WEBVTT - Marvel's What If...? Finale + Venom: Let There Be Carnage

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<v Speaker 1>What I'm trying to warn you about what about spoilers.

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<v Speaker 1>Today there will be major spoilers from Sodi's Run Them

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<v Speaker 1>Let that regard it, Disney's What If, and not even

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<v Speaker 1>the watcher knows what else. Okay, fine, great, thank you

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<v Speaker 1>for this, I love you.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello.

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to episode six of Extra Revision of the crook

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<v Speaker 1>Of podcast, where we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, comics,

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<v Speaker 1>pop culture and more. Today we are covering the finale

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<v Speaker 1>of the Disney Plus show What If and giving our

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<v Speaker 1>thoughts on the pure, uncut insanity that is Venom Let

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<v Speaker 1>there Be Cardage and so much more. But first, welcome

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<v Speaker 1>back to the show writer, comic book whiz pop culture prophet,

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<v Speaker 1>the Great Rosie Night. Rosie, Hello, Hello, how are you doing.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm doing great. I've my brain has been absolutely shattered

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<v Speaker 1>by the venom Let their Becardage experience, so let's talk

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<v Speaker 1>about it. Quick quick recap for the folks. This is,

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<v Speaker 1>of course, the second Venom movie and spoiler alert, a

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<v Speaker 1>bridge for Venom to enter the MCU, directed by mocap

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<v Speaker 1>Whiz Andy Circus, written by Kelly Marcel of Saving Mister

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<v Speaker 1>Banks in Fifty Shades of Grave fame a quick recap

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<v Speaker 1>if that's necessary. Venom and Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock have

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<v Speaker 1>deepened their relationship, but of course, like any relationship, they've

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<v Speaker 1>entered that rocky phase, that kind of like post I

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<v Speaker 1>love you phase where it's like, Okay, now it's time

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<v Speaker 1>to do the dishes. Now it's time to clean the apartment,

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<v Speaker 1>or not clean the apartment apparently, and uh, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>a Venom would like to eat people, Eddie Brock is like, no,

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<v Speaker 1>please don't. Meanwhile, a piece of the symbiote has gotten

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<v Speaker 1>free during Eddie Brock's interview with the serial killer Cletus Cassidy,

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<v Speaker 1>and guess what, Carnage is born. This movie is purely insane, Rosie.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, everything that you just said sounds like it

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<v Speaker 3>couldn't fit into eighty five minutes. And what you were

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<v Speaker 3>talking about was literally like the first fifteen minutes of

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<v Speaker 3>the movie.

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<v Speaker 1>Well that let me just say this, eighty five minutes

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<v Speaker 1>a brisk eighty five like it goes Yeah, it wastes

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<v Speaker 1>absolutely no time getting to the mid credit scene, which

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<v Speaker 1>is really the important thing. I love eighty five to

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<v Speaker 1>ninety minute movies, and this is one of those.

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<v Speaker 3>Ninety minute movies. Is like I always say, like if

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<v Speaker 3>a movie's ninety minutes, I'm probably gonna enjoy it. But

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<v Speaker 3>I was not prepared for a big budget, big two

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<v Speaker 3>superhero movie to be a five minute. It's like we

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<v Speaker 3>are living in the three hour Like I saw this

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<v Speaker 3>on this same day There's No Time to Die, which

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<v Speaker 3>was really good, but it's like two hours and forty

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<v Speaker 3>five minutes. So I went into this thinking it would

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<v Speaker 3>be like two hours and twenty minutes long, and suddenly

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<v Speaker 3>it was the end of the movie, and I was like, WHOA,

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<v Speaker 3>what just happened? Like it is absolutely unhinged. It took

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<v Speaker 3>everything that I thought they would never carry over from

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<v Speaker 3>the first movie, and they just put only that in

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<v Speaker 3>the second movie. They cut out the kind of cinematic

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<v Speaker 3>backstories and the and the stuff that tried to make

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<v Speaker 3>the first movie a long and be story based, I guess,

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<v Speaker 3>and instead they were just like it's Tom Hardy and

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<v Speaker 3>he's playing Venom and Eddie Brock they're both unhinged. And

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<v Speaker 3>also here's Michelle Williams with some unbelievable line reads.

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<v Speaker 1>Just Michelle Williams is in this movie, Like I need

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<v Speaker 1>to put the down payment on my lake house, like yeah, energy,

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<v Speaker 1>like I'm here to make sure my kids fund is

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<v Speaker 1>firmly established.

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<v Speaker 3>In the first movie, she actually has like my favorite line,

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<v Speaker 3>which is near the end of the first movie, after

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<v Speaker 3>everything that's happened, when Venom has apparently been blown up

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<v Speaker 3>or something. They're sitting on this street looking over like

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<v Speaker 3>the beautiful late San Francisco stealin and she looks at

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<v Speaker 3>him and she's like, really sincere. She's like, sorry about Venom.

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<v Speaker 3>Like I say that all the time because I'm like,

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<v Speaker 3>what do you mean He's like an alien who took

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<v Speaker 3>over this guy's body, Like, what what do you mean?

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<v Speaker 3>Sorry about Veniam? But in this movie, every line she

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<v Speaker 3>delivers is on that level of incredibleness. Like they're in

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<v Speaker 3>a restaurant and she's like, is Venom in there? And

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<v Speaker 3>she's like, yeah, secretly talk to Venom. And it's just

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<v Speaker 3>like I can't fathom. When I watched the movie, I'm like,

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<v Speaker 3>this is a true time capsule of the time we're in,

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<v Speaker 3>because there is just no way that this movie exists

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<v Speaker 3>at any other period of time. There's just no way.

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<v Speaker 1>Part of the issue and part of why this movie

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<v Speaker 1>is insane, this is let me just bottom line it,

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<v Speaker 1>this is not a good movie, but there are things

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<v Speaker 1>about it, much like the first Venom movie, that are

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<v Speaker 1>so insane that I'm really glad that they're there because

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<v Speaker 1>they're so weird. That said, no one in this film

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<v Speaker 1>reacts the way a human being would react to literally anything.

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<v Speaker 1>There is one point where missus Chen.

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<v Speaker 3>The missus Chen, the grocery store.

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<v Speaker 1>Owner who remember from the first episode, miss Chen is

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<v Speaker 1>is hard at work and a venom host right, so,

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<v Speaker 1>like Venom and Eddie have been separated, and Venom is

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<v Speaker 1>jumping from body body and absolutely just burning, just killing bodies,

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<v Speaker 1>out killing people. A venom host wanders into missus Chen's store,

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<v Speaker 1>so it's Venom and a different body and collapses and

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<v Speaker 1>and pukes. It's like the blackness coming out of like

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<v Speaker 1>and and looks like on the edge of death. And

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<v Speaker 1>missus Chen like lovingly cradles this half corpses head to

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<v Speaker 1>her chest like a like a mother cray lak er child.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like what And the theater is guffawing loud. You

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<v Speaker 1>knew that it was gonna be nuts. When the movie

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<v Speaker 1>opens with the Chiron nineteen ninety six and we see

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<v Speaker 1>a younger version of Cleatus Cassidy played by Jack Bandira.

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<v Speaker 1>So this is the younger version of Woody Harrelsoon's character.

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<v Speaker 1>Woody Harrelson was about thirty five thirty six in nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>ninety six. He's being played by like a twenty three

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<v Speaker 1>year old man in this flashback, and they dub Woody

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<v Speaker 1>Harrelson's voice now over the performance of Jack Bandera as

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<v Speaker 1>young Kleatus. It is that choice alone is so fucking crazy,

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<v Speaker 1>and you knew when that happened that you were in

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<v Speaker 1>for this shit.

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<v Speaker 3>And and so like the funniest thing about that is

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<v Speaker 3>like that is the most unhinged thing about opening, But

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<v Speaker 3>it almost isn't because like you we're we're introduced to

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<v Speaker 3>them because they're like, so it's Cletus and U Shriek,

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<v Speaker 3>who's Frances Barrison, Ye know me Harris when she's older,

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<v Speaker 3>And they're communicating through their toilets like it's like a

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<v Speaker 3>romantic toilet sister is like they have to put their

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<v Speaker 3>faces next to their toilets to talk to each other

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<v Speaker 3>in this like terrible orphanage there. And also the other

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<v Speaker 3>thing that kind of blew my mind about that opening

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<v Speaker 3>is they just straight up basically say that Shriek is

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<v Speaker 3>a mutant. She's like, she's like, oh, the mutations are

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<v Speaker 3>too strong, And I was like, whoa, I didn't even know,

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<v Speaker 3>like Marvel anyone could say the word mutation, like what's

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<v Speaker 3>going on here? And uh and yeah, I mean that,

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<v Speaker 3>it's just that when they dubbed Woody Harrison's voice, you

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<v Speaker 3>just know you're in for it. You're like, it's it's,

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<v Speaker 3>it's it's things are going on. I mean, well, they

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<v Speaker 3>just so obviously like they wanted to get to the

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<v Speaker 3>end of that, and they wanted to do some cool fights,

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<v Speaker 3>and they wanted to through the mid credit scene. So

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<v Speaker 3>halfway through the movie, they're just like, uh, what's Woody

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<v Speaker 3>Harrison been in before Natural Born Killers? And then they

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<v Speaker 3>just do like twenty minutes of Natural Born Killers with

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<v Speaker 3>him and.

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<v Speaker 1>Shriek, down to his outfit, down to the car, down

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<v Speaker 1>to the way they are driving around. Naomi Harris, you

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<v Speaker 1>want to talk at line reads Naomi Harris in this film, man,

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<v Speaker 1>She's one of the greats. I love her.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>How crazy Also to be like, you saw her in

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<v Speaker 1>two movies that day and it could not be the

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<v Speaker 1>oh yeah in No U of Polar opposites truly, like

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<v Speaker 1>No Time to Die.

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<v Speaker 3>She is just the absolute like smoothest, Yeah, incredible. You

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<v Speaker 3>just watch her and you're like wow, like I just

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<v Speaker 3>want to see like the movie only about Moneypenny, Like

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<v Speaker 3>that's all I want to see. This is just pure

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<v Speaker 3>in this movie, she's just chewing scenery and venom. She's

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<v Speaker 3>loving life. There's that one scene where she's like, he's like,

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<v Speaker 3>I think it's the guy from Veep Dan, and he's

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<v Speaker 3>like Dan was also named Dan in this movie.

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<v Speaker 1>Strangely, they made the decision in movie one to be

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<v Speaker 1>like this actor's most famous role is named Dan, so

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<v Speaker 1>we'll just make him his most famous role is also

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<v Speaker 1>named Dan, so let's also call him Dan. And he

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<v Speaker 1>completely confusing.

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<v Speaker 3>He only has like one he is playing. Even though

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<v Speaker 3>he's not like a total scumbag like he wasn't deep,

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<v Speaker 3>he definitely has a similar energy. So it is like

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<v Speaker 3>really confusing. And then so he says something like he's like, oh,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, Venom's gonna kill you or he's gonna kill

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<v Speaker 3>both of you because they kidnapped Michelle Williams, who's obviously

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<v Speaker 3>not that bothered about it, and she does this line

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<v Speaker 3>reading that is just so iconic because she's like people

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<v Speaker 3>tried it before, and then she just really high pitches

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<v Speaker 3>it and she's like botched it, and you're just like,

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<v Speaker 3>this is unbelievable. Like she is having so much fun.

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<v Speaker 3>I just kind of love that, Like I feel like

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<v Speaker 3>Andy sex is. Their action was just like do whatever

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<v Speaker 3>you want.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, do more, do more, and again, this movie is

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<v Speaker 1>super weird, kind of bad, but they take so many

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<v Speaker 1>crazy like listen, the relationship between Brock and Venom is

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<v Speaker 1>essentially a codependent romantic relationship. Again, at the end of

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<v Speaker 1>the movie, Venom tells Eddie Brock that he loves him

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<v Speaker 1>in a very sincere way, and they spend the entire

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<v Speaker 1>movie when they are together arguing. They then separate. Venom

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<v Speaker 1>goes on this weird like vision quest where he goes

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<v Speaker 1>to a rave.

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<v Speaker 3>That's kind of coded as a Pride yeates lots of rainbows,

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<v Speaker 3>and then he gives a speech about how he's.

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<v Speaker 1>Coming rainbow lights around his body.

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<v Speaker 3>It's it's like, I think that actually, like that the

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<v Speaker 3>one thing that I'm like, they should have just committed

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<v Speaker 3>to that and just made it pride and made it

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<v Speaker 3>obviously they're gay, because everybody knows they're in love with

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<v Speaker 3>each other, like these two codependent, toxic losers in their

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<v Speaker 3>own words.

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<v Speaker 4>You know.

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<v Speaker 3>That was another bit when he was like, you are

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<v Speaker 3>a loser on your planet, and I was like, oh

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<v Speaker 3>my god, this is like the line that I never

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<v Speaker 3>thought we would hear from again where they just both

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<v Speaker 3>call each other losers and admit to being losers. That

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<v Speaker 3>is in the first like five minutes of the movie.

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<v Speaker 3>And he was like, I know what you want. You

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<v Speaker 3>want Venom to talk about how he's a Loser's like yeah, yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Another Like there's so many crazy moments. So at one

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<v Speaker 1>point during the Natural Born Killer's Escapade, Cassidy and Shriek

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<v Speaker 1>are driving around and they stop at a gas station

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<v Speaker 1>where the clerk is just like surfing the internet like

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<v Speaker 1>on a Dell laptop. Cassidy jumps over the counter, kills

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<v Speaker 1>the gas station attendant, and then puts his symbiote fingers

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<v Speaker 1>into the US people hacks. Legitimately hacks the laptop to

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<v Speaker 1>discover the location of the asylum where a shrink was

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<v Speaker 1>being held, and it like creates a browser.

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<v Speaker 3>It creates a red carnage themed browser that somehow from

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<v Speaker 3>a random kid working in a Badega's laptop hacks into

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<v Speaker 3>like top secret police files that the main cop did

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<v Speaker 3>not know about. He didn't even know about them, the

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<v Speaker 3>one cop.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean.

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<v Speaker 3>Also, the other thing is like on a comic book level.

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<v Speaker 3>So Shriek in the comics is a is a symbia,

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<v Speaker 3>she's not. Yes, And we also meet this Patrick Mulligan

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<v Speaker 3>who's played by like legitimately one of the best actors

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<v Speaker 3>in the world, Stephen Graham, and and like he is

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<v Speaker 3>just the funniest like Boston cop kind of trope. And

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<v Speaker 3>he in the comics becomes Toxin. So it's like that

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<v Speaker 3>kind of hot. It was like somebody was trying to

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<v Speaker 3>set up like a planet venom, like multiple symbias.

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<v Speaker 4>But then they were just like eh because because because

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<v Speaker 4>Shrink is.

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<v Speaker 3>Apparently dead at the end of the movie.

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<v Speaker 1>Interesting, So this is this is a perfect bridge to

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<v Speaker 1>start talking about the the universe's expanding tagline from the

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<v Speaker 1>promo materials, which we all assumed would be We're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>get these asexual spawns of carnage and venom. We're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>meet Tocsin, Shreek, et cetera. We're gonna see all the

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<v Speaker 1>kind of like mini symbiotes that have in Marvel cannon

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<v Speaker 1>spun off from Venom. I think that it's we all

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<v Speaker 1>assume that's what it was gonna be. I certainly did.

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<v Speaker 1>And then the mid credits scene comes, and what it

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<v Speaker 1>is is an introduction of Venom into the Marvel timeline.

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<v Speaker 1>I think we're gonna see Venom in uh No Way Home,

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<v Speaker 1>like almost confirmed. Basically, Eddie brock Is is sitting on

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<v Speaker 1>the bed in some shitty hotel, upset about his life.

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<v Speaker 1>He and Vanom are wondering what's next, and then all

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<v Speaker 1>of a sudden, everything changes and they're in this tropical

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<v Speaker 1>location and Peter Parker is on the television uh as

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<v Speaker 1>part of a you know, Daily Bugle editorial comment where

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<v Speaker 1>you know, the Bugle is saying, this guy fucking sucks

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<v Speaker 1>the whole you know, everything that's going on with the

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<v Speaker 1>cereal sucks.

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<v Speaker 3>I think it's the same thing from the end of

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<v Speaker 3>Far From Home. So I think it actually sets it

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<v Speaker 3>up as being basically they join at that moment, which

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<v Speaker 3>is just before No Way Home.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, and Venom says that guard because apparently.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, so I okay, so this is what I think.

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<v Speaker 3>So in that scene, right, so they Eddie takes Venom

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<v Speaker 3>on like a romantic holiday, because Venom's dream is that

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<v Speaker 3>he can like put his toes in the sand and

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<v Speaker 3>feel the wind in his hair and then that but

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<v Speaker 3>it's like kind of a scrubby like hotel. And then

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<v Speaker 3>but just before it happens, Venom says something that I

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<v Speaker 3>think is one of the most hilarious and probably gonna

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<v Speaker 3>end up. It seems like a throwaway line, but I

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<v Speaker 3>think it's gonna be a really big part of No

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<v Speaker 3>Way Home. Venom says to Eddie they're watching a telenovela

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<v Speaker 3>and Venom's like, everybody has secrets, and Eddie's like, oh,

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<v Speaker 3>are you hiding something from me? And then Venom says,

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<v Speaker 3>eighty billion years of the Symbia high mind, you don't

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<v Speaker 3>know what we've seen, like you couldn't comprehend it, blah

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<v Speaker 3>blah blah. And he says he's going to show it

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<v Speaker 3>to Eddie. But then this weird like universal change happens

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<v Speaker 3>and they end up in the MCU. But I think

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<v Speaker 3>because when he sees him, he sees Peter Parker. He

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<v Speaker 3>licks the screen. It's as gross as it should be,

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<v Speaker 3>and he's like that guy. And when we see in

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<v Speaker 3>the trailer for Noway Home when we saw Doc Cok,

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<v Speaker 3>he also recognized Peter, So I think there's gonna be

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<v Speaker 3>some idea of like in the Venom's case, he maybe

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<v Speaker 3>he has seen Peter through the Tota Grace is not

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<v Speaker 3>coming back, but maybe something like that is gonna happen,

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<v Speaker 3>and it's I think it's like, it's very silly, but

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<v Speaker 3>this whole movie is really silly.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's right. So in the comics, eventually we

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<v Speaker 1>get the backstory of the symbiote, who I believe is

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<v Speaker 1>named Clerk and uh because of all the kind of

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<v Speaker 1>like bloodlust and trauma and murders that he's committed. Eventually

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<v Speaker 1>he goes back to the Hive Mind where he's like cleansed.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe we get some kind of version of that that

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<v Speaker 1>allows Venom to not be the weird Sodi Venom and

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<v Speaker 1>and kind of like cleanses it of all the strangers

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<v Speaker 1>and makes it more malleable. For the MCU inclusion, I

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<v Speaker 1>think that they're.

