#Monster Brawl (2011)

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SUMMARY: Eight classic monsters fight to the death in an explosive wrestling tournament set inside an abandoned and cursed graveyard.

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I know this isn't technically the tags, but it's because I'm gonna put something else in the tags.

I think that a lot of what is really "worst" movies that are out there are the sort that were made on shoestring budgets. Some microbudget movies are genuinely really good, but a lot just aren't. Often the movies that just don't have a single likeable thing in them are made this way, and getting through them is just a chore. (I'll put a list of some of the most egregious ones in the tags).

But "nothing I liked" is outclassed by "something I HATED". And it's to bigger budgets we turn for things like that. Movies that evoke genuine, roiling anger. Even if they maybe had a likeable person in them, or an arguably good performance, or a good sequence, or a cool design, over all they just infuriate you, and have you shouting "WHY" at the screen. That's the sort of thing you're more likely to find in macrobudget (or when it's in lower cost brackets, it's usually lower cost Oscar-bait).

For mine I think it's a tie between Transformers 4 and Transformers 5. Of the two, I did objectively spend much more of my time in the latter being completely bewildered and saying out loud "Why?? Why is this happening??" than I did in the former. But Transformer's 4 has that thing where they stop the movie dead to look directly into the camera and say "Hey adults in the audience, it's actually cool and normal to have sex with teenagers, here's a legal precedent if you're worried about those pesky 'law' things getting in the way", so, sixawun I guess.

What would you guys consider the worst movie you've ever seen? Not something that's fun to make fun of, nothing you ironically enjoyed, I mean just an absolutely miserable moviegoing experience that you paid for, hated every second, and wish you had walked out of and asked for a refund.

For me, no joke, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. It did not even feel like a real movie to me. It made me see red! I was SEETHING with anger and annoyance throughout the entire thing, and I cannot for the life of me articulate why. I saw it once in 2012 when I was 15, I remember almost nothing about it now, but it struck a nerve with me like no other movie ever has before or since.

Tell me in the tags, which movie makes you disproportionately angry just thinking about it?

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WATCHED...

UNFORTUNATELY...🤦🏻

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Kevin Nash

Monster Brawl (2011)

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Monster Brawl (2011)

My rating: 6/10

Does what it says on the tin: There's monsters, they brawl, hijinks and shenanigans also take place. Pretty good fun, all things considered.

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It came from tubi: monster brawl is live for everyone

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The Tubi Tuesdays Podcast Episode 114 – Monster Brawl (2011)

The Tubi Tuesdays Podcast Episode 114 – Monster Brawl (2011)

The Tubi Tuesdays Podcast Episode 114 Monster Brawl (2011) Batch’s Pick Download HERE https://supermarcey.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/the-tubi-tuesdays-podcast-episode-114-monster-brawl-2011.mp3 Movie Starts Playing At: 00:08:43 Welcome to our podcast series from The Super Network and Pop4D called Tubi Tuesdays Podcast! This podcast series is focused on discovering and doing commentaries/watch…

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Monster Brawl (2011)

Dir. Jesse Thomas Cook

☆Dave Foley, Art Hindle, Robert Maillet☆

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several miscellaneous thoughts about a Yugioh GX College AU that’s starting to kick around in the back of my brain:

dear god this ended up longer than expected i shall put it under a cut...

Takes place around, hm, 2011 or so

Cannot stress enough that the Duel Spirits are still there and everyone still plays duel monsters, there’s just no fancy holograms. It’s just card games on beat up coffee tables and dorm lobby floors.

Jaden (undetermined major) and Syrus (engineering major) are dormmates turned roommates in the cheapest most dogshit apartment imaginable (that they still perpetually need a third person on the lease to keep affordable)

Past third roommates include Chumley (art major, moved out after landing a kickass Industrial Illusion gig like in canon), Hasselberry (geology major, was technically NOT on the lease but paid rent anyway, moved out to be closer to campus), and Chazz (business major who wants to be a theater major so badly, was dating Jaden at the time, moved out after they broke up and that was a whole To-Do). The current third roommate spot is up in the air but it’s looking like Jesse (geology major as well, biology minor) might be our lucky winner

i kind of just like the concept of college aged Jaden having a small handful of breakups under his belt i love the guy but i feel like at least for a while he’d be a bit of a flaky boyfriend. doofus (affectionate). I think he also dated Bastion (chemistry major) here and it kind of crashed and burned

yubel is Very There and that might be part of the issue. They and Winged Kuriboh hanging around the apartment absolutely not paying rent and watching Jaden make bad decisions like stay up until 4am playing minecraft the day before midterms.

