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buckybarnesss ¡ 2 months ago
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wade calling logan baby girl as a term of endearment and logan being one perfectly fine with it and two being into it is canon to me
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carolinesiede ¡ 21 days ago
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Reflecting on my 2024
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As someone with an obsessive personality, I’ve learned that the only way to get myself out of a rabbit hole is to just keep on digging deeper until I finally get sick of it. And for the past two years, I think my obsessive rabbit hole has been… running away from my problems. After a rocky 2021, I got my first ever truly high-paying contract gig just as The A.V. Club was imploding. So when that gig ended suddenly at the end of 2022, I was left with a full bank account, no regular freelance work, and absolutely no idea what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
So, naturally, I decided to make up for lost time with all the traveling I never got to do when I was living paycheck to paycheck as a freelancer for the first 8 years of my career. Across 2023 and 2024 I went to Disneyland twice, saw the Eras Tour three times, enjoyed a lovely family reunion in Palm Springs, spent a glorious week in London, visited the mountains of Boone, North Carolina, and took a spontaneous trip to Toronto. I also found the time to reorganize my apartment, reconnect with friends I’d lost touch with during the pandemic, and take on copyediting gigs outside of the world of cultural criticism. Most importantly, I found myself actually able to enjoy the things I was doing, unlike in 2023 where my mental health felt far more frantic.
Along the way a funny thing happened. I started to realize that I actually like being a film and TV critic—not just because it’s the career path I fell into out of college but because it’s something I find a lot of value and purpose and enjoyment in as a (newly) 35-year-old. It’s a realization I sort of came to last year, as I celebrated the first six months of Girl Culture’s existence. But I think I needed to really get sick of running away before I could realize just how much I enjoy the online world I’ve built for myself over the past decade.
It certainly helps that The A.V. Club is back in my life again. After Paste bought the company and rehired the wonderful Danette Chavez as editor-in-chief in July, I made the leap to return as well. That includes launching my brand-new column, Women of Action, in which I dig into the history of women-driven action movies one film at a time—a fun shift from all the rom-com writing I used to do in my old column When Romance Met Comedy.
In this second phase of my career, however, I’m trying not to tie my freelance work to just one individual site anymore. I’ve loved getting to write more for the smart, funny folks at The Daily Beast throughout 2024. I was also thrilled to start writing for The Boston Globe at the end of the year as well. I got to contribute to IndieWire’s 2024 critics poll of the best movies of the year recently. And I really can’t say enough good things about the community Myles McNutt has built at Episodic Medium, where I got to write weekly reviews of Echo, Doctor Who, Agatha All Along, and the new sitcom St. Denis Medical—assignments that are crucial to giving me a sense of structure and financial stability in the wild, weird world of freelancing.
This was also my first full year running my Substack Girl Culture and I’m really proud of the work I did there and the community I’m continuing to build with my readers. My goal was to publish at least one piece per month and I managed to write 19 reviews/features, plus a reflection on 2023 and a gymnastics schedule (remember the Olympics?!?). I wrote about big movies like Wicked, Deadpool & Wolverine, and It Ends With Us; tackled trending TV shows like Bridgertonand Emily In Paris; covered classics like It Happened One Night; weighed in on Taylor Swift’s latest album;and even got accredited to cover the Chicago International Film Festival on behalf of the site—a welcome dose of legitimacy for this burgeoning creative project. And while I kicked off 2024 not knowing exactly what I wanted Girl Culture to be, I’m heading into this year brimming with ideas for projects I want to take on. (Let’s just say some Disney princesses might be on the docket…)
I also want to take a moment to say how deeply grateful I am for all of you who support the work I do at Girl Culture. Though freelancing is my ideal way to work, it’s a hard way to make a living, even when I’m regularly getting published at various sites. I earn somewhere between $150-$300 for every full-length piece I write—including research-heavy projects that take days to work on. So even when I have a “full” workload, it’s obviously quite hard to get that to add up to a full income. Having Girl Culture as another piece of the puzzle has been a huge help this year. If you’d like to support the newsletter financially, you can become a paid subscriber here. Or you can always just share your favorite pieces with your friends! That really means a lot too and is one of the main reasons I’m committed to keeping my writing there free to all.
Of course, the woes of freelancing are nothing compared to the many horrifying problems in the world right now. I’ve spent much of this year thinking about the genocide in Gaza, the war in Ukraine, the ever-growing reality of climate change, the terrifying state of American politics, the impact of Hurricane Helene, and—as I write this—the devastating fires in LA. I also lost two beloved “grown-ups” in my life this year and navigating that grief alongside the even deeper grief of their immediate families has been a reminder of how important sensitivity, empathy, and community truly are. That’s the energy I want to bring into 2025, balanced with the righteous fury we need to make true political change.
With that, I’ll leave you with wishes for a happy new year (if that’s still something we say mid-January) and a roundup of all the major writing and podcasts I did in 2024. If you’d like to support my work somewhere other than Substack, you can find me on Kofi, PayPal, or Venmo, and follow me on Instagram, Letterboxd, and Bluesky. And for a little glimpse into the diary of my life, here are similar year-end wrap-ups I did for 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019,2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013!
