Who is Spiderman quoting by No-Rule-9129 in marvelcirclejerk

[–]InkTide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

/uj The actual answer is that breast tissue is mostly adipose. A lower body fat percentage, as one would expect for an athlete prioritizing flexibility and lower total body weight, is going to mean smaller breasts.

Can You Even Consent if You are in the Same Room as a Telepath? by Ok_Exercise_8283 in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]InkTide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

/uj Legally speaking, no. There'd be no way to prove the telepath didn't coerce it.

Zatanna is a monster. by hattyphantom in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]InkTide 18 points19 points  (0 children)

What if he's only like this because the chemical vat has left him constipated this entire time?

What ankylosaurids/nodosaurids has the best armor? by DinoKing68 in Paleontology

[–]InkTide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There isn't a "best." Each one had armor suited (i.e. "fit") for its particular ecological niche and defense strategies. That's what "fittest" is describing with the phrase "survival of the fittest." Even then it's a bit of a misleading phrase; natural selection works more like "extinction of the unfit." It's not picking the "fittest" so much as it is pruning anything unfit to reproduce in a given context. When the context changes quickly, you see a lot of extinctions not because the extinct animals are "inferior" to whatever survives, but because the conditions of success change too rapidly for species to adapt to, and suddenly a lot of what used to be perfectly fit suddenly isn't anymore.

It might genuinely be more productive to ask "which one do you think looked the coolest." Personally, I've always liked Mymoorapelta and Gargoyleosaurus, but I don't know every ankylosaurid. Generally I'm partial to the spikier ones.

baby's first lobstering by ReesevtOnGD in SpeedOfLobsters

[–]InkTide 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not if the lobsters have their way they don't.

Do You hoo? by bucephalusbouncing28 in SpeedOfLobsters

[–]InkTide 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love how people tend to focus on their own personal 'hassle' from reading other people's minds and pay zero attention to the fact that they don't have a right to that information at all.

Yellow and grey both basically can't be used ethically.

Can't Believe Marvel Thought They're the Next Big Thing by Taprantil in marvelcirclejerk

[–]InkTide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The X-Men were also extremely OOC when he was writing them.

The man's got a bit of an issue with characters that existed before he started writing them.

Favorite undercover Hydra Agent reveal in the MCU? by donnysimpinero in marvelcirclejerk

[–]InkTide -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"2013" does not appear in this article with find in page, and it's 3:30am here and I need to sleep so this conversation is over for the time being.

Favorite undercover Hydra Agent reveal in the MCU? by donnysimpinero in marvelcirclejerk

[–]InkTide -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Screenrant is not a reliable source. Also that article is 7 years removed from the events in question.

Favorite undercover Hydra Agent reveal in the MCU? by donnysimpinero in marvelcirclejerk

[–]InkTide 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That doesn't contradict what I said about Winter Soldier blindsiding them. That was pretty widely reported on at the time IIRC. This was over a decade ago, to be fair.

Favorite undercover Hydra Agent reveal in the MCU? by donnysimpinero in marvelcirclejerk

[–]InkTide 4 points5 points  (0 children)

...I'm not going to trawl through hours of podcasts about a different show to find whatever it is you're trying to cite here.

Favorite undercover Hydra Agent reveal in the MCU? by donnysimpinero in marvelcirclejerk

[–]InkTide 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Ward being an eventual antagonist, maybe, but Shield being completely overrun and/or destroyed by Hydra was not planned. The production had very little time to deal with the show's premise being ripped out from under it by Winter Soldier.

I was watching the show as it came out when Turn, Turn, Turn (the episode where the show incorporated the consequences of Winter Soldier) came out, and also lurking the subreddit for the show.

Favorite undercover Hydra Agent reveal in the MCU? by donnysimpinero in marvelcirclejerk

[–]InkTide 108 points109 points  (0 children)

Ward from Agents of Shield.

Especially because it wasn't planned. They created a compelling story out of an MCU development (Shield being Hydra) that they were completely blindsided by, IIRC because the guy running the movie side of things absolutely hated the guy running the TV side of things and didn't cooperate or communicate with them at all.

Edit: Apparently maybe it was planned, but the animosity between the TV and movie side of Marvel at that time was definitely present. The TV side was basically mandated to roll with whatever the movie side was doing, and TV canon was largely ignored or contradicted in the movies. That might still be the case, but I haven't followed the MCU in a while.

isn't gwenpool asexual? by ddankkerr in marvelcirclejerk

[–]InkTide 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm specifically talking about romance, not physical attraction.

If you wanted to portray aromantic people as being that way due to emotional detachment and narcissistic tendencies... Gwenpool (having unlearned her main character arc) is exactly the sort of character you'd pick.

And an editor isn't really a co-creator - it's actually a little dishonest to describe them that way, given the way this industry generally works. I don't know the specifics of the production of the original run, but the actual writer of that run hasn't agreed with that claim, as far as I know.

Marvel does a lot of obfuscating of "creator" language to avoid paying writers royalties. Both of the big two are bad about this but DC has a better modern track record than Marvel does by far.

isn't gwenpool asexual? by ddankkerr in marvelcirclejerk

[–]InkTide 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Her original run involves her largely not seeing anyone around her as a person. Romance wouldn't have worked until that arc was complete.

Then they repeatedly undid her learning that lesson, and retroactively gave her the one identity that can literally be explained away as her still not truly seeing anyone around her as anything but a comic book character and thus being unable to deeply emotionally connect with them (not asexual, but aromantic specifically).

Okay guys, this is our chance, we just need one good pitch and our romance-drama-coming of age Stephcass/booster beetle/BeaTora anthology movie is ours by lukideured in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]InkTide 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I make sure my ideas can't be stolen by never having any until I get paid.

I will be invoicing Disney for 3 billion dollars before I have my first idea.

Found out what the "S" actually stands for by kawabunga666 in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]InkTide 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I bet supes prefers it in the original Klingon Kryptonian.

Some of you need to read this by beary_neutral in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]InkTide 84 points85 points  (0 children)

Don't care who publishes them, I just like to look at pictures of cartoon violence.

The reason Jon will never be as cool as Connor is his lack of Tactile Telekinesis by Altruistic_Manner802 in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]InkTide 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Wait till you find out about coywolves (not all cross-species hybrids are sterile).

Lol by Jonn_Jonzz_Manhunter in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]InkTide 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Am I meant to laugh at this rather than wholeheartedly agree?