176 - Absolute Redheads

In this episode Big EL and Frediablo discuss the latest Spider-Man casting news, particularly focusing on Sadie Sink's casting and exploring potential roles such as Mary Jane Watson and Felicia Hardy. They also discuss MCU speculation and the divide between comic book and film adaptations. (1:15)  Moving on, the hosts delve into the DC's 'Absolute' comic book series, specifically praising the Absolute Batman storyline. (26:43)  The conversation shifts to video games, focusing on the 'Monster Hunter' series and its latest installment, 'Monster Hunter Wilds.' (41:00)  The episode concludes with a review of 'Captain America: Brave New World,' acknowledging its strengths and weaknesses, and some commentary on Marvel's cinematic strategies and the future portrayal of iconic characters like Wolverine. (55:32) 

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176-absolute-redheads

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What up my people? Welcome to new episode of the Police podcast, where we take a trip to smack city and talk about some pop culture right afterwards.[00:01:00]

I am your host, big L with me, as always. It's Fred Diablo.

Oh yeah. And we gotta start the podcast off with some casting news for Spider-Man four from the MCU. Uh, Fred Diablo. People will complain about redhead erasure. I don't know, pronouncing right that redheads are being deleted from all social media, movies, TV shows. Well, oh, redhead got cast in Spider-Man.

Four. Sadie sink from Stranger Things Max. Has been officially cast in Spider-Man four, which is coming out I think next year. I think filming starts soon. Oh wow. So what do you think about that? What do you think about the redhead getting their due? I'm sure like everybody else, the first character that comes to mind is Mary Jane Watson.

That is true. That is true. [00:02:00] We're pretty much, you see a redhead and you're like, oh shit, Mary Jane. Yeah. But I gotta say though, this is, this is something that was brought up, Emma Stone from the amazing Spiderman series of films. She's a redhead. Oh yeah. And she dyed her hair blonde to take when Stacey. So, you know, that could be a possibility too.

True. Maybe she just because secondly, we have her mj, even though it's Michelle Jones, I don't know why they went that route, but her last name is Watson. Yeah. Now will you think? Will you find it corny if they were like to do? Oh, they're related, but she's Mary J. Watson and that's Michelle Jones and Watson.

But they're both mj. No. Yeah, that'll be whack. That'll be like such a cop out bro. That'd be such a lazy ass cop out. And maybe they pull a Gwen Stacy with original mj. Yeah, that way [00:03:00] new Mary Jane is the main Mary Jane. Ah yeah. That sounds like some fucking incel fucking logic right there. Ah, we get our white Mary J right there.

Fire La Victory Spider-Man. Yeah. Then they recast. Stop hollering with that fucking racist Spiderman. Spider-Man. Lotus oh oh. Switch it all up on Marvel Boo. Yeah, racist everywhere. But you know what? I'm in the field that I would like to see her if she's like Felicia Hardy. That's right. If she's like the black cat.

Yeah. I was thinking Black Cat too. Yeah, because that'll be interesting, like the new Love Interest, because we already seen Gwen Stacy, we really haven't gotten a Felicia Hardy focused film and, uh, as a love interest too. And she's, it would be pretty cool, cool to see that dynamic of her as Black Cat [00:04:00] and then like Peter Parker as Spider-Man.

That would be cool. And, and like the story is pretty much, there's no more Peter Parker, it's just Spider-Man, but he's just focusing on being Spider-Man. So Peter Parker doesn't really exist outside when he has to. Yeah. He's just a nobody. Yeah. So that'll be like interesting dynamic. 'cause there'll be like a couple that are like together in, in like costumes.

Who knows? Maybe he tells her the secret, his secret identity. Maybe they go that route. But that'd be a interesting concept to see play out. Especially for a character we've never seen like on a big screen. Yeah. Maybe that's his, Gwen Stacy in this, in this universe. Oh yeah. She gets Gwen and that'll be, oh man.

Yeah. That'll be crazy. Yeah. Even though the black cat has those good luck powers of hers, those cat luck, like she has like the, I don't know if it's like a mutation or like she has something that is just, she has good luck and she gets away from certain, it is like a [00:05:00] domino type of power that she has, but it's with luck.

Yeah. Pretty much the same power that Domino has. It's like she gets outta situations like outta luck, so killing her. It'll be tricky. But I think there was like one time, like someone I took her power away and a bunch of kingpin, goons fucked her up. So it be like a nine. It could, what was that? Could be like a nine, like could get away with it nine times, but times.

She won't. Yeah. Yeah, that too. That'll be some tragic shit right there to see. Yeah. That'll be about parking lot. 'cause the audience wants to see Spiderman suffer. Yeah. Crying, Peter crying. I want more pain. He's not my Spiderman. More Spiderman. Yeah. And there's also rumor, 'cause most of the fandom are just basic bitches, but they're like, oh, she has red hair.

She could be playing, she could be playing Gene gray. Yeah, I, I heard a YouTuber say that. [00:06:00] I'm like, that won't make no fucking sense at all. Like, how will like Peter be attracting with like Gene Gray from the X-Men? Why would Jean Gray show up in a Spider-Man movie before she shows up in an X-Men movie?

Yeah, that would just be weird. Yeah. People already hated the idea because, oh well they gonna introduce characters that not really related to Spider-Man in his freaking movies. Dude, is this a rumor bro? Relax like it is not happening. Before you start fucking with the pitchforks, like fucking relax. All right.

It's just a room because most people see a red hair actress and then they just assume two rows. Mary J or G Gray. Even though there's another actress that has red hair, another character that has red hair tomorrow, universe, that makes more sense than those two to appear. It's Firestar. Oh yeah. He's a redhead and she was in those, in the Spiderman and his amazing friends cartoons back in the day.

So that could be another contender for her to be [00:07:00] playing. Who knows? Yeah, that'll be dope too. 'cause I'll be also, that'll be a mute, so it would be like a mu, but it's not really connected to the X-Men because it was like really a Spider-Man character because that's how most people grew up knowing her through those Spider-Man cartoons from back in the day.