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<v Speaker 3>Probably gonna just like my feeling is, I couldn't really

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<v Speaker 3>want it was blowing my mind when you first watched

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<v Speaker 3>that movie. You just can't be prepared for it. Even

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<v Speaker 3>if you've listened to us talk about it. Now, you

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<v Speaker 3>can't really be prepared.

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<v Speaker 1>EXPERI cannot. You are not ready for how fucking crazy

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<v Speaker 1>this day movie? You just simply are not.

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<v Speaker 3>So you're just not. I saw it like again and

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<v Speaker 3>I still wasn't prepared even though I had already seen it.

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<v Speaker 3>So I do think that there's I just think there's

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<v Speaker 3>kind of some I was trying to work out. Kevin

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<v Speaker 3>Faggy is like a king of quality control. Part of

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<v Speaker 3>the reason they're having to explode the MCU into this

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<v Speaker 3>multi verse now is because of how absolutely streamlined it's

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<v Speaker 3>been up until this point, so it doesn't to me.

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<v Speaker 3>I was like, what can Faggy and the MCU and

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<v Speaker 3>Disney get out of this by not making it something

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<v Speaker 3>where Tom Holland just randomly has a cameo to make

0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.399
<v Speaker 3>Sony happy or whatever and making it where you bring venomin.

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<v Speaker 3>I think it's to get the Symbia into the MCU,

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<v Speaker 3>because then you can you can venomize other characters, you

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<v Speaker 3>can have anti venom you could actually do a black

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<v Speaker 3>Symbia story with Peter or maybe Miles or whatever. And

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<v Speaker 3>I think, really, as much as I would love to

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<v Speaker 3>see how they could fit wild Tom Holland it's just

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<v Speaker 3>it's too wacky. MC Watching that movie, you just realize

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<v Speaker 3>how safe the MCU plays it, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I agree with that. I think that it's going

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<v Speaker 1>to be something like that as in the comics a

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<v Speaker 1>lot like the movie, the Symbia has a like love

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<v Speaker 1>hate relationship with a lot of its hosts, including Eddie Brock,

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<v Speaker 1>and there's a lot of like leaving and coming back

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<v Speaker 1>and leaving Eddie Brock for Peter Parker, but then rediscovering

0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.199
<v Speaker 1>Eddie Brock. And it does that again and again with

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<v Speaker 1>different hosts, and there have been more quote unquote normal hosts.

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<v Speaker 1>So I think that you're right about that. I think

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<v Speaker 1>that we're going to see the I think we're going

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<v Speaker 1>to see the Symbia cleaved off of Eddie at some

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<v Speaker 1>point and maybe kept in a laboratory and studied by

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<v Speaker 1>perhaps a scientist named Reid Richards as they figure out

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<v Speaker 1>a way to kind of introduce the Symbia into like

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<v Speaker 1>the more mainline Marvel canon. That is a lot there's

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<v Speaker 1>just stuff that would not work in Marvel Disney constitution,

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<v Speaker 1>for instance, And again there are so many weird moments

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<v Speaker 1>of this, But like The movie kind of ends with

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<v Speaker 1>Eddie Brock talking to two chickens in the park that

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<v Speaker 1>are his pets that he bought for Venom to eat,

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<v Speaker 1>but Venom didn't want to eat them because their brains

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<v Speaker 1>were too small, and to these and they're best friends.

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<v Speaker 1>Talking to two chickens about the classic Spanish novel Don

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<v Speaker 1>Quixote and the relationship between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a scene in this is also a recurring theme.

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<v Speaker 3>Like it's like it happens once and then he returns there,

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<v Speaker 3>Like it's that's something they really thought was important enough

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<v Speaker 3>to like put in twice. It's mind blowing.

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<v Speaker 1>I think, like so in in Marvel, like, uh, let's

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<v Speaker 1>talk about some of the things that Venom does in

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<v Speaker 1>the comics that we could potentially see in the MCU.

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<v Speaker 1>So Venom, I mean venoms and Guardians in the Galaxy,

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<v Speaker 1>which for a spell which I don't know that people

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<v Speaker 1>really know about.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I think as well, like they've had so much success,

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<v Speaker 3>Like they did a big venomized event where everyone got venomized.

0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.000
<v Speaker 3>You know, they had a venomized t Rex in Old

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<v Speaker 3>Man Logan, they had venomized rocket and group. They had

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<v Speaker 3>venomized everyone, and those toys still sell to this day.

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<v Speaker 3>My nephew has a venomized Miles Morales. They still keep

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<v Speaker 3>venomizing these characters, seeing what would happen when a character,

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<v Speaker 3>So if they wanted to do a kind of darker

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<v Speaker 3>take on something, you know, we've seen them do Marvel

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<v Speaker 3>Zombies a version of it, and what if I wouldn't

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<v Speaker 3>be surprised if we saw some kind of venomized thing

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<v Speaker 3>or saw an unexpected character like Gwen Poole or something

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<v Speaker 3>be introduced in a venomized way with I think that

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<v Speaker 3>they must be really and also they love military stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>I know that one of the Venom the kind of

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<v Speaker 3>like later stage.

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<v Speaker 1>Agent Agent Agent Agent Venom. The was a vet, right, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>he was a vet. It was like a paralyzed vet.

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<v Speaker 3>And then the magical the Venom is like a magical

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<v Speaker 3>disability cure. Is very not good to me. But that

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<v Speaker 3>definitely does seem like something they love. A militarized superhero

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<v Speaker 3>that could be an interesting way. Also would be very

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<v Speaker 3>easy for the Symbia to get into the hands of

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<v Speaker 3>the military and the MCU. So also that space is

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<v Speaker 3>a big thing right now, not just in what if

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<v Speaker 3>but with the scrolls and everything else, so we could

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<v Speaker 3>even there could even be something where the tom Hardy

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<v Speaker 3>venom coming into the MCU is not necessarily a fake out,

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<v Speaker 3>but is a bit of a red herring for where

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<v Speaker 3>the real symbia might come from with all the space exploration.

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<v Speaker 1>Actually, you know now that you mention it. It was

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<v Speaker 1>recently revealed that the Symbio and Gore, the God Butcher

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<v Speaker 1>like share a common ancestry.

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<v Speaker 3>That makes a lot of sense when you think about

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<v Speaker 3>Gore's powers.

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<v Speaker 1>Actually, yeah, so I could see the symbia being a

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<v Speaker 1>bridge to love and thunder in some form or fashion

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<v Speaker 1>to get us prepared for the God Butcher.

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<v Speaker 3>Also as well, like if you were going to trust

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<v Speaker 3>one person and one tone in the MCU to bridge

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<v Speaker 3>those it would be tiger like.

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<v Speaker 1>It would tid.

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<v Speaker 3>Humor and the cheekiness, but also with the ability to

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<v Speaker 3>tell like slick human character based stories that you would

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<v Speaker 3>probably need to kind of take venom from the venom.

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<v Speaker 3>Let there be carnage to a venom that's acceptable in

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<v Speaker 3>the MCU.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you have any venom rex for people who are

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<v Speaker 1>like I gotta know about venom?

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<v Speaker 3>Well, I think the number one thing you need to

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<v Speaker 3>read because of it was a it was a let's say,

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<v Speaker 3>and I'm going to put the inverted commas around inspiration,

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<v Speaker 3>but it was definitely an inspiration for this movie. Is

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<v Speaker 3>Venom lethal Protector?

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<v Speaker 1>That's I mean they mentioned it only fifteen twenty times mo.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean they even proceed the coming to the

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<v Speaker 3>MCU where they're like, you know, He's like, we'll go

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<v Speaker 3>wherever they need a lethal protector, and that means a

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<v Speaker 3>lot to Venom because he really wants to be known

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<v Speaker 3>as the lethal Protector. But that's a really classic series

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<v Speaker 3>sees Venom take on more of a he he thinks

0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:15.080
<v Speaker 3>he's a hero because of the threat of other symbias

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<v Speaker 3>and stuff Planet Venom. Also, if you want to know

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<v Speaker 3>more about the kind of characters that we've seen in here,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm I think one of the reasons this movie and

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<v Speaker 3>the first movie was so popular, Venom was such like

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<v Speaker 3>an inherently nineties staple. Yes, there were clothes of Venom,

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<v Speaker 3>there were baseball shirts, there were toys, there was POGs,

0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:36.480
<v Speaker 3>there stationary.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know, that was a very ninety.

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<v Speaker 3>I think that we people who grew up in the

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<v Speaker 3>nineties or who were around that whether you were a

0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:46.800
<v Speaker 3>little kid, whether you're a teenager who thought it was cool, whatever,

0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:49.359
<v Speaker 3>that is the buying market for these movies. And I

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<v Speaker 3>think this is the ultimate nostalgia payoff for Sony because

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<v Speaker 3>I just that has to be the reason why people

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<v Speaker 3>go to these So I think looking back to those

0:23:57.480 --> 0:24:01.680
<v Speaker 3>nineties comics is like really fun. Also, the original black

0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:07.280
<v Speaker 3>Suit Symbia Spider Man storyline, it's just really tall. The

0:24:07.520 --> 0:24:11.600
<v Speaker 3>art is amazing. It's really interesting to read, and you

0:24:11.640 --> 0:24:15.760
<v Speaker 3>will be surprised by how how accurate this Spider Man

0:24:15.840 --> 0:24:19.920
<v Speaker 3>three representation is. Like when comparing it to Venom, You're like, wow,

0:24:19.960 --> 0:24:23.680
<v Speaker 3>Spider Man three really was like into the comic book accuracy.

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<v Speaker 1>I also, I will notice that it appears that his

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<v Speaker 1>bracelet budget was cut.

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<v Speaker 3>I know it was disrespectful. It was for the wigs.

0:24:33.640 --> 0:24:36.960
<v Speaker 1>That must have been what it's for, because you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we're talking like a mid five figure bracelet budget. For

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<v Speaker 1>the first movie.

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<v Speaker 3>They let him keep his horrible leather jacket with a

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<v Speaker 3>zip down the middle. That was like it, and then

0:24:49.160 --> 0:24:51.600
<v Speaker 3>they were like, we need to spend at least five

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<v Speaker 3>hundred dollars on Patrick Mulligan's wig. And also Woody Harrison's

0:24:55.480 --> 0:24:59.760
<v Speaker 3>Wig justice for Woody Harrison's original Venom Stinger Wig, though,

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<v Speaker 3>because I would have loved to see this movie. I

0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:05.359
<v Speaker 3>feel like this one wasn't good, but I missed the chaotic,

0:25:05.520 --> 0:25:10.679
<v Speaker 3>noodle headed like red nightmare wig from this Stinger.

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<v Speaker 1>So who are we going to see? Your predictions? Who

0:25:14.760 --> 0:25:16.200
<v Speaker 1>we're going to see? In No Way Home?

0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:21.840
<v Speaker 3>And after that ending, which i'd heard, i'd heard rumblings

0:25:21.880 --> 0:25:23.720
<v Speaker 3>that maybe Tom Holland would be it. I did not

0:25:23.880 --> 0:25:26.200
<v Speaker 3>believe it. I didn't he believe it.

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<v Speaker 1>I was shot fell open.

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<v Speaker 3>I'd heard people saying like, oh, supposedly he's going to

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<v Speaker 3>be in this post credit scene, and I was like, yeah,

0:25:35.000 --> 0:25:37.320
<v Speaker 3>of course he is, sure, Like wink wink, where did

0:25:37.320 --> 0:25:38.280
<v Speaker 3>you get that news from?

0:25:38.359 --> 0:25:39.040
<v Speaker 1>I was wrong?

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<v Speaker 3>So after that, I just think it's all bets are off.

0:25:41.880 --> 0:25:47.800
<v Speaker 3>I think we're definitely obviously seeing the old Spiders. Yeah,

0:25:48.080 --> 0:25:52.000
<v Speaker 3>Andrew and Toby. I'm really hoping if that's the case.

0:25:52.040 --> 0:25:54.600
<v Speaker 3>And now that we've seen that they're open to having

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<v Speaker 3>Tom Hardy's definitely going to be in it, We're gonna

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<v Speaker 3>at least see Eddie Brock. Momentarily. I don't think they're

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<v Speaker 3>going to bring to because I think that it makes

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<v Speaker 3>they can just be like the symbia is the connecting

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<v Speaker 3>tissue there right right. What I'm really hoping is we're

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<v Speaker 3>gonna get to see Nicholas Hammond, who played the Old

0:26:09.119 --> 0:26:11.399
<v Speaker 3>Spider Man in the CBS TV shows. I want to

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<v Speaker 3>see the guy who played Japanese Spider Man. Like, if

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<v Speaker 3>they're really gonna do it, I'm like, let's just do it.

0:26:17.280 --> 0:26:21.000
<v Speaker 3>And after Venomide, no, I would love to see Spider

0:26:21.040 --> 0:26:23.400
<v Speaker 3>Ham Spider Ham's and Icon. I mean, bring in Nicholas

0:26:23.440 --> 0:26:27.400
<v Speaker 3>Cage as yea as Spider Man. I think we could

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<v Speaker 3>see Miles now. I don't know if they would do

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know if they would do something where in

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<v Speaker 3>a momentary animated sequence of the Multiverse we saw into

0:26:37.119 --> 0:26:39.800
<v Speaker 3>the Spider Verse Miles or something. But I think Miles

0:26:39.920 --> 0:26:42.640
<v Speaker 3>is coming soon. I just, I honestly are I never

0:26:42.720 --> 0:26:45.040
<v Speaker 3>saw that venom ending coming, and now I just think

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<v Speaker 3>anyone's going to be in it.

0:26:46.400 --> 0:26:50.159
<v Speaker 1>I wonder if we do see I think we're introduced

0:26:50.200 --> 0:26:53.800
<v Speaker 1>to him, maybe not powered up, but I was thinking,

0:26:54.480 --> 0:26:57.280
<v Speaker 1>you know, who knows what the off ramp here is

0:26:57.640 --> 0:27:00.359
<v Speaker 1>or I don't know what Tom Hardy's contract is, but

0:27:00.400 --> 0:27:03.280
<v Speaker 1>there's a world in which obviously the Sinister Six is

0:27:03.320 --> 0:27:08.200
<v Speaker 1>going to be involved in this. We've got basically everyone now,

0:27:08.720 --> 0:27:14.480
<v Speaker 1>you know, ultimate Peter Parker perishes while fighting the Sinister Six,

0:27:14.600 --> 0:27:18.640
<v Speaker 1>and that paves away for Miles Morales. You know, theoretically,

0:27:18.680 --> 0:27:20.600
<v Speaker 1>that's on the table if they wanted to do that.

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<v Speaker 3>I do think that this movie, we're going to see

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<v Speaker 3>a version of doctor Strange die. We now know there's

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<v Speaker 3>probably multiple versions. I think we're going to see a

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<v Speaker 3>version of Peter die, probably the main version. Tom Holand

0:27:31.359 --> 0:27:33.720
<v Speaker 3>has played this character for a long time. He's old now.

0:27:34.160 --> 0:27:36.800
<v Speaker 3>And also we all know, if you've read the comics,

0:27:36.920 --> 0:27:38.840
<v Speaker 3>those almost Spider Ma comics, there is a part of

0:27:38.840 --> 0:27:42.000
<v Speaker 3>that storyline where you have Peter and Miles together. So

0:27:42.119 --> 0:27:44.719
<v Speaker 3>it's not like Tom Holand couldn't come back. But I

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<v Speaker 3>do think that we're going to see a lot of deaths.

0:27:47.359 --> 0:27:49.280
<v Speaker 3>I think they're going to go for a even though

0:27:49.320 --> 0:27:50.719
<v Speaker 3>it's only been a few years, I think they're going

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<v Speaker 3>to try and go for an endgame style event movie

0:27:53.720 --> 0:27:56.600
<v Speaker 3>that's going to introduce a ton of big cameo moments

0:27:56.600 --> 0:27:59.920
<v Speaker 3>and also some emotional death situation.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a good point because like what is as we're

0:28:02.600 --> 0:28:06.080
<v Speaker 1>looking ahead here, what's the Team Up movie? That's the

0:28:06.080 --> 0:28:10.359
<v Speaker 1>thing that we're missing is the Avengers framework, you know,

0:28:10.720 --> 0:28:13.119
<v Speaker 1>and and the you know, the Captain America acted this

0:28:13.160 --> 0:28:16.639
<v Speaker 1>way too. Is it No Way Home? Or do you

0:28:16.880 --> 0:28:19.600
<v Speaker 1>or is it? Is it mouthed Madness? Do you think

0:28:19.760 --> 0:28:21.160
<v Speaker 1>that is the Team Up movie?

0:28:21.280 --> 0:28:23.679
<v Speaker 3>I think it's probably gonna be Mouth of Madness. I

0:28:23.720 --> 0:28:26.960
<v Speaker 3>think that No Way Home. We're gonna get multiverse, A

0:28:27.080 --> 0:28:29.080
<v Speaker 3>Multiverse of Madness. Yeah, I know, it's that's where they

0:28:29.119 --> 0:28:30.760
<v Speaker 3>took the name from. I think it's okay to get

0:28:30.800 --> 0:28:32.959
<v Speaker 3>it mixed up. Yeah, Doctor Stranger in the Multiverse of Madness.

0:28:32.960 --> 0:28:34.560
<v Speaker 3>I think that's gonna be the team up. You're gonna

0:28:34.600 --> 0:28:36.520
<v Speaker 3>have Wonder, You're gonna have Strange. It's Wonder gonna be

0:28:36.520 --> 0:28:39.680
<v Speaker 3>on his side, who knows. You know, that's potentially where

0:28:39.680 --> 0:28:44.000
<v Speaker 3>you could get some more cosmic characters are clear, Maybe

0:28:44.680 --> 0:28:47.640
<v Speaker 3>you know some Mount Wondergore stuff. We they hinted at

0:28:47.640 --> 0:28:50.240
<v Speaker 3>the other at the end of that's my personal dream.

0:28:50.280 --> 0:28:51.600
<v Speaker 3>I will keep talking about it forever.

0:28:52.600 --> 0:28:52.840
<v Speaker 1>I do.

