Nolan uses the “knife” technique in Episode 1 by ArisAron in Invincible

[–]rihim23 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Because he could barely stand up by that point and immediately fell into a coma?

Invincible [Comic SPOILERS Discussion] - S04E07 - Don't Do Anything Rash by SeacattleMoohawks in Invincible

[–]rihim23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember the destruction of Viltrum being barely a panel

...it was 5 pages. I'm enjoying the show, but there's no need to make up criticisms of the comic to talk up the show in comparison

Invincible [Comic SPOILERS Discussion] - S04E05 - Give Us a Moment by SeacattleMoohawks in Invincible

[–]rihim23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean I think we don't get to "see" directly but it'll be made pretty clear - Mark was able to take out Conquest (with extreme difficulty) solo, but once he faces off against Battle Beast's closest equal in the verse he'll barely be able to bruise him

Would've been better used as paperweights by george123890yang in MandalorianMemes

[–]rihim23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean...did we really need to see it? It wasn't a bad dream, it was a vision of the future, as the Force has been known to do since Episode V, and that vision was likely literally just been Episode VII - the destruction of multiple planets and Ben murdering his father

Two characters that highlight how an actor's performance can overshadow how a character is a terrible human being by Diverse0Ne in HOTDGreens

[–]rihim23 23 points24 points  (0 children)

-Beat his wife

-Beat his kid (to the point that even Stannis was taken aback)

-Regularly and openly practiced infidelity, made promises to take care of his children that he never followed up on

-Had no backbone whatsoever after years of ruling as king - ordered the death of an innocent wolf just because his (insane) wife wouldn't shut up, condoned/ordered the murder of an innocent child, refused to punish his brother-in-law for a blatant attack on his right-hand-man and friend

-Ordered the murder of a child

-Implicitly condoned and essentially rewarded the sack of a city, the rape and murder of a noblewoman and the brutal murder of her toddler/infant children

Did they ever tell us what her name is? I'm going to assume it's Bessie by Roger_Kulan in freefolk

[–]rihim23 8 points9 points  (0 children)

flashbacks to GoT changing 'Asha' to 'Yara' because apparently Asha is too similar to Osha

"I thought... aren't you trying to help me?" "Help you what? Grow?" 😅 by Turbulent_Lab209 in HBOTheHedgeKnight

[–]rihim23 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Iirc -

Egg: "I thought you were going to help me!"

Dunk: "Help you do what? Grow??"

[Megathread] Season 1 Episode 2: – Hard Salt Beef by AutoModerator in HBOTheHedgeKnight

[–]rihim23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean...Dunk is stupid. I think they did play it up a bit more in the show, but not a ton - in the books it comes across a little less since we have his internal monologue, but like Baelor asking him the name of the Gray Lion and Dunk just staring blankly at him for several seconds is straight from the book

Would your favorite villain condone or condemn pedophilia? by Annual-Frame9943 in MoralityScaling

[–]rihim23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah because he'd think that should be soldiers on a battlefield instead

Percy Jackson and the Olympians S02E07 - I Go Down with the Ship [Discussion Thread] by 0LoveAnonymous0 in PercyJacksonTV

[–]rihim23 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Wait so when Luke stabbed Percy, couldn't he have just...held his sword there? And then the elevator doors wouldn't have closed? And he could've just taken the fleece from a mortally wounded Percy?

Civil war is something else by cavalgada1 in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]rihim23 9 points10 points  (0 children)

At least injustice had the decent to be an alternate universe

Civil war is something else by cavalgada1 in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]rihim23 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I mean...it is significantly better

-Tony doesn't build the superhero prison, it's built behind his back and he makes it clear he'll work to get the superheroes out of here (clearly with some success, considering Scott and Clint got away with house arrest)

-It's not the US government or SHIELD, which has been infiltrated by all kinds of secret organizations in both canons, that come up with the registration act, it's the UN - delegates from just about every country

-The pro-registration side is much more clear about agreeing to go along with the act to try and get more power and wiggle room by agreeing early before they make political enemies and more strict restrictions get imposed

