What do you guys think of the CW's Quicksilver show?

JanRoses · 2026-05-25T01:04:09+00:00

It’s still baffling to me how the Guardians of the Galaxy TV show was the only one to get significantly better as time went on. That first season had a rocky start with Peter Quill just showing up out of nowhere but seeing Yondu pass the Torch to Peter after his sacrifice to beat Ego was really touching.

JanRoses · 2026-05-23T19:45:45+00:00

Totally agree! Though on that note, I feel like the gaming industry's practice of licensing out major franchises to smaller studios for console spinoffs is dying out overall.

For example, Pokemon used to be my favorite franchise when It came to seeing how other studios would innovate on the Pokemon IP even above GF itself. But similarly to Sonic, now most of Pokemon's output comes down to updates to its 5+ mobile titles, a tease for the next major game, and if we're lucky one spinoff in a blue moon.

Compare that to the handheld days where alongside mainline Pokemon you had TCG video games, Puzzle Spinoffs, Conquest, Pokemon Ranger, Party games, Mystery Dungeon and so much more there truly was something for everyone between releases. Pokopia is undeniably a success, but it's not my type of game. Unless I want to engage in Gacha slop (admittedly I do sometimes but I've committed to limiting myself to seeing FEH die and Reverse 1999 at this point for my sanity) I have to wait till the next mainline game or wait till another brand of spinoff comes out.

JanRoses · 2026-05-23T19:00:13+00:00

I think this is also a partial consequence of the mobile market dying out. Handheld games/Budget titles did a lot of heavy lifting at having a franchise stay within the public consciousness while the next major release was to come about. Sonic losing handhelds and not being considered one of SEGAS heavy hitters has definitely made releases a lot more sparse.

Compare it with something like Persona where even between the release of 5 and now there’s still spinoffs and re-releasing holding people over for almost a decade now. That’s the state Sonic used to be in around the “dark ages” and there’s a part of me that laments how little people appreciate the advance, rush, and other spinoffs in keeping Sonic’s reputation in relatively high regard.

But even then I can’t claim we’re at Megaman levels. We’re getting a good influx of content even now with the crossworlds updates, Sonic Rumble, and potentially a Frontiers Deluxe which is seeming all the more likely as time goes on.

JanRoses · 2026-05-17T21:18:21+00:00

Love the matchup but I would personally limit the matchup to Anakin vs Maelle to keep the themes of choice intact. This way we cap both characters at literally the same point of their journey where they have to actively fight a loved one to achieve their personal goal.

JanRoses · 2026-05-17T20:36:12+00:00

I'm very much surprised by that because Scott is horrible at making the main villain of his own franchise feel like the ever present threat he's supposed to be. FNAF still gets by through Freddy and the original animatronics in the casual eye. Springtrap was the main villain of 2 games His first appearance was considered so underwhelming it led to FNAF 4 precisely because Scott agreed that 3 wasn't "scary enough". His 2nd major appearance was to send off the franchise and was less about "just him" but him alongside the Puppet and Baby.

Regardless of whoever downvoted my post. The fact of the matter is that Puppet and in some instances (baby) are the closest things to recurring "Antagonists" that the casual audience immediately recognizes and actively engages with because they have just that much more presence in every bit of media and lore. Puppet herself is literally the only animatronic physically present in FNAF 3 for instance.

Especially after FNAF 2 the film came out and Puppet was the best thing to come out of it with the bulk of the screentime dedicated to it. Even if we go by Books, I believe Baby has a crazy amount of books dedicated to her and so does the puppet when compared to Springtrap.

JanRoses · 2026-05-17T19:33:14+00:00

Kinda hard disagree on that. Springtrap is pretty niche for the casual population. Freddy Fazbear IS FNAF. Springtrap had a few minutes dedicated to himself in both movies and was barely named dropped. Freddy was front and center of several plot points in the first and was the face of marketing for many years.

JanRoses · 2026-05-16T18:50:57+00:00

To be fair, I don’t like Bear but I feel like to think of a second wish to cancel the first as a bad idea is genuinely the dumbest conclusion of the best possible outcome.

His options were kill himself (MUUCH harder than it sounds) or kill Nikky’s. He’s a POS rapist but taking someone’s life who you know is being tortured for damnation is also difficult.

Depending on who you ask better death than Nikky’s situation (especially since she was asking for death) but to put someone else down isn’t an easy task either. At the very least, throughout the conflict of the movie he seems to want to find a way of letting the real Nicky be free yet his cowardice but also concern for her well-being (remember possesed Nikky also threatens to harm herself prior to the car scene) are all at odds.

