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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
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It depends on the mutant. Storm is cool, but Hank is a big blue furry, Rogue can't touch anyone lest she drains their life force and unless he wants to destroy everything within his visual range, Scott is basically either blind or colorblind.
Edited by Blueace on Jun 5th 2020 at 10:25:55 AM
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Hey, wasn’t the Disney movie with Hercules a musical? I don’t usually go for action flicks, but I would pay good money to see that bit integrated into the MCU.
In the comics at least being a big blue furry worked wonders for Beast's dating life.
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And this kind of thing is why I think X-Men makes a pretty terrible metaphor for real minorities. Their situation is vastly different, even from one individual to another. Being able to fire laser beams, or kill people with a touch, is just so incomparable that you inevitably get aesops that come off wrong, or don't make sense in universe, or don't really apply to reality.
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Edited by FGHIK on Jun 5th 2020 at 9:37:16 AM
I'll never forget Aaron McGruder's take on Storm
◊, after the first movie came out.
That is pretty good.
I just want Large Ham 90’s Storm in my movies. Summoning the Arctic winds and lightning THAT IS THE FURY OF NATURE! Put simply I want Storm to be the most memorable damn thing on screen.
I'd like to observe while the Storm joke is hilarious, it's also a recurring point of Storm that her powers has severe drawbacks, usually with the implication that she needs to keep a grip on her emotions or she can accidentally lay a tornado on people. This is even the case in the movies, though it isn't focused on (there's a scene in Last Stand I believe where Storm gets mildly miffed at events and a storm starts to brew without her realizing before Xavier tells her to calm down).
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Infinity War / Endgame thought:
I just watched New Rockstars' youtube video on Endgame details, and found a big one: Tony may have doomed himself.
When Doctor Strange was looking at alternate futures, it's possible he found the timeline in which they win earlier than the 14,000,605 that he stopped at, but kept looking in order to find ways that no one dies. Tony actually interrupts the ongoing search by walking up to him, startling Doctor Strange by the one important sacrifice presenting himself. We know there's more than 14,000,605 possible futures, because the Ancient One has already stated that she can only look to timelines in which she herself is alive (there's no reason to believe Strange doesn't also have this limitation). Strange wasn't looking for timelines in which the Snap was undone, because every timeline he looked at had to have the Snap undone (or not happen prior to his death by other means) for Strange to be present. So those 14,000,605 have to be timelines in which the Snap *stayed* undone. There could've been other iterations of the final battle in which someone was close enough to Thanos to prevent him from putting on the gauntlet, or cut off his hands. But, the Iron Man armor was the only tool known to remove the stones themselves, and Iron Man had it on him, so the winning timeline is the one in which he's closest, since the glove and stones would otherwise be near impossible to remove once Thanos put it on.
Rewatching Captain Marvel.
I kind of hope Talos' daughter is a character in stuff that follows Monica Rambeau. The idea of having this character who grew up with an alien best friend sounds pretty fun.
Also makes me interest how close Fury and Talos became, given how Fury trusts him to be him later on. I'm kind of expecting Talos to end up like Coulson eventually, so I hope he gets more moments of making relationships with the MCU cast.

The Gifted is probably one of the most tone-deaf shows about prejudice I've ever seen. When it does superhero stuff it's neat, but it really hurts the show that the main cast is a middle-class white family, and the supporting cast is made up of racial stereotypes (the Native American tracker, the Mexican with connections to the cartel, etc). The supporting cast does get a decent amount of development, but it doesn't really make the racial stereotypes surrounding them much better.