Captain America - the first great Marvel Studios movie?

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Yeah, i'm sure all that unlimited energy and instant transport of food and other goods would totally suck for the poor...
I never said it was a GOOD reason. Besides, knowing Reed Richards, his perpetual motion machine probably runs on bullshittium and that's why he's never brought it to market.

Uhhhh, guys? Presently Peter Parker works for Horizon Labs (imagine Google, Apple, DC's Star Labs rolled into one workplace) developing whatever the hell he feels like. As I recall, he has already made the company tidy profits on noise canceling ear buds based on a stealth suit he built to fight Hobgoblin III, and something else that escapes me.

Of course, this only in the last few months or so (thought since ASM comes out thrice monthly, its likely been in the equivalent a year's worth of issues for any other book) and it won't last, but he is making the exact kind of more "honest" living right now.
Seriously? Well that's good to know. That actually does kind of raise my opinion of Peter Park quite a bit, because he's now demonstratively NOT an idiot.
 
Seriously? Well that's good to know. That actually does kind of raise my opinion of Peter Park quite a bit, because he's now demonstratively NOT an idiot.
Yup. J. Jonah Jameson's late wife got him the job. However, it is explicitly stated in story that the only reason Peter is able to hold down this position is that Horizon gives its researchers a crazy amount of freedom - private labs (only they and the owner have the keys), even privater storage spaces (only the researcher has the key), no set hours (you may work at whatever hour of the day inspiration strikes you0, and is totally results based (build something useful and they will find a way to sell it, whether it be modified web-shooters for rescue work, noise canceling earbuds, or a new type of body armor). Which is perfect for Peter, since his scientific processes typically goes 1) Fight supervillain in broad daylight and do poorly, 2) return to lab to design new costume or web fluid that counters supervillain, 3) beat supervillain, and 4) modify design for consumer use.

Additionally Spidey's boss Max Modell is completely aware that Peter and Spider-Man have a connection. He simply believes Pete to be a personal gadget designer for the super-hero, rather than the hero himself. He's Ok with this so long as Peter keeps producing results for Horizon as well.

I also think Spidey gets paid as a member of the Future Foundation (formerly known as the Fantastic Four).
 
See, I thought Peter's perfect place in the world would be teaching. J. Michael Strazynski established him as a High School science teacher. Which I always I thought was brilliant because it put Pete back in school without de-aging him.
 
Man his teaching profession was genius. What was stupid is the same arguments that people used to not let him continue teaching are the same ones that destroy the entire super-hero genre.
 
Man his teaching profession was genius. What was stupid is the same arguments that people used to not let him continue teaching are the same ones that destroy the entire super-hero genre.
I wonder if that's why early heroes often had jobs that allowed them to vanish for hours at a time and such time away could be easily explained?

- Detective: "I had a lead to follow."
- Photographer: "I went to snap some pictures."
- Reporter: "I also had a lead to follow."
- Rich, Billionaire Playboy: "I'm sorry, but I was trapped underneath my pile of super models!"
 
I wonder if that's why early heroes often had jobs that allowed them to vanish for hours at a time and such time away could be easily explained?

- Detective: "I had a lead to follow."
- Photographer: "I went to snap some pictures."
- Reporter: "I also had a lead to follow."
- Rich, Billionaire Playboy: "I'm sorry, but I was trapped underneath my pile of super models!"
Yeah, why weren't any of them consultants??
 
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Indiana Jones is a professor, but in his movie, it is ok to "disappear" for weeks at a time ;)
 
I thought his excavation lifestyle was common knowledge? He's constantly donating priceless artifacts to the museums quite openly (not using a secret company/identity). I wouldn't put him in the same list.
 
I thought his excavation lifestyle was common knowledge? He's constantly donating priceless artifacts to the museums quite openly (not using a secret company/identity). I wouldn't put him in the same list.
He probably attracts lots of endowments to the college, considering his fame and lifestyle. This is likely the only reason he gets away with it.
 

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One of my friends was an adjunct in Beijing for a year. Things are a little different there from what I hear. He was telling me that once, a perpetually drunk professor screwed up a grad student's work really badly and even hit him and berated him in front of the others. The student lost his cool and yelled at the prof, who was incompetent. He said the kids parents ended up apologizing and buying the prof gifts.
 

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Im from Vancouver, I went to UBC.
Well, okay. Your location says Beijing. Hence my confusion. In that case, I really am surprised. Tenure doesn't protect against things like that. Tenure is only supposed to really protect against firing due to lack of publication or grant support, not disciplinary stuff. Maybe it's different at that university than what I'm used to.
 
My sister had a Political Science professor once who, in the first class of every year, would say, "Would all the women in the room please cross your legs. Now that the Gates of Hell have been closed, we can begin."

He had tenure. And yeah, from what I understand, he didn't last long after that.
 
Uhhhh, guys? Presently Peter Parker works for Horizon Labs (imagine Google, Apple, DC's Star Labs rolled into one workplace) developing whatever the hell he feels like.
The less said about soldmarriagetodevilpeter the better...
 

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Just saw it.

Good: Excellent visuals. Nice fan nods. Good (if generic) score. Hugo friggin Weaving.
Bad: Weak plot, overlong
 
I actually watched it recently too. I loved how they included the part where he basically becomes a shill for the US Armed Forces. It's an important job, but it was still hilarious.
 
Can someone explain the Zola stuff? Everyone's gone wild over it and I'm left out of the joke/reference.
In the comics, he survived the war by transferring his mind to a robot. Now living in the robot's body, his face is present on a monitor built into the robot's chest. Zola's introduction in the film with his face on a monitor is a reference to that.
 
There were a bunch of things that seemed like references that I didn't get at all, not being a Marvel fan.
 
I wasn't sure if he had an Ultimates equivalent, as I'm pretty sure the movies are set in the Ultimates universe. There's certainly enough differences to think it anyway.
I think the movies are set in the "Let's Do Whatever the Hell Makes Us Money" universe.
 
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