james rhodes
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Secret Invasion’s Finale Is One Step Forward, 2 Steps Back
Secret Invasion’s finale was released today, and man, did it land flat on all points. After a lacklustre five episodes, I didn’t have high expectations for the Marvel Disney+ series’ sixth, but the circular ending and failure to meaningfully engage in any emotional beats truly left me cold. All Secret Invasion episodes were directed by…
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What If Tried to Make Black Panther’s Killmonger Tony Stark’s New Black Friend™
While the Sacred Timeline’s Erik Killmonger may be dead, a variant is alive and kicking in the latest episode of Disney+ and Marvel’s animated What If series. Michael B. Jordan reprises his role as the prodigal Wakandan son in “What If… Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?”, a story that condenses and remixes the beats from the…
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Starts By Exploring the Dense, Depressed, Post-Blip World
Thanks to the Avengers, half the beings in the universe reappeared out of thin air five years after disappearing. While Marvel fans saw how that occurred in Avengers: Endgame, that film, and the ones after it, only scratched the surface of what it all meant in-universe. Well, the premiere of Disney+’s The Falcon and The…