Arthur stealing Peter petrellis power wasn't a terrible plot line and giving him some of his power back made sense since sylar had a variation on the power too. If they had big kept their original levels sylar wouldn't have been a threat at all because he was stockpiling massive amounts of abilities that had no downside since he just understood how they worked and there wouldn't have been anyone to challenge that.

My hero a academia has since used an almost identical power system which definitely worked better but the idea of a weaker version being able to take on someone that can "steal" powers is still a decent story. I'd argue that all might (and later midorya) is the Peter petrelli in that plotline since they both had a form of power copying (gaining the abilities of past s) and lost them only to reclaim them through technology, it also forces the to get creative with what they have to match what they did before. For that reason I'd argue it's less of a retcon and more of a display of what the power (now in a villains hands) COULD do at it's full strength which became unavailable to the hero in question.

Was heroes on life by that point? Totally, but it doesn't change that it was a plot that had to happen unless you wanted a story about a guy who can do anything at any time with no pushback.

I know everyone wants to say thor can take sentry and on a good day maybe he can hold him off but let's not forget that sentry easily caught a bullet fired at norman Osbourne then ripped Aries in half. I'd argue that in of durability most of the marvel gods are roughly equal since they can all take a punch from some heavy hitters so I reckon he could bisect most of the of the Norse pantheon, maybe not Odin (or rune king Thor) at his prime.

Iirc hexcrete was an attempt to make an autonomous growing and self healing building material that worked perfectly fine except there was no way to stop it so it was abandoned and is just growing rampant.

I did actually know how to play caravan for a time. I looked up a guide and eventually managed to start winning games but I've forgotten over time. It's quite fun when you know how to play it.

I think we're going to find out that the canon ending is yes man. It's the only ending you can't lock yourself out of so regardless of your play style you can always achieve the yes man ending and it's probably what obsidian had in mind otherwise there would have been a no leader ending. I think new Vegas is going to look the way it did in the TV show because yes man makes himself "more assertive" and his robot logic probably isn't the best for the people of new Vegas, not evil just difficult to live under so people left after a while. There's no reason the courier would stay in Vegas once the job is done either so there's no worry about needing to create a courier character for the show that would appease every player and their choices.

I agree, it was already diminishing returns too. When you consider that the end showed Sam as an old man with adult grandchildren at the end it's canonically well into the future so there would be a massive problem with bringing the characters back from the dead. Are we supposed to believe that Sam died in what could reasonably be 2050 to 2060 spent some time in heaven then was brought back but the world is still the same as today? It just can't work.

Let it die, it was a popular show, it told its story and more and had a definitive ending.

You're unfortunately not going to get the same experience without playing the games. You're right about her motivation and all but the game forces you to play as her for a pretty significant chunk of time so you know more about her from that. I don't think watching it will have the same weight as controlling the character and I get the feeling they're going to skip a lot of her story in favour of Ellie's revenge story.

The game is a revenge story on its face but the overall moral is the cycle of violence and the ultimate cost of continuing it.

Yeah the explanation falls down when you realise that the first frisbee was actually a pie tin though.

Now if you had ed that 2 aspiring musicians who's music will create a perfect society had a showdown with death whilst Ashton kutcher read his diaries and got headaches, you might have been onto something.

There have been a few non sequel movies since avengers and surely thunderbolts is a sequel in the same way that avengers is a sequel, it's a sequel to all of the plot threads that came before for each of the team .

Mikkelson was kaecillius in Dr strange although I kind of feel that's more fitting for doom than trying to crowbar tony stark back into existence. Although doom is a scientist I still see him more as a sorcerer because frankly he's better at it.

Hitler is a very recognisable figure so it makes sense that he would be "the dictator" from hell, it also allowed for the blonde hair joke to be thrown in. He's depicted as an arrogant bastard until he comes up against the most minimal of resistance and even more so when 2 small boys beat him soundly, he's not exactly glorified. There are some problematic things here with some not being "cringe" but completely inappropriate (the racism and sexual harassment) but I don't think any were more than attempts to awkwardly wedge humour in. Arguably videl and gohans beat downs furthered the plot because it shows that the enemy doesn't have a problem with extreme and sadistic brutality.

Marty wouldn't be changed because of the rules of time travel in the film. Marty grew up in timeline A and has the traits and memories of that version, whilst in 55 he effectively exists outside of normal time and can't be affected by changes (except through the erasure of his timeline with no surrogate timeline to take him, when he goes to timeline C he'd been born in that universe so he wouldn't be erased because he had a place ) however in the context he's living his own future so even though he hasn't been born at the time he's progressing along his own personal path, he doesn't stop aging and he doesn't stop experiencing things for the first time.

The misunderstanding of the theory is that a new history is created when characters interact with the past but it's on a timeline scale and only affects people bound to the timeline but just because Marty's present is changed it doesn't mean his personal history will be erased, his home timeline might be gone as a location but it's influence still exists.

I need a diagram to explain it properly but the theory doesn't work

Revival is pretty great, I'll warn people who want to pick it up there isn't much in the way of supernatural horror for about 95% of it but I tend to think king is at his peak when he writes child characters and coming of age scenarios so it's very easy to enjoy the story, the ending however goes into maximum overdrive (sorry I had to) and completely changes what you thought you knew about what was going on.

TBH I'm generally a fan of the concept of an end being an end. The trouble with constant reboots and continuations is that they're diminishing returns, an idea can only be interesting for so long and whilst it might get a boost in quality for a short time it won't last but it's worth pointing out I'm not talking exclusively about Dragonball here.

I think Dragonball being the powerhouse it is could survive as a franchise for quite a long time without any sort of continuation, hell for a lot of people OG Dragonball is technically "new" material because they're not familiar with anything before Z. I still love super and daima, it was Dragonball, who doesn't love it, but I'd like to see other characters outside of Goku get a significant continuation and development, even vegeta's development has stagnated at "fantastic family man, still second fiddle though" so ending it pretty soon with a definitive "everyone is in a good place and peace is pretty guaranteed as long as the characters are alive but you don't need to worry too much about the future because it's a big universe and you can't tell every story" would be appropriate and realistically solid ending without Toriyama around to guide it.

The problem with expanding on it is that it's not really a unique creature in the lore it's just one that happens to have prominence. The dandelo in the dark tower is the same species but it has a preference for laughter over fear but we know from the books (and importantly the mist) that todash space is full of dangerous creatures that could arguably get their own book but then you'd just be getting a series cataloguing creatures that are supposed to be unknowable which kind of defeats the point of their description.

On a side note I think the "eater of worlds" line is just pennywise bigging himself up. It's not exactly a subtle character all things considered.

Thanos has easily beaten Galactus at least twice with the infinity stones and it wasn't even close. I'm confident he could do it with less than a full set. Reed Richards is also infinitely durable in theory so much so that he's fought the hulk without injury and had to resort to alternative means to be infected with the zombie virus which could override healing factors like wolverine, Deadpool, Hyperion and technically sentry although sentrys infection is a different story.