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Iron Man had Nick Fury in his 2008 post-credit scene talking about the Avengers Initiative, and that didn't come to fruition until 2012. Below is the first glimpse of Thanos from the 2012 Avengers post-credits scene that didn't come to fruition for six more years. Post-credit scenes are often designed to be long-term teasers, so we're likely to see a teaser for the next phase of films. I'm sure this will shock many of you, so I'll put this in spoiler tags:

Every time they do the Jay and Silent Bob Get Old podcast he says how long he's been sober, and it's up to something like 8 years (and X number of months and Y number of days). So he's had it under control for a long time now. He's got a 4-year old kid that seems to be motivating him to keep it together.

What would be great. What's the best writing on ways to defeat Galactus? The Ultimate Nullifier from FF #50 felt like a cop out.

Smith and Mewes do a podcast together, and Smith has said a number of times that Mewes was drunk on set a lot during the last film and it delayed filming a bit. He said Mewes agreed not to do harder drugs as a condition for shooting, so he replaced it with alcohol, which wasn't much better. So that's why he's pointing out that he's crushing it this time, he's been sober for years now.

Either way he's going to have to eat the same amount regardless of what Thanos did or didn't do. The only way the hypothesis makes sense is if Galactus is converting organic life itself into energy--I just remember that he ate planets, not necessarily the organic life on it, but maybe it's both--so if Thanos kills half the population of a planet, Galactus won't get as much food and will have to feed again sooner, whereas if Thanos didn't kill half the life Galactus wouldn't have to feed again for a longer period of time. I don't see how killing half the life helps.

Yea, doesn't make sense ultimately. Galactus goes around ravaging planets whether they're meaty or not at what I presume is either a constant or at least semi-predictable rate.

Audience reviews are corruptable regardless of site. EVERY web site is subject to it, and they all fall victim to it. Why you'd single out Rotten Tomatoes for using audience reviews at all when IMDB and Metacritic also get their share of audience review trolling is puzzling. Really what you should take from that is to not trust audience reviews at all, anywhere, because they're all subject to directed trolling attacks.

Why? It's the same today as it was twenty years ago. You're complaining about Rotten Tomatoes, but they don't actually do ratings, they compile them from nationally-renowned reviewers, so what you're actually complaining about are the nation's top critics.

I can't remember whether or not you've seen the film, so assuming you haven't, no need to push it because you're heading towards spoiler territory. Below are the panels from a 2014 issue of the Guardians of the Galaxy comic that hint at the cat's appeal.

Galactus has the Power Cosmic, and Silver Surfer has a fraction of it. At best she's also got a fraction. I resisted that idea at first, but I'm not sure the Tesseract and the Space infinity stone it contains isn't somehow related to the Power Cosmic. I'm interested in how her powers compare to Silver Surfer. I'm also curious as to how they compare to Phoenix; she seems like a cross between Phoenix and the Surfer.

Now I get to spend the next month hoping and praying they've already shot a credits teaser for Endgame featuring either the Fantastic Four or the X-Men.

She couldn't fly before because the Kree device on her neck severely limited her powers. The fight against Ronan's fleet was her using them fully for the first time. She hadn't removed it before because they told her it was the device that gave her the powers. Once the memory of the crash re-emerged, she realized it wasn't the device giving her the powers, it was the Tesseract that did it.

I still have NO understanding of the MCU Scarlet Witch powers. In the comic they're muddled and changed dramatically over time, and where they've landed in the films is entirely beyond me. As many questions as I have about the Binary powers, I have many more about what the heck the Scarlet Witch does in almost any scene we've ever seen featuring her powers. But I'm not complaining, I'm just curious. I want to understand the powers of both Binary and Scarlet Witch, but it's not integral to enjoying watching them kick butt regardless of how they're doing it. Ultimately the explanation will be fictional and require you to suspend disbelief anyway.

What organization does Fury work for as of Infinity War?

I'm not burying this in spoiler tags since Infinity War came out a year ago--I re-watched Infinity War last week, and he dropped it right behind the vehicle. I don't know how they found it, they just did. I doubt one of the heroes found it, but I buy that SHIELD agents found it while looking for Fury and the Avengers got it from them.

