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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Oscar Isaac Cast as Moon Knight

I'm not all too familiar with Moon Knight. I couldn't tell you even all his personas without looking them up. Marc Spector is the only one that comes to mind. But this character has always seemed kind of cool to me and if I were into reading comics, I'm sure I would have done a deep dive at some point. The problem with my connectivity is if someone isn't in film or television or some other media like that, I tend not to know them well enough to know where to start, so I don't get into them. Such is the case with Moon Knight.

So I can't tell you if I think Oscar Isaac will be the best person for the role. What I can say, though, is that Isaac is a great actor and I think he could probably pull off 9 out of 10 roles he's cast in. He's handsome, so he has that down. And if Marvel, who has been so good at casting most people in the MCU, thinks he's the right man for the part, then he's probably the right man for the part. Very cool.

Big Brother All-Stars 2 Finale

My two favorites going into this season were Cody and Enzo, so I'm really happy they ended up in the final two. Cody deserved to win over Enzo, in my mind, but Enzo deserved that second place prize. Big fan of this outcome!

RIP Sean Connery

Sean Connery has passed away at age 90. Over the years, his reputation went downhill due to some controversial opinions (to say the least) and stepping away from Hollywood. But he'll forever be the man who brought James Bond to life, and for that, I think pop culture is forever grateful.

As a near lifelong fan of the series myself, Connery was never my absolute favorite Bond, but the one I would compare everyone else to, since he was the standard.

I want to make some sort of poignant "you only live twice" reference, but it just seems in bad taste. RIP.

The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 1

As underwhelmed as I've been with some of the Star Wars stuff as of late, to downright disappointed to a level where it really dwindled my fandom of the series as a whole, The Mandalorian has been awesome. This first episode was just that - awesome. Taking down a krayt dragon to get its pearl and to set up Boba Fett? So good!!

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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Jared Leto Returning as Joker in Zack Snyder's Justice League

He'll be reprising his role in reshoots. This is good. Whatever they have planned will be interesting since this is a "what if" type of scenario.

Maybe Snyder (who has had plenty of error judgment calls in his own right, mind you) will fix the awful tattoos Joker had and pretend like they don't exist while giving Leto some better material to work with. I feel like he had the potential to be a solid portrayal if things had worked out differently.

Early MCU Characters Returning in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier

It was said that some characters from the early films of the MCU will make a comeback, but not which characters, specifically.

My running theory is that this is going to help set up Thunderbolts and we're going to see either Abomination or, more likely, The Leader, as one of those characters. Then again, we saw the "I'm not Tony Stark" scientist come back as one of Mysterio's crew, so you never really know which people are going to play a bigger part, surprisingly. Hell, the guy Bruce Banner gives pizza to ends up becoming Peter Parker's teacher and we've got Mandarin returning as part of Shang-Chi. Maybe this is going to be something completely out of left field.

Tim Burton's The Addams Family

Tim Burton is creating a new live-action television series of The Addams Family. This is like the fifth adaptation of the characters, or something along those lines. As far as I'm concerned, nothing tops the Christina Ricci and Raul Julia films, which I've been meaning to rewatch as I haven't seen them in probably 20 years.

But hey...maybe it will work. It may be on Netflix, so that could open up a better realm of storytelling than if it were on a network that would tinker around too much.

No Time to Die vs Streaming Platforms

Bloomberg says there's a chance No Time to Die is being sold to a streaming service. MGM says that the film is not for sale.

Frankly, I've given up keeping track of movie release dates. I'm really thinking nothing comes out at all until 2022 at this point, even, which is just horrendous. That, or everyone gets further along the "fuck it" scale and decides to just open everything up and the world collapses while we all goof off for what little time we have left. 

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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Marvel Legacy

Older Marvel films that aren't in the MCU are being classified Legacy titles for Disney+.

I like the name. It differentiates enough but lets people know it's not part of the same connectivity.

The Batman Set in 2019

Set photos have dated The Batman to take place in 2019. Now can we finally stop with the nonsense about this being a 90s film?

The Boys Season 2

I finally got around to finishing season 2 of The Boys. Called a lot of the finale ("I bet they're going to kill Ryan's mom so he'll have to deal with that while growing up" and whatnot).

The show's great, so I'm excited for season 3. I'd like to see Ryan somehow find himself as a member of The Boys. Give me more Esposito, as you can never have enough of him. But really, Homelander is where it's at. He's my favorite character, for sure.

Slow News Week

From my perspective, this was a rather uneventful week. Not much to talk about. As always, I'm sure I'm missing tons of things, so if you have anything in mind you want to pick my brain about, drop a comment below and I'll elaborate!

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Welcome to the first edition of Fanboys Anonymous GAME PLAN, where we take a film, television show or any kind of inspiration and we try to design a video game concept about it.

For the debut, I wanted to go with something on the simpler side in that we already have a template to work around and just need to adapt it in a different way. I knew just the idea, too.

Even as a casual gamer at best, I really enjoyed the first two Marvel: Ultimate Alliance video games and had always wondered what a DC version of it would be. What characters would you be able to select from? What locations would it span? Which villains would you fight?

Thus, I present to you...

THE DC: ULTIMATE ALLIANCE VIDEO GAME

WHAT IS THE TITLE?

Obviously, the title of the game would simply be DC: Ultimate Alliance, if we were going with a direct equivalent. However, assuming DC were to make a game that's as close as possible to this, but not be able to get the rights or want to deal with any trademark/copyright issues, let's think of something else.

I'll spoil some of the story here and say that this isn't going to have parallel dimensions in it, so I'm not going with Crisis on Infinite Earths as its name. That's the sequel, much like how Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 was the Civil War story.

There are a few ideas I think could work, but they should all revolve around either DC Universe or Justice League. Here are some suggestions that all sound quite similar, so you get the idea:

• DC Justice League United
• DC United: Justice League War
• DC: Justice League Crusades
• DC: Justice League Crisis War

My favorite of the bunch is probably DC United: Justice League War. I think you could subtitle the follow-ups as DC United: Crisis on Infinite Earths and such. But this title goes with the theme of this first introduction game and story.

WHAT IS THE STORY?

Simplicity is key. That's why Marvel's first Ultimate Alliance game worked so well. It had tons of characters to pick from, lots of locations, a ridiculous amount of cameos and references, but a simple enough "fight the bad guys who are teaming up against the heroes" plot at its core. Even when it got confusing why Galactus was involved with Loki and Dr. Doom and all, it boiled down to just stopping the villains from taking over the universe.

