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Well it makes more sense than, where I read, the speculation was she is Blackheart since Mephisto was name-dropped in an episode.
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starborn427614
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She's part of Agatha's coven, or at least they were trying to get her to join when I tapped out.
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yeah if Marvel wasn't fucking retarded they'd just skip to Mephisto and pass on Lady Death (Marvel) since Thanos is done
so let's all get ready for our Lady Death (Marvel) spinoff miniseries which is just her getting Forrest Gumped into every death in the MCU to date
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No need to speculate. Those Funko's already spoiled it. Because Disney's need for making you consume product is more important than keeping secrets to surprise their audience.
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if there had been Action Figures in the day there would have been Arctic Commando Citizen Kane (with his sled Rosebud!)
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If I loved Ultimate Alliance should I play it?
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I'm going to go with yes. I never played Ultimate Alliance but have just read some summaries and watched a couple of minutes of cut scenes and gameplay and there are both big similarities and big differences. For the similarities, in both games you build a roster of known heroes who are voiced individually and have their own lines and dialogue and select from your roster for missions (it looks like). Some story missions in Midnight Suns have particular character requirements and some are generic ones. Mostly you have free pick of who to take and can focus on improving those heroes the most if you wish. I didn't notice that UA has generic missions. In Midnight Suns, doing some generic missions is a good way to build up resources and levels before taking on a story mission. I saw cut scenes in UA and Midnight Suns has those but it also has a lot of free roaming interaction where you can walk around the team's base and have conversations and do activities with the heroes. (Pro-tip, don't try to take Wolverine landscape painting). I don't know if UA has that level of out-of-mission scope. Midnight Suns has three distinct game components - missions, social interaction and exploring / (light) puzzle solving. From what I saw, UA is focused on missions. Though I could be wrong. In Midnight Suns you can pretty much ignore the exploring and social interaction if you want, though both are ways to build up your resources and power. Heroes work together better if you've built up friendships and the team spirit.
So other big difference is the style of combat. UA looks like roaming real-time team with some nice nuanced combos and strategies. Looks fun. Midnight Suns is turn-based and takes place in fixed arena-style locations. That immediately makes it sound duller than UA but it's really pretty deep. Much more so than it or its card-based look and feel would suggest. The only randomness in Midnight Suns is the initial shuffle of the deck. (I think their use of visual metaphors of cards and decks is one of the things that put a lot of people off because people thought of it would be a collectible card game style thing, I think). Everything past the shuffle is deterministic. So if a power says it will do 32 points of damage and stun an enemy, that's what it does. Sounds like a weakness but it's actually one of the best features because you end up trying to work out a precise sequence of plays and movements that will lead to victory. You're a little like Stephen Strange searching futures trying to find one way that will beat Thanos.
So it depends what you liked about UA. Marvel character's accurately portrayed and well-voiced? Yes, you'll love it, it has this in spades. Point and clicky real time combat? It doesn't have this so it depends if you like playing Death Sudoku with an array of powers and play styles. All the heroes are quite distinct which is impressive (but then this is by the team who did XCom). Even when you're comparing heroes that seem to play similar rolls, e.g. Cap and Wolverine are both very resilient team members who can somewhat soak up damage and make your team more tanky. But Cap is way better at protecting other team members with taunts, granting block whereas as Wolverine is more of a light attacker who wont stay down (my Go To for bringing down minions in bulk). If you don't like lots of free-roaming exploring and uncovering the story, you might not like it as much. Though you can skip out on that and still get the essentials of the story.
If you play it let me know what you think. If you're starving for decent Marvel content which there's a dearth of these days, it'll certainly give you lots of time with some of the best Marvel characters. Unlike UA (from what I could gather), you have an original character you play as in Midnight Suns, so you are actually represented in the game and interacting with the heroes. But your character is very well integrated into the lore and background.
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Yes exactly. I'll check it out.
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Late but I watched Madame Web and it wasn't bad. It was a generic superhero movie that kind of did a good job at looking like it came out in 2003. People claiming it was a hacked up re-edit might actually be high; it was fairly straightforward and simple.
That said, it's stupid that they didn't just make a Sydnee Sweeney Spider-Woman movie instead of this. Plus Peter Parker being born in 2003 is gay as hell and they need to stop pretending Spider-Man doesn't exist in all these movies set in Spider-Man's universe. YOU HAVE THE RIGHTS TO THE CHARACTER.
That said, it's stupid that they didn't just make a Sydnee Sweeney Spider-Woman movie instead of this. Plus Peter Parker being born in 2003 is gay as hell and they need to stop pretending Spider-Man doesn't exist in all these movies set in Spider-Man's universe. YOU HAVE THE RIGHTS TO THE CHARACTER.