Zane (computer science major) was Mr. Star Student when he went to the same college a few years ago and now syrus has professors ask if he’s zane’s brother and then ask how zane is doing and syrus doesn’t have the heart to tell them that his brother mostly just goes to cybergoth warehouse raves now. :/

i have no idea what Aster is majoring in. Probably something non-consequential because he’s still doing “pro dueling circuits” (playing in tournaments at the local convention center every few months). Anyway he’s also a Redditor this is true for all asters imo but especially this one.

Hasselberry, Jesse, and Jim Crocodile Cook are absolutely Geology Major Buddies they are GOING to the Rock and Mineral Show and then theyre gonna get pizza after

me sobbing trying to remember if they gave Alexis ANY non-dueling interests.... Man... Anyway I think she’d be a dance major but with a particular interest in like. Production management or choreography. good god give her SOMETHING.

everyone is playing So Much Smash Brothers Brawl together

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find the word tag CLXVI

you guys. I let my sister paint my nails and I am weirded out by it. also please, for the love of your favorite character, listen to Lucy. they’re just so happy and upbeat and wonderful. contrary to this url @talesofsorrowandofruin 

tag what really? in compensation have this random sentence:

Kevin is the world’s worst assassin, who flunked out of assassin school because he doesn’t want to actually kill people.

tour okay this cannot be a bust what heck. in compensation have this:

Jessalyn shows up at eight in the morning like she promised and Nathaniel is glaring at her before she even sets down her bag.

two (youth story - let’s all say it together: R NO)

“Not all bruises form right away, idiot.” Mark pulled his hood up, further obscuring his already cloudy features. “Let’s just go at it until Evie stops us. Why do we need rules?”

“Because the two of you are impossible and need boundaries.”

“We clearly suck at those,” R pointed out, still reluctant to look in Bell’s direction. “We’ll just brawl for a bit and then go back to being on somewhat amicable terms.”

bonus two (the roses tell me I’m bleeding, 2020): 

Sometimes I place my fingers to my neck and let them rise and fall with the blood underneath my skin. Inevitably the pattern becomes irregular to my mind, even if I can count the beats the same. One, two, one, two, they are a little quick but very steady. When it feels like my heart is trying to jump out of my chest I knock on its door and feel for the pulse. The monster inside is not screaming. It slumbers, unbothered by my sword at its throat.

thunder (I am a dragon, 2011)

I am a dragon I am lightning and fire I am the soul in the wind I am thunder with wings

well that was anticlimactic. sorry, tragedies. um, obscure, option, overall, only, occasional. bonus: ostentatious, omen. @ofbloodandflowers @moononherwings @mel-writes-with-her-dragons @writing-is-a-martial-art @writeblrfantasy OR ANYBODY 

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Stats from Movies 1201-1300

Top 10 Movies - Highest Number of Votes

Splice (2009) had the most votes with 854 votes. Dark Cloud (2022) had the least votes with 290 votes.

The 10 Most Watched Films by Percentage

Ghostbusters (1984) was the most watched film with 83.3% of voters out of 756 saying they had seen it. T Blockers (2023) had the least "Yes" votes with 0,3% of voters out of 732.

The 10 Least Watched Films by Percentage

Salem's Lot (1979) was the least watched film with 64.4% of voters out of 449 saying they hadn’t seen it. A Snake of June (2002) had the least "No" votes with 6,9% of voters out of 391.

The 10 Most Known Films by Percentage

Ghostbusters (1984) was the best known film, 0,5% of voters out of 756 saying they’d never heard of it.

The 10 Least Known Films by Percentage

A Snake of June (2002) was the least known film, 90.8% of voters out of 391 saying they’d never heard of it.

The movies part of the statistic count and their polls below the cut.

