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LFG

 

X-men. Please god I’m ready for it after ‘97

 

ppl are supposedly boycotting the next Cap bc a character is problematic and/or the actress who plays her is. idk if that's the right approach now that Sam's the one holding the shield

 

Ain't no one boycotting shit lol

 

idk i just come across it on tiktok

 

The character is Sabra, an Israeli special agent and mutant and the actress playing her apparently served in the IDF. Although her wiki says she was medically exempt from conscription and was only in the IDF performance theatre unit. Not sure on her views on Palestine, though.

 

It's a complicated situation for sure.

The character has been rewritten for the film to not use the codename Sabra and to be a former Black Widow with no ties to the Mossad at all.

That just muddies the issue though because now you have people rejecting having an Israeli character at all, shifting the controversy to the actress, pro-Israeli folks upset the character has been changed, and it's just a big hot mess.

Me, I'm looking forward to seeing Tim Blake Nelson play a guy with a big green head.

 

So they removed her ties with a country known to be invasive, aggressive and problematic and instead gave her ties to... Russia?

People on both sides are getting angry, It probably would have been best not to include her at all in the first place, it's not like she is a well known character that fans were anticipating.

 

Didn't think about that, but that's actually pretty fucking hilarious.

 

Could have just made her be a mutant with natural abilities instead of connecting her to the Red Room.

 

Could have, but I think it's still kind of cool they're showing what's happened to these Black Widows after the Red Room shut down and not leaving it a dangling plot thread.

I guess there's no reason they had to use this character to do it though.

 

I hear the rest of the widows all hang out with the space corpse

 

They're chillin' with White Vision and the Eternals.

 

Hulk’s son and Hercules are in the “wonder what those MCU guys are up to” on-deck circle.

 

i guess a downside to releasing so much the past few years--aside from oversaturation causing superhero exhaustion--is that there's so many dangling threads now

 

I was going to say something about how they're only two years old and had to remind myself that WandaVision was only three years ago, and now I just feel like time is an illusion as I curl up into the fetal position.

 

Def too early but just calling my shot on who is next in line to be left behind.

 

It’s unfortunate that Harry Styles as Eros was one of the most interesting things about the Eternals and we have a high chance of never seeing him again.

 

we saw him for half a second

 

The most interesting half second in the film.

I kid cause I liked the movie, but the joke was there.

 

And the premise of Thanos’ brother planning a rescue mission against a Celestial is far more promising than what we got

 

The best metaphor I have for my conflicting emotions is like we're finally passing a gigantic shit that is neither satisfying nor worth the time it took to get here. Let's just get on with it already.