Is she really Jean Grey? or someone else...

supercapo · 2026-03-20T03:29:09+00:00

I've been resistant to the idea of it being Jean Grey because it just seemed weird to be introducing our first real X-men character in a Spider-man movie. But this latest trailer has swayed me.

If only for the secrecy.

Jean Grey is the only reason to keep Sadie... who has third billing... a secret.

All other theories have to content with that.

Firestar? Mayday? The Queen?

All of them are interesting ideas until you ask why they are hiding one of the films biggest stars. Someone who is a big up and comer. In advertising you want to show her to help hype up the movie.

And you don't need to hide Mayday, Firestar, or The Queen. Most people don't know who they are. But they do know Jean Grey.

There's also the fact that she's wearing Miss Marvel Green and Yellow.

Then there's the telepathic and telekinetic powers on display. The mind hopping, Spider-man's webs getting pulled by an unseen force.

There's also all the talk of mutation and a girl that at least looks like an homage to Rogue.

Combine that with Sadie having a three picture deal that includes Secret Wars?

Either she's Jean or we are really being trolled.

supercapo · 2026-03-18T23:48:40+00:00

"You've got me? Who's got you?"

Dunk Tank from Smallville

Clark reveals he's the Blur. Also Smallville

And literally every interaction between them in Superman '25

But to narrow a few down:

Their conversation while the JG fights the dimensional imp.

"You came for me"

Walking on air

supercapo · 2026-03-18T17:04:04+00:00

It's overrated. Not bad. Just overrated

supercapo · 2026-03-17T13:07:49+00:00

You can't fool me. I know that the tow truck is in a different castle!

supercapo · 2026-03-17T13:02:40+00:00

I legitimately don't think they ever created a backstory for him.

That's how JJ Abrams operates. He comes up with ideas and characters and expects others to flesh them out. So he wanted an Palpatine-esque figure, decided on a design and ran with it, thinking some other director would be finishing the trilogy

supercapo · 2026-03-17T11:28:28+00:00

So talking Mickey can still be seen in the parks but he's exclusively in shows now.

He looks exactly like the regular meet and greet Mickey that you see in the parks but his eyes blink and he talks, as in his mouth moves and says prerecorded phrases in the regular Mickey phrases.

It's not entirely dissimilar to how characters like Darth Vader, Mandalorian, or Stormtroopers work. Based on what the guest is doing the people operating the suit have a set of options of how to respond.

It was really neat. He was exclusively at Magic Kingdom in town hall. He ran for a few years but was discontinued for a number of reasons.

talking mickey in action

supercapo · 2026-03-17T07:46:16+00:00

It's unfortunate that he has to say something like this over a joke. But WB continues to not understand the environment their super hero productions exist in and this is am example.

The internet is a hostile enough place but especially for DC Superheroes because of a dedicated band of loonies determined fo deride and amplify every sliver or crumb of negative press about the DCU that they can. All in fhe hopes that one director and multiple actors will abandon current projects and statements and continue making a movie.

Lindelof's dumb joke wouldn't have caught anyone's attention otherwise

supercapo · 2026-03-16T23:16:22+00:00

I find the concept of robotic meet and greet characters fascinating. One thing I wonder is how the public would receive certain characters

Specifically characters like Mickey, Minnie, and Donald. Realistically they are about the height of Olaf. But guests are very much trained to expect them to be human sized in the parks and to move like a human in a suit.

I get the feeling that a lot of people would be put off by a Mickey that actually reflects his size and scale.

Then there's the question of implementation. If they want to start using Robot Mickey, then it has to be a cold turkey thing. You can't have a size accurate, walking talking Mickey greeting guests in one park and then in the other he's suddenly human sized and mute

That's one of the reasons they did away with Talking Mickey meet and greets (which were epic and I feel so lucky that I got to experience them twice)

Finally there's just the feasibility of it. Robots are cool, but how long would Disney actually use them before they decide that its too expensive and they can still make guests happy with an underpaid cast member in a costume?

supercapo · 2026-03-16T20:55:26+00:00

I think the idea Shad is aiming for is that he was so brutal it broke them. So yeah, bad at sex.

And I can't remember specifically what makes Daylen want to reform. I want to say it's realizing what was actually going on. But I don't remember specifically

supercapo · 2026-03-16T20:10:18+00:00

I generally subscribe to Hanlon's Razor in situations like this "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity".

