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Spider-Woman #1 (2023)

written by Steve Foxe art by Carola Borelli & Arif Prianto

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The Amazing Spider-Man #40 "Saturday Morning Cartoon" variant cover by Sean Galloway

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Erik LaRay Harvey as Willis Stryker LUKE CAGE SEASON 1 (2016), created by Cheo Hodari Coker

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How I would’ve handled the build-up to the Defenders:

1) Instead of rushing the miniseries out, the shows should’ve at least had an extra year or two to flesh the heroes and villains out.

2) Daredevil season 1 remains the same. Season 2 is only about the Punisher. Season 3 is only about Elektra Natchios. So, the original season 2 is now split in half.

3) Jessica Jones season 1 remains the same. Season 2 is about a season-long investigation that puts her in the crosshairs of Murakami, one of the Hand’s leaders.

4) Luke Cage season 1 is focused only on Cornell Stokes/Cottonmouth (so get rid of the mid-season death). Season 2 introduces Willis Stryker/Diamondback, who is revealed to be an agent of Sowande, one of the Hand’s leaders.

5) Iron Fist season 1 is only about Danny Rand and his feud with the Meachums. Season 2 is more about Colleen Wing and her feud with Bakuto and the Hand.

After all that, THEN we go into the Defenders. With this set-up, we don’t have to waste episodes on Luke and Jessica having to learn about the Hand. We could just go straight into the team being brought together. Also, we don’t have to wait for the Defenders miniseries to have them meet. A few ways this could be done:

* Luke and Danny can meet in their respective season 2s of their shows

* Jessica Jones can have a one-off meeting with Daredevil in one of their shows. And vice versa.

* Matt can have a run-in with Luke during his feud with Frank Castle. He can also run into Danny during the Elektra arc.

* Jessica Jones could be hired by Master Stick, which leads her to Murakami (so connecting Daredevil and Jessica Jones).

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From Spider-Woman Vol. 8 #003

Art by Carola Borelli and Arif Prianto

Written by Steve Foxe

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some kind of history made with this one-two punch of comedy i'm sure

Hero for Hire (1972) #2

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Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) has reunited with her missing son, Gerry Drew. Unfortunately, it was a terrible reunion since Gerry Drew had been forcibly aged up and brainwashed by evil Hydra who abducted him as a baby. Spider-Woman has difficulty in dealing with both her brainwashed son and the mutated Diamondback (Willis Stryker) at the same time. Even though her allies had defeated Hydra, it was too late for Spider-Woman to save Gerry as he fell into the sea before she could reach him.

Damn...What a downer....

Spider-Woman v8 #4, 2024

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Luke Cage 1x13 - You Know My Steez

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Do you have any underrated recommendations for feminist texts? Books, articles, even blog posts and the like

very broad category and I’m not sure what counts as underrated so just have an assortment of things I have found interesting over the years, these are all fairly easy to search for and/or SciHub though I'll try to add links when I can.

Ellen Willis, “Radical Feminism and Feminist Radicalism.” This is the perspective of a radical feminist (one of the founders of Redstockings alongside Firestone), reflecting on the movement’s shape as of ‘84, in which she identifies and criticizes its ‘cultural feminist’ pivot, as well as the problems within the radical feminist political movement that made that pivot possible, if not inevitable. Hits pretty hard these days, kind of my go-to in terms of articulating why a “radical feminism (TM)" sans transphobia isn’t worth fighting for.

Iris Marion Young, "Throwing Like a Girl." Really transcendent work of feminist phenomenology exploring how women's bodily comportment is governed by certain socially constructed imperatives, with an interesting critique/corrective of Beauvoir.

Lydia Sargent (editor), Women and Revolution: A Discussion of the “Unhappy Marriage.” This is a collection of essays by prominent scholars about the relationship of patriarchy and capitalism or of feminism and Marxism/socialism, including Lise Vogel and Iris Young, starting with a Hartmann paper that is considered foundational to this question. A good supplemental or alternative would be the first two chapters of Cinzia Arruzza, Dangerous Liaisons.

Heather Berg, "Reproductivism and Refusal." A critique of the veneration of "feminized" and "reproductive" work and how this operates under the rule of capital.

Kirstin Munro, "Unproductive Workers and State Repression." Discussion of how certain forms of "unproductive" and feminized work, especially those employed by the state or state-backed institutions (nurses, social workers, teachers), participate in the reproduction of the capitalist totality.

Katie Cruz, “The Work of Sex Work.” One of the more robust treatments of this issue, and does a good job of avoiding the Scylla of libertarian contractarianism and the Charybdis of MacKinnonite liberalism.