It's higher on my own personal list. Aside from the Christopher Nolan films it's my favorite DC film, it's just not my favorite for the right objective reasons. Superman 2 was my favorite DC film ever for decades and was only surpassed when Nolan started doing Batman films, and Man of Steel is the version of Superman 2 that I wanted for decades before it was made. I love it because the fight scenes are by far the best Superman fight scenes, ever, by a wide, wide margin. But while I love fighting scenes and they're the main reason I've always read comics, why I love watching superhero films, and why my sig line is packed full of pictures of me having action figures fight each other, that's not high on an objective list of the elements that make for a great film. I'm a huge Snyder fan personally. 300 is DEFINITELY in my personal action film top ten, yet I simultaneously and vividly understand what's absurd about the film. Doesn't matter to me because I can look past those absurd elements, but when trying to objectively identify the best of the best, I don't ignore the mediocre or absurd, and the mediocre elements of Man of Steel rule it out of my objective list of the best superhero films.

I think I used to know this, but I forget--are there two different types of skrulls in the comic, smart ones and dumb ones, with both looking very different? The movie showed those short, goofy-looking skrulls who weren't talking and look like the ones on the cover of Fantastic Four #2, and then there were the taller ones that talked and seemed more intelligent.

It's a force. Predetermined in its velocity. Like a punch. You can be punched hard or tapped softly. Just to a greater degree. Like Cyclops. That's what it definitely looked like, but that's not at all like the comic Binary, then...and not at all like the Binary that flew through that Kree ship like a hot knife melting through butter. The comic Binary channeled the energy of a white hole through her body, so her blasts were plasma. I don't know if her plasma is comprised of the same elements our own sun is made of, but if we assume it is then it's helium heated to at least 800 degrees fahrenheit, although most of our sun's plasma is many thousands of degrees above that. I'm guessing Chris Claremont didn't think the physics of her powers through entirely, but who knows, maybe he did. We at least need to know if it's heat or if it's force. In the comics, it looked like she shot super-high energy plasma, so heat. In this movie it looked like force, then later like heat.

Yea, I do it by just comparing any given film to another and deciding if it's better. If it isn't, it goes up and you do it to the next film on your list, otherwise it goes down and you do it to the next one down. But like you say, on any given day they might shift. I decided between those two examples by putting Deadpool 2 lower simply because I freaking LOVE the Juggernaut scenes, but he's one of my favorite villains, period, so I'm biased towards him, therefore I give Matrix Reloaded a bump to make an effort to be objective. Deadpool 2 is far higher on my personal list than where I inserted it on my objective list...I've re-watched that Juggernaut vs. Colossus scene like 20 times now. But also Matrix Reloaded gets a nod just for having what may be THE best action sequence of all time. If you start at the Smiths vs. Neo scene and continue through the Merovingian scenes on to the highway fight scene, it's a half-hour of what might be the best and most stylistic action of any half-hour of any film, ever. The film overall is rather mediocre and barely worthy of any top list of anything, but that sequence I just described is absolutely scintillating.

Wow, guess they're sticking EVERY family member in this time, that's Jason Mewes's wife standing next to him in the police outfit on the right.

Gonna be weird seeing Kevin Smith thin. If anyone hasn't heard he had a heart attack last year, went vegan, and is no longer obese.

She's NOT more powerful than Thanos with the Gauntlet, she's just more powerful than all of the existing Marvel heroes...so while she's helpful, I don't get that she's a key to defeating the gauntlet. The thing about the Gauntlet is that whatever you do with it can be later un-done with the Gauntlet again since it controls time, and I'm guessing they end up defeating him the same way Thor almost did in Infinity War, by virtue of a surprise attack. I agree that they didn't explain her powers well enough though, I can only assume they're the same as Binary in the comics, except that I'm left confused by how she didn't melt Yon-Rogg the two times she blasted him full-on. I'm guessing she can vary the temperature of her energy up and down, but I don't entirely understand how lower levels of her energy blasts translate into force that bashes walls, destroys things, or knocks people down.

The MCU has been generally so high in the overall pack of superhero films that being in the middle of that pack is rather distinguished company.

Facebook is a graveyard for truth and facts, and anything resembling objective reality usually garners reactions ranging from being ignored to being mocked and derided all the way up to being forcibly lynched there. It's a fascinating look into the mainstream of our collective unconscious.