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Jackson) and the main character (Brie Larson)—where the performances click, the comic chemistry catalyzes, the dialogue buzzes, and everything in this latest million-dollar superhero blockbuster seems downright ... breezy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now: It's a \u003cem>practiced \u003c/em>breeziness. A \u003cem>studied \u003c/em>breeziness. A breeziness that doesn't feel forced, exactly, but that certainly feels \u003cem>en\u003c/em>forced. Because as they trade quips and cracks and grins while expositing about an intergalactic war between two alien races, you react to the quips and cracks and grins with a sense of satisfaction, as down deep in your forebrain, your unconscious knows that this right here is the part of the Marvel superhero movie where they do the quips and cracks and grins. And that they will soon get interrupted by the bad guy. And that there will then be some (quite good) fight choreography. And that some venerated veteran actor (why, hello, Miss Annette Bening!) will show up in a goofy outfit to deliver hokey dialogue at precisely 23% of their ability and stand around looking just you know \u003cem>wildly \u003c/em>incongruous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know all this not because you saw the trailers (though the trailers give away all the best stuff, including far too much of the plot), but because Marvel has been churning out million-dollar superhero blockbusters for over a decade now. They know how to do them—and you know how to watch them. And that means knowing, for example, that when the Big Reveal shows up to kick off the third act, right on schedule, it'll be neither big nor particularly revelatory. It never is. And that's fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's fine, because we have arrived at a cultural moment when audiences enter a million-dollar superhero blockbuster with a set of tacit expectations, a series of boxes to be checked, and \u003cem>Captain Marvel\u003c/em> dutifully checks them. And if that sounds less than ambitious, consider the very real and substantial sense of satisfaction that a well-checked box engenders. It's not \u003cem>surprising\u003c/em>, no. But it's not nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1BCujX3pw8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Co-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (who wrote the screenplay with Geneva Robertson-Dworet) hail from the world of talky indies like \u003cem>Half-Nelson\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Sugar\u003c/em>, which might explain why their film about a doughty space-warrior that features so many space-dogfights and space-explosions feels most at home on Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's an extended chase scene, for example, that takes place on the surface streets of Los Angeles' wholesale district—the very same sun-blasted, bleached-out asphalt across which so many brown-suited guys in Dodge Chargers once chased Jim Rockford, Steve Austin, the A-Team, and all six of Charlie's Angels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's one familiar element among many that make \u003cem>Captain Marvel\u003c/em> feel smaller than you'd think, given its intergalactic scope: There are the Kree, see, a proud warrior race locked in a war with the shifty—and shape-shifty—Skrulls. (For those scoring at home: The Kree look like Jude Law, the Skrulls look like if Nosferatu and a Gila Monster had kids.) Our hero is a Kree. (Nobody calls her \"Captain Marvel\" in the movie; most of the time she goes by \"Vers,\" pronounced \"Veers\"—which is weird, but less weird than her fellow Kree soldiers who get stuck with names like Minn-Erva, Yon-Rogg and ... wait for it ... Mar-Vell.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Captain Marvel lands on Earth in the mid-1990s (a fact the film has \u003cem>just \u003c/em>enough fun with), runs into a still-binocular Nick Fury, and the two promptly (very promptly! more promptly than seems wise, frankly!) set about looking for exactly the kind of glowy energy-core thingy you fully expect them to, because you've seen a damn Marvel movie before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now if you're a filmmaker looking to check the \"bad guy\" box, you could do a hell of a lot worse than checking it with Ben Mendelsohn. Yeah, the guy's been racking up the sci-fi bad guys on his IMDB page lately, but here, as Talos the Skrull, he gets to relax a bit, and have some fun. So do we. (Put it this way: The Skrull homeworld must have an East London.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, amid all the familiar hallmarks, the genre tropes, the checked boxes, one thing about the Marvel superhero blockbuster \u003cem>Captain Marvel\u003c/em> is legitimately new: the fact that its star is a woman. And while the filmmakers spend some time underlining this in all the ways you anticipate (both Hole \u003cem>and \u003c/em>Heart on the soundtrack guys!) they've carefully crafted the film to supply at least some young women with the kind of onscreen, butt-kicking, name-taking proxy young boys have enjoyed for decades. It outfits our hero not with a blandly handsome male romantic partner, but with a supportive, badass female friend (Lashana Lynch) with whom to ace the Bechdel test like they swiped the answer key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some will begrudge the filmmakers this liberty; some are wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larson imbues her character with a confidence that shades into cockiness, especially around Jackson's Nick Fury, but doesn't quite sell us on the film's Big Reveal, or its lesser emotional beats. It's tough to emote when you're lit up like a flying Christmas tree, I suppose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larson's Captain Marvel will of course return in next month's \u003cem>Avengers: Endgame\u003c/em> where, one assumes, female empowerment will take a back seat to powers of the zappy-explodey kind. In the meantime, we've got \u003cem>Captain Marvel\u003c/em>—a little bit \u003cem>The Right Stuff\u003c/em>, a little bit\u003cem> Top Gun\u003c/em>, a little bit \u003cem>Guardians of the Galaxy\u003c/em>, a little bit \u003cem>Men in Black\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afyrnrocULM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, and one more: There's a scene near the end, the big one, the one in which the film's themes of toughness and resilience get driven home. The music swells and we watch our hero ... do something. (If you've seen the trailers, you know the moment I mean.) And it's supposed to stir us. It's supposed to make us cheer. But it doesn't, quite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It should, it's \u003cem>trying \u003c/em>to, but it doesn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because that moment, like so many things about \u003cem>Captain Marvel\u003c/em>, is something you've seen before. So sure, it's satisfying, in that unconscious, soothingly familiar way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the \u003cem>first \u003c/em>time you saw it? On the \u003cem>Buffy the Vampire Slayer\u003c/em> series finale? That—now \u003cem>that \u003c/em>was something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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It outfits our hero not with a blandly handsome male romantic partner, but with a supportive, badass female friend (Lashana Lynch) with whom to ace the Bechdel test like they swiped the answer key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some will begrudge the filmmakers this liberty; some are wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larson imbues her character with a confidence that shades into cockiness, especially around Jackson's Nick Fury, but doesn't quite sell us on the film's Big Reveal, or its lesser emotional beats. It's tough to emote when you're lit up like a flying Christmas tree, I suppose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larson's Captain Marvel will of course return in next month's \u003cem>Avengers: Endgame\u003c/em> where, one assumes, female empowerment will take a back seat to powers of the zappy-explodey kind. In the meantime, we've got \u003cem>Captain Marvel\u003c/em>—a little bit \u003cem>The Right Stuff\u003c/em>, a little bit\u003cem> Top Gun\u003c/em>, a little bit \u003cem>Guardians of the Galaxy\u003c/em>, a little bit \u003cem>Men in Black\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/afyrnrocULM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/afyrnrocULM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Oh, and one more: There's a scene near the end, the big one, the one in which the film's themes of toughness and resilience get driven home. The music swells and we watch our hero ... do something. (If you've seen the trailers, you know the moment I mean.) And it's supposed to stir us. It's supposed to make us cheer. But it doesn't, quite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It should, it's \u003cem>trying \u003c/em>to, but it doesn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because that moment, like so many things about \u003cem>Captain Marvel\u003c/em>, is something you've seen before. So sure, it's satisfying, in that unconscious, soothingly familiar way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the \u003cem>first \u003c/em>time you saw it? On the \u003cem>Buffy the Vampire Slayer\u003c/em> series finale? That—now \u003cem>that \u003c/em>was something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Captain+Marvel%27+Takes+Flight+%E2%80%94+Through+Very+Familiar+Skies&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/109932/captain-marvel-checks-every-superhero-movie-box-and-passes-the-bechdel-test","authors":["byline_pop_109932"],"categories":["pop_51"],"tags":["pop_3426","pop_3155","pop_3489","pop_2889","pop_965","pop_756","pop_3488"],"featImg":"pop_109937","label":"pop"},"pop_107416":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_107416","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"107416","score":null,"sort":[1542142880000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-stan-lee-helped-one-blerd-find-his-superhero","title":"How Stan Lee Helped One Blerd Find His Superhero","publishDate":1542142880,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Stan Lee was always a hero of mine; a feeling I share with many comic book fans. But it wasn't until recently—and especially following his death Monday at age 95—that I began to realize that some of my love for him came specifically from my perspective as a black kid who grew up reading comic books in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't just that, as the editor-in-chief and later publisher of Marvel Comics, he helped create the coolest black superheroes of that time, like Black Panther and The Falcon. Or that he developed cool allegories for overcoming prejudice and stereotypes rooted in fear and ignorance, like The X-Men, The Inhumans and The Hulk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was cool about Marvel under Stan Lee was the realism. They used actual cities as the home-base for their heroes, which grounded everything in a world that felt more real, more possible. Spider-Man was a nerdy kid from Queens; The Fantastic Four were a bickering family headquartered in a Manhattan high-rise building. And Luke Cage was a principled, African American ex-con reinventing himself as a hero for hire from an office in Times Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a geeky kid growing up Gary, Ind.—the term blerd, or black nerd, would be coined much later to describe my cool-challenged lifestyle back then—this was an amazing step forward. I felt like I was learning about the world while sitting in my backward corner of Northwest Indiana. Somewhere, there was a place where being better at reading and writing than fighting and sports made you a hero. Or, at least, allowed you to create one or two of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to shade DC Comics. But heroes like Superman and The Flash lived in gleaming places called Metropolis and Central City. Their stories rarely featured people who looked like me or lived anywhere I recognized. Watching their exploits felt a bit disconnected; like watching a fairy tale set in a land kinda like my world...but also not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stan Lee's Marvel universe was grittier, wilder and often set in urban spaces I longed to see in person. He tackled pressing social issues that young people cared about, with stories rooted in relatable stuff. The Fantastic Four worried about paying bills for their towering headquarters, while Spider-Man fretted about finishing homework and handling bully Flash Thompson without revealing his powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luke Cage, while not a direct creation of Lee's, was filled with nods to the Blaxploitation action movies that I loved back then. Given his own book series in 1972, Luke Cage was proud, practical and a total powerhouse in a way I didn't know I needed to see until it was in a book looking back at me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also loved Lee's way of talking directly to fans, through editor's notes in the comics and his columns in the books, with their own jokey, distinctive patter. I hate to think about how much of his style—with jovial asides slipped into the action, much like this phrase was slipped into this sentence—influenced my own writing. He dropped words like \"Excelsior!\" at the end of columns, giving young fans a shared language and culture that could get us through the inevitable moments when we had to explain our obsessions with these \"cartoons\" to parents, teachers or contemptuous bullies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than anything, Lee made it clear he was creating a wondrous, exciting fictional universe that valued a wide range of people. Last year, in the wake of the white supremacist Unite the Right gathering in Charlottesville, the man himself tweeted a link to one of his \"Stan's Soapbox\" columns from 1968 asserting \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/11/12/stan-lee-used-his-platform-call-out-racism-s-he-never-stopped/?utm_term=.c91eff11147f\">bigotry and racism are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when people of color were still struggling to be seen in mainstream spaces, that sentiment meant a lot—especially when it was backed up by the stories in the comics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were limits to Lee's vision back then. White men were still most often the heroes, especially in the early books. Much as I loved the anti-hero he helped create called The Prowler, it was a bit of a let down to see that this character, who was basically a super burglar, turned out to be a misunderstood African American kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-107417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Stan Lee and actor Chadwick Boseman attend the world premiere of ‘Black Panther.’\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stan Lee and actor Chadwick Boseman attend the world premiere of ‘Black Panther.’ \u003ccite>(Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And too many non-white heroes were sidekicks—like Captain America's backup The Falcon—or had powers rooted in their racial identity, as was the custom of the time. So we had Black Panther and Black Goliath at Marvel, with Black Lightning and Black Racer in rival DC Comics' books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(I joked in one column I wrote a while ago that I always wondered why Thor, The God of Thunder wasn't originally named White Lightning.