The same should apply here, and we all know who should be behind this whole thing: The Legion of Doom.

Here's the overall pitch of the story in its raw form, without all the specifics:

The story opens with several cities under attack from a White Martian invasion. We play through the beginning level as different heroes, so we see Superman fighting them off in Metropolis, Batman fighting them in Gotham, etc. As this intro level progresses, Martian Manhunter gets everyone together to stop the invasion and they decide to form the Justice League (and there is a "super friends" joke in there, of course).

Cut to one year later, or a time skip somewhere along those lines. We have a group of our "core founding members" who had formed the Justice League: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, Aquaman, and Martian Manhunter. They discuss how the White Martian invasion got not only them to form their own super group, but that other unions have been forming. There are bigger factions as well as smaller cells of villains who are now teaming together and such. It's not just the Bat Family anymore, as there is an Injustice League of some villain, they know the government has Project Cadmus and Checkmate as well as so-called Suicide Squad (officially Task Force X), Lex Luthor has created Infinity Inc to form the "Everyman Project", Bruce Wayne's public response is OMAC and Brother Eye spearheaded by Maxwell Lord, etc. They've even been hearing rumblings about a so-called Legion of Doom super group they need to be prepared for.

The Justice League has been doing recruitment procedures over time and has expanded its roster to dozens of different subgroups. For example, Dick Grayson is the leader of the Young Justice group called Teen Titans, because he's not only the most trained and best for the job, but he's able to connect with the youth and maintain their innocence.

Ultimately, what this boils down to is that Lex Luthor is working in coalition with Brainiac, Vandal Savage, Ra's al Ghul and several others as an Illuminati-like group called The Light to create the Legion of Doom and connect all their resources so they can take down the Justice League and control the universe. Darkseid is probably not in this group as he's far too dangerous. But we get a general game out of missions where your team has to investigate different attacks on locations, stolen artifacts/weapons, stop military takeovers, etc, just like Ultimate Alliance, with The Light being extinguished (at least for now) and the universe being saved.

LOCATIONS

Throughout the game, different levels take place on different cities, worlds and major DC landmarks, including, but not limited to:

Hero Bases of Operations:

• Watchtower satellite
  
• Hall of Justice
• Happy Harbor and Mount Justice / Secret Sanctuary
  
• Titans Tower
• Bat Cave
• Fortress of Solitude
• Flash Museum
• Oa / Mogo 
• The Quiver (I hate the Arrowcave name)
• Tower of Fate
  

Other Locations:

• Belle Reve
• Blackhawk Island
• Midway City
• Central City / Keystone City - Iron Heights
  
• Gotham City = the city itself, Ace/Axis Chemicals, Amusement Mile, Arkham Asylum, Blackgate
  
• Nanda Parbat
• Metropolis = Daily Planet, Stryker's Island, Suicide Slum
  
• Warworld
• Hall of Doom
• Star City
• Coast City
• Peña Duro in Santa Prisca
• Slabside Island
• Apokolips
• Blüdhaven
• Amnesty Bay / Atlantis
• Fawcett City
• Hub City
• Ivy Town
• Gorilla City
• Smallville
• Kasnia
• Qurac
• Corto Maltese
• Kahndaq
• Markovia
• Rheelasia
• Themyscira
• Source Wall
• Kandor
• Qward
• Rock of Eternity
• Phantom Zone
  
• Speed Force dimension
  

You get the picture.

WEAPONS / ARTIFACTS

Some of the weapons or artifacts that are being stolen throughout the game so the Legion of Doom and other sects can amass power are things like the following:

• Book of Destiny
• Helmet of Nabu
• Kryptonite
• Miraclo
• Mother Boxes
• Phantom Zone Projector
• Spear of Destiny

Transportation between levels for the Justice League is done through Zeta Beam or Boom Tube technology.

VILLAINS

You need to have enemies to fight. Not only would there be generic criminals, robots and so forth, there would also be named characters spread out, just like there is in MUA.

Groups:

• Brainiac robots (my preference is that Brainiac is the Brain Interactive Construct version, not the green alien)
• Checkmate
• Court of Owls 
• Darkseid's forces including parademons, Granny Goodness with the Female Furies, Kalibak, Steppenwolf, etc. Desaad would be in it, but you wouldn't fight him, necessarily.
• Fatal Five
• Fearsome Five
• Flash's Rogues Gallery
• Gorilla Grodd and his forces
• H.I.V.E.
• Injustice League
• Intergang with Bruno Mannheim, Morgan Edge, Whisper A'Daire, etc
• Joker will have a whole circus of clowns and subordinate types like Rag Doll and Professor Pyg's Dollotrons and such
• League of Assassins (I prefer the League of Shadows name, personally)
• Legion of Doom
• Leviathan (maybe)
• Lexcorp robots and Infinity Inc
• Manchester Black and The Elite
• Manhunters
• Nuclear Family (maybe)
• OMAC and Brother Eye under Maxwell Lord's control
• Roulette's underground fighting group
• Royal Flush Gang
• Task Force X / Suicide Squad
• The Ultimen (manufactured superheroes from Cadmus)
• White Martians 
• Yellow Lantern Corps (as well as possibly the Red Lanterns and so on, but maybe there isn't enough room for them in this game)

Boss Fights:

• AMAZO
• Bane
• Bizarro or Cyborg Superman (no need to have both as a boss fight)
• Black Adam
• Black Manta with Ocean Master
• Black Racer
• Brainiac
• Brother Eye
• Deathstroke
• Doomsday
• Eclipso
• General Zod
• Gorilla Grodd
• Joker with Harley Quinn
• Lex Luthor in his kryptonite suit
• Libra
• Lobo
• Mister Mxyzptlk
• Mongul
• Nekron and Black Hand
• Ra's al Ghul and the League of Assassins
• Reverse Flash / Zoom
• Sinestro
• Some kind of mystical threat (Morgaine le Fey, Mordru, Klarion, Enchantress, etc)
• Starro
• Trigon
• Vandal Savage

Other Random Villains (not the big boss of a level, but still could be solo or working together):