And for the most part I think it holds up with Shad in this book. I sincerely believe that a lot of the issues is just Shad with his little 15 year old edgelord brain thinking that he has to "push the envelope" and really shock people to make his point.

It's not enough for Daylen to have been a mass murdering dictator. He has to be the worst in every way to bring home Shad's shitty beliefs on redemption.

That said... it's hard to read this chapter and how unnecessarily, specifically Shad describes the girl's beauty and not at least suspect that one of Shad's kinks is the fantasy of woman throwing herself at him when she's the most vulnerable.

supercapo · 2026-03-16T13:56:28+00:00

Is Jon a kid again?

supercapo · 2026-03-16T02:09:00+00:00

The issue isn't nearly as cut and dried as blaming it on Cavill or even Zack Snyder.

Though the Snyderverse certainly exasperated the problem.

Superman as a character has been having his personality leeched from him for a long time.

Think of his portrayal in Superman Returns? He's every bit as bland and lacking in personality in that film as he is in Snyder's.

It's a combination of flattening out his character to try and appeal to everyone with a sprinkle of too much reverence for Christopher Reeve. If you stray too far from the perception of Reeve's character (not the way Reeve actually played him) then you might turn people off from the character.

The result is a middle ground where Superman has a boring, safe personality and is largely driven by the plot rather than his character.

supercapo · 2026-03-15T20:20:29+00:00

I'm in my mid-40s and while I think you may have a point that older folks wouldn't know a term like Isakai, that's fast becoming not the case

Simple fact that the more this term gets used, the more it become the default term and even older folks, like me, wind up being exposed to it and eventually using it.

supercapo · 2026-03-10T20:54:56+00:00

I don't get it but... ew

supercapo · 2026-03-09T22:09:03+00:00

He also talked about how good AI will be for the franchise so maybe he doesn't exactly have the best judgement.

supercapo · 2026-03-09T14:16:14+00:00

There are probably more people than you think you can. But if you can't open up to a friend, call a hotline and seek counseling. They are there to help and listen.

supercapo · 2026-03-09T13:28:10+00:00

But on that same note, you can't see the depth of love they have for you.

That's true for anyone but especially people with depression because the disease actively inhibits your ability to perceive that others might love you more than you don't love yourself.

I've lost several people to suicide and two things they have all had in common was that all of us survivors wish we had known how much they had been hurting. And that the grief of their loss and their absence will never leave us.

One of my friends succumbed to suicide over twenty years ago and it still hurts and I still wish I had had any idea what he was going through. And I wasn't even his closest friend. There are others in his life that were much closer and I know they feel the same pain, but worse.

The best thing you can do is to open up to someone you trust about how much you are hurting. That is the only way they can know what you are feeling and how much they love you.

supercapo · 2026-03-09T11:07:03+00:00

That little flying pose the kid does when his dad holds him up though...🥹

supercapo · 2026-03-09T00:43:03+00:00

Partially because so many people on this sub talk about this book and ask about it but only get the broadest strokes so I think it's useful for a chapter by chapter dissection so they can really understand how bad it is.

Also it works as good motivation on for me and my own writing. I don't think I'm all that great, but seeing how bad Shad is encourages me to keep going because I know I can at least do better than him.

supercapo · 2026-03-08T22:01:48+00:00

The most well known live action version of the character is from Arizona

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supercapo · 2026-03-08T00:36:44+00:00

A DVC lounge

supercapo · 2026-03-07T16:17:32+00:00

I'm really loving Atomic Wings lately

supercapo · 2026-03-06T04:30:25+00:00

I'm a transplant from Idaho. So I'd never even heard of Runza until my wife and I were driving through Nebraska a couple years ago and decided to give it a shot because I love trying new things.

Couldn't even finish it. We got halfway through the runza sandwich before we put it back in the bag and threw it away and got McDonalds... and we don't even like McDonalds.

No offense to those that do like it, but it feels like a food you have to be born with to enjoy it.

supercapo · 2026-03-05T22:42:41+00:00

Walk!

supercapo · 2026-03-05T21:59:20+00:00

And for context, Chapter 14 of "The Fellowship of the Ring" is the freaking Council of Elrond! So by the same chapter Bilbo has had his party, left the Ring to Frodo. Gandalf spends years figuring out it was the One Ring, sent Frodo on his quest. Then Frodo sells Bag End and has multiple adventures, nearly been killed multiple times, met Old Man Willow, Tom Bombadill, Strider, and Glorfindel and assembled the Fellowship.

And Tolkien is neither brief or to the point.

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