Girl Culture
Reflecting on 2023
My 21 Favorite Rom-Coms Since 2010
Random thoughts on ‘Anyone But You’
Taylor Swift didn’t release the breakup album people expected
'The Idea of You' stays on the right side of ridiculous
On binging 'Bridgerton'
How a 90-year-old romantic comedy changed the genre forever
The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader conundrum
'Deadpool & Wolverine' and the current state of the MCU
Your full Olympic Gymnastics schedule
‘It Ends With Us’ blossoms in its smallest moments
Wait, is ‘Emily In Paris’ good now?
More is less in the uneven legacy sequel ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’
A guide to all the Audrey Hepburn homages in 'Emily In Paris'
'Joker: Folie Ă  Deux' only has itself to blame
A moment with Gavin Creel
Chicago Film Fest, Dispatch #1: Nightbitch, Maria, and a Christmas short
Chicago Film Fest, Dispatch #2: Blitz, Better Man, and a moving abortion doc
Chicago Film Fest, Dispatch #3: The Brutalist, Memoir of a Snail, and a new Robert Zemeckis experiment
'Wicked' is a little bit of a miracle
The official Girl Culture Christmas movie canon
Women of Action
Sarah Connor redefined the female action hero forever
Jennifer Lopez finally had Enough in her schlocky action thriller
Wonder Woman was a beacon of hope during a dark political time
One of the best action movies of the ’90s is a Disney princess musical
The A.V. Club
The Umbrella Academy's dance sequences are its greatest legacy
Sophie Turner officially enters her grown-up era with Joan
Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth share the world’s most mellow romance in Lonely Planet
Dallas meets Downton Abbey in Hulu’s soapy British drama Rivals
Wicked’s best scene is a wordless dance number
The 25 best TV shows of 2024
The Daily Beast
Hillary Clinton Politics Get a Dose of CW Energy With ‘Girls on the Bus’
Christian Slater Is an Epic Bloodthirsty Ogre in New ‘Spiderwick Chronicles’
‘Longing’: Richard Gere’s Grief Drama Will Have You Mourning His Career
‘Land of Women’: Eva Longoria’s New Show Is ‘Under the Tuscan Sun’ With Mobsters
The Wild Highs, Lows, and Absurdities of Being ‘K-Pop Idols’
Reviews see-this From Hillary Clinton to ‘Heroin Chic’: The Secrets of ’90s ‘Vogue’
‘Brilliant Minds’: Zachary Quinto Plays a TV Doctor With Face Blindness
'The Remarkable Life of Ibelin': The Netflix Movie That Is Making Everyone Cry
‘The Diplomat’ Makes a Strong Case for Being the New ‘West Wing’
The Boston Globe
'Bad Sisters' is back, but some of the magic is gone
Grab your hot cocoa: These holiday movies deliver sweet romance
The top 10 TV shows of 2024, according to Globe critics
Block Club Chicago
Paralympian Katy Sullivan Becomes A ‘Badass’ Richard III At Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Podcasts/Radio
Cinematic Universe Podcast: Tick, Tick... Boom!
CBC Radio, Day 6: The Umbrella Academy’s dance numbers
CBC Radio, Day 6: The ending of The Eras Tour(which also got turned into a TikTok)
Episodic Medium
Echo
Doctor Who
The Umbrella Academy
Agatha All Along
St. Denis Medical
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kentochronicles ¡ 4 years ago
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***SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 5 OF WANDAVISION***
HOLY SHITE MY MIND IS BLOWN
TOMMY AND BILLY CRYING
“Do you want me to take that again?” “Take it from the top?”
Agnes knows ! Tiger - Ralph
“Dark liquor” Vision being concerned
Billy and Tommy aged up?!
I DO NOT TRUST HAYWARD
SCARLET WITCH - TALKING ABOUT HOW WANDA DOESN’T HAVE A CODENAME
SIS STRAIGHT UP TOOK VISIONS CORPSE
HEX — HER POWERS GET REFERRED TO AS HEX POWERS SOMETIMES IN THE COMICS
CAPTAIN MARVEL REFERENCE
NORM SAYING NONE OF IT IS REAL
SPARKY THE DOG - VISION HAD A STAND ALONE AND STOLE A DOG
HER ACCENT
LAGOS
SHE DOESNT KNOW HOW ANY OF THIS STARTED IN THE FIRST PLACE
EVAN PETERS AS QUICKSILVER
DARCY GOING “SHE RECAST PIETRO?” MOOOD
X-MEN, START TO THE MULTIVERSE?!
WANDA CAN’T BE THE ONLY ONE CONTROLLING IT
IS MONICA MAD AT CAROL???
MONICA X DARCY?! WHAT A POWER COUPLE THAT WOULD BE
SIS REALLY ENDGAME - ENDGAME ENDED WITH TONY’S FUNERAL AND WANDA PROBS WENT STRAIGHT FROM THERE AND STOLE HER DEAD BF’S CORPSE (can’t really blame her, it looked like they were trying to experiment on Vis and could it be Hayward behind it?)
WHO WAS THAT ENGINEER THAT MONICA WAS GOING TO CONTACT?
