it's not like it was his decision to take the franchise in the current direction
Ironically it was Austen Powers fault because the Bond execs found the parody too on the nose at times so went the "dark and gritty" reboot that was the Craig films. The parody only came about because of the increasing incredulity over the years so the franchise still did it to itself in a very long and roundabout way.
but every single female character save one is absolutely insufferable from the very beginning and only gets worse
Which one, was it Min?
never learning a single lesson, never getting comeuppance, never being humbled or have to face a single consequence for their actions
This changes a lot near the end where mistakes not only come back and fuck over a lot of characters but it outright kills quite a few of them who didn't bother listening to the repeated warnings.
The only woman that isn't pure agony to have to listen to is the famous warrior chick from the past who died and got transported to the future. And she basically just acts like one of the guys. Rand should have just killed the three cunts that were constantly needling him and ridden off into the sunset with her instead.
Ah, it was Birgitte. Yeah, that doesn't end well because of fuckups from one of the three in Rand's harem who is so outright stupid she should be locked away to avoid causing injury, death, and worse to herself and others. Unfortunately she isn't so all those things happen several times over.
Invincible is miles worse in that regard so its baffling to me that that is the one they chose to adapt and managed to get super popular.
Probably because it's written by Robert Kirkman who also wrote the comic for The Walking Dead, so execs were looking to jump on another of his projects and at least Invincible was finished. If they try to do the same again with Fire Power then at least comic readers will know it won't end up being done well in part because of how badly Invincible has been mismanaged but also because despite a good start Fire Power doesn't end anywhere near as well as it could have.
Olicity was a surefire sign common sense was going out the window in an episode. Felicity regaining the use of her legs and then immediately walking out the room because Oliver hadn't told her about his son was bad enough. The fact he acted that way because he was given the ultimatum of keeping the secret or never being a part of his son's life by the mother just made it worse because it wasn't ever something Felicity had a say in to begin with.
“I’m Spider-Man and this is my girlfriend”
I believe that was the last thing that went through Gwen Stacey's mind. No wait, it was the concrete as she hit the floor in Amazing Spider-Man 2 after her relationship led to her capture and then death 🙃
[Yes I know whiplash kills her in the comic]
Linda also ended up being Earth 2 Dr Light for reasons and Patty was one of the few characters in the show who actually used her brain to theorise someone with light based powers could possibly turn invisible. Which is exactly what happened and why Dr Light escaped 🙄 Most of the brain trust characters in the Arrowverse shows were extremely stupid which tends to happen when dumb people try to write smart people.
The show suffered losing Patty, and Barry deserved better than the Iris he got both before and after the various flashpoints which was also done stupidly.
Ironically Barry ending up with someone other than Iris would have gone down well, whereas Arrow would have been infinitely better had they stuck to the canon romance rather than the walking, formerly unable to walk because she got shot and was paralysed and totally not an Oracle ripoff, disaster that was Felicity and her constant crying and hypocrisy.
People in general were just really fucking stupid in Irredeemable, like the guy who just murders one of the other superpowered siblings because he didn't like him and had been told the siblings shared power. Except it turned out the one he murdered was the source so now the world is even more fucked because it was one of the few people left alive who could still give the Plutonian a fight.
Even Scottish can be a bit nebulous once you start looking at some of the subphenotypes like Celtic vs Picts. We all get labelled under the one term but the observed variety has its own terminology people might not be aware of.
I think I fall under the Celtic category of dark hair and dark eyes but also not pale enough to appear porcelain as some redheads end up, which can still be very common since Scotland has the highest proportion of redheads in the world with 14% while Ireland is just behind with 13%.
I'm usually pretty good with Marvel comics trivia and characters but I have no fucking clue who most of these names are. Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Samuel Sterns [The Leader], Sam Wilson, and by a lazy callback Betty Ross are the only names I recognise. The rest are apparently discount Falcon, discount Black Widow yet again, the fucking Serpent Society 🤣, and some random former test subject because "USA racist". Talk about scraping the barrel, I thought that was going to be bad enough with the Thunderbolts movie of a similar shit lineup.
The two fight until they are exhausted, and Ross reverts to normal
lol what the actual fuck is this shit? Thor couldn't even wear down the actual Hulk in the original Avengers movie but somehow a normal human can wear down Red Hulk 🤣
Etymology
1970s, from Italian (caffè) americano[1] or American Spanish americano (“American (coffee)”).[2] Cocktail sense from Italian americano.
So similar to how "French fries" were actually Belgian, this is Canada in fact shitting on Hispanics because idiots take the label in a literal sense.
Edit:
a drink of espresso coffee diluted with hot water
I can't stand coffee and this doesn't make it any more appealing even though it's literally diluting it.
And in doing this they just announced to the world that these backdoors, at best, might exist, and at worst, definitely exist.
So now various groups will be looking for them and any leverage possibly offered has been pissed away in the wind because unlike many governments who don't actually understand the technology they talk about so much, the various groups will.
I wonder how spiteful it would drive someone to then buy out a company for making this just to then try and drive a sequel into the ground to own the chuds. I'm sure the further idiocy of doing this would be lost on them.
Woke virtue signalling and purity spirals, name a more popular pair.