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What If: Captain America Were Revived Today? #44 (April 1983) by Peter B. Gillis and Sal Buscema; Original Image by John Romita Sr.
In this What If? Marvel tale, Captain America is unfrozen in 1983 rather than the 1960s. Without the leadership of Steve Rogers, The Avengers disband. Meanwhile, a Captain America imposter, who calls himself a "real American," has decided to use his newfound influential media status to publicly support a National Identity Card to "deal with illegal aliens,” to suggest that members of civil rights groups "ought to think seriously as to whether or not their actions contribute to the strengthening of communist enemies," and declare that if those groups tear the country apart with protests, martial law is justified "for the peace to find a solution.”
Neighborhoods with large black populations (e.g., Harlem) are walled off and forced into poverty, and one character even mentions that Jewish people are being “put back into camps.” The right-wing politicians make sure that things like this aren’t shown on television, keeping the majority of the American public ignorant of the horrors committed with their indifferent support. The public are simultaneously told that with some sacrifices, America can be free once again. The fake Captain America confronts a group of peaceful protestors, and he is shot by a sniper (in what reads like an inside job), allowing the police to have “reason” to attack the protestors. The imposter does not die and instead uses the attack to provide more reason for the violent crackdown against protesting groups.
When the true Captain America is unfrozen, he is horrified to see what America has become, especially with his emblem stamped all over it. He immediately seeks out the resistance forces (who clearly represent the Black Panther Party) and joins their cause, stating that "the wrongs [he's] seen will take much more than one man to right -- but [he's] got a name to clear, a costume to unsoil-- and a country to die for!!"
By the time Steve joins them, the resistance only has one chance left to stop the American downfall: a political convention where the "America First" party will be able to secure its support to sweep the national elections and allow them "to return America to the pure and great nation [the] forefathers envisioned."
The resistance strikes just as the convention begins. The Captain America imposter is no match in a fight against the true Captain America -- especially against a Steve Rogers who's fucking pissed. ("Get up so I can knock you down!!")
With the imposter knocked unconscious, Captain America addresses the convention crowd, warning that an America that does not represent all its people does not deserve to exist at all; that liberty can be "as easily snuffed out [in America] as in Nazi Germany" and "as a people, we are no different from them."
The crowd realizes that the man speaking before them is the true Captain America and cheers. Captain America holds his hand up and silences them, stating that he will not allow them the chance to simply replace one idol with another. He alone can’t undo the horrible damage, and he pleads that there’s still a chance for the people to “find America once again.”
Fascism doesn’t change its tune, just its singers.
A 2021 Marvel Trumps Hate ( @marveltrumpshate ) commission, completed on 22-count aida cloth with embroidery floss and watercolors on a 9" diameter bamboo hoop.
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Are there any notable examples of anti-mutant prejudice towards the X-Men coming from within the superhero community?
This is a great question!
This gets to the complicated nature of how mutants fit into the Marvel Universe. I've always been a vocal proponent of the idea that, far from the mutant metaphor only making sense if it's in its own little bubble where mutants are the only people with superpowers, the mutant metaphor actually functions better in the context of the Marvel Universe, because it allows you to explore more complicated and more subtle ways that prejudice functions.
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While there are plenty of super-villains who have quite blatant anti-mutant prejudice, you don't tend to get that same kind of overt bigotry towards mutants among super-heroes. Partly, this is because bigotry is a very unheroic character trait, but it also has to do with the way that the way that Marvel historically portrayed the spillover effects of anti-mutant prejudice.
Following in a kind of Niemöllerian logic, it's almost always the case that groups that hate and fear mutants also end up hating and fearing non-mutant superheroes. Thus, Days of Future Past starts with the Sentinels being turned on mutants, but it ends with the Sentinels wiping out the Avengers and the Fantastic Four too - because the same atavistic fear of "the great replacement" applies to both mutants and mutates. Likewise, the same forces that line up to push through the Mutant Registration Act inevitably end up proposing a Superhuman Registration Act, because once you've violated the precepts of equality under the law for one minority group, you establish a precedent to do it to another.
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Instead, I would argue what you see in the case of anti-mutant prejudice among superheroes is explorations of liberal prejudice. This takes many different forms: in Civil War, you see Tony Stark insensitively try to wave the bloody shirt of Stamford in the face of a survivor of the Genoshan genocide or Carol playing the good liberal ally but ultimately trying to get mutants to set aside their own struggle in favor of her own political project. (For someone who's spent a good deal of time working, and living with, the X-Men, occasionally against the interests of the state, Carol does have a tendency to stick her foot in her mouth. Hence in Civil War II, you see Carol essentially goysplaining the dangers of creeping authoritarianism to Magneto.)
In Avengers vs X-Men, you see the Avengers acting like they know the Phoenix Force better than mutants and ultimately prioritizing the safety of mankind over the efforts of mutantkind to reverse their own extinction. This is where the "Avengers are cops" meme in the fandom comes from. (I would argue that Captain America is badly mischaracterized in the latter event - we know which side he's on when the interests of mutants and the interests of the state come into conflict.)
The common thread here is that anti-mutant prejudice among superheroes emerges as a kind of unthinking, unreflective callousness brought on by a worldview that thinks of humans as the universal default of lived experience - while thinking of mutants as a somewhat annoying special interest group that fixates on their particularist grievances rather than working for what the heroes consider to be the common good.
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For a more intimate version of how this plays out, I think the Fantastic Four are a great exploration of how "well-meaning" liberals can massively fuck up when they don't do the work of examining their own biases. We've seen this since the very beginning: in Fantastic Four #21, Kirby goes out of his way to depict uber-WASP Reed Richards blithely assuming that the "free market of ideas" will take care of the Hatemonger, while the subtextually Jewish Ben Grimm knows that the way to deal with a mind-controlling Hitler clone wearing purple Klan robes is deplatforming-by-way-of-clobberin'.
Then later on, we see Reed Richards debate Congress out of passing a Superhuman Registration Act, while saying nothing about the Mutant Registration Act - even though he has a mutant son who is directly threatened by it. (See that adorable blond moppet with the slur scrawled across his face in the fictional advertisement above? That's Franklin Richards.) This is why I have a crack theory that Franklin's biological father is actually Namor rather than Reed, which is why Reed so consistently shows a passive-aggressive hostility to his son's mutancy.
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At the same time, Sue also has her blindspots when it comes to mutant rights. In the underrated FF/X miniseries, Susan Storm acts like an understanding and supportive parent to Franklin - right up until someone suggests that Franklin might want to come to Krakoa and explore his mutant identity, at which point she goes full Karen and starts lashing out with her powers. Chip Zdarsky, the writer, explicitly compared Reed and Sue to liberal parents who support gay rights in the abstract until their kid comes out as trans and wants to spend time in LGBT+ spaces.
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The Infamous Jenny Vulture Interview
So, I keep losing access to the infamous Jenny Vulture interview from March 2017 because of caps on access they have on their website. So, in case anyone else hits the same problem, I'm cut and pasting it here, to have an easier to access copy of it.
The Year of Living Publicly
Jenny Slate’s got two new films and a new home and, oh, by the way, she’s fresh off a breakup with Captain America. 