BABY VISION
AND AGNES DEFINITELY KNOWS SOMETHING
DARCY FINALLY GOT HER COFFEE
SO VIS SAID THAT WANDA COULD’VE MADE EVERYTHING SUBCONSCIOUSLY AND THAT OVER TIME SHE BECAME AWARE OF IT, AND SIS DEFO HAS SOME CONTROL BUT IT’S NOT ALL HER. I THINK AGNES IS AGATHA HARKNESS AND EITHER MEPHISTO IS BEHIND IT OR IT’S NIGHTMARE AND THEY’VE MAYBE POWERED UP NIGHTMARE
***FURTHER UPDATES AND EASTER EGGS***
Auntie Agnes and Agnes saying she has a few tricks up her sleeve - we should definitely take note of that seeing as Agnes definitely has something to do with the whole situation
Wanda and Vision’s house changed again, being inspired by Family Ties, possibly Full House and Growing Pains
“Do you want me to take it from the top?” It seems as though when someone, this time Vision, steers away from the script, things either reset themselves or people become aware to some capacity, although Agnes probably already knows
Speaking of Growing Pains - It had a spin off called “Just the 10 of Us” in which the director for Wandavision, Matt Shakman, was apart of the cast - and seemingly also inspired the theme song for this week
We should definitely keep an eye on Monica and her potential for powers. With Maria last episode revealed to have gone by the name ‘Photon’ (which is a name that Monica uses as one of her aliases in the comics) and could inspire Monica’s name as she develops her powers - those scans didn’t look 100% normal. Monica has also used the Captain Marvel monicker in the comics
Wanda’s energy field and such being referred to as “Hex” short for Hexagon, could be a little nod to the comics where Wanda’s powers are sometimes called Hex powers
She’s never been referred to as the Scarlet Witch on the big screen - and it seems as though she soon may earn that code name
So we now know that Wanda stole Vision’s corpse from S.W.O.R.D, but did she actually re animate him fully? He’s still got the gem in the centre of his forehead, but the last time he had it was in Infinity War where it promptly got ripped out by Thanos - so has Wanda found her own way of reanimating him and he’s alive or is he dead and just a trick of the mind - though from other trailers/previews, Vis is seen trying to and looks successful at leaving Wanda’s barrier
They had a little call back to Captain America: Civil War with the Sokovia Accords, which were targeting the Avengers in general but were created when Wanda lost control of her powers and killed civilians
A little joke towards Vis as playing “Father Knows Best” in their little suburbia - Which was a sitcom that ran for 200 episodes in the 50’s
Sparky ! A little nod to the little green dog from the Walta and King comics run for Vision and unfortunately soon meets the same fate 💔
A little nod to Endgame when we hear from Monica that Wanda definitely could’ve taken down Thanos by herself had Thanos not rained fire - and Jimmy arguing that Captain Marvel could’ve just as easily done it - which leaves Monica with an angry look on her face
Good ol’ dial up internet
Can Vis “save” the residents of Westview? He can still seemingly interact with people’s minds, with or without the mind stone - Norm soon comes out of his trance as Vis snaps him out of it and asks to call his sister and that he has to save them all from “her” - now this “her” could be Wanda...but it could also be Agnes and then Vis shuts him down soon enough again and Norm goes back to his sit com self
Billy and Tommy are fully aware, or at least suspect Wanda’s abilities - after asking her to bring back Sparky from the dead and speaking of Billy and Tommy - could they be semi permanent fixtures in the MCU, it would help to introduce the Young Avengers eventually. They'll do Young Avengers at some point since Kang is supposed to be a thing in the third Ant-Man.
Teddy, unfortunately, I don't think will be here for a bit (I really hope he is though!). I think the guy they hired that everyone is rumoring to be Teddy might just be an episode about Billy coming to terms with his sexuality and Wanda and Vis learning to accept it in the way that era of tv they're in would go about with that kind of episode and the dude is just a dude - but again, I really hope it’s Teddy 😭
Wanda leaves the hex after a mini missile/plane tries to shoot at her - and she’s in her Scarlet Witch costume and is seemingly mostly back to her “normal self”, which includes her accent !
Lagos brand paper towels - “For when you make a mess you didn’t mean to” - a nod to Civil War again in which Wanda accidentally blew up a building in Lagos and caused the Sokovian accords to come to fruition
The mail man again - I also think he was in the commercial but anywho - “Your mom won’t let him go far” similar to “Much like she won’t let anyone leave” a potential nod to Wanda or Agnes not letting anyone leave?
“We can’t reverse death” and yet she brought Vision back - keeping in mind that he’s an android but still a little foreshadow to what happened at the end of the ep? Better yet, could Pietro coming back be a distraction for Wanda? Agnes or whoever introducing someone that Wanda lives in hopes that she won’t go full on breakdown superpowers or just to give her an attachment to Westview even more and make her not want to leave at all
“She recasted Pietro” EVAN ! I’m so pumped for this - it seems this could turn into the X-Men making their debut earlier than expected possibly? In any case, it’s a nice little Easter Egg to the previous Fox franchise of X-Men movies where Evan played Peter Maximoff “Quicksilver” alongside James McAvoy as Prof X, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and so many others - and with Deadpool being confirmed as Disney’s first R rated film, it seems Mutants are definitely on their way to the MCU
Agnes is definitely Agatha or a gender bent Nightmare
The way Billy shed himself and Tommy up was scary - definitely a little nod to his powers coming in
Multiple different perspectives of Wanda saying that Monica left
Red Hex dialled up to around light sources (computer, window, etc.)