Spider-Man. Amazing friends. Yes sir. Who would like to see her play? Felicia Hardy Black Cat. Yeah, like, I like my Felicia Hardy idea where she shows up maybe in two movies and the second one she die. Or maybe there's another trilogy. And she goes All,

yeah, they gonna, that's gonna be a whole new, because I the, oh, there was also rumor saying that they're looking for an actress to play the villain, but it's gonna be a female villain in this movie. Oh [00:08:00] yeah. So a lot of people are speculating. What is that? What, who's that gonna be? They're saying it's gonna be like a female, the gender swap doc article into the spider verse.

My first thought, do you like, does Spiderman really have like female villains like that?

Yeah, I guess like they were saying sort

wasn't like a bunny rabbit. It was the white rabbit. Yeah. She's a female character. It like, that's like a D level clown. Yeah, like a joke. Like she's not gonna be headlining a fucking movie. No. Yeah. It has to be gender. Yeah. You already could see the fucking explo for that. Female Rhino. Big a r costume only it'll be be McCarthy.[00:09:00]

I love it. Billion right there. Meghan McCarthy as Fucking Rhino. Next. Spiderman. The person Felicia Hardy. She let, she let us know she's shitting in her rhino suit that she can't figure out to use the bathroom. I'm pooping. She said that right after she kills her spiderman's. Like why? Why I'm pooping in too.

Oh, you said Rhino. I'm like, yo, who could it be like, yeah, because I know in that, in the friendly neighborhood, Spiderman cartoons on Disney plus they gender swapped the lizard. Like she's a female now. She's a woman now. So maybe they go that route. Who knows. So since technically like it's supposed to be the MCU version of Spiderman, even though it's like from in another universe.

Yeah. They could do a lot of things like that. We could be having a fucking black Norman Osborne [00:10:00] locked in the cartoons. Yeah. Or female stone. Yeah. That'll be interesting. That could work. Or female electro, like in the comics. Oh yeah. Perfect. Forgot about that. Yeah, she could be like fucking Peter's lab partner in college or some shit.

And some shit fucks up. And boom, we have that tension, that drama. Boom. Perfect. Pay us Marvel. You got your story right there, boy. We figured out who that female actor is. Yeah. Done. Now we gotta find somebody to play an elect type of character. There's plenty of new faces out in Hollywood right now of women actors do it.

Anybody, because she's always wearing that mask anyway. Yeah. And this is the thing too, man. This is what, I can't wait for Superman to come out 'cause it's gonna be showing us it's okay to have heroes in [00:11:00] their costumes. Let's just not have Spider-Man mask without a mask like for half of the movie or whatever.

'cause we gotta show Tom Holland's face. Just keep the costume long. Just give us a comic accurate electro if you, that is the character, the fucking star shaped fucking hel helmet or whatever the fuck that is that he wears. Just get silly with it. Just get weird. We need to get, don't don't just do a leather jacket with yellow trim.

Yeah. Just don't turn blue just for the fuck of it. Come on. What was that Fox? Yeah. Be a black woman lady. Oh. What's her name? Leslie. Last name Leslie.[00:12:00]

I'm gonna get you Spider-Man, little boy. Look at you little boy. Look at how big I am compared to you. Spiderman. Catch, catch, punch them. Yeah. Yeah. I can see her fucking up to Island for some reason, like in real life. There's Leslie Jones being the shit on to island in the streets. I like to see that.

Don't you say little white boy. She gives me that Tracy Morgan energy. Yeah, she's like bonking him on electrocuting. There's a rumor that like, I would like to see kingpin, but they were saying kingpin might appear, or like Spiderman might appear in a daredevil show, but since Sony owns the TV rights, they will have to sign off to that.

So I don't think they'll do that.

Vigilant in. Spiderman's in New York. So the next movie that King Pink could just may be in the background. Not even, he probably got, he probably gonna be the one behind, [00:13:00] if anything. Or, yeah, the villain. Whoever the villains gonna be in this movie. Damn. I wish King was what? Villain? Like villain Trilogy King.

Yeah. That'll be dope. Yeah, just having him making moves behind the scenes and just like at the end, it's just like Spider-Man dare double teaming up to take down Fisk. The last movie. A mini phase, like the street level phase. Yeah. That'll be dope, man. Because I like Spider-Man works the best as a street level hero.

He's not really like the Avenger type of guy anyway. No, that'd be more of his lane, like just hanging out with Daredevil and other characters. Yeah. Like going into Daredevil, they're, they're already filming the second season as we speak. Oh wow. They already have photos from the shoots and all that stuff.

They already have Karen [00:14:00] appearing in the photos, wearing a wig, like on the skies or whatever, being up with Matt. 'cause the rumors, I think, Matt, it's like on the run, the at then this season he's gonna be like an outlaw or whatever. Yeah. And that he's gonna be on the run from the police or whoever's looking for him.

So he's hiding out and they were saying that he's gonna be looking for help from other heroes. So they're saying they're gonna bring back some characters from the Netflix shows, like probably Cage. Iron fist at the desperate Yeah. I was talking to a coworker today about the, about that rumor. He was like, yeah man, they just needed, iron Fist was just fucking whack.

They, they like, it was just whack. They made him white guy and it and that and I was like, yeah, but the comic, he was white. But the thing was that the actor just sucked. It was just like the act just stuck and they, they weren't, he wasn't trying to learn how to fight. For some reason you sign off for a karate show, Kung fu show and you don't [00:15:00] wanna know kung fu.

That's why the first season, third, the first season iron is so terrible. 'cause it's like nothing happens throughout the whole season. You got a couple fights, but they're not even worth the time you put into the show. You're like, yo, these shit, these fights are fucking whack, bro. It's not doing it for me right now.

Yeah. A couple days ago there was like a executive that worked on those shows. He came out and said it was like, yo, Marvel did not want us to, didn't wanna give us any money for these shows. That's why everything was so cheap. 'cause Marvel wasn't, and you gotta remember at the time those Netflix shows were pretty much under the Marvel comic side of the MCU, like the The Ike Pro.

