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Well, it would be a big boost for the long suffering guillotine and tumbrel industry.

The longest film series in history is the Wong Fei Hong series, which has around 90 installments. Beyond that, the record for Western-made films of recent vintage is around 20 to 30. So the scale and ambition of the MCU is truly impressive.

Well, it would be a big boost for the long suffering guillotine and tumbrel industry.

Well, it would be a big boost for the long suffering guillotine and tumbrel industry.

I smell a buddy cop film!

I smell a buddy cop film!

It was a time of great decline and despair. Mankind was scraping an illiterate, bestial existence out of the ruins of once-shining empires. Forgotten were the secrets of how to make the straight roads and the great structures that still dotted the landscape. The memory of these empires was so dim that some places attributed these ruins to giants, for mortal men could never have built such wonders. Libraries were few and those who could read them fewer still; what knowledge remained was carefully preserved by monks and guilds who barely understood it, let alone how we came by the knowledge to begin with. Indeed, in those times a stack of half a dozen books was regarded as a library. Order was maintained through force of arms, not law; the common people were stalked by banditry, plague, famine, and godless hordes out of the East. With each passing year, structures decayed, populations shrank, knowledge faded, and hope dimmed. The end times were nigh--that was plain as day to anyone.
 
I guess. I'm not familiar with the 1001 setting exactly, just the 1001 I lived through.

I'm not convinced there's actually a way to kill that little girl.

I win.
 
Pleasant dreams, everybody!

I win.
 
Pleasant dreams, everybody!

Spoilered for TFA
 
 
 

Hela is a stronger villain than Amora. And it ties in better for "Ragnarok" (and Thanos, most certainly).

Take a gander at the hipster.

Now they're just trolling the ice trolls.

Unfortunately, it isn't possible to test the ideas there because you can't get the actual statistics on gun ownership and gun-related crime counts. Studies of that sort explicitly cannot receive federal dollars.

The caliber of the upper barrel should probably be .40 or 10mm Auto or better to simulate the stopping power of the M41, but otherwise looks pretty kewl.

I don't see the cops getting called on a 3 year old white boy in that scenario. The anecdote is of a piece with countless others which relate the atmosphere of bias that pervades our culture. If the woman who called was an immigrant with limited mastery of English, that speaks even more strongly to the strength of those biases. The story isn't offered as "proof" of this or that, but as an exemplar of the challenges of navigating through our society while being black. Not an indictment of the police in the incident, who clearly behaved reasonably.

I think it's about the intersection of racial bias and state authority. Even at a very early age, a certain segment of the population finds black people threatening. Some of them are even enrolled in law enforcement agencies. If a 3 year old can get someone worked up enough to call the cops, imagine the plight of the average young adult black male.