The 12% Solution?!? [POTENTIAL GUARDIANS SPOILER]

OK, I'm going to talk about something so trivially stupid and inconsequential that's it's probably safe for most people.

Still, there's a brief clip for Guardians Of The Galaxy below, and to the extent that some people have yet to see it and might consider it a spoiler, I'm affixing the big ol' SPOILER warning on here.

So if you don't want to know, come back after you've seen the film. This post will still be here.

Discussion commences after the five Guardians Of The Galaxy pictures:

Still here? Sorry, it's probably not worth it...but here we go.

I noticed something that probably is completely meaningless during my last viewing of GOTG, but my brain won't let go of it. So let's share.

Please view this video clip, as our heroes discuss the fact that Peter Quill only has part of a plan to escape their current dilemma (no real spoilers to the plot...Marvel released this as a publicity clip...but proceed at your own risk...):




And now, flash back a couple of years to the Avengers movie...

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Look, I know this means nothing. This is just my stupid monkey-brain trying to make a recognizable pattern out of random coincidence, right? Sheer chance made both films have a scene with banter about 12%.

Or James Gunn and/or Nicole Perlman were just making a subtle hat tip to the earlier movie. Right? A bit of a running gag?

And yet my brain won't let go of it...

I'm an idiot...

Reverse Product Placement

A restaurant a couple of doors down from my place of work:

Ah, the movie that keeps on giving!!

(Unless, of course, they mean "be like Steed and Mrs. Peel," in which case, yay, as well!)

Makes you wonder if Joss Whedon & Marvel/Disney are getting a cut from every Shish Tawook or Fried Kibbee sold...

Manic Monday Bonus--5 Cryptic Comments

5 Cryptic Comments About The Avengers Movie That You Almost Certainly Won't Get If You Haven't Seen The Movie So They're Probably Not Spoilers But If You Haven't Seen It Yet You Might Not Want To Take The Chance That I Accidentally Reveal That The Real Villain Is Doctor Druid Oops Sorry About That:

**If Loki ever meets Zod, watch out...

**Ah, the Kobayashi Maru never gets old, does it?

**Bruce Banner is no David Banner, that's for sure!

**Galaga? Really?

**Best. Interrogator. Ever.

Alliteration Needed

There's a very good reason why there's no Justice League movie on the horizon, while the Avengers are ready to take cinemas by storm:See, the Avengers have their wonderful, ready-for-marketing-and-reviewer-headline-puns catchphrase.

Whereas the Justice League has...umm...well...

(I'm certain that someone more knowledgeable of DC minutiae than I will chime in with some catch phrase the JLA has employed at various times. Two rules: if Snapper Carr said it, it counts as a negative. If the Detroit League said it, it's two demerits. Because, come on, a movie with the Detroit League??)

So, if we really want to get Warners off their ass on the Justice League movie, we need to come up with a snappy, zingy, brain-worm of a battle cry for them, that will make it even easier for them to sell toys.

"Justice League, Jostle!!"

Um, OK, this needs work...feel free to chime in here, guys...

And don't get me started on the fact that Marvel overall has better catch-phraseology than DC. Where's their equivalent of "It's Clobberin' Time!", I ask you? 'nuff said.

Maybe He Should Have Checked Wikipedia First...

Hawkeye's got a problem in Secret Avengers #23.

You see, Captain America is trying to put Flash Thompson, the all-new, all-different Venom on the team. And Clint isn't very happy about it:

True, Hawkeye...Captain America would know absolutely nothing about being "saddled" with former villains on his team...they could never be "assets"...

And you, Hawkeye? You would never, ever, ever want to lead a team that had reformed notorious super villains. That's obvious...

Hmmm...maybe when he's done writing issue-length Hawkeye hissy fits, Rick Remender could read up on a little history of the guy leading the team. (In fairness, I was much happier with Remender's handling of certain other characters...more on that later in the week)

You'd think that with Hawkeye coming up in the Avengers movie, Marvel would want to make him look, you know, heroic and all. But between this and last week's Avenging Spider-Man, there seems instead to be a concerted effort to make Clint Barton into an unlikable, reckless, arrogant, incompetent ass who's neither very good at heroing or at leading teams.

If so, mission accomplished, Marvel.