0:28:53.400 --> 0:28:56.560
<v Speaker 3>Simon Williams wonder Man like. I think they could introduce

0:28:56.600 --> 0:29:00.480
<v Speaker 3>a bunch of different weird characters in there or eventually

0:29:00.840 --> 0:29:04.400
<v Speaker 3>if we see No Way Home as maybe Malivas Madness

0:29:05.160 --> 0:29:07.880
<v Speaker 3>as like a two pot movie because we know Doc

0:29:07.960 --> 0:29:11.360
<v Speaker 3>Strangers both. Maybe No Way Home is going to introduce

0:29:11.400 --> 0:29:15.120
<v Speaker 3>some characters that we will then see Tea Mop in

0:29:15.520 --> 0:29:16.560
<v Speaker 3>Malis Madness.

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<v Speaker 1>I Love it Up. Next, Rosie and I step into

0:29:19.640 --> 0:29:22.840
<v Speaker 1>the airlock where we talk about the finale of What If.

0:29:35.920 --> 0:29:38.360
<v Speaker 1>We're back today. We're stepping out of the airlock and

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<v Speaker 1>into the multiverse to discuss the finale of the first

0:29:42.320 --> 0:29:47.240
<v Speaker 1>season of What If. First, a quick recap, so the

0:29:47.240 --> 0:29:50.880
<v Speaker 1>finale builds on the events of episode eight, What If

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<v Speaker 1>Ultron one, in which post apocalyptic Black Widow and Clint

0:30:01.320 --> 0:30:04.560
<v Speaker 1>make a deal with the devil, in this case the

0:30:04.680 --> 0:30:09.640
<v Speaker 1>Nazi former Nazi, current Nazi, former founder of Shield Arnim Zola,

0:30:10.440 --> 0:30:13.719
<v Speaker 1>and download him into an arrow in the hopes that

0:30:13.760 --> 0:30:18.480
<v Speaker 1>they can use him to to corrupt Ultron. Can't be

0:30:18.520 --> 0:30:25.400
<v Speaker 1>said enough, Arnam Zola, Let's remember this active Nazi and

0:30:25.440 --> 0:30:27.400
<v Speaker 1>that and that leads us into episode nine, What If

0:30:27.440 --> 0:30:31.040
<v Speaker 1>the Watcher Broke is Oath, in which in order to

0:30:31.080 --> 0:30:35.200
<v Speaker 1>defeat Ultron, the Watcher assembles the Guardians of the Multiverse,

0:30:35.240 --> 0:30:38.959
<v Speaker 1>who are these various characters who we have encountered throughout

0:30:39.000 --> 0:30:44.600
<v Speaker 1>the course of this series. They are Captain Carter, Star

0:30:44.680 --> 0:30:49.120
<v Speaker 1>Lord t'chala, a variant of Gomora that killed Thanos in

0:30:49.160 --> 0:30:58.880
<v Speaker 1>her universe, Killmonger, King of Wakanda, Party Thooruh Corrupted Strange,

0:30:58.960 --> 0:31:02.840
<v Speaker 1>and then they meet up with a post apocalyptic gnat

0:31:02.840 --> 0:31:07.360
<v Speaker 1>who has the the Arnomzola arrow. Let's talk about this.

0:31:08.240 --> 0:31:11.840
<v Speaker 3>I love that description. It really it really sums up

0:31:11.880 --> 0:31:13.080
<v Speaker 3>the chaos, the kind.

0:31:12.960 --> 0:31:16.200
<v Speaker 1>Of action I mean, it's an action pat Like, you know,

0:31:16.240 --> 0:31:20.240
<v Speaker 1>there's about eight minutes of setup in which we you know,

0:31:20.280 --> 0:31:25.160
<v Speaker 1>we get a really fun, fun scene of that's basically

0:31:25.240 --> 0:31:31.520
<v Speaker 1>Captain Carter in the opening intro from Captain America Winter Soldier,

0:31:31.720 --> 0:31:34.320
<v Speaker 1>like doing the strike on the Lemurian Star. Like, the

0:31:34.440 --> 0:31:36.640
<v Speaker 1>dialogue is the same, the whole thing is the same.

0:31:37.760 --> 0:31:41.640
<v Speaker 1>She's fighting Batrock the Leaper as the Watcher shows up

0:31:41.640 --> 0:31:43.880
<v Speaker 1>and it's like, okay, we need you to come with me,

0:31:44.560 --> 0:31:46.760
<v Speaker 1>and then we just basically get into it. We see

0:31:46.840 --> 0:31:49.680
<v Speaker 1>Killmonger as well, and then it's like they just get

0:31:49.680 --> 0:31:52.360
<v Speaker 1>into the action. Yeah.

0:31:52.400 --> 0:31:54.480
<v Speaker 3>He just he plucks them from all over and he's

0:31:54.520 --> 0:31:57.160
<v Speaker 3>just like paw, like you need to fight this Evil

0:31:57.360 --> 0:31:58.880
<v Speaker 3>Vision Ultron Combo.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, I will say from an action point of view,

0:32:02.320 --> 0:32:04.840
<v Speaker 1>this felt like the most one of the most comic

0:32:04.880 --> 0:32:08.120
<v Speaker 1>bookie Marvel properties I've seen in terms of the way

0:32:08.200 --> 0:32:15.040
<v Speaker 1>like everybody's abilities work together, the kind of synergy between characters.

0:32:15.360 --> 0:32:17.960
<v Speaker 1>I thought the character choice was very interesting here.

0:32:18.920 --> 0:32:23.040
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and I do think that that episode a where

0:32:23.800 --> 0:32:27.000
<v Speaker 3>we saw the Watcher and Infiniteultroun like punching each other

0:32:27.040 --> 0:32:30.320
<v Speaker 3>through the multiverse, that really was the key point where

0:32:30.320 --> 0:32:33.280
<v Speaker 3>I was like, oh, this is like, this is comic bookie,

0:32:33.280 --> 0:32:35.120
<v Speaker 3>This is like what you can do with something based

0:32:35.120 --> 0:32:37.640
<v Speaker 3>on a comic book. I also think Disney was having

0:32:37.680 --> 0:32:40.040
<v Speaker 3>some fun. I think like Mustafar from Star Wars was

0:32:40.040 --> 0:32:41.880
<v Speaker 3>in there and they were punching through I saw an

0:32:41.880 --> 0:32:43.880
<v Speaker 3>area that like that the area, and then they kind

0:32:43.880 --> 0:32:47.080
<v Speaker 3>of definitely continued that on in the finale with this

0:32:47.360 --> 0:32:52.320
<v Speaker 3>really outrageous just like twenty five minutes of fighting and

0:32:52.400 --> 0:32:56.240
<v Speaker 3>crazy powers and unexpected team ups.

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<v Speaker 1>Now let's talk about first we were talking looking in

0:33:00.320 --> 0:33:05.440
<v Speaker 1>the pre pro about the depiction of the stones here Ultron.

0:33:05.520 --> 0:33:09.480
<v Speaker 1>The way he uses them I think probably the best

0:33:09.520 --> 0:33:12.160
<v Speaker 1>and most accurate like use of the stone, like where

0:33:12.160 --> 0:33:16.160
<v Speaker 1>you really get a feel for how they work for

0:33:16.240 --> 0:33:19.840
<v Speaker 1>me is either their intros in the various Marvel movies

0:33:19.920 --> 0:33:22.680
<v Speaker 1>right where you're over the course of the movie that

0:33:22.800 --> 0:33:26.000
<v Speaker 1>introduces each Stone, you know, Powerstone and Guardians for instance,

0:33:26.560 --> 0:33:30.520
<v Speaker 1>you see what they each do, and then the fight

0:33:30.640 --> 0:33:34.280
<v Speaker 1>on Titan in Infinity War with Panos, I think was

0:33:34.600 --> 0:33:38.480
<v Speaker 1>a good display here. It's as we were talking about,

0:33:38.560 --> 0:33:42.560
<v Speaker 1>it's kind of just like Ultron is very powerful period.

0:33:43.040 --> 0:33:45.600
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I think as well, Like I think something that

0:33:45.640 --> 0:33:48.440
<v Speaker 3>this show did that works on some levels and for

0:33:48.560 --> 0:33:50.640
<v Speaker 3>me makes it a little bit less impactful on others,

0:33:50.720 --> 0:33:53.560
<v Speaker 3>is like it's so heavily based on MCU and MCU

0:33:53.680 --> 0:33:57.120
<v Speaker 3>law that it almost kind of ignores unless it's bringing

0:33:57.120 --> 0:33:59.400
<v Speaker 3>new cool stuff in from the comics like Shimigorath, who

0:33:59.440 --> 0:34:02.000
<v Speaker 3>I love, but like a lot of times like it's

0:34:02.080 --> 0:34:04.240
<v Speaker 3>law is so based on the MCU that here they're

0:34:04.280 --> 0:34:06.040
<v Speaker 3>just kind of like, what are the Infinity Gems do?

0:34:06.440 --> 0:34:08.840
<v Speaker 3>They're powerful, and I'm like, no, I want to see

0:34:08.960 --> 0:34:12.280
<v Speaker 3>this infinite Ultron has the gems. He has this infinite

0:34:12.360 --> 0:34:15.439
<v Speaker 3>understanding of the universe and everything about it. He even

0:34:15.760 --> 0:34:19.120
<v Speaker 3>understands that the gems are different on each universe and

0:34:19.160 --> 0:34:21.919
<v Speaker 3>in each space but like the only thing we see

0:34:21.960 --> 0:34:24.280
<v Speaker 3>him do is just use the timestone like really quickly,

0:34:24.480 --> 0:34:26.000
<v Speaker 3>and I'm like, I want to see I want to

0:34:26.040 --> 0:34:29.600
<v Speaker 3>see what these gems can do in this unbelievable cosmic

0:34:29.719 --> 0:34:33.320
<v Speaker 3>space that they've created, like rather than just making some people.

0:34:33.360 --> 0:34:35.600
<v Speaker 3>Same with kill Manger, he gets those gems and he's

0:34:35.680 --> 0:34:38.600
<v Speaker 3>just like cool, and I'm like, no, do something with them,

0:34:38.640 --> 0:34:40.160
<v Speaker 3>Like you could do it again with them.

0:34:40.040 --> 0:34:40.239
<v Speaker 4>You know.

0:34:40.320 --> 0:34:43.240
<v Speaker 1>With the with the kill Monger part, I could almost

0:34:43.400 --> 0:34:45.319
<v Speaker 1>I could argue it away in the sense that like

0:34:45.440 --> 0:34:48.200
<v Speaker 1>he just picked them up, you know what. I Like,

0:34:48.200 --> 0:34:51.319
<v Speaker 1>like there would be yes, your kind of theoretically your

0:34:51.360 --> 0:34:56.239
<v Speaker 1>consciousness is expanded to like every quarter of the of

0:34:56.280 --> 0:35:01.320
<v Speaker 1>the galaxy and the universe. But I could see there

0:35:01.360 --> 0:35:04.919
<v Speaker 1>being you know, a period in which you're like still

0:35:04.920 --> 0:35:05.680
<v Speaker 1>figuring them out.

0:35:05.760 --> 0:35:06.120
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

0:35:06.160 --> 0:35:07.960
<v Speaker 3>And also if he's learning from what he saw from

0:35:08.040 --> 0:35:10.439
<v Speaker 3>Infant Ultron, he wouldn't really know how to use them.

0:35:10.480 --> 0:35:12.839
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, that's actually that's actually really fair.

0:35:13.000 --> 0:35:16.640
<v Speaker 1>So that part was fine, but like Ultron should just

0:35:16.760 --> 0:35:20.440
<v Speaker 1>be really good. He has, by this point in his

0:35:20.520 --> 0:35:24.919
<v Speaker 1>life cycle, has like taken out multiple universes. I think

0:35:24.960 --> 0:35:25.840
<v Speaker 1>at this point.

0:35:25.680 --> 0:35:29.160
<v Speaker 3>He he somehow is able to utilize the power of

0:35:29.160 --> 0:35:32.000
<v Speaker 3>the stones to make himself like a giant cool galactus head,

0:35:32.000 --> 0:35:35.360
<v Speaker 3>and he's looking through different multiverses. It is the ultimate,

0:35:36.239 --> 0:35:40.520
<v Speaker 3>the ultimate quandary of any comic book type story, which

0:35:40.560 --> 0:35:46.080
<v Speaker 3>is the super overpowered villain against the relatively human and.

0:35:46.040 --> 0:35:49.480
<v Speaker 1>Relatable heroes should not lose, right exactly.

0:35:49.280 --> 0:35:52.839
<v Speaker 3>But the big kind of catch there is we have

0:35:52.960 --> 0:35:56.840
<v Speaker 3>like ultra overpowered, unbelievable, corrupted, crazy Strange.

0:35:57.200 --> 0:36:00.680
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned Strange because listen, if you've

0:36:00.680 --> 0:36:03.440
<v Speaker 1>been on the internet at all, you've seen these like

0:36:04.000 --> 0:36:07.960
<v Speaker 1>meme formats where it's like this Blue Team first Red Team,

0:36:08.160 --> 0:36:11.239
<v Speaker 1>or one's Gotta go, or which selection of five like

0:36:11.880 --> 0:36:16.920
<v Speaker 1>characters from comic book movies beats beats what other selection

0:36:17.000 --> 0:36:20.800
<v Speaker 1>of five characters? And the thing you have to realize

0:36:20.800 --> 0:36:24.279
<v Speaker 1>about doctor Strange is he's overpowered. Like a lot of

0:36:24.680 --> 0:36:27.719
<v Speaker 1>big fights that happen in comic books are like how

0:36:27.760 --> 0:36:31.480
<v Speaker 1>do we how do we get Strange on the sidelines

0:36:31.520 --> 0:36:34.520
<v Speaker 1>for long enough? And it makes sense that they wouldn't

0:36:34.560 --> 0:36:37.520
<v Speaker 1>just win. Doctor Strange at one point in this First

0:36:37.560 --> 0:36:40.960
<v Speaker 1>of all, he like creates a protective ward that saves

0:36:41.000 --> 0:36:44.000
<v Speaker 1>everyone's life a million times in the fight.

0:36:44.080 --> 0:36:47.120
<v Speaker 3>And makes like super cool like cosmic amah. So it's

0:36:47.160 --> 0:36:50.280
<v Speaker 3>like staguly pleasing, and it's also very useful.

0:36:50.920 --> 0:36:53.800
<v Speaker 1>Conjures a three headed dragon like he does all these things.

0:36:53.920 --> 0:37:00.480
<v Speaker 1>He at one point, ultron like creates an explosion that

0:37:00.760 --> 0:37:04.319
<v Speaker 1>is like the size of the galaxy and Strange eats it.

0:37:04.880 --> 0:37:07.040
<v Speaker 1>He literally just is like I'm just gonna swallow this

0:37:07.120 --> 0:37:11.600
<v Speaker 1>and it does nothing to me. Strange is so fucking powerful,

0:37:12.200 --> 0:37:15.239
<v Speaker 1>and it is it is nuts how strong he is.

0:37:16.080 --> 0:37:19.400
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's basically it's a really it's a really nice

0:37:19.400 --> 0:37:21.080
<v Speaker 3>bit of payoff. I feel like one of the things

0:37:21.120 --> 0:37:23.960
<v Speaker 3>about this show is it's sometimes I wasn't sure if

0:37:23.960 --> 0:37:26.040
<v Speaker 3>it was connected or it wasn't gonna be connected. But

0:37:26.080 --> 0:37:28.600
<v Speaker 3>this is a really good payoff for that episode four

0:37:28.840 --> 0:37:32.520
<v Speaker 3>where it's the and he imbibes all those weird monsters

0:37:32.560 --> 0:37:35.719
<v Speaker 3>and everything, and and I just I liked seeing his

0:37:35.760 --> 0:37:37.960
<v Speaker 3>wild powers here. There's like a nice not You see

0:37:38.000 --> 0:37:40.960
<v Speaker 3>him kind of become or at least inhabit the powers

0:37:41.000 --> 0:37:44.239
<v Speaker 3>of like a schumagor Ath esque tent called creature, and

0:37:44.560 --> 0:37:47.320
<v Speaker 3>he really that almost beats infinite John. And that's really

0:37:47.320 --> 0:37:50.640
<v Speaker 3>cool because in like the old stuff where they're first

0:37:50.680 --> 0:37:54.560
<v Speaker 3>introducing Shumagorath in Marvel premiere. Oh no, I think it's

0:37:54.560 --> 0:37:59.080
<v Speaker 3>actually Strange Tales Volume two fourteen. Schuma and Stranger like

0:37:59.160 --> 0:38:01.440
<v Speaker 3>facing down and is like, if you try and fight me,

0:38:01.520 --> 0:38:03.919
<v Speaker 3>you're gonna become me. And it's like, yeah, like that's

0:38:04.000 --> 0:38:06.520
<v Speaker 3>literally what happened to Strange. It like that was a

0:38:06.560 --> 0:38:10.920
<v Speaker 3>really cool nod. But sadly Schumer cannot ultimately be the

0:38:10.960 --> 0:38:12.799
<v Speaker 3>one thing to be him, so they obviously will have

0:38:12.840 --> 0:38:15.719
<v Speaker 3>to team up, which is the It's the point of

0:38:15.760 --> 0:38:21.360
<v Speaker 3>the Avengers, right or the Guardians of the Multibus. I.

0:38:21.360 --> 0:38:24.600
<v Speaker 1>I also love that the Strange tapped into Schumer gower

0:38:24.600 --> 0:38:29.399
<v Speaker 1>Ath's dimension, his demonic classic, a classic Strange move when

0:38:29.440 --> 0:38:34.520
<v Speaker 1>it's like, Okay, the fight's not going well, break the

0:38:34.600 --> 0:38:37.640
<v Speaker 1>glass on the you know, the emergency switch, and I

0:38:37.719 --> 0:38:40.160
<v Speaker 1>guess I'm gonna have to like tap into some demon

0:38:40.200 --> 0:38:43.840
<v Speaker 1>dimension or like drink the drink the vial of Zong

0:38:44.440 --> 0:38:47.320
<v Speaker 1>and become a demon as he does in like Planet Hulk,

0:38:47.680 --> 0:38:50.120
<v Speaker 1>which is a thing. The thing I love about it is,

0:38:50.520 --> 0:38:52.759
<v Speaker 1>you know Strange wants to do this, like yeah, he

0:38:52.800 --> 0:38:55.960
<v Speaker 1>loves power, he loves he loves it. He's he like

0:38:56.160 --> 0:39:00.960
<v Speaker 1>all day is in the you know, his sanctum, coming

0:39:01.040 --> 0:39:04.600
<v Speaker 1>up with reasons that he shouldn't tap into a demon

0:39:04.680 --> 0:39:07.560
<v Speaker 1>dimension or like drink the vial of zomb but now

0:39:07.560 --> 0:39:10.960
<v Speaker 1>he gets to do it. Yeah, so he he loves

0:39:11.040 --> 0:39:12.839
<v Speaker 1>to do shit like this. Of course it doesn't work,

0:39:12.840 --> 0:39:17.000
<v Speaker 1>and then Strange will spend the next like several story

0:39:17.160 --> 0:39:20.360
<v Speaker 1>arcs dealing with the fallout of I tapped into the

0:39:20.360 --> 0:39:22.360
<v Speaker 1>dimension of Schuma Goraz and now what do I do?

