Stupid Sexy X-men 97, Marvel Rivals Trailer, Spider-verse Into Mental Health Short, and more!

[0:21] Hello, everyone, and welcome to Superhero Slate, the show where we run down the latest superhero entertainment news. My name is Chris. And this week, we've got the trailer for Marvel Overwatch clone game called Marvel Rivals. This was very. Yeah. Yeah. It's, I am, so this is like, the third week in a row. It feels like we've had a marvel game reveal kind of going on here. So, I feel like they're in their, their, their golden slash silver era of gaming. the Thunderbolts filming is underway with a walkthrough video from one of the actresses, if you will. So it's okay. There's no there's no spoilers on this, sadly, but we're going to talk about some stuff

[1:13] We saw on I have a theory. I have a theory going on laid on you later. Spider-Verse gets a new fundraising short film clip. It's just a short, seven minute thing on YouTube. and more. Yes. Yeah. Well, all the candy deals tomorrow. So. Oh. You're welcome. I bought a package of, Reese's Pieces, eggs. So imagine the pieces. But they're like the larger egg shaped. Kind of like a like a peanut in minimum size. I'm like, that's pretty good. They're good for, you know, a small dose. If you're looking for some of those, There's hardly any chocolate on it, which I think is the best part. The, the, the the inside of that, that fake peanut butter

[2:41] To to candy shell ratio is pretty, pretty solid actually. Yes. That my wife also got I believe it was is it Jolly Ranchers or Starburst or something. Jelly beans. Skittles jelly beans. Maybe this year. she's a big fan of those. And she's also a huge fan of peeps, which are not my go to candy by any means. Like, I don't know if you're a fan of peeps or not. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. oh. You I I'm, I'm the other way. I'm, I'm for burning marshmallows on a stick. That's about the, the extent of my marshmallows. Mike. I don't want them in anything. I'm not a huge fan of marshmallows, so Rice Krispie treats are really

[3:52] Not even on my, like, realm of, like, things I, I enjoy very frequently. but I do love burning a marshmallow on a stick. it's the inner pyro in me that comes out, and I just thoroughly enjoy that. Yeah, and that's all. Oh, nice. Yeah. It it's a straight horror film. Like. It's like the second one is very bombastic in action. Right? There's a canal scene in the semi-trucks and all of the action and, of course, are scary moments as well. But that first one is truly a horror film. through and through. More, more, more so than that. Second, because that second just goes bigger, it goes more, it goes all in like a sequel would.

[5:30] But that first one, people forget how tiny and claustrophobic it is sometimes. Like, you just don't know what's going to pop out of the shadows that you're in that movie. Oh. Stay sane. Once in Sam and Sam was it? I was like, Who is Sam Winston? Is he? Oh. Yeah. Yeah. It we'll we'll swap it out on a cut and everything. Yeah, it was. Yep. I. I love everyone's, view in the 80s of of how a dystopian future was, like. They're tall, building. Like, if you look at Blade Runner, you look at Terminator, you look at, like, alien. Even, like, two of those are changed here. But like, everyone's view of, like, a dystopian future was all the same, right?

[6:53] It was rainy, it was dark, it was cities. And there was technology that we still don't even have to this day everywhere, kind of things. And I know the Terminator, like, I think one had a little bit of the future, right when Kyle Reese was talking about the future, and stuff like that. So, I mean, I just I just love everyone. Just agreed. Like the silent agreement. Yeah. The future's going to be shit. And here's what it's going to look like for everybody, along the way, but, Yeah. No, that's that's, that's a fun that's a fun one to go back to, you know, my God. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Mike probably tired of me talking about this, already,

[7:36] But I bought that Laserdisc player and literally two of the Lazarus I bought were Terminator one and two this week because, they they just came out in that time frame, right where everyone was trying to get home releases, all that fun stuff. I did not ask you, though. I did get, a lot of the James Bond movies and friend of the show, Brian. I actually FaceTimed him because he's one of the biggest James Bond fans I know, like Retro Bond. and I'm like, Brian, tell me which ones I should get out of this collection before I bought the collection. and he gave me a list of old bonds. Do you have any old bond movies in the Connery?

[8:11] Roger Moore era that stick out to you? That you were like, yeah, I it so I didn't watch a lot growing up. I didn't really get to bond until Daniel Craig kind of came through myself. Another one? okay. So. Yeah. Well. Then then you'll be glad to know. I got GoldenEye. Then I was the only one that's not a Roger Moore. one or, Sean Connery. One. because, boy, those old ones feel sexist. Boy, they feel so sexist when you look at them, womanizing through and through. but, yeah. No, I'm looking forward to take take on that. and before we get into our topics, for the week, because Mike's talking about he's going to talk about I watch, in theaters this weekend.