By Jasa Yuan
Published March 2017
Most pillows are just pillows, but for Jenny Slate, the floral-print puffs arrayed on her pristine white linen couch in her freshly rented apartment in L.A.’s Silver Lake are metaphors. For a bright future. For a new life. For freedom. The Obvious Child star and her bichon frise, Reggie, just moved into this sunny one-bedroom in February, and every time she looks at those pillows, she gets so excited because she remembers how she’d bought them while still married to editor-director Dean Fleischer-Camp, her husband for three years, but had to stow them away because she realized it felt like they were living in a box of tampons. Now she and Reggie don’t have to run their decorating decisions by anyone. “I’ve never lived on my own, because I really did go from one relationship to another my whole life, so I’ve never had a chance to go really girlie,” she says. “And I had my ex-husband over last night and he was like, ‘These flower pillows look great. But they’re just for you.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah! That’s right!’ I love them so much. I just love them for what they represent, which is that all my choices are for me.” She turns around. “I’m gonna pee really quick.”
The bathroom door doesn’t quite close — she’d warned me of this. “You can snoop around if you want,” she shouts. “It’s just a little mouse house. It’s fucking perfect for me.”
I have been in her presence for about two minutes. The first thing she did was offer to loan me a T-shirt because I mentioned I was hot. Slate used to do a stand-up routine about how her mom refused to sew her name into her shirt in elementary school, “because she was like, ‘You’re too friendly, and some stranger would just be like, Jenny! Come into the van!’ ”
There’s an obvious person missing so far from this tale of pillows versus patriarchy, but she’s not hiding anything; we just haven’t gotten to it yet. “When I moved in here, I’d been through my divorce and a breakup,” she says, returning from the bathroom and referring to the ten or so months she spent dating Chris Evans, best known as Captain America, and her much more famous co-star in Gifted an upcoming film about a family struggling with a young girl’s genius affinity for math. The internet went wild over their apples-and-oranges compatibility: a brash Jewish comedienne beloved for oversharing about her bodily functions on talk shows and voicing Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, a tiny stop-motion conch with a single eye and feet who talks about being so small he can hang-glide on a Dorito, in a series of YouTube shorts she made with Fleischer-Camp — and a world-famous Marvel superhero, who also happens to be a Massachusetts momma’s boy with one of the most insanely ripped bodies on the planet. “We used to talk about what kinds of animals we were,” says Slate. “Chris said it’s like I’m a chick riding on a St. Bernard’s head. We’re an odd match.”
Paparazzi tried to snap them, bloggers scrutinized their Instagrams, tabloids obsessively covered their one appearance together on a red carpet. Slate didn’t read the coverage, but it was extremely kind, with most articles praising Slate for taking a chance on Evans, or noting that his coolness factor had jumped several notches because of his proximity to her. Maybe this crazy thing could work out! There was something beautiful, in a year marked by division, to think of these two opposites finding common ground. He was 35; she was 34. They’d grown up half an hour from each other. They were both outspoken liberals. They’d said really adorable things about each other on Anna Faris’s podcast.
And then, a few weeks before I met Slate, news broke that it was over. In her life, though, she’d already spent several months dealing with that loss and having to find a place to live, crashing with friends in Venice Beach in January. “I watched You’ve Got Mail so many times, it was unbelievable,” she says. Was she weeping most of the time? “Yeah, I did it right.” Eventually, she found this new apartment and purged everything she owned except for a few clothes she loves, books, precious objects, and a velvet chair once belonging to her great-grandmother. “I was like, ‘You need all new things. You are a working woman. Maybe this is an indulgence, but just start over,’ ” she says. “It’s like, Fuck.”
The other night, she tells me, she was sitting at a bar by herself, reading a book about the Holocaust, and finally sent an SOS text to her friend Mae Whitman. “I was just like, ‘Can you please help me? I’m so lonely.’ And she came and we got shitbombed, and I woke up the next morning and saw my headphones on my neighbor’s yard. I have no idea how they ended up there.”
As Slate gives me the tour of her place, Reggie trails her every move. “He’s like a little soul mirror of me. We’re a lot the same,” she says. How so? “Needing closeness. Despair when left alone. But also he’s very excited to misbehave when left alone. So he doesn’t know what he wants.”
Ever since she was a pip-squeak at Camp Tapawingo in Sweden, Maine, Slate has known what she wanted to be: an actress, like Amy Irving or Gilda Radner or Madeline Kahn. That or “Jewish Felicity,” taking over Manhattan, like in the TV show. In the aughts, she came up in the alternative-stand-up-comedy scene in New York, where she garnered attention for a one-woman show as different characters eulogizing an eccentric millionaire, got cast on Saturday Night Live, and wasfired one season in after accidentally cursing on-air in her first sketch. That ego blow hurt a little less when she made the awards-circuit rounds for Obvious Child, a low-budget romantic comedy about two people navigating an abortion after a one-night stand, and she’s built a devoted fan base through her outrageous characters on the Kroll Show and Parks and Recreation, not to mention her great voice work with Marcel, Bob’s Burgers, The Secret Life of Pets (as an anxious Pomeranian), and Zootopia (as a villainous sheep). In 2012, she relocated from Brooklyn to L.A. Her relationship with Evans is easily the most Hollywood thing she’s ever done. She shows me a photo of her aura on her fridge, taken in New York’s Chinatown. There’s a thick concentration of “productive energy,” which is good, since she has a lot of work coming up, and a giant cloud of worry and overthinking, which seems to be dissipating. By the sink are potholders she made as a kid on a little loom and a drawing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg that Fleischer-Camp brought her as a housewarming gift. “We’re good friends. That’s why we got divorced,” says Slate. “If we didn’t get divorced, we wouldn’t be able to be friends and we wouldn’t be able to do our work. We had just grown apart, and we love each other. It wasn’t easy, but not bad.” She pauses. “No, it was bad. But not essentially bad.”
Her mother, a ceramicist, and father, a lauded poet, are still married; she wrote a book about her childhood home in Massachusetts with her dad this year. Her younger sister, Stacey, a mental-health counselor in Brooklyn, had come over on the previous weekend and helped her put up pictures. (Her elder sister, Abby, is a nurse-practitioner in Massachusetts, and Slate is convinced her middle-child need for attention is what nudged her toward showbiz.) Covering the top of her dresser are snapshots she hasn’t figured out what to do with, such as the one of her in a revealing tank top at Columbia University, where she went from high-school valedictorian to pothead almost instantly. “This is me when I was a slutty virgin,” she explains. “A virgin but trying to act like I knew what was going on.”
Somewhere beneath a pile of half-read books is her bedside table. She hates computers so much she doesn’t keep one in the house, and she often turns to books when scrolling through Twitter on her phone stresses her out, which it always does. Current favorites include The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, and Emma, a children’s book with Barbara Cooney illustrations that she bought on Etsy and loves so much she put it on display so she could see it when she wakes up. “It’s about an old woman who doesn’t love how she’s alone, and then learns to make herself not alone through art, and draws people into her life through art. It’s the fucking best thing.”
