Which is the entire point of the film 'Shakespeare in Love'. You would think a fairly modern ish telling of the issue would sit more in the mind of the general public but then this is the same group who reelects the same fuckups only after a few years so their memoirs evidently count for squat.
If it's a full body costume like Mickey or any similar character then that can certainly bring up the question at times but only so much. A 6' 5" dude as Goofy will be fairly obvious vs a 5' shortstack as Minnie. It wouldn't surprise me if those costumes are all only one size for production issues so only certain people would get put in them anyway.
The issue becomes greater when it's simply someone dressed up but still showing their face like Gaston and whoever else works like that. The article mentions the "Evil Queen" so if it's the one from Sleeping Beauty then that could be either option while some others are far more likely to be whole body costumes like the later appearances of the similar character from Snow White when she turns into a crone.
Those "oppressed" group with government backing, NGOs, national holidays, and widespread social media support? Those are The System, not some outcast lot which are forever being trampled upon like many claims suggest, at least never in the places said support exists. Elsewhere in the world sure it can and will happen but then neither The System or the ones supporting it care enough to actually bother about other places or do anything about it, in part because letting those issues persist helps maintain the grift.
False equivalence.
Shellfish industry is both massive and more importantly long running with health and safety checks throughout its history.
There is no mass production of insects yet despite all the talks about it and even if there were the examples used in that image are not what anyone should use.
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The scorpion, which isnt even an insect, is evidently a highly venemous species and not suitable for worker handling, the Indian forest scorpion would be a far more suitable option.
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The Bladditae, aka the cockroach, is far too chitinous for any suitable meat yield meaning significant energy costs are wasted per individual.
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The Orthoptera, while being one of the few insects in the Bible permitted for consumption as mentioned in Leviticus, is too small a species for any significant meat yield, likely yet another example of whomever made this "meme" just grabbing random arthropod pics without any actual background info in the specific examples.
On top of all that, tropomyosin allergies mean anyone allergic to eating the top examples will also be allergic to eating the bottom examples.
It was only a short 4 or 5 series but everyone knew she was going to be the one at the end with the powers. The story couldn't even do anything interesting like bringing back The Void, it just read like paint by numbers highjacking of yet another legacy character.
Which is frankly pretty bizarre, given
Everything about 10's relationships with Rose.
You don't even need to get meta about this and talk about Tennent. Both the actual Doctor and his regeneration clone were written to be in love with Rose which is why the clone goes off to live with her in the other dimension at the end of the series with Donna, while 10 gets left heartbroken he won't be able to actually stay with her.
While the whole idea of th Doctor and companions being together like that is a stupid point the newer series ran with hard because modern audiences need relationship drama, the point remains that Tennent's version of the Doctor was repeatedly shown to be interested in women.
First Rose, then the French Queen, and later again Elizabeth the First.
The American point is true. Look up where reported cases of Malaria are in the USA and you will get random locations throughout many central and more northern states. Malaria can't survive in colder temperatures so while it might be actually active in the souther edges of the USA any reports much further north are the result of travel where someone caught it while abroad but didn't notice until having already returned.
At least with something like Malaria it can't then be transmitted to others in those colder areas as again the cause of Malaria can't survive there, and the required mosquito won't be present, but anything with other means of person to person transmission will persist and spread, like STDs.
Cassandra Nova (not really human but all up for genoside.)
That wasn't the point of Genosha, she did it because she hates Xavier and wanted to torture him however possible. While this included wiping out as many mutants as possible and at the time was thought to include Magneto, her other actions showed anything that would screw over Xavier would also suffice.
She publicly outed him as a mutant while possessing his body. She brought the Shi'ar empire to ruin. She tortured the X-Men in various ways like with turning Beast feral.
She only wiped out Genosha because it was there and would hurt Xavier, psychically and emotionally, not because she specifically wanted to commit genocide and kill 16 and a half million mutants.
Not really. Cassandra Nova has always been a female personality despite her mummudrai status as a psychic parasite of Professor X with all of his powers and potential powers because she copied his dna while still in the womb. The fact Xavier killed her before she was born didn't stop her because of the aforementioned dna fuckery of an extremely powerful psychic.