[9:36] Don't forget to like and subscribe our video if you're on YouTube or anywhere. Really. We're trying, to put ourselves out there in so many different places, for this. So. But Saturday, Mike, I was able to take part in what I believe is the biggest, domestic. Or maybe it was global, opening of the year so far. Godzilla, Kong. new empire. It's a new empire. Yeah. Not frozen. And part of that was Ghostbusters. New empire. in theaters this weekend. I went at a 10:00 in the morning showing. Mike, have you ever been to a 10 a.m. showing on a movie? Or at least recently? Yeah. There's no one in line in the concession stands that popcorn's fresh that

[10:19] You see him popping it right there in front of you kind of thing. I got myself a Coke Zero. My Twizzlers. That's my go to watch this, with a couple people. what was surprising about this movie, Mike, is. Oh, like I said, it is so far, it beat Dune so far for opening so, the story I have the story of this tells me is people, like, watching, dumb action movies. Still, I think, you know, I saw Ghostbusters. I don't think I have a strong of an opening last weekend, but Godzilla Kong, definitely did, because it's a continuation of, again, the Godzilla franchise. The Kong franchise. and what I will tell you, Mike, did you enjoy Godzilla versus Kong last time?

[11:00] When it came out? Okay. So, I believe when we talked about Godzilla vs Kong, it was it was during the pandemic. It came out on HBO Max. Same time as in theaters. So we were lucky we didn't. We didn't have to pay for anything because we already had a max subscription. so that that was a probably helped that. But we always said we need more monster fights, right? Like we watched it, you know? But it's just a lot of, a lot of humans, a lot of like, just dull, like dragged on moments. I will tell you, they took those lessons to heart, Mike, because they're a monster, fights after monster fights after monster fights. In this movie, there are whole sections where no dialog is spoken

[11:52] Or humans are seen because it's about the the huge beast, Godzilla and King Kong and the the other Titans, if you will, above and below Earth in this movie. so I think that's great. There's actually, I don't know if you remember, it was in the Kong Skull Island. there's like a tribe of people on Skull Island who, like, worship Kong. they, they make a reappearance in this. And the the thing about that tribe was they don't talk. They have no language like verbal language. So they were so intent on not making people talk in this movie, they use another culture that has no verbal language whatsoever. like, they they were like, we don't want people to ruin this movie

[12:36] Because people just, you know, last time it was just bogged down with all that stuff. And it was weird, like it just kind of ruined the momentum this time. There are like four main characters other than the kaiju. Rebecca Green, Dan Stevens, you know, your Dance of Legion fame? Yeah, he he's a he's a great guy. Brian Tyree Henry shows back up. He's the, Well, I would call this version this this this shows podcast here in the blog on kaiju and stuff in the last one. and then, a little girl that the girl who was on Skull Island last time, and Kong. That's it. Other than that, there's hardly anybody other humans in this movie, Mike.

[13:16] That's how much they were like, we're taking it down. We're bringing it back down to the monster fights. And, I will say a couple of the, you know, it starts off with an action scene and Hollow Earth, and then you get some stuff with Godzilla. Godzilla? He is just a fucking beast in this movie, man. Like, he just goes for it like, it's it's kind of brutal and in some cool way. So, I had a good time. This is not going to change your mind if you are. If you if you're on the fence of Godzilla Kong movies, this isn't going to change your mind. But they doubled down on what worked. And rather than sticking like, hey,

[13:51] We want to bring more humans in and show the human side of this story. It's not about that. It's not about it at all. It's about the monsters. And we know, and they know that. And they they really give it to us. So, Yeah. It's free now. I'm kidding. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it's definitely worth the stream. It's definitely worth the free stream. Yeah. Ghostbusters. I mean, I thought Ghostbusters would actually give it a run for its money. If I'm going to be completely honest. Yeah. There was no ecto cooler. That's why if you don't have Ecto cooler you're doomed to fail. It was going to be Captain America I believe last time before it was moved.

[15:46] Well I don't think Civil War was, but Winter soldier was, I believe, you know, Black Panther was February. They kind of mix in the spring a little bit there with some of them historically. Yeah. I'm taking a look here. I really thought, you know. Yeah, I, I agree with you, Dune. I think Kung Fu Panda four is out, even though that's not, you know, in our wheelhouse, if you will. Ghostbusters. Godzilla. I can't even think of anything I saw in the theater, Mike. when I was in there, like promotions or posters for anything else. When we walked in. so, yeah, I, I don't it's just one of those things like it's doing is doing the right things and I don't other we were talking about

[16:44] Before the show, we what is the next movie we need to watch in theaters other than I would say, like I said, Deadpool to you, I'm like, what's next? I don't even know what's coming right of for for the next couple months. I. Oh, that's that's a, that's a may. When I saw that that would that a trailer for that. It's a May 1st. guy Ritchie's the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is in April. which I. Oh, yeah. That's that's that's true. I forgot about that. That'll that'll be saving me a movie ticket. I'm trying to think trailers I watched, bad boys movies. And there's another one of those coming out, and that might be summer.