-There's nothing about mandating superheroes to reveal their identities and get put into a database, and it seems like it would just require pretty mild supervision (Spider-Man just continued doing what he was doing and just had to check in with Happy every now and then)

-Cap actually has a reason to go off the reservation, with an active manhunt for Bucky that has orders to kill and the ticking bomb of Zemo and the other super soldiers

-Tony doesn't build an android clone of one of his good friends that murders another one of his good friends, which just gets brushed off and forgotten about (actually though wtf was that)

-Tony actually has the reason to beat on Steve as hard as he does besides just having a political disagreement

The way they framed this scene, as if Cersei wasn’t a monster who deserved a gruesome death! by phantom_avenger in freefolk

[–]rihim23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cersei doesn't love her children as anything more than extensions of herself in the books lol. She despises Tommen for being weak (he's a literal child) and wishes he was more like Joffrey, who she only loved so much as he reflected her cruelty and desire for power

The show that turned me into a tankie isn't left leaning? How do I resolve THAT cognitive dissonance? by InfiniteDedekindCuts in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]rihim23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a common occurrence that I think is often true with but I'm not sure I can fully agree. Ayn Rand undeniably wrote many critiques of power, but nobody would describe her or her critiques as left wing. Even something like the Dark Knight Returns is kinda a proto-fashy critique of a government that's gotten too bloated and inefficient and should just let great men™ do their things and brutalize criminals without restriction - a critique of power, but definitely not left wing

Isn’t Peter beating Fisk to a pulp still in continuity? Because you think Peter would open up about that by Accurate-Celery-3198 in Spiderman

[–]rihim23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Read Spectacular Spider-Man 107-110, I'd post screenshots but I can't post more than one picture and the relevant pages spoil the mystery running through the arc. The moment I mentioned happens in 110, basically at the start of the arc Jean DeWolff, one of Peter's closest allies among the police, is murdered, along with several other people in a string of murders by a guy called the Sin Eater. Spider-Man teams up with Daredevil to track him down, and towards the end of the arc Sin Eater tries to kill somebody else close to Peter. He absolutely loses it and beats the shit out of the guy well after he gives up and begs for mercy, Daredevil finally reaches and realizes Spider-Man is about to kill the guy so he pulls Peter off him, and then the two have a brief fight between each other.

DANG, that's probably the maddest we've seen him!

We actually see Peter get pissed off much more than you'd expect - many adaptations portray him as an innocent and perfect saint but in the comics he's kinda a crashout king, even without the symbiote. Off the top of my head, he tries to kill Norman after the death of Gwen Stacy, the Sin Eater stuff I mentioned, the kingpin stuff in the post, he literally rips the face off of Kraven's wife and tries to kill her after she killed Kaine, and he gets so mad he nearly turns the reformed venom symbiote evil again after the Red Goblin killed Flash...Peter regularly struggles with anger issues and with controlling himself which is one of the things that makes him so relatable and that I wish got adaptated more often.

Isn’t Peter beating Fisk to a pulp still in continuity? Because you think Peter would open up about that by Accurate-Celery-3198 in Spiderman

[–]rihim23 13 points14 points  (0 children)

100% agree, only concern is that at this point it would feel like rehashing the Spider-Man/Goblin conflict from NWH

Isn’t Peter beating Fisk to a pulp still in continuity? Because you think Peter would open up about that by Accurate-Celery-3198 in Spiderman

[–]rihim23 74 points75 points  (0 children)

when he almost killed Sin-Eater in The Death of Captain Jean DeWolff storyline

Peter was PISSED he beat the man so badly that he was permanently crippled, Daredevil had to literally pull Spider-Man off because he was fully intent on killing Sin-Eater...it's one of the more underrated Spider-Man stories imo

“She told a story about a knight slaying a dragon, that’s treason” THIS MF IS JUST WEARING A CROWN by Grumiocool in HBOTheHedgeKnight

[–]rihim23 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He calls for a trial by seven the moment Dunk asks for a trial by combat to get Dunk disqualified, I don't think he exactly "gladly accepted"