0:39:23.000 --> 0:39:26.279
<v Speaker 1>But I love that. I love that that happened. And yeah,

0:39:26.280 --> 0:39:28.680
<v Speaker 1>thattle scene was that, you know, it was shot really

0:39:28.719 --> 0:39:32.439
<v Speaker 1>well with we're constantly you know, focused on the soul

0:39:32.520 --> 0:39:35.040
<v Speaker 1>gem and it's like, oh, now it's kicking over here,

0:39:35.120 --> 0:39:36.879
<v Speaker 1>and now they can't get it, and now this person

0:39:36.960 --> 0:39:38.879
<v Speaker 1>is trying to get it. Yeah, that was really fun.

0:39:38.960 --> 0:39:40.600
<v Speaker 3>And I think that is something that I think is

0:39:40.680 --> 0:39:42.880
<v Speaker 3>kind of cool is if people have grown up on

0:39:42.920 --> 0:39:45.000
<v Speaker 3>the MCU, which like a lot of people have because

0:39:45.000 --> 0:39:47.720
<v Speaker 3>it's been going on for so long. Now this it

0:39:47.719 --> 0:39:51.919
<v Speaker 3>it's got its own set of easter eggs and references

0:39:51.960 --> 0:39:54.600
<v Speaker 3>that people who maybe haven't really gone into the comics

0:39:54.880 --> 0:39:56.880
<v Speaker 3>but love the MCU. Like when they were having that

0:39:56.920 --> 0:39:59.799
<v Speaker 3>big final fight, it definitely echoed the Battle of New York.

0:40:00.040 --> 0:40:01.680
<v Speaker 3>You know where they're going around, and you get to

0:40:01.680 --> 0:40:03.880
<v Speaker 3>see the different weapons, and you get that circle of

0:40:03.920 --> 0:40:06.160
<v Speaker 3>the kind of Dolly shot almost. I thought that was

0:40:06.560 --> 0:40:09.480
<v Speaker 3>really nice, kind of it's nice to look at what

0:40:09.520 --> 0:40:12.560
<v Speaker 3>came before, while also kind of making something that's it's

0:40:12.560 --> 0:40:13.360
<v Speaker 3>a little bit different.

0:40:13.760 --> 0:40:16.520
<v Speaker 1>I want to shout out the fun Star Wars easter

0:40:16.600 --> 0:40:18.960
<v Speaker 1>egg when when all Shan first shows up and drops

0:40:18.960 --> 0:40:21.960
<v Speaker 1>the mountain on everybody, and he does the all too

0:40:22.000 --> 0:40:25.680
<v Speaker 1>easy just straight out of you know, Empire shregs back

0:40:25.719 --> 0:40:29.960
<v Speaker 1>when Darth thinks he's taken out his son Luke, but

0:40:30.000 --> 0:40:32.600
<v Speaker 1>then he hasn't, and Luke leaps up into the ceiling.

0:40:32.880 --> 0:40:37.120
<v Speaker 1>Let's talk about the morality of including some of these characters,

0:40:37.480 --> 0:40:40.320
<v Speaker 1>because there are some. I think there are a few

0:40:40.520 --> 0:40:45.560
<v Speaker 1>head scratchers, genocidal killmonger who listened, he took over Wakanda,

0:40:46.000 --> 0:40:51.320
<v Speaker 1>he killed Tony and killed and T'Challa many people. Obviously

0:40:51.440 --> 0:40:59.080
<v Speaker 1>is one of the smartest and most brilliant strategists that

0:40:59.120 --> 0:41:02.400
<v Speaker 1>we've seen him in, but I think perhaps a head scratcher.

0:41:02.440 --> 0:41:07.960
<v Speaker 1>And then of course active Nazi arnhim Zola again not

0:41:08.080 --> 0:41:11.839
<v Speaker 1>an X, not an active, still loves Nazis, still loves

0:41:12.719 --> 0:41:17.600
<v Speaker 1>the Nazi shit, likesibly doing the Nazi stuff. Or it's the.

0:41:17.680 --> 0:41:20.360
<v Speaker 3>Ultimate curse of the MCU being so tied to Hydra

0:41:20.840 --> 0:41:23.319
<v Speaker 3>Is in the comics Hydra Nazis and even if the

0:41:23.400 --> 0:41:25.319
<v Speaker 3>MCU doesn't want to deal with that, that's just how

0:41:25.360 --> 0:41:27.719
<v Speaker 3>it is. And so that that always kind of I'm like,

0:41:28.239 --> 0:41:30.439
<v Speaker 3>I'm I feel like, surely you could have hank him

0:41:30.680 --> 0:41:33.680
<v Speaker 3>Jarvis Bruce Banner's computer from when he was a kid

0:41:33.680 --> 0:41:36.560
<v Speaker 3>in the eighties and he coded something. I feel like, narratively,

0:41:36.560 --> 0:41:39.200
<v Speaker 3>there's other places you could go. But I also understand

0:41:39.239 --> 0:41:43.400
<v Speaker 3>that Animzolar is like so intricately connected to the MCU

0:41:43.480 --> 0:41:46.359
<v Speaker 3>at this point, so like I get why he's where

0:41:46.400 --> 0:41:48.440
<v Speaker 3>they went, but I wouldn't have gone there. And also

0:41:48.600 --> 0:41:50.719
<v Speaker 3>I just have to say, of course it was Black

0:41:50.760 --> 0:41:54.040
<v Speaker 3>Widow and Clint, like that's the decision.

0:41:55.160 --> 0:41:58.239
<v Speaker 1>That ye folks to me, you know, that's like, hey,

0:41:58.280 --> 0:42:03.720
<v Speaker 1>let's go to the founder. I will say that, like, listen,

0:42:05.000 --> 0:42:07.600
<v Speaker 1>I love Toby Jones. I think he's great. I love

0:42:07.600 --> 0:42:11.719
<v Speaker 1>the voice. I end up there are I spend a

0:42:12.239 --> 0:42:15.960
<v Speaker 1>silly part of my day almost every day doing an

0:42:16.040 --> 0:42:20.640
<v Speaker 1>Arnham Soola voice to myself just like, yes, I am, Oh,

0:42:21.000 --> 0:42:24.279
<v Speaker 1>this body is fantastic. Look at my glutes. It's has

0:42:24.320 --> 0:42:28.600
<v Speaker 1>been such a long times as I am, this feels

0:42:28.680 --> 0:42:31.480
<v Speaker 1>wonderful inside the drawn body.

0:42:31.840 --> 0:42:32.040
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

0:42:32.040 --> 0:42:33.640
<v Speaker 3>I mean he really got to do that too. He

0:42:33.680 --> 0:42:35.000
<v Speaker 3>was like as soon as he was in there, I

0:42:35.040 --> 0:42:38.279
<v Speaker 3>was like, well done, guys. You guys made infinite infinite

0:42:38.320 --> 0:42:40.440
<v Speaker 3>on Iimzola, well done, good.

0:42:40.239 --> 0:42:47.319
<v Speaker 1>Good bye moms. Again it's fantastic. But as we were

0:42:47.360 --> 0:42:51.000
<v Speaker 1>talking about in the pre pro like, okay, you need

0:42:51.040 --> 0:42:54.640
<v Speaker 1>an AI because that's how you're gonna defeat. Is there

0:42:54.640 --> 0:42:57.080
<v Speaker 1>not a Jarvist in this world? Like can we not

0:42:57.200 --> 0:42:58.560
<v Speaker 1>ask Jarvis to do it?

0:42:59.120 --> 0:43:03.920
<v Speaker 3>We saw like we saw Sakarian armor Tony stock with Gomora,

0:43:04.719 --> 0:43:07.200
<v Speaker 3>and like, as to a pointed out in the preper like,

0:43:07.760 --> 0:43:10.839
<v Speaker 3>surely that means as a Javis if Tony exists, there

0:43:10.960 --> 0:43:13.120
<v Speaker 3>is a jobis.

0:43:12.280 --> 0:43:15.920
<v Speaker 1>Like that Friday Friday not doing anything like we can't

0:43:15.960 --> 0:43:19.040
<v Speaker 1>get we can't get Friday, and like, in fact, I

0:43:19.080 --> 0:43:22.080
<v Speaker 1>would love to know what Friday is up to in.

0:43:23.120 --> 0:43:25.560
<v Speaker 3>Chilling in a computer somebody like drinking some sea.

0:43:26.560 --> 0:43:28.640
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure Friday would love to get in the game,

0:43:29.120 --> 0:43:30.960
<v Speaker 1>you know, like I'm not sure that it needs to

0:43:31.000 --> 0:43:35.920
<v Speaker 1>be Zola. That said, here is the one way that

0:43:36.080 --> 0:43:41.240
<v Speaker 1>I can talk myself into involving active Nazi Arnam Zola

0:43:41.480 --> 0:43:45.400
<v Speaker 1>as well as genocidal Kilmonger in this I read it

0:43:45.440 --> 0:43:49.640
<v Speaker 1>as kind of like, uh, like a Lord of the Rings,

0:43:49.880 --> 0:43:54.239
<v Speaker 1>why can't we kill Gollum situation? Right? You spend you know,

0:43:54.280 --> 0:43:57.319
<v Speaker 1>the entire second book in most of the third being like, yeah,

0:43:57.480 --> 0:44:02.720
<v Speaker 1>just fucking kill this thing. It's he's going to betray you.

0:44:02.719 --> 0:44:05.359
<v Speaker 1>You could see it. You know it's gonna happen. Why

0:44:05.360 --> 0:44:08.440
<v Speaker 1>can we kill him? And you know, like to the

0:44:08.440 --> 0:44:10.520
<v Speaker 1>point where Gandal's like, well you never know the part

0:44:10.520 --> 0:44:12.759
<v Speaker 1>people gonna plan and you're like, Gandalf's shut up, like

0:44:12.840 --> 0:44:17.439
<v Speaker 1>let's go. I think that you can make a case

0:44:17.480 --> 0:44:22.960
<v Speaker 1>for it because if Strange and the Watcher know that,

0:44:23.360 --> 0:44:25.480
<v Speaker 1>you know, and they say the Watcher knew everything kind

0:44:25.480 --> 0:44:29.520
<v Speaker 1>of knew like what was gonna happen. If the Watcher's

0:44:29.560 --> 0:44:33.760
<v Speaker 1>plan is ultimately to like lock you know, the villains

0:44:33.880 --> 0:44:38.200
<v Speaker 1>into a pocket dimension, and if the Watcher selected the

0:44:38.239 --> 0:44:45.560
<v Speaker 1>Guardians knowing that kill Monger, intoxicated by by power, unable

0:44:45.640 --> 0:44:49.840
<v Speaker 1>to resist the call of the Gems, that he would

0:44:49.840 --> 0:44:52.719
<v Speaker 1>pick them up, and then you would also have to

0:44:52.800 --> 0:44:56.759
<v Speaker 1>have an AI that would corrupt Ultron, making it be

0:44:57.000 --> 0:45:01.359
<v Speaker 1>Arnham and kill Monger, much like goll Those are two

0:45:01.480 --> 0:45:05.440
<v Speaker 1>characters that you don't feel bad about locking into a

0:45:05.480 --> 0:45:08.600
<v Speaker 1>pocket dimension forever because they are immoral kind of bad.

0:45:09.000 --> 0:45:12.280
<v Speaker 1>They're bad guys, they're villains. Whereas if it's like, okay,

0:45:12.360 --> 0:45:18.919
<v Speaker 1>if Captain Carter and Like and Party Thor are are

0:45:18.960 --> 0:45:22.920
<v Speaker 1>the last two, I would you know, who are holding

0:45:23.000 --> 0:45:25.319
<v Speaker 1>down Ultron and the gems, and then we have to

0:45:25.320 --> 0:45:27.600
<v Speaker 1>lock everybody into a pocket man, I would feel bad

0:45:27.600 --> 0:45:31.120
<v Speaker 1>about that. Whereas these two they pick up the gems,

0:45:31.280 --> 0:45:33.800
<v Speaker 1>they're struggling forever, and then I lock them in the

0:45:33.800 --> 0:45:36.120
<v Speaker 1>pocket dimension. I throw away the key and no one

0:45:36.239 --> 0:45:39.240
<v Speaker 1>is like, oh does anybody feel bad about No? Zola

0:45:39.280 --> 0:45:41.239
<v Speaker 1>is an active Nazi, like, let's just get rid of

0:45:41.360 --> 0:45:43.520
<v Speaker 1>this is a terrible this is like the terrible people.

0:45:43.600 --> 0:45:46.319
<v Speaker 1>But I will say, from what we know about old

0:45:47.520 --> 0:45:52.280
<v Speaker 1>corrupt Strange Supreme, I do feel like giving two people

0:45:52.880 --> 0:45:56.319
<v Speaker 1>who are morally corrupt and who have the infinitey Gems

0:45:56.440 --> 0:45:58.759
<v Speaker 1>or a version of the Infinity Gems, and these like

0:45:58.800 --> 0:46:01.640
<v Speaker 1>super sick, almost like doctor Strange not a good person

0:46:01.800 --> 0:46:02.160
<v Speaker 1>to like.

0:46:02.160 --> 0:46:05.279
<v Speaker 3>Sit Strange Supreme power mad Strange Supreme probably like not

0:46:05.360 --> 0:46:06.680
<v Speaker 3>a good person to give them too.

0:46:07.320 --> 0:46:10.200
<v Speaker 1>I will say we we kind of like I did.

0:46:10.440 --> 0:46:14.520
<v Speaker 1>I did wonder if we were trusting corrupt Strange a

0:46:14.520 --> 0:46:18.920
<v Speaker 1>little bit too much, like he had very very recently

0:46:19.080 --> 0:46:23.759
<v Speaker 1>spent a long amount of time like in bibing a

0:46:23.800 --> 0:46:27.120
<v Speaker 1>lot of evil and just kind of like digesting it.

0:46:27.320 --> 0:46:30.600
<v Speaker 3>And ignoring everything the Watcher said. But now I guess

0:46:30.600 --> 0:46:32.759
<v Speaker 3>the idea is it's like a redemption arc, like he

0:46:32.880 --> 0:46:35.480
<v Speaker 3>wants to make up for it. But I feel like

0:46:35.560 --> 0:46:39.040
<v Speaker 3>that could go badly in the future because obviously this

0:46:39.360 --> 0:46:42.400
<v Speaker 3>I did feel like a lot of what was going

0:46:42.440 --> 0:46:45.560
<v Speaker 3>on here was kind of would we will potentially see it?

0:46:45.600 --> 0:46:48.759
<v Speaker 3>And season two it feels like, you know, so something

0:46:48.800 --> 0:46:50.239
<v Speaker 3>I thought they were gonna do. I just wanted, did

0:46:50.280 --> 0:46:54.120
<v Speaker 3>you so there's like six heroes, right. I definitely thought

0:46:54.120 --> 0:46:55.480
<v Speaker 3>at the end they were going to do like an

0:46:55.480 --> 0:46:57.719
<v Speaker 3>Infinity Watch thing where each of them got a gem.

0:46:58.000 --> 0:47:02.080
<v Speaker 3>That seemed like a really smart sim people solution was.

0:47:02.320 --> 0:47:05.480
<v Speaker 1>When they when the initial part of the plan was okay,

0:47:05.480 --> 0:47:07.359
<v Speaker 1>we got we get the soul Stone, and I thought

0:47:07.440 --> 0:47:09.640
<v Speaker 1>that's where it was going to go explain what the

0:47:09.680 --> 0:47:11.080
<v Speaker 1>Infinity Watch is.

0:47:11.239 --> 0:47:18.080
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So after the events of Infinity War, the did

0:47:18.120 --> 0:47:19.640
<v Speaker 3>they decide that the best thing to do to keep

0:47:19.640 --> 0:47:21.359
<v Speaker 3>the stone safe is give them to each of these

0:47:21.400 --> 0:47:24.560
<v Speaker 3>different heroes throughout like the Marvel Universe, and it's Adam

0:47:24.600 --> 0:47:28.400
<v Speaker 3>Warlock in the Infinity Watch, but in because Adam Warlock

0:47:28.520 --> 0:47:31.880
<v Speaker 3>is more of a key player in the Infinity saga

0:47:31.880 --> 0:47:34.520
<v Speaker 3>than we saw in the MCU, which is interesting because

0:47:34.520 --> 0:47:36.720
<v Speaker 3>they definitely did tease him. And then Guardians the Galaxy.

0:47:36.760 --> 0:47:39.160
<v Speaker 1>I think I will be shocked if he is not

0:47:39.200 --> 0:47:40.200
<v Speaker 1>in Guardians three.

0:47:40.280 --> 0:47:42.759
<v Speaker 3>I think so, and I would be really excited to

0:47:42.800 --> 0:47:45.080
<v Speaker 3>see that, to see hit them introduce him at this point.

0:47:45.320 --> 0:47:47.319
<v Speaker 1>So, yeah, the weirdest characters of all time.

0:47:47.840 --> 0:47:50.680
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so I think I thought that. I thought, yeah,

0:47:50.800 --> 0:47:55.520
<v Speaker 3>basically gold Jesus, So I definitely thought that was where

0:47:55.560 --> 0:47:57.120
<v Speaker 3>they were going to go with it. But you know what,

0:47:57.600 --> 0:47:59.959
<v Speaker 3>keeping two people in like a tiny wed pocket dement

0:48:00.280 --> 0:48:03.400
<v Speaker 3>constantly fighting over this one version, that's fine, Sure, go

0:48:03.520 --> 0:48:03.719
<v Speaker 3>for it.