[17:48] Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. It. Yeah. there was that is, two horror films. Was it the, the first omen and The Watchers, which is the next Shyamalan movie or not? It's not him. Night Shyamalan I think it's, it's a relation. is a Night Shyamalan is doing that, Oh. Despicable me. Yeah, there it is. That's the that's the one coming out in May that that people are doing. So, yeah. I've just not seen a lot, you know, going on, but but I had a good time with this. I'm glad I got to see it. again. Matinee. It was fun to to watch it in the theaters, with that. But on the other part this week, Mike, you've asked me no fewer than four times.

[19:03] Have you caught the new episode of X-Men 97? And I can say confidently, as of this recording, yes, I have. I've watched episode three of X-Men 97. Yeah, well, I had, other than I had some personal issues that were unexpected to take care of most of the week. and then, yeah, finally we were able to watch it once we everything kind of calmed down, this weekend. So, Yes. Yeah, it. Yes. And it, again on Disney Plus, you know, we're two weeks in, three episodes out. I have before we begin, Mike, anecdotal evidence from, a listener of the friend, listening to show and friend Luke. He said, he he texted me earlier. He says, his wife loved X-Men 97.

[20:07] So we're three for three on wives enjoying X-Men 97. Yes. Yeah, absolutely. but I wouldn't have put some time codes in here, Mike. So let's go ahead and get into episode three discussion, because I'm going to tell you, I'm just going to preface this. Okay. Last week I asked you, Mike, you want me to tell you what this episode is going to be about? And you said no. It and, we we started watching it and I said, I told my wife earlier, I'm like, you, let me tell you what's gonna happen. She's like, okay, sure. She's like, did you read about mine? I'm like, no, I can tell you right away. After the end of last week, I know exactly what's going to happen.

[20:56] I told her, I said this, this character's name is Madelyn Pryor, and they have a child. Yeah, yeah. There's spoilers. So? So. Okay, I'll put the spoiler thing. So. So this this is, and this is taken straight from the comic books from the 1980s. Okay. So none of this is brand new information. All of this is identical from the comic books. mind you rushed, right? Because we're we're dealing with a 20 minute timeline. the last episode ends with a, Jean gray coming to the door of the mansion while there's already Jean gray in the mansion. Who's the clone? What's going on here? We come to find out it's all machinations of Mister Sinister, which is in the title.

[21:39] I love Mister Sinister. I think he's a cool design character. I really am sad we never got him in live action, but at the same time, I'm kind of glad we didn't. Yeah. Yeah. As if the Nathaniel Essex Corporation. Because his name was Nathaniel Essex. Yeah. Yeah. But it's. Well, he. So he is from the 1800s. he's very, very old, because he's been putting mutant genes in his genes. But I would say he's like a vaudevillian, like, kind of goth, like vaudeville and goth kind of mixed together, right? Like, he's very dramatic in his, like, he's got these things that come off his back that go up and down, like. Like they're not fringe, they're not frills.

[22:46] What are they kind of thing. and he's got, you know, pale skin with the diamond on his head. So like when you see Mister Sinister, you know who Mister Sinister is, and he's in the cloning. So, Absolutely. I was able to call this episode, you know, before we get into full spoilers to my wife before starting to, like, how did you know this? I'm like, this is from the 1980s. None of this is new. This is all identical for for this Mike. So, you you've you've made a thumbnail here for me that it's very confusing for Chris, to look at. I don't know what you're thinking. I don't know what you're feeling, but you've asked me so many times, Mike.

[23:20] I got to know what's your. Take this on this? Okay. Oh. Thank God. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So. Gambits. Too cool to wear a crop top. yeah. I guess. This is where every every. It. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I I. It as as a young child, I had a fascination with redheaded women, Mike. And I can tell you it was probably from X-Men that did it to me. along the way. but, yeah, this this episode sets up a very important character. Do you know who the child of, Scott Summers and Madeline Prior is? Yeah. Hmhm. Yeah. Yeah. He's two brothers. Havoc. Yeah. So, in this episode, it's a very rushed version of it, but, Mister Sinister is trying to create the perfect mutant.

