Rant on Joker Blogs

The Joker Blogs are actually kind of stupid, IMO.

Here me out on this.

Now, DO NOT get me wrong. The acting is amazing, the makeup superb, what they have done with no budget? Extraordinary.

But...the plot is bad.

I mean, interviewing Joker to find out what makes him tick? Fine, down with that.

But...througout the story, Joker casually walks around the Asylum with no problem, leaves 'gifts' in peoples offices and more than once, brutally kills somebody and leaves their remains. Not only that, but they have video evidence! In story, all of the recordings are put up on YouTube. So, confronted with all of this, what do they do? KEEP FILMING! DERP!
No, okay? No. If this takes place in the 'realistic' Nolan-Verse, Joker would have been beaten to shit by the guards and locked up like Hannibal Lector at the very least.
But nope, nothing ever happens to Joker. That and Harley, like a dumbass, continues to share her private information with Joker.

Eventually, Joker escapes and, still with video evidence, goes on a spree of kidnapping, torture and murder plus blowing up a house.

Now, keep in mind, all of the video evidence of his interviews are online. Harley knew about them and it's likely everybody else did too. So, going by that, shouldn't the fucking police have known about them? Why the hell wasn't there security at Harley's wedding or a stakeout or even a police sniper in case Joker came by? Oh, not to mention, Joker flat out KILLS SEVERAL MORE POLICEMEN HE HAPPENS TO RUN INTO DURING THIS!

He barges into Harley's wedding, kills more people and then Batman FINALLY shows up to deal with him.
Goes about as well as you can expect and Batman gets owned by Harley.

SO. with ALL of this evidence laying around, dozens of witnesses, all of the crap he pulled in Dark Knight plus the fact that Asylum is clearly staffed by dumbasses who cant hold him, you would think Joker would finally get the death penalty right? NOPE!

They lock him up in the Asylum again. That's it. That's all that happens. Oh, they pay lip service to it and finally put him in a secure cell like they should have from the very beginning with a couple beatings from guards, but no major punishment.

F-ing morons.

I'm sorry, but with all that Joker has done, if this remotely realistic, clown boy would have been given the Death Penalty without a second thought.

Next season even increases the stupid! A pair of moron guards see a bum walk up to them and Joker and he offers Joker cake and a fork. Instead of pulling a gun on him and telling him to piss off, they hang out with him and let him pass Joker a fork that he uses to escape. Plus, at any point of the prior mentioned beatings, they could have easily  kneecapped him. But, that would require intelligence.

Next, with an unarmed Joker and unarmed prisoners running around, none of the moron guards think to use a gun and just run around screaming.

Furthermore, Batman FINALLY shows up after a whole lot more death has happened. How does he get in? He disguises himself as a mob boss, allows Phantasm to stab him in the back, fakes his death for a long time, finally gets up and takes off his disguise and walks around....with a SKI MASK ON! Not his cowl, a SKI MASK. Yeah, that'll protect your identity. I thought you were supposed to be a ninja?

So yeah, that's Joker Blogs: Where everyone except Joker is a colossal moron.

Loki killed 80 people? WHEN?

So, when did this happen in the movie? We see Loki take out a couple of SHIELD mooks at the beginning and brainwash a couple others, but then he leaves. If you mean blowing up the facility, that one was on Fury. We never see Loki go on this mass killing spree at all.
Next we see him after his escape, he's chilling with his minions and making an evil plan. He stabs the eye out of one more guy and blows up a car and is then captured.
He killed people, yes, but nowhere near 80. Furthermore, if he did this offscreen and SHIELD somehow knew it was him....why not go get him instead of waiting for his big appearance at Germany?
Also, how casual the characters are about it. Black Widow talks as if she barely cares, the others don't address it at all and Thor's reaction is to crack a joke. Which is...dude, it's 80 PEOPLE! I know Marvel Movies are all comedies but still...at least have the heroes address this instead of cracking a joke about it and then dropping it completely for more jokes.
I mean, dude, even without the city attack and mass killings from the Chitauri, that is a huge kill count.
Next movie? Loki is plucky comedy relief and it's barely addressed aside from a slap by Jane and a bit of prison time.

I just find the line pointless, is all.

An opinion on Spectacular Spider-Man's Symbiote Saga Misstep

The hospital scene in Spectacular Spider-Man's Symbiote Saga was frakking stupid.
Think about it, the Symbiote fed off of NEGATIVE emotions, and, on the worst day of your life, a seemingly sociopathic bully getting in your face and trying to tell you that YOU are the bad guy, it's not going to cause some major life changing revelation, it's going to piss you off. What I think WOULD have worked better is this: Peter giving Flash a reason you suck speech that just eviscerates Flash and makes him just sit down and cry. Peter goes on to see Aunt May and runs into Gwen and it's here that we get the speech...with Gwen, a close FRIEND of Peter's, sitting down with him and talking to him about his problems. It should be a real, tearjerker, tug at your heartstrings moment that really wakes Peter up to what's wrong with him. After a few minutes of sitting in silence with Aunt May, Peter knows what he has to do and leaves to get rid of the Symbiote. While he was sitting with Aunt May, have Gwen encounter Flash downstairs and just talk to him. Flash tries to play it cool but thanks Gwen for her concern anyway. Once the Symbiote is off and seemingly gone (Though, really, just attaching itself to Eddie) There is a scene of Peter encountering Flash alone at school and apologizing for what he said, Symbiote or no, Peter feels he crossed the line. Flash apologizes for his own behavior, having woken up to what an asshole he's been and he and Peter start to mend bridges.