• Atomic Skull
• Black Beetle
• Black Spider
• Blockbuster
• Brain and Monsier Mallah
• Captain Boomerang
• Captain Cold
• Cheetah
• Chemo
• Cheshire
• Circe
• Clayface
• Clock King
• Cluemaster
• Copperhead
• Count Vertigo
• Deadshot
• Despero
• Despero
• Doctor Light
• Doctor Polaris
• Doctor Sivana
• Electrocutioner
• Evil Star
• Felix Faust
• Firefly and Firebug
• Gentleman Ghost
• Giganta
• Goldface
• Killer Croc
• Killer Frost
• Killer Moth
• King Shark
• Livewire
• Mad Hatter
• Major Force (partnered with General Wade Eiling)
• Metallo
• Mirror Master
• Mr. Freeze
• Onomatopoeia (how fun would this be in the game?)
• Parasite
• Poison Ivy
• Prometheus
• Psimon
• Riddler
• Scarecrow maybe teaming with Doctor Destiny
• Shade
• Silver Banshee
• Solomon Grundy
• Sportsmaster
• T.O. Morrow
• Tattooed Man
• Terror Twins
• The Key
• Toyman
• Trigger Twins
• Turtle (a super easy fight)
• Ultra-Humanite and Titano the Super Ape
• Weather Wizard

You'd think that would cover everyone, since this list is huge, but I'm still leaving out TONS of people.

PLAYABLE CHARACTERS

In an ideal world, we have TONS of characters to pick from, but not everyone can be chosen. You'll find plenty of names in the next section as cameos instead. Still, I wanted to incorporate as many as I could consider reasonable.

To help keep things organized, I've grouped characters into some different factions. Obviously, Batman belongs in the Bat Family, but since he's a core hero, you want to put him in there above everything else. Keep that in mind and don't think that I'm ignoring their ties to all the different units.

Also, naturally, every character would have a few alternate skins you could download. Superman would have the Electric Superman form, the black suit with the mullet, etc.

Characters in italics are ones that could potentially be cut if there were too many to pick from. Every character not in italics would HAVE to be in the game as far as I'm concerned.

Founding Core:

• Superman
• Batman
• Wonder Woman
• The Flash (Barry Allen)
• Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
• Aquaman
• Martian Manhunter

Batman Family:

• Nightwing (blue is default; alt costumes are red version, the feathery blue and yellow outfit and a Robin suit)
• Robin (Tim Drake - I'd prefer Damian, but I want DC to let Tim become Flamebird. I don't like the Red Robin name. So let's keep Damian out of this game for now)
• Batgirl (Barbara Gordon)
• Red Hood
• Catwoman
• Huntress
  
• Batwoman / Orphan / Spoiler (I like Stephanie and Cassandra, but they're not necessities. To be honest, I don't like Batwoman at all and think she's a pointlessly derivative lame character).
  

Justice League's Other Members:

• Black Canary
• Booster Gold
• Captain Atom
• Firestorm
• Green Arrow
• Hawkwoman / Hawkgirl
• Hawkman
• Plastic Man / Elongated Man
• Shazam aka Captain Marvel
  
• Vixen
• Zatanna

Green Lantern Corps:

• Guy Gardner
• Jessica Cruz
• John Stewart
• Kyle Rayner
• Simon Baz
• Note: They probably would act all the same and just be different skins of the Hal Jordan character with some slightly different constructs, so it likely wouldn't be too hard to incorporate all of them. Alan Scott is saved for the sequel game.

Outsiders:

• Black Lightning
• Katana
• Metamorpho

Superman Family:

• Steel
• Superboy (black shirt and jeans is default, 90s look is an alt skin)
• Supergirl (Power Girl is an alt skin)

Teen Titans:

• Artemis / Tigress
• Arsenal (Red Arrow works, but Speedy is a dumb name)
• Aqualad / Tempest
• Beast Boy
• Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes)
• Cyborg
• Kid Flash (Wally West) or Impulse (Bart Allen) or my preference, having it be Impulse as a name and design but the Wally West character under the mask - could just be alt skins of Barry, though
  
• Miss Martian (could just be an alt skin of J'onn)
• Raven
• Starfire
• Wonder Girl (could just be alt skins for Diana that are Donna Troy and Cassie Sandsmark)
  

I say that's a pretty healthy crop of characters to pick from. The likelihood all of these would be available would be slim, so some would probably have to be cut from the lineup.

SUPPORTING NON-PLAYABLE CHARACTERS

It's impossible to be able to play as every character out there. The game designers couldn't possibly make enough variations for it to be worthwhile, it's too much programming work and it wouldn't be worth it for the smaller characters.

However, that doesn't mean they can't still pop up as NPCs, right? Marvel Ultimate Alliance had cameo characters in supporting roles as people to talk to on missions, interactions at the base of operations and so on. That's what we're doing here.

• ARGUS
• Adam Strange
• Alfred Pennyworth and Lucius Fox
• Animal Man
• Commissioner Gordon, Harvey Bullock and Renee Montoya
• Dan Turpin and Maggie Sawyer
• Doom Patrol
• Dr. Fate (just too powerful)
• Etrigan
• Fire and Ice
• Green Lantern Corps = Extra members of the GLC including the Guardians
• Hawk and Dove = Hank Hall and probably Dawn Granger (I prefer that group with Don having died already)
• Justice League Dark = Constantine, Deadman, Swamp Thing, etc
• Legion of Super-Heroes
• Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen
• Marvel Family = Mary Marvel and such
• Mera
• Mr. Terrific 
• New Gods = Big Barda, Forager, Highfather, Lightray, Orion, Mister Miracle
• Red Tornado Family = Red Tornado, Red Inferno, Red Torpedo and Red Volcano
• S.T.A.R. Labs (Emil Hamilton and such)
  
• Spectre
• Stargirl and S.T.R.I.P.E.
• Ted Kord
• The Atom (too hard to figure out how to incorporate his powers as a playable method)
• The Metal Men 
• The Question
• Waverider (only to set up the sequel game as a post-credit tease)
• Wildcat (trainer for the tutorial)
  

WHAT IS DC ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 2?

Just for the sake of explaining the thing I teased multiple times, here's a short explanation of the sequel game.

At the very end in a post-credit sequence, Waverider would show up and there would be all sorts of signs pointing toward a multiversal problem with different parallel earths crossing over.

Hypertime would be involved in this. That means we can incorporate some characters we didn't touch on in game #1, such as the Crime Syndicate/Justice Lords, the Anti-Monitor, Gog, Krona, Imperiex, Chronos, Solaris the Tyrant Sun, Superboy Prime with Alexander Luthor, Hal Jordan doing the whole Parallax and Spectre thing, and even Watchmen and Authority, maybe.