The instinct other young actresses have to keep every interesting thing about themselves under wraps — or the toughness that female comics often give off — wouldn’t be very useful in Slate’s case. Her brand, if you can call it that, is built on vulnerability, whether she’s revealing her innermost insecurities through an animated shell or telling Seth Meyers on TV that she was so stoned in college she accidentally signed up for an astronomy class thinking she’d learn about astrology. Not to mention that she and Evans met while playing love interests in a movie that is now coming out and that she needs to promote. That’s hard to get around.
“I don’t mind talking about him at all. He’s a lovely person,” she says. “I don’t know. It feels like such a huge thing. Last year was a giant, big year for my heart. I’ve never, ever thought to keep anything private because that’s not really what I’m like, and now I’m learning those things, and they’re weird, kind of demented lessons to learn.”
She didn’t set out to have a tabloid-­fodder romance. She’d fought hard for her part in Gifted, as a teacher who falls for Evans’s character, a working-class guy trying to give his prodigy niece (Mckenna Grace) a normal childhood. Slate’s part is not huge, but it’s a big studio picture. It got her in the room with director Marc Webb and Fox Searchlight. She liked the script, but more than that, “I was just like, ‘I want viability as an American film actress. I want to find my own seat at the main dinner table, because I want to do this forever, and I want to show that it doesn’t always have to be a bikini model opposite Captain America.’ ”
Evans and Slate met at her chemistry read — the audition in which it’s determined whether two romantic leads play well together — and they instantly got along. “I remember him saying to me, ‘You’re going to be one of my closest friends.’ I was just like, ‘Man, I fucking hope this isn’t a lie, because I’m going to be devastated if this guy isn’t my friend.’ ” The first time they went out to dinner, as co-workers getting to know each other, she remembers insisting they split the bill over Evans’s strenuous objections. “If you take away my preferences, you take away my freedom,” she says she told him. “Then I was like, Oh, man, is this dude going to be like, ‘Ugh, this bra-burner.’ Instead, he was like, ‘Tell me more.’ ” They drew from that friendship for their flirting on film, but the time when they jump into bed together in the movie felt as awkward as you hear all love scenes do. “It’s one of those scenes where you bust through a door making out. I’ve never done that in my life,” says Slate. “I remember apologizing to him after. I’m pretty sure I kneed him in the balls.”
Slate was in a weird space at the time. Her marriage was dissolving, and she was working only two or three days a week, and spending her days off wandering around Savannah’s many parks and doing yoga and writing that book, About the House, with her dad. (Which, incidentally, the publisher gave away free with any donation to any charity.) Every weekend, Evans would organize a game night for the cast and crew — usually something called “running charades,” which sounds like high-speed pantomime — that she begrudgingly went to, even though all she wanted to do was hang out on the porch and drink beer and smoke cigarettes. “At first I was like, ‘What a fucking nightmare,’ ” she says. “Chris is a different speed than me — I think he really did just jump out of a plane for an interview. And so when he was like, ‘Game nights,’ I was like, ‘This is annoying. This guy’s like a sports guy. He’s the kid that likes P.E.’ ” But finally his enthusiasm won her over. “I first really liked Chris as a person because he is so unpretentious,” she says. “He is a straight-up 35-year-old man who wants to play games. That’s it. I was like, ‘I’d better not discount this, because this is purity.’ ” It also helped that she’s so competitive she constantly won.
As they got to know each other, she learned he’s still close with people from his childhood, and his best friend is a woman. “What’s the same about us is not just that we’re from Massachusetts, which was such a delight, but Chris is truly one of the kindest people I’ve ever met, to the point where sometimes I would look at him and it would kind of break my heart,” she says. “He’s really vulnerable, and he’s really straightforward. He’s like primary colors. He has beautiful, big, strong emotions, and he’s really sure of them. It’s just wonderful to be around. His heart is probably golden-colored, if you could paint it.”
They didn’t fall for each other on set. “To be quite honest, I didn’t think I was his type,” she says. (Evans has dated Jessica Biel and Minka Kelly). “Eventually, when it was like, Oh, you have these feelings for me?, I was looking around like, Is this a prank? I mean, I understand why I think I’m beautiful, but if you’ve had a certain lifestyle and I’m a very, very different type of person — I don’t want to be an experiment.” Evans never made her feel that way, but it was hard to get past how so many people seemed to feel some ownership of him and view her as an interloper. “If you are a woman who really cares about her freedom, her rights, her sense of being an individual, it is confusing to go out with one of the most objectified people in the entire world,” she says. Especially when she’s aware that in Hollywood, she says, “I’m considered some sort of alternative option, even though I know I’m a majorly vibrant sexual being.” And especially when random ladies would come up to her at CVS, “being like, ‘Oh my God, is that Chris Evans? He’s so hot!’ You’re like, ‘How dare you? That’s my boyfriend. But yes, he’s so hot.’ ”
Every time Slate mentions Evans, it keeps coming back to the same thing: As much as they loved being with one another, she says, “we’re really, really different,” with different social circles and different lifestyles. Slate comes from a DIY comedy scene, and most of her friends are fellow comics and gay guys. “Chris is a very, very famous person,” she says. “For him to go to a restaurant is totally different than for me to go. I sit in my window and I say ‘Hi’ to people on the street. I have more freedom because I’m not Captain America. I’m mostly a cartoon.” She kept waiting for everything to feel normal, but it never did. “This is what I needed to do to feel normal. To be alone.”
That meant day-to-day they mostly stayed home, “which was really nice,” she says. But it was also one of the most anxious years of her life. She fretted over the “psychos” on the internet who turned her relationship with Evans into a pissing contest with Fleischer-Camp. And she struggled seeing the person she was in love with deal with the side-effects of fame. “The stress that I saw him be put under, I’ve never seen that before, and he handled that really gracefully,” she says. What she wasn’t taking into account was that he’s used to it. “He’s not stressed,” she says. “I was the person that was stressed.”
She’s also aware in hindsight that she hadn’t processed her separation before she got together with Evans. It wasn’t as scandalous as tabloid reports made it sound — as with any long-term relationship that splinters, they’d been on the rocks long before it was official. But, she says, “When Chris and I started dating, my husband and I had only been separated for a couple of months.” The divorce actually went through while she was at the Sundance Film Festival, after she and Evans broke up. “Even though we had an amicable divorce, I think that’s still something that you need to mourn. When you get separated from somebody that you actually care about, it is the destruction of a belief system. That is really, really sad.” Throughout all of it, the divorce, the new love, she says, “I just didn’t have the tools. And I didn’t think very hard about that, to be honest. I wanted to step into the light. Chris is a sunny, loving, really fun person, and I didn’t really understand why I should be prudent.”
Are she and Evans on good terms? “We’re not on bad terms, but we haven’t really seen each other, spoken a lot,” she says. “I think it’s probably best. I’d love to be his friend one day, but we threw down pretty hard. No regrets, though. Ever.”
Slate introduces me to the mascots of her new home, two cute mice figurines in jaunty outfits who look like they’re off to travel the world. “The way I feel now is I’ve stepped out of the woods and I’m a forest animal and I’m standing on the lawn,” she says. “And if anybody tried to approach me right now, they’re seeing a creature that’s just trying to figure out what the lawn is like. All I’m thinking about is the lawn. I’m not thinking about whether or not they are going to be a fun person to be on the lawn with, because I am just trying to be on the lawn.” And what or where is this lawn? “It’s just where I am,” she says. “I like the lawn. It’s filled with air, freedom, sunlight, and I’m alone.”
