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The Flying V and Avengers: Doomsday

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When I was younger, I used to love the Mighty Ducks movies. They were quirky and fun and made me wish I could rollerblade. I attempted several times but the fears of breaking bones, which I’ve never done, put me off from putting any serious effort into it. See also, why I don’t ride bikes.

So, for the uninitiated, the flying V is a move they pull in the Mighty Ducks where they skate towards the opposing team’s goal in a V formation. Passing the puck between them so the goalie doesn’t know who’s going to take the shot. They then score a goal because the goalie is just bad at his job. Here’s the video:

It takes the opposing teams three movies to realize they can just bum rush the ducks and beat their asses and the whole thing falls apart.

When it happens in the third movie, it means something. That the old tricks don’t work and they’re outclassed. Pretty simple.

But what I want is for that to happen in Avengers: Doomsday. In one of the biggest scenes in history in Avengers: Endgame, we saw every hero we got to know over a decade of movies join together for a charge against Thanos’ forces. It’s this enormous shot and they eventually win in the end. It truly is the epitome of the word, epic.

So, in Avengers: Doomsday, I think they should do it again. And the Avengers should fucking fail. That would show that this is a new threat that’s beyond anything they’ve seen before. Also, I think it would only be right that Doom is that big of a threat.

I still think it’s stupid that it’s Robert Downey Jr. It should be literally anyone else. Perhaps someone of Romani heritage like the character is supposed to be.

Why did they send their ducks to war?

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I went to Great Adventure this weekend and I got to meet Daffy Duck. I thanked him for fighting Hitler. But then I had a thought that both Daffy and Donald went to war against the fuhrer.

I know that there are images of Donald doing the heil but those are from a nightmare he had to sell war bonds. He later went on to fight in the navy. Daffy confronted Hitler directly, smashing his skull with a hammer.

My question is why? We know that they’re both true Americans for fighting against fascism. But why did Disney and Warner Bros specifically send their ducks? We also know that Donald has PTSD from his time in the war, hence why he flies off the handle so often.

But maybe that’s it. Maybe they saw the intrinsic traits of both ducks and knew that they could handle the mental load of taking life. Daffy has always been full of himself. Maybe he had an internal competition to fight as many Nazis as possible. Working his way up to confront the fuhrer personally. Fuck giving Captain America the shield, give it to Daffy. Or at least have them tag team him like Bucky and Cap did to Iron Man.

Donald though knew that being a duck he was uniquely positioned to work with the navy. If the ship goes down, he can provide aid to his fellow soldiers. His official rank in the armed forces is a sergeant in the military. Maybe he was on special assignment.

In conclusion, these ducks did their part. They saw injustice and they rose against it.

Another Gender Switch

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So, I wrote on Tuesday the reason I think the Silver Surfer was changed to being a woman. Maybe I was too harsh but the fact of the matter, is that Johnny Storm is too horny and more often than not is paired up with extraterrestrial beings whether they be Skrulls or Inhumans or whatever.

But we know that this isn’t the first time we’ve had a gender swap to indicate a different universe. Let’s turn the clock back to Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse. We see this woman early in the film, she has a kind of Bill Nye show that Miles is watching in class.

She looks like a more realistic version of Ms. Frizzle. Speaking of which, why was it Ms. Frizzle? What the fuck is wrong with people in that universe? Why wouldn’t they wife her up as soon as they could. You gotta lock down Ms. Frizzle as fast you can if you’re dating her.

Anyway, you see her at the lab that the Spider-men need to infiltrate. She catches Peter B. Parker standing around and pulls up his mask realizing that he’s from a different dimension. She mentions how he’s going to die painfully and she can’t wait for it. Throwing off her labcoat, she reveals that her full name is Dr. Olivia Octavius.

It is a stunning reveal and I’m so glad I wasn’t spoiled for it. But thinking about it, they never point out that her father was Doc Ock or anything like that. She could just be the main octopus themed villain of that universe.

And she is effective in how scary she is. A lot of it has to do with Kathryn Hahn’s impeccable vocal performance. It’s the reason she was also so affecting as Agatha from Wandavision.

That’s why probably they made the Silver Surfer a lady as they’ve said that the Fantastic Four movie takes place in a different universe. They’ll probably put the male Silver Surfer in the mainstream universe.

Whatever the reason, I don’t give a fuck. Mix and match them. Remix them. Comics are fluid and so is gender.

None of it matters as long as the character is well written and fun. And you know what changing these characters does? It gives more people an in, which means more people into this thing that I love. More diversity means better stories and a wider world both for those in fiction and for ourselves.