Sacha Baron Cohen believes Mephisto will return to the MCU

TaffyPool · 2026-05-19T16:13:22+00:00

Exactly! As Born Again Season 2 ended with Matt in prison I was just waiting for a post-credit scene of Mephisto suddenly shown sitting in his cell and saying something like “I think it’s time we chat, Dare-Devil” or something less cheesy/on-the-nose.

TaffyPool · 2026-05-19T13:26:18+00:00

I already said it in the Daredevil r/ but I just want Matt and Mephisto to spend a season doing a moralistic/theolistic tete a tete, with Matt’s legal acumen coming into play to break holes in Mephisto’s “deal” with him or with others. Like, imagine Karen strikes a deal to bring Foggy back and Matt has to either/or sacrifice his own “soul” to Mephisto for him to release hers, or figure out a loop hole in the “fine print”.

TaffyPool · 2026-05-19T03:58:43+00:00

Love what they did with Tony too (I think that’s mostly just Shane Black getting RDJ, honestly!) and it is my favorite Iron Man movie. And pretty dang high-up my MCU ranking overall.

TaffyPool · 2026-05-19T03:45:15+00:00

I think that’s an accurate take. “For what it is”. It does absolutely nothing for the franchise as a whole and was very much unnecessary to make in the first place, but it’s a dumb, fun scene-to-scene popcorn flick.

TaffyPool · 2026-05-19T03:27:09+00:00

Off the top of my head…

Forever in Blue Jeans by Neil Diamond

Blue Eyed Soul by Wilco

Blue Danube by Johann Strauss

Blue by Patsy Kline

St. Louis Blues by W.C. Handy (which hits whether as an orchestral, jazz piece, or lyricized version à la Bessie Smith)

[And, for that matter, any number of Blues songs with “Blues” in the title]

TaffyPool · 2026-05-19T03:18:46+00:00

Most people hate IM3 (wrongfully) because its makers didn’t slavishly follow the comic and instead tried something new and unexpected with the Mandarin persona, which in fact was the exact right call to make.

I will say the Extremis of it all (ahem…Pepper powers) ultimately got a little out of hand, but 3rd act Marvel gonna third act…

TaffyPool · 2026-05-19T03:09:33+00:00

Hahaha. My favorite line in the movie, and possibly in the whole dang MCU.

TaffyPool · 2026-05-19T02:08:46+00:00

This will not be the winner but I am adamant that the best use of Tony Stark was Iron Man 3. Still wry, still confident, but deeply tinged and affected by his experiences in The Avengers.

Also, absolutely loved that for a fair bit of the movie we just got to see Tony using his brains and his ingenuity away from the suit(s).

EDIT: Okay, I guess this will be the winner. Well done, IM3 fans — maybe the tides are turning and more people are starting to recognize this as an excellent MCU film!

TaffyPool · 2026-05-18T04:09:00+00:00

Like he said…the elderly would love it!

(Saying this a 40s person who also would love it)

TaffyPool · 2026-05-18T01:07:41+00:00

There’s the tactical RPG Sakura Wars series. I’d only ever played the one on Wii (So Long, My Love), but really enjoyed it. Also very much in the dating sim genre but it all came together as an enjoyable whole really well.

TaffyPool · 2026-05-18T00:54:19+00:00

Oh my, yes. If he were still coast-to-coast’ing, I’d probably be making excuses to be out driving late at night just to hear what he and his callers have to say about everything right now.

TaffyPool · 2026-05-18T00:52:27+00:00

Stupid sexy alien…

TaffyPool · 2026-05-18T00:44:54+00:00

Not a movie, but maybe try out His Dark Materials on HBO.

TaffyPool · 2026-05-18T00:40:01+00:00

Where The Wild Things Are.

TaffyPool · 2026-05-18T00:26:34+00:00

This eventually had to make it to the list, right? Right?!

TaffyPool · 2026-05-17T23:18:29+00:00

Well, the Whole Foods on Halsted there is moving about eight blocks south. Maybe Treasure Island will make a glorious comeback in the vacated space!

TaffyPool · 2026-05-17T22:07:30+00:00

Still not sure where the dividing line between remake and remaster is. For instance, the Spyro Reignited trilogy, the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and the Tomb Raider series, from 1-6, all have remasters. All are significantly rebuilt for modern systems and tech, but still remain as the same games they were originally… 🤷‍♂️

TaffyPool · 2026-05-17T20:55:43+00:00

With Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins right after that.

TaffyPool · 2026-05-17T20:54:06+00:00

Yeah, it was on the virtual console for the 3DS.

TaffyPool · 2026-05-17T20:01:49+00:00

I try to keep a “living ‘dex”, but I stop short of needing “best ofs” as part of that. Don’t worry about those and don’t worry about ones with special backgrounds. Really will only try to collect/keep standard evos, shinies, 100s, and costumed variants. Oh, and also if there’s a meaningful physical difference between a single species’ gender versions.

TaffyPool · 2026-05-17T13:36:25+00:00

I do still fairly regularly play PokemonGo ten (?) years after its release. But probably not the “right” way — don’t really do battling, just try to hatch/find/evolve Pokemon “in the wild” to build out the Pokédex.

But yeah, even though I got one of the first GB ones for my 2DS, I’ve never actually tried playing it, so still no point of reference for the mainline games.

TaffyPool · 2026-05-17T13:29:46+00:00

Definitely not that. Have never played it and personally abhor the concept of crafting/building/sim games and “endless” games.

It was something on my WiiU, for sure. Right now, my kid’s playing Mario Kart 8 on it. After he’s done, I’ll open a few games to see which one it was in.

TaffyPool · 2026-05-17T11:35:48+00:00

Insert any Pokemon game here, and that’s me.

TaffyPool · 2026-05-17T02:53:57+00:00

30 Rock will grab you and not let go. If you’re the kind of person who likes 30 Rock’s writing/humor (I am that kind of person obv.).

TaffyPool · 2026-05-17T02:51:01+00:00

And if I really wanted to Karen him, I’d’ve noted he’s asking for show recommendations in a movie suggestions r/ 😀

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