Margot Canaday, The Straight State. History of the development of the American administrative state's treatment of homosexuality and how this became a major object of statecraft in the twentieth century.

Perhaps you already are familiar, it’s very beloved in some spheres, but Susan Stryker, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein” is deeply moving.

I have also generally enjoyed the bodies of work of Kathi Weeks (anti-work feminism), Dorothy Roberts (racecraft and its relationship with misogyny), Sara Ahmed (affect theory and feminist ethics/phenomenology), Talia Mae Bettcher and Sally Haslanger (both social ontology of gender), and Florence Ashley (transfeminist legal analysis).

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Siblings in the MCU are more likely to die than only children. Out of 34 sets of siblings in the MCU, 23 have had at least 1 of those siblings die. 7 of those have had 2 or more siblings die. If you have a sibling in the MCU there is only a 1 in 3 chance that both of you will survive. By individual deaths for siblings that is 28 dead out of 73 characters. or 38%. A survey of 74 characters who are either only children or unspecified saw 17 out 74 die, or 23%. If you remove the unspecified character from that list, leaving only confirmed only children there are 47 characters with 12 deaths for 26%. Meaning you are 10-15% more likely to die in the MCU if you have a sibling.

Harley Keener and sister- alive

Peggy Carter and Michael- Michael faked his death (technically Peggy died too but in like her nineties so that's not what we're talking about)

Bucky Barnes and sister(s)- functionally as far as his immediate family is concerned he died, and now his sister(s) is dead

Sam and Sarah Wilson- alive

Sam's nephews- alive

Thor, Loki, Hela- Hela and Loki have both died

Stephen Strange and Donna- Donna died as a child

Natasha and Yelena- Natasha died

Nebula and Gamora- Gamora died (we got her back through timeline shenanigans but a different version and Gamora did still die)

Peter and Mantis- both of them are still alive but they do technically have a LOT of dead half-siblings.

Wanda and Pietro- both dead (allegedly. One is dead for sure though)

Billy and Tommy- I'm not sure if you'd call what happened at the end of Wandvision dying but I'd classify it as that

T'Challa and Shuri- T'Challa died

T'Chaka and N'Jobu- Both dead at this point. N'Jobu died fairly young

Carol and brother(s)- ?? Presumably alive?

Shang-Chi and Xialing- alive

Katy Chen and Ruihua- alive

Daisy Johnson and Kora- they saved Kora in another timeline but she DID die in the original timeline

Mack and Ruben Mackenzie- alive

Grant Ward and Christian, Thomas and sister- Grant Ward and Christian died.

Karen Page and Kevin- Kevin died

Foggy Nelson and Theo- Foggy died (allegedly)

Ben Urich and presumably a brother because he has a niece in Born Again- Ben died

Jessica Jones and Phillip- Phillip died

Luke Cage and Willis Stryker- alive

Ward and Joy Meachum- alive

Nico Minoru and Amy- Amy died

Gert Yorkes and Molly Hernandez- Gert died (they saved her but she did die)

Tyrone Johnson and Billy- Billy died

Marc Spector and Randall- Randall died

Kamala Khan and Aamir- alive

William and Henry Lopez- William died

Black Bolt and Maximus- alive

Medusa and Crystal- alive

Ray Nadeem and Nihar- Ray died

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And here's a canonical MCU villain tier ranking.

Best of the Best - Loki, Ego the Living Planet, Erik Killmonger, Thanos, Quentin Beck / Mysterio, Xu Wenwu, Norman Osborn / The Green Goblin, Namor the Submariner, The High Evolutionary, Wilson Fisk / The Kingpin, Zebediah Kilgrave / Purple Man, Elektra Natchios

Great - Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger, Aldrich Killian / The Mandarin (True), Trevor Slattery / The Mandarin (Fake), Arnim Zola, Alexander Pierce, Bucky Barnes / The Winter Soldier, Ultron, Baron Helmut Zemo, Adrian Toomes / The Vulture, Hela and Skurge / The Executioner, Robert "Bob" Reynolds / The Sentry / The Void, Benjamin Poindexter / Bullseye

Good - Johann Schmidt / Red Skull, Ronan the Accuser, Nebula, En Dwi Gast / The Grandmaster, Ulysses Klaue, Ebony Maw, Ava Starr / Ghost, Agatha Harkness, He Who Remains, Ravonna Renslayer, General Dox, Miss Minutes, Paradox, Cassandra Nova, Bastian Cooper / Muse, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Cornell Stokes / Cottonmouth, Mariah Stokes / Black Mariah, Hernan Alverez / Shades, John McIver / Bushmaster, Mary Walker / Typhoid Mary, The Hand (Alexandra Reid, Madame Gao, Bakuto, Murakami, Sowande, etc.), HYDRA (Baron Von Strucker, Jasper Sitwell, Senator Stern, etc.), Galactus the World Eater

