoffrey states that the drawer with the gun in it was locked, which makes sense he would lock it after seeing Alex took it from the drawer before. That means Alex may not have been able to find the key to unlock it. And he chose to take the card because he felt it might be more useful.
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* Not to mention, after him seeing Alex using the gun from his study, it's safe to say that Geoffry may have relocated it so that his son couldn't find it or easily get it again.

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* Not to mention, Geoffry states that the drawer with the gun in it was locked, which makes sense he would lock it after him seeing Alex using the gun took it from his study, it's safe to say that Geoffry the drawer before. That means Alex may not have relocated it so that his son couldn't been able to find the key to unlock it. And he chose to take the card because he felt it or easily get it again.might be more useful.
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** Could it possibly be Frank Dean who texted Jonah? I ask because he ends up meeting Jonah in the next scene. Also, it makes sense that Jonah would have him listed as Unknown because he and Jonah only started working together in the episode before that, as it was Dean who gave up the kids knowing the truth about how their parents, as well as their location at the dig site. Maybe Frank had been watching Leslie, and Jonah had sent him to watch her because he had suspicions that she was going to betray him. And since we find out Leslie had Vaungh help the kids escape from the church, it could be Frank sending the confirmation of Jonah's suspicions.
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* Not to mention, after him seeing Alex using the gun from his study, it's safe to say that Geoffry may have relocated it so that his son couldn't find it or easily get it again.


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Doesn't save this show's atrocious pacing, though.


** Season 2 confirms it was [[spoiler:Karolina]], but then the mole ends up being [[spoiler:nobody. All 5 of the older kids end up contacting their parents at some point, but none of them betray the group]], at least as of [[spoiler:Jonah's death]].

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** Season 2 confirms it was [[spoiler:Karolina]], but then the mole ends up being [[spoiler:nobody. All 5 of the older kids end up contacting their parents at some point, but none of them betray the group]], at least as group]]. Even when [[spoiler:Chase moves back in with his parents & agrees to help PRIDE, he still doesn't give up the location of [[spoiler:Jonah's death]].
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How does nobody notice [[spoiler: Leslie's pregnancy]]?
*By the time she's announced it, shes clearly pretty well along and has a bump. I get that people were busy, but seriously, NOBODY noticed?
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*** We later learn that Jonah's been on Earth for centuries & that the Pride started working for him many years ago, before Thor's visit to New Mexico.
** A seemingly-gratuitous Roxxon banner in season 2 helps connect the show.
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Kudos to Flores for surviving a lot longer than his comics counterpart.

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** Season 2 confirms it was [[spoiler:Karolina]], but then the mole ends up being [[spoiler:nobody. All 5 of the older kids end up contacting their parents at some point, but none of them betray the group]], at least as of [[spoiler:Jonah's death]].


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** The Pride owns Flores; they can get him to do anything he has the legal authority for.
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** There's also the parents' reactions to Jonah being an alien. They claim they've made "first contact," something they wouldn't do if it took place in MCU due to the Battle of New York and the well-known figure of Thor.
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* In the finale Jonah received a text saying "mission accomplished" directly after the kids rescue Karolina. The obvious theory is that it reveals a mole in the Runaways, whether Alex or one of the others, but what if it isn't, My theory is that it's the cop on the payroll of PRIDE. Hear me out. We know the corrupt cop was responsible for framing the kids, the editing implies it's Geoffrey who orders it but earlier in the episode PRIDE ruled out going to the cops, and they are worried about the kids' safety, so why frame them for murder? Furthermore all but Frank and Victor turned on Jonah, and have no animosity, on their side at least, so they wouldn't want to antagonize them, but to Jonah they are in his way, and we all know what happened to Amy.
Also it'd take maybe 24 hours to confirm evidence implicating a group of teenagers in a murder, not long enough for Geoffrey's call to have got that result (it takes 48 hours to confirm someone's missing, one call and the cops are after some kids? I don't think so.) however between the rescue and the ending it's at least one night. After all they already use the "Alex is a mole in the comics" thing to bait and switch us elsewhere in the finale, when he calls Darius and we're supposed to think it's his dad. "Mission accomplished" could mean he'd planted the evidence. Who do you think sent the text, and why?
(Also someone move this if it belongs in WMG)
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* Some people wonder why Alex didn't take the gun in episode 9, speculating that he is indeed a mole. However there is another reason: The teens think the parents are still in the dark (they don't learn Frank betrayed them until the next episode) and it's possible that he was worried they might check the drawer with the gun. The card was needed, or at least he believed it was, and if they were lucky he could replace it before it was missed but even if it was then Geoffry could assume it had just been lost, it's a small card it happens, if he learns that the gun is gone he'd be more suspicious, and the missing card would be a key clue. Therefore it wasn't his effort to sabotage the crew, but to avoid exposing their activities.
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** Basically, yeah. They're ignoring it because they couldn't get it to work...so, THAT Tina Minoru is just a wizard with a staff. (Alternately? Dimensoinal analogue)
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*** Stan shows up in non-MCU Marvel productions all the time, so that doesn't count for anything.
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* Everyone keeps talking about how she "previously appeared" in ''Film/DoctorStrange'', but here's the thing: ''her scene was cut from the final movie.'' I was wondering why I didn't remember actually seeing her in the film. Does an appearance left on the cutting room floor still "count"? Yes there's the tie-in comic, but how closely do showrunners take those into consideration?

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* Everyone keeps talking about how she "previously appeared" in ''Film/DoctorStrange'', ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', but here's the thing: ''her scene was cut from the final movie.'' I was wondering why I didn't remember actually seeing her in the film. Does an appearance left on the cutting room floor still "count"? Yes there's the tie-in comic, but how closely do showrunners take those into consideration?



** Could it be that another sorceress with a staff that looks similiar was in ''Film/DoctorStrange'' and Tina Minoru and the Staff of One have only appeared in this show?

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** Could it be that another sorceress with a staff that looks similiar was in ''Film/DoctorStrange'' ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' and Tina Minoru and the Staff of One have only appeared in this show?
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*** Well considering that Jeph Loeb said that none of the characters are concerned with the stuff the other heroes are doing in the MCU, makes sense this wont reference the other shows considering what Jeph said, plus it makes sense, i mean would these kids be concerned about what SHIELD and the royal family are up too and they dont live anywhere near The Defenders, so yeah.
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** There is Stan Lee's "Watcher" character...
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** Actually, part of the premise of ''Series/{{Daredevil}}'' was how day-to-day New Yorkers reacted to the alien invasion, and the BigBad of ''Series/LukeCage'' was an illegal arms dealer selling salvaged Chitauri tech. The biggest disconnect is that the movies don't reference the shows at all, but this is reasonable since the movies are made to appeal to more casual audiences who would have no idea who, say, Claire Temple is. But the other shows still make references to other properties whereas this makes ''none''.
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** Her role in the movie was so small that you could probably smooth out any inconsistencies with a little bit of FanWank.

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