Bingo Hell (2021) The Descent: Part 2 (2009) The Reckoning (2020) The Lair (2022) Dream House (2011) The Other Lamb (2019) Unsane (2018) Children of the Night (1991) Manichithrathazhu (1993) They Live (1988)

Chasing Sleep (2000) The Special (2020) Grabbers (2012) Blood and Roses (1960) Eating Miss. Campbell (2022) Violated Angels (1967) A Snake of June (2002) The Alligator People (1959) eXistenZ (1999) Blood Widow (2014)

Blood Widow (2020) Honeymoon (2014) Uninvited (1987) Scarecrows (2017) Talon Falls (2017) They Reach (2020) Devil's Gate (2017) Killer Sofa (2019) The Ghost Within (2023) Hidden 3D (2011) Grave of the Vampire (1972) Lamb (2021) See No Evil (2006) Planet Terror (2007) Lights Out (2016) Gerald's Game (2017) Webcast (2018) The Love Witch (2016) No One Gets Out Alive (2021) Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

Wounds (2019) Paintball Massacre (2020) A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) Charlie's Farm (2014) Child Eater (2016) Monster Brawl (2011) 247°F (2011) Dark Cloud (2022) The Hole (2001) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)

Hazard Jack (2014) Pumpkinhead (1988) The Resurrected (1991) Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) The Curse (1987) The Dunwich Horror (1970) Earth vs. the Spider (2001) The Fan (1982) Mute Witness (1995) The Call of Cthulhu (2005)

The Suckling (1990) It Conquered the World (1956) Bug (2006) The Signal (2007) Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) Gehenna: Where Death Lives (2016) Monsters (2010) YellowBrickRoad (2010) The Blood Spattered Bride (1972) T Blockers (2023) The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow (2008) The Mothman Prophecies (2002) Baba Yaga (1973) Kill List (2011) Splice (2009) The Crazies (2010) Fire in the Sky (1993) Banshee Chapter (2013) Angel Dust (1994) Blood and Black Lace (1964)

It Came from Outer Space (1953) TerrorVision (1986) Lurker in the Lobby (1998) A Night to Dismember (1983) Altered States (1980) Cube²: Hypercube (2002) The Dark Half (1993) Darkness (2002) Ghostbusters (1984) The Keep (1983)

Cobweb (2023) The Empty Man (2020) Bloody Hell (2020) The Green Inferno (2013) Turistas (2006) Salem's Lot (1979) Stir of Echoes (1999) Christine (1983) Found (2012) The Hole (2009)

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Best of Marvel: Week of August 7th, 2019

Best of this Week: Absolute Carnage #1 - Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, JP Mayer, Frank Martin and Clayton Cowles

God is Here.

The seeds have been sown all over the Marvel Universe for the re-emergence of Carnage in a big way for months. He’s had single back-up pages in The Avengers, Black Cat, Captain Marvel, Immortal Hulk and many others portending his arrival and the sheer amount of people and creatures that are now within his thrall. Everything is coming to a head and it is absolutely terrifying.

The book begins with Eddie Brock recalling the events of everything Donny Cates has written since he took over the character.and other past events that have ultimately shaped what will soon happen. Eddie tells his son Dylan, who doesn’t know that Eddie is his father, about Knull, the God of the Symbiotes, and how he’s being kept asleep by the planet of symbiotes surrounding him. The only way for Knull to be woken up is if someone collected enough symbiote pieces and DNA to reconnect to the hive mind and if Knull is reawakened, he will begin spreading a new age of darkness across the cosmos.

Eddie references the fights against the Dragon of Knull in the beginning of his run, but also talks about the other people who have held the Symbiote or symbiotes. He pulls so much history out in so few sentences, along with a stellar double page spread by Stegman that one might be convinced to check out other great stories just to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. Characters from Maximum Carnage are shown, heroes that may have been changed during Venomized and of course Captain America, The Thing and Wolverine from the amazing Carnage USA.

After Eddie recounts the danger that the two are in, they see that Eddie is a wanted man after killing many inmates at Ryker’s Island. Of course Eddie was never there and after suspecting that they’re being followed, Eddie tells Dylan that they need to make a break for it and they run away from their tail into the subway. Unfortunately for them, Cletus Kasady was lying in wait and pushes them onto the tracks, only for them to be saved by their tail; Venom. 