[26:13] Make him invincible because of, you know, the summer's DNA and Gene Gray's, DNA. you know, puts him in this, gets a techno organic virus. This child is sent to the future. Who comes from the future later in X-Men. Mike cable. Cable is Nathan. His name is Nathan Summers. So we just got to see the creation of, cable and that I've used in the comic books. Yeah. So, when you see cable in the comic books now, don't use Deadpool two as an example. That's a whole different cable. But, in the comic books, yeah, he they he is the child of, Jean gray clone Madeleine Pryor and Scott Summers, and that's how he gets his techno organic viruses from Mr.

[26:54] Sinister trying to, manipulate him as a child before he was sent off, to the future to to to control his powers and, you know, become the person that we we know as a time traveling badass. Really, at the end of the day, what was interesting, this is we got to see the original morph face, and this is. Well, I don't know if you caught that when morph uses the original face, because in the original series, you think he dies in the first episode, but he's actually captured by Mr. Sinister and experimented on. so that's a throwback to the original show. and, we, Bishop, who has been around for a little bit, you find out why he's been around his time traveling bracelet's broken.

[27:29] So Bishop is also sent off at the end. I thought Bishop powering up by Cyclops was awesome. whatever he's like, just load me up with energy. I'm going to shoot all these demons down. Yeah. Yeah. The. Yeah. The the. The color. Like, not just her color but the color of the stained glass as well. And whenever like, it looks like a rainbow of shards coming down on a magneto. You know, her purple and green colors, mixing together to show her powers. And then, like, when she's controlling other people, morph actually transforms into magic at one point. And then, when he becomes under control of, the Goblin Queen, he reverts into, Magic's demon form, which is Dark Child, which

[28:49] We'll talk about here in a little bit, but like, yeah, I like everything about it. Again, the show is firing on all cylinders here. Just three episodes in still, to to to impress us, really at the end of the day. And then it gets into that really, you know, I would say similar to Doctor Strange body and mind. Who's the person who's the spirit kind of thing? into some heavy material. Right. Like Jean Gray's power is manifesting the loss of her friend, you know, the birth of their child. Who's the real Jean gray? Who's the real mother? What's going on here? It was some real heavy stuff there at the end. before that. Was. Yeah.

[29:49] Who was who and what? Yeah. When was a real place? Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That. Oh, yeah. Oh well I, I think, you know, with the reaction of this, you go, you dive into that 90s animation and you go with, I would say the more popular show and that's the, the Spider-Man animated Spider-Man. Right. From, from the 90s. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, if, if, if I had the unlimited money that Marvel essentially has and the ability to say, look, we've done this, you know, the formula is to don't break or don't fix it if it's not broken. Right. Continue. Dive in there. I know they had what was it? There was an amazing the Spider-Man.

[31:37] It was an amazing Spider-Man, show. but they had a continuation. What was that call that had like a sequel, though? Yeah. Like it does something different. Like. Yeah, it feels different. Right. Because I think there was like a, like a quote unquote sequel, and it might have been just like a spiritual sequel, even. but yeah, you go you go tap into that immediately and you like, okay, let's get like the production started on this. Now they don't have to announce it. If it doesn't work. And, you know, in the production cycle, don't do it, don't follow it. But you you should tap into the most popular, I would say even more popular than X-Men was Spider-Man.

[32:20] Like, I remember playing, Spider-Man and like, animated short video games in the 90s, right under my Nintendo 64, stuff like that. I don't remember playing X-Men games like this. So I think you go into that and you go into it hard, if you will, for that. Now, there were other shows we talked about this a little bit before a couple, a couple weeks ago, maybe a week or two ago. But, I'm trying to think, what was it? There was a Fantastic Four. do you remember anything else in that era? Yeah. Right. Yeah. I crossovers. Absolutely. I it was Spider-Man unlimited by the way. I just looked it up. so but like there was a Silver Surfer show, an incredible Hulk show.

[33:31] Fantastic version and Iron Man show. I don't think you need to do that. I think I agree with you. They don't need individual shows, but maybe they work towards, like you said, an Avengers kind of team up show or. Like what? How do we bring some of these people together into, like, a short run team up, you know, whenever this is kind of run its course right after a couple seasons, I think that would be interesting to see them. But yeah, actually bring the Fantastic Four into this. you know, Iron Man, Silver Surfer is great because there's obviously, you know, X-Men stuff in space. the the Hulk, the Hulk, Iron Man. Fantastic. We're kind of kind of going Spider-Man in my head a little better, but yeah,

[34:09] I think you just you just tap into that like the a smart person, which I believe Kevin Feige is, would do this because that is what you need to do to to kind of tap to, to be to be successful, to ride this wave. Right. Like, to, to say, hey, look, we're listening to the people. We're bringing the people show to them at the end of the day. So, is that what you that you mean your green pants? What you do with us? You just add more, like. Okay, cool. Well, we'll keep coming back for the next, I guess what, seven weeks. Six weeks for more X-Men 97. If we have anything. Update, I would say.