Okay - Laufey, The Other, Eric Savin / Coldblood, Algrim the Strong / Kurse, Korath the Pursuer, Brock Rumlow / Crossbones, Kaecilius, Dormammu, The Sovereign, Taserface, Surtur, Proxima Midnight, Corvus Glaive, Cull Obsidian, Sonny Burch, John Walker, Dreykov, Arthur Harrow, Wanda Maximoff / The Scarlet Witch, Baron Karl Mordo, Sinister Strange, The Clandestines, Gorr the God Butcher, Kang the Conqueror, Adam Warlock, Theel, John Allerdyce / Pyro, Samuel Sterns / The Leader, Seth Voelker / Sidewinder, Willis Stryker / Diamondback, Billy Russo / Jigsaw, John Pilgrim / The Mennonite, Will Simpson / Nuke

Bad - Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Emil Blonsky / Abomination, Ivan Vanko / Whiplash, Darren Cross / Yellowjacket, Yon-Rogg, Tyler Hayward, The Flag Smashers, Sharon Carter / The Power Broker, Antonia Dreykov / Taskmaster, Agent Sadie Deever, Mary MacPherran / Titania, Dar-Benn, Red Hulk*, Ward Meachum, Davos, The Schultz Family, Alissa Jones, Gregory Sallinger, Trish Walker / Hellcat

Trash - Justin Hammer, Malekith the Accursed, Ikaris, Kro the Deviant, Zeus, MODOK**, Gravik and the Rebel Skrulls, Verussa Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters

*- It's just Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross again.

**- It's just Darren Cross / Yellowjacket again.

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'Try and explain the motivations or internal psychology of recent Marvel Cinematic Universe villains. If one engages in this exercise, one will be quickly disappointed to see that many of these foes have no real relevance to the world audiences inhabit. Dar-Benn from The Marvels, for instance, was justifiably mad about what happened to her planet and her response to that trauma was to suck up the sun(?). Kang in Quantumania was so vaguely defined that it was impossible to get a read on the character. Kro in Eternals, meanwhile, was such a throwaway baddie that even MCU diehards likely forgot he existed! Compare such subpar adversaries to Kevin "Kilgrave" Thompson (David Tennant), the villain of the first season of Jessica Jones.

A man with the ability to control minds, Thompson kept detective Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) under his control for months on end. As a result of this experience, Jones struggles with PTSD and has withdrawn herself from the world. Throughout the first season of Jessica Jones, Kilgrave proves a terrifying foe and one who, despite carrying such heightened superpowers, perfectly embodies several terrifying elements of reality, such as male privilege. Kilgrave’s inability to see other people as human or even consider the humanity of those he controls is a stylized depiction of how often men in Western societies similarly refuse to gaze into the point-of-views of marginalized genders. His superpowers may have been rooted in comic books, but Kilgrave was decidedly a villain ripped from the real world. This is just one of many fascinating attributes of the character that make Kilgrave somebody who needs to return to the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe pronto.

Kilgrave Deserves to Be One of the Netflix Elements Brought to the Marvel Disney+ Shows

As Marvel Studios fleshes out its multimedia plans for the rest of the 2020s, it’s clear many elements of the Marvel/Netflix shows from 2015-2019 will be incorporated into the broader universe. When programs like Daredevil and Luke Cage were running, there was a bit of a divide between these shows and the larger movies. Characters on these Netflix entities would occasionally reference Captain America or Iron Man, but the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies never acknowledged these characters in return. Starting with Hawkeye and Spider-Man: No Way Home, though, certain actors and figures from the Netflix shows have been carried over into the bigger Marvel Cinematic Universe projects. It’s still unclear (though presumably unlikely) if the narratives of the Marvel/Netflix shows are still canon, but folks like Charlie Cox’s Daredevil are now fixtures of modern MCU media.

While that doesn’t mean Avengers: The Kang Dynasty will be focusing exclusively on Danny Rand/Iron Fist (Finn Jones) and Willis Stryker/Diamondback (Erik LaRay Harvey), it does mean a bevy of Marvel/Netflix characters are now at the disposal of future Marvel Studios programs. Kilgrave would be a fantastic character to incorporate into these forthcoming projects, especially since his presence as a more grounded figure would fit in with some of Marvel’s upcoming TV ambitions. Projects like Echo and Daredevil: Born Again are being marketed as adult-skewing programs that aren’t afraid to engage in thornier, more challenging material. Kilgrave, a man who commits murder and rape rather than pursue nebulously defined cosmic MacGuffin’s, would be a perfect villain to fit into this narrative landscape.

