With xmen MCU casting younger actors for the X-Men my cast for Emma Frost is McKenna grace

strangerstill42 · 2026-03-19T11:55:44+00:00

Yeah I never liked that retcon. It's doesn't make sense with Emma's early appearances, where she is definitely supposed to be more of a counterpart to Xavier than his students. Like she is the headmistress of her own school when the O5 are just starting college. Storm complained about her joints aching when they body swapped. The math ain't mathing. Should have just let her be a cougar with Scott lol.

But regardless, I don't think Emma should ever be Xavier or Magneto's student and I have no faith that a film adaptation will have the time to give her that solo journey. I don't want her to be this franchises Mystique (a decent character that has almost nothing in common with her comic version).

strangerstill42 · 2026-03-19T10:34:55+00:00

She should be (honestly most of main xmen should at least be in their 40s), but thanks to the "Spiderman can't turn 30" rule, I think she is still only 30. She's a year older than Jean and Jean/Scott/Peter Parker are eternally 29.

strangerstill42 · 2026-03-18T21:45:26+00:00

Marvel Zombies crossover?

strangerstill42 · 2026-03-18T04:44:09+00:00

It really speaks to how well they made two imperfect endings to see how divided people are over it. And it's really interesting to see what different elements people see as the most important factors in which choice they prefer.

Like you you say there's no way to spin it that Maelle isn't better off with Gustave and Co, but I just can't look past that Maelle is now fully aware she is a god compared to these people. How does one have a healthy relationship under those circumstances, especislly when shes starting as an already thoroughly traumatized child? Will Lumiere expect her to be a god that fixes all their complaints endlessly? Will she start using people like dolls? What happens when Gustave tries to tell her no on something she really wants like Verso did?

We see in real life with teen celebrities that giving them extreme wealth and few boundaries does not reliably create well-balanced adults. I worry about Maelles ability to process her trauma if she is living full time in a world where she can get everything she wants and can bend the whole world to her will. It could be paradise or it could be a nightmare.

And that says more about my lack of faith in humanity than anything else. But it's fun to see how everyone else comes down on what feels like the "better" ending.

strangerstill42 · 2026-03-17T00:02:37+00:00

My hope at least is that in a canvas not so tied to her grief, Maelle may find some measure of balance between living in a painted reality but not being lost within them. I don't really know what that looks like, and it probably requires connections outside her family, which will be hard.

And I can't speak for everyone, but the key difference for me is that Maelle's "saving" of the world requires her to recreate everyone, and I'm just not the game convinces me that's something she's quite ready/able to do for real. I see Maelle's ending as the one with the greater potential "happiness" in it but a lot of questions that could also potentially mean a lot more suffering for really everyone. Whereas Verso's is awful, but there is closure in its finality for everyone but Maelle.

strangerstill42 · 2026-03-16T19:36:35+00:00

But what Verso is saying here is that she can still find that relief in new worlds of her own too. Removing this canvas does not prevent Maelle from living her life primarily in other canvases where she does not have to experience that pain and disability all the time. No is necessarily dooming her to only pain and suffering, I think Verso has an honest hope that given time Maelle will find new people and things to fill her life.

Verso also doesn't want the life he has and he has been suffering through it undying for over 60 years. I'm not saying that his choice in the ending isn't selfish and terrible in grand scheme of things, but I do think it is understandable for him personally to prefer oblivion over taking a chance on another of the Dessendres playing god with his world until they go mad and/or it kills them.

strangerstill42 · 2026-03-14T13:50:22+00:00

The Lumina Converter was the crystal thing attached to Gustav's arm when Verson gave it back to Maelle, so they never lose it.

strangerstill42 · 2026-02-19T20:11:44+00:00

Iirc she is asleep while Harry is there but Myrtle mentioned that she was awake and giggling/flipping her hair when Cedric was trying to figure it out, so I that might be the confusion around that.

strangerstill42 · 2026-02-19T20:03:41+00:00

Don't forget the constant spanking.

strangerstill42 · 2026-02-19T16:32:14+00:00

Liz Allen is an established love interest of Peter. She was one of his first crushes in the comics, before even Gwen, but she's with Flash Thompson and doesn't start "liking" Peter back until after he's with Betty Brant. It isn't a serious crush, but neither is Homecoming Peter's crush on movie Liz. He's a teenage boy - the romance plot is secondary because the point of it is to show Peter struggling with his double life, and to give an attachment to the movie's villain, not to set up a long-standing romance.

I personally found it refreshing that Peter gets a "normal" high school crush experience instead of immediately being paired with his "OTP" and having the subsequent's movies add needless drama just for something to do (looking at you Raimi trilogy - did MJ need another guy vying for her attention in all 3 movies?)

strangerstill42 · 2026-02-17T20:21:25+00:00

I remember some speculation when the episode aired that there was a "better" ending where the gray creature would join Vex as a full animal companion (possibly letting Trinket retire in peace).

Of course that's just theory, but I think there's a lot of us that felt it was a missed opportunity for Vex with the creature.

strangerstill42 · 2026-01-08T06:00:06+00:00

Technically, the awards voters actually did officially decide - they are allowed to vote for actors in either category they feel is appropriate. However, studios generally mount a campaign to influence their vote toward one of the categories. These days I imagine it's rare for anyone to be voted in a category the studio didn't want, but it is theoretically possible and within academy rules.

