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The Future of Spider-Man: A Darker Peter Parker

Peter Parker is a character defined by his relationships. But at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Tom Holland’s Peter has been stripped of everything and everyone. “Who is Peter Parker in a vacuum?”* is the main question posed at the end of this movie. I am so excited to see the answer, even if I am a little nervous. 

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FeaturesSpeculative Space

Loose Threads: Possible Future Appearances for White Vision

With 2021 coming to a close, it’s safe to say that Marvel Studios had a good year. After taking 2020 off due to the ongoing pandemic the studio released four films and five shows to Disney+. The year was full of promise and hinted at the future direction of the MCU. So over the next couple of weeks, some of us

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Theory: How Those ‘Loki’ Characters Fit into the “Multiverse of Madness”

Without a doubt, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is positioned to be one of the more significant payoff stories in Phase 4. The film will culminate multiple plot threads previously set in Disney+ shows like WandaVision, Loki, and What If…? while also playing out the consequences of the events in Spider-Man: No Way Home.  Marvel Studios will undoubtedly have their hands full with this one.

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News & Rumors

NEW IMDb Listing Indicates Peter Dinklage to Return as Eitri in ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’

Since its announcement in 2019, Thor: Love and Thunder seem to have flown the lowest under the radar of all of the announced Phase 4 Marvel films. With not nearly as many leaks as the rest of them, fans have been left to their devices to theorize how the story could shake out the good ol’ fashion way. Well, a new

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Review: ‘Doctor Who’ New Years Day Special

After a small break since the season thirteen finale, Doctor Who returned on New Years Day. Titled “Eve of the Daleks,” the first of three specials spread out over the course of 2022 serves as the swan song for current Doctor, Jodie Whittaker. So where did the beginning of the end take the Doctor and the fam? Manchester England on New

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FeaturesRankings

My Most Meaningful Marvel Quotes of 2021

There was a lot of heaviness in the MCU in 2021, but also a lot of heartwarming hope (just like the real world, I guess). So I’m choosing to end this year with a few quotes that have stuck with me, and here they are. The worst thing I can think of has already happened to me and I can’t change

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FeaturesOpinion

Treatment of Women in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’

Spider-Man: No Way Home is a great movie and I had a blast with it. But I also had some issues, which I talked about briefly in my spoiler review last week. One of the issues that really stuck with me was how few women are in the movie, and whether or not the filmmakers did justice to those characters. It rubs

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FeaturesSpeculative Space

How Flashbacks Helped Set Up The Future In ‘The Book of Boba Fett’

Ever since his first appearance in 1980, Star Wars fans of old and new alike have clung to the legend of Boba Fett. Just by standing in the background and saying maybe a single line of dialogue and then dying in his second film appearance, fans have always been dying to know more about the character, and have even been advocating

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What I Heard: About May Calamawy’s Character in ‘Moon Knight’

When we think about Moon Knight, we often get this idea of him being the Marvel equivalent to DC’s Batman. The key difference (besides the drastic color contrast in costume) is that this complex vigilante is set in a more mystical ambiance focused on the Egyptian mythos. Not only that, but Marc Spector also has a cognitive condition known as Dissociative Identity

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