[34:43] I would probably say the last three episodes are part one, two, and three of a single story. We probably wait to the end of that, but we'll see if anything's cool. Along the way. moving along, Mike, I know you are a Hulu Disney Plus, package subscriber. Correct. If I if I'm not wrong. Now, did your app get merged into one Disney Plus app this week with everyone else? Okay. The green and blue. Yeah. As long as. Yeah. Well, I it's. Well, from my understanding, they've use click on Disney Plus and then it tells you Disney Plus and Hulu and you pick which one you go into at the end of the day. So it was more of a it's not storefront but I guess like a landing page for apps

[36:05] If you will, kind of thing. ideally they get to the point where you pay for one, but I don't we don't pay for Hulu, so I just want the Disney Plus version. So hopefully they can keep them separate. But I don't know, I get as someone who doesn't use either of these, or both of them. Just one of them I don't under. I want to know how the experiences for people. I didn't know if you'd had that experience yet. diving into that app and having to pick, oh, I want to go to the Hulu land. I want to go to Disney Plus land at all. So. Gotcha. Yeah, I my X-Box app is also updated to that new new color scheme,

[36:45] Scheme as well. So, I do know that they're pushing that all around Marvel rivals game that was surprise announced this earlier this week. we got a teaser. Hey, we're announcing the game tomorrow. Then the game was announced the next morning, with the trailer of not knowing anything. What it was. nobody knew really thing about this, but apparently they've been doing some early open alpha or now open closed alpha testing. for some people. We've got some screenshots to share here, but it is a six V6, game, coming out next year tentatively. And they will have alpha signups already open that. So you can do the alpha in May. But this is essentially what people are calling.

[37:26] And I agree with Overwatch or Valorant. clone. We're using Marvel team ups in destructive environments. Now, Overwatch is a 66 game where you pick, I think it's actually is five five now, where you pick a character who has a class like there's a tank, an attacker, a healer like you have, you know, like a specific role to play, if you will, on the team. And then you, either, kill the other team for kills or you move. you stay with an item, like, like a, I guess, I don't know, like a it's not a train, but this item and it moves forward. The closer you are to it, the more it moves forward. So the other team has to to kill the other team to keep it from moving forward.

[38:05] You have to kill them. So it keeps moving forward kind of deal. very strategic. Very you know, you pick a main character and usually plays them a lot of the time. So you're really good with them. Overwatch two launched, a year or two years ago for free, but it had a real, real boss release based on how they did the character release and stuff like that. So it's not been doing very well. Like you said, you might have accidentally played Overwatch at some point. and. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely, I get it. I played a lot of Overwatch. Like I don't even have like a Funko of one of the characters I played a lot of still over my gaming.

[38:42] So I'm a I'm a big Overwatch fan. So, again, if the the rule is if it ain't broke, don't fix it. So essentially just do Overwatch which is got killer gameplay. Put my favorite IP over top of it. Sign me up. I'm down to play this. currently the alpha will be for PC slash steam, but, it'll probably come to consoles and it is free to play. That was the other big part, Mike. I think that's going to be a good, easy entry, right? Sell skins, you know, or whatever. You know, do the the shop like a Fortnite does. You don't have to buy it. But if you want to look cool, buy the skins kind of thing.

[39:16] I think that'll be interesting. But the the cool thing for me is the launch roster, characters. I didn't expect designs. I didn't expect for characters. These are all very unique. There's not movie or comic book based, but, a lot of interesting mix of people here. Mike, I know you you even said, like, who is one of these characters? As we were kind of going through it. Yes. So Luna Snow, was a character who came out, in, it was a I think it was a game, a couple, a couple years ago. she's she's a North Korean or not North Korean, sorry, South Korean base character. And she has the ability to control, you know, cold and snow stuff.

[40:02] So, so she, she has that, those abilities. let me see here. I'm trying to figure out. That's Korean. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yes. So, she she also is a a K-pop singer as her, human personality. And they actually, created, songs for her, like, appearances in the games. Marvel future for Marvel Super War. so, yeah, she's she's cool. She's just got ice powers, and she's, she was created around 2019. other than that, Nam War has a really interesting design where he's kind of, like, got, like an attitude. Like a surfer attitude to him. If you look at the images, here are the one image I've linked in the notes. you know, we've got some interesting we talked about magic earlier.

[41:05] We have magic in here, Magneto. storm, you know, some guardians? oh. These these all look pretty cool, I think, a Penny Parker slash spider from the across the Spider-Verse is interesting, and, but she controls a mech, so that's kind of fitting. And in here, there's a, like, drawn out. Drawn out to you in terms of designed. Yeah. Like. Like. You know. Like. Say. I don't I don't. Know. Yeah. Yeah. One of the places. Yeah. I would say the, Well, I my disappointment on this is when you announced the game and, like, us coming out next, a year away. Like, I'm instantly out because I like the hype level. If I can play this sooner than later than. Yes.