Vision mentions reading Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man - which could refer to Mutants entering the MCU, Mutants being superior to humans
Agnes calls herself Auntie Agnes - in episode 2 during the title sequence in the grocery store there’s a product called ‘Auntie A’s Kitty Litter’
Agnes refers to herself as a Tiger and in the episode, there’s a Tiger on the dining table in the kitchen - could that be a listening device, her eyes and ears?
There are no other children in Westview - Billy and Tommy are immune because they have no prior trauma
Elizabeth Olsen’s photos are real and slightly altered with Sokovian flags in the background
In the birthday shot of Billy and Tommy, they have ‘1,2,3,4,5’ candles all on one cake
In the holiday photos, Vision goes from Turkey to Easter Bunny, to Santa and progressively gets more unhappy - realising he no longer wants to play along in Wanda’s Hex
During Monica’s callbacks to seeing Wanda’s pain inside her head, we see a new shot of Wanda crying - it looks like it’s around the time she stole Vision’s corpse, as the outfit she’s wearing is very similar, if not the same - could this be an after shot of when she’s trying to bring Vision back?
During the scene where we see the footage of Wanda stealing Vision’s corpse, the S.W.O.R.D logo that appears on the table has 8 stars around the rim of the logo but then has a 9th one in the middle - could this be a little Easter Egg to the nine realms of the Cosmos? And there’s also a map showing Cape Canaveral, could that be where S.W.O.R.D’s headquarters are?
Wanda and Pietro were born in 1989 to Irina and Oleg Maximoff - who were killed in an air raid when the twins were 10. In the comics, Wanda and Pietro were raised by Django and Maria Maximoff, before their true parentage was revealed as being the children of Magneto, however, in the comics this has been retconned so that Wanda and Pietro are no longer Mutants and the High Evolutionary had just disguised them as Mutants (something I think they should undo tbh - MARVEL, PLEASE MAKE WANDA AND PIETRO MUTANTS AGAIN!!!)
Speaking of the air raid, that was also referenced in Age of Ultron by Pietro and Wanda - “We were 10 years old, having dinner the four of us. And the first shell hits 2 floors below, makes a hole in the floor” - was the beeping Stark toaster be what that was referring to?
WHIH reappears for a brief cameo as the news service in the MCU - and Hayward cuts off Jimmy as he was trying to defend Wanda’s reputation, in which Jimmy then turns to Darcy and says “I try not to speak ill of people” Darcy then follows up with “Then allow me, Hayward’s a-“ and then she’s cut off by a shot back to Hayward saying the word “Terrorist” which would make sense as it seems with Vision’s corpse, he may have been trying to make sentient weapons and by subverting Vision’s will and blaming Wanda of doing the same. In the footage shown of Wanda stealing Vision’s remains, we see Vision broken up into parts and S.W.O.R.D seems to be experimenting on him and this seems to be the robotics/nanotech project that Hayward was referring to. Monica asks Hayward about the footage saying “When was this?” to which Hayward replies saying “9 days ago. Maximoff stormed our facility, stole Vision’s body and resurrected him” - this would mean that Wanda took Vision 2 weeks after the events of Endgame, about a week before Monica returned to S.W.O.R.D and Hayward didn’t tell her any of this and when he sent her in there, he knew exactly what he was doing - with her reputation after Civil War, this makes it easier for Hayward to paint her as the villain.
Back in Westview, Tommy wears red and Billy wears green - which are the colours that Wiccan and Speed wear in the comics, respectively. And it’s also the colours that Wanda and Vision are known for and appears quite a lot in their wardrobes
More in regards to Sparky, he was the synthezoid dog in Tom King’s run of Vision - the story being that he was originally a dog named Zeke who unfortunately passed away after digging up the Grim Reaper’s corpse and getting zapped. The Grim Reaper’s helmet appears during the title sequence of Episode 2 in the floorboards. Could Sparky have been trying to dig up a similar thing when he was caught by Agnes and consequently killed?
Monica mentions that she knows this aerospace engineer, they’re never shown but she is seen texting them. Could it be Reed Richards a.k.a Mr Fantastic? Hayward did mention that some astronauts used to work for S.W.O.R.D before a mission went haywire - though it seems a bit lacklustre to introduce such highly anticipated characters this way. Could it instead be the Skrull daughter of Talos that Monica befriended at the end of Captain Marvel? She mentioned that they had extraterrestrial allies in episode 4 working with her and Fury as apart of S.W.O.R.D - in the Spanish subtitles they use the feminine articles for this engineer - so I think it’s more likely to be Talos’s daughter
The board that we saw in Episode 4 now includes the mailman, drivers license and all - could he be Jimmy’s missing witness?
The tension in the room after Jimmy references Carol is similarly seen when in Spider-Man: Far From Home, where Peter asks Skrull Fury/Talos “How about Captain Marvel?” To which Talos replies “Don’t involve her name”. Fury, Monica and Talos were all on the side of the Skrulls by then end of Captain Marvel and the space station that Fury was on maybe apart of S.W.O.R.D. So did Carol betray them?
A slight reference to Captain America: The First Avenger is made when Monica pulls a Peggy Carter and shoots at something to see if it’s bulletproof, in Peggy’s case it was the iconic Captain America shield and in the case of Monica, it was her clothes that she was wearing after Wanda threw her out of the Hex
Abilash (Norm) never states that Wanda is the one that Vision has to save them from, it’s just “her” - could this instead be Agnes?