Eddie re-bonds with the symbiote after derailing the train and a new and terrifying Carnage confronts them. Stegman wastes not a single stroke in making Carnage look like a menacing force of pure psychotic evil. His teeth are jagged, his limbs are gangly with “skin” that looks like it’s constantly dripping with blood an his ribcage and spine are exposed, but covered in the same material. He could almost be considered skeletal if not for the pumping veins all around him. This is a Monster Carnage, even more terrifying than 2015’s Carnage series and many times more powerful.

Carnage, like most children of other symbiotes, has always been stronger than Venom. Though, with enough force and maybe some help, Carnage has always been defeated one way or another, but not this time. Kasady beats the ever living hell out of Venom, smacking him in the face and smashing him into the ground. He gets right on the cusp of killing him before Eddie grabs the third rail of the subway line and electrocutes the both of them, a temporary victory so that he and Dylan can escape. The symbiote puts Eddie into something of a coma while he heals the body and takes them to the one person that can help.

In a little diner where they think it’s safe, Eddie, Dylan and Spider-Man talk about what’s been going on. Spider-Man is taken aback and annoyingly jokes to Eddie about all of this being out of his league before a news report is shown depicting a mass grave of people that have had their spines ripped out, likely for the Symbiote DNA or Codices (plural for Codex) as Eddie calls them. After some chumps try to rob the diner, Spider-Man takes them out handedly while formulating a plan with Eddie, saying that Reed Richards could have made a machine to help remove the Codex from anyone that has ever been attached to a symbiote, but he would have needed to start long ago.

We then cut to The Maker, the Reed Richards from the Ultimate Universe that has taken up residence in the 616 Universe, as he’s actually been working on such a machine for use on Flash Thompson. The Maker’s goals and those of his employers are unknown and that makes for horrifying implications because there is no way that he is up to any sort of good at all and makes it clear that he too is trying to reunite the symbiotes.

Spider-Man shows up with Normie Osborn as the first possible test subject, but doesn’t want it to be used until he knows that it’s safe. Maker moans that if he has to be so sure, then he should find someone else with a codex, someone dangerous that Carnage may in fact go after next. Peter and Eddie get the same thought: Norman Osborn.

Norman had used the Carnage symbiote to become the Red Goblin not too long ago and after his defeat at the hands of Spider-Man, lost his mind and gained the memories and personality of Cletus Kasady. Things go to hell in a handbasket very quickly as John Jameson, the guard who let them into Ravencroft also known as the Man-Wolf, reveals himself as another of Carnage’s infected puppets.

Mayer then coats the book in an intense and overbearing red hue, signaling nothing but danger as Carnage throws pieces of himself into each cell. There are elements of body horror as he pulls these tiny bits of himself out of his chest and they burrow into the victims. Kasady’s mouth and eyes also seem to drip with his symbiote form as he and the other barrel down on Venom and Spider-Man. A giant and beautiful brawl ensues with the infected ripping and tearing at the pair. The mass of bodies overwhelm and Eddie almost begins to kill before being reigned in by Spider-Man. Unfortunately Spider-Man gets caught by Carnage.

It was around here that I had the realization that Pete and Cletus haven’t actually clashed in YEARS. Maybe as far back as 2011’s Carnage USA was the last time the two fought, so to see Pete finally see him again with half of his mask gone, there’s a small bit of fear in his body language. This is doubled as Carnage throws Spider-Man into Norman’s cell door, breaking it open to reveal a deranged Norman who appears to have been slicing himself with a piece of glass in his cell. With the combination of the bright red of his blood juxtaposed against the darkness of his cell, Norman stands out, not as the cunning genius that we knew him, but as another victim of Carnage and he smiles with mad glee.

Absolute Carnage #1 absolutely lives up to the hype that has been built for it. This story can expand so far and with the tie-ins that have been announced, I’m actually very excited. Carnage has been scary, but this is on a whole new level for him. You never quite know who is one of his thralls! Hell, John Jamson appeared to be completely normal until the trigger was pulled in him and turned him into another monster. Carnage has always been a problem for the larger Marvel universe whenever people have had to fight him individually. Deadpool had a hard time fighting him. Captain America, Wolverine, Hawkeye and the Thing almost died fighting him. Even when he was temporarily a good guy during AXIS, he was still horrifically dangerous.

With new god-like abilities, lack of weaknesses and unimaginable unpredictability, what can anyone do?