The game could include going to different alternate dimensions as well as the past and the future. You could see Jonah Hex in the past during a wild west level. You could team up with the Justice Society of America's Alan Scott and Jay Garrick.

At the end, the Anti-Monitor would be stopped and it would set up a third game, but I'm not sure what would be the best story for that one. After all, the first game isn't even real, let alone the second!

What do you think? What would your pitch be for a DC Ultimate Alliance game?
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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

No Final Season of GLOW

This sucks. Netflix decided to go back on its renewal of a final season of GLOW and it won't be producing the fourth season. The show's just done, with no resolution. That's the worst way to go. In particular, it's a shame that we already know that was supposed to be the end, because that means there's no potential in another service picking it up. No other place would want to pay for ONE season of a show. Even if that were true, it would've been Netflix, so this is just doomed. Very, very disappointing.

Sister Act 3

There's going to be a Sister Act 3. That's awesome (in theory). The first is a classic that I really need to revisit, as I loved it as a kid. The second was...well...

But maybe the third would be great like the first one was, as far as I can remember.

Sarah Shahi as Isis in Black Adam

Supposedly, Sarah Shahi has been cast as Adrianna Tomaz, aka Isis, in the Black Adam film.

I'm not super duper familiar with Isis enough to be able to tell you any of her character traits or anything. However, I do know Sarah Shahi is a great actress who is gorgeous and I could totally see her pulling off the visual look of this character as well as holding her weight on the acting side.

In that regard, I'm totally down for this.

Doctor Strange in Spider-Man 3

More news about the idea that Spider-Verse is coming for the third Spider-Man film, as now, Benedict Cumberbatch is going to be in the film as Doctor Strange.

How are they going to have a film that is both about parallel dimensions and different versions of Peter Parker fighting villains like Electro from other universes, while also dealing with the plot of Peter on the run with people thinking he killed Quentin Beck?

Perhaps they've abandoned that story. Maybe, instead of telling the tale of how he deals with the repercussions of people knowing his secret identity and all, Peter spends the first few minutes of the film on the run and comes in contact with Doctor Strange. Then, he gets him to cast a spell where everyone forgets all this information, but in the process, it opens up the portals to the other dimensions.

That way, you don't have Mephisto taking away Mary Jane Watson's marriage to Peter, since we don't have MJ in the MCU (yes, I said it, we don't have MJ. Michelle Jones doesn't count as she's nothing at all like the character and has a different name). 

I'd like a reference to how J. Jonah Jameson wanted to name Doctor Octopus Doctor Strange, but said the name was taken.

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Why is it that we can refer to baseball, basketball, football, etc as "sports" and other types of hypernyms, but there's not one word that we can use that collectively means "television shows and movies"?

Every single suggestion I've ever heard doesn't actually apply.

Media = Too broad. Newspapers are media. Weather broadcasts are media. Twitter is media.

Cinema = That implies just movies/films and not television, as it revolves around going to a theater. But this might be the best thing, as we might just shift away from thinking there's a difference between seeing a movie in a theater and watching it at home, as well as watching a TV show at home or at a theater. The more we have films making their debuts at home on streaming services, the more "cinema" will be accepted, I think—especially if the lines blur more between a television series and a multi-part movie.

Film = Things are digital nowadays. Plus, that implies more so just movies and not TV. Also, you can film things that aren't movies or television shows.

Shows = A broadway play is a show, isn't it? Plus, nobody says "shows" and means "movies".

Motion Pictures = Everyone will just think that means movies. Also, the recordings you make of your kid's recital are motion pictures, but not movies or television shows.

Programs = What do you call a pamphlet that they give you at an event? What do you call when you set something up to record or to perform an action? You program your TV tor DVR a show. No real distinctive tie to movies, either.

Screen = That's just what you view these things on. Also, what type of screen? My cell phone is a screen and I can be on a phone call. That's not this. Neither are video games on your TV screen or monitor. Video games aren't part of this word we're going for at all.

Entertainment = What do you call all the other forms of entertainment, like music?

We need to create a word that means strictly "films, movies or whatever you call motion pictures that are of the cinematic nature along those lines, as well as television shows, made for TV movies, etc."

If it weren't for video games, I would say we should just merge screen and entertainment together to be screentertainment (but that's also a mouthful) because you ultimately do have to watch either of these things on some sort of screen.

In my mind, "movies" is more general than "films" and "television" is becoming outdated, too, as more and more people are watching TV shows on their phones or computers instead of specifically on their television sets. Thus, we need a word that means "a motion picture that is created for the purpose of storytelling as entertainment, with a writer and a story, that you experience by watching on some sort of screen, but isn't a video game."

Cinema should be the root of it. Ultimately, these are plays that are put on a screen instead of a live performance. But But maybe there should be an acronym, kind of like TV, DVD, etc.

These aren't the catchiest terms, but all I can think of right now are the following suggestions:

• Cinemedia / Cinemadia = Cinema Media
• ie, "Superhero movies and television shows are my favorite types of cinemedia."
  
• VEC = Visual Entertainment Cinema
• ie, "What times of VECs do you like to watch?"
  
• MoPEM / MoPEC = Motion Picture Entertainment Media / Cinema
  
• ie, "I'm really into MOPEM. I usually watch a couple MOPEMs each day."
  

Could someone else think of something better? Sure. But it's been decades and we still don't have a word for this, so someone has to step in and suggest it.

I want to know your ideas. What word should we invent to be a catch-all for movies and television shows? Drop your comments below!

When it comes to comics and the superhero genre, death is referred to as a "revolving door" where no one really stays dead.

Naturally, there are exceptions. For the most part, Uncle Ben is never brought back, nor are Thomas and Martha Wayne. At least, not in a real way. It's always a dream, some other dimension, an Elseworlds story or something along those lines.

That goes for most other big changes to characters. It's rare to have Dick Grayson transition from Robin to Nightwing, Bucky to come back to life as Winter Soldier and so on, and people actually accept it. More often than not, if you try to replace Peter Parker with Ben Reilly, it just doesn't work, which is why no one ever thought Doctor Octopus was stuck in Peter's body forever.

In regards to The Joker—one of the most maniacal, horrific characters in all of fiction, let alone narrowing it down to just DC—people always ask "Why doesn't someone just kill him?"

Of course why not? The guy murders TONS of people every time he does anything. But DC will never kill him off, nor would he ever say dead for good. Every time he seems to have met his end, it's always some ruse where they never find his body and he's escaped so he can pull more hijinks down the line.

