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'Sleeper'


Marvel Universe: Infinite Chrises

Discussion of all Marvel Cinematic Universe related movies and TV shows, including, but not limited to, the Avengers, Captain America, Agent Carter, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Daredevil, Spider-Man, Ant-Man, etc., etc., etc. ad-infinitum.

Discussion of non-MCU Marvel titles like the X-Men or the Fantastic Four is also permitted. Ties to comics may be discussed, but this is not the primary forum for comics discussion (see the Other Media thread).

Spoiler policy: For broadcast TV shows, blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast. For movies and Internet streaming shows, whitefont all plot-related discussion until it's been in wide release two weeks. Posters are encouraged to preface their posts to indicate the subject, particulary if switching subjects.


Steph L. - Jul 09, 2021 7:57:17 am PDT #3436 of 4001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I appreciate that fandom, instead of referring to him as Alligator Loki, has decided on Croki.

Someone on Tumblr referred to alligator!Loki as "Florida Loki," and I may never stop laughing.


Kalshane - Jul 09, 2021 6:18:02 pm PDT #3437 of 4001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Loki has definitely been my favorite of the 3 series so far and it was probably the one I was least interested in when they announced them. Classic Loki filled me with so much glee. My dad had a bunch of different giant paperback collections of Silver Age comics that I used to read when I was a kid (I don't think he has them anymore, but I don't know what happened to them) and Thor made up a good number of them.


-t - Jul 09, 2021 8:04:30 pm PDT #3438 of 4001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

IJWTS I am here for Disney Robin Hood Asgard

And I am grateful for being told that was Frog Thor because I couldn't see who that was on my little screen, just that there was motion.

I had it in my head that the smoke monster would somehow be disappointing because Lost, but no, not at all


Steph L. - Jul 09, 2021 8:25:48 pm PDT #3439 of 4001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I was TOTALLY thinking "Is this the island from Lost???"


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 10, 2021 12:06:18 am PDT #3440 of 4001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

The explanation of the Void doesn't line up with what we're seeing—it's clearly just the variant people/items that are pruned that are ending up there to be disintegrated by the smoke monster, not the entire divergent universes. Maybe once the reset charges eliminate those, the timelines just sort of merge back into the Sacred Timeline?


Jessica - Jul 10, 2021 9:03:58 am PDT #3441 of 4001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Hahahaha I have so effectively erased Lost from my memory that my instinctual reference for the smoke monster was the evil cloud from the 1980s Care Bears movie and/or Ferngully.


Dana - Jul 10, 2021 7:01:41 pm PDT #3442 of 4001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I enjoyed Black Widow.


Steph L. - Jul 10, 2021 8:24:19 pm PDT #3443 of 4001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Florence Pugh was a delight.


Jesse - Jul 11, 2021 6:52:14 am PDT #3444 of 4001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

So next to me in the theater were two guys, one of whom apparently has had no exposure to the MCU at all. Why he came to see this is a mystery. But he was VERY CONFUSED by the beginning of the movie, and then when there was a line about "Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanov are on the run" he asked, "Is Steve Rogers the father????" Oh buddy. He was also VERY LOUD and occasionally his friend would lean over to whisper things to him, but I'm guessing that was their last superhero movie together.

I definitely enjoyed the movie, although I wish it had had a different kind of ending. Like, this story did not need that massive final battle.


Calli - Jul 11, 2021 8:14:36 am PDT #3445 of 4001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I liked that they crammed so much into the penultimate episode of Loki. Sometimes finales are super crowded and the end feels like running into a closed door, emotionally.

I also enjoyed Black Widow. I’d have enjoyed it more after Civil War, but what can you do?