BAM! Payback, a Karma Houdini turned into an Atoner, Character Development, foreshadowing of Peter and Flash being friends as little kids and it also helps set up Flash saving Gwen during the Venom fight.

MAN I'M GOOD!

Do not get me wrong, I LOVE Spectacular, but, I personally feel Flash was allowed to get away with far too much. When you make him a criminal in the first episode (And YES assault, harassment, stealing food and shoes, which it's mentioned he has done constantly, is criminal behavior. Not to mention bullshit like throwing a football at a teacher and getting away with no problems and throwing water balloons at Peter in full daylight and view of others) it's kinda hard to not want Peter to just slap him down and tell him to shut up.

Why Magneto's Plan in Cauldron was Nonsensical

So for those who have seen X-Men Evolution, you know what Magneto's plan was.

Use Alex to convince Scott to come to Asteroid M, kidnap Xavier via controlling the X-Jet and bring him to Asteroid M and put him in stasis. From there, he can brainwash Scott and Alex, turning them into both super mutants and his own brainwashed thugs at the same time.
From here, his plan gets dumb. Basically, Magneto takes a page out of Apocalypse's playbook and sends the Brotherhood to fight the X-Men and only capture and evolve the strong ones. I.E. the winners.

Problem!
The ones left behind on both teams, obviously won't be happy either way. The Brotherhood members who were left behind will obviously be upset and feel betrayed over being thrown away, as shown with Toad and Mystique, and the X-Men will very pissed over their friends being captured. As you can guess, they band together to wreck Magneto's plan.

Now then, here's what should he should have done.

Mystique and Sabertooth are obviously very loyal to him, and Mystique commands the Brotherhood. The Brotherhood consists of the following

Blob: Superhuman Strength and Durability.

Toad: Superhuman Leg Strength, Slime Spit, Elastic Tongue, Enhanced Agility, Can leap around walls and such.

Avalanche: Shockwaves that can manipulate the ground to cause earthquakes, tear up the road and cause rockslides.

Quicksilver: Superhuman Speed.

Now, given everything, Magneto could have very easily done this:
Walk into the Brotherhood Base, tell them about the enhancer machine, and offer to supercharge their powers. The Brotherhood would have jumped on this in a second! So, bring them to Asteroid M, show it off with Sabertooth as he did in the show, and then make the offer to the rest. The Brotherhood go in one-by-one and come out supercharged. Mind alteration optional.

So, Supercharged Brotherhood.

Blob

Bigger, Stronger, Possibly with Mass Shifting Now.

Quicksilver

Avalanche

Actually able to use his shockwaves to attack people now and improved skill in using the Earth and ground to his advantage via manipulating it with his shockwaves.

Toad

 

 

Enhanced stats plus some new tricks.

Mystique
Shown in the show
After her powers were increased by Magneto's enhancer on Asteroid M she became immune to telepathic probing and mind control. Originally Mystique could not alter her scent with her form making mutants with enhanced senses like Wolverine and Sabretooth capable of identifying her regardless of her form. However when her powers were enhanced on Asteroid M she developed the ability to alter her scent. Even Wolverine is now incapable of detecting Mystique when she is in disquise as seen when it was revealed in "Day Of Reckoning, Part 2" that Mystique was impersonating Professor Xavier for weeks.

Sabertooth: Bigger, stronger, more animalistic.

So, my thinking is this.
Have one episode introduce Asteroid M and the Brotherhood are brought on board and shown around while the X-Men are dealing with the dilemma of the day. End of the episode shows the super charged Brotherhood.

The Season 1 Finale will be a two-parter.
Part 1 being about the X-Men's first fight with the now Supercharged Brotherhood. In which the X-Men, caught off guard by their enhanced powers, are soundly thrashed and defeated. Magneto spares them though in hopes that they will learn and come to join him. Magneto and the Brotherhood leave to carry out the big plan, which is...ohhh...let's say a variation on what his plan was in the Movie: A super machine that will send out energy waves that will enhance mutants and turn humans into mutants, essentially making Magneto king of everything and all that. However, Alex slips away during all of this, horrified when he finds out not only about the plan, but that his brother got beaten up like he did.

Part 2 features the X-Men regrouping at the Mansion, recovering from their injuries and finding out about Magneto's plan from Alex when he arrives at the Mansion, reuniting with Scott and informing them of what Magneto did and what he told him. They come up with a plan and leave to Asteroid M in that non-metal ship they used to bring the fight to him.
Confronting the Brotherhood, the fight goes all across Asteroid M and the X-Men have to sweat blood to beat them, but in the end the battered heroes are triumphant and square off with Magneto himself. It is a difficult battle, but thanks to Scott's Raw Power Blast and teamwork, they defeat him and finish off Asteroid M. Magneto and his team escape in those metal spheres things and the X-Men make their escape as well as Asteroid M blows up, destroying Magneto's plan with it.

One of the things about Evo is that the Brotherhood never felt like a threat. Hell, in the Scarlet With episode the X-Men were casually joking on the way to the fight. Wanda pwned them, but she's the win button. I think that, doing it like this, would go a long way towards establishing them as a big threat to the X-Men and them using their skills and training and teamwork to win.

Face/Off

Having seen it, yeah that pretty much sums it up.

2014 Superhero Movie Watch Priority List

HIGH

Amazing Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro

Captain America: Winter Soldier

All Superheroes Must Die 2: A World Without Superheroes

LOW

Wolverine: Days of Future Logan

Smallville Superman vs Doomsday