Her mother. Oh yeah. He was the one controlling those shows. So he was just trying to get as much content out, but he wasn't trying to spend that much money. That's why at that time, those shows and the MCU were two separate things. Yeah. So they were not really in on the same page. That's why people were like, oh is they're dealt with the same universe.

'cause they weren't really mentioning [00:16:00] like other heroes like that. If they did, it was very vaguely. It wasn't really, they call like the Battle of New York something else, like in the Daredevil show. It was just bad. Weird. Yeah. And it didn't feel as connected as the MCU movies. Yeah. So now, since all the shows and the movies are all together under one branch now.

Those shows. The guy said was like, yo, there, it wasn't even Kevin Faye running the shows. It was like the Ike guy and pretty much the Marvel editorial, like the big buck buck guys behind the scenes controlling the TV shows at that time. And they were just being cheap of it. They didn't wanna, they didn't wanna spend any money.

That's why some shows, maybe that's why Iron Fist didn't have that many fist fights or, 'cause it was probably more expensive to have all those fights in there. Or actually see the whole or full length dragon like we did at Chang Chi. But that was big. A big part of Iron Fit, iron Fist origin. The dragon that you really got.

Yeah. You only got like the, a little small shot of it. You really didn't [00:17:00] get the Yeah, it was very cheap looking. I think it was just like the head you saw and it was like, it wasn't even like the full head. It was like a little half a face. Yeah. And the rest was like a shadow or some shit. It was like all dark and.

Yeah, like you could have done a better job with that and you could see like the, how there were cheap with certain things and like with the shows too, looking back at it now, because like people, like people now just Netflix shows were the best because they're like, Disney owns 'em now and you have to shit on Disney.

So they're like, oh watch Disney messing up or whatever. But I'm like, yo, I still remember people were complaining about Dead Devil season two, how it was whack, how Karen was so boring. How fa everybody hated the Karen foggy stories because it slowed everything down, this and that. They were complaining about all this shit and now that was the best thing ever.

That was like those shows were like, nothing was wrong with those shows. We dumped everybody How? Like how dare you Kill All Foggy after one whatever episode or whatever, try or off screen. 'cause I was like [00:18:00] the original plan. Yeah. To kill Karen and Foggy off screen and people like just became big fans of these characters.

All of a sudden, yo, they're hire the show, whatever. You haven't watched The Born Again stuff yet, right? No, not yet. Yeah. I don't wanna spoil anything. Yeah. But people get so upset with Marvel doing that. Like I and Marvel picked up, like all the actors weren't refilling the first version of the DAR of a show, so they had to reboot everything all over again while they were film most of the stuff already.

Yeah. So, yeah. But it's funny how people just look back at certain things with a totally different view than that they had at the time. You know what I mean? Like nostalgia, man. Yeah. Just let Disney click, man, just, and you got Netflix people saying like, yo, we didn't, we couldn't spend that much money as we'd liked on those shows.

So maybe Marvel spending more money on these shows would probably make them better, even better than they were before. Who knows? But, [00:19:00] and.

For me, all the blade movies, all the Xmen movies, since they introduced the multiverse. For me, any Marvel movie is a Canon movie because it's just a different reality. Yeah. That's all. It's, man, I don't know why people can't handle that concept of just, oh, these are not the, these are not the comic version of these characters that people want them to be.

You know what I mean? They're exactly own universe, own world. It's not, it's canon. If you want it to be canon. Exactly. If you don't like it, don't worry. That's the Howard Duck Universe. Howard Duck, the eighties version. Everything you don't like happens in the Howard Duck universe. All right. If it makes you feel better, guys, just think of it as that way.

Oh man. I could never understand how that movie failed, man. It was George Lucas produced it. He had his power and nobody wanted to see a Howard Duck movie. [00:20:00] Howard did duck movie. I know how that. It was set for success. Yeah. I'm waiting for them to do, to be like, oh, we'll do like a Howard the duck, like short or one shot or whatever like they used to do.

And the fans of Howard, the original Howard the duck movie could have been, oh, they're gonna ruin the Howard the duck movie. It was perfect. I was like, what were you guys back in the eighties when the shit bombed in the theaters, bro? Which wasn't a beloved classic. Like they were beating off to the duck sex scene.

Yeah, the duck sex scene. He had some duck titties also, so there was a lot going on. We watched that movie when we were kids, right? It was on tv. It was on cable TV when we watched it and we probably wa we watched at the same time. And even as a kid watching like a duck woman where her.

Yeah, it felt really [00:21:00] weird and just left this impression of us as kids. Yeah. There's only two ways you could have gone after that. There was a very thin line after that guys. I think that was the first time I seen breast on screen and it was even human breast that could have damaged you. Yeah. I'm like, what?

Where are these nipples? The duck lady didn't have nipples in a different reality. You, you ended up with a furry in

got some Donald cosplay fetishes now. Yeah.

Yeah, but the funny thing is like somebody has to see that during the dailies or whatever when they finish filming, they're like, you know what, let's keep that in there. You know, marketing this for kids supposedly, because who wants this movie [00:22:00] for you? Think about it because you get like duck titties and you get like b, C alley.

Hey yo, what the fuck? That's not even for adults, you would think, but might. It was the eighties. So you know how the eighties, they were just kids making kids movies that not weren't really kids movies. Yeah, that's what Robocop, yeah. Trying to, you knew what you getting Robocop, but I'm saying you imagine you were a dad, right?

And like it's the eighties, you don't have all this information you have now, bro. And you Howard. You need to see a naked duck lady with her titties out. Then an hour later, a duck is having sex with a human woman and you're like, the fuck is this? What are they watching? Is this for kids,

man? Now I gotta see the rating for this movie, bro. What? They rated that movie back in [00:23:00] the day. Oh yeah. That's an R rating, isn't it? Nah, it could be an R rating. I dunno much about the rating, but showing. Oh, it was pg. Pg, yeah. Just one level up from G. It's P, not even pg. 13. It was pg. Alright, so they got away with a lot for a pg.

