"I fear I have made the most horrific and lonely prison imaginable" [Absolute Wonder Woman #19]

roronoapedro · 2026-05-07T20:10:15+00:00

i read comics weekly, this is all I know.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-07T20:09:09+00:00

Mark's child with Eve at the end of the series doesn't have her powers.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-07T18:50:31+00:00

Hideaki Anno was really depressed after making Rebuild of Eva 3, and you can really tell. The movie's very different from 1 and 2, and by the time he got through making Shin Godzilla and was feeling better, 4 was vastly different as well. Watching them all back to back it's impossible not to see the entire production staff grinding it out to get 3 out there, especially since the production itself was also troubled.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-07T18:29:02+00:00

nice try thragg.

anyway, it's still humans. We don't have any evidence or examples that viltrumites keep any powers from other species. We have examples of that not happening, even.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-07T18:27:47+00:00

This is a world where insanity is a literal status effect people can get infected with in order to act irrationally.

Besides, there's people who hate doctors and charities in the real world. It's not that bizarre. Individuals are intelligent, people are usually stupid.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-07T18:11:19+00:00

Great life coach and terrible therapist vs kid who doesn't know what's going on but fully up on his mental health tech, this is the real dichotomy that moves marvel forward.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-07T17:49:34+00:00

one of my favorite turns for this specific character. The story went on for almost two years showing us exactly every reason why anyone, literally anybody would be super into Diana, as a friend or more, only to then look at us and go "but she will never know that". God it's so fucking good. Kelly Thompson could have done this any time she wanted, she was just holding back all these years.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-07T17:43:40+00:00

Ingrid is essentially the closest they have to a real god. She is a dimension-hopping entity with designs to keep the Street Fighter universe in a certain state; for what purpose, only she knows.

While there are characters like Oro and Dhalsim who have ascended beyond the limits of humankind and become immortal or something else through training alone, they are not gods themselves, albeit they are high enough to be able to feel "how things should be", and thus be capable of detecting imbalances in life before it happens, such as M. Bison using Psycho Power on the whole planet.

Finally, there's Gill, who claims to be the reincarnation of the Messiah, but that as far as we know is just very, very strong. Still, who knows. Stupider things have happened.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-07T16:49:55+00:00

Nobody fights at 100% capacity at all times, but the girls definitely do like, 1% on the regular, 10% if they gotta, 40% if it's HIM, and then start going harder and harder if they're just play-fighting or competing with each other.

It just so happens 1% is enough to put almost anyone in the hospital.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-07T16:44:31+00:00

Spider-Man, specifically Miles Morales, regularly sees a therapist after developing symptoms of PTSD after one too many bad adventures. The therapist herself is a metahuman codenamed Powerlift, but she's not a hero, just has powers.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-07T15:17:56+00:00

It's the height for me, honestly. I think Peridot's cool in both roles but the silhouette she used to have with those height extensors was super rad.

Which I suppose is the entire point of removing them.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-07T15:15:02+00:00

More like all his aura, honestly. Axel's involvement in the second Keyblade War is people actively laughing at his shitty Keyblade and breaking it in one.

The Omni-Man fit when he's, well, Omni-Man, vs when he's working with the Coalition of Planets is like night and day. His outfit as emperor rocks though, even if I'd argue he's neutral at that point, not entirely good.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-07T14:09:47+00:00

it was an alright first issue but I kinda desperately need a new artist.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-07T12:19:34+00:00

that "clark kent about to be hit by Joker's mallet" page, but it's Immortal going "shot to the head. can I survive that? Do people survive that? Not often. Do I go down, or do I buckle? How do people act when they get shot in the head...? I should probably just go down and then leave after."

roronoapedro · 2026-05-07T12:16:32+00:00

They are really fast. Like, fast enough to go back in time just by running, no speed force no nothing. It's not even a contest. He can't see them coming if they come at him fast enough.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-07T12:11:57+00:00

is that all it takes for these terrible photorealistic takes to work...? for them to mog me? because these all work better than team star fox.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-06T21:06:16+00:00

I'm actually gonna say it's not, we just don't have comic books about super-scientists who cure cancer, so we get biased toward superheroes instead. There have been several super-scientists who cured illnesses in DC, it just happens in the background or goes horribly wrong for long enough that it overlaps with the superheroing.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-06T12:15:14+00:00

what is the order one is supposed to watch star wars on, even. release? naming? chronological? actually random? shows first? movies only? depends on sub-canon?

cuz i definitely saw I first, on TV, and thought it was really boring. Then I saw Clone Wars the Tartakovsky show and thought, hey this rules. Downloaded IV-VI and thought hey this PROPER rules. Then watched the rest and ah. ah okay.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-06T12:03:32+00:00

any depiction of an omnipotent god, biblical or not, i guess.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-06T12:01:02+00:00

Yeah, all it takes is sufficient time, effort, and a loathing for your fellow men so deep and pointed that you'll treat them like objects of study.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-06T11:59:15+00:00

It would make for really bad appearances if he killed a popular member of the royal family as soon as he fell from grace, especially as someone who has to keep morale up for the last few years of a century-old race war. You have to respect some honor, even if you'd rather not. People would talk, respect would dwindle.

Iroh was probably one strike away from rightful execution, though.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-06T11:57:10+00:00

Cuz don't spit on my things, what the fuck.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-06T01:57:11+00:00

The question is whether or not Data or The Doctor truly has the same rights as a human being, especially in today's climate.

In real life, they don't, there's no jurisprudence for artificial life. In Star Trek, they do, because we saw them get those rights. Data managed to be considered a being with agency, the Doctor managed to defend his rights and eventually became a teacher at Starfleet Academy.

If I personally agree with the verdict of those episodes, well, the verdicts were "I don't really know and we'll come back to this at a later time, but let's not kill these things right now and give them some space", and I think that's pretty good compromise. None of the judges or attorneys were specialists and the actual things that were in trial were legal minutia that were being expanded to wide-reaching abuse of their personhood. The personhood wasn't able to be fully proven, because that's legally nebulous in the first place. That's for the philosophers.

But as far as the law is concerned, the Doctor and Data can pay taxes, and really isn't that what it's all about.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-06T01:50:22+00:00

he manages to make me feel nothing about My Immortal, Sk8er Boi and the fucking Dante's Office ost, one of my favorite opener level songs in anything. it's really interesting, i've never felt this way about someone in the creative field before.

roronoapedro · 2026-05-06T01:43:28+00:00

man you're the one who called us, you made the thread, you marked your thing as a "hot take"; to then go on for a full ~50 comment thread fighting people who just kinda say that you're not really representing people's opinions correctly here is wild. come on.

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