But what if DC decided to have a definitive end to Joker by actually cutting the cord? Whether it actually stuck forever or was just as temporary as Jean Grey's or Superman's death, or even the longer ones, it's interesting to think about. That's why people gravitate to stories like Injustice with Superman killing Joker for having manipulated him into killing Lois Lane and their child.

So let's dive into this thought experiment. Theoretically, if Joker were to be put down for good, who should do it? Which character has the right to be the one to do the deed? Who gets the honor and bears the burden of killing Joker once and for all?

What if Joker died? Who should pull the trigger?

Batman = No

We have to start examining things with Batman, naturally. He's the main character, after all, who has the deepest ties to Joker.

Their rivalry is epic. It's not just some decades-long multimedia war, but something that is complex. Some people interpret their battles as two diametrically opposed polar opposites. They're two sides of the same coin where one is crazy and bright and cheerful and evil, while the other is also crazy, but dark, brooding and heroic.

Some people interpret their story as struggling lovers. Others consider it an ethics discussion. It's all over the place, but there are usually common themes.

Joker is obsessed with Batman. It might not be as reciprocated, but Bruce definitely has a certain respect and fear for Joker above all other villains. Even Bane doesn't elicit the same response, and he's done some awful things to the family.

But it's Joker who pushes Batman to break his no-killing rule and nearly succeeds on a regular basis. So is that how this ends? Does Bruce finally snap, kill Joker and be done with it?

I think the only way you justify that is if you want your story to be a tragedy in a "no turning back from this, ever" type of scenario. Once Batman kills someone, that's it. He can no longer not be a killer. Joker would be the one to be the most justified in murdering (outside of someone like Darkseid, but aliens don't really count based on parademons and such). If you want the story of Bruce Wayne to end with his incorruptible moral compass being corrupted to prove that no one is immune to the horrors of the world, then pull an Alan Moore and tell us why you think there's no hope for humankind and be all depressed.

I'm not that type. I hate people in a lot of ways and I think there are some absolutely disgusting, atrocious humans on this planet that shouldn't be here, but I don't think every story needs to be doom and gloom.

I prefer my Batman to be the type of person who gets up whenever he's knocked down. Give me the "No matter what, I'm still not going to let you win" type of Batman. He should figure out another way to beat Joker and stop him from hurting anyone else other than to just become a killer like the other criminals.

Jason Todd = Maybe...but No

It's hard to find an argument for why Jason Todd shouldn't be the one to kill Joker. After all, Joker killed him, so fair's fair, right? Joker beat him with a crowbar and blew him up, which scarred him forever. Even after being resurrected, Jason's adopted the Red Hood moniker as a twisted bit of devotion toward this, which shows he isn't moving past it.

Recently, in the story of the three Jokers, Jason got a measure of revenge by killing one of them, hoping it was the one who killed him. After all these years, he deserved to do that, and I'm glad they had him pull the trigger, even if I'm 100% convinced there aren't actually three Jokers and whatnot, so it won't be a true act of vengeance.

But here's where I argue Jason shouldn't be the one to officially kill the real Joker. What does that accomplish? He kills the guy who killed him. Okay. He doesn't actually get to go back in time and stop all that from happening. Those scars are still there. Jason's already crossed the line of being a murderer, so it's not likely he can be redeemed in a way where he's totally pure or anything, but there comes a time where all that killing doesn't amount to anything on its own. Hell, he can continue to kill other crooks even after Joker's death and it doesn't mean anything for his own journey, positive or negative.

The real way to get past it is getting past it. Jason certainly shouldn't forgive Joker by any means, of course. That's not the same as moving on. But he should come to terms with what happened and turn that into more of a positive in some fashion, rather than just getting blunt revenge eye-for-an-eye style.

I'd rather see Jason's conclusion via Joker being that he stops being Red Hood and illustrates that he's more than just "the Robin that was killed by Joker" by becoming his own hero a la Dick Grayson becoming Nightwing. What name should that be? No idea. Jason was Wingman at one point, but I find that name pretty damn lame. But that's a discussion for another article. The point remains that if Jason moves on from calling himself Red Hood to calling himself something more aligned with the rest of the family—even if he's still a killer, which is okay to be the most brutal that does the things Bruce and others refuse to do—that's the real win over Joker, rather than just killing him.

Barbara Gordon = No

Babs is even weaker of an argument, in my mind, than Jason. She comes from a similar background as far as why, but has even less grounds.

Barbara was shot and paralyzed by Joker. That's horrendous. She's overcome it and is back to being Batgirl, but being wheelchair-bound and becoming Oracle is tied to her character forever, to the point that most stories, if they're able to go down that road, does a retelling of Killing Joke.

Naturally, Barbara has every right to kill Joker for that. But I don't think she's the type to get her revenge in that fashion.

I've never interpreted Barbara as having more of a vicious side to her than Jason, do you? And since Jason was actually killed by Joker, instead of just paralyzed, he has more of a willingness to pull the trigger and more of a reason to.

Barbara is harder to corrupt. She shouldn't throw that all away just to kill Joker. That's evidenced by the recent comics, too, with her condemning Jason's actions and considering him a criminal they need to bring in just like everyone else.

Good for you, Babs. Don't go down that road. Her revenge on Joker isn't something I've been able to wrap my mind around. It's not good enough to simply walk again. He'd just scoff at that like "I guess I didn't do a good enough job" and move on with his day. I think she'd have to outsmart him in some fashion that really stings...but that's another story for another article.

Harley Quinn = Yes?

If one woman is getting revenge on Joker, justifiably, it's Harley Quinn. This girl's been put through the ringer and I think it's actually difficult to think of an argument for why she shouldn't be the one to kill him.

Think about it. Even if her life was messed up before she met Joker (which in some tellings, it isn't), he wrapped her around his finger, had her lose her job, lose her sanity, sometimes bleach her skin, turned her into a killer and he's constantly abusive in every way possible.

Joker offers NOTHING good for Harley, but she keeps going back to him. She's a textbook example of so many real life cases, just turned up to 11. It's sad and it's not the type of thing any couple should be like "wow, I wish we were like Joker and Harley". No you don't! Just because you liked Sleepy Hollow and A Nightmare Before Christmas and you vibe more with skeletons at Halloween than snowmen in December doesn't mean you should ever want someone physically, emotionally and mentally abusive in your life like Joker.

