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Actors not sweeping correctly when somebody broke a glass or somebody's ashes were spilled on the floor or something like that is infuriating hahha.

They're always having some serious conversation with heavy relationship complications, but whoever has the broom is literally tapping at the mess on the floor because they know that the production crew is going to clean it up for them after the shoot, so they, the ac-tors, don't have to actually sweep the mess into the dustbin.

I f****** hate that.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Mine is kind of petty too, but it just seems to pop up so much. I hate when superheroes have to deal with a villain that uses the same source of power. Hulk fighting another Hulk, Ant-man fighting another shrinking guy, Iron Man fighting another dude in an Iron Man suit, Superman fighting other kryptonians, Captain America fighting another super soldier, Black Panther fighting another Black Panther dude.. Once you notice that you realize it sort of the default for this genre

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's what made me stop watching the Flash TV show. After like the fourth or fifth person became a speedster it just got boring.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The problem with the flash is that if you power him up to full, there's basically nothing that's a threat beyond other speedsters. Between phasing through matter, lightning, and infinite mass punches, and time travel are pretty broken.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yea that sucks. It is a comic trope, but there does seem to be a more universal context within the literature where it's plausible that another person came across this technology or power (not probable, but plausible in certain situations), whereas in the marvel movies or whatever Ant-Man drops his aunt belt and then anti Ant-Man shows up.

" Hawkeye shot me with an arrow? I better save this arrow above my fireplace and train super intensely for 6 months until I'm on par with a literally impossible level of aiming perfection.

Thank goodness I only got shot through the shoulder and bicep so that I was able to heal in 3 days and then learn everything I ever needed to know about bows and arrows that took f****** Hawkeye 18 years to learn in a Buddhist monastery in an island offshore a country nobody has ever learned about."

Sorry that went on so long, those stories are so absurd.

Yeah that totally sucks.

Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Iron Man: they are executives at the same company that developed the tech

Black Panther: the bad guy literally just couped the government of Wakanda

Ant Man: the villain is a former business parter of Pym

Dr Strange: they trained at the same monastery and the bad guy trained for longer

I think these fights are boring most of the time, but they're not implausible. They have plenty of plot justification.

Also the character who copied Hawkeye was a girl who was inspired by his heroism and spent years learning archery and martial arts and still sucked at being Hawkeye when she met him