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR's Glen Weldon noted in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/12/667022269/a-true-believer-remembers-stan-lee\">most excellent obituary\u003c/a> how complicated Lee's legacy truly is. His tireless self-promotion led to criticisms that he shared credit too little and didn't fairly compensate the artists who helped him create this amazing universe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for a young black kid trying figure his place in the world and in comic book fandom, Stan Lee helped make that journey a little easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many years ago, I was struck by an advertisement in a black-focused magazine, which pictured a young black kid staring into a mirror with a towel pinned to his shoulders, clearly imagining himself as a mighty superhero. But the face which stared back at him from the mirror was a white man in a cape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks in part to Lee's influence, I could imagine Black Panther or The Falcon staring back at me, instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+Stan+Lee+Helped+This+Blerd+Find+His+Superhero&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"For one black nerd growing up in Indiana, Stan Lee's world was an amazing step forward.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1542142880,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":994},"headData":{"title":"How Stan Lee Helped One Blerd Find His Superhero | KQED","description":"For one black nerd growing up in Indiana, Stan Lee's world was an amazing step forward.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"How Stan Lee Helped One Blerd Find His Superhero","datePublished":"2018-11-13T21:01:20.000Z","dateModified":"2018-11-13T21:01:20.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"107416 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=107416","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2018/11/13/how-stan-lee-helped-one-blerd-find-his-superhero/","disqusTitle":"How Stan Lee Helped One Blerd Find His Superhero","nprImageCredit":"Valerie Macon","nprByline":"Eric Deggans","nprImageAgency":"AFP/Getty Images","nprStoryId":"667489958","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=667489958&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/11/13/667489958/how-stan-lee-helped-this-blerd-find-his-superhero?ft=nprml&f=667489958","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:29:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:29:46 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:29:46 -0500","path":"/pop/107416/how-stan-lee-helped-one-blerd-find-his-superhero","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Stan Lee was always a hero of mine; a feeling I share with many comic book fans. But it wasn't until recently—and especially following his death Monday at age 95—that I began to realize that some of my love for him came specifically from my perspective as a black kid who grew up reading comic books in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't just that, as the editor-in-chief and later publisher of Marvel Comics, he helped create the coolest black superheroes of that time, like Black Panther and The Falcon. Or that he developed cool allegories for overcoming prejudice and stereotypes rooted in fear and ignorance, like The X-Men, The Inhumans and The Hulk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was cool about Marvel under Stan Lee was the realism. They used actual cities as the home-base for their heroes, which grounded everything in a world that felt more real, more possible. Spider-Man was a nerdy kid from Queens; The Fantastic Four were a bickering family headquartered in a Manhattan high-rise building. And Luke Cage was a principled, African American ex-con reinventing himself as a hero for hire from an office in Times Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a geeky kid growing up Gary, Ind.—the term blerd, or black nerd, would be coined much later to describe my cool-challenged lifestyle back then—this was an amazing step forward. I felt like I was learning about the world while sitting in my backward corner of Northwest Indiana. Somewhere, there was a place where being better at reading and writing than fighting and sports made you a hero. Or, at least, allowed you to create one or two of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to shade DC Comics. But heroes like Superman and The Flash lived in gleaming places called Metropolis and Central City. Their stories rarely featured people who looked like me or lived anywhere I recognized. Watching their exploits felt a bit disconnected; like watching a fairy tale set in a land kinda like my world...but also not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stan Lee's Marvel universe was grittier, wilder and often set in urban spaces I longed to see in person. He tackled pressing social issues that young people cared about, with stories rooted in relatable stuff. The Fantastic Four worried about paying bills for their towering headquarters, while Spider-Man fretted about finishing homework and handling bully Flash Thompson without revealing his powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luke Cage, while not a direct creation of Lee's, was filled with nods to the Blaxploitation action movies that I loved back then. Given his own book series in 1972, Luke Cage was proud, practical and a total powerhouse in a way I didn't know I needed to see until it was in a book looking back at me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also loved Lee's way of talking directly to fans, through editor's notes in the comics and his columns in the books, with their own jokey, distinctive patter. I hate to think about how much of his style—with jovial asides slipped into the action, much like this phrase was slipped into this sentence—influenced my own writing. He dropped words like \"Excelsior!\" at the end of columns, giving young fans a shared language and culture that could get us through the inevitable moments when we had to explain our obsessions with these \"cartoons\" to parents, teachers or contemptuous bullies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than anything, Lee made it clear he was creating a wondrous, exciting fictional universe that valued a wide range of people. Last year, in the wake of the white supremacist Unite the Right gathering in Charlottesville, the man himself tweeted a link to one of his \"Stan's Soapbox\" columns from 1968 asserting \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/11/12/stan-lee-used-his-platform-call-out-racism-s-he-never-stopped/?utm_term=.c91eff11147f\">bigotry and racism are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when people of color were still struggling to be seen in mainstream spaces, that sentiment meant a lot—especially when it was backed up by the stories in the comics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were limits to Lee's vision back then. White men were still most often the heroes, especially in the early books. Much as I loved the anti-hero he helped create called The Prowler, it was a bit of a let down to see that this character, who was basically a super burglar, turned out to be a misunderstood African American kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-107417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Stan Lee and actor Chadwick Boseman attend the world premiere of ‘Black Panther.’\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/11/stan-lee-black-panther-d7bb2b29efabd53cebd256d2b02701f0da081db4-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stan Lee and actor Chadwick Boseman attend the world premiere of ‘Black Panther.’ \u003ccite>(Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And too many non-white heroes were sidekicks—like Captain America's backup The Falcon—or had powers rooted in their racial identity, as was the custom of the time. So we had Black Panther and Black Goliath at Marvel, with Black Lightning and Black Racer in rival DC Comics' books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(I joked in one column I wrote a while ago that I always wondered why Thor, The God of Thunder wasn't originally named White Lightning.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR's Glen Weldon noted in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/12/667022269/a-true-believer-remembers-stan-lee\">most excellent obituary\u003c/a> how complicated Lee's legacy truly is. His tireless self-promotion led to criticisms that he shared credit too little and didn't fairly compensate the artists who helped him create this amazing universe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for a young black kid trying figure his place in the world and in comic book fandom, Stan Lee helped make that journey a little easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many years ago, I was struck by an advertisement in a black-focused magazine, which pictured a young black kid staring into a mirror with a towel pinned to his shoulders, clearly imagining himself as a mighty superhero. But the face which stared back at him from the mirror was a white man in a cape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks in part to Lee's influence, I could imagine Black Panther or The Falcon staring back at me, instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+Stan+Lee+Helped+This+Blerd+Find+His+Superhero&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/107416/how-stan-lee-helped-one-blerd-find-his-superhero","authors":["byline_pop_107416"],"categories":["pop_1548"],"tags":["pop_2889","pop_756","pop_3346"],"featImg":"pop_107419","label":"pop"},"pop_103659":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_103659","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"103659","score":null,"sort":[1526936281000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"who-is-ms-marvel-and-why-does-everyone-want-to-be-in-her-movie","title":"Who is Ms. Marvel and Why Does Everyone Want to be in Her Movie?","publishDate":1526936281,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>It started with what seemed like a small announcement on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CBR/status/995359214825590786\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1981893/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Rogue One\u003c/em>\u003c/a> star—and one-half of the absurdly underrated \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Yb8AWXgLI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swet Shop Boys\u003c/a>—Riz Ahmed jumped in, tagging Mindy Kaling and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5462602/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Sick\u003c/a> \u003c/em>writer/actor Kumail Nanjiani along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So when do @MarvelStudios want me @mindykaling @kumailn to get started on the MsMarvel screenplay?\" he wrote on May 16, 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaling was quick to respond, declaring:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/mindykaling/status/996557999807369221\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4955642/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>The Good Place'\u003c/em>\u003c/a>s Jameela Jamil chimed in too. \"I can also do weekends!\" she quipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed quickly replied that after being commissioned, they should just \"hand the pen over\" to \u003cem>Ms. Marvel\u003c/em> creator \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sana_Amanat\">Sana Amanat\u003c/a> and \u003cem>Ms. Marvel\u003c/em> writer, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Willow_Wilson\">G. Willow Wilson\u003c/a>. Amanat immediately responded by inviting Kaling to collaborate on a \u003cem>Ms. Marvel\u003c/em> comic book:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MiniB622/status/996583977124319232\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So who\u003cem> is\u003c/em> Ms. Marvel, and why do some of the most sought-after stars in Hollywood want in on this project?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven't heard of Ms. Marvel before, it's probably because she's only existed for five years. In her everyday life, the shape-shifting, fast-healing superhero is Kamala Khan, a New Jersey-based Pakistani-American teen, who was inspired into action by her heroine, Captain Marvel. She is the first Muslim character in the Marvel universe to get her own comic book—and it was a\u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2018/05/mindy-kaling-and-riz-ahmed-want-to-do-a-ms-marvel-movie.html\"> bestseller\u003c/a> to boot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're a San Francisco resident already familiar with the character, it may have something to do with the anti-Muslim ads the American Freedom Defense Initiative put on buses in 2015. The posters were subsequently pasted over by protesters, using triumphant images of Ms. Marvel and pro-equality messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 719px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-103661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-16-at-12.38.19-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-16-at-12.38.19-PM.png 719w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-16-at-12.38.19-PM-160x119.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-16-at-12.38.19-PM-240x179.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-16-at-12.38.19-PM-375x279.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-16-at-12.38.19-PM-520x387.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by 'Street Cred - Advertising For the People' (via Facebook)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003cem>Ms. Marvel\u003c/em> movie would be incredibly significant, coming at a time when Hollywood is finally realizing that audiences want to see more films led by women and people of color. Not only did the phenomenal successes of \u003cem>Wonder Woman\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em> drive that point home, but we've only just recently arrived in a period where actors of South Asian descent aren't automatically expected to be accented caricatures. (\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj_Koothrappali\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raj Koothrappali\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apu_Nahasapeemapetilon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apu Nahasapeemapetilon\u003c/a> remain on our televisions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although \u003cem>E.R.\u003c/em> broke ground between 2003 and 2009 with Neela Rasgotra (played by Parminder Nagra), the first major steps in changing the perception of what people of Indian and Pakistani descent had to look like in American pop culture really came courtesy of Mindy Kaling and Aziz Ansari.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaling's \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2211129/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mindy Project\u003c/a> \u003c/em>(2012-2017) had mixed reviews, and Aziz Ansari's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/98503/how-the-aziz-ansari-debate-is-currently-missing-the-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">consent-related issues\u003c/a> have since scuffed his image, but both \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4635276/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Master of None\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>The Mindy Project\u003c/em> broadened ideas about identity, culture, and integration, to a phenomenal degree. Both opened up the kind of space that allowed Jameela Jamil to join the cast of \u003cem>The Good Place\u003c/em> as a wealthy British woman, steeped in class privilege, who just happened to have a name like Tahani Al-Jamil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PvuOQ3jLzg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assisting matters further, 2017's\u003cem> The Big Sick—\u003c/em>Kumail Nanjiani's movie about the cultural challenges posed by his own relationship with a white woman—received critical praise and was nominated for a multitude of awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, Hari Kondabolu issued a rallying cry with his documentary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7588752/?ref_=rvi_tt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Problem With Apu.