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Dude, nothing could’ve prepared me for when I read Superior Spider-man (2019), the first comic run I’ve genuinely loved in YEARS, only to get fucking BLASTED with that idiotic OMD ending

Like I’m gonna rip my hair out

Why the FUCK did the writers think that was a good idea

“I liked the idea of Otto being too petty to admit his heroics came from Peter”

SO YOU JUST THROW AWAY 7 YEARS OF CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IN A SINGLE ISSUE

OK

THATS COOL. NOT LIKE IT COULDVE BEEN A LITTLE STRUGGLE ARC HE HAD BEFORE HE REALIZED HE ALWAYS HAD IT IN HIM, PETER’S MIND JUST SHOWED IT TO HIM

NOPE. IT JUST HAAAAD TO BE THE FINAL CHAPTER AND ENDING TO SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN. BECAUSE SPIDER-MAN WRITERS CANT UNDERSTAND THAT ITS OK TO LET SOME SHIT STICK SOMETIMES

Like, words can’t describe how unfathomably angry I am, because if you’ve followed me for long enough, you know One More Day is the comic runs I despise the most

The writer who made the decision even ADMITTED he liked a One More Day style ending for Otto (yknow, the comic book that’s widely regarded as one of the worst things produced by Spider-Man writers)

How out of touch can you be?

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Uh so Optimus almost got taken over by a symbiote that one time. Idk if this is an actual cross with marvel or if it’s just an homage to venom because of the spider silhouette, but that is straight up a symbiote. Interesting

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So, is Boba Fett just not gonna be in The Bad Batch? The absolutely perfect OT character to insert into the show without it being forced or nostalgia bait; he’s just not gonna show up?

I don’t understand Filoni sometimes

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From what I remember, the bad batch said he went missing at the start of the clone war. Considering this info was from the empire, then they most likely believe he’s dead or MIA at the very least. Which doesn’t make too much sense, but ah well.

I like to think that he’s just a lot stronger than anyone the empire was sending after him and they were losing too many resources trying to capture him, so they decided to focus all their power into getting Omega lol.

Obsessed with all the effort the empire expends on hunting down Omega- and her undisclosed locations with her brothers. Meanwhile, Boba is bouncing around the galaxy very publicly right now with his buddies.

I understand he’s got a funky attitude but surely they would have tried at least

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Watching all the new Star Wars shows really puts into perspective how smart Star Wars Resistance was for straying away from nostalgia bait and legacy characters. They barely even talk about the Jedi in the show, and while I think Kaz being force sensitive would’ve been a great plot point, I also appreciate them for having the realization that maybe a self contained story would be best

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@clovaris why did you curse me with this knowledge

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I love how you can say that Goku fucks in this outfit, and have it be both metaphorically and literally correct

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Certain fanfics: don’t focus on the timeline it’s kinda messy lol, just read the story!

The timeline: so fucked beyond repair that it doesn’t even make sense in the scope of the plot the author is trying to tell

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GOKU’S JAPANESE VOICE ACTOR VOICED PIDGE IN THE FIRST VOLTRON SHOW IM GONNA FAINT

AND HONERVA??????

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Just remembered that one part in Transformers: Armada where Megatron nearly killed Starscream for no reason other than he was angry HIS mission failed

Armada Starscream probably had the worst time among Starscreams, because most of the time he didn’t even deserve the shit done to him

The scene is so sad too cause Megatron’s like “What the hell was that out there” and Starscream’s like “I literally followed your orders??” And then Megatron beats him to near death all while spouting insults. It was so bad the other decepticons got worried and had to step in

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I will forever be angry about how Transformers: Robots in Disguise brought back SO much about Armada, BROUGHT STARSCREAM BACK, and just completely ignored his entire arc from Armada. I’m not saying I wanted him to suddenly have a redemption arc or whatever, but there wasn’t even a reference or anything. I was hoping they’d at least sprinkle in something to do with him being nice to the mini cons but NOPE. APPARENTLY STARSCREAM ISNT ALLOWED TO HAVE REDEEMING QUALITIES.

BUT MEGATRON CAN,,,,

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Except that doesn't work in English ya weeb.

OH WOW. It’s almost like I TALKED ABOUT that exact thing in my post and the replies😲😲

That’s the entire point of localization. To come up with an alternative joke. Not to just delete the joke all together. Dum dum

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I just watched Sand Land, and ignoring how great it was, the release schedule is actually really cool. Basically, Hulu and Disney released the first 7 episodes of the series, and 8 will release 3/27, with subsequent episodes releasing weekly from there.