Yeah, PG movie back in the day. There was a sex scene with a duck and a lady guys, very young kids. That movie. Yeah. You just, if we were confused, I could imagine what a bunch of kids were feeling at the same time. What the hell? That's why we had it was that scene, man. That's it. It was Dad Thundercat that guy by, yeah, bunny Space Jam.

That drove people nuts. You, Howard [00:24:00] The Duck and the funny thing, people be expecting him to be hooking a female lead like a human female in the movies. I'm like, I don't see that. I wonder what

this. Yeah, and there's a little man in there, so he like just talking about it. This is like some fetish shit. Yeah. There's a little midget guy in a co, in a duck costume having sex with a regularized woman. There's somebody out there who's, man, this sounds hot. Yeah, that's definitely a porn hub video of this somewhere out there in the world.

Oh man. Nah. Yeah, Howard the duck man. Crazy film man. George Lucas. I'm like even seeing like George Lucas was involved and fucking that weird shit. The eighties was like crazy ass acid trip. Yeah, it was a lot of cocaine. [00:25:00] Yeah, a lot of people on that sugar. Crazy ideas. That's, we got a Howard Duck movie.

Characters at the time. There were like people will wanna to see and never got their own movie, but Howard Duck got their own movie. Yeah. Keyman got his movie. That's crazy. In the eighties, huh? Keyman got his movie in the eighties. Yeah. That was something that, that was really, I've read the story behind that.

I think it was, there was supposed to be like a, it was supposed to be like another movie entirely and they just made it like, yeah. They were just like, oh, let's make it like Star Wars to get like that audience. Yeah, and they completely messed it up. That's why I was like, where's all the characters from the cartoon?

This shit is nobody from the cartoon was really there except for the main, even the fucking, the little troll thing was never in the cartoon. So like later on or so. Right. Replaced the only [00:26:00] characters there were he random character. Supposed replacement for the fucking name. Waldo Sounds right. I'm smack character from Guy Knows fucking Little Wizard thing from He Man.

He was supposed to be in the movie, but they replaced him with the Elf the Troll thing. For some reason I think it was like too expensive to have him there or some shit. I dunno. But yeah, that was a terrible movie. No win. What's something about some comics, man? Have you been, have you called with the absolute Batman?

Yeah, I actually have. Okay. You finished the season issue six? No. I've read issue six, but I know they showed the Joker at the end because I'm seeing pictures all over the place. [00:27:00] Oh yeah, yeah. That's like a weird thing entirely. It feels that the Joker is not human. He's like babies on him or something.

Yeah. People are saying babies. Some people are saying embryos. So who knows what it is. Really. But it's just weird that, it's an interesting concept because you could see him like his skin was like white. Yeah. And like it was just feeding off the embryos and it was like turning his skin like to look like a human.

And you saw his, his eyes were like, looked like he looked like the Joker. Yeah. Pretty was like the joker by crazy version of the Joker. I dunno why, but I was getting that Christopher Reve from fucking South Park lives when he just fucking cracking open the fucking stem cells from the, from embryos. Heck heckman.

Yeah. Be, oh no, here we go again. No, but I, I love that story. Like the new setup. His dad was a [00:28:00] teacher and they weren't even rich. Yeah. Yeah. They're pretty much middle class. Yeah. He's, he's friends with all his villains. They all grew up together for some reason. Yeah, because I'm like, I'm interested to, I don't wanna spell anything for you, but I'm just interested to see what's gonna happen once they figure out, oh, Bruce is fucking Batman.

Because they're not stupid. Because you see Batman, Bruce and Bruce is fucking Tank already. So you're like, okay, you're built like Batman, bro. What's going on here? I didn't really put it to thought that they were gonna, like everybody was gonna figure it out at some point. Yeah. Yeah. I think even like the Redler was already hinting at some stuff and a couple issues ago, I think like when we were playing like poker together, like the reader were saying some things that were giving the reader an idea like, oh, he knows who Batman is.

Yeah. And Bruce or whatever. Have you seen [00:29:00] Abidin? Bain? Yeah. No, I haven't seen Bain.

Yeah. Yeah, because he's the next issue. Seven is gonna be like, Bain's gonna come to fight Batman. Oh, okay. People were like, oh, are you gonna do the opposite now since the freaking Batman's shoes, is Bain gonna be like a skinnier version of himself in this, that he's just gonna be like the skinny one in this equation instead of Batman and BA being ho, but they're like, nah, we just gonna make Bain bigger.

They just had this fucking muscle ass bound creature with a small ass head. 'cause his body's just fucking, and it was like, to the point, 'cause yeah, it makes sense 'cause like his head's not gonna be as big as his body 'cause he's just pumping himself with fucking steroids or whatever. His not gonna, but of course, I don't know if you know this, the two creators of Bain, the writer and the artist.

Yeah. I think the writer was [00:30:00] Chuck Dixon and the artist, I forgot is fucking name. But they're both like right wing and they're like part of that comic gate community side of the comic book world. So like the artist was like, yo, this looks so horrible. This is an abomination. This is not Bain or whatever.

And I'm like, dude, yeah, you co-created Bain, bro, but relax. Okay. Like why? Why? He looks just, and somebody like retweeted him and he was like, yo, my brother in Christ, this is Bain. What are you talking about? It looks horrible. Isn't Bain supposed to be an abomination? And some guy was like, oh, I see I some guy so smart.

I was like, I see why you're confused. Abominations a hawk character. Not that like people would just fucking, because that was like the most grandpa complaint, like fucking. Fucking bitter ass old man that hasn't created anything else because [00:31:00] Bain is the only thing he's known for. Co, co-creating Bain, giving him his visuals or whatever.

That's the only thing this man is gonna be known for. So when somebody comes with their own version of basic, oh, this shit horrible. It's not, it doesn't look anything like what I did. Yeah, whatever. And lemme pick up this dude's name because I retweeted that shit. I was like, yo, bro, this is, I don't know how you're saying this is not Bane for some reason.

