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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Yeah he was captured and tortured so he escaped by quite literally tearing off his own finger nails and then flinging them into his captors necks despite being restrained.
Quickly after he had an entire rooms full of people with guns on him point blank and he still killed them all, ending the scene with him telling the people watching the cameras to run while he was holding 2 assault rifles.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."Though Punisher did come a while after. Didn't even know Bullseye was in the Ultimate universe.
He also said the line "Darth Maul was his ***** back" towards the Colonel while hiding giant glass shards cause Colonel's weapon is a double-blade lightsaber.
Edited by slimcoder on Jul 17th 2021 at 2:24:46 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
...They're the yakuza. I think that's already implied.
Edited by lbssb on Jul 18th 2021 at 6:27:11 AM
Disney100 Marathon | DreamWorks MarathonI think that's why the optics of the scene would have been questionable
shitty yakuza actions or nah... at its core it's still a white American killing a bunch of Asian people because real world stereotyping tells us they're bad (analogous to, say, an American military guy shooting up a Middle Eastern Terrorists base for coolness points).
We are clearly not meant to see Clint's actions at the beginning of Endgame as heroic. He lost his family to the Snap and goes on a vigilante rampage, murdering presumed criminals for no better reason than that they exist. This is wrong. He's a broken person and killing people isn't making that any better. When Natasha arrives she has to bring him back both to sanity and to morality.
Edited by Fighteer on Jul 18th 2021 at 10:41:03 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Black Widow made $26.25 million on its second weekend, a 67.3% drop. Global total now stands at $264 million.
Granted, that's a little far from the 69% drop Batman v. Superman saw in week two, but can you imagine Chapek continuing to give Feige a creative and budget license to do whatever he wants? I don't think so.
Edited by Mario1995 on Jul 18th 2021 at 11:21:36 AM
"The devil's got all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns. Fuck that." - Liam GallagherAre we doing this thing where a MCU film is considered a failure if it doesn't gross a billion dollars?
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Well, considering that the people who run Disney now are strictly "by the numbers" people (Feige railed against the PA release but ended up relenting), of course it's fine to speculate.
Still, it's hard to spin a 67% drop for a Marvel movie positively.
Yeah, as we have been telling you in pretty much every thread you bring that “theaters are doomed” narrative up, the curve against which that statistic should be looked at is not the Marvel curve but the pandemic curve.
The latter undoubtedly has more pull. The sharp drop in the second weekend is not unique to Black Widow.
The best point of comparison pandemic wise will be Space Jam’s second weekend, as it was released a week after BW, ie. at a time point where a significant number of people are vaccinated but the Delta variant gets more intimidating.
Edited by Synchronicity on Jul 18th 2021 at 10:45:54 AM
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There are now 4,000+ theaters open. BW actually added theaters this weekend, and most US territories have no capacity restrictions left (that's probably gonna change in the coming weeks, but still). There's no excuse to be made.
I actually expect that movie to drop even harder next weekend, though family movies tend to have longer legs.
Edited by Mario1995 on Jul 18th 2021 at 11:46:23 AM
"The devil's got all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns. Fuck that." - Liam Gallagher

Shame he never got a moment where he kills a bunch of people with his finger nails.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."