\u003c/em>\u003c/a> The film prompted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97518/a-new-documentary-calls-into-question-apu-from-the-simpsons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">major discussions in the U.S.\u003c/a> around what is and isn't acceptable when it comes to South Asian representation in pop culture. It was a watershed moment that enabled the community to talk about the personal damage caused by tired old stereotyping, and the things they don't want to be asked to do on screen anymore. When \u003cem>The Simpsons\u003c/em> refused to apologize for Apu (still voiced by a white man) and worked a tone-deaf response into the cartoon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/103007/the-simpsons-to-the-problem-with-apu-drop-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the conversation only got larger\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If America was ever primed to see a young Muslim woman carving out space for herself next to an army of majority-white superheroes, it's now. A \u003cem>Ms. Marvel\u003c/em> movie would be the perfect follow-up to \u003cem>Captain Marvel\u003c/em> (arriving March 8, 2019, with Brie Larson in the starring role), and would keep the momentum going for women in superhero movies. (Let's not forget, we're \u003cem>still\u003c/em> waiting for a stand alone \u003cem>Black Widow\u003c/em> project.) To have stars of Mindy Kaling and Riz Ahmed's caliber involved would be a major boost to the project—but it's likely that Ms. Marvel would do just fine on her own.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A 'Ms. Marvel' movie is coming, and both Mindy Kaling and Riz Ahmed want in.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1654552238,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":790},"headData":{"title":"Who is Ms. Marvel and Why Does Everyone Want to be in Her Movie? - KQED Pop","description":"A 'Ms. Marvel' movie is coming, and both Mindy Kaling and Riz Ahmed want in.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Who is Ms. Marvel and Why Does Everyone Want to be in Her Movie?","datePublished":"2018-05-21T20:58:01.000Z","dateModified":"2022-06-06T21:50:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"103659 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=103659","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2018/05/21/who-is-ms-marvel-and-why-does-everyone-want-to-be-in-her-movie/","disqusTitle":"Who is Ms. Marvel and Why Does Everyone Want to be in Her Movie?","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/pop/103659/who-is-ms-marvel-and-why-does-everyone-want-to-be-in-her-movie","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It started with what seemed like a small announcement on Twitter.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"995359214825590786"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1981893/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Rogue One\u003c/em>\u003c/a> star—and one-half of the absurdly underrated \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Yb8AWXgLI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swet Shop Boys\u003c/a>—Riz Ahmed jumped in, tagging Mindy Kaling and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5462602/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Sick\u003c/a> \u003c/em>writer/actor Kumail Nanjiani along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So when do @MarvelStudios want me @mindykaling @kumailn to get started on the MsMarvel screenplay?\" he wrote on May 16, 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaling was quick to respond, declaring:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"996557999807369221"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Then \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4955642/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>The Good Place'\u003c/em>\u003c/a>s Jameela Jamil chimed in too. \"I can also do weekends!\" she quipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed quickly replied that after being commissioned, they should just \"hand the pen over\" to \u003cem>Ms. Marvel\u003c/em> creator \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sana_Amanat\">Sana Amanat\u003c/a> and \u003cem>Ms. Marvel\u003c/em> writer, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Willow_Wilson\">G. Willow Wilson\u003c/a>. Amanat immediately responded by inviting Kaling to collaborate on a \u003cem>Ms. Marvel\u003c/em> comic book:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"996583977124319232"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>So who\u003cem> is\u003c/em> Ms. Marvel, and why do some of the most sought-after stars in Hollywood want in on this project?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven't heard of Ms. Marvel before, it's probably because she's only existed for five years. In her everyday life, the shape-shifting, fast-healing superhero is Kamala Khan, a New Jersey-based Pakistani-American teen, who was inspired into action by her heroine, Captain Marvel. She is the first Muslim character in the Marvel universe to get her own comic book—and it was a\u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2018/05/mindy-kaling-and-riz-ahmed-want-to-do-a-ms-marvel-movie.html\"> bestseller\u003c/a> to boot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're a San Francisco resident already familiar with the character, it may have something to do with the anti-Muslim ads the American Freedom Defense Initiative put on buses in 2015. The posters were subsequently pasted over by protesters, using triumphant images of Ms. Marvel and pro-equality messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 719px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-103661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-16-at-12.38.19-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-16-at-12.38.19-PM.png 719w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-16-at-12.38.19-PM-160x119.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-16-at-12.38.19-PM-240x179.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-16-at-12.38.19-PM-375x279.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-16-at-12.38.19-PM-520x387.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by 'Street Cred - Advertising For the People' (via Facebook)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003cem>Ms. Marvel\u003c/em> movie would be incredibly significant, coming at a time when Hollywood is finally realizing that audiences want to see more films led by women and people of color. Not only did the phenomenal successes of \u003cem>Wonder Woman\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em> drive that point home, but we've only just recently arrived in a period where actors of South Asian descent aren't automatically expected to be accented caricatures. (\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj_Koothrappali\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raj Koothrappali\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apu_Nahasapeemapetilon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apu Nahasapeemapetilon\u003c/a> remain on our televisions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although \u003cem>E.R.\u003c/em> broke ground between 2003 and 2009 with Neela Rasgotra (played by Parminder Nagra), the first major steps in changing the perception of what people of Indian and Pakistani descent had to look like in American pop culture really came courtesy of Mindy Kaling and Aziz Ansari.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaling's \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2211129/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mindy Project\u003c/a> \u003c/em>(2012-2017) had mixed reviews, and Aziz Ansari's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/98503/how-the-aziz-ansari-debate-is-currently-missing-the-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">consent-related issues\u003c/a> have since scuffed his image, but both \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4635276/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Master of None\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>The Mindy Project\u003c/em> broadened ideas about identity, culture, and integration, to a phenomenal degree. Both opened up the kind of space that allowed Jameela Jamil to join the cast of \u003cem>The Good Place\u003c/em> as a wealthy British woman, steeped in class privilege, who just happened to have a name like Tahani Al-Jamil.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-PvuOQ3jLzg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-PvuOQ3jLzg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Assisting matters further, 2017's\u003cem> The Big Sick—\u003c/em>Kumail Nanjiani's movie about the cultural challenges posed by his own relationship with a white woman—received critical praise and was nominated for a multitude of awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, Hari Kondabolu issued a rallying cry with his documentary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7588752/?ref_=rvi_tt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Problem With Apu.\u003c/em>\u003c/a> The film prompted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97518/a-new-documentary-calls-into-question-apu-from-the-simpsons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">major discussions in the U.S.\u003c/a> around what is and isn't acceptable when it comes to South Asian representation in pop culture. It was a watershed moment that enabled the community to talk about the personal damage caused by tired old stereotyping, and the things they don't want to be asked to do on screen anymore. When \u003cem>The Simpsons\u003c/em> refused to apologize for Apu (still voiced by a white man) and worked a tone-deaf response into the cartoon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/103007/the-simpsons-to-the-problem-with-apu-drop-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the conversation only got larger\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If America was ever primed to see a young Muslim woman carving out space for herself next to an army of majority-white superheroes, it's now. A \u003cem>Ms. Marvel\u003c/em> movie would be the perfect follow-up to \u003cem>Captain Marvel\u003c/em> (arriving March 8, 2019, with Brie Larson in the starring role), and would keep the momentum going for women in superhero movies. (Let's not forget, we're \u003cem>still\u003c/em> waiting for a stand alone \u003cem>Black Widow\u003c/em> project.) To have stars of Mindy Kaling and Riz Ahmed's caliber involved would be a major boost to the project—but it's likely that Ms. Marvel would do just fine on her own.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/103659/who-is-ms-marvel-and-why-does-everyone-want-to-be-in-her-movie","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_51"],"tags":["pop_2889","pop_756"],"featImg":"pop_103662","label":"pop"},"pop_103095":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_103095","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"103095","score":null,"sort":[1524235423000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-infinity-stones-before-the-new-avengers-movie","title":"Here's What You Need to Know About Infinity Stones Before the New Avengers Movie","publishDate":1524235423,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Call them the Mighty Marvel Movie MacGuffins. They're the glittery objects that drove the plots of several individual Marvel movies and that collectively shaped the direction the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe has been heading (almost) since its inception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are the Infinity Stones — immensely powerful gems that contain and channel elemental forces of the universe. They're what the villains crave and what the heroes protect. They can be used to destroy or create.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mmmmmostly that first thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've been seeded throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2011, and now, with the release of \u003cem>Avengers: Infinity War\u003c/em> on April 27, all the logistical heavy lifting of seven years' worth of films — chasing the Stones, finding them, wielding them, handing them off to shady minor characters for safekeeping — comes to a head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well. To a \u003cem>hand\u003c/em>, anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanos' hand, to be specific. Thanos' \u003cem>gauntlet\u003c/em>, if you want to get technical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwievZ1Tx-8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanos is the MCU's biggest Big Bad, first glimpsed in a post-credit scene in 2012's \u003cem>The Avengers\u003c/em>. He is a hulking, purplish-reddish-bluish (seems to depend on the movie's color balance) space warlord determined to reduce the population of the universe by half. If he collects all of the Infinity Stones and affixes them to a metal glove-thingy called the Infinity Gauntlet, he will be able to go about his deadly halving business, according to his daughter Gamora (Zoe Saldana) in the trailer, \"with a snap of his fingers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Leave aside, for the moment, how difficult it would be to snap one's fingers in a metal gauntlet.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(I mean it would be less of a \u003cem>snap \u003c/em>and more a \u003cem>rasp\u003c/em>, right?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Or maybe a \u003cem>clang\u003c/em>? Like he was striking some terrible Xylophone of Pan-Galactic Death? Or a Wind Chime of Cosmic Annihilation?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway. That's Thanos pictured at the top of this post. He is played in the movie by Josh Brolin and a superfluity of CGI chin dimples. And that thing he has on his left hand (so \u003cem>literally \u003c/em>sinister!) is the Infinity Gauntlet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you can see, he is already well on his way to collecting 'em all — not quite at full, \"Billie Jean\"-era sparkle-glove status, but close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's review where the various Infinity Stones were the last time we saw them — and what they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Space Stone \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AKA:\u003c/strong> The Tesseract\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103098 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/uyj-800x441.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/uyj-800x441.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/uyj-160x88.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/uyj-768x423.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/uyj-240x132.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/uyj-375x207.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/uyj-520x287.