Slate wants to step out in the sunlight now, with a walk around the Silver Lake Reservoir. She bids good-bye to Reggie and turns on the TV to keep him company. “I watch Twin Peaks, but Reggie watches Frasier,” she says. That morning, while Slate was walking him, a woman got out of her car and stopped in her tracks. “She was like, ‘Oh, are you Jenny Slate?’ And I said, ‘I am.’ And she said something nice to me and I said, ‘Thank you so much. I need a lot of encouragement,’ which is usually what I say because it’s true.”
Dating Evans actually, weirdly, spurred her to double down on her career, because, she says, “I don’t want people to ask me more about my love life because of him than they ask me about my work,” and in order to ensure that, she’d have to produce a lot of work. She does stand-up in small clubs whenever possible and had two films at Sundance this January, just as the paperwork for her divorce came through: The Polka King, the true story of a polka-world Ponzi scheme, opposite Jack Black; and Landline, a story of two Jewish-Italian sisters and their parents having life and love crises in ’90s New York City, with Obvious Child creators Gillian Robespierre and Elisabeth Holm (out July 21). Soon she’ll be heading to Vancouver for a road-trip movie with Evan Rachel Wood, Alison Pill, and Cynthia Erivo, which is also Wood’s directorial debut. She and Fleischer-Camp are also at work on a feature-length Marcel the Shell movie, which she says will be “a character portrait much like Billy the Kid or Grey Gardens.”
Today, she’s leaning in to International Women’s Day by wearing a sundress covered in red roses and made by a company, Day Space Night, that’s run by women. She even canceled her one meeting with a man, an appearance on Snoop Dogg’s podcast, so she could have an entirely penis-free day. And she’s planning on ending the day by going with her girlfriends to a 90-minute seminar on fertility and reproductive rights.
A vocal supporter of Planned Parenthood, Slate credits Obvious Child not just for allowing her to prove she’s a legitimate actress, but also for turning her into a women’s rights activist. Back when she signed on, she says, “I still felt embarrassed of the word feminist.” Then one day discussing a costume fitting with co-star Gaby Hoffmann, Slate jokingly apologized for showing up with “crazy bush,” she says. “And Gaby did not take it as a joke. She was really serious and she looked at me and she was like, ‘I didn’t know we were supposed to apologize for that.’ I was like, Oh, I’m being a fool. I need to learn this shit right now.”
And now that she’s got a financial cushion from Zootopia and Secret Life of Pets, she can act on what she’s learned and say “no” more often. Specifically, she’s drawing the line at any movie that, she says, “makes it okay to laugh about things like women’s bodies after birth, like when women who’ve just had babies are referring to their vaginas as all ruined. I think it’s really rude for someone to disparage a vagina in the female body after it’s just fucking created and exploded a baby into our world. It makes me furious and I will not change my opinion on that.”
Also a no-go are any roles she’s offered that “seem like a weird stereotype version of me. Like Quirky Best Friend: ‘She doesn’t have a filter! She talks about poop!’ ” She thinks it’s worth it to hold out for roles with nuance, that will allow her to lean into humor and tragedy equally, and get to the heart of the human condition. In the meantime, she has plenty of personal-growth goals. She wants to learn Norwegian this summer. She wants to spend time with her family on Martha’s Vineyard. And she wants to find a farm she can help on so she can be around animals.
Eventually, she’ll try dating again, too. “I am inclined toward partnership,” she says. “I’m like a mallard, definitely looking for my other duck. But I’ve been in love in very strong ways enough times now that there are just some compromises maybe I won’t make.” He has to know who Gloria Steinem is, for one thing. She’s thinking maybe a scientist with a sense of humor. But definitely someone who’s sure enough in who he is to accept that she’s had a past without him. “Whoever is the next person is going to have to respect that I had a husband who I loved and this boyfriend who I loved so much, and I don’t want to have to act like they weren’t important.”
We’re back at the apartment and Slate is overjoyed that Reggie hasn’t peed on anything. Speaking of pasts, she’ll also soon be hitting the press tour for Gifted with Evans. “I feel pretty relaxed about it right now,” she says, sounding not entirely convincing. “That’s because I know Chris and he’s a very nice man. And we’ve gone into our separate lives. But that doesn’t also mean that I’m going to sleep well the night before, you know?”
First, she’s taking her parents to Cabo San Lucas to celebrate her 35th birthday. I suddenly have a horror flashback to a similar trip to Cabo I took years ago and warn her not to drink the water or brush her teeth with it, or to have ice or eat anything raw, or maybe to eat anything at all.
“Oh God,” she says, laughing, “having raging diarrhea is just a real on-brand nightmare for me.”
She thinks for a second. “But, you know, it would be such an icebreaker. If I showed up with, like, a spray tan and a blowout, he’d be like, ‘What happened to Jenny?’ But if I was able to say, ‘Aw, man, I have diarrhea,’ he’d be like, ‘It’s you. I remember you.’ ”
*This article appears in the March 20, 2017, issue of New York Magazine.
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cherrybombfangirl · 10 months
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Hey you! Yeah you! Interested in my in progress Marvel OC Fanfic?
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Ao3 Link: Only Human (7244 words) by cherrybombfangirl)/
Wanna read a Marvel fanfic that’s mainly an OC insert but also fixing everything that’s wrong with the MCU? It includes fixing what needs fixing, and my OC and all the small OCs that come with her.
Yeah you wanna read it!
The fic includes:
My OC Stacy who is the daughter of Steve and Bucky, a chaotic bisexual ADHDer, a maliciously compliant little shit, a gremlin but also a sweet ray of sunshine, coming from a mixed faith family, and just being the bane of the US government/Tony Stark’s existence in general
Fixing the erasure of representation issue- not just the whitewashing! Especially Steve’s disability and being an irish immigrant, also aggressively queer as he should be
^^^ and Stucky Supremacy :D 
Autistic, Trans, Asexual, Bisexual, and Jewish Peter Parker! (also he actually acts like a teenager and not a fucking child, the fuck writers and fans)
In fact, all of the characters that should be Jewish are actually Jewish (Wanda and Peitro, Kate Bishop, Bucky, Moon Knight, etc etc), because we all know how terrible the MCU is at respecting the source material
No romanticizing Tony’s shitty behavior and getting called out on said behavior multiple times
Civil War is actually about Steve Rogers and not just Iron Man 4 :) (also Tony being proven very very wrong)
Actually addressing how bad the Sokovia Accords are and how awfully they treat people with superpowers (and how it’s really just the US gov. trying to have their own little superhero army and how that’s fucked up)
Fixing this issue the MCU has where they reduce characters to a few traits and take away what’s at the core (especially with newly introduced characters)
Fixing Age of Ultron and Endgame (because AoU was a trash fire and Endgame was a good concept but terrible execution)
Did you know Peggy’s character was based on a character from the comics named Cynthia Glass who was a Nazi Spy? “Based on” as in the writers took Cynthia’s character and just slapped Peggy’s name on her? Yeah so, Peggy’s actually gonna be a Nazi spy in this fic and her sus behavior (shooting at Cap, Operation Paperclip, etc) won’t be ignored or brushed off
^^^ in fact she manipulates Steve into letting her have his and Bucky’s daughter so that HYDRA could have their own little supersoldier lab rat and also Peggy not being a good mom and handing Stacy over to HYDRA like it’s nothing
The ending to Endgame actually makes sense (and no Steve undoing his entire arc because WTF WAS THAT-)
More time saying fuck you to the US government because we hate them in this house, and we stan Stacy for doing everything she can to be the bane of it’s existence. Everyone but Tony is right behind her :) 
All the Young Avengers are closer in age because they should be, also they’re all younger than 20 because that should be happening they’re not supposed to be adults
Lots of trauma and mental health issues for everyone, including PTSD, depression, and anxiety and more!
