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Anon88 said:
I'm pretty sure that's at least ten years old if not older. Back then Marvel was more willing to take risks and the political brain rot hadn't taken over the editors office yet.
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I think it's more likely thay the writers literally think all that shit is caused by white supremacists, non-open borders and lack of infinite government handouts.
 
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MrJokerRager said:
How did this get past the censor.

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I remember that. I think the writers were attempting to make a close representation of superficially convincing arguments of such people and then expose how they were flawed. To engage with your opponent and lead them out of their incorrect views. Only they as I recall, they never quite managed to do the latter half. You came away, like when reading Milton's Paradise Lost, thinking "sure, Satan lost in the end, but... he made some good points."

I'm not sure if that's from the run I'm thinking of but if it is, it's the one where Red Skull uses a blue cube to turn Captain America into a Hydra agent. Only to find Captain America is better at it than he is and overthrows him. I believe the entire idea was loudly condemned by some parties but it had good art and writing.
 
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I legit keep forgetting that the F4 movie is coming out until I keep having to be reminded that it's coming out. lol. That is the level of fucks I do not give.

It's hard to imagine that I was once a big MCU fan and didn't miss a single release back in the day. Aside from the Spider-Man movies and Deadpool and Wolverine, I haven't bothered with any MCU movies in theaters post-Endgame ... And there's a lot that I just haven't bothered with altogether.
 
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The handsome tard said:
Yes, this is a screenshot from the FF4 movie
Yes, they are referencing the iconic cover, neat
And yes, the CG looks like shit puke

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What in the PS2 graphics is this?

Look, I get that Disney's CGI team might as well be a literal sweat shop, but good lord comparing modern CGI to movies over a decade old, how the fuck did the technology regress this far?
 
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I'm going to fly in the face of other comments and say that I like that still. Pre-release CGI is often unfinished and even if not, stills from a fast-moving sequence often don't convey how it will look on the screen. What I like about the still is that it shows a fun and slightly zany setting which is what the FF4 and MCU in general needs.

Of course, it still stars Pedro Pascal, it still sounds like it's going to be modern day politics and will be a bad product reluctantly focus-grouped into something audiences actually want ("Fine! We'll admit we're making a comic book movie *sulks*") so I'm still not going to see it, but giant grumpy monsters erupting from the street is what FF4 should be.
 
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BiggestKai said:
It's an tie in ad for Little Caesars

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I really do wish that was an actual shot from the movie because that would have been really funny.
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That's kinda cute.
Makes me miss when they'd hold Bible study at one of the offices at work.
Meant leftover little Caesars pizza in the fridge the next day free for the taking
 
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Its a recurrent thing with these sort of comic book stories, you know, the ones that want you to believe that in an universe as varied and wide like DC's and Marvel's that all the heroes, villains and in between got their shit wrecked by a creature that has the same threat level as a low tier bug enemy fought multiple times over the decades.


Its like saying that the Xenos are making progress in defeating the Imperium of Man with extremely vague explanations. Anyone knows that the mere idea xenos could pose a serious threat to these universes dripping with power houses so OP that they might as well be facing cockroaches that are regularly hunted by alien hunter with dreadlocks is absolutely ludicrous but you just gotta go along with it.

And you can make these ideas work but not in a contrived style like this.

Whenever there are these crossover events with other IPs, more often than not, they realistically shouldnt stand a chance against DC and Marvel's cast of characters, another example is that Godzilla crossover with DC, we all know that the Big G would get "realistically" annihilated so they had to find cheats and/or just go with a shrug and say "it just is". Its literally a litmus test on if you read these comics for the pretty pictures or the plot and character consistency, a literal test to see if you are a mindless consumer.
 
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The handsome tard said:
Its a recurrent thing with these sort of comic book stories, you know, the ones that want you to believe that in an universe as varied and wide like DC's and Marvel's that all the heroes, villains and in between got their shit wrecked by a creature that has the same threat level as a low tier bug enemy fought multiple times over the decades.
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That's true even within the Alien universe, mind you. The first two movies do an excellent job of showing how greed and incompetence can lead to disaster in a plausible way. In the areas it was contrived (breaking quarantine procedure in the first, entering the nest without proper firearm support) the movies covered it with with admirable rationalisation and polish. And the third had the perfect set-up for an alien movie with the rag-tag unarmed prisoners having to think of a way to kill it.

The xenomorph is fast, tough and deadly. But the elephant in the room that the wider franchise has been struggling with for years, is that against competent tech-using humans, it can be handled. To make it deadly you have to do one of three things:

1. Change the rules. E.g. Romulus has it impregnate someone in around three minutes and burst out about ten minutes later. The final one goes from baby-sized to 3m tall in under five minutes. It's silly.
2. Go to full critical mass, e.g. treat it more like a runaway disease in which they are now spreading across the country and reproducing at an exponential rate.
3. Continue to try and find ways to hobble your protagonists which you can only do so long before it's obvious the xenomorph is just winning through the humans behaving like the Three Stooges.

Most superheroes aren't going to make a difference in these scenarios. Captain Atom can nuke a nest but then so could the US govt. The issue is that the nest is in New York city and the whole area is a complete mix of civillians and xenomorphs. Captain Marvel can fly around and punch them but that's not really different to soldiers flying around in helicopters and shooting them. So heroes don't actually make that much difference either way. Until you come to ones who can do the utterly weird stuff, like alter reality or come up with some weird nanotech cure for impregnation or say "yawa og shpromoneX" whilst wearing fishnets and a top hat.
 
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