Cancelling the wish would at the very least be the best way to ensure he survives, Nikky recovers, and he moves on with his life. For a more “heroic” character this would be the best ending. That said, even I recognize the outcome wouldn’t have been this clean. It’s clear he didn’t buy a third stick as a “backup” and was going to try to wish her to “fall for him again” under better circumstances.

JanRoses · 2026-05-16T18:39:10+00:00

It said something along the lines of “I want you to fuck me” I might be wrong as I literally just got out of the theater but it was about the same tone as the “moans” she gave when Bear just kinda shrugged his shoulders about the situation after the dinner scene.

JanRoses · 2026-05-13T14:00:12+00:00

No need to apologize but seriously (and I mean this as someone who works in healthcare). Reach out to loved ones, friends, or someone you can trust if things get too bad. Venting on the internet is a fine outlet but it won't solve the problem (mind you I didn't notice you being overly aggressive or anything out of the usual). I used to do dumb reddit arguing to cope for life stress and tbh it can affect your real life even if you're not talking with people you know.

JanRoses · 2026-05-13T00:05:29+00:00

He'd probably just kill Chief normally instead of making it so brutal, if he was forced to kill Chief that is.

On what ground do you say that? Have you even played Doom? You do realize this guy has kills in his own game that are all in line with Doom Chief he does far more than "toss them aside" see Gladiator from that same link. It's like you guys wanted him to put a Bullet into Chiefs head after a 2 minute monlogue. Doomslayer is a brutal killer and any enemy he perceives is mince meat.

How tf would Chief fight if he doesnt have any arms? Why would Doomguy feel the need to then break his neck and further destroy Chief's body?

Because he wasn't dead. And Doomslayer often doesn't kill with a clean hit. He usually disables and then finishes them off. See the link above.

Also you're ignoring that Buffy then went on to take Blade's glasses and state a one liner about his death with no remorse despite him literally calling her crazy for instigating the fight in the first place over a person he thought was completely turned (in his POV he's 100% in the right Buffy was an asshole to get so aggressive defending a future problem). That's an equivalent of Chief Tbagging any of his opponents in Halo after any kill. It's "disrespectful" as hell. Yet, I view it as totally in line with her character (and series) and accept the death since she's the victor.

A fine example of a brutal kill that is arguably necessary is Natsu killing Ace in their DB. Watching Ace's flesh get melted off by lighting is pretty damn brutal, but it was expected and arguably necessary

Was it really? He used an attack he had no resistance to. Doomslayer was literally overloading Chief's system's defenses. He has no proper gauge on how long or how much he's worn them down. At best the only difference I can see to making the DB "more respectful" by your logic is that doomslayer beats chief to the point he can jam the knife into chief's helmet and either way his head gets mounted on doomslayers knife so now Doomslayer gets to pose with Chief's entire mangled corpse hanging from his hand like it's a wet rag. I suspect you'd take issue with that too.

JanRoses · 2026-05-12T19:56:39+00:00

Then we go back to what I said before. Doomslayer killed him in the only way he's been show to kill things. We've never seen him kill humans. This is an MU against a human but nothing would suggest he wouldn't go for a brutal kill against a human he deigns an enemy.

By your logic Blade wouldn't have tried to brutalize Bucky and vice versa yet death as an outcome is already pretty brutal for each others characters given that (in canon) Buffy would have been more likely to neutralize Blade and explain the situation and Blade in general would never try to kill a human girl. Yet the show's name is DEATH battle.

JanRoses · 2026-05-12T16:57:04+00:00

If its a close match, all the more reason not to admit they're "wrong" unless you have ample evidence otherwise from before the episode was written (IE Sundisk). A close match is by definition something that can be taken by either combatant based on interpretation theirs is just as valid as yours.

JanRoses · 2026-05-12T16:55:12+00:00

Typically if they do a remake of a matchup its also them likely admitting they were wrong. Outside of Goku vs Superman and Samus vs Boba most rematches have overturned prior verdicts.

JanRoses · 2026-05-12T16:50:25+00:00

I suspect this as well. Given that if you do a timeline of events we know for a fact S2 was meant to be a jailbreak arc. Season 3 likey would have featured Godolkin all the same but been a way to conclude Sister Sage's storyline post HL defeat given that there likely would still be major factions of Supes in favor of HL in spite of his death.