Now, seeing that seems confusing at first. Like, why stop at episode 7? Why turn to weekly airings there? But there’s actually really good reasoning behind it for once.

Basically, the first 6 episodes of Sand Land follow the story of the entire manga. The story of episodes 1-6, the first arc of the show, is already posted up throughout the internet, in manga form, movie form, and soon to be game form. But episode 7 onwards is where completely new stories show up. Stories written by Akira Toriyama specifically for the game and anime.

So what Disney and Hulu are doing is giving us the first arc in a bundle, along with the first episode of the second arc (of which nothing is known) as an appetizer. From there, the rest of the arc will be released weakly.

I’m gonna be honest, it really got me hooked on the show. Watching all the episodes was a perfect mix of satisfaction and excitement for later episodes.

At the very least, the release schedule was better than Invincible season 2 and Attack on Titan’s final season

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So dragon ball and dragon ball z is my childhood I watched half of it without understanding anything because it was not translated to my language (my older brother had to endure my constant questions when we were watching it) and I loved it! I loved the characters, I loved the plot, I loved every outfit Bulma ever had, I wanted to learn how to fly and all that ( I was 7 years old). I also loved that later I got my hands on subtitles in my language.

With time I moved on and started enjoying different fandoms and although db was always in my heart I never wandered into the fandom, never saw what was going on.

This week I got a little sick and suddenly got a lot of free time. Somehow led by nostalgia i revisited dragon ball and (after the initial warm feeling of my childhood) got so irritated. I just kept reading some takes on Goku and thought to myself "man, was I really such a bad judge of character" and decided to rewatch dbz. I'm not finished yet but my views from all those years ago didn't really change and Goku is still my favourite.

Anyway I wrote all of this to tell you that I agree with a lot of your opinions and I'm thankful that you are uploading them on the internet. You don't have to answer this but just know that you are now Defender of my childhood ❤️❤️

I feel the exact same way!!! Dragon Ball was my childhood too, and when I grew up I saw a lot of people saying it was actually bad and that everyone who liked it was blinded by nostalgia. Naturally, as a young teen I thought that I was one of those people, and compared to Naruto and Bleach, it wasn’t good at all. I just went with the most popular opinion because I thought “if this many people are thinking it, it must be true, right? It’s only popular because of nostalgia, the other shonen are much better”

Fast forward a few years later and I decided to rewatch Dragon Ball from OG to Z, and wow, I was so wrong for just going along with the public opinion. Because Dragon Ball is good!! It’s so fun and cool and satisfying, and I know it’s not nostalgia, because I’ve seen people who have never watched Dragon Ball before watch the entire series, and adore it!

I think people say that it pales in comparison to other Shonen because Dragon Ball is very subtle with its emotions. It doesn’t have a lot of flashbacks like Naruto, it doesn’t have a huge character roster like One Piece, and it doesn’t have incredibly thought out story lines like Bleach. But that’s not because Dragon Ball lacks any deeper meaning, it just finds a more natural way to convey feelings and emotions.

A really good example of this subtlety is Gohan’s PTSD. And when I say that, I don’t mean him striking Great Saiyaman poses that he got from the Ginyu force. I mean his PTSD during the Saiyan to Cell saga, and the constant nightmares he had. These aren’t one off things, either. He’s had at least 4 of them throughout the show. But he doesn’t dwell on them, so the audience doesn’t. But these nightmares illustrate one of the Gohan hates about himself: he’s always letting everyone down. This is stated explicitly in his beam struggle with Goku before going SSJ, but it didn’t come out of nowhere. It was just (say it with me) subtle

Not saying DB is better than any other shonen btw. It’s actually not even my favorite one, but I’d say it’s at least on par with the big three.

I’ll always defend Dragon Ball❤️

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I think it’s so funny that in Japan it’s called Dragon Ball Sparking (an English word) but in America it’s called Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi (a Japanese phrase)

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I love translators translating manga directly to English and NOT TRANSLATING THE FUCKING PUNCHLINE OF THE JOKE???

It was supposed to be this:

It’s a play on words that only really works in Japanese, it’s the same exact reason Gohan was even named Gohan. They were talking about lunch and Gohan started laughing so they named him after lunch lol.

He didn’t forget she existed. Goku’s whole schtick is that he takes things at face value. It’s the same as the kissing thing. Goku wasn’t talking about kissing, he was talking about getting fed like a baby bird.

The translators seem to always misinterpret this and it’s getting annoying.

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When people say Dragon Ball Z Abridged is objectively better than the original Dragon Ball Z