0:48:03.760 --> 0:48:05.640
<v Speaker 1>I wonder at what point do they come out of

0:48:05.680 --> 0:48:07.080
<v Speaker 1>it and be like wait, wait, wait, time out of

0:48:07.080 --> 0:48:09.879
<v Speaker 1>time out? Time are we? Where are we right now?

0:48:10.760 --> 0:48:13.239
<v Speaker 1>As we're still like, at what point do they do

0:48:13.320 --> 0:48:17.560
<v Speaker 1>they realize or do they just like fight literally forever before.

0:48:18.120 --> 0:48:20.360
<v Speaker 3>I do wonder if like we could see like a

0:48:20.440 --> 0:48:23.440
<v Speaker 3>season two or season three like Bottle episode that's just

0:48:23.520 --> 0:48:27.399
<v Speaker 3>those two like having a conversation about oh they will

0:48:27.400 --> 0:48:30.080
<v Speaker 3>get out right, you know that, or just like sitting

0:48:30.120 --> 0:48:33.000
<v Speaker 3>in there and like having a conversation. Maybe teaming up,

0:48:33.040 --> 0:48:35.440
<v Speaker 3>Maybe not, but I definitely could imagine that because that

0:48:35.520 --> 0:48:37.360
<v Speaker 3>was a big part of that Doctor Strange episode was

0:48:37.440 --> 0:48:41.360
<v Speaker 3>kind of the existential like crisis of it or being

0:48:41.440 --> 0:48:43.640
<v Speaker 3>trapped with yourself, but these two are just trapped with

0:48:43.680 --> 0:48:45.959
<v Speaker 3>each other, which is actually probably much worse than being

0:48:46.000 --> 0:48:47.080
<v Speaker 3>trapped with yourself.

0:48:48.640 --> 0:48:52.399
<v Speaker 1>Obviously, a lot of overtones of like Age of Ultra.

0:48:52.600 --> 0:48:55.080
<v Speaker 1>I was watching this and thinking, well, you know, if

0:48:55.080 --> 0:48:57.759
<v Speaker 1>they ever try and adapt to kind of post apocalyptic

0:48:57.840 --> 0:49:00.240
<v Speaker 1>Ultron world, they kind of can't do it now because

0:49:00.239 --> 0:49:04.279
<v Speaker 1>they've they've they've kind of done. This was basically Age

0:49:04.320 --> 0:49:07.200
<v Speaker 1>of Ultron minus Mutants minus Wolverine.

0:49:08.160 --> 0:49:10.440
<v Speaker 3>Yeah you know, I know, dude, I was thinking that

0:49:10.480 --> 0:49:16.000
<v Speaker 3>a lot a nice team, but needs more X Man, Like, yeah.

0:49:15.760 --> 0:49:16.240
<v Speaker 4>Well.

0:49:17.880 --> 0:49:20.480
<v Speaker 1>Could they not? I mean I found myself thinking this,

0:49:20.640 --> 0:49:22.560
<v Speaker 1>like and we as we've been sitting here wondering when

0:49:22.560 --> 0:49:25.400
<v Speaker 1>will they introduce them? When will they introduce them? I

0:49:25.480 --> 0:49:29.759
<v Speaker 1>obviously it feels like what if, as you noted, is

0:49:30.040 --> 0:49:33.560
<v Speaker 1>it's based on mcure, so until something happens at MCU,

0:49:33.680 --> 0:49:35.479
<v Speaker 1>it kind of can't happen. And what if we can't

0:49:35.480 --> 0:49:39.040
<v Speaker 1>get it? What if this scenario based on characters that

0:49:39.080 --> 0:49:42.080
<v Speaker 1>haven't been introduced yet? But like, why not? Why couldn't

0:49:42.120 --> 0:49:42.759
<v Speaker 1>we see?

0:49:42.920 --> 0:49:43.880
<v Speaker 3>Seems like this.

0:49:44.200 --> 0:49:48.480
<v Speaker 1>Could be the world. Yeah, it seems like, yeah, why not?

0:49:48.640 --> 0:49:49.880
<v Speaker 1>Like could it not happen?

0:49:50.440 --> 0:49:54.120
<v Speaker 3>Imagine imagine if it when the Watcher had been one firstival.

0:49:54.120 --> 0:49:55.560
<v Speaker 3>I just need sense. I should have said it when

0:49:55.560 --> 0:49:57.960
<v Speaker 3>we first said the name, but whoa about when? It

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<v Speaker 3>was like when I saw the title and it was

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<v Speaker 3>if the Watcher broke his oath?

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, what if he didn't? That's what the

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<v Speaker 2>what if would actually be? What if he didn't? Because

0:50:06.040 --> 0:50:09.279
<v Speaker 2>he breaks his oath every fucking time. Every Watcher story

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<v Speaker 2>is just him breaking his oath. But if he was

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<v Speaker 2>going around breaking his oath, I was just like, imagine

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<v Speaker 2>if he'd just plucked a wolverine from somewhere, an old

0:50:16.560 --> 0:50:19.160
<v Speaker 2>man logan, you know what people would have lost lost

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<v Speaker 2>their darn minds, and I understand the MCU. Well, the

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<v Speaker 2>thing is right, so I would I was about to say, I.

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<v Speaker 3>Understand that MCU doesn't work like that, and there's five

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<v Speaker 3>ten years of planning and blah blah. But after the

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<v Speaker 3>end of Venom, I'm like, actually, that's just the mcu'

0:50:31.719 --> 0:50:34.080
<v Speaker 3>is messy. Now I'm like Tom Hardy, Venom is in

0:50:34.120 --> 0:50:37.600
<v Speaker 3>the MCU, bring in Wolverine, bringing Storm, bring in whoever else.

0:50:37.640 --> 0:50:40.120
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, it's fine now, everything is everything.

0:50:40.160 --> 0:50:43.799
<v Speaker 1>As you noted, Figy is like the master of neatness.

0:50:43.920 --> 0:50:47.520
<v Speaker 1>He demands like efficiency and kind of like streamlining. So

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<v Speaker 1>they probably wouldn't have it, but it'd be amazing if

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<v Speaker 1>it if it did happen. What I will. I want

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<v Speaker 1>to bring up one kind of how does this work?

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<v Speaker 1>Which is in line with our conversation about like the gems.

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<v Speaker 1>So the initial plan was they're going to use the

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<v Speaker 1>Infinity Crusher, this kind of like grinding device to destroy

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<v Speaker 1>the gems that Ultron has. But then it turns out

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<v Speaker 1>it won't work because the Infinity Crusher is from a

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<v Speaker 1>different universe, different set of gems, doesn't work here. So

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<v Speaker 1>then why do Ultron's gems work at all where he is.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it doesn't the logic behind that, I understand that

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<v Speaker 3>the narrative decision to introduce that easy solution and then

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<v Speaker 3>take it away like that's you you on that gut punch,

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<v Speaker 3>but it doesn't make sense. I guess the idea is

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<v Speaker 3>he has at some point in episode eight he kind

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<v Speaker 3>of mastered once he understood the Watcher was there, he

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<v Speaker 3>mastered the multiverse. So in that way, I suppose it's

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<v Speaker 3>like his own omnipience.

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<v Speaker 1>Like right, and it's like it's a master set of gems.

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<v Speaker 3>His power becomes I got. But then in that way,

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<v Speaker 3>I feel like no gem Crusher would have been able

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<v Speaker 3>to solve it, because that's the gems have almost taken

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<v Speaker 3>on a different role where they are the multiversal gems

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<v Speaker 3>rather than gems from you know, another universe.

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<v Speaker 1>One thing. First of all, I love the I love

0:52:13.680 --> 0:52:19.080
<v Speaker 1>Strangers time saving gambit to like drop all of Marvel

0:52:19.200 --> 0:52:22.480
<v Speaker 1>Zombies on the head of Ultron, But it was really

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<v Speaker 1>about setting up this convernation between zombie Wanda and Ultron

0:52:27.640 --> 0:52:30.160
<v Speaker 1>and then so she blasts him and then there's like

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<v Speaker 1>a moment of recognition but then nothing.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it doesn't make any sense, Like we there is

0:52:36.840 --> 0:52:40.960
<v Speaker 3>literally an entire episode in this show, the Marvel Zombies

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<v Speaker 3>episode where we learn that after seeing Wonder Vision and

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<v Speaker 3>how Wonder and Visions love is kind of this twisted

0:52:47.560 --> 0:52:49.480
<v Speaker 3>like they'll do anything for each other. We see that

0:52:49.560 --> 0:52:52.680
<v Speaker 3>in an extreme version in What If, where Vision is

0:52:52.760 --> 0:52:58.400
<v Speaker 3>literally like filating T'Challa and the speed Wander zombie Wonder

0:52:58.600 --> 0:53:02.280
<v Speaker 3>and you're telling me that this zombiefied Wonder the most

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<v Speaker 3>powerful mutant superhero whatever word we're using in the world.

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<v Speaker 3>You're telling me she doesn't see her hunky Infinity Stone

0:53:09.800 --> 0:53:12.719
<v Speaker 3>wielding he does husband he looks.

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<v Speaker 5>Really cool, and also like she would recognize him like that,

0:53:15.760 --> 0:53:18.680
<v Speaker 5>And then Strangers just made the worst decision ever, because

0:53:18.680 --> 0:53:21.440
<v Speaker 5>then you have zombie mutant Wonder who can't control her

0:53:21.480 --> 0:53:22.960
<v Speaker 5>infinite powers and.

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<v Speaker 3>Literal infinite Ultron who has Vision's face and does still

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<v Speaker 3>have the Mindstone and come on, that that to me

0:53:30.600 --> 0:53:32.000
<v Speaker 3>is a that's that's a mistake.

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<v Speaker 1>That bumped me too. I was like, wait a second,

0:53:34.680 --> 0:53:38.760
<v Speaker 1>that's it, Like, what is her reaction here? There? Clearly

0:53:38.800 --> 0:53:41.960
<v Speaker 1>she recognizes him, does he know what the connection is?

0:53:42.280 --> 0:53:45.640
<v Speaker 1>M But it kind of also feels like that was

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<v Speaker 1>such a big bump that we're gonna they have to

0:53:49.680 --> 0:53:53.200
<v Speaker 1>explore that at some point, like that's is that happened

0:53:53.239 --> 0:53:55.920
<v Speaker 1>in the comics if you, if you like, turn a

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<v Speaker 1>page and it's like this recognition between two characters, and

0:53:58.920 --> 0:54:00.839
<v Speaker 1>then you turned it and then we back to like

0:54:00.880 --> 0:54:04.080
<v Speaker 1>some other fight in the a story. M hmm, A year,

0:54:04.440 --> 0:54:09.520
<v Speaker 1>two years, five years later, some point in time, some

0:54:09.560 --> 0:54:12.600
<v Speaker 1>creative team would be, Okay, we have to unpack what

0:54:12.640 --> 0:54:16.040
<v Speaker 1>that is because that was kind of huge.

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<v Speaker 3>I think so too, because also think about it, he

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<v Speaker 3>has the time stone, like there are things that could

0:54:21.680 --> 0:54:25.560
<v Speaker 3>happen here that would and obviously maybe, but Ultron knows everything.

0:54:25.640 --> 0:54:28.360
<v Speaker 3>Ifanoultron knows everything, and he is Vision and Altron together,

0:54:28.640 --> 0:54:30.920
<v Speaker 3>so I feel like that has to be there. And

0:54:30.960 --> 0:54:33.400
<v Speaker 3>I feel like it makes sense that Wanda recognizes him

0:54:33.400 --> 0:54:35.920
<v Speaker 3>because even Wander is so in love with Vision that

0:54:35.960 --> 0:54:38.680
<v Speaker 3>in the comics, even when he loses the thing that

0:54:38.840 --> 0:54:42.040
<v Speaker 3>made her love him, the personality Simon Williams, you know,

0:54:42.120 --> 0:54:46.200
<v Speaker 3>mind print, imprint or whatever is, she still wants white Vision.

0:54:46.280 --> 0:54:48.759
<v Speaker 3>She still wants Vision who is not Vision, you know.

0:54:48.800 --> 0:54:50.840
<v Speaker 3>So I feel like that connection is that Yeah, I

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<v Speaker 3>think if like you said, the fact they add that

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<v Speaker 3>moment of recognition that probably means we're gonna see maybe

0:54:57.480 --> 0:55:01.400
<v Speaker 3>season two will have like King Infinite Ultra on in

0:55:01.560 --> 0:55:02.319
<v Speaker 3>like you know.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe Queen Zombie.

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<v Speaker 3>Maybe she'll break those two out of the pocket dimension

0:55:06.719 --> 0:55:10.080
<v Speaker 3>to try and re create Infinite Vision. But yeah, that

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<v Speaker 3>was a moment. I was like, Oh, this is trouble.

0:55:15.000 --> 0:55:17.000
<v Speaker 1>These are the things we are thinking about in a

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<v Speaker 1>post whatef world. I'm excited to see what they do

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<v Speaker 1>for season two.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Up next the Omnibus. Welcome to another chapter in the

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<v Speaker 1>Omnibus where lower analysis and understanding come together. This week,

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<v Speaker 1>let's explore the origins and the ongoing cultural fascination with

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<v Speaker 1>Spider Man Symbiete Suit and the introduction of that character

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<v Speaker 1>along with Eddie Brock. Nineteen eighty four is Marvel Superheroes

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<v Speaker 1>Secret Wars ushered in the era of the crossover of

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<v Speaker 1>the twelve issue limited series, which influenced continuity across the company.

0:56:05.200 --> 0:56:07.840
<v Speaker 1>Was the brainchild of then editor in chief Jim Shooter,

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<v Speaker 1>a titanic and widely reviled figure who set an incredibly

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<v Speaker 1>successful course for Marvel Comics from nineteen seventy eight to

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<v Speaker 1>his ouster in nineteen eighty seven to four, reportedly being

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<v Speaker 1>such a gigantic asshole that everyone hated him so much

0:56:22.680 --> 0:56:27.200
<v Speaker 1>they burned him in effigy. Yes, they burned him in effigy.

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<v Speaker 1>That's how much Jim Shooter was hated by his staff.

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<v Speaker 1>Secret Wars told the story of the Beyonder, an immensely

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<v Speaker 1>powerful cosmic entity who transports Earth's superheroes and supervillains to

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<v Speaker 1>a battle world where they fight for the Beyonders. Entertainment,

0:56:41.920 --> 0:56:45.920
<v Speaker 1>Secret Wars was not an inventive or emotionally resonant story.

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<v Speaker 1>It was essentially an excuse to get all of Marvel's

0:56:48.440 --> 0:56:51.080
<v Speaker 1>characters and the same story for the purpose of selling

0:56:51.160 --> 0:56:54.319
<v Speaker 1>Mattel action figures. In other words, it was as good

0:56:54.320 --> 0:56:56.359
<v Speaker 1>as it needed to be to do its job, and

0:56:56.400 --> 0:57:01.040
<v Speaker 1>that job it did very, very well through the roof.

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<v Speaker 1>Artist and writer John Byrne told Sean how in Marvel

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<v Speaker 1>Comics The Untold Story, the financial windfall was so great

0:57:08.040 --> 0:57:11.000
<v Speaker 1>that Marvel and DC, who sales were kind of weak

0:57:11.040 --> 0:57:15.000
<v Speaker 1>at the time, briefly amazingly talked about a licensing deal

0:57:15.040 --> 0:57:19.160
<v Speaker 1>which would allow the House that Stand Built to publish Superman, Batman,

0:57:19.240 --> 0:57:22.800
<v Speaker 1>Wonder Woman, Green Lancer, New Teen Titans Legion of Superheroes,

0:57:22.880 --> 0:57:26.680
<v Speaker 1>the JLA that would have been crazy. Besides making crossover

0:57:26.720 --> 0:57:30.520
<v Speaker 1>events part of the regular cadence of superhero storytelling, Secret

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<v Speaker 1>Wars's main contribution is unquestionably Spider Man's black costume, later

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<v Speaker 1>to be revealed to be a sentient parasitic creature who

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<v Speaker 1>would go on to become, along with the journalist Eddie Brock,

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<v Speaker 1>the villain slash anti hero Venom. Now the Symbiote actually

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<v Speaker 1>has two first appearances. That the alien first hit newstands

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<v Speaker 1>in May nineteen eighty four is The Amazing Spider Man

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<v Speaker 1>Number two fifty two, which told the story of Peter

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<v Speaker 1>Parker's returned to Earth in his new Black suit after

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<v Speaker 1>the events of Secret Wars. But Secret Wars was an

0:58:00.160 --> 0:58:02.920
<v Speaker 1>ongoing event at that time, and so it wasn't until

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<v Speaker 1>months later, in the pages of December nineteen eighty four

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<v Speaker 1>Secret Wars number eight, that the audience learned the story

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<v Speaker 1>of how Peter first obtained his new costume, and that

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<v Speaker 1>is the Symbiote's official first canonical appearance. The rumors are

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<v Speaker 1>true introducing the new Spider Man. Read the cover of

0:58:22.160 --> 0:58:25.040
<v Speaker 1>The Amazing Spider Man number two fifty two, which shows

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<v Speaker 1>Peter in his new black suit with white trim swinging

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<v Speaker 1>through the streets of Manhattan with a teenager under each

0:58:32.120 --> 0:58:35.920
<v Speaker 1>arm that he's rescuing. The issue is a pretty boring

0:58:35.960 --> 0:58:39.720
<v Speaker 1>bottle episode about Peter literally getting back into the swing

0:58:39.800 --> 0:58:43.520
<v Speaker 1>of New York City after his ordeal on Battle World.

