There’s that one scene at the end of the first Captain America movie and he runs out into Times Square after being in a coma for 80 years. I couldn’t imagine how much psychic damage that would do

I hate how Amon is given a sympathetic backstory that gets no exploration at all. He’s supposedly orphaned by benders who his parents couldn’t fight.

That’s legit what happens to Katara before the start of TLA. But instead of exploring that trauma, the story focuses on what it feels like to bend and how losing that is a profound loss.

It could’ve been a cool exploration on the themes of powerlessness and coping with that, but instead it’s just that benders are just better and if you don’t bend then you need to get out of the way.

In stories, it’s easy to assume you’d be a character with powers or knowledge, but the reality is more likely to be you’re the one on the outside of power in these fictional settings

Castlevania, despite some of the creators being creeps, has a good one with Sypha and Belmont. It’s established off-screen and you simply see them interact as a couple that works closely together.

You don’t see the courtship at all and there’s little eroticism. I don’t know if lacking that excludes it from being considered romantic.

But I like the relationship where they clearly care about each other and I’m certain the romance would be believable if they showed it in-scene. It is odd however how Belmont has a foul mouth but won’t say something explicit to Sypha when they’re alone.

The other romantic relationships in the series are also established off-screen for the most part. You see couples talking to each other in bed and stuff, but there aren’t too many declarations of love or discussion on their relationship, but I think the lack of dialogue around that could be excused by it being 1474.

A flow chart that just leads to :vote:

Just like Finn!

I hate that the possibility of a complicated story/moral question died on the vine in the first ten minutes of TFA when a smiling Finn gunned down his former child soldier friends.

Totally unsurprised. And fitting because I hate Reed Richard’s uselessness in the comics.

A wealthy educated white dude who would rather build nanomachines or some shit than do the work to make the world a better place.

Comics exist in a universe where the world actively refuses to get better.

Forced to go to school while infected with a deadly virus - I sleep.

Asked to acknowledge someone’s gender identity - real shit.