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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Believe me, Ghost Rider in Ao S is soooo much better. Better CGI, better character (it's Robby Reyas btw), better story and some really badass fight scenes. Let's put it this way: Criminals fear the Ghost Rider more than the Punisher!
And they have to introduced the notion that there are other Ghost Riders, so, everything is possible.
Nic Cage did not look like a daredevil stunt rider. He looked like a divorced dad accountant going through a midlife crisis. Also, I'm pretty sure that scene where he laughs at an orangutan while eating m&ms out of a shot glass was just them leaving the camera on and us watching actual Nic Cage.
My various fanfics.I'd argue the opposite, actually. If you've already sold your soul to the devil, who gives a shit? Inject heroin directly into your penis and get into fistfights with school children. You can't get any worse.
My various fanfics.> I'd argue the opposite, actually. If you've already sold your soul to the devil, who gives a shit? Inject heroin directly into your penis and get into fistfights with school children. You can't get any worse.
The devil owns his soul,whose to say damning himself further won't result in the devil claiming by rights his body too?
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverWe've all been speculating about a scenario where Loki sides with Thanos and gives him the Tesseract in order to save the remaining Asgardians. I could see that be aligning.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersMarvel To Launch New Animation Franchise ''Marvel Rising''
Not the MCU, but relevant to your interests if you've been wondering when Ms Marvel and Spider-Gwen might show up. Squirrel Girl and America Chavez are also on the list. Chloe Bennet and Ming-Na Wen (Quake and Agent May from Agents of Shield) voice themselves, so that seems like a pretty strong connection even if it's still an alternate universe.
Btw, Sony released the first teaser for the animated Spider-man....looks like they intend to stuff as many versions of Spider-man as possible into it.
Kind of disappointed that it is CGI...I mean, that was likely, but I always feel that traditional animation does a better job capturing the comic book feel. Thus said, the last Asterix movie was CGI and the best they have done so far, so there is that.
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I’m just a little paranoid after the characterization nightmare that was Age of Ultron. And, in retrospect, the Avengers somewhat as well.
I still maintain that the whole fascist Loki thing made NO SENSE. Bad Whedon. I’m particularly cranky because I rewatched Thor, Avengers, Dark World, and Ragnarok in the last two weeks. Loki’s characterization in Avengers did. Not. Make. Sense.
I'm more accepting of Loki's Avengers characterization than most, but I did find this comparison post hilarious.
Has Whedon ever made any statement explaining why he characterized Loki the way he did?
Oh God! Natural light!I had the impression that that statement was ironic on Loki's part— not that he wasn't killing and torturing people in all earnest, but that there was a snideness to it, a sense that if they were all so eager to be ruled, he'd rule them, not because it was right but because he was embracing his status as the villain. I don't think it was too much of a departure from where the first Thor movie left him, but they backpedaled pretty hard from that characterization in TDW.

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have a listen and have a link to my discord server