Ryan Stegman’s art needs to be absolutely praised as well. His lines are crisp and heavy in an almost perfect way. He manages to give things a darkness and depth to them that makes everything feel absolutely brutal, disgusting and weighty. He can capture faces of absolute terror, rage and every wonderful expression that Venom makes. Personally I love how emotive he makes Spider-Man’s mask with the eyes widening and shrinking with his surprise or incredulity. He also has a talent for spreads as there are about three really good ones that really shows his skill for depth of field. Venom and Spider-Man also look incredibly strong. We all know that I love muscular art and all of their muscles are accentuated through their costumes. Spider-Man has his lithe and athletic body and Venom is nothing but raw strength and I love it.

Absolute Carnage hit every correct note. There was violence, horror and even a little bit of family drama. The stakes are very high and while not on the same scale as War of the Realms, the sheer amount of murders caused and their horrifying nature is more than enough to be concerned about. Donny Cates looks like he’s going to do it again with his first big Marvel event (I think, I don’t really remember) and bring us all to another level of badass storytelling.

High recommend.

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I have never been more interested in Moira MacTaggert than I am right now.

Runner Up: House of X #2 - Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, Marte Garcia and Clayton Cowles

I've always seen Moira as just another supporter of mutants that tragically had their life ended because of The Brotherhood's evil schemes. I loved that she supported Charles dreams and wanted to help mutants, but never actually knew that she herself was a mutant. She's always had something of a tumultuous history and this issue of House of X expands on that in the most amazing way and shows how important she truly has been in the advancement of the lives of mutant kind this entire time.

In her first life, Moira MacTaggert lived a fairly normal existence. She went to school, married, had kids and died at the rope old age of 78. Soon after, she woke in her mother's womb, capable of remembering everything that she had done in the past life. It was strange and she couldn't let on what she knew, but she knew that she was special somehow. It wasn't until she saw Charles Xavier on the news that it all clicked for her. When he said the word mutant, everything changed for her. She went to try and meet him, only for her plane to crash, ending that life. 

In her third life, she dedicated herself to biology and sought out a cure for the X-Gene, achieving as much only for it to go horribly wrong when Mystique and Destiny, a character who died in Fall of the Mutants (1988) and was last seen in Necrosha (2010), appear and murder all of her fellow scientists. Destiny tells Moira that she knows what her abilities are and that if she continues down a path that could lead to the extinction of mutants, Destiny will always be there to stop her. She tells her that the only path to stop this cycle of reincarnation is to do whatever she can to help mutant kind. 

As a reminder, Destiny has Pyro slowly burn Moira alive so that she never forgets what it will be like to die at her hands.

From here, Moira becomes a radical, leading lives that take her away from Xavier's dream and push her further into darkness. Everything becomes a lesson in repeating the past, however. At first she lives the normal life and history that we already know. Forming a school for gifted youth, the schism between Magneto and Charles, The X-Men and eventually Charles' and mutantkind's death at the hands of Sentinels.

In the life after that, she shows Charles her past lives and turns him into a radical, managing to take over America before Sentinels kill them again. The next sees her kill the Trask family line, only for someone else to design Sentinels instead. She aligns with Magneto or Apocalypse in different lives, all reaching similar or even worse endings.

Eventually, she realizes that there's only one path that she hasn't truly tried: Embracing the dream and making it real. This is the House of X timeline.

We've seen Moira passively protect mutants, but never engaged with Charles in a way that could truly help him. With knowledge of past events, the two can find a path forward that would not only save mutants, but propel their evolution farther. I believe that's why Charles has sought to UNITE everyone. Apocalypse, Magneto, Mystique, Mister Sinister, all of mutantkind under one banner to make the lives of all better. It's certainly a dream, but Moira MacTaggert is the linchpin that makes that dream a reality.

She's always been one of the X-Men's smartest and loyal friends. With her help, her genius behind Charles' vision there's no way that the House of X can fall. It's very telling that every path that utilizes violence or tries to eradicate one side has always lead to ruin. It's even more telling that even the peaceful path requires some bit of strong arming, but if that's what it takes to get humans to stop killing mutants, then it really doesn't matter. Charles will have peace between the two sides and Moira is more than willing to embrace this beautiful new path.

