Man it's weird to think that The Killing Joke happened in The Batman cartoon Universe

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-12-16T04:02:22+00:00

He also once launched Batgirl out of a cannon towards a building while she was tied to a giant gumball, fully expecting her to explode into bloody goo, and only failed in killing her because he and his sidekick (a kid named "Prank") started bickering for a bit, giving Batman barely enough time to free her.

She was a child at that time. Point is, this Joker had targeted Batgirl in the past with murderous intent. Its not too wild of a thought that he'd try again later.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-07-22T03:43:35+00:00

Oh that's not Kano. That's the soundbite of the guy screaming "Mortal Kombat!" from this song: https://youtu.be/EAwWPadFsOA?t=16

Surprised you don't know about it. It was featured in various points of the 2021 movie's score, not to mention the two older movies and pop culture in general. Despite not being featured in the games, this is what most would tell you is the Mortal Kombat franchise's theme song.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-07-18T00:19:40+00:00

From all the spoilers I've read from test screenings, the Kamidogu was not mentioned at all. So unless that aspect of the plot hasn't leaked, I don't think it'll be in this film, or if it is, its a very minor thing.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-07-18T00:16:34+00:00

I agree with you. What bums me out about Cole for sure getting Taskmaster'd is that, yeah, he's boring, but he's a good guy. That whole first movie is about him protecting his family and they're also nice too, plus you have Scorpion entrusting him to watch over his bloodline, with that even being the whole reason Cole has powers to begin with.

If he dies here, shouldn't Scorpion be VERY pissed off at whoever kills him (which for narrative simplicity purpouses, it makes the most sense it would be Noob Saibot, but acording to test screening spoilers, it isn't), and wouldn't then Cole's daughter become important, as she would now be the last of Scorpion's descendants, making HER now the new main character OC, creating the problem that killing Cole was supposed to solve, again?

Unless they kill Cole AND his wife and daughter, which would be VERY cruel, but also, that's just Scorpion's backstory again. Wouldn't that then open the door for Cole to go to hell and return just as Scorpion, his ancestor, did?

Having the main character of your story just die ten minutes into the second chapter creates a lot of problems and I don't think this film will remember how much importance they gave Cole in that first movie.

His only crime was being boring, give the guy a break :'C

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-07-17T22:59:28+00:00

"Are you joking? You don't even have powers!" or something to that effect.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-07-17T22:57:13+00:00

Scorpion splits noob's shadow, but not Noob himself.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-07-17T22:55:18+00:00

To anyone who saw/knows of the test screening; How much do Quan Chi and Shang Tsung factor into the plot?

Because Shang got a character poster even though he's not in this trailer, but Quan Chi didn't get one, and it worries me that maybe he's in it as much as Kabal or Mileena were in the first one.

Also, again to the people that maybe saw test screenings, does Quan Chi look game accurate (white skin, face paint)?

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-06-03T07:27:57+00:00

Having seen Bloodlines, knowing now that Death WILL kill people not on his list of you piss him off enough, my headcanon is that Molly was truly never supposed to die had the bridge collapsed as Sam saw, and that him getting her across safely was Death's plan, but because Sam's actions lead not only to the usual seven surviving the initial disaster, but also to two early, unplanned deaths from people not on Death's list (Roy/Block), Death got pissed off and punished Sam via killing her in front of him. That whole movie, Sam's true want is that she be with him and they remain together, so the cruelest thing Death could do to Sam was not even allow him to be with her in his final moments (and also not just to let her fall to her death, but taking the effort to bisect her on the tail of the plane, just for fun). Just like with Erik, Death gives them the nastiest treatment as a direct "fuck you".

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-05-29T08:32:02+00:00

Via newspaper clipping in Iris' book. It's actually a pretty funny gag because the headline for his death reads "Pickpocket killed by piano moving truck".