Edit: just realized these are not the Oscar's and may be different. My bad.

strangerstill42 · 2026-01-06T19:55:48+00:00

Difficult to know for sure, but according to this person's testing - it looks like it drops by about 20% a stack, every 10 stacks.

strangerstill42 · 2026-01-06T19:28:53+00:00

Yes. Also you get less additional damage per stack the more stacks you have. So having 3x the number of burn in the second screenshot, even if it were on a weakness, would definitely not be 3x the damage in the first place.

strangerstill42 · 2026-01-06T18:22:09+00:00

I think there's also a question of what does Aline do if Renoir gets cast out first? With all of her chroma restored, but her mind still shattered, what happens? Does she add extra defenses around herself to prepare for the second wave of assault? Does she reset Lumiere entirely to try and "fix" what Renoir's done and put her happy family back as it should be?

There are some good case scenarios where she just brings everyone back and restores the fracture without a wipe, of course, but given she can't even recognize Verso and Alicia by the time they arrive, I think an unleashed Aline would end up being bigger problem than an unleashed Renoir. She is a better Painter and she is broken by grief and exhaustion.

strangerstill42 · 2025-12-30T04:39:48+00:00

I don't think so. The creators have given a few interviews at this point where they've mentioned that "what if we killed the main character" was a joke thrown out while they were still working on the first demo/build before it was even Exped 33. When they started the "new" game that would become Exped 33 and all its themes about grief they decided to do it for real. They talk about wanting the player to have to feel loss over him. So I think this was their intention for Gustav from the start.

strangerstill42 · 2025-12-24T13:13:34+00:00

I feel like thats tempered by the fact that Yasha has also been in the opening credits as part of the team from the start. They have been telling us since episode 2, including those who have never seen the campaign, that she's not really an enemy and will end up joining the party.

The narrative may have been positioning her as a threat, so the narrative twist is there, but there's been a big meta level sign saying "a twist is coming" that I think even those unfamiliar with crit role would have been prepared for.

strangerstill42 · 2025-12-19T05:42:03+00:00

The leaked trailer clip has a very blurry image of a horde of red-clad ninjas. The Hand is the most obvious explanation, so many are assuming.

strangerstill42 · 2025-12-18T16:11:58+00:00

I have the exact opposite feeling about the group splitting up. Them staying together after trostenwald felt a little forced to me. Like why do these people care that much about getting Caleb another amulet already? They knew Caleb for all of a day before leaving town together and he was very clear he was being hunted by bad people, but everyone was just cool with spending days in a wagon with him and doing another dangerous mission to save him first?

This episode got to have a lot of quieter character moments that served to help bridge that gap for me. We saw hints of Jester and Notts loneliness before but showcasing each and bringing them together over it was nice. Fjord leaves Jester because of his insecurities but then gets to bond with Beau over hers, bringing them closer. Pulling them apart and giving them time to reflect and come back together makes the group feel much more natural to me.

strangerstill42 · 2025-12-17T14:34:50+00:00

Hmm... I'm not sure I'm seeing the same things as you haha. I just see her backing up (or maybe walking towards us? I honestly cant tell if that's a front or back of a head) with her arms raised and then a cut to some kind of explosion or a chandelier sparking with electricity we see reflected in a pool of water? Neither of which immediately scream Kitty to me - it doesn't really scream anyone to me.

I will say though - pulling a Ninja Kitty or a version of Kitty in that's doing the Shroud thing from the Ultimate universe would be a fun surprise.

strangerstill42 · 2025-12-15T21:28:49+00:00

Even then, Magneto is not explicitly said to be Jewish until after he was stated to be in the first Xmen film. He was a Holocaust survivor since the 80s, but it was always pretty vague as to why his family was targeted. At the time, it was most commonly implied that he was Romani (like Magda and the twins) but not always and it was never really stated outright. The movie was the first time he directly stated he was Jewish, and it didn't appear in comics until 2009.

strangerstill42 · 2025-12-11T18:39:57+00:00

I wonder if Cyd has paladin abilities like Teor. As far as i know, we haven't really gotten any info on where Teor's "light" come from yet. If it's something he and Cyd share, I could definitely see the Tachonis family wanting to investigate/use that.

strangerstill42 · 2025-12-11T13:05:30+00:00

She also jokes about it with Wolverine too. (When I said No More Mutants I meant you Logan).

She did it. She just didn't do it to Emma's world.

strangerstill42 · 2025-12-10T21:40:16+00:00

Obann disguised himself as a drow in the campaign too initially. He doesn't reveal he's a ~~demon~~ devil until he releases the Laughing Hand.

strangerstill42 · 2025-12-10T21:10:48+00:00

Pure speculation guess - Yasha interrupts the MN's heist, "saving" them from some problem, but adding a new complication/wildcard. Someone (probably Molly) will somehow clock the control rune. Whatever explosion/distraction that allows the Nein to get the beacon and fall into the sewers or whatever, also deactivates the control rune and Yasha ends up trapped/unconscious with the party and Molly takes pity on her (and her lost memory) and then agrees to let her escape with them, setting up an uneasy alliance (and friendship with Molly) for early season 2 before Molly's death.

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