This guy is scum. Pure evil. At best, he loves Harley because she cared and he's treating her terribly to where he doesn't deserve her. He may love her because he's turned her into something that fits his mold, instead of loving who she is. But most likely, he doesn't love her at all. Punchline will find that out.

Harley's character has broken off from Joker many times over the years. Sometimes, she goes off with Poison Ivy. Sometimes, she's part of the Suicide Squad. She's never quite heroic, as that would make her lose her edge, and her popularity is intrinsically tied to the idea that she's the spunky, wacky, psycho edgy hot chick that will cut someone who gives her a side eye. She's no Superman and if she were, the girls at Hot Topic wouldn't dig her as much and get tattoos of her and cosplay as the character.

Recently, even more than ever, Harley's also taken on a responsibility of becoming a women's empowerment vessel. She's kind of a "hear me roar" character, lately, taking on the whole support of representing all women who are fighting back from their abusive husbands/boyfriends/etc and kicking ass no matter who they offend (as if that's offensive to stand up for yourself and get out of a bad spot).

Isn't the ultimate win that she'd kill Joker? She's a murderer, so she's not breaking her code and losing anything. This would be the only way she'd never go back to him (even if she might regret it and miss him later, which would be a backtrack for her independence), but she'd at least have made that decision to try to do that knowing she could never go back.

I think there's a very, very strong case that if Joker were to die, Harley has to be the one to do it.

Jim Gordon = No

It's funny that Commissioner Gordon is always one to remind Batman not to cross the line by killing anyone, yet he's a cop. Cops do shoot and kill people if need be—sometimes, not even if it's necessary, unfortunately.

I always find it interesting when people have no issue having Gordon shoot some thug in a story, only to then say no one should kill Two-Face or Zsasz or someone. We know it's because they're actual characters, but it just makes no sense.

Logically, Gordon and any other cop should have shot Joker the first time he was doing any of his awful things and that would be the end of it. That's what would happen in real life. Magnify that by an exponential amount when you remember that Joker's paralyzed his daughter and shot/killed Sarah Essen. Any father and husband would be justified in killing Joker for retaliation.

But isn't that blah? The person to kill Joker is Gordon? It just doesn't fit in my mind.

Lock-Up, Azrael, or Another Punisher-Style Vigilante = No

This is quick. Should some random vigilante or person who is more willing to kill in general just take out Joker, like Punisher would?

No. That would be lame. If Azrael was the one to kill Joker, people would feel like it was wasted.

One of His Goons = No

Working for Penguin must be okay. He seems level-headed and you can even get a job as a server for the Iceberg Lounge. Being under the employ of Riddler is probably annoying as he tasks you to set up elaborate traps and continually talks about how he's smarter than you, but I'd imagine you could manage. Ra's al Ghul followers are supremely dedicated to his cause and would gladly give their lives for the league.

If you find yourself working for Joker, though? Forget about it. That guy can decide any random moment to carve your face off just for a laugh. He perpetually kills his allies to prove a point and you can never, ever be safe around him. Even if you stop working for him, he could just kill you because you know too much.

Maybe someone decides that at some moment when Joker has his back turned, they'll just shoot him. That's it. One shot to the head, he's dead, and now they don't have to worry about any of his insanity.

Perhaps this is even a plot to overthrow him and become the next big bad in Gotham. It likely wouldn't work, as Batman has more trouble with Joker than anyone else, so some random dude with a pistol wouldn't be as big of a threat, but that's beside the point.

That's also why I don't think this would be a good story to tell. There's one interesting element to it, which is the parallel that Thomas and Martha were gunned down by "some punk with a gun" and Joker, for all his theatrics, could fall victim to the same thing. But once you establish this new character as an imposing force for being "the one who killed Joker" and he's taken down by Batman, what else does that character have to offer?

A Civilian = Maybe?

Imagine after all the crazy antics and the grandiose displays of murder, the off-the-wall crimes that are so lavish and over-the-top that they require giant responses to them and go down in history as legends, where every single thing is building up to some great crescendo...if Joker just gets killed by some dude.

Not even a criminal. Not a rival psycho. Not a cop. Not Batman. A nobody.

Joker's killed hundreds. He's ruined families. There should be no end to the amount of people who would gleefully attack him if they saw him in public, hoping to murder him and make sure he doesn't do that to anyone else. Some people would be doing that in a joint murder/suicide fashion, while others would consider it a public service.

It would be kind of fitting if Joker's great work of art wasn't finished because "some punk with a gun" got him, similar to how Joe Chill killed Thomas and Martha. I like the idea a lot and the only argument I can think of that goes against it is that you can't track that person anymore, similar to the goon idea. Once they kill Joker and deal with the immediate repercussions of that, their story is done.

Joker Kills Himself = Yes?

In The Dark Knight Returns, Joker meets his end by snapping his own neck. Joker could always die as a result of his own plans backfiring, too. I think it's a strong, strong discussion to have that this could be the way he goes. That way, no one gets their hands dirty, but everyone can say they have their moments where they wish they could have killed Joker, even if they don't know if they would have done it if they did have the opportunity.

In a way, Joker wins and loses in this scenario. He loses his life, naturally, but he wins by not giving anyone the satisfaction. Maybe that's worth a laugh.

THE FINAL VERDICT

It's down to suicide, Harley Quinn, or a random civilian in my mind. I lean more toward the first two. If I had to make a pick based on this discussion, though, I think I'd go Harley Quinn for an active killer of someone else pulling the trigger, but I'd give a slight edge to suicide (planned or not) with Joker being responsible for his own death.

However, I'll tease something that I'll get into somewhere else in the future: the way Joker dies in my version of the story is none of these options. What am I talking about? What Batman story? Here's hoping I get to tell The Batman Blueprint at some point and you'll have to find out more about that some other time.

Who do you think should be the one to put down Joker for good if DC ever killed off the character?
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Lion King 2

The director of Moonlight is going to do a follow-up to The Lion King "live action" film with a prequel about Mufasa. Depending on what the story is, I might check it out. It could be great to see his rise to the throne or it could be a bland cash grab of sorts. I didn't think the remake had any of the magic of the original cartoon, which is one of my 3 favorite animated films of all time. Maybe this will be better, though.

Jamie Foxx Returning as Electro in Spider-Man 3???

Rumor has it, we're going to get a return of the Electro from The Amazing Spider-Man 2, but as part of the next MCU Spider-Man film. Are we flat out getting Doctor Strange's film opening up literally all sorts of options to the point where a Spider-Verse thing is legit happening?

