A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.
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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
The ending of the movie gave the implication of something about to go down. Could very well be that the next movie will begin with a plot that cascades out, affecting the next Phase.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.Regarding the whole diversity thing, I understand why people want more diverse leads and such, and I agree that they really need to spread a wider net. But on the other hand it really annoys me when people use "lack of diversity" as a reason why the movie is bad or why you're being racist or whatever if you enjoy it. I've seen way too many people who treat "is this work sufficiently diverse/feminist/whatever?" as the sole aspect that decides whether it's good or not, to the exclusion of all other factors. Yes, the MCU could use some more diversity (a Black Widow movie would kick ass), but the fact that they're mostly white dudes at the moment doesn't make them bad movies either.
As for Spider-Man the first two of the original trilogy are pretty good. The third one... not so much. That said, I'm really kind of ambivalent about what they do with Spider-Man from this point; I've never been big on superheros and Spider-Man was never one of my favorites.
Reaction Image RepositoryI also have to say, all the fanfics focusing on background ponies and side/supporting characters almost kind of reminds me of Marvel/DC, since it's not just focusing on specefic main characters. I mean sure, you could say this about a lot of fanfics, but it's more noticeable with the brony fandom since most other fanbases don't really bother with background characters {For good reason, since most BG characters are just generic looking extras, whereas the ponies all have varying appearences and sometimes little brief quirks}.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that those kind of stories make Equestria feel bigger and give more of the impression that the world doesn't just revolve around the mane 6. Kind of like how Marvel isn't just about The Avengers, or likewise with DC and the Justice League.
edited 6th Aug '15 3:21:50 PM by marston
^That's an interesting point that I never really considered. Although Sonic F is still hilarious even though the source matieral didn't really take itself all that seriously {At least not until much later episodes}. Maybe the Sonic Paradox team is just that skilled or something. Then again, Sonic X was a piece of shit, so that probably still falls into the "Making fun of something that wasn't very good." catergory.
edited 6th Aug '15 3:35:46 PM by marston
That'd be Marvel, I think; the new Mrs. Marvel. Kahmla Kahn I think her name was?
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.Adding to the issue with the comics themselves, is that a lot of the people in power at DC and marvel are people that were fans of comics back in the 80's and 90's and so want to bring back those superheroes. It's why black Green lantern John Stewart, Asian The Atom Ryan Choi, and a few other legacy characters were either killed off or dropped out of sight while the original version were brought back. 9Same reason for the whole spider man making a deal with the devil issue. Joe Quesadda liked Spider Man when he was single, so he should revert to being lie that again.) So you have the inertia of not changing iconic characters, even if those legacy characters had long since become popular on their own.
Then there is the whole shit hole that is DC's entire view on their fans. Adolescent males, and basement dwelling virgins in their 40's are the only people they seem to think would give a shit about comic books, and so try to pander to the worst stereo types of them with as much T&A, mindless action, and other crap as possible.
Original Mrs marvel? remember Rogue? Specifically how she was in the 90's x-men cartoon? that was Mrs. marvel's power set.. minus the ability draining. She got all the powers she had, minus her natural ability drain power, from Mrs Marvel. Drained her so much that she permanently absorbed the powers.
edited 6th Aug '15 3:57:42 PM by Seraphem
That reminds me, I really hope that Marvel stops trying to pretend that Wolverine is Killed Off for Real. For one thing, unless the character is the original Captain Marvel or a C-List Fodder, super heroes generally don't stay dead, so saying otherwise just looks like a lie. Secondly, I'm a big fan of Wolverine and don't like the idea of him being replaced by a Legacy Character. Yeah, he's likely going to come back at some point, but we don't know how long Marvel will annoying drag it out while insisting that "No guys, he really is dead for realzies!".
Until they get the movie right to him back. Same reason they cancelled the F4 series, and have had a blanket ban on creating any new character in the X-Men comics for the past few years.
Pretty much, the only way any character is even nearly close to being dead for good, is those that suffer Death by Origin Story.
^Ooh, does that mean she's a changeling then?
^^I thought the Fantastic Four book was cancelled because of poor sales. And I'm pretty sure I heard that the whole "Marvel is sabatoging X-Men and Fantastic Four as a Screw You towards Fox" thing is just people being paranoid. Not to mention it would look stupid on Marvel's part since the X-Men use to be their most popular super hero team until the Avengers movie came out.
edited 6th Aug '15 4:12:07 PM by marston
Fox is just one of the worst company's I've ever seen. I already talked about what they did to Firefly before it got cancelled, and in general they're just assholes and morons.
Here's a show style version of a famous scene from the IDW comics.
https://derpibooru.org/951902?scope=scpe529708c35ecfdf4d5a589c2bb4db837f7b8b4bfb
edited 6th Aug '15 5:04:20 PM by marston
So seeing someone who is like you in a core way - someone with the same sexuality, or race, or disability - and seeing them still be cool, still be awesome, it feels special. Makes you feel good.
And that is why Toph is one of my favorite characters.
When it comes down to it, the first Spiderman film is decent. Not very funny, Peter himself is kinda bland, and the effects looked a tad phony. Goblin and Jameson's hammy performances made it memorable, plus one or two well-shot scenes.
Two and three were more unfocused and tried to make MJ relevant even though she'd gotten no development in the first film, and sort of gave her angst to try to make up for her blandness.
The Amazing films have flaws too, but the hate's been so disproprotionate towards them just because they weren't Marvel that I have a hard time forgiving Raimi purists.

huh... okay that is just weird. Why would they stop it with Ant-Man?