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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
That one's pretty good too. Way better than the one of him hanging on Avengers tower. The idea of Spider-Man hitchhiking on the freeway once again really sells the idea of him as the everyman.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Obviously, he's playing Mary-Jane Watson.
They can't announce it because it's supposed to be a surprise.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Yeah, original Nova Richard Rider.
With Dick being a common nickname for Richard.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers

I could forgive the Hand in the first season, because that one had to juggle multiple fractions - the Russians, the Corporate Criminal, the Chinese, the Japanese and Fisk himself - so that I could kind of understand why Fisk, the Russians, Owsley and to a certain degree Gao got characterisation while the Nobu was just there to look threatening and mysterious. But that excuse went right of the window in the second season. Not only didn't that one manage to give the other gangs the same careful characterizations (the Irish were painfully stereotypical, as were the biker gang which had more presence in Agents of Shield as mindless slaves and hey, there are hanging Mexicans from flesh hooks!!!!), for all the scenes devoted to explaining the Hand, they explained next to nothing. The show was more concerned with convincing the audience that coming back to live is a realistic option (they failed, btw...just because the Bible says that Jesus did it, it doesn't mean that I buy into a cult in which that is a regular occurrence) than simply laying down some ground rules and trusting the audience to roll with it. That is something Iron Fist does way better, btw. Half of the stuff connected to Gao or the Hand is batshit crazy, but hey, we have a hero with a glowing fist, so why not?