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  1. fantastic_four
    He had powers in the comics...are you saying you know he doesn't in the MCU? My memory is telling me he had Cap's powers, but I don't really remember. Wikipedia says he can bench press 10 tons.
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    I recall US Agent being an entirely unlikable a-hole in the comics...it'll be interesting to see if they carry that through here.
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    Really well-written sequence with that guy and his son. At first I thought he may have met the guy during World War 2. After we saw who his son was I wondered if Bucky may not even remember enough about the whole thing to even give the guy closure about how and why his son died, but I guess he told Stark in Civil War when asked "Do you even remember them?" he responded "I remember all of them," so presumably he could have told the guy what he wanted to know. Plus he would have to remember a lot about him to track his dad down and strike up a relationship, so all of that implies he remembered everything about the son. He didn't cross him off the list, though, so it seems like he'll go back there before the series is over. The whole idea of the list is really compelling.
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    That opening was definitely the best Falcon action sequence to date. Not sure what's second. Bucky skipped step 3 with that guy whose son he killed.
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    See, these are the questions I'm going to have to get answered. Do I need to save every receipt for every comic I buy, in case I sell it somewhere down the road? My past understanding of both of these questions is that most physical objects aren't charged the capital gains rate, they're counted as normal income. I've seen IRS guidelines explicitly noting collectibles as being subject to your overall income rate and not the lower capital gains rate. For saving receipts that shouldn't be necessary, but do record what you paid at the time you paid it. I heard that advice 25 years ago and have followed it ever since.
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    There's one fatal flaw in Hasbro's recent Wolverine figures--the claws are absolutely terrible because they don't plug in securely to the hands and point off in odd, non-parallel directions. It's an odd mix of a figure in that the body is absolutely spectacular and the bar-none best 1:12 scale Wolverine on the market, yet the claws are spectacularly bad. Hasbro has some improved claws that are far more sturdy for last year's X-Force costumed Wolverine pictured at right in the image below. At left is the Hasbro tiger stripe Wolverine figure with some third-party metal claws inserted into the hands; I also have these in my first appearance Wolverine from the same 2-pack you just showed pictures of. Since I bought these the creator has released two alternate styles linked below. I have all three styles, and I think I like the third exaggerated style best. Metal claws version 1 (these are the ones in my pic below on the left): https://www.canofbeams.com/shop/the-claw-kit-stainless-steel-upgrade-kit Metal claws version 2: https://www.canofbeams.com/shop/claw-kit-style-2 Metal claws version 3: https://www.canofbeams.com/shop/claw-kit-style-2-znnk3
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    Best 1:12 scale Hulk figure ever made, and the body on the Wolverine is the best 1:12 version of him, too. Whether or not you like the first appearance style is up to each of us...I know I prefer the GS X-Men 1 re-styling of the tiger stripe costume more than this one, but this one is fine.
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    That's the uncanny valley, a well-known phenomenon where if a human face looks close enough to one you're familiar with but not quite 100% accurate it can make you oddly uncomfortable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley Almost all Hot Toys movie figures have it to some degree. Indy there looks about as good as most do, with some looking far worse and some better. The oddest thing about the uncanny valley is that something can look LESS like a real person and be more aesthetically pleasing than something that looks almost perfect but not quite right.
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    I've looked for this in the past but couldn't find it...why is he called Hulkling? When I first heard the name I figured he was somehow tied to the Hulk, but since he's half Kree, half Skrull I never found a tie to Banner.
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    Sometimes it's not obvious when the artist lays them out in unique ways that aren't just left-to-right-and-down. I've read dozens and dozens of pages in the wrong order throughout my lifetime, so I assumed that's what he meant.
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    Cool. At the time I posed my pic Sideshow didn't even have her on their site yet, but two hours later when you looked I guess they did and I do see it now. Hasbro is doing a 6" figure of her, and theirs has no cape or hood and she looks like we mostly saw her in the show. The only time you see the cape and hood is in that final CGI scene where she's flying off, so they must have added the cape and hood late in production after filming was over. Hasbro's releases in a month or two and they usually take about a year to go from idea to produced item, so that also suggests they only recently added the cape and hood into her new design. Hot Toys doesn't release theirs for well over a year so they must have just created their prototype within the last few months after the cape was added.
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    Marvel posted a few pics of a forthcoming Hot Toys version of Wanda's new costume which I only post here because you can see its design more clearly in this pic than you can in the show. Looks like the cape and hood along with the tiara are a part of the complete new design, although oddly we never saw this complete version in the show.