More time with Nat and Yelena BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T GET ENOUGH T-T
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Thoughts on Batman by Jewishness?
This one's harder mostly because Batman has had like a million fucking movies and shows and I have not seen even close to all of them - I didn't even find him that compelling as a character until I got into his children. Also we're defining Batman as Bruce Wayne because obviously Dick Grayson isn't Jewish and I don't know anything about Terry McGinnis and evil future Batman!Tim Drake might be Jewish but he's essentially a recurring what if character. Ok here we go
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In last place we have Batfleck. Even if Ben Affleck had any interest in portraying Bruce Wayne jewishally, he sucked and I hate him in the role, so I'm giving him a -5/10 just for being in bad movies. Fuck you pick better scripts
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After that we have the Dark Knight Trilogy Batman. Extremely well made and enjoyable movies. Not much like comic Batman imo. 1/10
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Next we have Battinson. I actually don't mind this movie! I don't like it nearly as much as it seemed everybody else had, and I really wish we could get a Batman movie that acknowledges he has a fucking family in the year of our lord 5783, but it's still a good movie. However, no indication that Bruce is Jewish. I do however think this Bruce is way funnier, so extra points for making me laugh out loud in the theater repeatedly. 3/10
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Up next is Lego Batman from the Lego Batman movie. I don't know he just gives me good vibes. He's got a Robin, which automatically puts him closer to comic canon than any other filmic version of Batman, making him Jewish by association. 5/10 I guess
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I only watched one season of Gotham but hey, it was a pretty good season before I realized what I really wanted to be watching was Smallville, which I then proceeded to watch all ten seasons of over the course of four weeks (I was in, how you say, a depression). I probably would've watched more (see: in a depression), but there was only one season in existence at the time. It seemed fine to me, although I know a lot more about Batman now than I did then, but it seemed decently connected to the spirit of the comics. Bonus points for David Mazouz being a Jewish actor - the only Jewish actor on this list fyi - but at least in the one season I watched, he was not confirmed Jewish, so let's say a 7/10 (is this technically even a Batman? I have no idea what happens in the later seasons)
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Finally we have our main continuity comic book Batman, the only (afaik) canonically Jewish Batman on this list! Batman was made Jewish by association when his maternal cousin, Kate Kane aka Batwoman, was created as an explicitly Jewish character. Sidenote, she's a great character and I adore her. But yeah although he is essentially canonically Jewish it's never actually addressed within his stories - he's only ever spoken about his father being Christian and him not following in his footsteps, as far as I know. I give it a 9/10, losing a point for only being Jewish on a technicality. DC, like Marvel, are also cowards
Honorable mention to any animated movie based directly on a comic such as the Under the Red Hood movie being Jewish by association as well. Let's give that archetype of Bruce a 7.5/10
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Any reactions to the casting of David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan as Superman and Lois Lane for Superman : Legacy ?
They certainly have the looks!
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Crazy that people were fancasting Corenswet as Superman all the way back when Cavill was first announced to be dropped from the role, and he actually has gotten the job! Corenswet is Julliard trained just like Chris Reeve was, and also like Reeve, Routh, and Cavill, is basically an unknown. He's done a few TV shows but hasn't starred in a breakout hit yet. Gunn saw something in Chris Pratt when no one else at Marvel did, so if Corenswet is his guy, that's good enough for me. His Jewish heritage might hopefully cause him to emphasize the Jewish DNA that Siegel and Shuster first gave the character. If we must draw on biblical figures, then give me Superman by way of Moses and Samson.
Brosnahan apparently turned in an amazing audition tape per a Deadline reporter, and she's basically been playing Lois for the past couple years as Ms. Maisel from what I understand. No worries about her, Lois is a very well-defined character that you actually have to work to fuck up. Adams' Lois was bad because she was given nothing to do, and her only purpose was to be a womb for Superman and Batman to quarrel over. I don't believe Gunn will make the same mistake. Interesting that McKay didn't get the Lois role but was brought back to screen test with all three of the Superman hopefuls. I had thought that was a sign of Gunn choosing her, but I guess Brosnahan was simply too good to pass up.
Funniest outcome of the news, aside from the Snyder Cult meltdowns which were as expected as they were pathetic, is all the swooning over the height difference between Corenswet (6" 4') and Brosnahan (5" 3'). Apparently a lot of people find that to be quite the turn on! Can only imagine how that will increase once Corenswet gets put through the superhero workout and gets shredded.
Oh and Hoult needs to be cast as Lex. You better believe he can look Corenswet's Superman in the eye and start screaming about how "you're not Superman, I AM" with 100% sincerity. Poor guy has been passed over for both Supes and Bats!
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Listen there is so many characters that represent intergenerational trauma in bemis run, (Ra as Khonshu's dad and a foil to Elias, Ernst as the personification of the people who killed Marc's family) but then Bemis doesn't explore that or botches the exploration
Like we already the Khonshu-Elias foil from Lemire run and then there's the grandfather Marc never knew. Who he only knows about through Yitz. and like I hate Yitz and Ernst being the same person (and a rabbi, it's not egdy it's just antisemitic) but Ernst is compelling to me (you are allowed to also be bored by him).
Here is the personification of what your father escaped and hey maybe if you kill your grandfather's murderer you'd get closure? Ha ha no.
But also clearly that's a story that Jews, not edgelord messianics get to tell.
I refuse to ever say anything nice about Bemis.
So the characters that represent intergenerational trauma do NOT come from Bemis' run.
Let's head back to "Death of Elias Spector" by Zelenetz.
This is where we get the story of the generational trauma and start to understand Moon Knight… Where we start to understand Marc Spector.
Up to this point, we have seen him be angry about Antisemitism, fight neonazi scum, and protect Jewish shop-keeps and the likes. We see him get angry about the bombing of a Synagogue and we see him become emotional over the loss of friends.
Before Zelenetz, we understood these to all be proper responses for a Jewish man. Or even just a man in this time period.
But it's when we see the generational trauma that was put so heavily on Marc's shoulders that we start to see those responses as more. We start to see his inner struggles with identity and expectations. We see him be a good man that sees himself as a bad one.
Bemis didn't see any of this.
Bemis said "What if the Rabbi is a Nazi and Marc witnessed him killing people?" He wants it to be more about personal betrayal and revenge than about the horrors of what an actual Nazi is!
There was no undertone. There was nothing deep. This was a man TRYING to tell a deep story for the sake of feeling an egotistical rush so he can pat himself on the back and let people think he's a good Jew.
