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Mr. Mind, the worm is, arguably, the 2nd most iconic Captain Marvel (now Shazam) villain. The only other villain as iconic is Black Adam.
Captain Marvel has always had a quirky, funny side to it. This can also be seen in the characters, which you have not yet seen, Uncle Marvel, the humbug who attaches himself to the Marvel family, and Talky Tawny, the upright, talking tiger.
This is part of the character. It isn't stupid. It is, as intended, light-hearted.
And now you have definitely revealed yourself. You feel contempt for those who think differently from you. You feel you need to instruct us on how to express our thoughts. "If I you I'd say something like..."
I do try to be polite on these boards. I always recognize that others may or may not like what I like and may dislike what I like. I've told many that their opinion is not wrong, for them. And that their opinion on a film is just as valid as mine or anyone else's, even it is different.
However, you aren't going to get that courtesy. You are an intellectual snob. You believe that your taste and intelligence is so much greater than the hoi polloi that you may denigrate and disparage their opinions and declare that they are "little boys" and need to do what "real men" do.
I do find it fortuitous that I am unlikely to ever meet you. You would be one of the few people that I would find great pleasure in snubbing and letting everyone else in the room know why.
No offense, but do you really think the doctors, nurses and staff just let their patients fend for themselves? You might as well ask if they clean their bedpans or shift them to prevent bedsores.
>>> [–] Destinata (1080) 16 days ago
[–] Destinata (1080) 16 days ago
No, I just wanted you to know how an obsession with comic book characters comes across to people my age.<<<
And what is your age, since you keep bringing it up. 110? Because I'm 62 and still love comics and superhero films. (And other things as well.) Because you don't understand doesn't mean those who do are infantile or going around "wearing onsies."
Because I don't do woodworking or autos or whatever doesn't mean I'm childish. It means I have different interests.
Like many, including I, have said, you don't have to share the interest (or obsession, since that's the word you seem to like.). However it is infantile (yes, I am going to use that word.) to denigrate and attempt to shame those whose interests differ from yours.
It appears you are conflating the movie and book. As I noted above, the silver shoes are from the book, not the movie.
In the book, after the Wizard takes off in the balloon, leaving Dorothy, the companions journey South to see Glinda (again, the Good Witch of the South, not the North) who tells her the silver slippers can take her home.
A correction. In the original book (and I assume you are referring to the book since you said silver slippers instead of ruby slippers) the Good Witch of the North gave them to Dorothy. The Good Witch of the North is NOT Glinda. Glinda is the Good Witch of the South.
Actually, yes. A great error many make is assuming if a culture has developed one bit of technology it must have created another because that's the way it happened with Us (and by us I am referring to Western Amercan/European cultures.) Other cultures developed differently. Asia, South America, and so forth have developed technologies in different sequences.
A prime example is South America. Most cultures there never developed the wheel. Yes, they knew about it. Children's toys had them. But they did not develop them for practical use. Why? Who knows. They were certainly no less intelligent than Europeans or Asians.
In future ages, or when/if we encounter non-terrestrial species they may ask why we don't have x technology when we have y and they developed together on their world.
This is going nowhere.
Yes. You seem to have ignored the fact that Marion is still used for men today. It didn't end centuries ago as you imply. Perhaps the two professional athletes didn't think Marion was a dorky name since they kept them. One of them was a contemporary of John Wayne.
Actors, on the other hand, change names all the time. Sometimes because they think a different name will be more attractive. Sometimes because their name duplicates another actor's name. Sometimes their agent insists on it. Why Wayne changed his name I couldn't say.
This discussion is reminding me of one I had on the Star Trek Discovery board of the female character named Michael. People were insisting it wasn't a woman's name. It didn't make any sense. They ignored it when I pointed out that contemporary woman with the name Michael exist today. (Michael Learned for one)
If the makers of the show didn't constantly insist it is in the same universe, I would not have a problem with it. As I said, in and of itself I like it. It is only the insistence that Discovery comes from Enterprise and leads directly to the Original Series that causes me issues.
I forgot John Wayne was born centuries ago. Yes, names change, but you still find men named Marion, though not commonly.
I might mention Marion Motley the football player. He was of John Wayne's era.
Or Marion Jones the basketball player. He was born in 1975.
Neither of these men changed their name. Actors change names for many reasons.
One site I checked mentioned there are 257,000 in the US named Marion of which 29% are men. That is about 7400 men named Marion.
>>>There's probably 3 or 4 cohesive sentences in there somewhere.<<<
That many?
>>>If you see a lion on the Serengeti at 10 feet away, do you run forwards at it or backwards to climb a tree? <<<
Actually, I run toward it. You cannot outrun a lion. Running toward it, with or without a weapon, may startle it into retreating. Instinct is to run. Instinct would be wrong.
Late, but, I don't believe any town can evict or deport someone from the town (with the exception of an illegal resident.), at least in the US. If you are a citizen or a legal resident you have the right to live anywhere you like. Granted, you have to buy a property or rent one. But denying someone the right to purchase or rent is a very sticky wicket. And someone already in the town cannot be evicted from it.
Ok, I just did a quick google search. I found that The Legion Flight Rings appeared in a 2006 episode of Justice League Unlimited entitled "Far From Home". That may be what you are remembering.
Possible. I haven't read comics regularly for 20 years.
I don't recall any ring JLA members wore to make them fly. You are thinking of the Legion of Superheroes from the 30th Century.
>>>There were laws against that sort of thing when I was single.<<<
Law? Do tell. And where were these laws in force? And how did they avoid the obvious unconstitutionality of them?
I'm sure you are simply being facetious. "Society" didn't allow such things and we should return to those times. Sorry, I enjoyed and obsessed over those things when I was a kid, when I was a teen, and when I was an adult. No one tried to shame me.
I knew many people, men and women, who shared my obsessions. I married one of them nearly 38 years ago. I'm still married to her.
>>>I've wasted enough time on this. It's a matter of taste, and as is often the case, if it's "out there" far enough, person A cannot understand the taste of person B. Such is the case, here.<<<
And yet you denigrate those whose taste differs from yours. You are attempting to infantilize those who enjoy something you cannot understand.
There is nothing wrong with you. As you say, tastes differ. De gustibus non est disputandum. But it goes both ways.
We often like them because they are modern mythology. Do you question enjoyment of Greek, Roman or Egyptian mythology? Do you not understand enjoyment of SF or Fantasy such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Game of Thrones, etc?
Quite simply, people like different things. Yes, there was a time when society tried to force people to act a certain way or discard "childish things."
As C.S. Lewis said, “When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
Equally in error are those who think those above a certain age are automatically stuffy or sanctimonious.
And just set my perspective: I'm 62. I know a great many people my age and older who enjoy comics and Superheroes.