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Eli picks up Chronicles of the Wolf one day as a joke to mess with Scott, only for Scott to point out that the Beast and Marie-Jeanne are technically Allison's ancestors.

Allison makes a point to beat the game before either of them just on principal.

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Playing 'Chronicles of the Wolf' right now, and the fact that it deals with the Beast of Gevaudan and Marie-Jeanne Valet has my brain making Teen Wolf connections.

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I honestly don't know what it'll do to Tony's ego if he ever finds out that Hank Pym figured out how to make mysterium in his lab.

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Really worried that the new Superman movie is going to feel like the Chuck Austen run, with Superman being reckless and cracking dumb.

I guess part of me is glad that it is a full reboot, it's not going to be a repeat of what happened to the Marvel movies after GotG hit.

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Honestly, if it became a choice between buying the game on Switch 1 and paying the same price for a stupid key card that doesn't even have the game on it--I'm going with the former.

I'd rather play it with lower graphics that to not actually have the game.

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Them: Hush 2 should end with Jason dying again because Red Hood has overstayed his welcome.

Me: Hush 2 should end with Jason's brain damage being cured, deciding he's had enough violence, and retire from crimefighting.

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As someone who absolutely hated the 10th Doctor era, I didn't think it was possible for them to do something worse than bringing back Tennant.

I was wrong.

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I kinda want to say 'I told you so' to every hater who bashed Moffat when he was the showrunner.

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As much as Marvel has destroyed the character of Peter Parker seemingly beyond repair, and am somewhat glad that they managed to revert the Green Goblin to a semblance of his silver age status quo.

Back during the Lee/Romita run, the setup was that--while the Goblin was clearly evil, Norman at least attempted to be a decent person(though still shady). This was hand-waved with frequent amnesia--he had no idea he was the Goblin most of the time--but it was the duality of the character that made him stand out.

When Norman was resurrected at the end of the clone saga, they essentially did away with this. Normal was reinvented as a Lex Luthor type--just as evil has his goblin persona, but in a manipulative way rather than an ax-crazy way. So going back to the split personality is a step in the right direction, even if him being a mentor character feels a bit like what we've seen with the Lizard.

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Random thought

With the sliding timescale being what it is, has Bobby Drake been retconned into naming himself after Val Kilmer's character from Top Gun yet?

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If Luke and Danny are in Daredevil season 5, please can they finally give Danny his actual costume?

I mean, comics Luke Cage has pretty much abandoned wearing a superhero outfit so I'm giving that one a pass. But Danny needs to dress like Iron Fist at least once.

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I'm finding it hilarious that James Gun's new Superman movie seems more and more similar to Batman vs. Superman the more we see of it.

Only, while Henry's Clark seemed stoically disappointed with people misjudging his intentions, the new guy instead throws a temper tantrum over it.

Yet people unfairly bashed that movie, while the new one is being praised before it's even out.

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Sigh

Yet another fantastic movie gets torn apart by the so-called 'fans', meanwhile the constant stream of horrible phoned-in C-lister Marvel movies get nothing but praise.

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It occurs to me that I've actually skipped more Marvel movies than I've watched lately. Between the two sequels that replaced the main character with a C-lister and the Thunderbolts movie without any actual Thunderbolts in it I haven't actually felt inclined to watch any of them.

I'm actually relieved that Fantastic Four takes place in an alternate reality, because I would probably be completely lost as to what's going on.

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I'm torn between wanting the next Indiana Jones game to stick to established canon(I actually liked Crystal Skull), and wanting them to go into AU territory JUST so we can have Marion appear in some capacity other than flashbacks or hallucinations.

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People aren't excited over All-New Venom because it's necessarily a great idea.

It's just that every single other thing coming out of the Spider-Man office is ten times worse.

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Something doesn't suck JUST because it has social commentary. Entertainment has ALWAYS had social commentary. Some of the very first Superman comics involved him going after slumlords and corrupt business owners. Going even farther back, even the likes of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo took shots at the injustices of the times they lived in. Just because the racists and misogynists have slapped a derogatory label on it doesn't mean it isn't something that's been around for decades.

But by the same token, something also doesn't suck just because it DOESN'T have social commentary in it. Sometimes a story just wants to entertain, and doesn't need any message beyond 'good must triumph over evil'. There's nothing wrong with trying to be a mindless popcorn flick that doesn't make waves.

Both approaches are valid.