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The [Marvel] Thread: Now in WandaVision!

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    I wish I had the opportunity to get Spider-Man powers when I went to high school.

    I did but I ain't want no great responsibility. I can't even handle regular responsibility.

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  • LalaboxLalabox Registered User regular
    peter's school seemed kinda ridiculously rich

    like they had student tv shows and all sorts of real expensive stuff just there

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Midtown School of Science and Technology is textually a fancy school

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Peter being a poor kid in a school full of rich kids is a big thing!

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  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    I gained the proportions and build of Peter B Parker, just sans powers.

    I got my fat gut the hard way without powers !

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  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    i think the unrealistic part of the far from home field trip is that peter can afford it

    there's a hundred handwavy answers for how he can, but that will deffo be tied into my dislike of mcu spider-man being very have your cake and eat it too

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    mcu spider-man is not poor in any meaningful sense, aunt may clearly has a lot of money

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  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    Peter could pay for the trip just on what he finds in Tony's couch cushions

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    The trailers also imply that
    SHIELD wants him there

  • HeatwaveHeatwave Come, now, and walk the path of explosions with me!Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    mcu spider-man is not poor in any meaningful sense, aunt may clearly has a lot of money

    Aunt Maybe rich

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    edited January 2019
    Just watched Ant-Man and Wasp. The first act has some super sweaty plotting with some pretty clunky exposition.

    But even despite that once it gets in gear it is super god dang fun. We’ll see how the cards land but this is probably one of my favorite Marvel movies. Also Ghost has one of the best costumes in all of these.

    Also get Ant-Man’s Ultraman looking ass fighting a Fin Fang Foom or something

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    I'm hoping Ant-Man 3 will go hard into the Microverse stuff and give us Ant-Man and Wasp fighting tiny weirdo alien monsters inside of a single atom in, like, Hank Pym's gall bladder or something

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    edited January 2019
    If the next Ant-Man and Wasp sticks the landing it will be probably be the strongest trilogy of the MCU

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    I think the microverse stuff is neat but my favorite thing about the Ant-Man movies is how they use extremely normal settings as a weird playground. I'd rather see someone get dramatically run over by a toy train only to zoom out and show the actual scale of the fight. No other superhero movie can really do that, and a lot of them can have the heroes fighting CG monsters in an alien landscape

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited January 2019
    Scott Lang honestly might be my favorite MCU character

    Only one that really comes close is Steve Rogers

    He is just such a fun dude to watch and has so much heart while also being an ex-con single dad who loves his daughter and is on good terms with his ex and her husband

    He rules and I love him

    Plus, y'know, Paul Rudd is the most charming man alive

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  • HeatwaveHeatwave Come, now, and walk the path of explosions with me!Registered User regular
    Next phase of the MCU should have Agent Woo become the next Sorcerer Supreme

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  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    One of my favorite things on rewatch of Antman and the Wasp
    When they are bugging Scott when he's little in the van about a juice box and cookie. He looks so earnest when he asks if they actually have them

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  • SatanIsMyMotorSatanIsMyMotor Fuck Warren Ellis Registered User regular
    Krieghund wrote: »
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    Spider-Man trailer looks dope.

    Also, a public high school class trip to fucking Italy is the most unrealistic part of any of these movies.

    My sister and I went to the same high school in south florida. She went to Russia in like 89, and I went to Madrid, Paris, and London in 93. EF Tours, man. Take a foreign language, lol.

    Yeah, I went to a school that was nothing special but overseas tours were definitely a thing. I never went anywhere too far but many of my friends did. I think it's even more ubiquitous these days.

  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    I took 3 years of Latin in high school and got to go to Italy and Greece. My parents of course had to pay for it, but it was rad our Latin teacher did that. It was just a normal high school, and I don't think other language teachers did any trips? Our teacher was just really cool. Shout out to Miss Brantley!

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  • never dienever die Registered User regular
    I think travel abroad opportunities is common enough in high school that it’s not far-fetched for Peter to have that opportunity in the movie, and that they would have assistanc eopportunities for the students who could not afford it.

    At the same time, as we talk about our own experiences, it was/is still very varied based on the schools you went to, the economic support those schools had, and the social class you fall into, that it should not be assumed that everyone had that option. My school didn’t have the support nor did my family make enough money for me to be able to do it ourselves or through some program.

  • SatanIsMyMotorSatanIsMyMotor Fuck Warren Ellis Registered User regular
    never die wrote: »
    I think travel abroad opportunities is common enough in high school that it’s not far-fetched for Peter to have that opportunity in the movie, and that they would have assistanc eopportunities for the students who could not afford it.