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<v Speaker 1>We get a glimpse in these pages to the costume's

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<v Speaker 1>really creepy but kind of cool new abilities, as well

0:58:51.720 --> 0:58:57.120
<v Speaker 1>as various hints to the costume's actual nature. Peter, for instance,

0:58:57.160 --> 0:58:59.439
<v Speaker 1>retrieves his walin and keys from the place he hid

0:58:59.440 --> 0:59:02.560
<v Speaker 1>them in Central Park before he went to Battle World. Quote. Instantly,

0:59:02.600 --> 0:59:05.800
<v Speaker 1>reacting to Spider Man's unspoken command, his costume suddenly opens

0:59:05.800 --> 0:59:08.160
<v Speaker 1>a wide seam to receive his keys and wallet. No

0:59:08.280 --> 0:59:11.200
<v Speaker 1>sooner does he place them within it than it immediately

0:59:11.240 --> 0:59:15.720
<v Speaker 1>reseals itself end quote. Later, after arriving at his apartment,

0:59:15.760 --> 0:59:19.080
<v Speaker 1>the suit morphs into casual wear kind of Steve jobsy

0:59:19.120 --> 0:59:22.040
<v Speaker 1>and turtleneck and black jeans. When Peter wakes in the

0:59:22.040 --> 0:59:24.919
<v Speaker 1>middle of the night thinking about how nice it would

0:59:24.960 --> 0:59:27.240
<v Speaker 1>be to maybe do some late night web slinging, the

0:59:27.280 --> 0:59:30.320
<v Speaker 1>costume SLINKs from its resting place on the chair and

0:59:30.400 --> 0:59:34.960
<v Speaker 1>just flows over his body, immediately suiting him up. Months later,

0:59:35.000 --> 0:59:38.040
<v Speaker 1>in Secret Wars eight, readers get to see how Peter

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<v Speaker 1>and the Suit came to meet Spider Man. In a

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<v Speaker 1>collection of heroes including Hulk, Thor, Monica Rambeau, Captain Marvel,

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<v Speaker 1>Hawkeye and others are storming Doctor Doom's Doom base, and

0:59:51.360 --> 0:59:54.840
<v Speaker 1>in the course of this battle they take out various supervillains,

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<v Speaker 1>including the recently introduced Titania, who is supers basically she's very,

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<v Speaker 1>very strong, and the long running Avengers Foil Ultron. After

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<v Speaker 1>the fight, Peter's costume is just in shreds, is absolutely

1:00:09.280 --> 1:00:14.800
<v Speaker 1>in tatters. He runs into Hulk and Thor and Peter's like, Thor,

1:00:14.960 --> 1:00:17.400
<v Speaker 1>your cape is like brand new? What the hell? And

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<v Speaker 1>Hulk and Thor tell Peter about this machine in the

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<v Speaker 1>Doom Base that produces clothing by reading a person's thoughts.

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<v Speaker 1>Peter finds a machine. He places his head under this

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<v Speaker 1>thing that looks like a lamp. Now. A few issues earlier,

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<v Speaker 1>in Secret Wars six and seven, Julia Carpenter, who is

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<v Speaker 1>that era of Spider Woman, made her debut, and she

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<v Speaker 1>was wearing an all black costume with white detailing very

1:00:38.480 --> 1:00:41.800
<v Speaker 1>similar to the black suit that we're about to see.

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<v Speaker 1>And so Peter, influenced by Spider Woman's fit, is thinking

1:00:46.200 --> 1:00:49.680
<v Speaker 1>about a new costume, and a black globule about the

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<v Speaker 1>size of a billiard ball appears in front of him,

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<v Speaker 1>and the substance immediately covers his body and voila, we

1:00:54.480 --> 1:00:57.120
<v Speaker 1>have the black suit now. The idea for the black

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<v Speaker 1>costume came from a fan, Randy Schuler, back in the

1:01:00.960 --> 1:01:03.800
<v Speaker 1>day in the early eighties, Marvel ran a competition for

1:01:03.840 --> 1:01:06.680
<v Speaker 1>aspiring writers and artists. Being a lifelong Spidy fan with

1:01:06.720 --> 1:01:09.160
<v Speaker 1>delusions of comic grandeur, I took a stab at a

1:01:09.200 --> 1:01:12.280
<v Speaker 1>story idea, Shuller states in a two thousand and seven

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<v Speaker 1>article for Comic Book Resources, Randy's pitch involves a new

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<v Speaker 1>stealth costume, black and color, which would be manufactured by

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<v Speaker 1>Reid Richards out of unstable molecules.

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<v Speaker 4>Now.

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<v Speaker 1>A few months later, in August nineteen eighty two, Jim Shooter,

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<v Speaker 1>the then editor in chief, wrote back, I want to

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<v Speaker 1>buy it. That's his opening. His opening statement is I

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<v Speaker 1>want to buy it. No, Hello, how you doing? Please

1:01:35.600 --> 1:01:37.800
<v Speaker 1>demet you. I want to buy it. Jim Shooter getting

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<v Speaker 1>right to the point we'll pay two hundred and twenty

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<v Speaker 1>dollars enclosed find a work for hire agreement and a voucher.

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<v Speaker 1>That's about six hundred dollars in today's money. Not exactly

1:01:48.600 --> 1:01:52.600
<v Speaker 1>a kingly fucking sum, thanks Jim Shooter, but probably big

1:01:52.640 --> 1:01:57.200
<v Speaker 1>money for a kid who's just you know, pitched Marvel cold.

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<v Speaker 1>The agreement gave Randy the opportunity to try and write

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<v Speaker 1>the script for this story.

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<v Speaker 6>Now.

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<v Speaker 1>Randy ended up submitting a couple of versions of drafts,

1:02:06.160 --> 1:02:09.280
<v Speaker 1>but in the end it just didn't work out. Regardless,

1:02:09.480 --> 1:02:11.840
<v Speaker 1>I had no regrets. As a true blue Spider fan,

1:02:11.880 --> 1:02:14.880
<v Speaker 1>this was a very cool moment in my life. Randy wrote.

1:02:15.080 --> 1:02:18.280
<v Speaker 1>Spider Man's new look, though minimalistic in design, was a

1:02:18.360 --> 1:02:23.920
<v Speaker 1>huge change and changed generations in the making. Spider Man's costume.

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<v Speaker 1>A few tweaks aside, the most notable being the elimination

1:02:28.360 --> 1:02:31.960
<v Speaker 1>of Spidey's like underarm web wings after a couple of

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<v Speaker 1>years had been basically the same since the character's debut

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<v Speaker 1>in nineteen sixty two, and so the reaction to this

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<v Speaker 1>change was incredibly emotional. You've got to be kidding me,

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<v Speaker 1>said Ron Friends, Spider Man's artist at the time. I

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<v Speaker 1>waited all my life since the age of eight to

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<v Speaker 1>draw Spider Man, and now he's got a new suit. Meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 1>Marvel's marketing department didn't like it because they probably not

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<v Speaker 1>unfairly thought it would confuse licensees and hurt spot Sider

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<v Speaker 1>Man's marketability. At the time, Marvel made a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>money putting its characters onto lunchboxes, onto toy cars, on

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<v Speaker 1>to posters, et cetera. And you know, this is in

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<v Speaker 1>the mid eighties early eighties. We don't have the kind

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<v Speaker 1>of media ecosystem that we have today where these characters

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<v Speaker 1>are everywhere and you can find them like at the

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<v Speaker 1>click of a mouse. You know, changing the look of

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<v Speaker 1>an iconic character is no small thing to do. So meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 1>there was also the fan response, and to quote another

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<v Speaker 1>podcast bit, the fans hated it. They hated it, and

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<v Speaker 1>they knew the change was coming. The October nineteen eighty

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<v Speaker 1>three issue of The Comics Journal, a trade magazine kind

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<v Speaker 1>of akin to a you know, comics version of Variety

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<v Speaker 1>or The Hollywood Reporter, contained a blurb about Marvel's upcoming

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<v Speaker 1>secret war storyline in its news watch section, and below

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<v Speaker 1>a full body profile illustration of Spider Man and the

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<v Speaker 1>new costume. The article reads, in part quote some of

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<v Speaker 1>the plan changes include Spider Man trading in his costume

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<v Speaker 1>for a black and red one. Other industry publications around

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<v Speaker 1>the same time carried similar stories. Thus, the cover text

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<v Speaker 1>from Amazing Spider Man two vv two, the Rumors are

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<v Speaker 1>True was a reference to the fact that fans had

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<v Speaker 1>kind of known this was going to happen, and man,

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<v Speaker 1>the fans fucking hated it. They inundated Marvel with hate mail.

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<v Speaker 1>Faced with a furious reaction from inside and outside the company,

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<v Speaker 1>Shooter chickened out. He got cold feet. He wanted to

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<v Speaker 1>pull the costume, like basically as soon as it was

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<v Speaker 1>introduced by you know, we introduced a black costume two

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<v Speaker 1>y two. It's off of Peter by two vv three.

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<v Speaker 1>He didn't want to do it, but in the end,

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<v Speaker 1>Marvel editor Tom DeFalco convinced Shooter to keep the symbiote

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<v Speaker 1>at least until the creature made its canonical debut in

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<v Speaker 1>Secret Wars number eight, because it would just be super

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<v Speaker 1>weird if later we introduced this thing. But fans already

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<v Speaker 1>know that Peter is not going to wear it, So

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<v Speaker 1>after that the plan was okay. After Secret Wars eight,

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<v Speaker 1>we just get rid of it at the earliest convenience. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>over the next several issues of Amazing Spider Man, after

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<v Speaker 1>the introduction of the symbiote, something weird happens. Fans learned

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<v Speaker 1>that the new costume was in fact a living creature,

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<v Speaker 1>a parasitic alien symbiote. They learned that at night, as

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<v Speaker 1>Peter slept, the creature would take his body out for

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<v Speaker 1>test drives swinging over the rooftops. Peter in the daytime

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<v Speaker 1>is becoming progressively more exhausted. He's suffering from nightmares in

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<v Speaker 1>which his old suit is fighting his Black Suit over

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<v Speaker 1>control of him. And so an Amazing Spider Man two

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<v Speaker 1>fifty eight read riches of the Fantastic Four uses a

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<v Speaker 1>sonic blaster to cleave the symbiote off of Peter. Peter

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<v Speaker 1>leaves the Baxter billing like in a Fantastic Four uniform

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<v Speaker 1>of a brown paper bag over his head, and Reid

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<v Speaker 1>keeps the symbiote for further study. And there we have

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<v Speaker 1>it right, The Jim Shooter has accomplished the skull. The

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<v Speaker 1>Black Suit is off of Peter. By an Amazing Spider

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<v Speaker 1>Man two fifty nine, Peter is back in his original

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<v Speaker 1>blue and red costume, with the words the original is

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<v Speaker 1>back on the cover. But the weird thing about those

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<v Speaker 1>issues was, over the course of them, fans fell in

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<v Speaker 1>love with the Black Suit. They loved it, and they

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<v Speaker 1>could tell because sales were going up. Sales of Amazing

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<v Speaker 1>Spider Man were just climbing and climbing and climbing. Additionally,

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<v Speaker 1>the secondary market was also popping with people looking to

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<v Speaker 1>collect that first appearance of the Black Suit. Now, over

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<v Speaker 1>the course of the nineteen seventies, in pop culture, anti

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<v Speaker 1>heroes and films like Dirty Harry, French Connection, Taxi Driver,

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<v Speaker 1>Death Wish, Dog Day Afternoon, The Godfather Won into First

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<v Speaker 1>Blood from the eighties in which violent protagonists operate in

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<v Speaker 1>these kind of like moral shades of gray, were becoming

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<v Speaker 1>increasingly popular. Meanwhile, Marvel Comics was reaching its third decade

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<v Speaker 1>of operation as its modern incarnation like post timely incarnation,

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<v Speaker 1>which we would date to the introduction of the Fantastic

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<v Speaker 1>Four essentially, and so its fan base was getting older

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<v Speaker 1>and their chases were maturing as well, and that was

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<v Speaker 1>reflected in the work of Frank Miller, his kind of

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<v Speaker 1>like noirish work with daredevil, Peter David's Incredible Hulk stories

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<v Speaker 1>in which the Hulk reverts to his gray form and

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<v Speaker 1>becomes this like Vegas area mobster known as Joe fix It.

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<v Speaker 1>Also the skyrocketing popularity of Wolverine, who just like literally

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<v Speaker 1>cuts people up with his claws, and the increasing popularity

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<v Speaker 1>of Frank Castle, the murderous vigilante known as the Punisher.

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<v Speaker 1>All of these things reflected that cultural shift. The Comics

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<v Speaker 1>Code Authority, an industry group created in nineteen fifty four

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<v Speaker 1>to avoid governmental regulation by ensuring comics weren't overly violent, sexual,

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<v Speaker 1>or immoral, was beginning to lose its grip, at least

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<v Speaker 1>on the violent aspect of that kind of three legged

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<v Speaker 1>stool now, because you know, at the time, Shooter was

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<v Speaker 1>enforcing a strict no gaze policy, though a few creative stories,

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<v Speaker 1>particularly Captain America at number two sixty eight by J. M.

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<v Speaker 1>Dematis and Mike Zech, managed to get through. Now, Peter

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<v Speaker 1>Parker was never going to be an anti hero, right,

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<v Speaker 1>He was never going to decapitate people. He was never

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<v Speaker 1>going to gun down foes and throw them off the

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<v Speaker 1>top of buildings. But wrapping him in all blacks certainly

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<v Speaker 1>made him look more of a badass, and so the

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<v Speaker 1>suit had to be saved. In February nineteen eighty five,

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<v Speaker 1>is Peter Parker The Spectacular spider Man. Spider Man's other

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<v Speaker 1>monthly ongoing series, black Cat, Peter's off again, on again

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<v Speaker 1>love interest, knits him another costume that looks just like

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<v Speaker 1>the Black Suit. How did he manage to escape from

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<v Speaker 1>Fantastic four headquarters? Spider Man says, silly, this isn't your

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<v Speaker 1>real alien costume. Black Cat says to him, this is

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<v Speaker 1>just an ordinarily everyday cloth version of it. I sewed

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<v Speaker 1>it myself. It's so much sexier than your old red

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<v Speaker 1>and blue long John's. Now. Spider Man would spend the

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<v Speaker 1>next few years switching from his red suit to his

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<v Speaker 1>black suit, going back and forth. Now. The first appearance

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<v Speaker 1>of the Symbiote and Eddie Bracas Venom came in nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>eighty eights The Amazing Spider Man Number three hundred writer

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<v Speaker 1>David mclaney, Who's Demon in a Bottle storyline Forever Altered

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<v Speaker 1>Tony Stark originally intended Venom to be a woman who

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<v Speaker 1>blames Spider Man for the deaths of her husband and baby.

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<v Speaker 1>Mclaney included teasers in nineteen eighty Web of Spider Man

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<v Speaker 1>eighteen and nineteen eighty seven's Web spider Man Num. Twenty four,

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<v Speaker 1>the third ongoing Spider Man title of the eighties that

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<v Speaker 1>replaced Marvel's Team Up title, and that was supposed to

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<v Speaker 1>set up the eventual reveal of this female venom. A

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<v Speaker 1>hand pushes Peter in front of the subway train and

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<v Speaker 1>it doesn't trigger his spider sense, which I thought was key.

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<v Speaker 1>Mclaney told Comic Crusaders dot Com in twenty seventeen editor

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<v Speaker 1>Jim Salakrap want to do something special for issue three

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<v Speaker 1>hundred of Amazing, So I said, Okay, I've got this character.

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<v Speaker 1>He liked the idea, but he didn't think readers would

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<v Speaker 1>accept a woman standing toe with Spider Man. Folks. It

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<v Speaker 1>was nineteen eighty eight. I digress, continuing the quote. So

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<v Speaker 1>I came up with the Eddie Brock character and his

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<v Speaker 1>background and motivation, and that became Venom. So Eddie Brock,

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<v Speaker 1>as we meet him in Amazing Spider Man three hundred,

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<v Speaker 1>is a workout freak and a former Terrible journalist. Eddie

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<v Speaker 1>describes himself as this is my favorite bit of this comic.

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<v Speaker 1>He describes himself as solid at journalism quote solid, as

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<v Speaker 1>if he was talking about like his acumen at playing pool,

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<v Speaker 1>not like a vital mechanism of a free society anyway.

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<v Speaker 1>Eddie's last story for The Daily Globe was a multi

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<v Speaker 1>part interview with a mentally ill man named Emil Greg.

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<v Speaker 1>Mister Greg believes himself to be the psychopathic murderer of

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<v Speaker 1>the Senator, and Brock makes the pretty solid decision to

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<v Speaker 1>just like run with this without like apparently checking it out,

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<v Speaker 1>protecting mister Greg's identity through my rights under the First Amendment.

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<v Speaker 1>I told his story incisively and compassionately, says Brock during

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<v Speaker 1>his classic gotam right where I want him villain monologue. Unfortunately,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, people I think fairly thought it was pretty

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<v Speaker 1>fucked up of Eddie Brock in the Daily Globe to

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<v Speaker 1>give a platform to a serial killer while also protecting

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<v Speaker 1>his identity. The police insisted that I reveal my source

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<v Speaker 1>so that they could stop the murders. Under the advice

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<v Speaker 1>of counsel, I finally wrote my masterpiece, announcing Greg is

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<v Speaker 1>the sinator, says Eddie Brock, under the advice of council. Oh, Eddie,

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<v Speaker 1>you idiot. Less than two hours later, as Eddie tells

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<v Speaker 1>the story, the masterpiece was undone because Peter Parker did

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<v Speaker 1>some basic factchecking, was like, hey, that's not the Siniator,

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<v Speaker 1>that's just like a mentally ill gentleman. The Globe fired Brock.

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<v Speaker 1>Good what about Brock's editor? No word on that, and

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<v Speaker 1>he was forced to scrape out a living writing quote

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<v Speaker 1>venomous celebrity exposs and I was kidnapped by Alien's drivel.

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<v Speaker 1>Sounds like a good gig, honestly. He took all the

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<v Speaker 1>money he had, moved to the Bronx, which in nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>eighties pop culture communicated as a not very complex code

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<v Speaker 1>for Eddie. Moved to a bad neighborhood. He turned his

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<v Speaker 1>whole apartment into a gym, lifted weights all the time,

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<v Speaker 1>and dreamed of killing Spider Man as he's like doing curls. Eventually,

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<v Speaker 1>unable to cope, he decides to end his life. He

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<v Speaker 1>goes to a church, and there the Symbiote finds him,

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<v Speaker 1>drawn by he and Brock's shared hatred of Spider Man,

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<v Speaker 1>and venom is born. The Amazing Spider Man number three

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<v Speaker 1>hundred was artist Todd McFarlane's third issue on the title,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's kind of impossible to separate the popularity of

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<v Speaker 1>the symbiote venom, and it's very sorry for this spawn

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<v Speaker 1>from the rocket ship ascendancy of Todd McFarlane as an

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<v Speaker 1>artist and creator the artists work in Amazing Spider Man

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<v Speaker 1>hit comics like a jolt of electricity. He along with Robleifeld,

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<v Speaker 1>were just like one of the most exciting young artists

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<v Speaker 1>working at the time, and his spidy leaped off the page.

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<v Speaker 1>Legs splayed, Spider like, swinging from like intricately detailed webs,

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<v Speaker 1>less lauded, but just as important as the dynamic character

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<v Speaker 1>poses with McFarlane's contemporary touch on Peter and the people

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<v Speaker 1>in Amazing Spider Man, Peter, as McFarlane rendered him, had

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<v Speaker 1>a kind of like shaggy mullet, wore leather jacket and jeans.