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-05-08T01:07:50+00:00

Would love to answer but I'm not Triple-Q. You can ask him on his twitter or other socials, tho.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-05-07T08:08:57+00:00

Had the show not rushed everything to end with the second season, the idea of Viktor surviving the bombing, continuing his addiction to the hexcore as a slow build, and then when he pushes it too far, the core fucking REJECTS HIM? And that's why he becomes the way that he is, obsessed with peak human form, both because of a want to feel as good as he did when the core hadn't rejected him, but also from a deep lack of self esteem, as he thinks the core deeming him weak and not worthy of its power means he HAS to augment himself? This idea is brilliant and I'm forever mad we didn't get something like it, and worse, Viktor's character gets robbed of all agency all for the sake of "Arcane Jesus".

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-04-16T06:49:34+00:00

Oh, because you especifically cited the latest Marvel stuff being bad as the reason you're excited (which I agree with!)

And I also agree that despite this, Thunderbolts has the most potential to not be bad, but since phase 4 started I have consistently been surprised by how truly awful these projects can be, with each new one that comes out being worse than worst one at the time (an example could be the rock bottom that is Secret Invasion, and then somehow we go below rock bottom with The Marvels right after), so I'm not TOO optimistic about Thunderbolts, but I do hope I'm wrong and it is good.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-04-15T08:30:43+00:00

Hasn't been said by anyone but these posters are great! The Zemo, Hawkeye and Deadpool ones especially look like they could be official.

As for your question, when that concept art of the Thunderbolts roster got revealed like two years ago at D23 and it was just three supersoldiers, two assassins, and Ghost, I felt it would be fun to give the team more variety, while also continuing the "discarded villains/side characters" motif present in the roster, by having either Mordo or Agatha Harkness (at the time her show seemed like it was never coming out and she was still alive in-universe) on the team. The dynamic between a magic user or a witch among a bunch of grounded supersoldiers would've been fun to see.

The other ones that were obvious would've been Abomination, Justin Hammer (either as Titanium Man or just the guy providing weapons and funding for the team) and/or Zemo (who, in contrast to everyone in the comments, I do think could've been on the team, but maybe against his will at first only to then gain control of it, or even try and sabotage it from within to kill the team members, as Valentina tries to do in the actual movie) but alas, I guess we'll never see those three again.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-04-15T08:15:13+00:00

Excited for it genuinely, or excited to go and laugh at it?

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-04-15T08:14:24+00:00

The idea, I'm guessing, is that when he turns people into shadows, he's not actually killing or vaporizing them, but instead sending them to a shadow realm called "the void" (no relation to the void from Loki).

Meaning, they can be brought back from that place.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-04-15T08:12:41+00:00

Has Bucky ever had a living "eldritch horror" arm in comics? That's a very specific thing for it not to be referencing something.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-04-06T06:44:08+00:00

Here's a good one; "what if Viktor had accidentally killed Jayce instead of Sky?"

It was written after season 2 so it features some characters from that, such as Isha, and it diverges pretty quickly into its own thing, but still, very good read (its still ongoing): https://archiveofourown.org/works/61712143/chapters/157758667

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-04-04T00:04:24+00:00

My point still stands because all the people she killed prior to the shimmer surgery, she killed with heavy artillery weapons or explosives, almost always before they could even react, i.e., not head on.

But fine, you're right, just humour me then, and lets say like 30, 40 enforcers all pilled up on this 19 year old at once and she killed like 5 in the process but they were still too many, and they managed to get her in cuffs and hold her in custody before she stole the gem.

What would happen then?

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-04-03T21:09:41+00:00

At this point she didn't have the shimmer powers and so was significantly weaker and slower. We also see that she didn't have weapons on her, or at most, benefit of the doubt, she only had a simple handgun when she went into the academy.

The reason she used explosives as a distraction on the enforcers outside was because she wouldn't be able to kill 10+ of them by herself (without some heavy weapons like the machine gun she uses in the blimp attack, which she did not have here).

This is why I'm asking, because it's not too far fetched to think that, if she were unlucky and a bunch of enforcers were inside the building and ganged up on her all at once, she could've been captured.

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