You don't have to make a Nazi into a supernatural serial killer out for blood to make them into a horror figure.
The real horror lies in the fact that they were regular people that did these things because someone with a little power told them that it was okay.
But let's play with the story a moment. For argument's sake.
Ra as Khonshu's father SHOULD have been a fantastic foil to Elias. Much like in MCU when Ammit was a foil to their mother.
We should have gotten the dissapointed father. We should have gotten the failure for Khonshu to change the world for the better. We should have seen Khonshu change and grow and be able to rise up and declare that HE protects the travelors of the night. That he has chosen a perfect Avatar that can change the world. That he is the Pathfinder, the Embracer, the traveler, and the Defender.
And with that, there is more than violence and fighting. that he can be gentle and kind too.
But we didn't get that.
And Khonshu remains the same.
Moving on to the grandfather. Marc's whole family was murdered in WWII. None of them made it out except for his father and mother.
We don't need an enemy to be a murdering Nazi that specifically targeted his grandfather to make Marc angry.
We don't need a revenge story. That isn't what Moon Knight is about. Because he can't forgive a Nazi. And a Nazi should not live. And there is no way Marvel is going to show him killing a former Nazi out of pure revenge and not have that mess up the character of Marc Spector.
This isn't a revenge story of him hunting down Nazi.
He should never have touched on this. Because there ARE real Nazi that got away with it. There are real Nazi fucks that did terrible things and then wandered off to live normal happy lives.
Having him hide in plain sight AS A JEWISH RABBI is such a kick in the teeth.
And I'm going to do a review specifically on this run in a bit. Expect that soon.
I liked having Yitz as YITZ. Marc getting close to an older Rabbi because he couldn't get close to his own father is a good story. It shows his disconnect with people his own age and his father. It also shows him studying the Torah and working hard to be a good perfect Jewish boy, which leads into Steven's side of things and then further into Jake's take on the spiritual protector.
Heck, an interesting story would be if Yitz had done something that he felt betrayed his trust because then we have a good solid role model that somehow abandoned him or hurt him in some way. And it wouldn't have had to be something terrible. Maybe he left to another state to be with a different Synagogue without warning. Maybe he died suddenly? Any of those things could have hurt him and made him feel alone, since he already didn't connect to children in his school or his own father. We know that Marc feels alone and worthless. It's not a far stretch to show that maybe it started from losing someone he looked up to as a good Jewish person and then not having a role model anymore.
I did not like Ernst. Was he interesting? Probably. I get where he can be compelling as a villain. We all want to hate a good Nazi villain. It's one thing Hollywood has shown time and time again.
But there is no closure in this. There will never be closure in this. Marc still lost his family. His grandfather was a drop in an ocean and if they REALLY wanted to put Nazi fucks in the story, they should have just had young Marc accidentally walk into a KKK rally or something. Because we don't need the threat of the old Nazi. The Nazi just changed their hats. They're still out here today.
This is a story Bemis should never have touched.
I apologize it if sounds like I'm angry. I'm not angry at you by any means!
I'm just so pissed off at Bemis. I respect your wanting to see a better story from the stones Bemis laid before us. It's nice to dream that he could have been a better writer.
Marvel has a lot to answer for and this is just one more thing they managed to really screw up.
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Marvel Studios keeps saying “Fuck Jews” with their entire chest once again as if Jews(Bob Kane, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon Jerry Siegel, and Joe Shuster) didnt make this medium from our history, religion, morals and cultural traditions whole cloth
That’s why Moon Knight infuriates me. It was a fun show but it was disgusting because yet again Jews are getting fucked over and left behind.
Egyptians get rep. Dissociative Identity Disorder gets rep. But Jews? Fuck the Jews.
In Moon Knight? Jews are hurtful. Jews are abusive. Jews are something to work through and get past so the hero can move on to something different and better.
Jews - who INVENTED the comic superhero as a concept - get sidelined again even though Moon Knight was supposed to be OUR hero because G-d knows we don’t get Wanda Maximoff or Peter Parker or Kitty Pryde or Ben Grimm and Magneto is a fucking antihero at best and Sony Quicksilver isn’t Jewish at all. But we were supposed to get Moon Knight.
And now the only canonically Jewish woman in marvel is so abusive she caused her son to fracture his psyche and the only religion we see is funerals. That’s our rep. That’s what the writers and directors decided we look like. It’s not intentionally antisemitic but it’s still antisemitic.
So I'm very happy for all the groups who are getting their rep in Marvel. Me being angry doesn’t mean I think you deserve less but Jews are past fucking due and we keep getting ROBBED by comicbook superhero media and when it is OUR FUCKING MEDIUM to begin with and I can not be fully happy for what you get while we Jews deserve more. Specifically because it’s our culture's fucking medium. Jews invented most of the iconic characters, the format, the legendary arcs and the foundational art and yet at every opportunity, we get shafted. More than that we get erased. Idk why Feige hates us but fuck he hates us. It’s starting to look pathological.
Be happy. Be happy when YOUR group get represented. But while you do? Please remember to be vocal about how fucking screwed over Jews - who created this medium you love - are at every fucking turn.
We show up for you. Show up for us.
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This... Is BGNN
Things you might want to know, for Mar 29, 2023:
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House of the Dragon Season 2 Will Be 2 Episodes Shorter Than Season 1 — Hm. In the context of cost-cutting and write-offs at Warner Brothers, this is kind of alarming. GoT was arguably drawn out more than it should have been, but HotD has rocketed through years of history already… I’m not sure anyone but the bean-counters benefit from an increased pace.
Reddit cracked down on revenge porn, creepshots with twofold spike in permabans
This Uncensored Chatbot Shows What Happens When AI Is Programmed To Disregard Human Decency — I feel like we need to stop calling these things “chatbots”. This stuff is to human conversation what Google was to Yahoo’s search index… a bigger, faster, friendlier way to search the exact same content-swamp. The only new thing here is that unlike every other search tool ever built, these things don’t automatically cite their sources —something Bing is working on, to their credit— and make it clear that you’re simply looking at a smartly arranged regurgitation of the unbridled web.
Man in Alabama steps out of car to watch cracks forming on ground — then bridge collapses (video)
The fantasy of Ted Lasso and the reality of Jason Sudeikis — GASP! Are you saying —hold on, I need a second to recover from the thought— that actors are not the characters they portray?!?!
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Stop Using Celebrities to Talk About Age Gap Relationships — This is actually one of the more useful pieces I’ve seen on the subject in some time. There is a world of difference between Bradley Cooper and your weird uncle who hits on your friends when you bring them home for Thanksgiving… the former exists in a permanent state of constrained supply and unlimited demand, while the latter is desperate for any young ass he sees and still has candied yam stains on his shirt.
Disney Lays Off Ike Perlmutter, Chairman of Marvel Entertainment — About fucking time. That Trump-loving cretin is directly responsible for the semi-failure of ABC’s Agents of SHIELD and Inhumans, not to mention the lack of growth and innovation at Ye Olde Marvel Comics over the last twenty years. (Turns out trying to engineer a corporate coup at Disney was the line he couldn’t cross.) Good goddamned riddance, Ike.