Plus, Kilgrave isn’t somebody who’s been seen in tons of other media beyond the comics. While he's shown up in a pair of video games and occasionally appeared in animated TV shows like The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Kilgrave has largely been restricted to the comics and his appearances across the three seasons of Jessica Jones. This isn’t a character like The Joker that’s been done to death in pop culture, there’s lots of new territory one could explore when it comes to Kilgrave. This could even include giving him his purple skin from the comics, a trait Jessica Jones hinted at with his default purple suits, but never went all-in on. That visual detail encapsulates how much there is still to do with Kilgrave.

It doesn’t hurt that Kilgrave is played by a beloved actor like David Tennant, whose fanbase only seems to grow as the years progress with his roles in post-Jessica Jones programs like Good Omens. Tennant is always a welcome presence in any capacity and getting him back for further MCU projects as one of his most famous and chilling characters would be an exciting development. It’s not like Tennant was a “nobody” before Jessica Jones (he had Broadchurch and Doctor Who, after all!) but he’s only become even more prominent since that Netflix show wrapped up its run. That uptick in notoriety has included a string of notable voice-over roles in Disney projects like Ducktales and Ahsoka, a sign that the parent company of Marvel Studios is keen on a good relationship with this performer. These qualities tied into the esteemed career of David Tennant would surely be another incentive to get Kilgrave back into the MCU picture.

David Tennant's Kilgrave Would Give the MCU a Tangibly Terrifying Villain Again

The most important facet of bringing Kilgrave into the MCU, though, would be finally bringing back tangibly terrifying villains back into this sprawling saga. Recent MCU titles haven’t been entirely devoid of solid baddies (The High Evolutionary in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was an enjoyably over-the-top creation) but too many modern foes in this franchise leave something to be desired. Dar-Benn, Kang, Gorr the God Butcher, Kro; they’re all too removed from anything resembling discernible reality. While Thanos proved truly haunting because he was a big purple alien who acted like a weary human being, few recent cosmic MCU baddies have registered as remotely in touch with the real world.

Kilgrave would solve that problem and then some. This figure was truly terrifying in his nonchalant evil, while his ability to manipulate the minds of seemingly anyone Jessica Jones encountered provided a vivid visual metaphor for how omnipresent toxic men are in American society. They’re everywhere, even when they’re not physically in the room! Embracing such a terrifying baddie rooted in heavy real-world material (like the sexual trauma he inflicted on Jessica Jones) didn’t weigh down Jessica Jones as a show but rather gave it extra gravitas. That’s not the kind of praise one could offer recent MCU baddies obsessed with convoluted cosmic justice. David Tennant is always a welcome sight in any piece of pop culture, but him returning as Kilgrave would be especially helpful for the broader Marvel Cinematic Universe.'

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The Raft (Remix)

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/L5RwrGV by Starry_Night_625 Grant winds up on the Raft. At least Jack is there. I own nothing and definitely do not make any profit from this. Words: 1576, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Justin Hammer, Willis Stryker, Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Everett Ross, James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, T'Challa (Marvel), Ramonda (Marvel), Shuri (Marvel), Tony Stark, Phil Coulson, Skye | Daisy Johnson, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Wanda Maximoff, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Scott Lang, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Okoye (Marvel) Relationships: Jack Rollins/Grant Ward, Jack Rollins/Brock Rumlow Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Protective Jack Rollins, Grant Ward Needs a Hug read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/L5RwrGV

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The Raft (Remix)

by Starry_Night_625 Grant winds up on the Raft. At least Jack is there. I own nothing and definitely do not make any profit from this. Words: 1576, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Justin Hammer, Willis Stryker, Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Everett Ross, James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, T'Challa (Marvel), Ramonda (Marvel), Shuri (Marvel), Tony Stark, Phil Coulson, Skye | Daisy Johnson, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Wanda Maximoff, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Scott Lang, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Okoye (Marvel) Relationships: Jack Rollins/Grant Ward, Jack Rollins/Brock Rumlow Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Protective Jack Rollins, Grant Ward Needs a Hug via https://ift.tt/0taMoYf

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From Spider-Woman Vol. 8 #001

Art by Carola Borelli and Arif Prianto

Written by Steve Foxe