    At the same time, as we talk about our own experiences, it was/is still very varied based on the schools you went to, the economic support those schools had, and the social class you fall into, that it should not be assumed that everyone had that option. My school didn’t have the support nor did my family make enough money for me to be able to do it ourselves or through some program.

    I don't think anybody is assuming that. Somebody said that overseas highschool trips was super unbelievable and people are just saying that it's a very common thing. I'm not sure why anybody would take umbrage from that.

  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    never die wrote: »
    I think travel abroad opportunities is common enough in high school that it’s not far-fetched for Peter to have that opportunity in the movie, and that they would have assistanc eopportunities for the students who could not afford it.

    At the same time, as we talk about our own experiences, it was/is still very varied based on the schools you went to, the economic support those schools had, and the social class you fall into, that it should not be assumed that everyone had that option. My school didn’t have the support nor did my family make enough money for me to be able to do it ourselves or through some program.

    I don't think anybody is assuming that. Somebody said that overseas highschool trips was super unbelievable and people are just saying that it's a very common thing. I'm not sure why anybody would take umbrage from that.

    because the post you replied to suggested that people missed out on the opportunity simply because they didn't take the right subjects, with a "lol" on the end as though it was laughably easy if they'd just chosen better? Like if someone did "take a foreign language, lol" and still could not go on trips because their family couldn't afford it, that's going to feel kind of shitty. it's tone deaf at best, callous at worst.

  • never dienever die Registered User regular
    edited January 2019
    In other news, Ms. Marvel was really good this week, with a very cute story. While I’m very interested in what Saladin Ahmed does with her, I’m real bummed that we’re almost to the end of G. Willow Wilson’s tenure on the book.

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  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    edited January 2019
    In my school at least, you didn't get to do the foreign trip associated with a language unless you made it to year four or five as well.

    My Latin teacher told me that my grades weren't good enough and I should drop after year three of it, so I never got a chance to do their Italy trip.

    Which obviously isn't a likely problem for Peter Parker, but the idea that these trips were just available if you took the right classes ignores that a lot of students weren't able to take those classes, either due to academic performance or other commitments.

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  • KetarKetar Come on upstairs we're having a partyRegistered User regular
    Straightzi wrote: »
    In my school at least, you didn't get to do the foreign trip associated with a language unless you made it to year four or five as well.

    My Latin teacher told me that my grades weren't good enough and I should drop after year three of it, so I never got a chance to do their Italy trip.

    Which obviously isn't a likely problem for Peter Parker, but the idea that these trips were just available if you took the right classes ignores that a lot of students weren't able to take those classes, either due to academic performance or other commitments.

    My school only had 2 big trips when I was there (I believe they have more now). One was a spring break trip to London that was open to any who could afford it. The second was a class on rain forest ecology that required attending an evening class one night per week for about 8 weeks and then going on the trip to Costa Rica over the summer, for an entire year's worth of science credit. There was some financial assistance available for the science trip. They also worked with anyone with a sports commitment that might interfere with the evening class to make things work out.

    So, there wasn't a lot being offered but theoretically any student could have attended a trip.

  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    edited February 2019


    Thread lays out why Marvel's constant renumbering doesn't really help in the longterm.

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  • GreasyKidsStuffGreasyKidsStuff MOMMM! ROAST BEEF WANTS TO KISS GIRLS ON THE TITTIES!Registered User regular
    Hey all how did I not know they launched a new Superior Spider-Man comic and also is it any good

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Marvel's first FCBD book is Avengers by Jason Aaron/Stefano Caselli and Gerry Duggan/Mike Deodato

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    The lead appears to be a one-off by Aaron and the back-up from Duggan will introduce a new "dynamic and deadly" incarnation of the team.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I like the look of that SHulk.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    It sounds like the second title will be a Ms. Marvel or Miles Morales issue as Saladin Ahmed is very heavily hinting at writing it and they are his only current ongoings with any company

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    That's Tony and nor Riri wearing the Iron Suit, right?

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    Yeah, that's Tony. Riri has a totally different suit now.

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited February 2019
    Jason Aaron is writing Blade about a step away from Black Dynamite territory and I am very into it
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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Is Blade American or British I forget

  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    blade is british

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  • Doctor DetroitDoctor Detroit Registered User regular
    I like the look of that SHulk.

    Ignoring the boobsock, yeah.

    Carol’s got some anatomy issues as well.

  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    Blade is Wesley Snipes

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  • Dark Raven XDark Raven X Laugh hard, run fast, be kindRegistered User regular
    Mysst wrote: »
    Blade is Wesley Snipes

    Ah yes, the most British name that has ever existed.

    Oh brilliant
  • XehalusXehalus Registered User regular
    Blade is Simon Pheonix

  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    Mysst wrote: »
    Blade is Wesley Snipes

    Ah yes, the most British name that has ever existed.

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