Ex-Sims Dev Says Men Lie About How They Play Game Out Of Embarrassment — When I was a little boy watching Saturday morning cartoons, I would get uncomfortable and avert my eyes whenever Barbie or other “girly” ads appeared. Now imagine an entire generation of boys, twenty years younger, who never grew out of that…
Narcan is now FDA approved for over-the-counter distribution. Here's how to use it.
Remembering Euell Gibbons' Grape Nuts commercials — Those spots are certainly memorable to those of us Of A Certain Age, but I’m pretty sure almost none of us ever consumed the food they were trying to sell. Grape Nuts were nasty.
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How Two Jewish Kids in 1930s Cleveland Altered the Course of American Pop Culture — I’ve read this story 100 times since I was a kid, and I never get tired of it.
How to test what an AI model can — and shouldn’t — do
Is TikTok Actually Creating More One-Hit Wonders? — I think the internet in general is doing that, not TikTok in particular.
Marvel at Penn & Teller's unique take on ye olde donut-on-the-ribbon magic trick (video)
How to End Bias and Taboos in Women’s Health Care — An important discussion to be had… I’ve had an up-close-and-personal look at how ill-equipped the medical profession can be when faced with women whose symptoms and consequences don’t track with the default male “norms”.
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Asteroid City’s first trailer is the most Wes Anderson thing you’ll see today — Wes is a genius, whose work never ceases to delight even as it occasionally perplexes. And he infuses everything he touches with his aesthetic… unlike a Tarantino film, which always looks like whatever movie or genre Quentin is referencing at the time, all of Anderson’s movies look like Wes Anderson movies.
How Good Smile, a Major Toy Company, Kept 4chan Online
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keishun · 2 years
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Some of my Creepypasta headcanons!!
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‘Ticci’ Toby (Tobias Rogers)
-he’s average height for a male, maybe a bit tall so like 5’9?
-he’s 19
-he’s definitely jewish or just white..
-he’s a libra
-he’s definitely bisexual and polyamorous
-he’s super clumsy
-his clothing style is steampunky
-his favorite subject in school was history or literature
-definitely listens to deftones, ghost, and songs from musicals
-he has a couple of mental disorders such as tourette’s syndrome, AUTISM (nobody says he has this and I personally feel offended but that’s just me personally), schizophrenia, insomnia, and maybe some other ones
-he actually dislikes horror movies, like he can tolerate them he just doesn’t see the appeal
-a huge riddler fan
-prefers dc OVER marvel
-likes thanksgiving
-definitely uses tone tags in his texting
-he and tim don’t really talk a lot but do have some show preferences in common
-can play the drums
-really likes bagels
-does not like eggs at all
Sally Williams
-she’s pretty tall for her age, so 5ft
-she’s like 9 or 10
-she’s black but has vitiligo
-likes christmas
-she’s a scorpio
-she dresses in Lolita fashion
-her music taste is definitely something… like she will listen to the popular songs at the moment and will play it so much to the point that everybody would/should know the lyrics to that song
-she definitely listens to k-pop though
-tries to learn korean
-she has a lot of porcelain dolls
-the dolls names are Gertrude, Minerva, Edith, and Angelica
-her teddy bears name is Samuel the Bear
-she’s blind in her left eye
-when she was younger she played the violin
-her favorite Disney movie is ‘Sleeping Beauty’
-she doesn’t kill as much as the other pastas due to her being a literal child but she will occasionally join in with lazari
-her favorite people in the mansion are slender and lazari
-very picky eater
Ben Drowned (Benjamin Lawman)
-actually taller than a lot of people say! 5’6
-he’s probably 13 and was gonna turn 14 before he died
-asian
-likes halloween
-has social anxiety and trust issues
-he’s a taurus
-he dresses in one of those sleep, eat, game, repeat shirts with neon socks and shorts
-likes to play soccer
-he definitely has discord
-play fortnite(💀) and cod
-prefers marvel over dc
-does have a fear of water
-has a sibling bond with Sally and Jeff
-wears axe body spray
-drinks mtn dew EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
-he was definitely in French class in school
-his favorite subject was probably math
-can hack into things very easily
-he thinks he’s straight but he’s not, probably pan or something
-listens to a lot of video game music or trashy rap music
Jeff The Killer (Jeffrey Woods)
-pretty tall 6’
-probably somewhere in his 20s
-has anger issues, schizophrenia, and adhd
-an aries
-white asf
-listens to heavy metal and trashy rap music
-is one of those people who wears hoodies even during summer
-makes some pretty good food for a killer
-he has to get the cuts on his mouth stitched up every other month because they keep reopening
-mixes up north, south, west, and east
-doesn’t like breakfast foods
-has a Boston accent
-prefers savory food over sweet and spicy foods
-he HATES spicy food
-he likes to collect bugs in jars or like little bird skulls
-GOES ALL OUT FOR HALLOWEEN I AM NOT KIDDING YOU ISTGGG
-uses the axe body spray he stole from Ben
-he did not do his homework for school, I don’t even know how he passed his senior year..
-will know random ass facts that literally nobody knows, like this one time with Ben
Ben: Tell me a random fact
Jeff: The Eiffel Tower can be 15cm taller in the summer!
Ben:
Jeff:
Ben: How the fuck do you know that
Anyways
-he’s definitely pansexual and polyamorous
Jack Nichols (Eyeless Jack)
-pretty shorter than what people say he is, 6’3. Like no he is not 6’10, he was a scrawny short awkward college student trying out in the medical field not a basketball player..
-has a random fear of nursery rhymes
-he’s a virgo
-listens to rock, metal, and pop
-he’s in his 20’s or he’s like 19
-studies different types of plants
-is probably one of the doctors in the mansion
-a huge nerd
-reads so many books, if you name a random book he’ll probably know it
-was probably so insecure back in college so imagine how insecure he is now… yea..
-doesn’t get the appeal over stranger things
-he definitely likes dc over marvel because like I said he’s such a nerd. (NOT SAYING ANYBODY WHO LIKES DC IS A NERD, I LITERALLY LUV DC)
-he also really likes the x-men
-has a kin list (DO NOT BASH ME)
-he likes cranberries a lot, maybe a little to much
-HATES pomegranates
-he actually does not have an obsession with kidneys like people says he does.. I feel like he would like something bigger maybe??
-has a grunge type of style
-doesn’t wear his mask a lot unless he is on a mission
-probably bisexual or pan also polyamorous cause I said so
-hates apples
-adores little kids due to working with primary schools while in college
Okay, this is only Part 1. I really wanted to get this out as soon as possible due to me having zero fics and shit anyways!, if you guys want I will also do x readers and stuff, just recommend them and look at my list for shit that I will do and won’t do! Okay byeeeee! :DD
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One of the things about the MCU that continues to bug me more and more is the hype built around any crossover and the way character interaction happens in the movies and shows. There's room for literal essays and there probably have been some already on how artificial many of the character interactions and 'crossovers' are, but also just the fact that they're a thing that's hyped up and treated like it's special in the first place?
I loved the MCU in 2012, don't get me wrong. I still like those movies, and I remember being impressed to the moon and back that they managed to make the Avengers come to life and come together on screen and it WORKED and it was fun and explosive and awesome. It didn't really matter that Wolverine and Storm and Spider-Man weren't a part of it because I understand that as far as live action went, they were with different studios, and I could easily read fifty different comics with that lineup and more. (I was and always will be salty that Janet wasn't there.)