[44:31] Like, don't wait and say, hey, you can look at this now. In a year, the game industry in a year is going to be entirely different, right? Like what we play now, what we play in the year, what we play in two years is, is going to be interesting. I sent you earlier this week in Call of Duty Warzone. They've added Cheech and Chong skins, next month. when we were playing Warzone in 2021, 22, I never would have thought, oh, yeah, they're going to do a Cheech and Chong crossover. Yeah, right. So, the gaming thing just changes so quickly. So I think the delay is the worst part. I will say one of the interesting things is it's a multiversal war.

[45:07] Essentially, doctor, the story's two doctor dudes from different universes are fighting, opening up different universes. So if you don't like these characters or these designs, there will be opportunities, I'm sure, to buy more recognizable ones, or ones from the comic books, or even more, you know, unique ones, if you will. Along the way. Yeah. But, but because it is in these two universes that are not technically in the comics or movies, they do have the luxury of, again, designing them how you want, or how they want to a little bit. They look, you know, again, like they would fit in to me, I would say more than Valorant. It's more like Apex Legends designs a little bit, if you would, in some of these characters.

[45:52] Just kind of how I don't know if it's the angles, the colors, the poses, I don't know. I haven't really figured it out yet, but I'm interested in this. All the people also called out, again, as you mentioned. yeah, they will probably be adding characters over time. Where is Captain America? Where's the war? Where's the popular ones? But you know, you know, the fact that we are getting the game with magic or and like rocket as a, as a standalone character, despite its short stature, I'm very excited for for those opportunities to play it. And even if it's free and you don't spend any money on skins, it shuts down in 18 months. It's still free.

[46:25] That that's the cool part about this. the other thing that this game has is the other game. So I have is team ups, and you can kind of see it in the trailer. an example, a well known example is Rocket Raccoon is able to jump on Groot's back and shoot from him. So you get like a two at the same time. There's, I think an image on the site where Bruce Banner as the Hulk, is able to give gamma radiation to Iron Man to charge up his, you know, beam reactor, as a team up. So I'm excited to kind of see how some of these team ups kind of play together throughout that. So, check out that trailer in our show notes and check out the roster,

[47:02] There as well, another video that came out this week. It's not a spoilery video, but, you know, it's obviously a very curated, promotional release video, if you will, for Thunderbolts. came out, Florence Pugh's own video stuff. And then it was shared the Marvel. So, you know, it's real. It's not like, oh, we accidentally filmed it. so she's on set filming Thunderbolts. So that confirms that Thunderbolt is in production, which is cool. It also shows the title has an Asterix now, which was an interesting touch on that. which kind of maybe gives me the possible, like they're indicating that this is just a stable, like a standing title until they can change it later. Maybe, because the

[47:46] Thunderbolts are essentially run by Thunderbolt Ross, John Ross, who is now played by Harrison Ford in the MCU. But Harrison Ford isn't in this movie. So why are they calling it the Thunderbolts? oh. Hopefully the title makes sense later. I don't know. All right. Secret Avengers I mean, it's like a secret Avengers kind of thing. Like. Yeah. Know. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. Like, I can't think of a title where an asterix doesn't mean something, but, like, knowing that this is an asterix, it just the a thin font. Thunderbolts, asterix on these like directors cheers. Or an actress here tells me like, oh, this is just temporary. That's what it feels like. Like this is just a placeholder until you know something comes out of this,

[49:01] Down the road. Now, one of the things they didn't really show anything on this, you know, it was very carefully calculated and filmed. but it looks like it's in, like an underground, like, maybe like, you know, shield or or not Hydra, but, like, you know, one of those facilities that the government facility who's running the superhero stuff is and, you know, rumor was always that the sentry was going to be found in, like, a bunker somewhere. So maybe this is the scene where they're finding the sentry for the first time in the in the movie. So, I don't know, I there's really nothing I can pull out of this. I even watched videos of, like, they're trying to break it down.

[49:35] They're like, yeah, this is very carefully calculated to not really reveal anything at all. But, Florence Pugh, a great actress, you know, riding high off, Dune part two. And, you know, other things she's been in so kind of a smart, smart marketing move overall. blade little quick update on this, the production weekly. I think it's like a magazine or like a, online report. Now, they don't really magazines, says, that they're shooting for a fall time frame for production this year for 25 to meet that 2025 release date. So sounds like things are moving well behind the scenes now for this. You know. Yeah, I, you know, this, this movie still feels, surreal, since it's was announced five years ago at Comic-Con.

