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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
<.< I loved Ultron forgetting the word for children because it showed how inhuman he was. "Children" isn't a word that matters much to him. He doesn't care enough to be able to pull the word up on a whim.
Rick And Morty had a similar joke about the titular Rick's amoral apathy towards the wellbeing of others.
- BETH: Oh, listen to you relish the idea that my genius father is a bad person. Step out of your ego for a second and look at [his chained up prisoner]. It's a monster! He might have it chained up so it doesn't eat the planet!
- RICK: Right, because your father's such an altruist. I once saw him briefly forget the word for HUMANS. He's probably harvesting this creature's organs!
Followed up on with his dismissal of his granddaughter's concern for him:
- RICK: Summer's just a hyper-emotional, needy little...what's the word I'm looking for? Uh...human! It runs in the family. I can tolerate it but I can't give a crap about it!
Ultron forgetting the word for children served the same purpose: it demonstrated how detached and uncaring about humanity he is, that a word that is considered so sacred that most people couldn't in a million years forget means so little to him.
edited 25th Feb '16 12:18:52 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.From what we know there were several deleted scenes that made Malekith a more Tragic Villain figure, but they were cut for Loki. Which thus segues into the age-old argument of More Loki vs Less Loki.
Which is only comparable to the Mandarin debacle in IM 3 in terms of "fandom's most exhausted debate". IM 3 and The Dark World I believe are the two MCU movies that I'm utterly sick of discussing.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I've started reading the Simonson run of MIGHTY THOR and just finished what I presume was the first appearance of Malekith.
Does he get more depth later that everybody is missing? Because he's pretty generic.
I mean, he turned into a woman and presumably succubus'd a dude to death off-screen but.
Part of the problem is all the faerie stuff that makes him even a little interesting doesn't really work well with the sci-fantasy opera MCU Thor feel.
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Same here. Regardless of my own personal bias there's going to be big pros and cons regardless of what race the actor is, and the other reliable metric which is acting skill is not really something I rate Jones highly in.
Yeah. Some people sneer at the idea of characters having to resemble their comic counterparts, but for a lot of people of all stripes it does matter. One could argue that Marvel is playing it too safe with the casting to its detriment (Society Marches On and such), but it's not like they whitewashed him, and it's a good opportunity to deconstruct the Mighty Whitey trope if that's where they want to go.
edited 25th Feb '16 12:35:47 PM by AlleyOop

Keep in mind I said Ultron was "too jokey", for exactly the reason you gave comicwriter.