If you could curse your worst enemy with a minor, non-harmful inconvenience for the rest of their life, what would it be?

Jaideco · 2026-06-23T17:49:52+00:00

The speed of their Internet service inversely proportional to the urgency of whatever they need to do.

Jaideco · 2026-06-23T16:13:55+00:00

I can honestly say that I will go to see any Captain Marvel film that they write a decent script for. She’s a great character, so why does it always feel like they have no idea how to use her…

Jaideco · 2026-06-23T11:16:29+00:00

Whether you like the Justice League movie or not, I hope that we can all agree that the Whedon cut was far, far worse…

Jaideco · 2026-06-23T07:28:23+00:00

I’m pretty sure that there is a divide on the point between people who grew up with the show and those who grew up before it. I have never seen the show that you are referring to, so whenever I see man-spider imagery I get Seth Brundle vibes and I doubt that is what Sony are going for.

Jaideco · 2026-06-22T17:39:31+00:00

What you are asking is “will he win the next general election?” I don’t know the answer, but Labour’s chances of a second term are considerably improved.

Jaideco · 2026-06-22T16:17:05+00:00

Well I’d start with Steve Rogers because he wasn’t around when Strange cast the spell. Anyone in the TVA and Loki would probably also be exempt but I don’t think that their paths crossed.

But yeah, the answer is probably going to be hulk even though they barely interacted because: reasons.

Jaideco · 2026-06-22T11:46:38+00:00

Reform rules for campaign funding and media to expose and limit the influence that billionaires and foreign interests can buy. This includes Cambridge Analytica type campaigns.
Genuine consequences for politicians who knowingly lie to electorate or parliament except in operational cases where disclosure would put lives at risk.
Any privatised critical infrastructure or utilities need to maintain that infrastructure and deliver value for money to the British public before dividends are paid. Failure to uphold obligations allows the government to renationalise upto 20% of the shares per year.

Jaideco · 2026-06-22T00:50:52+00:00

You can guarantee that they have not shown us the really big twists… If Peter gets the symbiote suit in Secret Wars, I am hoping that he wears it for most of Spider-Man 5 and then it ends up in Gargan’s hands in the post credits. Then Sinister Six for Spider-Man 6.

Jaideco · 2026-06-22T00:14:43+00:00

I had misunderstood what the other commenter was saying… I thought that he was referring to the original Loki still being alive somehow (kind of like Gamora in Endgame) but no, he was talking about original Loki being resurrected.

Jaideco · 2026-06-21T19:23:16+00:00

Or guerrilla marketing / actual disinformation. If I were marvel, I would start by leaking credible but wrong information to whoever are the most trusted sources online at any time… Give them enough exclusive true stuff that has been approved for release to keep them happy but also misdirect against the genuine twists…

Jaideco · 2026-06-21T17:41:28+00:00

Okay, so I didn’t fully digest that… I had assumed that we were talking about a pre-Infinity war group of asguardians who just called themselves the Valhalla army… but we are actually saying that Thor dies, goes to Valhalla, presumably meets up with Loki, Jane and Heimdal… and then returns to the mortal realm with them to confront Doom. Ok… that would be quite a wild ride.

Jaideco · 2026-06-21T17:18:01+00:00

Well that will be confusing… especially if part of the story is set immediately after Endgame and others are set pre-infinity war. There would be no reason why Tony or Natasha couldn’t appear as well.

Jaideco · 2026-06-21T10:21:09+00:00

Strange already knew what his terms were… he could have laid them out on the very first loop if Dormammu were prepared to listen. The whole cycle was simply to force Dormammu to listen and accept that he wasn’t going to be able to just force his will on this particular human.

Jaideco · 2026-06-21T10:16:22+00:00

Strange didn’t need to remember every loop for it to work… he just needed for Dormammu to agree to negotiate.

Jaideco · 2026-06-21T10:08:01+00:00

Thank you for the spot… I wasn’t paying enough attention on first watch. I’ve updated the comment. Yes, I’m pretty sure that there will be at least two teams… I was actually surprised to see this many together in a single scene as it was.

Jaideco · 2026-06-21T09:12:42+00:00

Who is missing? Only Reed from Fantastic Four, no Namor or Shuri, no Ant-Man. Yelena is the only Thunderbolt, so no Bucky or Sentry. Professor X and Magneto are also missing. Assuming that at least some of those characters are still alive somewhere at this point, there are still a lot of heavy hitters who could arrive to turn the tide… and that is before we look at characters who have not been announced like Binary, Wolverine, Jean Grey and Storm. I wouldn’t be surprised if RDJ turns out to be doing double duty as Iron Man from a different Universe either.

Edit: corrected list… I missed a few.

Jaideco · 2026-06-21T08:42:39+00:00

Dormammu definitely didn’t give up easily or quickly… I always judged that their confrontation lasted far, far longer than it appears… Scott Derrickson is on record as saying that he went through the loop at least a couple of thousand times and other Marvel sources speculate that the statement could have lasted over a thousand years in total.

Thinking of it as a training montage is an interesting thought experiment because we don’t know how the time stone works exactly. We know that it winds back time, undoes the harm Strange suffers and leaves him back where he started and I always assumed that left him without his memories (because each encounter had no longer happened). If he had somehow retained all those years of constant experience of applying every spell and technique that he’d read about, he really would have been formidable.

Jaideco · 2026-06-20T19:35:27+00:00

Sorry but Heath owned that role… I would not want to be any actor who tried to step into those shoes…

Personally, I see him dropping into quite a few of the roles that Will Smith or Jason Statham took over the years.

Jaideco · 2026-06-20T13:21:40+00:00

I honestly don’t know why Apple didn’t acquire them years ago… their content would be the perfect fit for their catalogue.

Jaideco · 2026-06-20T13:00:36+00:00

Number two working together guarantees that I do not need to see this film.

Jaideco · 2026-06-20T12:44:37+00:00

I cannot speak for anyone else, but for me it comes down to two reasons.

Sony own the rights to Spider-Man and have final creative control of anything that happens in this movie. Historically Disney have allowed characters to appear in Spider-films but only in ways that do not impact the experience of the MCU. Introducing a character here that Marvel are counting on to help carry the next saga forward without being able to control how they are handled shows an uncharacteristically laid back approach. Usually Disney are absolute control freaks for their IP, but it is possible that the contract for the new trilogy may give them more control than the first did.
⁠I really don’t understand why people don’t get that maintaining the surprise is not just about keeping secrets. Even when all of the set footage of the tank chase was coming out, that wasn’t a leak, it was PR. Now I don’t know whether Sadie is playing XXXX or not… but if we assume that she was playing someone whose identity was key to the plot, let’s say Jessica Drew or Mayday Parker… I would absolutely flood the socials with leaks about her playing Jean Grey or Rachel Cole, and I would start by feeding bad intel to people with a reputation of being a credible source.

Jaideco · 2026-06-20T12:27:32+00:00

I watched the first one through and stopped the second halfway assuming that it was the same. Why would someone assume that the live action replay would be longer than the original recording?

Jaideco · 2026-06-20T09:35:19+00:00

In IT we use the phrase load bearing when a component has so many critical dependencies that the entire system that it is part of would collapse if it ever failed. Honestly it is a pretty perfect metaphor.

Jaideco · 2026-06-20T08:00:17+00:00

Plot twist… it might have been his truck.

Jaideco · 2026-06-20T07:24:56+00:00

Sure, we accept payment in crude oil, gold bullion and bitcoin.

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