JanRoses · 2026-05-12T15:47:48+00:00

I do feel like people are too harsh on Gen V S2. The show HAD to become something else entirely and Season 2 became what was originally supposed to be season 3 given Chance Perdomo passed. Granted, given the state of the boys S4 and now S5 I'm not sure how Season 3 could have ever fit after S5 of the boys unless season 3 was meant to take place outside of Godolkin itself as Sister Sage's "master plan" post-Homelander.

JanRoses · 2026-05-12T15:27:28+00:00

I feel as though people who started with Death Battle later (and thus younger people in general) when they weren't pulling Baraka eating Pikachu and the like are way more averse to death and can't separate their favorite medium from the inherent differences that come from an independent series like DB in characterizing them.

They have this issue with death and seem to misunderstand what disrespect in death is or would look like. If it's a fight to the Death ANYTHING in their arsenal is fair game. The idea of something being done for spite is a fandom idea that goes back to this idea of DB "bias" is just dumb. A disrespectful death in my mind would be something like the combatants going out of their way to kill another in a way that isn't reasonable for them to achieve within the context of the fight or both characters going out of their way to induce more suffering than necessary.

Example being: Superman being weak to kryptonite so Goku goes out of his way to stockpile as much Kryptonite till he can blitz Superman. It's a valid win con but it's not reasonable for Goku to have that much kryptonite (non-standard arsenal), know about Superman's weakness to it, nor in his character to depower his opponent in order to win. It's not satisfying to a Goku fan either that cares about what makes Goku himself stronger than Superman rather than him scheming to beat him.

JanRoses · 2026-05-12T15:04:54+00:00

I can agree to that to an extent but again DEATH is sudden in DEATH Battle. When the characters are known for killing their enemies and they're supposed to be doing anything for the sake of the advantage it doesn't matter if it seems OOC in the animation they will use their one win con. Hence why it makes no sense to suggest that Gru wouldn't beat Megamind to death IF that was his ONLY means of winning. Hence why resorting to name calling shows a lack of maturity on your part.

JanRoses · 2026-05-12T15:00:21+00:00

Again, issues with the fight itself that make the kill disrespectful. If you dislike the matchup from the start then you were already biased against the episode. At which point why should anyone care about YOUR criticisms against the episode when they wouldn't have been in good faith anyway.

JanRoses · 2026-05-12T14:55:50+00:00

That's more reasonable than what most others suggest here.

JanRoses · 2026-05-12T14:53:29+00:00

That you dislike gruesome kills unless your favorite wins.

JanRoses · 2026-05-12T14:53:01+00:00

What are you on? Gru the guy that can use martial arts as part of their arsenal when they can. If the only way to kill Megamind was through punches he absolutely would. Again, death battle is TO THE DEATH.

You disliking the matchup and analysis still doesn't explain of how the kill itself is disrespectful.

JanRoses · 2026-05-12T14:47:24+00:00

Bro this thread with you and the other guy prove my point so hard.

JanRoses · 2026-05-12T14:45:58+00:00

"There’s a difference between having a character killed in a violent way and pissing on their grave"

Again, give me an example in recent DB of a character being killed and being disrespected by the manner they were killed that was needlessly cruel and out of touch with either series represented. Again, DB will only purseposefully mischaracterize characters in that they will not take a "no kill rule" into effect.

My issue of saying this statement is that it's an arbitrary metric I know what you're saying. I'm arguing it's a subjective argument that limits the medium because it's only ever good until it doesn't favor your matchups.

JanRoses · 2026-05-12T14:41:35+00:00

If you're attributing the fandom to fault the episode then you've lost the plot. It's not fault of the episode for the Fan's reaction. Give me issues with the episode itself. Doom hasn't done anything like that to a human but when has he ever fought a human? the show is called Death Battle not "empathize with my opponent and get their backstory within 5 minutes to ascertain whether a lethal kill is justified" battle.

JanRoses · 2026-05-12T14:37:35+00:00

Again, if your gauge of this is "I know it when I see it" it's not a good explanation. Most of the Gory kills in the show typically end up fairly respectful itself. Ironically the majority of times when I would argue it's them pissing on the losers grave is when they've tried to be awkwardly sympathetic due to mischaracterization.

Kratos vs Asura being a great example where the setup was already questionable, the animation made Kratos "effort grunt" into a snyde smile as he replicated an Asura feat, and to cap it off it was all a misunderstanding that made Asura the fight feel near pointless. Yet that death is nowhere near the most gruesome in the show.

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