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Courtney Rush in Monster Brawl (2011)

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Monster Brawl (2011)

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Earth’s Mightiest Retrospective Ep 24: “This Hostage Earth”

(Directed by Sebastian Montes, Written by Michael Ryan, Original Airdate: June 12, 2011)

This episode marks the beginning of the end for Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes season one, as Zemo and Enchantress’s plans for the Masters of Evil take the next step. Amora begins the episode retrieving the items that will drive the rest of this episode, the Norn Stones, which Zemo believes will help him finally conquer Earth. Meanwhile, Iron Man gives Thor new information about a way to get him back to Asgard, which begins with an awkward “as you know” exposition dump about Thor’s current dilemma. This conversation gets briefly cut away from to focus on Hank leaving the team again, despite Jan’s insisting he stay. He still blames himself for Ultron’s actions. The exposition marathon doesn’t stop there.

Most of this episode’s first half concerns establishing or reaffirming rules that will be important to how the remainder of this episode and the finale storyline will play out. When Tony finishes explaining his plan to get Thor home, Cap explains how Red Skull used a similar machine back in “Meet Captain America.” Then that leads into another info dump from Thor about the forces connecting the rest of the Nine Realms to Earth. Which finally leads to them discovering how seven of the eight points that connect Earth to those realms are giving off magical energy as they speak. The heroes play right into the Masters of Evil’s plans. All seven of them individually go to the seven points where the magic is coming from and each get ambushed by a member of the Masters protecting a Norn Stone as they break down the barriers between Earth and the other realms connected to Asgard.

Wasp deals with Abomination in the arctic, mostly evading the gamma-monster’s punches rather than directly fighting him. She eventually gets an assist in stopping the villain from a returned Giant Man. Hawkeye fights Chemistro in the jungle, though Clint has no idea who the villain is (“How can you not remember? You punched me in the face!”/“That doesn’t narrow it down.”) Iron Man fights the Living Laser in a cave, the energy villain too fast for him to fight directly. Black Panther confronts Wonder Man in a graveyard by trying to reason with the reluctant villain while keeping his claws at the ready behind his back. Hulk gets into an all-out brawl with Skurge the Executioner in the middle of a lake. Captain America fights Crimson Dynamo in what look like the remains of the same castle where he fought the Red Skull, never stated as such so I can’t be certain.

Thor fights against the two who’ve been pulling everyone’s strings the whole time, Zemo and Enchantress. With the rest of his teammates all struggling against their opponents and communications between them cut off, the God of Thunder finds himself caught in the power struggle between the two archvillains. Zemo give him more trouble than expected thanks to enchanted weapons that can harm the Asgardian. Thor ends up in the bonds of Enchantress’s spells to watch while she unleashes the full power of the Norn Stones to bring Midgard* back into alignment with the other realms. The signs of this become apparent around the other Avengers and even to a few of the other Masters of Evil, unaware of what the Norn Stones were for. Elements from the Nine Realms start seeping into their surroundings as Enchantress continues weaving her spell. While she does her work, Thor tells Zemo not to trust anything Enchantress promised him. The Baron had a plan for that all along as he puts a mind control collar around the Asgardian spellcaster’s neck, telling her to make sure any forces coming to Earth will be loyal to him.

Thor manages to get Mjolnir back before Zemo can kill him and defeats the villain, freeing a weakened Enchantress in the process. Once communications are back up, he tells the other Avengers what they need to do once they get rid of the villains they’re fighting, destroy the Norn Stones to stop the spell before it’s irreversible. Each Avenger finally deals with their villains in their own way, the most notable being Black Panther talking Wonder Man into retreat, Hulk taking Executioner’s axe for himself and Iron Man absorbing Living Laser’s energy before launching him into space. They destroy the seven Norn Stones and save Earth from an invasion of mythic monsters. However, when JARVIS scans for any signs of the team, he finds nothing. Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are no longer on Earth. The episode ends as Thor wakes up in the throne room of Odin’s palace in Asgard to find Loki in the seat of power.

“This Hostage Earth” operates as a bit of a misdirection for what conflicts it starts bringing full circle. It plays mostly as another Avengers vs The Masters of Evil story, until the scope of Enchantress’s plan comes into play. The Avengers fighting individually against the villains make some of the tenser battles we’ve had all season. Then the resolution to this conflict brings us into the setup for the rest of EMH season one’s final story.

We’ll get more into that next time as we catch up with the Avengers scattered across the Nine Realms.

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