When Billy is training Sparky to sit, he puts the treat by his ear up to his temple - a future reference that Billy will one day share the same powers as his mum?
During the scene in which Wanda leaves the Hex briefly, she turns the guns onto Hayward but none are trained on Monica - she may still trust Monica slightly, whereas with Hayward, she slightly more pissed off because of what he was doing to Vision’s remains. And turning a bunch of guns on the people you don’t trust? Like father, like daughter as Magneto pulls a similar move in one of the X-Men films - Hopefully, the big cameo they keep teasing will be Ian McKellan as Magneto or the Magnus of this House of M adaptation
During when Agnes “found” Sparky, she says he died from eating too many leaves from her plants - in the Tom King Vision run, one of Vision’s kids ends up killing Sparky and sees inside his stomach that there’s a plant that Agatha Harkness grows in her garden
All the names that appear during the credits that Wanda tries to run to end the show and to stop Vision from talking are names of people who work on the actual Wandavision show itself
When Evan Peter’s version of Quicksilver shows up, he says “Does a long lost bro get to squeeze his sister to death or what?” I DO NOT TRUST THIS PIETRO - Similar to Wandavision, the Fox X-Men movies moved up decade by decade - First Class was in the 1960s, Days of Future Past was in the 1970s, Apocalypse was in the 1980s and Dark Phoenix was in the 1990’s - which would make even more sense as MCU! Pietro wasn’t born until 1989, whereas Peter was active during the 1980s. I reckon that this Pietro is Jimmy’s missing witness, Agnes’s husband Ralph and is disguising itself as a comforting presence to Wanda as Vision no longer brings comfort and is trying to bring Wanda back to reality - and when he shows up, the mirror in the background behind Wanda is slightly distorted but his hand looks red and in the shot as well, there seems to be a grey arm reaching towards Pietro - in the shot itself behind and in front of Wanda, there’s nothing there but in the mirror, there is! Either way, I do not trust this Pietro and it’s just an entity trying to give Wanda the last thing that could make her happy - but it won’t last, as everything is already breaking down around her.
I seriously seriously love this show so much 💙
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putris-et-mulier ¡ 8 years ago
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Deadpool & Rogue are going to be the next "it" couple
Since the beginning of Uncanny Avengers people speculated that Deadpool and Rogue were going to fall in love and so far they've just become good friends but now is a pretty good opportunity to turn that into a romantic relationship.
I've never made it is secret that I love Rogue and that when she isn't with Gambit my heart is broken. Unless it's bad writing I'm okay with seeing them get together with other people because they have an open relationship and if anyone could do polyamory, they could.
So Uncanny Avengers begins and I'm very suspicious of Rogue being on a team with Deadpool because they didn't seem like a good combination. They can certainly relate, they have a lot of common trauma and similar issues but Deadpool relies on humor to deal with it and Rogue doesn't laugh much, she shoves all her pain down and uses it to fuel her determination while fighting on the front lines and she's always fighting on the front lines.
Another thing I wondered about was Rogue being the team leader. Rogue isn't exactly a leader. Storm is a natural leader, she can handle the burden of being a huge population's only hope, she can command an audience of militants, and there's just something about her that demands respect and loyalty. 
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Rogue just really likes getting in and getting the job done, politics is not her thing.
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And she works really well when someone like Storm is calling the shots
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Awesome.
and Rogue hates the Avengers. She likes individuals that are and have been members but she was one of the very first mutants to ever fight them and she has lived through every one of their attempts to aid the genocide of mutants
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but Deadpool is super excited!
Rogue and Deadpool have never really met but they have run into each other in passing so Rogue does what everyone does and judges Deadpool on his reputation. Meanwhile, she secretly has been poisoned with the Terrigen Mist so her body is slowly becoming deformed while she slowly dies from a terminal disease
That's something Deadpool has lots of experience with so you know from the get go that they are going to at least commiserate
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Like I said, Rogue works well as a tank or free agent but she has hard time leading. On their very first mission everyone but Deadpool ignored her orders and went off to do their own thing.
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Deadpool seems to be one of the few people who understood and cared that Rogue being leader or even on the Avengers at all came with a lot of subsequent dangers because of racism
Deadpool also isn't a natural leader, like Rogue he works best when you just tell him where to go and let him do his thing. But he's loyal and even though it seems impossible he is more upset about casual racism toward her than she is.
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Cable shows up with bad news from the future as he is want to do and he is a leader, a leader both Rogue and Deadpool have worked with. He's also someone that Deadpool loves and respects immensely. Rogue isn't opposed to Cable taking over but before she entrusts him with her teammates lives she wants to know what his objectives are and surprisingly Deadpool agrees with her
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It's no surprise that the team is a mess. Captain America stuck a bunch of people of different races together, some pulled from segregated communities, to sell diversity to the media but as always he doesn't exactly understand racism and the team fractures. Cable, Rogue, and Deadpool stick together and actually work behind Captain America's back (which is huge for Deadpool) to find a cure for this poison that was exterminating mutants and stop the Red Skull who had taken the deceased Charles Xavier's brain and was using it to take over the world.