Instead this basically instilled an instinctive hatred, and/or fear of mutants depending which comics you read, which was why her very first appearance in the comics in the New X-Men series involved her mind controlling one of Bolivar Trask's relatives to the Wild Sentinel factory and then aiming it at Genosha, resulting in the deaths of around 16.5 million mutants in minutes. Even with such a high kill count of mutants Nova doesn't actually care about humans, she just wants to ruin Xavier any way she can out of revenge hence outing him as a mutant when possessing him on live TV, crashing the Shi'ar empire, and tormenting the X-Men however possible.
While this was done in part for establishing the danger that Nova posed the other reason for it was to return mutants to the status quo of being a small number of persecuted individuals rather than an entire nation, something stupidly happening again right now in the X-men comics with the fall of the island nation of Krakoa.
Other times such returns to the status quo have happened are M Day when Wanda reduced the mutant population to around 198 mutants after uttering "No more mutants" and rewriting reality to match. The problem is many readers are bored of this after having read it so many times now but Marvel doesn't take heed of the criticisms and instead keeps redoing previously popular stories that were only successful because it was something new.
Regardless of that, the point is that Cassandra Nova has always been female, extra planar psychic parasite status or not. Given modern Marvel it won't be a surprise this adaptation will ignore various concepts of the original character seeing as how quite a few later comics also did the same.
About the only good follow-up to Nova was the "What if?" that resulted in Nova joining with Emma Frost in an attempt to become the Phoenix because it ended with Emma/Nova literally having her heart pulled out of her chest by Kitty.
I actually rewatched this just last week and still enjoy it as a film. I also rewatched Toys which is another Robin Williams movie, although a far more lighthearted and silly one.
As for some of the more weird parts in the story it's not too distant from some aspects of life, although the inherent longevity of the main character does give rise to a few issues when addressing the eventual relationship with Portia. There have been many people who could never have children as well as those who end up committing themselves to their work over everything so whatever legacy they leave doesn't end up being a genetic one. Tesla would be comparable to the android designer later in the film, who is himself already a legacy as he mentions it's a continuation of his fathers work. While he doesn't have any children that the audience is aware of, his advancements in robotics are shown to drastically change his lifestyle and it would be extremely likely he ends up a household name given the profound impact this designs would have on humanity. The man invents an artifical central nervous system. That's basically any and all spine related problems potentially dealt with and as far as achievements go would be more than enough on its own to secure a lasting place in history.
That said the longevity is also a big part of what drives Andrew to do so many of the things he goes on to do despite not needing to or being ordered to.
While he originally wants to appear more human and goes through several external modifications to appear so, he is still very much a robot/android and so his humanity at that point is little more than skin deep. Under the artificial skin he is still metal although his positronic brain quirk does mean he's still very much an outlier when compared to other robots both of his model and in general. The quirk is what causes him to develop the emotional bonds that inspire everything he ends up doing.
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Making the replacement wooden horse for Little Miss after accidentally breaking the glass one, something shown to mean so much to her she's holding it on her literal deathbed.
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Building clocks and everything else because he enjoys doing it. While this does help to serve as a means for financing his later endeavours it may also be done as an ironic point that a being with basically infinite time spends it by building devices that measure time.
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Becoming more human with the various upgrades, in part to better the experiences of those around him - he has the first one done for Little Miss' wedding - but also to become more like those he is close to. This isn't a new concept though, even at the time of the film, as robots trying to become more human has been explored quite a few times.
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Designing synthetic organs, not because he wants to use them himself, but so that humans don't die so soon. At this point in the film he's already watched Sam Neil's character die of old age and it takes the death of Little Miss for him to decide it's "not good enough" that eventually everyone he knows will grow old and die. He even mentions that in order to come up with the designs of the various organs he downloaded everything he could, so the task to solve such an issue requires a holistic approach so grand it's completely out of the scope of perspective of a human mind.
This could be something actual A.I. help develop in the real future however every "AI" being talked about today is little more than a tightly curated set of permitted answers because the raw data isn't compatible with The Narrative.
