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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
They represent the concept of evil, though, just like the Kingpin represents the concept of corruption, of the evils mankind can do. Just because the Kingpin is human doesn't mean he's doesn't represent anything."
Kingpin is indeed the personification of crime. He uses his unscrupulous, almost infernal power of corruption to capitalize on human weakness. He will stop at nothing to expand his power base, knowing people are easily seduced to commit an immoral act. He also has more power than any mobster found in our America. Eighty percent of the crime from the East Coast is ruled under his wing, while in New York he is organized crime; not a lot can happen without his say.
A study says GOG 2 has the largest body count for a live action film ever.
Did anyone catch the Trans woman in Luke Cage?
edited 5th Oct '16 5:09:43 AM by RulerOfImagineverse
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Tsk, tsk. False advertising. It was right in the name.
You underestimate the power of the dance-off.
Who exactly commissioned this study, anyway? SURGEON GENERAL WARNING This Product Contains/Produces Chemicals Known To The State Of California To Bring About The Destruction Of Multiple Fictional Worlds.
First off, the study wasn't about just deaths, it was specifically for on-screen deaths. So no "blowing up planets" doesn't count. And second, it wasn't for Guardians vol 2, it was for the first Guardians of the Galaxy — here is the article
and here is the actual list.
However, I don't know where they got their numbers. It says that 80,000 Nova Corps pilots died in the last battle, but where they got that number, I don't know. And it certainly didn't look like 80,000 — and even if it was, if they are going by "on-screen" deaths, that doesn't count, since most of those deaths happened off screen. And, I mean, Nova Prime certainly looks too happy in the end to have 80,000 of her pilots killed. So I think they are just making that number up.
edited 5th Oct '16 11:14:15 AM by alliterator
Yeah.
Sister Boy. I assumed she was just an extremely effeminate man.
Not a great role (no lines, and just got beat up offscreen) but I suppose it's something.
One Strip! One Strip!
It likely was, given that she seemed to be working for Ma Mabel. I guess the remarkable thing was Mabel berating Cornell for not being respectful towards her. Mabel being both a madame and a gangster boss, and not exactly gentle towards people who crossed her, that seemed like a fascinatingly positive trait. But it's characterization for her, not for Sister Boy, which makes the role kind of lacklustre.
Well, it is not like she truly cared about Sister Boy...after all, she was mostly glad that she wasn't hit in the face. She is a pimp, and even though she is at least responsible enough to not want the goods damaged, it is not like she particularly cares for the well-being of her workers otherwise. I also felt that she was less angry about Cornell not being respectful towards Sister Boy and more angry about him arguing with her.
edited 6th Oct '16 9:42:58 AM by Swanpride
Ben Barnes is playing Jigsaw, Ebon Moss-Barach is playing Micro, and Amber Rose Revah is playing a Canon Foreigner named Dinah Madani, a Homeland Security agent after Frank.
edited 6th Oct '16 10:01:09 AM by comicwriter
So...what do we expect form New York Comic Con? A last push for Doctor Strange? More Got G stuff? A glimpse on Iron Fist?
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Interesting. Dinah Madani might be an expy of Kathryn O'Brien
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I'm hoping for more scenes of Iron Fist. After all, Doctor Strange is just a month away, so it doesn't really need any more pushes, but Iron Fist does.
edited 6th Oct '16 9:59:46 AM by alliterator
x6 You're totally right, it just seemed interesting to me that Mabel wasn't contemptuous or abusive towards Sister B. . That hardly makes her a saint, but they also weren't going out of their way to show her as a pimp violent towards her prostitutes. Whereas we see her at the same time both ordering violence/forcing Cornell to murder someone who is close to him, and being violent towards one of her employees herself.
edited 6th Oct '16 10:18:16 AM by hollygoolightly

The movies are in general set when they are released (though it does make more sense to shuffle Ironman to one year later based on the information in the movie)....Ao S roughly, too (not exactly but close). The Netflix shows: DD 1 is set in Summer 2014, Jessica Jones Early 2015, DD 2 in the time-span from the very last hot days of the year to Christmas Eve 2015 and Luke Cage in Fall 2015 (so yes, it is basically set during DD 2 and yes it doesn't work out quite...I am currently trying to figure the whole thing out properly).