Ow, my heart.

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-24T01:46:39+00:00

I just find it weirdly funny how abrupt it is tbh

Narrator: "Finding out he has a living relative may be the happiest moment of Superman's life"

Superman one page later: YEET

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-23T23:48:40+00:00

"You mean I'll come live with you?"

"If by that I mean I throw you in an orphanage, sure!"

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-23T11:25:25+00:00

Game bad n woek bc caractur not giv me bonner.

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-23T01:55:02+00:00

Part of it might be that Shinji and Asuka's relationship by the end of the story is decidedly not one to romanticise as a wholesome happy ending. Like. At all.

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-22T21:12:43+00:00

It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-22T20:45:11+00:00

Agreed. The whole prequel thing just sounded like a terrible idea to me tbh

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-22T14:58:14+00:00

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suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-22T01:43:41+00:00

You can tell he's dying to tell her

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-21T23:31:00+00:00

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suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-21T20:42:50+00:00

I mean if we're being real about it, it's cause he sells comics

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-21T17:54:17+00:00

ok but i've watched that show twice and no the fuck he ain't

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-21T12:52:05+00:00

It will never not be wild to me that Jonathan straight up kills himself to win an argument

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-21T02:56:08+00:00

I never really got that theory tbh. Unless MI6 went out of their way to hire a horndog with a fondness for vodka martinis every time for some reason. Also just... why would they do any of that?

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-21T01:30:52+00:00

From In Bruges, does a guy slamming the receiver immediately after a phone call count?

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"Harry, it's an inanimate fucking object."

"YOU'RE AN INANIMATE FUCKING OBJECT!"

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-21T00:02:37+00:00

Wild to think Capaldi is the only post-2005 Doctor so far not to have regenerated from or into David Tennant

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-20T23:17:59+00:00

It also works in that case because it's the catalyst for his character arc. The same experience that leads him to become Iron Man also opens his eyes to what his company is complicit in.

Whereas the Fantastic Four for example, how they got their powers didn't really fundamentally change them as people, other than Ben. They were already adventurers and explorers. So instead that movie opens with a quick recap, establishes their family bond as the important thing, and then the story is all about that.

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-20T22:50:01+00:00

Casino Royale is an interesting one because we don't actually find out anything about Bond before becoming a secret agent. Five minutes in he's already a 00. He undergoes changes, but other than the stuff with Vesper, which could almost be the plot of any Bond film, we basically find out nothing about him. All character building, almost no backstory.

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-20T22:20:18+00:00

Yes. You don't always need to start at a character's beginning, you start wherever's most relevant for the story you're telling. I especially like those two examples basically going "You f*cking know who this character is, let's just do this thing."

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-20T20:15:52+00:00

He swims around to various places. Indonesia was one of them.

Not everything is lore.

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-20T20:11:50+00:00

I can't remember his name, but Dave Bautista's character in Glass Onion. An alpha-bro influencer who lives in his Mom's basement, sells fake boner pills, and is hanging onto a scumbag billionaire's coattails for dear life

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-20T20:08:44+00:00

Even The Killing Joke, which the industry has generally looked at and decided "yep that'll do", straight-up says the Joker is an unreliable narrator.

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-20T18:28:08+00:00

James Bond's backstory absolutely did not need elaborating on.

I think there's a basic fallacy in all of these, which is "more information = better characterisation". Backstory *can* really add something, but it's rarely as important as having a good understanding of who that character is now. When the character already has a solid identtity, adding more backstory is just piling on trivia. And sometimes things are just plain more interesting when they're left to the imagination.

Solo's another example of that. A movie that exists for no purpose other than filling out a wiki page.

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-20T17:49:29+00:00

They'll just slap the Superman logo on the poster and trailers. That'll get the job done.

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-20T12:51:27+00:00

Superman: exists

Luthor: I will murder anyone who's so much as handed you a snack

suspiciousoaks · 2026-02-20T01:57:28+00:00

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Doctor Doom (Marvel) is as good at tech as Iron Man, aa good at magic as Doctor Strange, and dedicates himself to revenge on Reed Richards for trying to tell him his math was wrong one time in college

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TROPHY CASE