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<v Speaker 1>Marriage Jane had this kind of like layered teased up hair,

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<v Speaker 1>big shouldered tunics, slouchy belt looks. They looked like people

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<v Speaker 1>who knew that they were in the year nineteen eighty eight,

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<v Speaker 1>whereas under the touch of previous artists, you know, Spider

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<v Speaker 1>Man and Peter Parker looked like he literally was just

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<v Speaker 1>like time traveled from nineteen sixty three, McFarlane's Venom was

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<v Speaker 1>a muscle bound figure with horror elements, gaping mouth, lined

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<v Speaker 1>with these shark like teeth, thick lapping tongue that gave

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<v Speaker 1>the character a terrifying presence, which along with that muscle

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<v Speaker 1>bound look which the eighties going into the mid nineties

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<v Speaker 1>was the period of Schwarzenegger and Jean Claude van Dam

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<v Speaker 1>and Sylvester Stallone, these kind of like muscle bound action figures,

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<v Speaker 1>and so this look with the horror elements was perfect

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<v Speaker 1>for an anti hero. McFarlane, like Ron friends before him,

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<v Speaker 1>was not a fan of the black costume. Talking to

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<v Speaker 1>the YouTube channel Comic Tom one oh one in March

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<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty one, McFarland described his thinking of the symbiote

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<v Speaker 1>as an artist in his twenties as it's not cool man.

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<v Speaker 1>McFarlin says he told Shooter he would only come on

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<v Speaker 1>Amazing Spider Man if Spidey got to go back to

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<v Speaker 1>the red and blue costume. So Venom then was a

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<v Speaker 1>kind of compromise, a way to keep the increasingly popular

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<v Speaker 1>black suit in the mix quote David mclady comes up

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<v Speaker 1>with a way to basically use the costume another way

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<v Speaker 1>they needed a visual. I created the visual. I've told

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<v Speaker 1>people Issue three hundred isn't the first appearance of Venom.

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<v Speaker 1>To me, Issue three hundred is the how do we

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<v Speaker 1>get that damn black costume off of Peter Parker issue

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<v Speaker 1>and that he did. Indeed, Welcome to the Hive Mind,

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<v Speaker 1>where we dive deeper into specific topics with the help

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<v Speaker 1>of guest panelists joining us today X Ray Vision is

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<v Speaker 1>please to welcome A. C. Bradley, head writer of Marvels

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<v Speaker 1>What If N series director Brian Andrews. Welcome to the show. Hello,

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<v Speaker 1>congratulations on a super fun season with a show like

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<v Speaker 1>What If based on you know, a comic book series

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<v Speaker 1>that was like just unbounded by anything but imagination. What

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<v Speaker 1>what kind of rules did you put on yourselves as

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<v Speaker 1>you were as you were accepting pitches or coming up

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<v Speaker 1>with story or developing story? Are the rules?

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<v Speaker 6>Well? Yeah? Funny? Like well, early on it we just

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<v Speaker 6>the one quote unquote rule was it was all spinning

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<v Speaker 6>off the Marvel cinematic universe. It wasn't going to be

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<v Speaker 6>based on the comics or any of that type of stuff,

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<v Speaker 6>because you know, we wanted to do what people were

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<v Speaker 6>familiar with. It just came from Kevin and Brad. They

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<v Speaker 6>just knew it's just like no, no, no, we don't need

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<v Speaker 6>only the stuff that was in the movies, and we

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<v Speaker 6>can't introduce anyone that hasn't been introduced in the movie.

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<v Speaker 6>So that was kind of like quote unquote a rule.

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<v Speaker 6>Other than that, it just whatever was excited us and

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<v Speaker 6>the you know, when we got together to come up

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<v Speaker 6>with ideas, it was just fringing open. We're just nerding

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<v Speaker 6>out coming up with all the crazy, but but with

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<v Speaker 6>not get with those guardrails.

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<v Speaker 4>For me, and when I went into pitch for the job,

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<v Speaker 4>I actually created a small document of like, here's the

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<v Speaker 4>roles of the show, and there was like I think

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<v Speaker 4>two three big ones. One was we can't let every

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<v Speaker 4>episode turn into a team up that's going to be

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<v Speaker 4>our finale. We're going to keep these characters focused, keep

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<v Speaker 4>them close on one or two characters, hopefully unusual combinations.

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<v Speaker 4>The second role flowing from that was we need to

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<v Speaker 4>say true to who these characters are. We've now grown up,

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<v Speaker 4>grown up with them, either from the comics or from

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<v Speaker 4>watching the movies. If we're going to do an episode

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<v Speaker 4>where thor destroys the planet. It needs to make sense

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<v Speaker 4>with who he is as a character, and in the NCU,

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<v Speaker 4>Thor has already been through a gauntlet of tragedy and pain,

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<v Speaker 4>and at the end of it, he's still a very

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<v Speaker 4>good man. He's still worthy. So I was like, I'm

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<v Speaker 4>not going to make it that he's like in a

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<v Speaker 4>bad mood and he comes down to destroy Paris. He's

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<v Speaker 4>a very mood and does it by accident, because that

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<v Speaker 4>I can see. I can see a world where Thor, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>I just wants to have a good time. And I

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<v Speaker 4>believe the third rule was the Watcher is the audience.

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<v Speaker 4>So every time we're talking about the Watcher, it's him

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<v Speaker 4>growing to love these characters, love these stories, and having

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<v Speaker 4>them affect him over the course of nine to ten episodes.

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<v Speaker 4>So it's kind of just kind of like putting guardrails

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<v Speaker 4>up for ourselves, the storytellers, to make sure that, like Fury,

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<v Speaker 4>we keep our eye in the big picture.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, do you have a craziest pitch that didn't get

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<v Speaker 1>made that you could tell us without burning a future idea?

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<v Speaker 4>Well, everyone seems to love that. President Rogers cameo in

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<v Speaker 4>episode eight and there was very briefly, me and Matt

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<v Speaker 4>Chauncey are huge Storkin fans, and we did spend a

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<v Speaker 4>lunch eating poke bowls in the Disney cafeteria because we

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<v Speaker 4>never missed Poke Bowl Day and talking about what about

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<v Speaker 4>a West Wing Marvel mashup and what would the Rogers

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<v Speaker 4>administration look like? But doesn't really lend itself to a

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<v Speaker 4>lot of action. It's a very talky, idealistic episodes. But

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<v Speaker 4>if anyone out there every wants to create a superhero

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<v Speaker 4>in the West Wing show, we've got We've got.

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<v Speaker 6>Notes Yilia No, I think there's probably way they get

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<v Speaker 6>some action in there. It's a fun idea, it's great

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<v Speaker 6>and just being able to see more of that and

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<v Speaker 6>seeing who has his cabinet, I mean it could be

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<v Speaker 6>could Yeah, it could be fun. It's a fun idea.

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<v Speaker 1>Obviously, an important component of this series is the animation,

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<v Speaker 1>the animation style. How did you arrive at at the

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<v Speaker 1>style that the series is presented and the look and

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<v Speaker 1>feel of it.

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<v Speaker 6>Kind of there was early talks that of possibly doing

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<v Speaker 6>every single episode a completely different style, but when Brad

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<v Speaker 6>and I were first meeting about it, but we kind

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<v Speaker 6>of shot that down relatively quickly, because you know, it

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<v Speaker 6>can get pricing and expensive to produce. But also we're

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<v Speaker 6>riffing off the cinematic universe, and it doesn't make sense

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<v Speaker 6>to have everything designed wacky different for each episode if

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<v Speaker 6>it's trying to be like you know what I mean,

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<v Speaker 6>because it's supposed to be Canon's part of the cent

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<v Speaker 6>in connected with Cinematic Rouver. So it's like, oh, here

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<v Speaker 6>are these stories. They are simply being told to you

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<v Speaker 6>in this style. Is so so therefore it's the equivalent

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<v Speaker 6>of the live action so and so Therefore I wanted

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<v Speaker 6>to shoot it as if we were shooting at live action.

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<v Speaker 6>I wanted to play with lensing, depth of field, all

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<v Speaker 6>that stuff, a because I love it, but also be

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<v Speaker 6>because I want to see more of that inanimation. And

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<v Speaker 6>then for the art style, I zeroed in on J. C.

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<v Speaker 6>Lindecker and some of the illustrators of you know, the

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<v Speaker 6>early twentieth century because I love that look. I love

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<v Speaker 6>jaz Linebecker work, and Hollywood's been chasing it for for like,

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<v Speaker 6>you know, one hundred years, you know, with various levels

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<v Speaker 6>of success. You know, and Ryan Menerding who designs like

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<v Speaker 6>the Marvel Universe and he's just, you know, a god.

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<v Speaker 6>He also loves Jace Lindecker to death and so does

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<v Speaker 6>like our productions on are Paul is saying, he's also

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<v Speaker 6>amazing and so so the characters were going to be

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<v Speaker 6>Jace Lindecker, but then we needed a background art style

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<v Speaker 6>to have them blend, and so we still pulled from

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<v Speaker 6>the American illustrats, but we had to get a little

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<v Speaker 6>bit more graphic just to map some of the line

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<v Speaker 6>work that we're into. So it's kind of like a

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<v Speaker 6>confluence of a couple of different things and then with

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<v Speaker 6>Paul and Ryan working together able to get something that

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<v Speaker 6>kind of worked that we wanted to, but it was Bailey.

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<v Speaker 6>It was just me wanting to I want to see

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<v Speaker 6>it this way and showing it to the trio and

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<v Speaker 6>basically put up the first image of Jason Lindecker stuff

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<v Speaker 6>and Kevin was like, if it looks like this, I mean,

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<v Speaker 6>we're basically done. In the meeting, We're good. We're good,

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<v Speaker 6>you know. So then the rest of those wassible nerding

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<v Speaker 6>out about the art. He was he was in full

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<v Speaker 6>full steam.

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<v Speaker 1>So you mentioned the anthology aspect, How soon a seed

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<v Speaker 1>did you? Did you all hit on there being a

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<v Speaker 1>team up kind of framework of this, and.

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<v Speaker 4>I think I lied a lot in some of my

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<v Speaker 4>interviews earlier in the season. So pretty much in day

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<v Speaker 4>two we knew we wanted to do a team up.

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<v Speaker 4>I wanted to do a team up on my original pitch.

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<v Speaker 4>It came a different way, but you know, this is

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<v Speaker 4>the fun of storytelling is that you find different ways

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<v Speaker 4>to tell stories. And we knew that we wanted the

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<v Speaker 4>Watcher to break his oath, just like in the com books,

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<v Speaker 4>he says no, no, no, no no, and then he's like, oh,

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<v Speaker 4>I can't possibly have that second piece of cake.

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<v Speaker 3>I can't, I can't all let's go.

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<v Speaker 4>Straight to my hips give it to me. So we

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<v Speaker 4>just had to find a villain worthy of the Watcher

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<v Speaker 4>and I love Ultron and Age of Ultron was great,

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<v Speaker 4>but we felt like there was more we could do

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<v Speaker 4>with him, and the comic books, he's such a much

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<v Speaker 4>more bitter presence. And luckily because Phase four has now

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<v Speaker 4>hit Ultron mis Anfionity Gauntlet that's a pretty horrific and

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<v Speaker 4>devastating force to be reckoned with, and it gave us

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<v Speaker 4>a reason for the Watcher to break his oath as

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<v Speaker 4>we were writing the episodes, Captain Carter was always a favorite.

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<v Speaker 4>Star Lord T'Challa definitely wanted to revisit doctor Strange in

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<v Speaker 4>a new and unusual way that didn't so much redeem him,

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<v Speaker 4>but showed again another side of him in the lessons

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<v Speaker 4>he learned in his story. We knew we want to

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<v Speaker 4>use Killmonger, but again, he's not the typical hero or villain.

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<v Speaker 4>How would he fit into the Watcher's plan. So it

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<v Speaker 4>was a mixture of Okay, who has been our favorites

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<v Speaker 4>of these journey of creating into the show, and also

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<v Speaker 4>basically Bergen was on me to take a step back

1:22:46.160 --> 1:22:48.920
<v Speaker 4>and figure out what would the Watcher's plan be and

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<v Speaker 4>how would these different elements come into play. And luckily,

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, the show has been freaking amazing. I think

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<v Speaker 4>I shouldn't probably say that about my own shop, but

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<v Speaker 4>it's been so much fun. And I think Brian agrees

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<v Speaker 4>to play with these characters like zombie Wanda within the

1:23:06.040 --> 1:23:08.760
<v Speaker 4>scripts and she was cool, but when you saw her

1:23:08.800 --> 1:23:11.080
<v Speaker 4>on boards and then when you saw her and finished animation,

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<v Speaker 4>she kind of blew your mind. I was like, Okay,

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<v Speaker 4>she has to come back. She's the teen Rex in

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<v Speaker 4>Jurassic Park. She needs to come back in the finale,

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<v Speaker 4>and we got to do her some justice. So it

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<v Speaker 4>was kind of like, you know, just taking your cherry,

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<v Speaker 4>picking your favorite parts and playing with the toys. Again.

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<v Speaker 1>You mentioned zombie Wanda. That's the moment of recognition that

1:23:34.720 --> 1:23:40.400
<v Speaker 1>she has when she's facing off with Ultron seemed very weighty.

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<v Speaker 1>Are there moments like that that are gonna that we're

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<v Speaker 1>going to revisit in a season two what if? Or

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<v Speaker 1>just later down the line?

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<v Speaker 6>She who knows? I think, you know, since the stuff

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<v Speaker 6>exists now, who knows? Like if we're so fortunate to

1:23:58.360 --> 1:24:02.559
<v Speaker 6>do many many episodes or many many seasons, there could

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<v Speaker 6>be an opportunity where there's like a what if off

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<v Speaker 6>of what if? Who knows? You know what I mean,

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<v Speaker 6>Like I I it's too early to tell. But right

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<v Speaker 6>now it's just the Skuy's disguise the limit, So who knows?

1:24:17.120 --> 1:24:20.040
<v Speaker 6>You know? It could be cool. I think, you know,

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<v Speaker 6>because of the tag at the end of the finale,

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<v Speaker 6>you know, one could wager that we might see someone again.

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<v Speaker 4>Maybe the beauty of the Marvel universe is that it

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<v Speaker 4>keeps expanding. Yeah, and so there's always new characters new

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<v Speaker 4>stories to tell in season two. I mean, as much

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<v Speaker 4>as I love Party Thor I think I want to

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<v Speaker 4>play in Shang Shei for a while. Come on, Love, like,

1:24:46.680 --> 1:24:48.599
<v Speaker 4>that's an amazing role. Let's go play there.

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<v Speaker 1>I love the Party Thor episode as a as a

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<v Speaker 1>lifelong comics fan, especially Marvel Comics. These heroes have been

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<v Speaker 1>through so much, so I always loved the bottle issues

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<v Speaker 1>where it's like the Avengers just hanging out at a

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<v Speaker 1>barbecue or you know, you know, playing baseball or something

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<v Speaker 1>like that. Is there a particular favorite moment or episode

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<v Speaker 1>or even just seeing that you have from the series.

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<v Speaker 4>I have a special love for Darcy Lewis, so early

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<v Speaker 4>on in figuring out Party Thor, we realized that and

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<v Speaker 4>me with a beer in me and Darcy Lewis are

1:25:29.320 --> 1:25:34.000
<v Speaker 4>kind of the same, making the dirty joke being silly.

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<v Speaker 4>So when it came to doing an animation, we'll do

1:25:37.360 --> 1:25:40.519
<v Speaker 4>temp voices. We'll do scratch voices before the actual like

1:25:40.640 --> 1:25:43.920
<v Speaker 4>Cat Stennings or Paul Bettany or Chris Sundsworth come in

1:25:44.360 --> 1:25:47.840
<v Speaker 4>just to test out lines and jokes against the storyboard.

1:25:48.280 --> 1:25:51.439
<v Speaker 4>I had a couple of drinks with the editors and

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<v Speaker 4>some of the production crew at lunch and recorded the

1:25:54.880 --> 1:25:58.360
<v Speaker 4>original Darcy Scratch, which was so much fun and actually

1:25:58.400 --> 1:26:01.000
<v Speaker 4>a lot of her lines were ad libs by me

1:26:01.280 --> 1:26:03.679
<v Speaker 4>and the crew while hanging out in the edit bay

1:26:03.760 --> 1:26:06.240
<v Speaker 4>at four o'clock on a Friday afternoon and breaking Disney

1:26:06.280 --> 1:26:08.760
<v Speaker 4>rules of the alcohol. Ryan, you weren't there, and you

1:26:08.760 --> 1:26:10.640
<v Speaker 4>were very well. You were very much missed because we

1:26:10.640 --> 1:26:11.559
<v Speaker 4>cracked up in the whiskey.

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<v Speaker 6>I know, I totally missed out. I'm so sorry.

1:26:14.600 --> 1:26:17.360
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it was a kind of I didn't. I'm not

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<v Speaker 4>very good actress, so it was kind of goading from

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<v Speaker 4>the editors, who are very good friends of mine. And

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<v Speaker 4>then I love Howard the Duck.

1:26:25.760 --> 1:26:27.160
<v Speaker 1>Yes, who doesn't.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, it's so hilarious because Ashley did such a great

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<v Speaker 6>job with it too. And I really think that, you know,

1:26:36.800 --> 1:26:39.719
<v Speaker 6>Cat Dennings and or Darcy Lewis is like Ashley's spirit

1:26:39.760 --> 1:26:43.960
<v Speaker 6>animal when it came time when it came time to

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<v Speaker 6>record Cat Dnnings, who's Who's just a gem. She's a

1:26:47.320 --> 1:26:51.280
<v Speaker 6>magical human being and so sweet and adorable and really funny.

1:26:52.560 --> 1:26:54.880
<v Speaker 6>She loved the material, loved all the stuff, and she

1:26:54.920 --> 1:26:57.040
<v Speaker 6>did such a great job at it. But what's amazing.