Oh yeah. Okay. Graham. No. Graham. Nolan. That's the guy. That's the artist's name. And the guy was like, my bro, my brother in Christ that is just Bain. The things that he's, he's so arrogant. He's like, as the designer slash co-creator of Bain, this is a terrible abomination. I'm like, I know you see that? Yeah, that's fine.

Yeah, that's an abomination. I'm like, how, bro? That's when you're like, yo, bro, you're just hating, man. You're just a hater right now. [00:32:00] That's not my brain. So I was like, what? Because he's not wearing a vest that's not, that's missing the freaking vest. Exactly. Like without the vest. Yeah. And I was like, bro, people just love to complain about anything, man.

Anything. I was like, yo, you're bane. Like Bane. His whole thing about just being a ridiculous monster type of villain. Yeah, that's thing. Giant guy. Yeah. He supposed to be up. I dunno, man. But I'm enjoying the absolute Batman bro. I love the story. The artwork is great. Very cool. I just like the whole world. I picked up the, I picked up the absolute Wonderwoman, absolute superman.

I just picked up the absolute flash last week. Me too. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. And like the only reason why I picked up like the absolute bat, the absolute flash 'cause Wadi West was gonna be like the main flash. But I like the idea of Barry Allen [00:33:00] dying in the first issue but like also wearing a flash costume because he was trying to test it out to see if he could get the powers himself.

Yeah. But I got a theory about that. I think when Barry a Allen died, like with that experiment or whatever, he created the speed force. So that's how WA West got this flash powers against universe. Yeah. That also, that leaves like a kind of like a door opening of Barry Allen coming back 'cause he's in the speed force really.

'cause he's part of the speech force so he could come back and just become like a flash also. But you still have that Barry Allen Wdi West thing. But I just like the fact that they give him Wdi West is time to shine after the flash first. Yeah. But I think that's, I think that's where they're going. Like the time force is gonna be created.

'cause Barry Allen sacrificed himself to create the Time force. The time force, yeah. Yeah. Speed force. Speech force. Speed force. [00:34:00] Yeah. He come back as a type. Yeah. I like, I always wanted to get into the DC stuff, but like they have so much history and Yeah, the main stuff, I don't feel like I'm lost anyway. I feel like I'll buy like a trade here too, just to read like a certain store to see if I want to get into it.

But the new 52 scarred me for life. 'cause I was collecting, I, that's when I was collecting DC heavy. 'cause I was just like, you know what, everybody starting over. I'm trying to get into dc You went all in. But man, those titles, yeah, those titles going hit, man. I was disappointed, bro. Yeah, I fell off really fast when,

yeah. Especially with, I was so excited with the Justice League because it was like, fucking Jim Lee drawing it and I like, eh. This is not, I don't know why they have Cyborg as a team member. There could have been so many other team members they could have used and I'm like, ah, nah. But absolutely like that universe.

I don't know [00:35:00] why. It is just like everything's new and it feels like, all right, you don't have to worry about like the certain histories. Even if the Superman origins, like they show you Krypton being destroyed, but like they added so much to that that you, you really didn't see in the other versions of it.

And you're like, okay, this is dope. I don't know if you knew, but it was like they actually had a good amount of people escaping from Kry that Superman's parents build like a bunch of ships to escape. And a lot they had people like survivors leaving Krypton to coming towards Earth, I don't want, and then some, but something happened and Clark is the only one that survives pretty much.

So that was interesting to see too. Like he was like with his family, but they were so close to escaping. But that shit happened and. It's a great read because it's like you just have this angry Superman type character that you don't see, but at the same time he's still, he's still a good guy because his parents were like raising him to be like a good guy and stuff like that.

He was like, he was pretty much raised as the lower class on Krypton. Both his parents were really [00:36:00] like respected and like, and that society anyway, so they were pretty much like farmers on crypto. Oh wow. Yeah, man. So like Earth banks. Yeah, man. They're doing a lot of interesting stuff with that absolute universe.

Yeah. Can't wait to see where they're going. I might even pick, I think Martian Manhunter comes out this week, so I might just pick up the first session to see what's that about, because that seems like an interesting concept too, because it's not, he's not really a Martian. It's weird. It's like some weird sci-fi comic book stuff that's gonna be going on in that series because he is an alien.

He's not a Martian, but like the guy who's shared a body with, he just knows, okay, the concept of a Martians or whatever. So I'm gonna be a Martian just to make you feel better or whatever, but it just looks, it looks bugged out. So I gotta check it out, see what they're trying to do with that whole thing with the [00:37:00] Martian man and not being really Martian.

I've only been keeping up with Batman, like collecting the other issues, but I've been trying to collect the issue Ones from the other ones. I already have Superman, the Flash. I haven't found the Wonder Woman one yet. Yeah. Wonder one was pretty good, man. I enjoyed it. I like the fact that she was up being raised in scu.

She was raised in hell. Oh yeah, I heard. So that's, that was pretty dope, man. I dunno. They took an interesting round with her too. And her powers, man. She has that big ass sword now. That big ass anime sword. Yeah, that she's cool. Yeah, it's dope. A buster sword. Damn man. Now the interesting comics are the absolute and the ultimate universe.

Yeah. That's the main universe. Yeah. Yeah. I've just been buying the Spiderman stuff because the storyline, I'm following the [00:38:00] eighth depths of Spider-Man. That's pretty much gonna be finished up and now they gotta start with another new number one for Amazing Spider-Man. Oh man. I hate when they start like a new story or a new creative team, they go back to number one.

Just keep it with the fucking numbers, bro. Yeah, because they do it. I don't know if you ever seen people with the comic, the Modern comics, now they'll have like issue 12 or whatever, but under underneath they have a legacy number, which is, which will be like 400 or something of Oh whatever of X-Men or something like that.

Stuff Issue 12. It'll be like 425 or some shit like that. Yeah. You know what I. They as the original series. Yeah. But been like the next or whatever. There's un there. Yeah. Because I dunno why, because I think fucking Spiderman might be coming up like on a the thousand, I think one of ones, I think it's dcs probably DC [00:39:00] or Marvel, I'm not sure.