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/uyj.png 820w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Tesseract: handle with care. (Marvel Studios)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Looks Like:\u003c/strong> When first glimpsed in \u003cem>Captain America: The First Avenger \u003c/em>(2011), a glowing blue cube. (The cube is just a housing that allows the glowy blue stone inside to be handled by us lowly humans.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Does: \u003c/strong>Opens wormholes in space, making possible instantaneous travel between any two points in the universe. Also has undetermined (read: hazily defined) power to develop weaponry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transporting is what the eeeevil Red Skull did with it in\u003cem> Captain America: The First Avenger.\u003c/em> It was later recovered by S.H.I.E.L.D., which lost it when Loki absconded with it in \u003cem>The Avengers\u003c/em> (2012) and used it to open a wormhole above Manhattan through which an alien army attacked Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where It Is Now: \u003c/strong>It spent some time in Asgard's armory, but at the end of \u003cem>Thor: Ragnarok \u003c/em>(2017), it was stolen by Loki. (At the very end of \u003cem>Thor: Ragnarok\u003c/em>, the spaceship Thor and Loki were flying was intercepted by what was very likely Thanos' ship. So if you're taking bets, the Space Stone is likely one of the first Infinity Stones we'll see Thanos add to his collection.)\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Mind Stone\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AKA:\u003c/strong> The Scepter\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103099 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/vision-avengers-paperwork.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/vision-avengers-paperwork.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/vision-avengers-paperwork-160x93.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/vision-avengers-paperwork-240x140.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/vision-avengers-paperwork-375x218.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/vision-avengers-paperwork-520x302.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vision and the Mind (forehead?) Stone. (Marvel Studios)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Looks Like:\u003c/strong> At first, in \u003cem>The Avengers\u003c/em>, a scepter housing a glowy blue gem. Nowadays, a yellow gem (long story) embedded in the forehead of Vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Does: \u003c/strong>Oh, a lot of stuff. In its Scepter mode, it granted Loki zappy powers and the ability to manipulate minds, and its mere presence made the Avengers more snippy than baseline. In its current mode (as of 2015's \u003cem>Avengers: Age of Ultron\u003c/em>, it grants Vision the ability to ... do lots of stuff, including phase through matter, fly, zap others with energy beams and, you know ... live.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where It Is Now: \u003c/strong>Doing time on Vision's forehead. But the trailers suggest this will not be a permanent condition. Look for Vision to get blurry.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Reality Stone\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AKA\u003c/strong>: The Aether\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103100\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103100 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/4123370.jpg-r_1280_720-f_jpg-q_x-xxyxx-800x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/4123370.jpg-r_1280_720-f_jpg-q_x-xxyxx.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/4123370.jpg-r_1280_720-f_jpg-q_x-xxyxx-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/4123370.jpg-r_1280_720-f_jpg-q_x-xxyxx-768x458.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/4123370.jpg-r_1280_720-f_jpg-q_x-xxyxx-240x143.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/4123370.jpg-r_1280_720-f_jpg-q_x-xxyxx-375x224.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/4123370.jpg-r_1280_720-f_jpg-q_x-xxyxx-520x310.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aether. Like the elevator scene in 'The Shining' but different. (Marvel Studios)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Looks Like: \u003c/strong>Not like a stone, for one thing. Instead, it's a thick, red liquid that sends out tendrils that undulate in a cinematically creepy way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Does\u003c/strong>: Look, it's OK. You didn't see \u003cem>Thor: The Dark World \u003c/em>(2013). A lot of people didn't. So you didn't see the Reality Stone (in the form of the Aether) take over the body of Thor's girlfriend, Jane Foster, allowing her to send out shock waves and... whatnot. As its name suggests, the Reality Stone alters reality, by converting matter to dark matter. Don't bother asking why that's a thing. Doesn't matter. Lots of people didn't see \u003cem>Thor: The Dark World\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where It Is Now: \u003c/strong>For safekeeping, it was given to an ancient being who collects lots of stuff. His name, appropriately enough, is the Collector. (He is played by Benicio del Toro in \u003cem>Thor: The Dark World\u003c/em>, and his character is the brother of Jeff Goldblum's Grandmaster from \u003cem>Thor: Ragnarok.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that not a lot of people saw \u003cem>Thor: The Dark World\u003c/em>, I'd wager we won't get a big protracted scene of Thanos hunting down and claiming the Reality Stone, and \u003cem>Infinity War\u003c/em> will simply cut to the (end of the) chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Power Stone\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AKA:\u003c/strong> The Orb\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103101\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103101 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/MCU-Phase-2-1024x518-820x381-800x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/MCU-Phase-2-1024x518-820x381-800x372.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/MCU-Phase-2-1024x518-820x381-160x74.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/MCU-Phase-2-1024x518-820x381-768x357.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/MCU-Phase-2-1024x518-820x381-240x112.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/MCU-Phase-2-1024x518-820x381-375x174.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/MCU-Phase-2-1024x518-820x381-520x242.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/MCU-Phase-2-1024x518-820x381.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It's got the power! (Marvel Studios)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Looks Like: \u003c/strong>When we first see it, at the beginning of \u003cem>Guardians of the Galaxy\u003c/em> (2014), it's encased in a silver spherical rock-thing. Later, the Orb is split open and the stone inside is grafted onto a bad guy's space-hammer and given the awesomely ridiculous name of Cosmi-Rod. Once the bad guy is defeated \u003cem>through the power of dance\u003c/em>, the Stone is returned to another Orb-casing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Does:\u003c/strong> Grants... power? Look, I know, the specific abilities of the various stones seem kind of frustratingly all over the place, but this one's legit. It makes its wielder more powerful — better, stronger, more zappy. You know: energy blasts and energy tornadoes and energy waves and energy bars. (No, OK, not that last one.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where It Is Now:\u003c/strong> Benicio del Toro's Collector character nearly added it to his collection, but it sent out a massive energy blast, as is its zappy wont, that destroyed most of his menagerie. It ended up in hands of the Nova Corps — basically the Marvel Universe's resident space-cops, run by Glenn Close in a complicated wig — and there it will stay, until it won't.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Time Stone \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AKA: \u003c/strong>The Eye of Agamotto\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103102\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 477px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103102 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/main-qimg-f2a5d284b0c3b0cb704e008710898ca7-c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/main-qimg-f2a5d284b0c3b0cb704e008710898ca7-c.jpg 477w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/main-qimg-f2a5d284b0c3b0cb704e008710898ca7-c-160x75.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/main-qimg-f2a5d284b0c3b0cb704e008710898ca7-c-240x112.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/main-qimg-f2a5d284b0c3b0cb704e008710898ca7-c-375x175.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Time Stone: simple, precise, clean and green. (Marvel Studios)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Looks Like: \u003c/strong>First (and only) seen in \u003cem>Doctor Strange\u003c/em> (2016), it's a glowy green gem housed inside an amulet embossed with an eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Does:\u003c/strong> Finally, some specificity! Some truth in advertising! The Time Stone allows its wielder to control time — to speed it up, slow it down, reverse it or create time loops. See, there, Marvel? Simple. Precise. Clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where It Is Now:\u003c/strong> Hanging around Doctor Stephen Strange's neck, right under his dumb goatee.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Soul Stone\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AKA\u003c/strong>: ?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103103\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103103 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/svcnojwrsqwcrqhwrjqz-800x450.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/svcnojwrsqwcrqhwrjqz.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/svcnojwrsqwcrqhwrjqz-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/svcnojwrsqwcrqhwrjqz-768x432.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/svcnojwrsqwcrqhwrjqz-240x135.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/svcnojwrsqwcrqhwrjqz-375x211.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/svcnojwrsqwcrqhwrjqz-520x293.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Soul Stone: it's the big one. (Marvel Studios)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Looks Like:\u003c/strong> Again, ? It has yet to turn up in a Marvel movie, at least by that name. It's most likely an orange gem, the largest of them all, which fits on the back of the gauntlet — not, as the others do, on the fingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Does: \u003c/strong>In the comics, it grants its owner the ability to do lots of mystical things — trap souls in an artificial existence, see into a person's soul, etc. It's not known how closely the film will adhere to this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But given the fact that so much of the \u003cem>Infinity War\u003c/em> trailer is set in and around Wakanda — and the fact that the \"heart-shaped flower\" seen in \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em> grants the ability to commune with the dead — many have speculated that the Soul Stone will turn out to have something to do with vibranium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where It Is Now:\u003c/strong> Your guess is as good as any. Unless you guess, \"in Wakanda,\" in which case it's slightly better than most, probably.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Sharon Stone\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AKA: \u003c/strong>Catherine Tramell, Ginger McKenna, Iris Burton\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Looks Like\u003c/strong>: A human woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Does\u003c/strong>: Wears the Gap to the Oscars, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/article/best-oscar-looks-of-all-time.html\">famously\u003c/a>. And nowadays? Rocks the hell out of a \u003cem>Disaster Artist\u003c/em> cameo and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/01/sharon-stone-sexual-harassment-interview-hollywood\">gives a great interview\u003c/a> in a sweater to which \u003cem>attention must be paid\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where It Is Now:\u003c/strong> Not getting the work it deserves, HOLLYWOOD.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Slyandthefamily Stone \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AKA:\u003c/strong> Sly Stone, Freddie Stone, Rose Stone, Cynthia Robinson, Greg Errico, Jerry Martini, Larry Graham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Looks Like: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Deeply \u003c/em>groovy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Does:\u003c/strong> Effortlessly fuse rock, soul, funk and psychedelia into chart-topping, socially conscious pop anthems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where It Is Now: \u003c/strong>On the set list of every wedding DJ at or slightly after 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Coldcreamery Stone\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AKA\u003c/strong>: \"That place your Aunt Janice likes? With the slab? What's it called?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Looks Like:\u003c/strong> An ice cream store, duh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Does\u003c/strong>: Grants its wielder one unusually muscular forearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where It Is Now:\u003c/strong> 1,100 locations in the U.S. and abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Here%27s+What+You+Need+To+Know+About+Infinity+Stones+Before+The+New+Avengers+Movie&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"You probably need a guidebook to keep track of which stone does what in Marvel-land. 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They're the glittery objects that drove the plots of several individual Marvel movies and that collectively shaped the direction the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe has been heading (almost) since its inception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are the Infinity Stones — immensely powerful gems that contain and channel elemental forces of the universe. They're what the villains crave and what the heroes protect. They can be used to destroy or create.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mmmmmostly that first thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've been seeded throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2011, and now, with the release of \u003cem>Avengers: Infinity War\u003c/em> on April 27, all the logistical heavy lifting of seven years' worth of films — chasing the Stones, finding them, wielding them, handing them off to shady minor characters for safekeeping — comes to a head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well. To a \u003cem>hand\u003c/em>, anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanos' hand, to be specific. Thanos' \u003cem>gauntlet\u003c/em>, if you want to get technical.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/QwievZ1Tx-8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/QwievZ1Tx-8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Thanos is the MCU's biggest Big Bad, first glimpsed in a post-credit scene in 2012's \u003cem>The Avengers\u003c/em>. He is a hulking, purplish-reddish-bluish (seems to depend on the movie's color balance) space warlord determined to reduce the population of the universe by half. If he collects all of the Infinity Stones and affixes them to a metal glove-thingy called the Infinity Gauntlet, he will be able to go about his deadly halving business, according to his daughter Gamora (Zoe Saldana) in the trailer, \"with a snap of his fingers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Leave aside, for the moment, how difficult it would be to snap one's fingers in a metal gauntlet.