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I suspect it has something to do with their deal with Disney. You are right in that there was very little reason not to include him.
This specially notable with Venom who notably lacks the iconic spider emblem, or the fact that he is at his most popular as a Spider-Man villain. A good Spider-Man movie with venom as the main villain should print money, but they didn’t even try it (not counting Raimi’s movie).
You are right in that in theory they could have easily tied their movies with Spider-man for more money, but the only logical explanation I see on why they haven’t, is that they wanted some of that MCU money, and in return, they conceded on some terms.
I can’t prove anything, but my theory is that as long as they do MCU collabs, Disney asked them to only have one ”main” live action Spider-Man around. The MCU’s one. And only in MCU projects. No way Home was insanely profitable so that’s why they want to keep their ties to the MCU, and Disney, and they accepted those terms. They figured they could still earn money without sharing with Disney with solo villain movies. They were wrong.
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That might be one of the most charitable takes on this movie I have ever seen. The best I can say for it is that Dakota Johnson in interviews didn't try to sugar-coat things more than she professionally had to and reportedly was going to fire her agent (don't know if she did). But if someone got some fun out of it, good for you.
What's stupid is hiring Sydney Sweeney and dressing her as a preppy schoolgirl for the entire moving rather than showing her in a Spiderwoman costume. One of Hollywood's most pneumatic actresses and they make her look like a 16 year old.
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Sweeney looked crazy good in the costume. It astounds me that they went through all the trouble just for some flashback shit. (Of course now that I type it out, I get why people think there was a different movie in the edit.)
I don't really get the hate honestly. From what I heard about it I expected a really, really bad movie and it's just kind of generic and old-fashioned, which isn't necessarily bad. There are no 20-minute action scenes like in modern movies, the humor is corny and cliched, and not a lot really happens, but it wasn't badly acted or directed. It was harmless and better than Morbius.
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It very much feels like a late Eighties / early Nineties action/superhero movie. Hard to put my finger on why.
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That's ultimately due to legal reasons more than anything. I'm sure Sony would love to mass produce live action Spider-Man films by the truckload but the issue is that they can't; so they pretty much got no choice but to churn out slop in order to retain part of the IP they do have control over and act as a sort of bargaining chip over Disney.
Sony owning part of the Spider-Man IP is their one Sword of Damocles they can use against Disney in a corporate sense.
Admittedly it was kind've their fault. They could've kept a steady Spider-Man movie franchise all the way back in 2007 with Spider-Man 3 (but then they fucked it up) and they even had a second chance with the Andrew Garfield reboot but again, they fucked it all up. Not that it matters since if they continued with Tobey's universe they would find some gay way to kill him off (because he'd be too old for the role by the middle of the 2010s) and replace him with some niggo who's supposed to be Miles Morales. If it was Garfield's universe then they'd find a way to kill him off by late 2010s or early 2020s and then repeat.
Too much goodwill was burned and as a result Sony has no real plans aside from hogging the IP a little longer until they're at a position to where they can possibly come out on top over Disney... And as it seems they don't got to do much since the MCU has been really stagnating lately.
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According to some interviews, she forced them to film a scene where she's in costume, hanging upside down in one of the classic Spidey poses that her Spider-Woman would also do in the comics, because she saw it and loved it so much.
So they filmed it.
I don't know if they used it, but they filmed it.
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Tangentially related - Simu Liu was on Dragon's Den Canada and shut down a prospective bubble tea shop because "it didn't acknowledge the cultural history of where it was from" (Taiwan) and this faggot isn't even Taiwanese.
This from a guy who played a Korean on TV for years and profited from it. What a hypocritical faggot.
This from a guy who played a Korean on TV for years and profited from it. What a hypocritical faggot.
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They only barely used it. You see her descend upside down but it's a fraction of a second and focused mainly on her face from the front. It doesn't look like what you see in that clip.
Respect to Ms. Sweeney for trying to get some spiderhero stuff into a spiderhero movie.
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I fucking guess
No particular order within the tiers.
I'm counting the shows, and the Netflix shows too, since they're canon again. DP3 as well, but not the other DP films, X-Men, Spider-Man, or anything else.
I haven't watched Wakanda Forever, Werewolf by Night, or Agatha, so they're not there.
And yes, I like Iron Man 3 that much.
I take it as part of the "Good Shane Black Movies Trilogy" (along with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Nice Guys) and it's great in that context, even if not so great in the MCU context.
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I thought the idea people were throwing around was that Professor X was hiding the existence of Mutants with his powers. Itd be a bit ridiculous but these movies never had good world building. If I was in charge of all this shit I would've made the world building a priority from the very beginning. One Punch Man, a superhero/anime parody, manages to have better world building than a multibillion dollar franchise...let that sink in.