But somebody's gotta be a thousand issues, so I understand why, because you, you gotta buy a book and issue a thousand, you're like, what the fuck? Like how much issues I to read? I gotta go back. Issue one. Yeah. Nah bro. It doesn't work like that, man. Bad. I'm trying to, with uncanny trying to get all the issues through, through not all of.

That's on getting originals when it comes to really expensive books. I'll reprint fine. Okay. Even like a beat up copy still like couple here and there. Yeah. I just recently bought the first appearance of Mr. Sinister. Oh, the real copy. The real copy. Okay. Nice. Yeah. That was what? X factor? Oh no, that was [00:40:00] the uncanny X-Men.

Uncanny X-Men. Yeah. I forgot what number. Oh shit. That's dope. Yeah, that's dope. I was actually thinking about getting like the first appearance of Apocalypse, but I was like, eh. Yeah. Like that fucking Apocalypse movie ruined it for me. They fucked it. I They fucked up apocalypse, but did iStar.

I seen those in Midtown. Yeah. Pick up one of those issues because they look so, so brand new, fresh, have that up there like, oh, it looks like it's the original. Not re

if if any turn of events, if we become billionaires. That's when I'm like, all could buy the original shit. So what afford it? [00:41:00] Well, all right. From comics to video games, Fred D. Blue, you recently completed another game, right? Not completed, but Oh, I'm I close to end. I've been playing for

Monster Hunter Wild.

So this the franchise right? Yeah, this been going on era. Oh wow. The game. It's always been the same thing with each and every game. Fight monsters, carve up the monsters and get pieces from them to create armor, to fight stronger monsters, to do the same thing, to fight stronger, and so on. That's the, but man, is it a good system?

Yeah. They give you, you have, I think 12 or 15 weapons in the game. [00:42:00] Okay. Okay. And each of them have a different play style. So you're basically choosing a weapon that you like the most and going out and just hunting monsters. It's multiplayer. So you could link up with friends and you could hunt monsters together.

Nice. And.

Multiplayer, it has RPG elements like your armor has stats and numbers and defense numbers and attack numbers that go higher and higher as you progress the game. But you don't level up. You, you just get better armor. So if you take off all your armor, all your stuff is back to zero. Ah, no matter what.

Like what kind of armor, it's, it'll be just back to zero. Yeah. No matter how far you're on the game, you get something in the game called your, which rises, but that's not really, your level doesn't, whenever you get a higher hunter, [00:43:00] you don't get better stats. You just get access to betters. So is that the story for the game?

It's just going out hunting monster or there's just no a story? Each of the stories, each of the games have a story to it, but no one really cares. I would story fun to watch it and whatever. Main draw of the game is the hunt and armor creation cycle and gathering too. Like you, you go out and gather plants and herbs and bug and like that to create potions to use your yours.

Yeah. So you just mix and match and stuff there. Armor has all special effects so you, you can mix and match the army like the most, and you could display armor over armor pieces you don't like the look of, so you could like make a character look however you like no [00:44:00] matter what armor you're wearing. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Sounds dope. Yeah, a really deep system and there's no ceiling, there's no end to, that's always gonna a tough, I've never really ended a. They have credit beat the story, but after that, yeah, you just keep on fighting more and more monsters.

That's what I figured. It was like pretty much just open-ended and you could just keep on playing no matter what. It's gonna be the same. The monsters not gonna be easier to beat since you beat the game. The story more still be a difficult challenge or whatnot. You're gonna get tougher as you go on. And what do you usually play by yourself or you play with other people?

I mostly play by myself because I, most of the people I know don't play Monster Ernie got into while back, but I'm sure gonna goes down for while. [00:45:00] Yeah, because the dream just came out. It just came out. So like it's full price, like 70 bucks. Yeah. Yeah.

But yeah, I highly recommend it because it's really something else. Man. It's so much fun to get together and hunt this really tough monster. Yeah, win that battle because it takes a lot of preparation and the hunts could go for 20, 30 minutes. Alright, it, it sounds like fun. Yeah. I might it a try out when the price gets cheaper.

Maybe you, the, you should hop on and we'll go hunting, man hunting. Yeah man. See how that goes. So you can create characters here or there's like characters already pretty create your own character and your character comes with a also,

so while you supports, [00:46:00] you'll send you like healing bugs and erase the status effects if you get, don't

it?

Game. Why not

Game

One funny thing that is like the best I've ever seen in

button feature where you could pause the game. Really So original you were never able to pause the game because these are mainly online games and you can't pause online games. Yeah. Yeah. So now in this game, it enables you only when you're playing solo to pause it menu and click pause when you're playing, when you're playing solo.[00:47:00]

Having all these responsibilities to get up every once in a while and do stuff while playing games. Yeah, because the original games didn't give that option, right? Nope.

I never understood that. I understand why, but I'm just like, yo, you should have at least a fail safe today. You know what? I quit this round or whatever, so I can use the bathroom or not. You would've to quit and end the hunt if you wanna, you have to do something urgently, or before I would just run away as far as I can from the monster and do something real quick and get back.

Oh man. That's funny, man. That's also, that's one thing I've been thinking about too, like all these games, like you create your own character, right? Like there's like, like certain games, you have characters already for you [00:48:00] to choose, but now most people will just. A character. Yeah, that's, yeah, because that's, every game now is like, you have that option.

There's not like a certain set of character you could play as like for those games most when a character, yeah, yeah. People know how good they have it now, man. Because before you just had to pick, you had to pick the character you got. That's it. And that's it. Can't do nothing else matter who it's, but if, if we had that back then we wouldn't have Mario Sonic now.

Yeah, that's true. Those final Fantasy game and you dressed up as a fancy bard or whatever, which are ruffles. The original Final Fantasy games were the original version of the character creator where you just name the character whatever you want. Those are all, that was so growled, like breaking for me.

Like, oh, we could I change, I could be in this game. Yeah, that could be me. Oh [00:49:00] crap. Are saying my name in this, so cool. Not as cool as it's now. I'm pretty sure in a couple years you put your name in the AI whatever, be able to say your name in the game. So in while like I, I would say maybe an hour and half my character.

