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LEGO Avengers Strange Tails Offers A Whisker of Truth

LEGO Avengers Strange Tails uses cheeky satire and cat-fuelled chaos to explore social media obsession, influence, and attention economics, all while giving Hawkeye a rare moment in the spotlight.

LEGO Avengers Strange TailsOn Disney Plus

When LEGO Avengers Strange Tails is being cheeky in its satire of social media culture, nudging viewers to not be so engrossed, I’m all in. Even I’ll admit I’ve been far too hooked on being on a soapbox far too much. But once people strip away the medium, the core idea works just as well in any age when these platforms evolved. This latest animated LEGO adventure walks a careful line between teaching and entertaining, showing both the appeal and the dangers of attention-driven obsession. 

Eugene Son is a veteran of this ongoing subset of adventures, and he’s in good company when teamed with Henry Gilroy (best known for his work on Star Wars: Rebels) to write the story, and adapt it to screenplay. And they know the subject well. The spotlight falls on Meryet Karim (Alia Shawkat), an overzealous social media influencer who believes the world should revolve around her. She loves cats, craves control, and has her sights set on making Hawkeye become yesterday’s news.

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2 Reasons on Why Disney’s Marvel Zombies Fails to Surprise and Deliver

When Marvel Zombies on Disney Plus feels very compressed and is not part of the comic book canon, this entry feelslike Halloween-season fan service instead of a bold new chapter.

Marvel Zombies PosterWhen Captain America sinks his teeth into his comrades, the Marvel Universe stops being heroic and starts being hungry. Not every zombie-head will appreciate what Marvel Zombies on Disney Plus is really about. When the story first appeared in 2009, I was mildly curious but hardly impressed. The premise seemed like a marketing stunt to boost sales—and to be fair, there’s some truth in that. The early 2000s saw zombie fiction claw its way back into the mainstream. With 28 Days Later and The Walking Dead reviving the genre, it wasn’t shocking that Marvel tapped Robert Kirkman to script a tale where the world’s greatest heroes became the world’s hungriest monsters.

The concept endures because it’s more than gore; it’s shock, novelty, and a grim fascination with corrupted heroism. Seeing Spider-Man or Iron Man as cannibals turns morality inside out. These aren’t mindless corpses but beings who keep shards of their conscience even as hunger consumes them. Those too far gone devolve into primal predators, while the surviving humans live in a shattered world that’s no longer theirs—a true Zombie Earth where no refuge lasts.

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It’s All About Love and Extended Family in Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, A Fan Commentary and Review

Everything we love about Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 is amped up in a perfect send off. And as for the future….

Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 Movie Poster
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. © 2023 MARVEL.

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Say it ain’t so, but James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 is most likely it for fans of this series. Controversies aside, I’ve admired what he can imagine! Without him as the storyteller, it’s doubtful that any future appearances and reasons for them to continue will be up to snuff. As for how I feel about the MCU as a whole, it hasn’t been as exciting since the build-up to a universal is multi-fold rather than unilateral. Thankfully, his series is self-contained and doesn’t allude to what else is happening in Earth-616. An article written by Ben Collins for The Collider clarifies the confusion in terms of where all the different films from Sony, Fox, and Disney/Marvel exist in.

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