Rogue and Deadpool are actually really good teammates, Deadpool even does things to remind Rogue of home and her family (the X-Men)
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(that's a signature X-Men finishing move Colossus and Wolverine use when they are tag teaming)
they even make their own signature move
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and they are badass
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Rogue puts her faith in Deadpool that he will have her back but still remained wary because he was still Deadpool and she still has all of her baggage and trust issues but suddenly the whole world changes.
Everyone is human, can't remember ever being superheroes, and the world runs like a 50s sitcom. Everyone but Rogue is happy. She's never lived in a world where at least one person wasn't constantly trying to abuse or kill her so even though she doesn't know what's going on she's suspicious of peace
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No one knows Rogue's real name so if someone isn't calling her Rogue they usually just call her a few names that sound like it fits and for some reason Rogue has always been fine with that but in this instance it's supposed to be weird
All the X-Men and the kids at their schools have extensive training in blocking psychic/telekinetic/mind control etc. so they can keep their privacy in all of the mutant compounds despite the fact that the biggest gossips are always psychic. Also so shit like this doesn't happen. Rogue arguably has the most training in this for someone who has no psychic powers and through her safeguards she makes herself remember everything and now she has to go find everyone else that is supposed to be on her/their team.
Luckily one of them, Johnny Storm, lives next door so she reminds him that he can control fire by lighting him on fire. Also, he thought his name was Chet
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Rogue doesn't give a fuck
Everyone is rounded up pretty quickly and Rogue wakes people up her own way
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(Ms. Marvel isn't on her team but she was bicycling by so Rogue snagged her)
No one knows where Deadpool is so Cable, and this is hilarious, has been on so many adventures with him he knows he just has to present an opportunity and Deadpool will appear so he calls 911 and Deadpool immediately shows up in a fire truck 
but he doesn't look like himself
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Every time Deadpool gets changed into his ideal body he looks like a 70s porn*
So Wade Wilson lives in this pseudo-universe as a "handsome" able-bodied man who is everyone's hero, a firefighter. It's kind of extremely sad and Rogue takes special care with him, much to Johnny's chagrin
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I think it's notable that Rogue just has to tell him something is going on and he immediately remembers who he is. Besides he and Rogue, it seems hard for everyone to accept that this picturesque life isn't real. The both of them grew up experiencing the worst of humanity (we don't really know about Rogue's childhood but she was raised into early adulthood by her mother's, so it still couldn't have been super easy considering they were all mutants and also a queer family in the 70s) they are both also very isolated in their own way, a peaceful happy world is so beyond their comprehension so it's artifice would be easy to deconstruct.
You don't see how Cable comes to but I'm pretty sure he immediately was like "not this shit again"
The current mutant genocide is getting worse and Captain America tries to use how much Deadpool admires and loves him to be his informant but Deadpool remained loyal to Rogue and Cable
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Captain America wants them to trust the government to save their race to which they said "LOL" and he and Cable fight but Rogue gets fed up
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Deadpool tries to explain to Captain America that he had no choice but to side with the X-Men because his daughter is a mutant and is going to die 
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Deadpool takes the dressing down but Rogue defense him
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They are both fired but they still stick together to discuss what they should do and Rogue suggest… Well, she suggests that they go rogue
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Rogue isn't a great leader but she's really great at heading side missions or defecting to get the job done with the more hands-on approach. This is up Deadpool's alley so they take off for adventure.
And one protecting the other has become my fetish
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We just recently got the conclusion of Rogue, Deadpool, and Cable's team up objective. The Red Skull is using Charles Xavier's brain to infiltrate everyone's brain 
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and eventually he finds a way to break into to Rogue's mind while she sleeps
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and they made a clubhouse with stuff they took from the Avengers
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So finally the Red Skull has to be confronted for the final battle and it relies on Rogue and Deadpool. No one has the ability to infiltrate Deadpool's mind because his psyche is so shattered so he's immune and Rogue has training to protect her mind and is one of the few people who can actually take him down so they get to it and call in any support they can get
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When the tide turns in the battle Rogue is overtaken by the powers of Charles Xavier's brain and the Red Skull has complete control over her, so he uses her as his personal weapon
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God, I love her
Thankfully Deadpool is used to things failing so he had a plan. Rogue kills Deadpool as much as she can, the Red Skull gets overconfident and let's guard down, then Deadpool sticks an old helmet of Magneto's on Rogue's head. Seems like that should have been the first thing they should have done but Deadpool getting himself kill over and over got her close enough and in a position where she could take the Red Skull down while he was unaware
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But Deadpool had intended to be the one to kill the Red Skull once Rogue incapacitated him but she had hurt him too much
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Deadpool is worried that Rogue is going to take it upon herself to kill the red skull as much as she doesn't want any more blood on her hands but the guy has Charles Xavier's brain inside of him so she goes home and the X-Men play operation
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That's it! That's their whole story so far. So, should they get together?
I'm biased but don't they make the best brOTP? I love their friendship so so much and it's great to see it slowly develop instead of the writers just miraculously having them get along because it's easier for the story.
Do I think they should date?
Hell yes I do.