Oh wow. It ended up looking pretty accurate. Yeah. Yeah. The game has pretty real, oh crap. Okay. Okay. Did you upload a picture of yourself or you just did it from scratch? No, I did it from scratch. You structure and like you theb,

that's, yeah.

Yeah, of course. You wanted be, you wanted it to rec to be as close to [00:50:00] you as it could be, right? Oh, yeah. So you're gonna have to tinker with some stuff here and there. Funny enough, most gamers prefer to create a hot chip of big boobs. Those are the gamers. What's going through your head as are those females, are those the only female characters you're comfortable playing as?

Right? That those ones that you create, because yo know certain games, you're like, oh woman, I play as a girl now. No way. I know people complain probably about that. About the assassin Creed, the new one that came out. Yeah. But their justification is always that they wanna see a.

I do that. Boy, it has to be a certain type of chick. It has to be a chick that has sexy appeal. Can't be a ugly chick. There's only too many ugly chicks in video games. That's sort of where the street is. I don't know. They're all over the place. Yeah. I dunno that we're supposed to be raid games by the [00:51:00] attractiveness of there characters.

But here we are, 2025. That girl is flat chested. She can't be my hero. I gotta give her, I gotta give her double F's. It's for me to respect her. She's flattest. The game sucks. Yeah. Get this garbage outta here. This aa garbage. Get it outta here. It's funny 'cause I think gamers, well the toxic ones I'm talking about when I say gamers on here is like the idiots, right?

So don't take it as I'm saying, all you guys, I'm just saying the toxic gamers out there, they're just like, they're the ones pretty much that's started. The toxic fandom, in my opinion. Yeah. You know what I mean? Because that the whole gamer gate was like the thing that kicked it off like, like the red pill stuff came after that and all that other shit.

Oh, they're taking her games away. They're taking her comics away. All the games are gonna be girl games now. [00:52:00] Yeah. Why can't I play as a white man? No. Yeah. I can't be proud to be white anymore. I'm like, do you have countless games you could play as anybody you want, as white as you want? It's whatever, bro.

But just like you could create your own character, God's sake. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. People just you like, you don't have to buy the game. You don't have to buy C if you don't wanna play it, bro. The character. Just don't get so worked up that you're talking about comic, I don't know, historical accuracy in the fucking Assassin's Creed and fuck it.

I just found out the other day that there's a game where you fight the Pope in the basement of the Vatican. How accurate is that historically, guys that, come on, bro. This is a fucking, this game is crazy, bro. There's a game called Bear Simulator where you control a bear and there's a point in the game where you drive a car [00:53:00] as the bear get the fuck outta.

Now are you able to People as the bear? Yeah. Oh yeah. There's a game called Deer Simulator and in the game there's a selection of guns that you, throughout the game. Yeah.

So. You see this? There's something for everybody, man. I dunno. Yo, that shit's hilarious, bro. That's what I'm saying. Like there's so many games that people are making now that you could find anything that interests you, but like people just choose just to be assholes. That's like Ben. He's like, is my lead, is she hot?

No, she's not. Oh no. I can't do it. I can't do it. I gotta make her with big boobs game. Gotta give her some boobies. [00:54:00] She gotta look hot fucking guys, man. But yeah, man, it started with the gamers, bro. All the shit came after that. I hate it. I hate it. I remember a time that people just enjoyed shit. They like it.

But imagine that shit now, bro. That's, that's why I hate when people are like, no, bro, like this or that. I'm like, yeah, but I introduced them now. You will fucking hate him. You'll fucking hate Ripley. You'll fucking hate Sarah Connor. You'll hate all these people that were introduced back in the day. 'cause now it's okay to hate a female lead back.

Then it's, oh, cool. Like he's the lead, whatever. It's, it's crazy, bro. 'cause Zach Zachary my youngest kid. Right? He'll see Sam Wilson, captain America and Steve Rogers, captain America. Yeah. And he'll see Steve Rogers, captain America. [00:55:00] He'll see Sam Wilson, captain America. That's it. Like this is it. That's all you need to know is that's not my Captain America.

I don't the black Captain America. Like what fucking kids get. Yeah. Kids don't care. Kids are like, all right. That's Captain America. That's Captain America, bro. I'm gonna fit. Yeah, he's, he's fighting Red Hawk. Let's see that.

There could be two. That's fine. Oh, Fred Dao. Fred Diablo. Finally saw Captain America. Brave New World. Yes, I did. Finally, what you thought about it. It was good, man. I'd say above average Marvel movie. Not very much above average, but right there above average. Yeah. Yeah. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it like it was better than I think the Dark World I

world. Yeah. Back. It was better what? Iron? [00:56:00] Iron Ironman three. Yeah. Yeah. It was like in the same area, but it was just like, I don't know. For me, like the Hawk, the Red Hawk fight pretty much saved the movie. Yeah. That was, in my opinion, yeah. That was a cool scene. What do you think about our Israeli S Soldier or four, five fucking black widow?

She, all those guys in

like some shit from spy babies, you know? But you see, don't she give you like that fucking the henchman from Dr. Eva from Austin Powers the woman? Oh, yeah. Yeah. It was like the small, petite, yeah. It was like she was mad small, petite, and just, ugh. Like, what? You fucking, what are you? Like, I can't believe [00:57:00] that you're gonna do any damage to anybody.

No, no way. That was like, that's why, man, that shit took me so outta that movie because that fucking woman bro. Did she try to flip any of those guys over? Did she just be hanging on their arm? I dunno. You ever seen those trending videos? When's like a really short girl, but she's just surrounded by big dudes And look at the height difference that yo man, those dudes could have your, their way with you and you're not gonna do anything because you're fucking four foot nothing, bro.

It's like, get outta here. And she was there for no reason. Like, she contribute nothing to the story, bro. Just like in the comics. Well, did you people, the wardrobe changed like in the middle of something. Like they, they had to wear something else, but at one point, like she was wearing like a costume that looked like the saber suit.

