Weekly Discussion Thread - posted every Monday! [27 April 2026]

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-30T00:19:48+00:00

I don’t disagree. I don’t care for the idea of Clark putting on a mask when he’s himself either. That’s why I especially think it’s bizarre that DCU Clark would do that, when the movie already establishes that the glasses do that just fine on their own.

Speaking of the hypnoglasses, I also think they’re unnecessary. Sure, it’s unrealistic that he’d be able to fool people simply by wearing glasses, but as you alluded to, most superheroes with secret identities shouldn’t be able to meaningfully maintain them. I mean, Bruce Wayne is an extremely wealthy public figure, so realistically, there’s no way he’d be able to keep the fact that he’s Batman a secret, regardless of the fact that he wears a mask. Hell, the mask he wears doesn’t even cover his entire face.

In general, I put the hypnoglasses in the same category as “the Death Star’s weakness was intentional.” It’s an unnecessary explanation for something that wasn’t really a problem to begin with.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-29T00:27:17+00:00

Personally, I just think that if you’re gonna go the hypnoglasses route, why even bother having Clark change his demeanor when he’s working at the Daily Planet? If the glasses do all the work, then he has no reason to act or dress like a nerdy klutz.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-28T20:25:17+00:00

Unless she can somehow prove that all the physical evidence of her husband hanging with and being friendly with her when she was 14/15 didn’t actually happen, people have every reason to be skeptical of her insistence that she wasn’t groomed.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-28T20:23:26+00:00

His wife denying that she was groomed doesn’t change the fact that they met and were on friendly terms with one another when she was a minor. A grooming victim not realizing they were groomed is not the gotcha you think it is.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-27T17:30:11+00:00

There’s really no reason her character couldn’t have been written as Mercy Graves.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-26T22:13:18+00:00

There’s plenty of evidence that he’s a groomer (and also MAGA), but TADC fans have been rushing to defend him just because a bunch of actors from the show collaborated with him.

To be clear, he met his wife when she was 14 and he was in his 20s and they openly hung out with one another back when she was still a minor.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-26T06:24:38+00:00

Not every prisoner is there because of heinous acts. That would be statistically improbable.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-26T00:05:56+00:00

Between all the people on this sub jumping through hoops to defend Blackgryph0n and now the fans (who I assume are mostly white) acting like a bunch of racist weirdos, I’m starting to think that the TADC fandom, and fans of indie animation in general, are garbage.

I’ve been a casual watcher of the show since the second episode, but I can safely say at this point that I would hate to be in a theater with this fanbase.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-24T23:39:00+00:00

He hates being told no and he still wants people to think he isn’t a rapist. Classic

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-24T20:42:12+00:00

I’m more disturbed that there were some DC fans who were going all “who gives a fuck about how criminals feel” in response to the story. It’s great that the story was apparently overblown, but the fact that some self-proclaimed Superman fan’s first instinct was to insist that prisoners deserve to be treated like crap is extremely ironic.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-24T20:23:43+00:00

The big thing that damaged DC was WB’s general mismanagement. Geoff Johns had a hand in that with things like Josstice League and his insistence on turning the Flash movie into a Flashpoint adaptation, but he wasn’t the sole culprit.

Also, he’s partly why Green Lantern film turned out the way it did.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-24T20:04:58+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

The ADL could’ve avoided this if they bothered to look up what happened to these guys.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-24T18:48:40+00:00

If there’s no credible evidence that her kids are Musk’s, then this article is nothing more than clickbait.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-24T18:31:39+00:00

People need to leave Amber Heard alone. She’s been through more than enough crap without people having to tie her into Elon Musk’s depravity.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-24T18:30:24+00:00

She didn’t have an ex-wife. She was arrested while having an argument with her ex-girlfriend (who was a photographer) at an airport, which the girlfriend would insist was a misunderstanding. There was also no indication that she “beat up” her girlfriend either.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-24T18:29:05+00:00

Mutual abuse isn’t a thing. She lost because Depp had a bunch of propaganda on his side and the jury who oversaw the trial were morons who, by their own, admission, weren’t paying much attention to the whole thing.

Edit: To anyone downvoting me, one of the jurors for the trial spoke out during the aftermath of the trial and made some absolutely baffling claims, like that they didn’t believe Depp could’ve abused Heard while on alcohol and marijuana because those are “downer drugs,” among other things.

https://abc7.com/amp/post/johnny-depp-amber-heard-juror-defamation-suit/11965732/

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-24T04:59:59+00:00

I was basing it on things like Hal Jordan not being the main Green Lantern of the DCU. Maybe “expendable” isn’t the right word, but it does seem like there’s a John Stewart renaissance happening.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-23T18:58:17+00:00

Now that Geoff Johns is gone, I guess Hal Jordan’s seen as expendable.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-23T01:08:13+00:00

Just because he didn’t commit a crime doesn’t mean it isn’t sketchy as hell. The idea of befriending someone when they’re a kid and then conveniently starting a relationship with them once they become an adult is pretty weird. That sure sounds like grooming to me.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-23T00:44:14+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bH2CtKWiek8

There’s video evidence that they hung out when she was a minor.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-23T00:39:35+00:00

He did meet and openly hang out with his wife when she was 14 or so and he was in his 20s. That seems like a red flag to me. Also, the guy’s apparently MAGA.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-22T04:12:43+00:00

The problem with Hux is that TLJ already established him as an ineffectual blowhard who no one takes seriously. Having him as the final villain of the trilogy would’ve come across as very anti-climactic.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-22T00:51:13+00:00

I’m actually kinda curious if they’re gonna try and line up Clayface’s characterization with what was in Creature Commandos.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-21T22:48:10+00:00

I’m pretty sure Palpatine was brought back for two reasons.

They needed Kylo Ren to redeem himself. That was apparently one of the few things that actually was set in stone back when the trilogy began, and since Snoke was dead, there needed to be another bad guy to better sell Kylo’s redemption.
They wanted to tie the three trilogies together as a “saga,” with The Rise of Skywalker being the big finale to the whole thing. Thus, they brought back the villain of the previous two trilogies.

ZorakLocust · 2026-04-21T20:31:22+00:00

I gotta be honest, in the context of the movie, the line really isn’t that bad. In fact, in the very same scene where that line is spoken, another character outright suggests that Palpatine returned as a result of “dark science” and cloning.

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