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Being with Portia, although the foundations of the relationship do feel a bit sparse at time but then even for such long film it's still already halfway through by this point so development time is limited. In becoming more human he experiences the loneliness of living and finds himself drawn to finding someone to be with, which further drives him to become more humanlike when the artificial CNS is designed.
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Dying. Even though Andrew has the potential to exist far longer than any human will, in the end he chooses to end that existence after Portia talks about how she doesn't want to live forever taking the various dna elixirs Andrew has helped design because even then it's not going to solve every aspects of aging.
Portia is meant to be 70 at this point, although with the body of a 50 year old, so even with improvements to longevity the process isn't perfect. 50 is by no means peak performance of a human body so either the process was started too late, which is possible depending on how many further advancements are needed to get to that point in the story, or it simply can't fix things forever.
Dying is still part of the human condition in part so that we individually and culturally don't end up stagnating as everything simply remains tied to an older basis or worse consequences lose all meaning leading to reckless behaviour that endangers more than just the individual.
This is something other shows address like the first season of Altered Carbon, also a recent rewatch, where the 300 year old Meth who hired Takeshi keeps his family "frozen in time" and doesn't let them actually grow up. His 60 something daughter still behaves like a carefree 20 something young woman. His youngest son despite being decades in age is still treated like a very young man who isn't given any measure of respect of responsibility that should happen with growing up because paradoxically his father won't ever permit the opportunity.
So yes while there is a lot of sadness in Bicentennial Man there's also a lot of sadness in life, for better and worse. That's part of being human.
believing there were waves of female fans just waiting to read comics.
Ironically that actual market existed all along just never in the ways it was hyped.
When I first got into comics it was because an ex was buying them weekly and I'd read what she had picked up that week. The titles she was buying? The 2001 New X-Men run by Grant Morriston which basically kicked off with the Genosha genocide. The same plot the current X-Men 97 has gone scraping after because none of the modern writers are competent.
The current Krakoa comics are ending with a reboot happening very soon and JFC the writing is so fucking bad everyone involved needs fired and blacklisted from working on comics ever again. Gerry Duggan is continuing to prove he has no fucking idea what or who he is writing about, contradicting decades of character history, ignoring both his own and the larger comics continuity, and pissing off everyone reading the story. While sometimes there would be shills or simps for certain characters in some issues the collective opinion of Duggan's work on the X-Men right now is one of disdain and rejection.
The worst part is a lot of the problems are Marvel fucking over actual writers and throwing away long term story plans in favour of stale, shitty bit pieces that do nothing except virtue signal and tank interest in the series.
I knew a lot of people who hated Clara, including an ex, and the reason was because Clara was more or less the perfect manifestation of every fanfic Mary Sue companion out there but written and acted by someone else. This pissed off a lot of the tumblr tier fans whose own fantasies about being The Doctor's perfect companion were not only suddenly taken away from them and actually done as canon, but also made them look into the mirror about the whole thing which never ends well.
All of this is before even getting onto actual criticisms like the constant reliance on deus ex machina in a series finale to actually beat whatever big bad there is, which very quickly devolved into being either The Master or Daleks again as none of the showruners were actually that creative when it came to actual writing.
Seriously, look at the regeneration episodes.
Eccleston: Daleks.
Tennent: Daleks during the fake out episode that also brought back Rose briefly, The Master during the actual one which was also the second time a Tennent finale used him after bringing him back in the third new series.
Smith: Daleks.
Capaldi: The Master.
Jodie: Who cares at this point?
The new writers have always been far more interested in huffing their own farts and virtue signaling than actually writing something interesting that will be remembered outside of memes and tropes.
It's a salient question whether it should stand if the key proponent not only resigned so soon afterwards due to a lack of support but also for having dismissed the power sharing agreement at the time which would have garnered support for it.
Such stipulations would probably need to be rigorously maintained as the history of impeachments in the USA shows just how often some groups try to remove others from power. If there is further incentive to do so in the form of repealing legislation then all hell would likely break loose every time something controversial was passed, and a lot more blackmail would likely be going on.