[50:29] So maybe we'll actually get, them to shoot it and then release it, in time for, for late, late next year. On the flip side of that, one of the for Fantastic Four, the Scoopers are out there saying that the movie takes place in an alternate universe, and it ends with it coalescing in the Secret Wars with the universes. tying together. I think I pitched this as, like, an idea a couple months ago. Maybe. so I, I can't say maybe they're listening to our show and stealing our ideas. or, you know, it's completely it can be completely wrong. And people are just saying that because there's, like, hardly any news out of Fantastic Four, right? We everyone wants to know what it is.

[51:08] We all want to see it in action other than the artwork, but I've not really heard anything concrete out of this movie yet. Like, would it was an alternate universe Fantastic Four where it just ends, and then they're all in Secret Wars and they come out into one universe at the end. Bother you? You think? Are you just like, yes, fine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do they have. Do they even have a Captain America? Yeah. Yeah. I think it would help alleviate, you know, again, we get to the point in the MCU where continuity is is king. But how do you retroactively go back 50, 60 years now, right, without throwing a wrench in everything? But I think it's possible

[52:33] With the right story in the right, the right, right verse. But like, you know, at the same time, as long as it's a good movie, I don't care where they set. At the end of the day, we just want a good one. I'm going to put this under Daredevil Born Again because I don't know where to put it. But, Finn Jones on his Instagram Stories has shared a picture of him, with a book of the, travel bag with a never ending story, some clothes and a copy of the final issue of Power man, that iron fist. Mike. is he teasing a return to Iron Fist? Yeah. Yeah. We. Will, we have talked about, you know, with the Netflix shows,

[53:34] Now in canon with the MCU Daredevil filming, he could technically make an appearance briefly as Iron Fist with Luke Cage, right? Like, just just a blink and you miss it kind of thing. Or very small scene to reference all that stuff? because in Shang-Chi two we talked about a couple of weeks ago, the wreckage of time, about using a different iron fist completely, either from the future or the past. so literally it would be maybe his last time to be that character before they completely erased him forever. kind of going forward. Yeah. It it was his last issue, of of being Iron Fist. yeah, I guess I think, you know, the less you have of that,

[54:25] That part, the better everybody else is there. But, like, if they're bringing everyone together to kind of acknowledge it, if they're just for, they had a, they had a dinner, they had a flashback scene, you know, where's everybody at now? Well, you know, Danny's out chasing this, the mythical land of Canaan or whatever. And we don't we see him hiking up a mountain, and that's all we see of them. I think that's fine, too. I just don't want multiple, scenes or returns of his character, if you will. Spider man for my boy. This movie, I feel, is elusive, right? This is this is going to be the hard one to crack. there are some updates this week

[55:02] That says the script is still in progress without any director or start date. I feel that's a good sign, right? We've never we've not been given a release date, but if you haven't committed to anything, no one can get fired. And you can't mess it up if you don't commit to anything from the start. so that's great. Especially with Sony's huge win this year with Madame Web. which had a on its trailers come out this week. Did you watch that? Not the trailers for it. I didn't realize that the first time I watched it. but they brought up how hard it is for, Dakota Johnson to open a Pepsi can in that movie. for they only gave her one.

[55:44] And there are so many scenes of her fumbling with that Pepsi cam, which was wild. So, check that out if you have the chance. But, you know, as long as they're taking their time with Spiderman for it, that's perfectly fine with me. My guess is that this will release between the Avengers films, or be the first movie after Secret Wars. I think Tom Holland has signed on for Secret Wars. you know, if not the Qing dynasty, but definitely Secret Wars. But, you know, I we don't need to rush this movie out. I don't think it's going to add anything to the multiversal scale deal. before you. Right after. like. You know. Firebomb? Yeah. Know? Yep.

[57:04] Well, it came out after Eternals. but it it essentially had a huge finale for Spider-Man, and then Doctor Strange followed it up, so. Yeah, it. Yeah. Right. It. Yeah. That, And then that. And that's fine with me. I think you the thing is, you know, the Spider-Man three, literally, I think was the biggest component that doctor change or the biggest tentpoles for the Multiverse Saga, right? Yeah. I don't think that's disagreeable that the Loki show. So, like, by having Spider-Man be a huge part of this, you can let them rest for the rest of the the, I guess, phases until you have your big events, and then he can do a small story because we ended Spider-Man No Way Home with a very,

