On this week’s podcast we’re talking about episodes 1 to 6 of DC Universe’s premiere show, Titans. We break down how a bad pilot turned into a good show, how excited we are for Doom Patrol, how you up the ante after murder, and how many ridiculous ways you can avoid showing Bruce Wayne.
Andrew: In
episode three they do Robin’s origin story, where he’s adopted by Bruce Wayne
and taught life lessons by Bruce Wayne, but it’s ridiculous because the show
can’t legally show or include Bruce Wayne or Batman.
Diana: They
also can’t show Alfred. So they can’t include Alfred or Bruce Wayne in speaking
roles, they are shown only in silhouette and their dialogue is from notes that
Bruce leaves in Dick’s room. It’s so dumb and I have no idea why they decided
to do an episode about Robin’s origin if they can’t show Bruce or Alfred.
Andrew: For
all those people who didn’t know Robin’s origin story I guess.
Diana: Oh, all
those people who subscribe to DC Universe, the streaming channel that only has
superhero shows, but DON’T know who Robin is. Those people who get a
subscription only network that only has one original TV show, which is Titans,
but don’t know who Robin is. All those people!
There’s gonna be alot more Miles Morales fans after Into The Spiderverse comes out in a few weeks, and the movie isn’t going to be able to cover everything about his character/supporting cast, so I thought I’d make a post about everything the movie looks like it’ll miss as Miles has been my favourite character since his introduction in 2011.
– Originally, Miles got his powers long before Peter Parker died. But because his family hated superheroes, and Spider-Man (Parker) was already doing and good job, he didn’t use them. Then one day the goblin finally succeeded in killing Peter Parker on Miles’ family lawn, and Miles could’ve stopped it if it weren’t for his own inactivity. Therefore leaving New York without a guardian and giving Miles Morales his own “Uncle Ben” moment.
– Miles best friend Ganke is fat. He’s not ashamed of it and genuinely a significant step for body positivty in a world of Dorito shaped vacum-wrapped superheroes. The film doesn’t seem to have this element of his character in the trailers. Miles and Ganke literally have conversations about times Ganke has been body shamed and how it affects his every day life, despite being happy with his own body.
– Miles Morales’ character has been significantly impacted by his friendship with Sam Alexander’s Nova (a good albeit generic character who deals with living in his father’s shadow) and even more so by Kamela Kahn’s Mrs Marvel (a 14 year old Muslim girl from New Jersey whos superpowers include super strength and shape shifting, but do NOT include managing her families expectations of her religiosity and the islamaphobia of the kids her age). Her comics are genuinely exceptional and also the ANAD phase of Marvel was filled with alot of bad characters her run is some of the best work marvel has done in years. Highly recommended.
– Miles’ father, in the comics, isn’t a member of the police force but instead a member of S.H.I.E.L.D. on a task-force made specifically to control or limit the activities of super-people like Spider-Man. He also hates all superheroes with ever fibre of his being and speaks about it to Miles all the time. This is significantly implied to be a metaphor for how homophobic parents can damage their child’s self esteem if they don’t realise their children are in the closet. Marvel will never outright acknowledge this because, well, Disney. But it’s still an incredibly well done aspect of Miles story that passed way over the heads of many straight readers.
– The only superhero Miles’ father DOES like, is Luke Cage, due to him not having a secret identity and living and working within their own community instead of living in mansions and fighting aliens.
– Miles and Gwen Stacey canonically get married in the future, and their relationsip lasts at least 30 years, as we see their 30th anniversary. This is only every seen in one issue and is never acknowledged again. Miles occasionally refers to Gwen as “his girlfriend from another universe” and everyone laughs at him. It’s a weird storyline.
– Miles Uncle and him don’t actually fight that often. You’d think that they’d be rivals at every step of their career but Miles uncle seems genuinely interested in helping Miles along his career, despite making Miles promise to stay out of his way in return for information on other super villians.
– At the beginning, the Marvel characters hated Miles almost as much as Marvel fans (he was NOT popular to begin with). In-universe, it was considered insensitive to run around in a Spider-Man costume pretending to be Peter Parker only days after his funeral. The suit crappy Miles seems to use in this movie seems to be a reference to his first Spider-Man costume, which was a Halloween costume from his childhood. Spider-woman (a clone of Peter Parker) attacks Miles and threatens him until he takes the costume off. Eventually he gets a red and black suit provided to him by shield.
And that seems to be the most of it! I’ll update this post incase I missed anything. I’m SUPER looking forward to all the Miles Morales fans as he is genuinely and incredible character and I can’t wait for more people to discover him and his story!!!! The more the merrier!!
I asked my boyfriend in Canada once, how he deals with polar bears because I was curious about what to do and he was like, just be calm, let them know you’re there, and give them space and they’ll usually just go away.
i put “All I Want for Christmas is You” through a MIDI converter, and then back through an mp3 converter
the result is this garbage
I’m driving myself up the wall because I swear I can hear the vocal line but I don’t know how that could be if it was truly converted to MIDI. Unless you can replicate speech sounds entirely with modulated MIDI notes, in which case I’m actually impressed with this tire fire of an MP3.
the holiday season is almost upon us and I’d like to bring back this absolute fucking monstrosity of an audio file
Millennials and Gen Z: Trump shows signs of being a genocidal dictator, we shouldn’t vote for him
Baby boomers: OOOOO Is your Safe Space being violated by his comments snowflake??? How AWFUL IT must be to have a REAL man for president instead of OoOoBamA
Trump, after being voted into office: *leaves the UN human rights council, puts hundreds of young children into prison camps and tent cities, takes away valuable items like rosaries similar to the removal of rings during the Holocaust, puts babies and toddlers into foster homes/orphanages, literally treats ACTUAL CHILDREN like prisoners for wanting a better life elsewhere*
Baby boomers: oh….oh no….
Millennials and Gen Z: *stare into the camera like they’re on the office*
bold of you to assume the boomers have reached the “oh no” point
political comics that are just kids holding books and going “what’s this?????? not a electronic? no computer???not phone?? how can be??” will always crack me up
I think old people do this just to feel better about themselves because they don’t know how to use a computer and think that it works the other way around for some reason.
A Glitch Named Anti 