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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The Dora are pretty cool and I certainly wouldn't object to a show on them, although I feel like we'll be getting a lot more of that in the movies.
I'm interested to see what direction the Loki show goes in. Will it be at all similar to Agent of Asgard? Will it cover him being genderfluid? Will it be a mess? Who knows.
I will say that I think that Okoye and Nakia are much better characters in the movie than they were in the comics.
Movie doesn't have Queen Divine Justice, though, so something of a trade-off there, I suppose.
Oh God! Natural light!I think it's pretty obvious Thanos loves Gamora most of all because she's the one who resembled him the most (to his eyes). He basically spells this out in the throne room scene and then the one he outright tells Gamora all the awesome skills she has which came directly from him (says Thanos).
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Why should we care about anything?
Like the guy grew attached to her, he raised her, trained her, she excelled, he became proud, she became more like him at a time, & Brolin acted the Hell during it all.
Shame they didn't keep that deleted scene of when she was his daughter.
Edited by slimcoder on Jan 11th 2019 at 7:42:46 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."![]()
So children never rebel & parents never maintain faith that their kids will eventually come back to them?
He pretty much thinks she's just going through a phase which is typical Evil Parenting 101.
Okay no offense but I am not reading this, its way tooooooooooo long.
Oh right shit Thanos is a rebel too. Even more relating between the two.
Edited by slimcoder on Jan 11th 2019 at 7:47:47 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."The Dora Milaje are based on
the Ahosi, a historical all-women king's guard of the Fon people in West Africa.
Not to mention the whole point of Wakanda is to speculate (hence Speculative Fiction) on how an advanced African society would look like without European influence.
Edited by HailMuffins on Jan 11th 2019 at 12:50:01 PM
It's both. Thanos's entire screentime with Gamora is him trying to imply Gamora is exactly like him and this rebelling of hers is her trying to deny her true nature. He tends to treat her like a rebelling teenage going through a phase.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Like, the whole point of Black Panther (2018) was criticizing Wakanda's isolationist policies and how it was not advancing the nation in a positive way. T'challa literally calls out the leaders of the past for abandoning the world and turning inward, and the film ends with him giving a speech at the UN about how important it is to strengthen and build connections with the rest of the world.
That's basically the entire message of the movie. I'm not sure how one misses that aspect.
Edited by chasemaddigan on Jan 11th 2019 at 10:53:57 AM
Plus the flashback to their first encounter indicates Thanos' reasoning for taking her in.
It was a most likely rare random feeling of empathy for the young child and seeing the fighting spirit within her that reminded him of himself.
His comforting her, giving her the knife, and shielding her from watching her people get genocided was disturbingly sweet.
The fact he is responsible for all her troubles and he treats it as nothing is what makes the whole thing so fucked up.
Edited by slimcoder on Jan 11th 2019 at 7:57:54 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."![]()
That’s what makes the whole thing so amazing.
I can buy that he genuinly loves her, it’s just he’s still a fucking monster no matter what.
It doesn’t matter how much he thinks of her as his child, he’s still the guy who unrepentantly made her an orphan in the first place.
It’s so Goddamn dysfunctional especially Gamora’s reaction to discovering that Thanos really does care greatly for her, pure utter disbelief & disgust, & it was beautiful.
Edited by slimcoder on Jan 11th 2019 at 8:08:19 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."I don't know movie you were watching, but it wasn't Black Panther.
Edited by alliterator on Jan 11th 2019 at 8:08:38 AM

And its not something that Priest pulled out of his arse: in Real Life, severely advanced countries that practice isolationism tend to be pretty behind-the-times when it comes to social issues.
The USA itself in an exemple, Japan is another one and if I bothered to go research more, I could come up with dozens more cases.
Also a notable aversion of Double Standard: Rape, Female on Male.
Edited by HailMuffins on Jan 11th 2019 at 12:35:04 PM