Category: superheroes
-
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Well we can now say that this movie is so bad even a child could have done a better job. We had a special guest on our watch this week. In order to hear his very smart opinions you will have to watch the clips from our TikTok live because…
-
Shang-Chi Take 16
16 weeks in to Shang-Chi and we have managed to still find things to complain about so….you’re welcome. This week we talk about Mary Sue’s, the passage of time, Avatar the Last Airbender and why its important for writers to have editors. Somehow the movie was worse after we took…
-
MCU Rewatch: The Avengers
The Avengers was the first team movie of the MCU as well as the end to the iconic first phase. It holds up pretty well and remains the best film of the first phase. Bringing the team together for the first time required a lot. Joss had to set up…
-
Superman vs The Amazing Spiderman
Everyone loves a good comic book crossover. But even comic fans aren’t aware of all the crossovers there have been. Not only between Marvel and DC but between the major two and some really fun and seemingly random characters. Well we are going to talk about all of them eventually,…
-
Thor: MCU Rewatch
We are week 4 into our MCU rewatch and we have just finished watching Thor. Thor remains one of the best MCU origin stories for so many reasons, all of which we talk about in this weeks episode. If you missed this week’s episode of An Idea of All Time…
-
Is This Fridging? Vanessa – Deadpool
Today we are talking about Vanessa from Deadpool, Wade’s girlfriend. This one is a little complicated. So I can’t definitively answer it until we see Deadpool 3. Because if we took 90% of the second Deadpool movie the answer would be yes, but at the end of Deadpool 2 Wade…
-
Is This Fridging? Maria Hill
I will never stop talking about fridging. For those who don’t know fridging is a term that was coined by Gail Simone to describe a very upsetting and violent phenomenon in comics. Comic books often use violent, shock factor deaths. The problem however lies with when these shock factor deaths…
-
Invincible Season 1
Ahead of San Diego Comic Con I thought it important to check off some things that have been on my watch list forever ahead of some pretty big announcements. Let’s start with Invincible, not just another superhero show. And something that certainly proves that animation is not inherently for kids.…
-
A Different Kind of Superhero Story
In a world that is dominated by both Marvel and DC superheroes that preach morality and the human struggle, other superhero projects show us an arguably more realistic perspective of superhero life. Invincible and The Boys both satirize popular superheroes and offer a different viewpoint on what it means to…
-
Secret Invasion – Episode 3
We’ve established thus far that I am less than impressed with the Secret Invasion series so far. Which is mostly disappointing because I feel up to this point the Disney+ series have been more good then bad. But the real problem with this show is the entire lack of emotional…