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<v Speaker 6>Is like some of her choices as she was delivering

1:26:59.080 --> 1:27:01.360
<v Speaker 6>the lines actually were getting very very close to what

1:27:01.520 --> 1:27:04.800
<v Speaker 6>Ashley had done. And there was actually two instances where

1:27:04.840 --> 1:27:08.400
<v Speaker 6>I actually directed Kat without letting her know. I directed

1:27:08.400 --> 1:27:10.760
<v Speaker 6>her in a way to basically get the delivery the

1:27:10.800 --> 1:27:13.960
<v Speaker 6>way that Ashley had done it. Because actually I kind

1:27:13.960 --> 1:27:17.040
<v Speaker 6>of really loved there was two spots in particular that

1:27:17.720 --> 1:27:20.559
<v Speaker 6>I thought she nailed so perfectly the time the comedic

1:27:20.600 --> 1:27:22.760
<v Speaker 6>timing was just was it was exactly what it needed

1:27:22.800 --> 1:27:24.720
<v Speaker 6>to be and there was no need to change it.

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<v Speaker 6>So and she gave me option and the cat gave

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<v Speaker 6>me all these options. I'm like thinking to myself, it's

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<v Speaker 6>still not as funny as in this one instant. So

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<v Speaker 6>in this one instance, so I just I kind of

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<v Speaker 6>gave her a little note and she's like, oh yeah,

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<v Speaker 6>I gret to dip and then shed it and she

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<v Speaker 6>hit it exactly Ashley had done it, and I was

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<v Speaker 6>just like I was laughing. But no. But but Cat's

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<v Speaker 6>great and Ashley's she she writes so well for all

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<v Speaker 6>the characters as a matter who it is, man, woman's child,

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<v Speaker 6>doesn't matter. She she captured the voice beautifully well. But

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<v Speaker 6>for specific quickly. It's like it's it's it's it's linked

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<v Speaker 6>cosmically in some way. I can't explain.

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<v Speaker 4>It's'm can well you you got to hit her record.

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<v Speaker 4>I was on them as Marvel set. I think I missed.

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<v Speaker 4>I missed her record. So we got created off there.

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<v Speaker 4>Hopefully you guys didn't crack open the whiskey.

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<v Speaker 6>No no, because that was like super official work, so

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<v Speaker 6>we're not allowed. Unfortunately, even though I magic fied my game.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know for any have a favorite moment scene.

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<v Speaker 6>There's too many. It's like there's so much good stuff.

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<v Speaker 6>It's like every episode has something that's fantastic, and then

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<v Speaker 6>when I see the audience reaction to those things that

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<v Speaker 6>we also enjoyed and just like, awesome, we did our job.

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<v Speaker 6>People are loving that thing. It's but I think there's

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<v Speaker 6>a ton But but because of the nature of the

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<v Speaker 6>fact that we, you know, chow Wick passd just way

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<v Speaker 6>too soon, the fact that we were able to actually

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<v Speaker 6>be in a room with him and work with him

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<v Speaker 6>and just enjoy him as a person, even for just

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<v Speaker 6>a work environment moment, just doing that craft and getting

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<v Speaker 6>him to laugh about stuff. There are some things that

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<v Speaker 6>are not in the star warts til episode that I

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<v Speaker 6>wish we could have addition, It wasn't any time, but

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<v Speaker 6>he was riffed on so much stuff in the bar,

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<v Speaker 6>like the bit when Drags is supposed to take photo.

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<v Speaker 6>He was like withing on stuff about like he's like,

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<v Speaker 6>I don't know if I want my photo, was taking

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<v Speaker 6>in this body, you know, like it's just like who's

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<v Speaker 6>gonna see this? As if he's like got some secret

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<v Speaker 6>exciting like you know, like he's just having some fun

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<v Speaker 6>with it. And then there was a thing where like

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<v Speaker 6>how does starlot to try to laugh? Like what does

1:29:30.640 --> 1:29:33.400
<v Speaker 6>he laugh? We needed some laughter and scratch and he's

1:29:33.479 --> 1:29:37.000
<v Speaker 6>used this very south as a specific South African laugh

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<v Speaker 6>that had a lot of those like glottles, clicks and

1:29:39.439 --> 1:29:41.160
<v Speaker 6>stops and stuff like. But he was just doing it,

1:29:41.200 --> 1:29:43.760
<v Speaker 6>and he's just like, yeah, he's just creating and doing

1:29:43.760 --> 1:29:45.479
<v Speaker 6>stuff that we didn't get to see Black Panther do.

1:29:45.600 --> 1:29:48.680
<v Speaker 6>But here's Black Panther basically doing these things. And but

1:29:48.720 --> 1:29:50.559
<v Speaker 6>the audience isn't gonna a chance to see those things.

1:29:50.600 --> 1:29:52.200
<v Speaker 6>You know, we were hoping he was gonna We're gonna

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<v Speaker 6>do a spin off and he was gonna have his

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<v Speaker 6>own show. With that character and that those people we

1:29:57.280 --> 1:29:59.960
<v Speaker 6>never got it, but but that that was pretty spe

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<v Speaker 6>to think able to share some time with Chaw which

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<v Speaker 6>we had no idea it was his last, you know

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<v Speaker 6>that we're going to not see him again.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, as a as a fan, it was it

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<v Speaker 1>was unexpected and certainly really emotional to hear his voice

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<v Speaker 1>in that moment to be and you know, yeah, you

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<v Speaker 1>really felt it, like as a fan you felt it.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, he did an amazing, amazing job.

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<v Speaker 1>How how how long does it take to turn one

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<v Speaker 1>of these? Just like from a production sense, like there's

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<v Speaker 1>so much It seems like there's so much involved in it,

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<v Speaker 1>but also some of the stuff was quite timely, some

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<v Speaker 1>of the references, et cetera, Like, so, how how how

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<v Speaker 1>quickly can you turn an episode of these around?

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<v Speaker 6>Not quickly in the ocean. It's not a nimble little

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<v Speaker 6>speedboat like like.

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<v Speaker 1>South Park right right and not South Park.

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<v Speaker 6>Around the week and they're at it, but it's far

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<v Speaker 6>longer than that. It takes a while.

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<v Speaker 4>We're about six months of production in house, between writing, storyboards, editing,

1:31:13.600 --> 1:31:17.080
<v Speaker 4>and temp with them, that's the temp voices, and then

1:31:17.080 --> 1:31:19.519
<v Speaker 4>once everything feels like it's lashed like this is the show.

1:31:19.600 --> 1:31:22.439
<v Speaker 4>We bring in the marble actors, We had the designers

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<v Speaker 4>who are like already working hard and like figuring out

1:31:24.920 --> 1:31:28.240
<v Speaker 4>the way it's going to look, and then it's almost's say,

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<v Speaker 4>about a year to fourteen months bring to actually animate

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<v Speaker 4>show something like that.

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<v Speaker 6>When you especially when you take into conseration like you know,

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<v Speaker 6>sound and post and all this stuff at the end,

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<v Speaker 6>and you know, it takes it takes a little bit

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<v Speaker 6>of a chunk of time.

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<v Speaker 4>I wrote Captain Carter two weeks before Christmas twenty eighteen.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh wow, yeah, that was the Holy cow.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I was looking at the draft the other day.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, and in the early stages is a little extra

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<v Speaker 6>time because no one's done it before, like the vendors.

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<v Speaker 6>So but now that the machine is like up and running,

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<v Speaker 6>it still takes time, but hopefully won't take like that

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<v Speaker 6>that same amount of time. There's a certain degree of

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<v Speaker 6>brevity now that now that some of that figuring out

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<v Speaker 6>how it gets done doesn't have to be figured out.

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<v Speaker 6>But yeah, it takes a little while, but you know,

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<v Speaker 6>hopefully it shows on screen. You know, there's a level

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<v Speaker 6>of quality that we're shooting for that hopefully people appreciate.

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<v Speaker 1>I think they do a couple of quick things. You

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<v Speaker 1>mentioned the influence of JAC Lindecker. How did you marry

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<v Speaker 1>some of the or decide upon some of the kind

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<v Speaker 1>of the comic book aesthetics that you married to this,

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<v Speaker 1>for instance, the watchers in between realm or from which

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<v Speaker 1>he can do all the universes, stuff like that.

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<v Speaker 4>Of the observatory plane. Yeah, well you need a place

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<v Speaker 4>to hang out and like you know, take off his shoes.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, totally. No, I mean the characters having a J. C.

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<v Speaker 6>Lindecker influence, but Jac Linderer didn't necessarily do as many

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<v Speaker 6>backgrounds all that type of stuff. So that that's why

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<v Speaker 6>Paul Saying was able to then work and and try

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<v Speaker 6>to create like this look for the environments that these

1:33:06.920 --> 1:33:10.679
<v Speaker 6>characters being. That seems to meld. And so we borrow

1:33:10.680 --> 1:33:12.680
<v Speaker 6>also from the comics and the fact that yeah, you know,

1:33:12.680 --> 1:33:14.599
<v Speaker 6>we read them when we were younger, and like the

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<v Speaker 6>watcher kind of watching in the distance, all that type

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<v Speaker 6>of stuff. Those are all images, Those are all things

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<v Speaker 6>that we needed to have.

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<v Speaker 1>Kirby Crackle, Yeah, Kirby Crackle was the little circles was

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<v Speaker 1>quite notable.

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<v Speaker 6>Like those are those are things that comics that exist

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<v Speaker 6>and like we have to see those, you know, so

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<v Speaker 6>it's whether or not they look like Jason Landecker is

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<v Speaker 6>a design start that that has no bearing on whether

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<v Speaker 6>or not we want to use those visual motifs to write.

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<v Speaker 6>You could just bring those together like like you know,

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<v Speaker 6>like Reese's Peanut, butter Cup of Us and e Xacolate.

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<v Speaker 1>And then finally a c Legally, what is the legal

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<v Speaker 1>status of the marriage between Howard the Duck and Darcy?

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<v Speaker 1>Like is that do we have to get that? An old?

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<v Speaker 1>Is that finding?

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<v Speaker 4>Well, look, everything what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

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<v Speaker 4>So as long as they're in Vegas, I think they're

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<v Speaker 4>definitely married. Outside of Vegas, I don't know. Uh, I

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<v Speaker 4>don't know how Darcy the Duck is going to do

1:34:13.280 --> 1:34:16.600
<v Speaker 4>long term relationship. I like to think Howard has his

1:34:16.640 --> 1:34:18.840
<v Speaker 4>ship together, but who knows. Maybe he does, maybe he's

1:34:18.880 --> 1:34:19.599
<v Speaker 4>ready to grow up.

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<v Speaker 1>Brian Ace, thank you so much, thank you, thank you,

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<v Speaker 1>and congratulations on a really fun series.

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<v Speaker 6>Thanks thanks so us, thank you glad you liked it.

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<v Speaker 1>That's all for Hive Mind. Up next to the endgame.

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<v Speaker 1>We are in the end game now, and it's time

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<v Speaker 1>for Rosie and I to play face off, in which

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<v Speaker 1>we pick a character from another franchise, series, or universe

1:34:47.520 --> 1:34:51.840
<v Speaker 1>that we think could defeat a particular character, in this case,

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<v Speaker 1>Infinite Ultron from season one of What If, So, Rosie,

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<v Speaker 1>what character from another union could be any other story

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<v Speaker 1>could stand toe to toe and potentially defeat Infinite Ultron.

1:35:07.000 --> 1:35:10.519
<v Speaker 1>Could it be Gandalf? Could it be Denarius on Larry On?

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<v Speaker 1>No way? Could it be Neo in the computer or

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<v Speaker 1>outside of the computer. Okay, we can unpack that later.

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<v Speaker 1>Could it be or it could be Darth Vader, or

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<v Speaker 1>could be dark Side, et cetera. Who do you think

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<v Speaker 1>it could be? We were just talking in the pre

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<v Speaker 1>pro that, yeah, dark Side. If dark Side has like

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<v Speaker 1>two years to get it together.

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<v Speaker 3>M maybe if dark Side's been planning since before Earth

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<v Speaker 3>came about and he's trying, he's like, you know, with

1:35:34.040 --> 1:35:36.879
<v Speaker 3>Granny Goodness or whatever. Maybe maybe he's.

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<v Speaker 1>Assembling like his his like army of children and super

1:35:41.240 --> 1:35:42.160
<v Speaker 1>villains and like.

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<v Speaker 3>Some reason. But it would take by fifteen years he did,

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<v Speaker 3>it would be Poultrons already in a pocket dimension or whatever.

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<v Speaker 3>So I think Neo is actually such a slick answer

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<v Speaker 3>because we know how important the computer is. But my

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<v Speaker 3>my answer is going for like a Battle of the

1:35:59.720 --> 1:36:02.599
<v Speaker 3>Witch type thing. Like Ultron has always been a character

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<v Speaker 3>who's obsessed with knowledge, obsessed with destroying humans, obsessed with

1:36:07.640 --> 1:36:10.360
<v Speaker 3>kind of like finding out how things work and then

1:36:10.479 --> 1:36:13.080
<v Speaker 3>using that to kind of dismantle stuff. So my character

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<v Speaker 3>that I'm gonna pick would be Pinhead from hell Raiser.

1:36:16.040 --> 1:36:18.960
<v Speaker 3>One because I love the whole I love the whole

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<v Speaker 3>Hell Raiser franchise. And two because I think the puzzle box.

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<v Speaker 3>I think, if you get if somebody just appeared to

1:36:25.960 --> 1:36:29.000
<v Speaker 3>Infinite Ultron and was like, are these pesky humans annoying you,

1:36:29.800 --> 1:36:32.720
<v Speaker 3>try this puzzle box. You know, if you open it,

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<v Speaker 3>you can unleash Hell on all these multiple universes, and

1:36:35.640 --> 1:36:38.080
<v Speaker 3>then he would be, you know, trapped to the center bites,

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<v Speaker 3>potentially end up in the hole, or just get like

1:36:40.400 --> 1:36:43.040
<v Speaker 3>torn apart by cool hooks or something. I think, I

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<v Speaker 3>think you gotta go out of the box to beat him,

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<v Speaker 3>because within the world of the MCU, he's almost he's

1:36:48.680 --> 1:36:52.360
<v Speaker 3>almost too overpowered. So I think if you're going outside,

1:36:52.360 --> 1:36:54.519
<v Speaker 3>you got to go really outside. So yeah, I'm picking Pinhead.

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<v Speaker 3>Doug Bradley Pinhead only.

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<v Speaker 1>I love this. Neil would be good any kind of

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<v Speaker 1>like computer e AI slash virusy like Neo is you know,

1:37:05.520 --> 1:37:11.400
<v Speaker 1>computer Jesus, it brought down the machine world. I certainly

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<v Speaker 1>think he's capable of doing it. I think probably a

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<v Speaker 1>smarter answer would be like corrupt agent Smith to just

1:37:17.479 --> 1:37:21.200
<v Speaker 1>kind of like Overwhelmtron's like synapses that said, you probably

1:37:21.200 --> 1:37:23.840
<v Speaker 1>have another problem then, because then you have Agent Smith

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<v Speaker 1>in charge of all infinite Agent Smith. You need to

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<v Speaker 1>lock them in a pocket mansion. I'm gonna go with

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<v Speaker 1>you need to keep Ultron. Whether or not you could

1:37:34.280 --> 1:37:36.320
<v Speaker 1>defeat him, what you need to do is keep him

1:37:36.439 --> 1:37:41.080
<v Speaker 1>occupied for a long, long long time. So I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>go with an amalgamation of characters. I'm gonna go with

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<v Speaker 1>uh death from the Ingmar Bergman movie that plays chess

1:37:51.040 --> 1:37:58.120
<v Speaker 1>with the night Right, but an amalgam of that death

1:37:58.280 --> 1:38:04.320
<v Speaker 1>with the death from Bill. It's head's bag his journey right,

1:38:04.680 --> 1:38:08.920
<v Speaker 1>and so that death would just constantly be like, Okay,

1:38:09.160 --> 1:38:14.200
<v Speaker 1>let's do fidget spinners, Okay, let's do bottle flipping, let's

1:38:14.280 --> 1:38:17.280
<v Speaker 1>let's play bass, and so like it should just be

1:38:17.439 --> 1:38:22.759
<v Speaker 1>like constant, constant, constant, constant challenges from death. That would

1:38:22.840 --> 1:38:28.760
<v Speaker 1>keep Ultron infinite Ultron infinitely tied up in like a

1:38:29.000 --> 1:38:35.040
<v Speaker 1>million billion infinite different games, and he would never be

1:38:35.080 --> 1:38:37.519
<v Speaker 1>able to escape like you couldn't, so he would never

1:38:37.600 --> 1:38:42.040
<v Speaker 1>actually be like physically and existentially defeated, but he would

1:38:42.080 --> 1:38:47.080
<v Speaker 1>just be like constantly being doing okay, like word jumbles. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>now we're playing tech and now we're playing Mortal Kombat.

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<v Speaker 1>Now we're like playing jacks like twist and that would

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<v Speaker 1>twister and it would go on and on.

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<v Speaker 3>That is I really thought I had the most out

1:38:59.120 --> 1:39:02.320
<v Speaker 3>of the books on some That is honestly a perfect

1:39:02.400 --> 1:39:05.400
<v Speaker 3>answer and amalgamation of two perfect things. Igmar Bergman and

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<v Speaker 3>Bell and Ted.

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<v Speaker 1>That's it for the endgame. Let us know whether you

1:39:09.040 --> 1:39:12.240
<v Speaker 1>agree you couldn't disagree more. Share your answers using hashtag

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<v Speaker 1>xrv endgame. That's xrv endgame. Thank you Ac Bradley, Brian Andrews,

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<v Speaker 1>and Rosie Knight for joining us in another episode of

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<v Speaker 1>X ray Vision. Rosie, where can people find your stuff?

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<v Speaker 1>This week?

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<v Speaker 3>I have a ton of different stuff. I got a

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<v Speaker 3>lot of Halloween esque situations going on with the spooky season.

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<v Speaker 3>So I'm going to be at Polygon nerdict as always

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<v Speaker 3>ign and I'm the only social media I have his Instagram,

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<v Speaker 3>so feel free to follow me on now. I always

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<v Speaker 3>shout out. The podcast is just Rosie Marks mr X.

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<v Speaker 1>Next week our episode will be returning to its regular

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<v Speaker 1>Wednesday release for your weekly dose of the deepest dives

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<v Speaker 1>and hotestakes. Until then, what if, guys, what if? Just

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<v Speaker 1>what if? Think about it? X ray Vision is a

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<v Speaker 1>Crooked Media production. The show is produced by Chris Lord

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<v Speaker 1>and Saul Rubin. The show is executive produced by me

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<v Speaker 1>and Sandy Gerard. Caroline Reston Carlton Gillespie are our consulting

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<v Speaker 1>producers and our editing. Sound design is by Sarah Gibalaska

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<v Speaker 1>in the book That Chapter four. Big thanks to Brian

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<v Speaker 1>Basquez for our theme music.