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(I mean it would be less of a \u003cem>snap \u003c/em>and more a \u003cem>rasp\u003c/em>, right?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Or maybe a \u003cem>clang\u003c/em>? Like he was striking some terrible Xylophone of Pan-Galactic Death? Or a Wind Chime of Cosmic Annihilation?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway. That's Thanos pictured at the top of this post. He is played in the movie by Josh Brolin and a superfluity of CGI chin dimples. And that thing he has on his left hand (so \u003cem>literally \u003c/em>sinister!) is the Infinity Gauntlet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you can see, he is already well on his way to collecting 'em all — not quite at full, \"Billie Jean\"-era sparkle-glove status, but close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's review where the various Infinity Stones were the last time we saw them — and what they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Space Stone \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AKA:\u003c/strong> The Tesseract\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103098 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/uyj-800x441.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/uyj-800x441.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/uyj-160x88.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/uyj-768x423.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/uyj-240x132.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/uyj-375x207.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/uyj-520x287.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/uyj.png 820w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Tesseract: handle with care. (Marvel Studios)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Looks Like:\u003c/strong> When first glimpsed in \u003cem>Captain America: The First Avenger \u003c/em>(2011), a glowing blue cube. (The cube is just a housing that allows the glowy blue stone inside to be handled by us lowly humans.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Does: \u003c/strong>Opens wormholes in space, making possible instantaneous travel between any two points in the universe. Also has undetermined (read: hazily defined) power to develop weaponry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transporting is what the eeeevil Red Skull did with it in\u003cem> Captain America: The First Avenger.\u003c/em> It was later recovered by S.H.I.E.L.D., which lost it when Loki absconded with it in \u003cem>The Avengers\u003c/em> (2012) and used it to open a wormhole above Manhattan through which an alien army attacked Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where It Is Now: \u003c/strong>It spent some time in Asgard's armory, but at the end of \u003cem>Thor: Ragnarok \u003c/em>(2017), it was stolen by Loki. (At the very end of \u003cem>Thor: Ragnarok\u003c/em>, the spaceship Thor and Loki were flying was intercepted by what was very likely Thanos' ship. So if you're taking bets, the Space Stone is likely one of the first Infinity Stones we'll see Thanos add to his collection.)\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Mind Stone\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AKA:\u003c/strong> The Scepter\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103099 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/vision-avengers-paperwork.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/vision-avengers-paperwork.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/vision-avengers-paperwork-160x93.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/vision-avengers-paperwork-240x140.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/vision-avengers-paperwork-375x218.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/vision-avengers-paperwork-520x302.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vision and the Mind (forehead?) Stone. (Marvel Studios)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Looks Like:\u003c/strong> At first, in \u003cem>The Avengers\u003c/em>, a scepter housing a glowy blue gem. Nowadays, a yellow gem (long story) embedded in the forehead of Vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Does: \u003c/strong>Oh, a lot of stuff. In its Scepter mode, it granted Loki zappy powers and the ability to manipulate minds, and its mere presence made the Avengers more snippy than baseline. In its current mode (as of 2015's \u003cem>Avengers: Age of Ultron\u003c/em>, it grants Vision the ability to ... do lots of stuff, including phase through matter, fly, zap others with energy beams and, you know ... live.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where It Is Now: \u003c/strong>Doing time on Vision's forehead. But the trailers suggest this will not be a permanent condition. Look for Vision to get blurry.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Reality Stone\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AKA\u003c/strong>: The Aether\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103100\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103100 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/4123370.jpg-r_1280_720-f_jpg-q_x-xxyxx-800x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/4123370.jpg-r_1280_720-f_jpg-q_x-xxyxx.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/4123370.jpg-r_1280_720-f_jpg-q_x-xxyxx-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/4123370.jpg-r_1280_720-f_jpg-q_x-xxyxx-768x458.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/4123370.jpg-r_1280_720-f_jpg-q_x-xxyxx-240x143.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/4123370.jpg-r_1280_720-f_jpg-q_x-xxyxx-375x224.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/4123370.jpg-r_1280_720-f_jpg-q_x-xxyxx-520x310.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aether. Like the elevator scene in 'The Shining' but different. (Marvel Studios)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Looks Like: \u003c/strong>Not like a stone, for one thing. Instead, it's a thick, red liquid that sends out tendrils that undulate in a cinematically creepy way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Does\u003c/strong>: Look, it's OK. You didn't see \u003cem>Thor: The Dark World \u003c/em>(2013). A lot of people didn't. So you didn't see the Reality Stone (in the form of the Aether) take over the body of Thor's girlfriend, Jane Foster, allowing her to send out shock waves and... whatnot. As its name suggests, the Reality Stone alters reality, by converting matter to dark matter. Don't bother asking why that's a thing. Doesn't matter. Lots of people didn't see \u003cem>Thor: The Dark World\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where It Is Now: \u003c/strong>For safekeeping, it was given to an ancient being who collects lots of stuff. His name, appropriately enough, is the Collector. (He is played by Benicio del Toro in \u003cem>Thor: The Dark World\u003c/em>, and his character is the brother of Jeff Goldblum's Grandmaster from \u003cem>Thor: Ragnarok.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that not a lot of people saw \u003cem>Thor: The Dark World\u003c/em>, I'd wager we won't get a big protracted scene of Thanos hunting down and claiming the Reality Stone, and \u003cem>Infinity War\u003c/em> will simply cut to the (end of the) chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Power Stone\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AKA:\u003c/strong> The Orb\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103101\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103101 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/MCU-Phase-2-1024x518-820x381-800x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/MCU-Phase-2-1024x518-820x381-800x372.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/MCU-Phase-2-1024x518-820x381-160x74.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/MCU-Phase-2-1024x518-820x381-768x357.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/MCU-Phase-2-1024x518-820x381-240x112.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/MCU-Phase-2-1024x518-820x381-375x174.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/MCU-Phase-2-1024x518-820x381-520x242.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/MCU-Phase-2-1024x518-820x381.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It's got the power! (Marvel Studios)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Looks Like: \u003c/strong>When we first see it, at the beginning of \u003cem>Guardians of the Galaxy\u003c/em> (2014), it's encased in a silver spherical rock-thing. Later, the Orb is split open and the stone inside is grafted onto a bad guy's space-hammer and given the awesomely ridiculous name of Cosmi-Rod. Once the bad guy is defeated \u003cem>through the power of dance\u003c/em>, the Stone is returned to another Orb-casing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Does:\u003c/strong> Grants... power? Look, I know, the specific abilities of the various stones seem kind of frustratingly all over the place, but this one's legit. It makes its wielder more powerful — better, stronger, more zappy. You know: energy blasts and energy tornadoes and energy waves and energy bars. (No, OK, not that last one.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where It Is Now:\u003c/strong> Benicio del Toro's Collector character nearly added it to his collection, but it sent out a massive energy blast, as is its zappy wont, that destroyed most of his menagerie. It ended up in hands of the Nova Corps — basically the Marvel Universe's resident space-cops, run by Glenn Close in a complicated wig — and there it will stay, until it won't.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Time Stone \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AKA: \u003c/strong>The Eye of Agamotto\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103102\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 477px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103102 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/main-qimg-f2a5d284b0c3b0cb704e008710898ca7-c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/main-qimg-f2a5d284b0c3b0cb704e008710898ca7-c.jpg 477w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/main-qimg-f2a5d284b0c3b0cb704e008710898ca7-c-160x75.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/main-qimg-f2a5d284b0c3b0cb704e008710898ca7-c-240x112.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/main-qimg-f2a5d284b0c3b0cb704e008710898ca7-c-375x175.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Time Stone: simple, precise, clean and green. (Marvel Studios)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Looks Like: \u003c/strong>First (and only) seen in \u003cem>Doctor Strange\u003c/em> (2016), it's a glowy green gem housed inside an amulet embossed with an eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Does:\u003c/strong> Finally, some specificity! Some truth in advertising! The Time Stone allows its wielder to control time — to speed it up, slow it down, reverse it or create time loops. See, there, Marvel? Simple. Precise. Clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where It Is Now:\u003c/strong> Hanging around Doctor Stephen Strange's neck, right under his dumb goatee.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Soul Stone\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AKA\u003c/strong>: ?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103103\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103103 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/svcnojwrsqwcrqhwrjqz-800x450.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/svcnojwrsqwcrqhwrjqz.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/svcnojwrsqwcrqhwrjqz-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/svcnojwrsqwcrqhwrjqz-768x432.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/svcnojwrsqwcrqhwrjqz-240x135.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/svcnojwrsqwcrqhwrjqz-375x211.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/04/svcnojwrsqwcrqhwrjqz-520x293.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Soul Stone: it's the big one. (Marvel Studios)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Looks Like:\u003c/strong> Again, ? It has yet to turn up in a Marvel movie, at least by that name. It's most likely an orange gem, the largest of them all, which fits on the back of the gauntlet — not, as the others do, on the fingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Does: \u003c/strong>In the comics, it grants its owner the ability to do lots of mystical things — trap souls in an artificial existence, see into a person's soul, etc. It's not known how closely the film will adhere to this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But given the fact that so much of the \u003cem>Infinity War\u003c/em> trailer is set in and around Wakanda — and the fact that the \"heart-shaped flower\" seen in \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em> grants the ability to commune with the dead — many have speculated that the Soul Stone will turn out to have something to do with vibranium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where It Is Now:\u003c/strong> Your guess is as good as any. Unless you guess, \"in Wakanda,\" in which case it's slightly better than most, probably.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Sharon Stone\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AKA: \u003c/strong>Catherine Tramell, Ginger McKenna, Iris Burton\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Looks Like\u003c/strong>: A human woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Does\u003c/strong>: Wears the Gap to the Oscars, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/article/best-oscar-looks-of-all-time.html\">famously\u003c/a>. And nowadays? Rocks the hell out of a \u003cem>Disaster Artist\u003c/em> cameo and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/01/sharon-stone-sexual-harassment-interview-hollywood\">gives a great interview\u003c/a> in a sweater to which \u003cem>attention must be paid\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where It Is Now:\u003c/strong> Not getting the work it deserves, HOLLYWOOD.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Slyandthefamily Stone \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AKA:\u003c/strong> Sly Stone, Freddie Stone, Rose Stone, Cynthia Robinson, Greg Errico, Jerry Martini, Larry Graham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Looks Like: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Deeply \u003c/em>groovy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Does:\u003c/strong> Effortlessly fuse rock, soul, funk and psychedelia into chart-topping, socially conscious pop anthems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where It Is Now: \u003c/strong>On the set list of every wedding DJ at or slightly after 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Coldcreamery Stone\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AKA\u003c/strong>: \"That place your Aunt Janice likes? With the slab? What's it called?