I'm so skeptical of this. I don't even necessarily believe it, but even if I do, I don't want his Electro back. Foxx is great. Electro can be a fun character. I think there are a handful of elements of TASM2 that aren't awful (and I actually enjoyed quite a bit of it on my first viewing back in the day, which doesn't hold up as much anymore), but how about we get a different, more comic book looking Electro, instead?

Then again, this could be awesome. It could mean we get Tobey and Andrew and Tom all on screen and such.

No Time to Die Delayed Again, So Regal Closes Down

The next James Bond film, No Time to Die, has now been pushed back to April 2021. As a response, the movie theater chain Regal Cinemas is apparently done. No indication of what that means for the grand scheme of things, how long they plan on having their doors shut, etc. However, it's certainly not a good thing if the parent company felt it was necessary. That's 2020 for you.

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WandaVision Trailer

How cool does this look? It's definitely a completely new approach to something in the MCU and has a horror vibe to it. This feels like a Twilight Zone episode. I'm down.

Tom Cruise, John Krasinski and Emily Blunt Cameos in Doctor Strange 2?

Rumor has it (take it with a grain of salt) that there will be a cameo for Tom Cruise in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness where he's playing the Tony Stark of another dimension. That would be awesome, and I really hope that happens. At one point in time, Cruise was in the mix to play Iron Man for a film before the MCU kicked off. Even if it's just for a brief moment, it would be cool to see what would happen with him inside the armor.

Update: A follow-up to that is that Emily Blunt may be Black Widow and John Krasinski could be Captain America to play off how both of them were up for those roles. I think that would be awesome. I still think Krasinski and Blunt in particular could be used for other characters in the future, but this shouldn't stop them and it could be pretty damn cool.

Peacemaker Spin-Off for HBO Max

John Cena's character in the upcoming The Suicide Squad (such a dumb title) film, Peacemaker, will be getting a spin-off series dedicated to the origins of his character. It will be on HBO Max.

Having not seen the film, I'm curious what this will end up being. Does his character have enough to justify a series dedicated to him? Probably not. Is this just another situation of WB saying they have plans to do something, only to have it all fall apart? Probably. Will I check it out? Yeah.

Nick Fury Series Coming to Disney+

No real information about this yet. No information needed for me to say I'm in. Sam Jackson as Nick Fury is awesome and I love that they'll flesh out the character.

Aldis Hodge Cast as Hawkman in Black Adam

I know nothing about Aldis Hodge as an actor, but he looks like he could play the part, as far as physical stature goes. And you know what? For anyone crying about how this is a black Hawkman, what's the matter? The character has nothing intrinsically tied to his race and if anything, with the whole Egyptian side of things, doesn't this make more sense than if he were some Irish guy or something?

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The 72nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be taking place September 20, 2020 broadcast by ABC.

Stay tuned for updates on the list of the winners and results from all of the categories.

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Jonathan Majors Possibly Cast as Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man 3

I know nothing about Majors, but there are three major things to talk about with this news, according to Deadline:

1) This means Reed Richards and/or Sue Storm will be black. Of course, people are going nuts about that. OR, he's going to be blue-skinned. In my opinion, both Reed and Sue aren't characters that need to be white, so hey, as long as they get the right actors, whatever. My issue is that I don't think Sue and Johnny should be Michael B. Jordan and Kate Mara and adopted and whatnot.

2) Kang is far too big of a threat for Ant-Man to fight. He has to be just observing things or manipulating stuff in the background. We did hear about MODOK as a possibility and that makes more sense to me. I still think Black Ant would be the best option, but hey. At the very least, Kang could be setting up something with the Young Avengers and Cassie.

3) If they go with Kang as the benefactor, that would be surprising. I thought it would be Norman Osborn or someone else more street-level.

Animaniacs Returning November 20th on Hulu

I loved this show back in the day! Awesome! I'll definitely try to check it out.

The Mandalorian Season 2 Trailer

Everything looks cool as hell, as expected. Plus, is Sasha Banks a Jedi?? Very curious to see how she works into this. As you're likely aware, the sister site for Fanboys Anonymous is Smark Out Moment, so this is a rare scenario where we can have some crossover material between the two!

Tatiana Maslany Cast as She-Hulk

We finally know who will play Jennifer Walters in the She-Hulk TV series coming to Disney+ and it's Tatiana Maslany—someone I'm familiar with, but not familiar with. IE, I've heard her name and I've heard good things, and I've seen one episode of Orphan Black, but that's it.

Some people are thinking she doesn't have the musculature, but I think that's pretty ridiculous. We have CGI. Do you think Mark Ruffalo looks like Hulk? Of course not.

I get a good feeling about this. The rumors of Alison Brie were striking me odd, as she's wonderful, but not someone I figured would make for a good She-Hulk. Maslany has more of an edge to her and I can buy her being a lawyer that turns into She-Hulk much more. Thumbs up, so far at least!

DC Universe Infinite

The inevitable has happened and DC television projects and films will be on HBO Max going forward while DC Universe is going to be a comics-only platform, now rebranded DC Universe Infinite.

Ultimately, this is how it was guaranteed to go. There was no way they would keep the TV and movie content on a strictly DC service forever and not want to make those things applicable to HBO Max. Once that happened, there's less of a need for people to want to have DC Universe to go along with it. If you can consolidate your subscriptions, you're going to. That's why I think it's potentially even a better idea if they offer a package deal of getting both for a slight discount, as people will be more willing to spend $15 for 2 services than $10 for one and not doing the other, or $20 for both.

Harley Quinn Renewed for Season 3

Woooooooo! This show is so good and I wasn't ready to say goodbye to it.

If you haven't watched it already, do yourself a favor and check it out. It's so funny.

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In Captain America: The First Avenger, we were introduced to the Tesseract. Eventually, as the series progressed, this was fleshed out more to be clarified as the Space Stone that made up the Infinity Gauntlet.

At least as far as Avengers: Endgame is concerned, the Marvel Cinematic Universe no longer truly has the Tesseract in play after Thanos "used the stones to destroy the stones" and reduced them all to atoms.

With that in mind, as well as how the Tesseract was utilized as the Space Stone, that means we've yet to truly get the Cosmic Cube in all its glory in the MCU. It's clear Marvel decided to somewhat merge the concepts and simplify things while representing the Cosmic Cube in some fashion. Red Skull and Thanos went after the Tesseract, just as they often do in the comics with the Cosmic Cube. It's just a lot simpler to tell people that it's one of many and move that plot thread along, rather than give them an entirely different MacGuffin and then sidestep to the Infinity Stones and treat them like a bigger deal.