[58:09] Very small story like kick off Spider-Man himself by himself again. Let's let's live with that a little bit. Well, he doesn't need to go huge, so I think I think it'll be fun. speaking of spider man, the Spider-Verse movie, did you know this weekend was going to be the original weekend? That, the third Spider-Verse movie was supposed to come out? Yeah, it does feel about. Right. So that's sad that we didn't get that, but, Sony released this week a short called The Spider Within. It's a short film. or movie or whatever you want to call it on YouTube that was, created in collaboration with the Kevin Love Fund for Mental Health Awareness. So this is a little video about Miles life dealing with the heavyweights

[58:55] Of being a superhero, being Spider-Man, being a son, being in school, everything that's on his mind as a young teenager and, you know, coming home and how they deal with that. And what does that really manifest itself as? it brings back the original voice actors, for Miles and his dad, and it's really, you know, well done. Short video. And then on the YouTube page, it has a fundraiser. So if you want to donate to the Kevin Love Fund for mental Health awareness, you can do so right from the page. So while it doesn't affect Miles story in any way, it is great to use such a popular character, as a platform to speak to the youth about, you know, the,

[59:34] Not dangers of mental health, but like, what can you do to to to be help yourself, right. Don't be afraid to talk about it at the end of the day. so if you want to check that out, that's great. I'm going to probably actually give it to my wife to take to her school. She teaches fifth graders and, you know, like, hey, you know, you ever want to use Spider-Man as a way to to say, hey, it's okay to feel overwhelmed. It's okay to want to talk about problems in your life. this is you should show this off because it was really cool, but it looks just like Spider-Verse. So, you know, if you're looking for Spider-Verse, fix

[1:00:06] This is the way to do it. At the end of the day, Mike crispy is one of my favorite events because he always forget about it, right? We always call it Brazil Comic-Con. but the first ever CC xp Mexico is happening in May, so we're going to have a may Comic-Con MC and it's going to be the first one. So they have some new badges here for this. so, you can see the boys. There's a couple of the boys ones, but, cc exp Mexico, coming out. that means since it's the first one and it's so big, it's it's country is named after a country, right. I think we're going to see a lot of stuff come out in May that we didn't

[1:00:44] Normally get before for this. Is North America, but, the Latin countries, Latin speaking countries, if you will. It's the CinemaCon and also KCP in Brazil. So yeah. Yeah it's a great. Yes absolutely. We're going to be coming back for that probably full coverage I'm very very excited to to see what comes out. You know the boys I remember when we went to again San Diego Comic-Con. And the boys was there as their first big appearance before the show debuted. How? Well, that's how big that's become and how much that has grown since its launch. So if the boys feel like this is a place to be, Amazon feels it's a great place for them. We'll we'll be there covering that.

[1:01:41] Not really be there, but we'll be here covering there. Yeah. You get Lastly, invincible season two. it's in the back half of season two. Mike, are you going to wait and binge it? I assume you've not been keeping up weekly. I guess. Yeah. That. Yeah. Well, be prepared to forget some more voice cast, Mike, because Ezra miller has been recast in season two. after all his troubles and controversies. and those are been several years now, right? you know, for, for them. So they have not been in trouble recently, but I'm sure they recorded this years ago for invincible. Right? They do the voice recording well before they put it to animation. So, they voice the villainous D.A.

[1:02:59] Sinclair for, in the show, and they have been replaced in season two. I don't know who replaced them. I've not followed enough, but, I thought it was interesting, because, as you mentioned, the voice cast in invincible is just top notch. They bring out the best for even the littlest roles, right? Even the small, inconsequential pieces of this. And I'm familiar. Invincible has been following the comic book version pretty well. Some people have sent me some scenes from the latest episodes, to watch because, obviously it is a very, gruesome show at points, right? Very gross, very kind of boyish, even at some points. So, in terms of violence, blood, gore and, it will probably keep doing that for the rest of the season.

[1:03:43] Season two is not over yet, so there's still some episodes to drop by so. We can, I still haven't watched it because I've read the books, so I probably just need to sit down and binge it sometime when I can. that's the show for this week, Mike. Anything else you want to add? X-Men related? Preferably because of our next main show. Now. Yeah. We'll talk. We'll talk more X-Men. I think what I'm going to do in terms of X-Men, I have been, dying to revisit X-Men legends. The video games. Are you familiar with those? Remember those? So I've got X-Men legends one and two, and those were really fun. They those set the scene for Marvel Ultimate Alliance.

[1:04:20] It's the same gameplay. So I think I'm gonna dive into those on my, the Xbox I got for my birthday and, play some of those old X-Men games like that. But if you know what you're up to, what you're doing, where can they find. Yeah. Find me on Instagram. Vault in 87. Vault in. Or video game systems of the same name. Or come back every week where we're here. If people know about the show where they can like and subscribe us, leave us a review, whatever they want to do, buy merch. Where can they get all that good stuff at? That's right. We'll see you guys next week.

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