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I personally suspect it’s likely a belief that “boys” who watch the show would find “high school soap opera drama” boring, but that a formulaic “...And now this particular background character gets...

He's one of the very few confirmed surviving "loyalist" combat veterans of the Betrayal at Honnoji, where Oda "The Demon King" Nobunaga, Japan's first of the "Three Unifiers," was ambushed by his own...

I lived categorizing the Batman baddies, so I’ll do something similar here.

Archenemies:

Green Goblin I - The most personal nemesis and a great diabolical mastermind in his own right, fo...

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Looks like PCs are a combination of an original Ninja character, and then the actually pretty awesome and unique historical personage of...

See, the thing about comic book companies is... they can have their cake and eat it too.

AUs and flashback stories mean you can split your products between any desired idealized "immortal cake"...

For the symbiote, I think it's important to note that it's form at its first "death" is totally different form what it became with Eddie as Venom - it was a just a horror creature without a...

Reboots - Its a great idea when applied creatively with concern for detail and awareness of the mythos you're dealing with, but tends to struggle once executive-types start to treat it as a market...

I think I'd argue the 2003 TT series was the first one to try emphasizing him as having "mad scientist" tendencies, which eventually ballooned into the gadget crazy version of the character that sort...

On that topic, a specifically nuanced argument I would make is that this is why the big "formula" mistake of Post-OMD runs is usually having the guy who wrote the run then undo his own run and "put...

That's definitely true compared to Dan Didio when their tenures overlapped - Quesada usually played the role of more a management executive rather than the sort of "Dictator of IP" that Didio wanted...

I have to say again that OMD is just so bad as a story itself that it exposed how hypocritical and regressive the editorial philosophy behind it was - tying a genuine drop in quality and lack of...

There's definitely an element of OMD backlash that is strictly story specific rather than about editorial's dream for the character either way - notice how much less controversial stuff like the...

If Favreau has gone creatively conservative with the characters and fundamentally doesn’t want to build much characterization on them, then just making it a prelude to Thrawn with a budget like $45...

A secure local bus drive is derailed in Africa when it stumbles across an illegal exotic poaching expedition for a murderous millionaire. Refusing to face even he most remote of consequences, the...

TAS for me, then, honestly, early internet profiles and the Spider-Man: Ultimate Guide source book before the Raimi movies - I know I went in to watch the first one and immediately clocked how much...

But that would have nothing to do with their job, as they see it - they're not responsible for selling old comics, they're responsible for a non-stop supply of new comics, at a quick rate they've...

An interesting counter to consider to the “Won't someone think of the hypothetical future audiences!?!” thing here is that any new audience in the marketplace now is far more likely to use digital...

Tim Drake's had serious issues keeping his audience interested since the New 52 started over a decade ago, and they haven't really improved with the latest attempt to put him back in his "classic"...

Not going to lie, a lot of the "appeals to authority" and attempted "this wouldn't work because it makes him feel old" arguments still end up quietly having this weird addendum of "... and as a sign...

I’d have to disagree for a lot of reasons:

- Because college kids *are* young adults; it’s still a time of transition, yes, but you are no longer by any remaining definition a child, and have thus...

If you think Spider-Man must be just a coming of age drama, then you should just stick him in high school forever, and either you just never get him out of it, or you reboot it whenever he gets ready...

In general regarding this topic, not just with MJ, I think it’s important to recognize that the larger franchise has done an unimpeachable job of making the world think of a young, rookie Spider-Man...

I’m going to organize mine a bit, to kind of point out where various niches can be filled without overlap.

“Big 3 Gothamites” - the baseline human criminals who can be big damn deals or more...

I actually would argue that Felicia is *an* iconic love interest for Peter - but that like Gwen, she inhabits a niche separate from a "the one" type of love interest that MJ is.

Whereas Gwen, for...

An interesting thing to note here:

"Action Figure" or "Barbie Doll" writing of plot-tool-characters tends to actually become fun and entertaining once it's put in a comedic light, because comedy...