The Avengers movie was impressive because superhero movies had always been a mixed bag, and an ensemble was a struggle. Avengers made it feel cool to be into superhero teams.
But then Marvel just kept... Congratulating themselves every time they got a new character on screen.
Now I haven't read a lot of comics. But traditionally speaking the big players of Marvel and DC all essentially live in each other's backyard. If you have a problem with weird mystic stuff, you get on the bus and go see Stephen Strange. It's a Tuesday for them. So Marvel making this MASSIVE deal of Spider-Man joining the Avengers ... It's like, yeah, he's been in the Avengers before. They're not doing anything new. And it's exciting to see these characters in the movies! But as Disney has taken over they've latched onto that hype for the characters and driven it into the ground.
Which means we can never have a scene in an Avengers movie where Wolverine just casually shows up. We're not gonna have Carol Danvers and Jessica Jones sitting down at the bar together and talking shit. And I don't care about Charles Xavier appearing in a Scarlet Witch movie where he has nothing to do with anything, and Wanda is neither a mutant nor Jewish Romani, and she was never his enemy or student or had any relationship to him.
The MCU is trying to sell its movies and its characters on the hype and spectacle alone and has been doing it for a long time. It's not impressive that Daredevil cameos in She Hulk. It's a tiny fucking world.
Spectacle is not why I watch movies or shows or read comics, and it isn't enough to make me want to watch fifteen more movies about the same five avengers with special appearance from holy shit it's Reed Richards.
To be clear, I'm not trying to be a comics snob and I detest media snobbery in general. I love superhero movies and I also grew up on the shows and video games more than anything. I think superheroes should be multimedia, it's great. But you only have to read like five comics to realize that like. It doesn't have to be this way. Disney could either use the characters they have to tell good stories or integrate new characters they acquire in a meaningful way. It's not that hard.
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SPOILERS FOR MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS
Ok I'm gonna be real, while there are things in multiverse that I liked, over all i wasn't happy with it.
We were given the illuminati who was built up to be this big thing and they were killed in like 5 minutes. And Reed basically told Wanda how to defeat them. And he didn't even get use his powers!
Marvel knew what kind of can of worms they were doing adding in X-Men actors and teasing the X-Men for there to never be any besides Charles who also died like a bitch.
Strange and Chavez did more running than actually doing anything against Wanda, which i get is in part because she's very powerful, but like i hated watching a Scooby Doo chase scene for basically a whole movie. And they were trying to get a stupid book the whole time and as soon as they get it it's destroyed so what was the fucking point!?
Wong is now sorcerer supreme but doesn't really get his chance to shine and is really made to look like a bitch the whole movie.
And then killing Wanda off? I hate Elizabeth olsen for her blatant racism and use of slurs twords Romani people and think she should never have played Wanda, a Jewish and Romani character i will remind you, it sucks to kill Wanda off with no chance of seeing her again.
The end credit scene didn't really make sense, they should have just left off with strange's third eye opening.
And why is it that Loki and Peter Parker have different looks amongst them but characters like Strange, Christine or Wanda are all the exact same.
And what's with Agatha? Like is she free now since Wanda is dead? What was with the foreshadowing of needing her help in Wandavision if they were not going to go anywhere with that?
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promiseiwillwrite · 1 month
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Villains
I love comic books, and have read thousands of them. I've been especially fond of Fantastic Four... I've read more of that than any other franchise. But I've also read a sizeable amount of DC.
I especially like DC Villains. I've found them more real and more gritty in a way that I appreciate than Marvel or other publishers.
But many years ago I asked myself WHY they put up with motherfuckers like Batman.
This one asshole just repeatedly fucks up everything they try to get into, Over and Over.
And I thought into this question... and realized that it's because they're bad guys. They can't trust one another, and despite the fact that if they banded together ONE TIME, they could Undoubtedly lock Batman in a Drug induced Coma, encase him up the the armpits in Concrete and drop him through the ice into the arctic ocean from terminal velocity out of a plane, naked with no parachute.
Hell, if even Four of them linked arms and decided to put their various differences aside for 48 hours, they could get it done.
But they won't. Batman takes care of their competition. Batman solves as many problems as he makes for them.
It wasn't until I was driving to work this morning, listening to the radio talking about the changing relationships between Black and Jewish Americans, that I realized that we, as minority citizens, are like the DC Villains. We will not work together, as the strong, creative, capable collectives we Could Be, because we're busy disparaging each other. Within my own minority identity groups (I am neither Black nor Jewish), there are deep divisions, gatekeeping, and prejudices.
We are the DC Villains. And we will never stop Batman this way.
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punisher smiling bc he has the chance to fuck some ppl up. PUNNY BUNNY. i ca nnot make this up
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spidy my guy. ur the only one thinking these things
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mk just going Please. Guys. Shut The Fuck Up. This Is Worse Than The Wackos
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hes fucking dead (LOVING the frenchie inputs in this lil series <333 spidy being nice to frenchie..l. him and his stupid cap….. we love a jean)
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mk just looking good here
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moon looking his best when he is just a shadow blob. ALSO MK CONSTANTLY GETTING IN FIGHTS WITH EVERY HERO HE MEETS………
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the uh. author notes in this comic read way too much like fanfic.net author notes to me (AN: NOT MY CHARACTER DONT SUE ME MARVEL!!1! Spiderman: hey wasnt this fic meant to be about me AN: shut up go kiss punisher now)
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once again. mk looking good. hes also grabbing his cape alot recently ive noticed and its just uh. cute
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dont call the jewish guy a lizard my fucking guy uh
anyway. glad to get clarification on shit bc i do not remember the last time we saw the original midnight i just remember him falling off a building and “supposedly” dying
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spiderman and mk really went home to “destress” aka FUCK NASTY while night thrasher just uh. thrashed on some wood
marc aLREADY in the mk outfit like damn “of course i cum quick i got baddies to catch” meanwhile peter bdsm master here
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ngl. didnt see this one coming. kinda neat but i wished they planned it out (alas thats how the comic crumbles)
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“i was forced to become this thing them so brainfucked the only thing i could think of was taking over the villains who destroyed me to give pain to everyone else” vs “i hate humanity and want to be powerful and live forever get fucked” :( and midnight put like. all of his last (very twisted) humanity and love and care into this lady only for it to all be under lies. sorry bud
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not too sure how i feel about this ending, jeff saying fuck all this shit and just destroying the place hoping to die is like. a fair ending. doesnt give mk any closure which is horrible to him but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it fits. def feels like were gonna see jeff again eventually, but alas. the writing for this was silly and comicy and fun and the style i rly liked. o7 bye jeff u were a fool and died a fool
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deniigi · 3 years
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I'm very worried about the third Holland spider man film because apparently it's gonna be a christmas film
It’s okay anon, I’ve started to view MCU Spiderman as an AU with a Christian Spiderman. Like, wow, look at this expensive piece of fanfic. Lol y’all are wrong but Kink Tomato or whatever.
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imagine having THIS bad of a grasp on the character
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