They had the colors of it had the white and blue, a leather jacket with blue trimming. Yeah. I was like, nah [00:58:00] man, nah. Like, there, there were so many characters gonna bring into this. Nobody, I'm sorry. Israeli propaganda machines. Not even Israelis

man, who this Yeah. When I first heard about, I like, I don't care.

She just popped into the comic back in the day. Yeah. To date Joseph. Yeah. I was like, why she, why she's my X-Men comic books. It makes no sense. What the hell. She was like a Hulk character. She, I think she was introduced in a Hulk series back in the day where an MOUs issue when a child died at the end of the story, and maybe they shoulda had some input from Bruce [00:59:00] Banner in this movie.

Yeah. That.

It feels like that Universal, since Universal owns the rights to a Hawk movie, they were just looking behind the scenes to see if Bruce Banner comes to be like, no, this is a Hawk movie. I know what you guys are trying to do. This is a Hawk movie. But mom was just like, all right, we'll have a Hawk movie. We no Hawk, and we just work around it and just put Catherine Mark in it.

Some for some reason can even have, because like even think about the story, it'll make perfect sense for it to be a Hawk movie because it's General Ross going through the transformation because of a villain that the Hawk faced or the Hulk created. And I could see the leader being mad at Bruce Banner for making him into what he's today.

At the same time, Ross was like using and shit, so could like an interesting dynamic between them, but for some reason Captain America movie. [01:00:00] But yeah, Bruce would've been an interesting. It to have. Yeah. You pretty much doing like a LK story. What the haw? Pretty much you brought back a little tighter. Like you could ring, you could ring.

Everybody was there. Everybody was there from the incredible, I like the fact wasn't even mention shit. No, I don't even think so. Yeah. I think when we're explaining the leader Oh yeah. The Harlem fight and all that. Yeah. Yeah. He came up because you have to bring him up. At least do that. You know what I mean?

Gonna have watch a Hulk movie to get a Captain America movie. People so confused. What's going on in here? Yeah. This, what's the, this continuation of something, what's going on here? Yeah. The post credit scene was pretty, ah, that was nothing. They might as well have not have a post credit. That was like the biggest nothing [01:01:00] burger ever.

It was crazy. I had a coworker tell me like, Craven was better than Captain America. And I was like, come on bro. Come on, bro. He's like, watch Craven. I was like, I am. I made a decision years ago that I'll never watch another Sony only movie with Spider-Man or Spider-Man characters in it. I'm like, not, I'm not doing that.

I'm not watching Craven. I'm like, I know why people, most people like Craven. It's the same thing that happened with the first Venom movie. It was probably a little gory. Mad violence. Yeah, whatever. It's like a dumb action movie, but with a villain who's supposed to be a villain, but he's an anti-hero. Like all Spiderman villains are anti-heroes in this universe.

Yeah. They're not that bad of guys. They gotta fight even badder guys, but they're not really bad. They have a heart of gold inside. Really is not even sinister anymore. Yeah. They're gonna be the [01:02:00] misunderstood six. Yeah. The not so bad six. Right? The semi annoying six. Alright, guys. Oh, man. But yeah, man, it wasn't that bad of a movie.

People make it out. I have to say though, I think Don, the boats will have to be like a banger for people to calm down. Like it has to be like, which I don't know man. I, I'm reserving my excitement for it. But Marvel did a smart thing to, to, I don't know if you've seen a trailer that just shows you everybody who's working on this movie, like the director from this and that, the writer of this and that.

Oh, the, yeah. So it was like, oh, I'm like, oh, this guy worked on this movie, which was like a big hit and people loved, but you never knew that. So they made this. So I'm like, oh, Marvel being smart now. I'm realizing people wanted to see like film, like creative filmmakers work on Marvel shit instead of just having the random director that the studio picks.

Just [01:03:00] 'cause they're gonna listen to everything, what they're gonna say and not make your own movie or whatever. So Thunder bros look like it should be something interesting. Sentry is gonna be a great character. Hopefully they don't make him like stupid or Herb or something like that. I hope he's just a badass, which the way he was killing people on my traitor looks pretty dope and he just turned them into like fucking shadows.

Oh yeah. That was so cool. Yeah, that was sick, man. But we'll see. So we both like Captain America, brave New World. Yeah. Decent movie guys. Give it a chance if you haven't watched it. Yeah, it's a fun ride. It's not gonna be, huh? Yeah, it like open game now. Somebody's gonna come in, sweep up the and make Weapon X project and it's gonna come soon.

Wolverine, we wait for the Wolverine come out now. [01:04:00] We're gonna wait. Yeah. God. Send off Wol. Yeah. Gonna be Hugh Jack. Yeah. Yeah. I'd rather not have you. Hugh Jackman become Wolverine. That's new Wolverine. Because I'm like, yo, come on man. We're gonna, we're getting old man. Logan now. W old man. Come on. Fifties, pushing sixties, right?

Come on man, you gonna be too old. Let's get somebody fresh in there. Get fresh in there. So W stories, the m

Hugh Wol be a prominent character. Yeah, you could work through, set everything and then another W shows like right after that. I just confused everything. Yeah, I feel like it's a bit, make it more confusing. See what they do. They'll make it confusing. Marvel because with that notes, I think it's a [01:05:00] good time to end the podcast.

It's been a fun quick one today and hopefully we get this more episode off frequently. Trying to get that. I was like, I was looking at it like we have episodes of March, we have two episodes of March already, but the last one before that was like in January. So I like god damn. Yeah. So I'm sorry guys.

Gonna be more consistent here guys. Stick with us. Thank you for sticking with us. I just moved. I'm planning a wedding. Yeah. You know we got a lot going on guys. Don't worry about it. Y'all, we'll all give you those. We'll give you that heat when we got the time to. That's right. Because we're grown men here and we got our lives to live.

But thanks for sticking out, sticking around, sticking with us. Yeah. And remember opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one and we're just a couples with some opinions. Thanks for listen. Peace out.