But not having had the Cosmic Cube in the MCU means we're missing out on a chance to do some other stories. The Space Stone doesn't grant wishes like the Cosmic Cube does. Plus, there's no tie-in with the Beyonders or anything else that can be tapped into.

So what should happen to bring the Cosmic Cube into the MCU at some point in the series' future? I think there are a few things that have to be addressed: its creation, how to keep it a fresh idea, who wields it, which characters interact with it and so on.

The MCU cannot just randomly toss out the next all-powerful item and move on as if the Infinity Stones are yesterday's news without feeling like it's rehashing a similar formula. The Cosmic Cube has to come about through different means and not seem like an ancient thing the universe is built upon.

Luckily, there's a precedent in the comics that the Cosmic Cube can be artificially created and by many different civilizations. That opens tons of doors and options for how this can come about.

Here are just a few potential ways I think they could bring about the creation of a Cosmic Cube, if not multiple by picking a variety of these:

• The Beyonders - Even if it isn't spoken of at first, there could be an eventual reveal that the energies contained in these are coming from the dimension the Beyonders dwell. That could bring them in as one of the biggest threats to the universe.
• A.I.M. and M.O.D.O.K. - Let's assume the benefactor from Ant-Man 3 plays into all this. They can say that the Cosmic Cube has something to do with Pym Particles and the Quantum Realm. Advanced Idea Mechanics has been associated with the Cosmic Cube in the past, so that's a good tie-in.
  
• S.H.I.E.L.D. - Project Pegasus was studying the Tesseract. Maybe they tried to create their own version of it and that's why this is a cube as well?
• Skrulls and Kree - These two societies are old enough that they could have come across any of the necessary materials to create something like this. Skrulls have been involved with the Cosmic Cube in the comics, too, and with the amount of focus on the Tesseract from the MCU in Captain Marvel, there are more than enough connections.
  
• High Evolutionary - Between everything going on with Adam Warlock and the High Evolutionary, I would be easily sold on wishes created from this kind of device being how The Sovereign can create their race and such.
  
• Fantastic Four - The Negative Zone could be part of this (but I doubt it) and they could even tie this into being related to Franklin Richards. What if the Cosmic Cube has his reality warping powers, in a sense, wherein it works into his future self and Kang the Conqueror and all those story elements woven together? The Cosmic Cube could be one of the main things Reed Richards studies over the course of several films.
  
• Doctor Strange - Since this is wish based, you can easily sell me on the idea that it ties into the Multiverse of Madness as another magical trinket that Doctor Strange studies.
  

Of course, all of this depends on what Marvel has in store for the next phases of the MCU. For all we know, the goal is to focus on Galactus as the sole cosmic force out there and something like this would take too much attention away from him.

Ideally, I'd love to see The Beyonder brought in, Battle World and Secret Wars to take place, some older characters like Steve Rogers and Tony Stark come into the fold with cameos based on wishes and for this idea to be fully realized, rather than just forgotten about as merged with the Space Stone. But what do you have in mind? What would you like to see the MCU do with the Cosmic Cube?

Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

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Dick Jones RoboCop Prequel

Did you ever think to yourself "RoboCop is cool and all, but I'd rather watch a story about the rise of Dick Jones climbing the corporate ladder in OCP?

Me neither.

Two Joker Sequels

Current rumor flying around is that they want to make two sequels to Joaquin Phoenix's Joker film.

Frankly, I think it's a bad idea. The story works best as a standalone. If they get into sequel territory, you have to canonize the events and eliminate the "was it all real" aspect that people like about the movie. That's kind of defeating some of its purpose, like if you made a sequel to Inception and exposed that Cobb wasn't dreaming anymore.

Young Justice: Phantoms

Young Justice has been renewed for a fourth season with no other information other than that its subtitle this time will be Phantoms.

Awesome. Big fan of the show (even though it has flaws of definitely wanting to take on too many different characters and not enough stories to keep track of, and then skipping ahead to just write off not needing to wrap up some story elements).

What could Phantoms be about? Dead characters from the past influencing the present day? The Phantom Zone? Something more on the mystical side? I hope not the latter, as the magic stuff has never been my favorite.

Wonder Woman 1984 Delayed

This is the DC version of The New Mutants. This movie has gotten delayed too many times to count, yet the film's script leaked online how long ago? Now, it's coming out Christmas. How much do you want to bet that doesn't happen, either?

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However, as much as I feel Fanboys Anonymous has the ability to grow in all sorts of ways, I never would have imagined it would be the catalyst for an even more important part of my life: my future wife.

To let everyone in on some things behind the curtain who weren't already aware over time, part of my recruitment for the team was to post on LinkedIn threads of different types asking if anyone in these related fields would be interested in joining the site to write about whatever they're passionate about. One of those interested parties was Caroline, whom you've all heard on various podcasts and read articles from over the years.

Immediately, this connection was formed that was unlike any other and it grew into something much more beautiful than could ever be dreamed.

All these years later, I can now officially announce that as of this past Sunday, September 6, 2020, Caroline and I are ENGAGED.

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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Tim Drake is Robin Again?

So Tim Drake's gone from Robin to Red Robin to just Drake and now back to Robin again.

MAKE HIM FLAMEBIRD. It's the thing that makes the most sense! It piggybacks off Nightwing, Drake has a connection word-wise to dragons and Flamebird is dragon-like, and it's a name that isn't being used by anyone that it would matter if they took it away from them because Bette can just stay Hawkfire.

It's so obvious! Just do it! Don't make Tim go back to Robin again just because this stupid Drake idea failed and you have no other option.

No Time to Die Official Trailer 2

Ana de Armas looks kind of bad ass in this, from those clips. Not digging much else from this trailer, as it was kind of generic. Still got a bad, bad, bad feeling about this movie and how they're going to want to do something drastic for the sake of getting people talking, like killing Bond or replacing him as 007.

Nothing here indicated that, necessarily. It was just some action clips and not much more.

A.P. Bio Season 3

Gotta say, after watching the 8 episodes of the newest season of AP Bio on Peacock, I'm disappointed. It seems like they just wanted to go wacky and zany for the sake of it this season and the show's lost its charm. It was best when it was about...you know...the premise? The idea of a jerk interacting with his students and getting revenge on people?

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