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    We hadn't, there's just nothing else for over a year before Multiverse of Madness tied everything up. But that was until I heard Kevin Smith's interview with the director. He spoke rather definitively about the idea that Agatha was the only hidden element and that Wanda was responsible for everything we saw in Westview. It was never the mystery show the hints suggested at.
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    This week's Fatman Beyond (Kevin Smith's comics movie podcast) released overnight features him interviewing Matt Shakman, the director of all nine episodes of the series. Just finished listening to it. My impression from his impassioned description of what he tried to do in the series wasn't close to what many of us were reading into it, and MANY of the elements he included ended up being the opposite of what he intended them to be. The 3-D chess anyone tried to infer from the comics wasn't that at all but far closer to the creators trying hard to achieve whatever they could from the perspective of someone unfamiliar with the comics simply trying to tell a story about Wanda and Vision with a set of elements from the comics thrown in randomly and mostly meaninglessly. I'm more disappointed in the series now than I was before the interview, but for the future the most interesting bit was that Feige insisted on the episodes all being directed by the same person mirroring the way films are--but that the newer series to be released in 2022/2023 will feature multiple directors. I can't decide if that's better or worse.
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    Right before the credits they showed her without the crown and with a full cape and hoodie. Not sure how the full cape is supposed to mix in.
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    They never said his last name. They mostly called him Herb, although during the magic show when called to participate he clarified that it was Herbert, not Herb. I need to go re-watch that scene where he cuts through the wall. Why did he seem to have broken the mind control in that scene?
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    Roughly half of them should have been blipped. Wanda herself was blipped.
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    I bet a list of unresolved plot points would be well into the dozens, possibly over a hundred. Will we ever learn who the carnivorous Senor Scratchy really was?
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    One other thing we can guess at from the end scene--we may get Wiccan and Speed as real kids in Multiverse of Madness. I don't know the full story of how they became reincarnated as someone else's kids in the comics after originally being constructs made by Wanda, but that scene suggests she's found some link to their existence to be explored in a future MCU story.
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    I assumed two things about that scene--she's at Wundagore Mountain, the mythical place she and Pietro were born in the comics where High Evolutionary mutated them both that they return to many times as adults, and that what we saw was her astral form. It seemed like they were trying to suggest she went away to learn magic from the book (it's implied but not confirmed to be the Darkhold) and had advanced quite a bit since we last saw her leaving Westview. Then I realized when we see astral forms in Doctor Strange or when Ancient One pulled Hulk's astral form out in Endgame that their physical body goes limp yet in this scene we clearly see Wanda bumming around in sweats while also thumbing through the book, so I have no idea what was happening. Maybe advanced sorcerers can actively do things in both the physical and astral planes?
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    Should I be searching for a way Wanda would have suddenly gained the understanding of what magic runes are and how to use them? They look like characters from a language neither she nor I should recognize, so how did she suddenly know how to draw them at all, much less in the sky using what, clouds? Dust? Or should I just leave it alone since it's all just
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    I definitely wouldn’t trust her with my kids (worst nanny ever), but the MCU definitely ain’t done with her. I'm still unconvinced Agatha was in any way the bad guy save for one event--she almost dropped the SWORD soldiers from a height that would have resulted in injury. And even then I'm unsure she wasn't more careless than anything else since they were about to shoot one or both of them so there's a self-defense element there. The kids weren't real and Agatha knew it, so I can't count what she did to them as a clear act of evil. I need to re-watch the interactions between her, Wanda, and SWORD a few times to decide who was more in the wrong during that whole confrontation. Isn't what Wanda did the broadest, most impactfully harmful act in the entire series?
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    Actually this is doubly true because the twins weren't even real and Monica knew it, so the idea of her sacrificing herself for two constructs soon to be gone makes even less sense. The only way it makes ANY sense is if she already had her powers and exactly how they worked.
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    I would've enjoyed it, never re-watched anything aside from maybe the Vision vs Vision or Wanda vs Agatha scenes in episode 9, and then just moved on if not for the dozens upon dozens of hints of a larger mystery. All of the hinting left me feeling betrayed and like I should just ignore all that sheet in future MCU works that try it again.
  25. fantastic_four
    It may have just been a throwaway never intended to mean anything, just an excuse to get Woo there. Wasn't Heyward supposed to have someone on the inside? Who was that?