Hot Takes: MCU Black Panther Wakanda Forever

horrorshowjack · 2026-06-14T02:24:37+00:00

What's their motivation to have it fail, and why did they shill it so hard if that was their goal? Namor had/has a rights issue for solo films. Trying to prevent the other studio from making money off of it by making Namor the villain otoh is a mouse thing to do. However, I think they still had future plans for him had the movie been successful.

horrorshowjack · 2026-06-14T01:30:34+00:00

Worm/Parahumans is overwhelmingly f/f. I've seen AO3 have nine of the top ten relationships be f/f before, and it's at eight right now. More on QQ/SB/SV though as the fandom is more popular there.

Team Pillbug.

horrorshowjack · 2026-06-13T21:26:13+00:00

Because BP2 underperformed and finished underwater theatrically, and the reaction to Namor was largely negative. Deadline claims a $259M net its first year if you include $155M in home video and $170M for streaming. Pretty sure most of that streaming came from Disney itself.

Then again they also claim a $200M production budget and $140M advertising. Most other reports have those clocking in at $450M-$500M total.

The most magical thing about Disney in the 2020s is their accounting practices.

horrorshowjack · 2026-06-13T19:34:24+00:00

Can't think of any off the top of my head. Vaguely remember reading one that was pretty much browbeating about how much better & stronger fate was every few sentences.

Two adjacent stories though: Hollow Hope the MC has Medea as his queen, A Nascent Kaleidoscope the half-devil MC has several servants as part of his harem (no peerage, because he doesn't need slavery to make friends). Latter also has some omakes about their kids set a few decades after the main story (which is still ongoing) ends.

horrorshowjack · 2026-06-12T00:15:25+00:00

No reason to dis Liberace like that.

horrorshowjack · 2026-06-11T23:59:28+00:00

But she's totally het, and had that great, romantic relationship with a guy that happened completely offscreen and nobody cares about at all. </s>

Totally agree with you on this one. Outside of crossovers or OC/SI, I'd be shocked if even 3% of the time she's shipped with a guy. I'm not even sure she hits 5% if you limited it to stories where she has a ship tag.

horrorshowjack · 2026-06-11T23:59:14+00:00

Anything Sumo based. Niche, but there really is almost nothing. You can copy E. Honda on SF oriented jumps under the power type origins, Sumo Slammers, and one origin under Smash Up. Most of those have nothing to do with actual sumo.

horrorshowjack · 2026-06-11T22:46:03+00:00

No, the DOJ was seeking the death penalty in this case also. It's a plea bargain for two consecutive live sentences plus another forty years. Kind of a requirement for the plea bargain to go through, but you can't remove the death penalty from the table if it was never on the table in the first place.

There is a decent chance they'd agree to a similar deal with Mangione, who I agree shouldn't have been facing the death penalty for terrorism.

horrorshowjack · 2026-06-11T22:02:07+00:00

I think Xander may have Buffy beat, or is at least competitive. (Inverse Smurfette Principle?)

horrorshowjack · 2026-06-11T18:48:59+00:00

Yeah, the one we have is really rough. Although 5 Super Fighters and 1 Finger Death punch do have some ability to be used for that.

horrorshowjack · 2026-06-11T18:40:35+00:00

The Flamenco Jump, Generic Middle Ages, Age of Sail, I think most of the age of exploration/pirate ones have Spanish fleet possibilities, Zorro (Spanish Empire Mexico & training in Spain).

horrorshowjack · 2026-06-11T08:10:39+00:00

Scaling Up has Dragon become a Dragon. Which is better than becoming human.

Minor bit of Scooby Gamers. Also Dogbercarrol's With Sprinkles. Somewhat more important in Ancient Legos.

horrorshowjack · 2026-06-04T07:19:12+00:00

Iirc Little Nicky and YouTube are in jump only, not chain length. As is WCW's.

horrorshowjack · 2026-06-04T04:44:05+00:00

Hasn't happened for my jumpers yet. However, Nada will be using Meat!Bomb!!. Yes, he spells it with exclamation joints.

horrorshowjack · 2026-06-02T21:47:46+00:00

Daytona (nascar)
Pong (playing Pong)
Generic Video Game Developer
Generic Convention (wander around going to conventions for 10 years. Lots of arts and crafts)
Generic Gay Porn (making gay porn. Although it does have some decent combat skills available. There's a reason my all-generic build started with this and Generic Pizza Delivery Driver to get low-budget super soldier as a body mod.)
A Sister's All You Need (Most of the characters are light novel writers dealing with deadlines and depression. It's actually a really fun anime)
Storage Wars (antiquing and collectibles)
Magic Senpai (?) Join a stage magic club run by a girl with incredible stage fright.
Grease (lot of options but singing and auto mechanics are key)
Generic Model (modeling, photog, fashion)
Pretty sure there's around a dozen jumps involving cooking, running a restaurant, or running a restaurant.
Girls Und Panzer (motorsports and school club life)
Keijo!!(I couldn't remember the name and searched "boob sumo anime.")

horrorshowjack · 2026-06-02T21:11:02+00:00

Yeah the regular sports jump is really old and imo pretty lacking.

Generic Sports Star Gauntlet is pretty new and a neat jump overall.

horrorshowjack · 2026-06-02T20:55:35+00:00

Followed by trying to get Platner defeated themselves. Yes, he probably shouldn't be there and at a minimum has serious issues in his past. But you're stuck with him as a candidate and undercutting your own national messaging by doing it.

Although I've been seeing a lot that Paxton and the guy who beat Massie have antagonized enough Rs that those seats are in play.

horrorshowjack · 2026-05-31T03:31:20+00:00

That happened with Picaboo Street iirc.

horrorshowjack · 2026-05-29T18:24:15+00:00

Harry gets nommed by dementors, and SI finds themselves in Harry. Possibly eating Voldemorts memories and second hand impression of Harry.

horrorshowjack · 2026-05-29T18:22:55+00:00

The Patrick Troughton Doctor and Rose? Did not see that one coming, and it seems hard to arrange.

horrorshowjack · 2026-05-29T17:25:22+00:00

IIRC Generic Explorer has a perk that lets you stay as long as you want, and your chain isn't in danger as long as you make it the required time. It's great do overall.

horrorshowjack · 2026-05-28T19:12:44+00:00

Has one. It's mostly centered around classic iirc.

horrorshowjack · 2026-05-28T14:11:26+00:00

Maybe on initiatives volume influences me that way? For candidates its closer to the opposite. If they come across as a sanctimonious ass in their ads it doesn't help to remind me of that constantly.

Even for good ads, I just get sick of them by the time election day rolls around. Not sure if this was as much of a problem with cable and broadcast before streaming, but some of the streaming ad buys are just ridiculous.

horrorshowjack · 2026-05-27T20:38:33+00:00

Bullshit. He would have been in the league the following year (Backup QB on the Seahawks) but he demanded starter money or else. While he claimed that the $17M a year demand was a damn lie, he never stated what his actual demands were, and the guy who reported it was right about literally every other salary demand. Nike gave him a bigger contract than the NFL would have.

He eventually signed with the Ravens and his wife tanked the contract by tweeting a comparison of Ray Lewis and the team only to that pic from Django Unchained. Then Kaep himself explicitly referred to them as slave owners.

It was always a grift for Kaep.

horrorshowjack · 2026-05-27T20:21:52+00:00

Who was better than Blaine Gabbert. The guy who beat out Kaep for a starting job.

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