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Looks Like:\u003c/strong> An ice cream store, duh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What It Does\u003c/strong>: Grants its wielder one unusually muscular forearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where It Is Now:\u003c/strong> 1,100 locations in the U.S. and abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Here%27s+What+You+Need+To+Know+About+Infinity+Stones+Before+The+New+Avengers+Movie&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/103095/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-infinity-stones-before-the-new-avengers-movie","authors":["byline_pop_103095"],"categories":["pop_51"],"tags":["pop_2889","pop_756"],"featImg":"pop_103096","label":"pop"},"pop_97733":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_97733","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"97733","score":null,"sort":[1512167199000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"angsty-teens-with-supervillain-parents-hulus-runaways-is-a-marvel-brightspot","title":"Angsty Teens With Supervillain Parents: Hulu's 'Runaways' is a Marvel Brightspot","publishDate":1512167199,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>The idea is so good, so simple, that it seems inevitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, superhero comics love teams of angsty teens. They love juicy villains. So when, in 2003, writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Adrian Alphona created the comic \u003cem>Runaways\u003c/em>, starring a group of angsty teens who discover, to their horror, that their parents are secretly super-villains, you could practically hear the sound of thousands of comics readers slapping their heads. (\"Why didn't \u003cem>I\u003c/em> think of that?\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that the comic was deliberately set in sunny Los Angeles, a continent away from the Marvel Universe's Manhattan, with its overbred population of costumed types, meant \u003cem>Runaways \u003c/em>was given room to breathe, and develop its own identity. Oh, crossovers happened, because that's the law, but they tended to happen at angles more oblique than the default beat-em-ups readers have come to expect — Spider-Man would show up to take the kids out for sushi, say, and offer some advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The L.A. setting also meant that the tone could get notably brighter than most of what was on the stands at the time — violent anti-heroes given to brooding on rooftops. Vaughan and Alphona never forgot that the kids at the book's center were, more than anything else, \u003cem>kids \u003c/em>-- they could sulk and seethe, sure, but they could also goof around and crush on one another, often in the span of a panel or two. What's more, these kids didn't wear costumes, they didn't come up with superhero codenames, or secret identities, or a rallying cry. \u003cem>Runaways \u003c/em>was too cool for that kind of stuff — even if it did feature a character who enjoyed a telepathic bond with a genetically engineered dinosaur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, when the first casting photos from Hulu's live-action \u003cem>Runaways \u003c/em>adaptation were released, fans of the series reacted with guarded optimism — they just \u003cem>looked \u003c/em>right. Granted, that's only step one — but one need only consider \u003cem>Marvel's Inhumans — \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2017/09/29/553704965/introducing-the-inept-inert-inhumans\">or better yet, don't \u003c/a>\u003cem>-- \u003c/em>to see how vitally important that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes made to the comic to turn it into an ongoing television show make sense, from a storytelling perspective. \u003cem>Runaways \u003c/em>the comic — particularly in its first story-arc — told a tight, spring-loaded tale: The kids discover their parents performing some kind of evil — and deadly — ritual, they confiscate some of their parents supervillain paraphernalia, and... they run away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plyJQG-nRN0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hulu series, on the other hand, spends much more time than the comic ever did on the parents' stories — their varying backgrounds, motivations, personalities, rivalries and hook-ups — in a dogged attempt to present them as something more than mustache-twirlers. It's admirable, though the surfeit of subplots does tend to gum up the main plot — some viewers will reach the end of the first episode only to realize they still don't have a handle on what this show is \u003cem>about\u003c/em>. (Slight spoiler here: By the end of the fourth episode, the kids still haven't fulfilled the promise of the show's title; it's possible they never will.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The showrunners have decided to goose the show's tension by introducing several mysteries the comic never bothered with — a dead sister here, a wizened, bedridden figure set up in an overlit suite from the end of \u003cem>2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c/em> there — and, as yet, it's tough to see what they're adding to the mix. They're clearly there to ensure there's enough fodder to keep everything moving along, given that one of the factors that made the comic so fun — those out-of-nowhere Marvel hero cameos — are not likely to figure in the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the performances are interesting — as a charismatic but cold Marianne Williamson-type church leader, Annie Wersching can pop the hell out of skeptical eyebrow, and James Marsters lets us see the desperation behind his character's mask of contempt. The kids are strong, too — as de facto team leader Alex, Rhenzy Feliz is nerdy but not cartoonishly so, and nails the character's all-important propensity for critical self-appraisal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The special effects are unshowy, in an attempt to keep things grounded — or at least as grounded as things can get, when a telepathic dinosaur figures in the festivities. And the dialogue, mercifully, doesn't suffer from Superhero Television's damnable tendency to speak in Abstract Nouns like \"Power\" \"Evil\" and (sigh) \"This City.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Runaways,\u003c/em> the comic and the television series, are both built on the same, solid premise: What if your parents were actually as evil as you convinced yourself they were, when you were a teenager? The show's decision to flesh out the parents — to depict them as filled with doubt, and even compassion — risks robbing the story of some of its simple power. But it also provides a means for laying track for a second season, and a third. Given the potential glimpsed in this first handful of episodes, that seems like a worthy bet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Runaways%27+Finds+A+Sunny+Corner+Of+The+Marvel+Universe+%E2%80%94+And+Stays+There+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The new Hulu show fleshes out the villains of the entertaining comic book and avoids genre cliches.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1512023276,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":881},"headData":{"title":"Angsty Teens With Supervillain Parents: Hulu's 'Runaways' is a Marvel Brightspot | KQED","description":"The new Hulu show fleshes out the villains of the entertaining comic book and avoids genre cliches.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Angsty Teens With Supervillain Parents: Hulu's 'Runaways' is a Marvel Brightspot","datePublished":"2017-12-01T22:26:39.000Z","dateModified":"2017-11-30T06:27:56.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"97733 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=97733","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/12/01/angsty-teens-with-supervillain-parents-hulus-runaways-is-a-marvel-brightspot/","disqusTitle":"Angsty Teens With Supervillain Parents: Hulu's 'Runaways' is a Marvel Brightspot","nprImageCredit":"Paul Sarkis","nprByline":"Glen Weldon","nprImageAgency":"Hulu","nprStoryId":"565434505","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=565434505&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2017/11/21/565434505/runaways-finds-a-sunny-corner-of-the-marvel-universe-and-stays-there?ft=nprml&f=565434505","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:22:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 21 Nov 2017 06:00:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:22:02 -0500","path":"/pop/97733/angsty-teens-with-supervillain-parents-hulus-runaways-is-a-marvel-brightspot","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The idea is so good, so simple, that it seems inevitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, superhero comics love teams of angsty teens. They love juicy villains. So when, in 2003, writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Adrian Alphona created the comic \u003cem>Runaways\u003c/em>, starring a group of angsty teens who discover, to their horror, that their parents are secretly super-villains, you could practically hear the sound of thousands of comics readers slapping their heads. (\"Why didn't \u003cem>I\u003c/em> think of that?\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that the comic was deliberately set in sunny Los Angeles, a continent away from the Marvel Universe's Manhattan, with its overbred population of costumed types, meant \u003cem>Runaways \u003c/em>was given room to breathe, and develop its own identity. Oh, crossovers happened, because that's the law, but they tended to happen at angles more oblique than the default beat-em-ups readers have come to expect — Spider-Man would show up to take the kids out for sushi, say, and offer some advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The L.A. setting also meant that the tone could get notably brighter than most of what was on the stands at the time — violent anti-heroes given to brooding on rooftops. Vaughan and Alphona never forgot that the kids at the book's center were, more than anything else, \u003cem>kids \u003c/em>-- they could sulk and seethe, sure, but they could also goof around and crush on one another, often in the span of a panel or two. What's more, these kids didn't wear costumes, they didn't come up with superhero codenames, or secret identities, or a rallying cry. \u003cem>Runaways \u003c/em>was too cool for that kind of stuff — even if it did feature a character who enjoyed a telepathic bond with a genetically engineered dinosaur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, when the first casting photos from Hulu's live-action \u003cem>Runaways \u003c/em>adaptation were released, fans of the series reacted with guarded optimism — they just \u003cem>looked \u003c/em>right. Granted, that's only step one — but one need only consider \u003cem>Marvel's Inhumans — \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2017/09/29/553704965/introducing-the-inept-inert-inhumans\">or better yet, don't \u003c/a>\u003cem>-- \u003c/em>to see how vitally important that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes made to the comic to turn it into an ongoing television show make sense, from a storytelling perspective. \u003cem>Runaways \u003c/em>the comic — particularly in its first story-arc — told a tight, spring-loaded tale: The kids discover their parents performing some kind of evil — and deadly — ritual, they confiscate some of their parents supervillain paraphernalia, and... they run away.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/plyJQG-nRN0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/plyJQG-nRN0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The Hulu series, on the other hand, spends much more time than the comic ever did on the parents' stories — their varying backgrounds, motivations, personalities, rivalries and hook-ups — in a dogged attempt to present them as something more than mustache-twirlers. It's admirable, though the surfeit of subplots does tend to gum up the main plot — some viewers will reach the end of the first episode only to realize they still don't have a handle on what this show is \u003cem>about\u003c/em>. (Slight spoiler here: By the end of the fourth episode, the kids still haven't fulfilled the promise of the show's title; it's possible they never will.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The showrunners have decided to goose the show's tension by introducing several mysteries the comic never bothered with — a dead sister here, a wizened, bedridden figure set up in an overlit suite from the end of \u003cem>2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c/em> there — and, as yet, it's tough to see what they're adding to the mix. They're clearly there to ensure there's enough fodder to keep everything moving along, given that one of the factors that made the comic so fun — those out-of-nowhere Marvel hero cameos — are not likely to figure in the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the performances are interesting — as a charismatic but cold Marianne Williamson-type church leader, Annie Wersching can pop the hell out of skeptical eyebrow, and James Marsters lets us see the desperation behind his character's mask of contempt. The kids are strong, too — as de facto team leader Alex, Rhenzy Feliz is nerdy but not cartoonishly so, and nails the character's all-important propensity for critical self-appraisal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The special effects are unshowy, in an attempt to keep things grounded — or at least as grounded as things can get, when a telepathic dinosaur figures in the festivities. And the dialogue, mercifully, doesn't suffer from Superhero Television's damnable tendency to speak in Abstract Nouns like \"Power\" \"Evil\" and (sigh) \"This City.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Runaways,\u003c/em> the comic and the television series, are both built on the same, solid premise: What if your parents were actually as evil as you convinced yourself they were, when you were a teenager? The show's decision to flesh out the parents — to depict them as filled with doubt, and even compassion — risks robbing the story of some of its simple power. But it also provides a means for laying track for a second season, and a third. Given the potential glimpsed in this first handful of episodes, that seems like a worthy bet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Runaways%27+Finds+A+Sunny+Corner+Of+The+Marvel+Universe+%E2%80%94+And+Stays+There+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/97733/angsty-teens-with-supervillain-parents-hulus-runaways-is-a-marvel-brightspot","authors":["byline_pop_97733"],"categories":["pop_3"],"tags":["pop_2889","pop_533","pop_756"],"featImg":"pop_97734","label":"pop"},"pop_97277":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_97277","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"97277","score":null,"sort":[1509980405000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"my-friend-dahmer-offers-a-surprising-new-take-on-serial-killer-movies","title":"'My Friend Dahmer' Offers a Surprising New Take on Serial Killer Movies","publishDate":1509980405,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>We always want to know where evil comes from, even though the \"answer\" rarely solves anything. Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered, sodomized and brutally dismembered the bodies of 17 young men between 1978 and 1991, came from the same Midwestern middle-class background as many Americans. He had a family and went to public school. His classmates knew who he was, and some came over to his house. In the end, none of that really explains his compulsions, which seemed to arise from some level of personal darkness most of us never have access to. Instead, these details explain our ability to reckon with Dahmer as one of our own, a fellow member of the human race instead of an otherworldly monster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's okay if trying to peek inside the mind of a gruesome killer feels icky and wrong. Our entertainment media's worst instincts tend to come out around figures like Dahmer; it's churned out countless shock-value dramas around the \u003cem>Dateline\u003c/em> predator-of-the-week. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2291540/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>My Friend Dahmer\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, based on the acclaimed \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/My-Friend-Dahmer-Derf-Backderf/dp/1419702173/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509955371&sr=1-1&keywords=my+friend+dahmer\">graphic memoir\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://www.derfcity.com\">Derf Backderf\u003c/a>, is something different. It's a nuanced and sad high school movie, a portrait of lonely, damaged youth that only gradually reveals itself as the origin story of a psychopath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmnuC7tn9D4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backderf, who attended the same Ohio high school as the serial murderer, began drawing comics about his memories of Dahmer shortly after news of his former classmate's crimes became public in 1991, and published a full-length book in 2012 after years of his Dahmer stories circled the underground scene. It's a fascinating document. The future alt-comics star was, from the looks of things, one of Dahmer's only friends — though \"friend\" in the title is a loose term, since Dahmer often was more of a pet monkey, amusing Backderf and his buddies with public antics that seem just this side of sane. You can read a good amount of residual guilt into Backderf's perspective, the way he interrogates himself for pushing a mean-spirited sense of humor that may have warped Dahmer's views on social life. (It says something that the first time Dahmer earns respect from his peers, he does so by mocking a man with cerebral palsy.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the film, Jeffrey is played by Disney Channel star \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3515425/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">Ross Lynch\u003c/a> in a brilliantly unnerving performance. Hidden under a thick head of hair and wide-rimmed glasses, he's never quite sure what \"normal\" behavior looks like: He knows only that he enjoys dissolving dead animals in acid, courtesy of his chemist father (\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1316767/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Dallas Roberts\u003c/a>). When Jeffrey's dad forces him out of his woodshed in an effort to get him to socialize more, Jeffrey's solution is to start \"spazzing\" in the school halls, shaking his body violently and making animal yelping noises, in a way that's just appealing enough to the school's comedy oddball crowd. Derf (\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1842974/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Alex Wolff\u003c/a>) appoints himself president of the \"Dahmer Fan Club,\" and brings his new muse to libraries and shopping malls — perfect settings for \"doing a Dahmer,\" a.k.a., setting the freak loose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Considering that Dahmer murdered his first victim at age 18, the period just after \u003cem>My Friend Dahmer\u003c/em> is set, it's fair to say there was more to his teenage years than being the butt of some jokes. Director \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1836315/?ref_=fn_al_nm_5\">Marc Myers\u003c/a> does an admirable job painting his subject's deteriorating state of mind on a broad canvas. We get Jeffrey's pill-popping mother (a buzzing \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000162/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Anne Heche\u003c/a>) launching shouting matches on a daily basis; and his budding sexuality, expressed via his obsession over a muscular doctor (\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440229/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Vincent Kartheiser\u003c/a>) who jogs by his house \"every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.\" Yet Myers can't resist dropping some ghoulish breadcrumbs, either, as when Jeffrey's dad buys him some dumbbells in the hopes he'll land a girl with them (Dahmer would go on to subdue his first victim with a dumbbell). There may be some times when Easter eggs are not the best approach to a story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97280\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-97280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/81ism0GODHL-800x1238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1238\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/81ism0GODHL-800x1238.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/81ism0GODHL-160x248.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/81ism0GODHL-768x1188.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/81ism0GODHL-240x371.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/81ism0GODHL-375x580.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/81ism0GODHL-520x805.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/81ism0GODHL.jpg 941w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cover of Derf Backderf's original graphic novel.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filmed in the real Ohio locations where Dahmer grew up, including his actual childhood home, the movie still improbably dodges easy attempts to paint it as lurid-by-association. It is less pointed in its critique of the adults in Dahmer's life than Backderf's book, which asked over and over again why no one could see the warning signs, yet Myers does directly depict him realizing his own growing fascination with bones and guts — via quietly sinister shots of him cutting open a freshly caught fish and staring at a black classmate's bare chest, wondering if their insides look the same. Something is creeping in, even if it's not always clear what that is. One especially eerie scene toward the end has Dahmer shuffling home alone to an empty house at night, visible only from Derf's headlights as he drives by. The strange friend, now just a stranger... to Derf, and to all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Portrait+Of+The+Killer+As+A+Young+Man%3A+%27My+Friend+Dahmer%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The graphic-novel-turned-movie proves that serial killer stories don't have to be exploitative or icky.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1509956192,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":868},"headData":{"title":"'My Friend Dahmer' Offers a Surprising New Take on Serial Killer Movies | KQED","description":"The graphic-novel-turned-movie proves that serial killer stories don't have to be exploitative or icky.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"'My Friend Dahmer' Offers a Surprising New Take on Serial Killer Movies","datePublished":"2017-11-06T15:00:05.000Z","dateModified":"2017-11-06T08:16:32.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"97277 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=97277","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/11/06/my-friend-dahmer-offers-a-surprising-new-take-on-serial-killer-movies/","disqusTitle":"'My Friend Dahmer' Offers a Surprising New Take on Serial Killer Movies","nprByline":"Andrew Lapin","nprImageAgency":"FilmRise","nprStoryId":"560376370","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=560376370&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/2017/11/02/560376370/portrait-of-the-killer-as-a-young-man-my-friend-dahmer?ft=nprml&f=560376370","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:01:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:01:04 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:01:05 -0400","path":"/pop/97277/my-friend-dahmer-offers-a-surprising-new-take-on-serial-killer-movies","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>We always want to know where evil comes from, even though the \"answer\" rarely solves anything. Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered, sodomized and brutally dismembered the bodies of 17 young men between 1978 and 1991, came from the same Midwestern middle-class background as many Americans. He had a family and went to public school. His classmates knew who he was, and some came over to his house. In the end, none of that really explains his compulsions, which seemed to arise from some level of personal darkness most of us never have access to. Instead, these details explain our ability to reckon with Dahmer as one of our own, a fellow member of the human race instead of an otherworldly monster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's okay if trying to peek inside the mind of a gruesome killer feels icky and wrong. Our entertainment media's worst instincts tend to come out around figures like Dahmer; it's churned out countless shock-value dramas around the \u003cem>Dateline\u003c/em> predator-of-the-week. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2291540/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>My Friend Dahmer\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, based on the acclaimed \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/My-Friend-Dahmer-Derf-Backderf/dp/1419702173/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509955371&sr=1-1&keywords=my+friend+dahmer\">graphic memoir\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://www.derfcity.com\">Derf Backderf\u003c/a>, is something different. It's a nuanced and sad high school movie, a portrait of lonely, damaged youth that only gradually reveals itself as the origin story of a psychopath.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/jmnuC7tn9D4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/jmnuC7tn9D4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Backderf, who attended the same Ohio high school as the serial murderer, began drawing comics about his memories of Dahmer shortly after news of his former classmate's crimes became public in 1991, and published a full-length book in 2012 after years of his Dahmer stories circled the underground scene. It's a fascinating document. The future alt-comics star was, from the looks of things, one of Dahmer's only friends — though \"friend\" in the title is a loose term, since Dahmer often was more of a pet monkey, amusing Backderf and his buddies with public antics that seem just this side of sane. You can read a good amount of residual guilt into Backderf's perspective, the way he interrogates himself for pushing a mean-spirited sense of humor that may have warped Dahmer's views on social life. (It says something that the first time Dahmer earns respect from his peers, he does so by mocking a man with cerebral palsy.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the film, Jeffrey is played by Disney Channel star \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3515425/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">Ross Lynch\u003c/a> in a brilliantly unnerving performance. Hidden under a thick head of hair and wide-rimmed glasses, he's never quite sure what \"normal\" behavior looks like: He knows only that he enjoys dissolving dead animals in acid, courtesy of his chemist father (\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1316767/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Dallas Roberts\u003c/a>). When Jeffrey's dad forces him out of his woodshed in an effort to get him to socialize more, Jeffrey's solution is to start \"spazzing\" in the school halls, shaking his body violently and making animal yelping noises, in a way that's just appealing enough to the school's comedy oddball crowd. Derf (\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1842974/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Alex Wolff\u003c/a>) appoints himself president of the \"Dahmer Fan Club,\" and brings his new muse to libraries and shopping malls — perfect settings for \"doing a Dahmer,\" a.k.a., setting the freak loose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Considering that Dahmer murdered his first victim at age 18, the period just after \u003cem>My Friend Dahmer\u003c/em> is set, it's fair to say there was more to his teenage years than being the butt of some jokes. Director \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1836315/?ref_=fn_al_nm_5\">Marc Myers\u003c/a> does an admirable job painting his subject's deteriorating state of mind on a broad canvas. We get Jeffrey's pill-popping mother (a buzzing \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000162/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Anne Heche\u003c/a>) launching shouting matches on a daily basis; and his budding sexuality, expressed via his obsession over a muscular doctor (\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440229/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Vincent Kartheiser\u003c/a>) who jogs by his house \"every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.\" Yet Myers can't resist dropping some ghoulish breadcrumbs, either, as when Jeffrey's dad buys him some dumbbells in the hopes he'll land a girl with them (Dahmer would go on to subdue his first victim with a dumbbell). There may be some times when Easter eggs are not the best approach to a story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97280\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-97280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/81ism0GODHL-800x1238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1238\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/81ism0GODHL-800x1238.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/81ism0GODHL-160x248.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/81ism0GODHL-768x1188.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/81ism0GODHL-240x371.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/81ism0GODHL-375x580.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/81ism0GODHL-520x805.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/81ism0GODHL.jpg 941w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cover of Derf Backderf's original graphic novel.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filmed in the real Ohio locations where Dahmer grew up, including his actual childhood home, the movie still improbably dodges easy attempts to paint it as lurid-by-association. It is less pointed in its critique of the adults in Dahmer's life than Backderf's book, which asked over and over again why no one could see the warning signs, yet Myers does directly depict him realizing his own growing fascination with bones and guts — via quietly sinister shots of him cutting open a freshly caught fish and staring at a black classmate's bare chest, wondering if their insides look the same. Something is creeping in, even if it's not always clear what that is. One especially eerie scene toward the end has Dahmer shuffling home alone to an empty house at night, visible only from Derf's headlights as he drives by. The strange friend, now just a stranger... to Derf, and to all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Portrait+Of+The+Killer+As+A+Young+Man%3A+%27My+Friend+Dahmer%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/97277/my-friend-dahmer-offers-a-surprising-new-take-on-serial-killer-movies","authors":["byline_pop_97277"],"categories":["pop_1548","pop_51"],"tags":["pop_2889","pop_966"],"featImg":"pop_97278","label":"pop"},"pop_47823":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_47823","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"47823","score":null,"sort":[1479304916000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"prince-of-cats-melds-comics-hip-hop-and-shakespeare","title":"'Prince Of Cats' Melds Comics, Hip-Hop And Shakespeare","publishDate":1479304916,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's note: We identified \u003c/em>Slave Punk\u003cem> and \u003c/em>Sunset Park \u003cem>as already published; they were announced in 2015 but are not yet out.