It is nice to have genuine friendships in comic books, especially between people of different genders, but this is just too good. Because their friendship was such a slow build the sexual tension feels really organic and that's almost impossible to get in a medium like this. They haven't been friends forever and just because it was convenient they didn't suddenly hook up to further the plot. They are significant characters with significant back stories and the relationship doesn't contradict either of those things. They haven't been almost getting together and getting torn apart like you would have to sit through if story of the relationship was just about their romance.
I'm fine if they remain friends but (unpopular opinion) it would be an amazing relationship with a lot of potential between them; a lot of good and a lot of bad potential which makes the best stories. Unfortunately I don't think they will ever get this opportunity for a "slow build" in other books so how long it will remain interesting would depend on the writer. 
And the time schedule.
And whether you guys would buy those issues or not.
Let me know what you think. If you totally hate them together that's cool, I want to hear your perspective. What would you like to happen between them?
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5 Unsung Heroes Who Made Your Favorite Movie Fight Scenes
Not unlike any given trip to IKEA, action movies are chock-full of fights, the difference being that someone has to choreograph all those epic punches and spin-kicks. And since most of us don’t sit through a film’s credits without the promise of, say, Captain America staggering in front of a green screen to advertise a movie that won’t be out for three years, we’d like to take a moment to highlight a few of the cinematic artists who crafted some of our favorite movie fight scenes. Such as …
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Thank Jonathan Eusebio For John Wick, Black Panther, The Avengers, And More
Loosely based on the story of everyone who watched Marley & Me and then angrily punched a hole in their drywall, John Wick (aka Scruffy Matrix) finds Keanu Reeves hitting and shooting his way to get to the baddies who offed his puppy dog. The fantastic action scenes were choreographed by Filipino American martial artist Jonathan Eusebio, who also worked on the sequel (titled John Wick: Chapter 2, perhaps in an effort to make literature seem more action-filled and exciting).
Summit EntertainmentThis time, he’s killing people for ruining all his shirts in the last movie.
Eusebio has done lots of great work, even in movies hardly anyone saw. Like Hitman: Agent 47, an adaptation of the successful video game series in which Mr. Clean has a midlife crisis, becomes a contract killer, and ransacks Donald Trump’s suit closet. Take this scene, wherein the titular Mr. 47 gets knocked onto a subway train, then rolls onto the tracks …
20th Century Fox“Aw, that was my tra-” “Don’t worry, I’ll help you catch it!”
… leading to a deadly bout of hand-to-hand combat that also involves navigating speeding trains and puddles of urine.
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20th Century FoxAt least, we hope that’s only urine …
Eusebio has also worked extensively as either a stunt or fight coordinator in Marvel movies such as Deadpool 2, The Avengers, Doctor Strange, The Wolverine, and the cultural juggernaut that is Black Panther. The latter featured giant battles, an extended car chase, and the only casino brawl in history not caused by booze, money, or Celine Dion tickets.
Marvel StudiosPlus the deadliest use of a wig in a non-Steven-Seagal fight scene.
He also worked on the Expendables series, which is presumably the usual process, albeit with more Metamucil breaks. Perhaps most impressively, he was the uncredited fight coordinator in the obligatory “that escalated quickly” sequence in Anchorman 2. Give this dude his Lifetime Achievement Award already.
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The Guy Who Did They Live Also Turned Matt Damon Into A Badass In The Bourne Series
They Live is John Carpenter’s classic 1988 film about a pair of shades that allow a drifter to see the secret skeleton-faced alien overlords controlling our planet, and until they make a biopic about Bono or David Caruso, no pair of sunglasses will be so damn important in a movie. Perhaps the most memorable part of They Live is an extended fight scene between star and professional wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David, in which they punch each other in a filthy alley for roughly the length of The Eagles’ “Hotel California.”
Universal PicturesThis is your periodic reminder that Piper thought all of this happened for real.
Carpenter delegated the choreography of the scene to his frequent collaborator Jeff Imada, with only the request that “three specific wrestling moves” be a part of it. He doesn’t say which ones, but they probably didn’t involve slamming your opponent into concrete littered with candy wrappers and used condoms.
Universal PicturesIf you go frame by frame, you can see a full pack of bubble gum falling out of his pocket.
But Imada didn’t dissolve into a puddle of water like the aliens at the end of that movie (we think, it’s been a while). His name is on a ton of classic films before and after They Live, including Lethal Weapon, Rambo, Blade Runner, and Charlie Sheen’s magnum opus Hot Shots! Part Deux. More recently, he was the fight choreographer on The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum — two of the ones starring Matt Damon, not his understudy Jeremy Renner.
Universal PicturesAlthough it’s hard to tell who it is with that camerawork.
Imada even did stellar work on otherwise-forgettable movies, such as this epic fight in The Book Of Eli, in which a post-apocalyptic Denzel Washington battles a horde of chainsaw-wielding madmen …
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… or the critically panned but occasionally kickass Green Hornet remake, featuring scenes seemingly meant to gaslight audiences into thinking their popcorn was laced with PCP.
Columbia PicturesOr something else, considering Seth Rogen is in this movie.
A way better fight coordinator than a script picker, Imada has also worked in Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice, After Earth, the Total Recall remake, a couple of Fast & Furious movies, and the Twilight franchise. So if you notice any especially skillful angst-filled werewolf-on-vampire punches, that’s probably due to his expertise.
