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I can't really get behind the idea of Captain Marvel being "just dropped on us" when the character has been around for half a century. Given that Marvel has a stable of hundreds of viable characters, most of them will be "just dropped" into the films at some point.

And he did pretty well against Thanos, just not well enough, so in that moment it makes sense that Fury would call in the even bigger gun.

To be fair, Warlock's also a 3rd-tier character. I haven't checked, but I reckon Ms. Marvel's had more appearances/is a bigger character in the comics over the last 45 years than Adam Warlock at this point. Definitely agree, but I don't see pinning any hopes whatsoever on either of those historical sales dogs.

Why would they have been planning for a third-tier Marvel character to play such a major role in the film universe? Danvers barely generated enough interest in the comics to keep her own title alive, so I don't know why they think she'd garner more popularity in the film universe.

I miss all the complaining about how this movie isn't using the far more revealing Ms. Marvel costume. Why aren't more of you bickering about that now that the movie's about to come out?!?!

That all makes sense since you guys outlawed slavery sooner than America and didn't have the same Jim Crow laws that America had for a century after slavery was abolished here in the 1860s.

I hate that change. I hated that the average rating was so small before relative to the dumb tomatometer score, so I hate that they've completely freaking hidden it by default ten times as much.

I see them, they're just collapsed and not shown by default now. You have to click a "more info" button to see them.

I don't know if they have specific criteria, but all of the top critics I've seen have been reviewing films for a very long time and often have national notoriety. All of the ones who write for major national publications or appear on television are top critics.

No, they're almost identical if you compare apples to apples. The Rotten Tomatoes average rating is 7.02 out of 10 and Metacritic is 67 out of 100. Converting them to the same scale of 1 to 100 means they're only 3% apart. You can't compare the Tomatometer to scoring on the other meta-review sites because it's not calculated like any of the others. Similar Metacritic comparisons are Ant-Man at 64, Rogue One at 65, or Age of Ultron at 66. I enjoyed all of those, so I expect I'll enjoy this one. Probably going to see it now.

Any non-spoilery conjecture as to why she's the person Nick Fury texts at the very end of Infinity War?

I'm guessing some joke involving the cat was spoiled for me by the Nick Fury action figure from the movie shown in the spoiler tag below. Hasbro actually declined to show their Avengers: Endgame action figures at a toy fair a few weeks ago because they said they would spoil elements of the film.

Yes, it was! And I love Christian Bale! Bale? He's fine, but you'll do me a favor by further claiming that he was the best actor in that film so I can start mentally filtering you out from now on.

That's so much BS. No way is Black Panther better than Dark Knight. It's a top 20 superhero film, but not better than all the rest.  I see that the Rotten Tomatoes average rating that's their equivalent of the Metacritic rating is more in line with what I'd expect--Dark Knight is 8.58, Black Panther is 8.26. My understanding is that both Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes do essentially the same thing by translating the reviewer's scoring to a 100 or 1000 point scale with 100 points for Metacritic, 10 point scale with two points of precision for Rotten Tomatoes. The difference in their scoring would usually be in the selection of reviewers that each site chooses to include.

That's so much BS. No way is Black Panther better than Dark Knight. It's a top 20 superhero film, but not better than all the rest. That's a political score due to the film's social significance which definitely is greater than the Dark Knight's. Was the first Avengers film stellar? I thought so, and that's got a Metacritic score of 69. So the number will be far less useful than what the critics are saying in their reviews.

Are you familiar with Metacritic's scoring? 66 is rather good, and none of the Avengers films ever got above 70 on their scale. Their best-reviewed superhero film ever is Dark Knight at 84. Their scoring is different than the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer, but equivalent to the Rotten Tomatoes average rating that appears in small text below the Tomatometer score.

Seeing everything just because it's superhero-related seems exhausting. Doesn't seem at all unusual you've changed that behavior after a few dozen of them. I'm biased towards superhero stuff and give it a chance I wouldn't otherwise give a film, but I don't see it all. Feige shouldn't feel obliged to draw us all into every film any more than Stan Lee felt obliged to draw every reader into every title he created, either. You like what you like. I was a Marvel zombie as a kid, but I didn't read it all, just select titles. That's the usual pattern, I think. I probably satisfied a lot of the curiosity that started with you after the 1989 Batman during the early 1980s with the comics I read.

The usual pattern is that you go see the characters you like from the comics. If you didn't like 80s or 90s X-Men, Deadpool wouldn't be your thing. The highlight of Deadpool 2 for X-Men fans is that it featured the first good on-screen depiction of Juggernaut. I wasn't much of a Captain Marvel fan and the trailers didn't convert me, so odds are I won't see it if the reviews aren't stellar. I wasn't an Iron Man fan before the 2008 film or an Avengers fan before the 2012 film, but those two films did convert me.

Question that calls for conjecture--any guesses as to how they transition Ms. Marvel to her Binary incarnation so quickly? In the comic, she lost her powers to Rogue and was later transformed to Binary by the Brood. I never read the original Captain Marvel or Ms. Marvel, but I was an X-Men fan so I read the issues where she became Binary. I can tell from the commercials that she's Binary in those, so I presume her origin is entirely different in the film. For reference, here are the panels from X-Men #163 where the Brood mutates her into Binary. Her powers manifest in the next issue. I remember thinking that splash page from X-Men 163 was awfully racy back in 1983. http://vlcomic.com/read/comic-uncanny-x-men-1963-eng/190

He comments that feminism gets short shrift. That's a GOOD thing, and not because I'm anti-feminist, but because the feminism is implicit already and it's far more than enough. Just the fact that she's a female hero without the "Ms" replacing the "Captain" title from her original incarnation who isn't being explicitly sexualized with her costume like she was in the 1977 version is plenty feminist enough. That means the feminist trolls have nothing of substance to chew on but their own bias.

Just watched Infinity War last night to get myself psyched for Captain Marvel and Endgame next month. Hadn't seen it since the theater, it was really good and I'm still not sure Thanos isn't the hero of this tale. The only part I found odd was how easily Thanos beat the Hulk. Stark slammed him through dozens of stories of a building in Age of Ultron and he was just a bit dazed, but Thanos body-slamming him knocks him out?

I am talking about a movie, not arguing philosophy. Then why did you respond to the philosophical question that the movie posed and that I relayed here?

That’s exactly what I meant by his agenda he didn’t know it was going to happen He just had a belief and so he killed all those people Humanity has done exactly the same thing to EVERY other species that we have co-existed with on Earth. Therefore, we, too, are villains using that logic.

In the comic, he's a villain. In the film I didn't see evidence that he's clearly a villain. What's the agenda you're referring to, you didn't think it was the one he repeatedly and explicitly stated throughout the film, to prevent all species from falling victim to the fate of his people on Titan?

Motivation being formed by hate is how I ruled out Killmonger as the hero, but are any of those motivating Thanos? His motivation is that his species destroyed itself, and he's trying to prevent other species from doing the same thing. If the ends don't justify the means then humanity is DEFINITELY villainous; we wipe out millions of creatures every day due to that reasoning.