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonstop, jittery energy seems to rattle every panel of \u003cem>Prince of Cats\u003c/em>, Ronald Wimberly's Shakespearean street tale. Few artists can strike the kind of sparks that electrify these pages, and yet Wimberly's powerful draftsmanship is only one aspect of a head-to-toe remarkable book. Focusing on Tybalt, the \"Prince of Cats\" in \u003cem>Romeo and Juliet\u003c/em>, Wimberly conjures a distinctive vision of the early '80s in the inner city. First published in 2012 by DC/Vertigo, \u003cem>Prince of Cats\u003c/em> went out of print and has been more-or-less unavailable ever since. Now Image Comics is releasing it in hardcover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wimberley, whose other Image projects include \u003cem>Slave Punk\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Sunset Park\u003c/em> — unabashedly demands recognition with this nervy work\u003cem>. Prince of Cats\u003c/em> is packed with allusions: to Greek myth and Japanese folklore, \u003cem>The Warriors\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,\u003c/em> video games and action movies and the '80s art scene. Of course, the most significant of Wimberly's grab bag of references is the Bard himself. Wimberly's characters all speak in a mix of high-flown poetry and gritty, down-to-earth images — just as Shakespeare's characters did. Here, Juliet describes the scene from atop a Coney Island Ferris wheel:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Look, Tybalt, the shimmering\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>window show. When evening\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>swallows Apollo's light The yellow\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>lamps and blue TV glow doth\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>the projects Milky Way ignite.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Wimberly is hardly the first to make a connection between comics and hip hop culture. In the 1980s, both Marvel and DC Comics incorporated rapping characters into some of their books. In the early '90s, Marvel published books about KRS-One and Onyx and a nine-issue series starring Kid 'n Play. Other artists who've appeared in comics include Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, Eminem and Run-DMC's Darryl McDaniels — the latter of whom launched his own comics company in 2014. Ed Piskor's series \u003cem>Hip Hop Family Tree\u003c/em> has already become a classic. And in October Marvel issued a hardcover collection of more than 70 hip hop-themed covers by such artists as Adam Hughes, Tim Bradstreet and Brian Stelfreeze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wimberly is out to do something more than just combine elements from two compatible genres. He's clearly aiming to translate the mechanics of hip hop composition into a visual form. In \u003cem>Prince of Cats'\u003c/em> introduction, University of California media professor John Jennings calls Wimberly a \"See-Jay:\" Wielding his pen the way a DJ mixes, he mashes up wildly diverse elements into a fresh creation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wimberly's rhymes tend to have a rough, jazzy rhythm that offsets their formality. Commenting on his friends' fighting abilities, one character says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Petruchio's sword game was gutter born,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top form, yet Romeo delivered his fall. And\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>while you starched and pressed your school uniform,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petruchio uniformly pressed Montague to the wall.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Wimberly's perhaps at his cleverest when he repurposes Shakespeare's original lines to fit an African American context. \"What, dost thou make us minstrels?\" one character demands angrily. \"And thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but discords.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His method has its successes and failures, but the sheer fun of his concept — and that vigorous, sparky artwork — make the latter mostly insignificant. As in Shakespeare, the poetry sometimes obscures what's going on. The narrative doesn't have a lot of pull; even when the characters duel bloodily with samurai swords (That's the kind of world this is: The homeboys fight with Japanese weaponry) there isn't a sense of urgency. At least, not until the grim conclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But much of Wimberly's tale is purely delightful — as with one character's paean to an ice-cream truck:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When heat doth bind gelled sandal to sidewalk, listen —\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For song that parts summer's writhing miasma\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And calls forth God's wandering children\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the chariot of Mr. Soft-e.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Not many comic artists have as much fun with words as they do with lines. But Wimberly clearly relishes the opportunity to stretch in different directions at once. The heart of \u003cem>Prince of Cats\u003c/em> might well be a single, short sentence midway through the book. A graffiti artist is surveying his latest rooftop creation, a tag of dazzling complexity, the ultimate melding of image and sign. \"See,\" he remarks, \"a man caught in words can live forever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Prince+Of+Cats%27+Melds+Comics%2C+Hip-Hop+And+Shakespeare&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Ron Wimberly's energetic re-working of \u003cem>Romeo and Juliet\u003c/em> focuses on Tybalt, the \"Prince of Cats.\" It mashes up wildly diverse elements into a fresh creation, the visual equivalent of a DJ's mix.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1479250301,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":765},"headData":{"title":"'Prince Of Cats' Melds Comics, Hip-Hop And Shakespeare | KQED","description":"Ron Wimberly's energetic re-working of Romeo and Juliet focuses on Tybalt, the "Prince of Cats." 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Few artists can strike the kind of sparks that electrify these pages, and yet Wimberly's powerful draftsmanship is only one aspect of a head-to-toe remarkable book. Focusing on Tybalt, the \"Prince of Cats\" in \u003cem>Romeo and Juliet\u003c/em>, Wimberly conjures a distinctive vision of the early '80s in the inner city. First published in 2012 by DC/Vertigo, \u003cem>Prince of Cats\u003c/em> went out of print and has been more-or-less unavailable ever since. Now Image Comics is releasing it in hardcover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wimberley, whose other Image projects include \u003cem>Slave Punk\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Sunset Park\u003c/em> — unabashedly demands recognition with this nervy work\u003cem>. Prince of Cats\u003c/em> is packed with allusions: to Greek myth and Japanese folklore, \u003cem>The Warriors\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,\u003c/em> video games and action movies and the '80s art scene. Of course, the most significant of Wimberly's grab bag of references is the Bard himself. Wimberly's characters all speak in a mix of high-flown poetry and gritty, down-to-earth images — just as Shakespeare's characters did. Here, Juliet describes the scene from atop a Coney Island Ferris wheel:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Look, Tybalt, the shimmering\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>window show. When evening\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>swallows Apollo's light The yellow\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>lamps and blue TV glow doth\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>the projects Milky Way ignite.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Wimberly is hardly the first to make a connection between comics and hip hop culture. In the 1980s, both Marvel and DC Comics incorporated rapping characters into some of their books. In the early '90s, Marvel published books about KRS-One and Onyx and a nine-issue series starring Kid 'n Play. Other artists who've appeared in comics include Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, Eminem and Run-DMC's Darryl McDaniels — the latter of whom launched his own comics company in 2014. Ed Piskor's series \u003cem>Hip Hop Family Tree\u003c/em> has already become a classic. And in October Marvel issued a hardcover collection of more than 70 hip hop-themed covers by such artists as Adam Hughes, Tim Bradstreet and Brian Stelfreeze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wimberly is out to do something more than just combine elements from two compatible genres. He's clearly aiming to translate the mechanics of hip hop composition into a visual form. 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And\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>while you starched and pressed your school uniform,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petruchio uniformly pressed Montague to the wall.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Wimberly's perhaps at his cleverest when he repurposes Shakespeare's original lines to fit an African American context. \"What, dost thou make us minstrels?\" one character demands angrily. \"And thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but discords.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His method has its successes and failures, but the sheer fun of his concept — and that vigorous, sparky artwork — make the latter mostly insignificant. As in Shakespeare, the poetry sometimes obscures what's going on. The narrative doesn't have a lot of pull; even when the characters duel bloodily with samurai swords (That's the kind of world this is: The homeboys fight with Japanese weaponry) there isn't a sense of urgency. At least, not until the grim conclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But much of Wimberly's tale is purely delightful — as with one character's paean to an ice-cream truck:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When heat doth bind gelled sandal to sidewalk, listen —\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For song that parts summer's writhing miasma\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And calls forth God's wandering children\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the chariot of Mr. Soft-e.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Not many comic artists have as much fun with words as they do with lines. But Wimberly clearly relishes the opportunity to stretch in different directions at once. The heart of \u003cem>Prince of Cats\u003c/em> might well be a single, short sentence midway through the book. A graffiti artist is surveying his latest rooftop creation, a tag of dazzling complexity, the ultimate melding of image and sign. \"See,\" he remarks, \"a man caught in words can live forever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Prince+Of+Cats%27+Melds+Comics%2C+Hip-Hop+And+Shakespeare&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/47823/prince-of-cats-melds-comics-hip-hop-and-shakespeare","authors":["byline_pop_47823"],"categories":["pop_1537","pop_1548"],"tags":["pop_2889","pop_965"],"featImg":"pop_47826","label":"pop"},"pop_31346":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_31346","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"31346","score":null,"sort":[1469564936000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"get-excited-wonder-woman-and-captain-marvel-are-about-to-save-the-day","title":"Get Excited: Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel Are About to Save the Day","publishDate":1469564936,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>A little over a year ago, comic book-loving women all over the country sat down to watch the first trailers for CBS's brand-new \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbs.com/shows/supergirl/\">\u003cem>Supergirl\u003c/em>\u003c/a> series, only to find themselves filled with what can only be described as Hulk-levels of rage. Here was \u003ca href=\"http://www.dccomics.com/characters/supergirl\">Kara Zor-El\u003c/a>, a character easily as strong as her cousin Superman, reduced to a nervous, giggling office underling consumed with thoughts of cute guys and wardrobe dilemmas, instead of, oh, you know, flying and saving people and setting fire to things using her goddamn EYES.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a huge disappointment that came just a couple of weeks after \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em> and Scarlett Johansson had brilliantly skewered sexist double standards for female comic book heroes in Hollywood, via a skit that stuck Black Widow in a rom-com. The skit was so on point, one can't help but wonder if someone at NBC got access to the \u003cem>Supergirl\u003c/em> trailer before it was released and copied it almost shot for shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compare and contrast:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_5KgpN38hM]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zmji_ioFXc]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time it felt like confirmation that women in comic books were simply never going to get their due on screen -- whether in movies or on TV. Then last week, a couple of truly amazing things emerged from this year's San Diego Comic Con. The first was this little slice of character-faithful, Amazonian baddassery:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lGoQhFb4NM]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(It's okay. Take a moment to catch your breath. We know. It's awesome.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second was the news that the rather magnificent Brie Larson is going to be playing Captain Marvel. That's right, folks: the same comic book giant that has steadfastly refused to give Black Widow (or any other woman) her own movie just decided that the Captain Marvel of their new project would be female.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For context, in the Marvel Universe, four out of the six Captain Marvel incarnations have been male, and the Carol Danvers character only graduated to the title of Captain Marvel three years ago, having spent the preceding 40 years with the moniker Ms. Marvel. Sure, we have to wait until 2019 to see this thing, but knowing it's happening at all is comforting for everyone who's been desperate to see Marvel do right by its female fans -- and characters -- for literally years now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marvel has apparently, finally, taken notice. The giant has been making several overdue efforts to level the playing field recently. After announcing the great feminist writer \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/books/black-panther-marvel-comics-roxane-gay-ta-nehisi-coates-wakanda.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Roxane Gay had been brought on to pen a new book for the \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em> series\u003c/a>, they closed last week's Comic Con in San Diego with the now-annual \"Women of Marvel\" panel, which shines a light on all Marvel women -- be they characters or behind the scenes -- while also seeking to empower women in the audience to work in the industry. This is, frankly, huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems that, finally, just when we'd all but given up hope, comic book giants are at last making an effort to tap into the section of their audience that has existed forever, but been woefully underrepresented on the big screen. 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