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The Transporter‘s Corey Yuen Has Been Kicking Asses For Almost 50 Years
The Transporter sounds like a Star Trek spinoff about the exciting lives of those poor saps who spend eight hours a day standing in a windowless room waiting for someone to decide to beam somewhere. But no, it’s a 2002 action movie starring Jason Statham, Qi Shu, and Jason Statham’s bare chest.
20th Century FoxAnd bare head.
Statham stars as Frank Martin, a guy who transports packages somehow even too shady for UPS. Of course, this allows for a multitude of scenes wherein he kicks the crap out of bad guys, and by metaphorical extension, male pattern baldness as a whole.
20th Century FoxThe famous scene where he interrupts a breakdance competition.
The Transporter was co-directed and choreographed by Corey Yuen, who has a laundry list of martial arts movie credits. Or rather, the laundry list of a hotel hosting a bedwetter’s convention, because this guy’s been making movies since the late ’60s, working with luminaries such as Jet Li, Jackie Chan, and Sammo Hung. Yuen’s American directorial debut was No Retreat, No Surrender, which was also the first movie starring Jean Claude Van Damme (unless you count his performance as “Gay Karate Man” a few years earlier).
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Behind the scenes, Van Damme was apparently straight up knocking the other actors unconscious. When Yuen chastised him for breaking character to check whether his scene partner was, you know, still alive, they shot a second take … whereupon Van Damme proceeded to knock him out yet again.
Also in Yuen’s filmography are the ’70s kung-fu flick 7 Grandmasters, featuring glorious swordplay like this …
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… and the friggin’ nuts Badges Of Fury from 2013. Sadly, it isn’t about anthropomorphic badges (or badgers) that are super angry.
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Easternlight FilmsThough that wouldn’t be any less believable than the other scientific laws that govern this movie’s universe.
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Yayan Ruhian And Iko Uwais From The Raid Also Popped Up In Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Like the frustrated daydreams of your apartment building’s super, the Indonesian action hit The Raid (subtitled “Redemption” in the U.S. so audiences wouldn’t think it was about bug spray) found a cop ass-kicking his way through a filthy high-rise — like Die Hard, if John McClane wasn’t a middle-aged former sitcom star. The movie concluded in a monumental fight scene only made better by grabbing a Nintendo controller and hurriedly mashing the buttons.
Sony Pictures Classics*play for full effect*
Written and directed by Gareth Evans, the fight choreography was done by stars Iko Uwais and Yayan Ruhian — who were so unknown at the time that Uwais was working as a “delivery guy for a phone company” when he met Evans. Of course, after the movie’s success, they soon followed it up with The Raid 2 (Re-Redemption?). It too was full of one insane action scene …
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… after another …
Sony Pictures ClassicsThose walls were originally white.
The pair’s post-Raid careers haven’t been as plentiful as you might think. While both of them appeared in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, they disappointingly merely showed up to verbally threaten Han Solo, presumably because Harrison Ford is far too old to get kicked in the face.
Lucasfilm“Hi, we’re here to deliver your space phone book.”
But it turns out that wasn’t the only highly-anticipated sci-fi sequel the Raid guys worked on. They also showed up in Beyond Skyline! You know, the sequel to that alien invasion movie so low-budget that it was filmed in the director’s apartment. But with Uwais and Ruhian on board as actors as well as choreographers, Beyond Skyline has some surprisingly badass scenes …
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… including one where Ruhian gets his arm ripped off by a damn alien and keeps fighting.
Vertical Entertainment“What’s the sound of one hand hacking?”
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Road House Was Authentically Nuts Thanks To Benny “The Jet” Urquidez
Road House is a bonkers ’80s action movie starring Patrick Swayze as a bouncer who works to clean up a corrupt town while also roundhouse-kicking anyone under 21. In one of the most memorable fight scenes in any movie, Swayze has a beachside brawl that ends with him ripping out the other guy’s throat with his bare hands. Warning: The following clip is NSFW, unless you work as a bouncer in Missouri, in which case we have to assume this is business as usual.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer“Come again!”
This cinematic gem was partly the work of fight coordinator Benny “The Jet” Urquidez, a champion kickboxer who somehow managed to forge a career as a tough guy even with an Elton-John-inspired nickname. Urquidez once claimed that he was challenged to a fight to the death in a Hong Kong warehouse. He also claims to have won the fight, but refused to kill, leading to an audience riot. Those deathmatch patrons can be real jerks.
Urquidez did the choreography for many more Hollywood movies, even managing to make Lou Diamond Phillips and Marky Mark seem like martial arts masters in The Big Hit, which concludes — in the most ’90s of fashions — in a fight inside a giant video store.
TriStar PicturesThe fight ends with Wahlberg using AOL disks as ninja stars.
Urquidez also performed in some movies. Here he is tussling with Jackie Chan:
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Golden HarvestHow many of you can say you’ve had your nipples twisted by Jackie Chan? No more than 20.
And you might recognize him from Grosse Pointe Blank as rival hitman Felix La PuBelle, who tries to murder John Cusack at his high school reunion.
Touchstone PicturesWhich, if you’ve ever been to one of those things, would frankly come as a sweet release.
Urquidez landed that gig because he’s John Cusack’s kickboxing teacher, which is apparently a thing John Cusack does to say in shape so he can carry around all his boomboxes.
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