racefortheironthrone:

So Jameson is absolutely rude and gruff and penny-pinching, but it’s usually a sort of “bark is worse than his bite” sort of thing, and he ends up doing more generous for his employees anonymously because he likes being seen as a hardass. (For example, he always bought Peter’s photos, even though Peter’s actually not a very good photographer, because he knew that Peter was trying to support his Aunt May and work his way through school and he remembers what it was like starting out.)

He’s found out Peter Parker’s secret identity a couple different times, and his reaction varies. One time it literally gave him a heart attack, sometimes he gets pissed because there are journalistic ethics issues with Parker having covered himself for the Bugle, sometimes they have long arguments about accountability and vigilantism but ultimately come to understand one another, sometimes he and Peter find common ground about having lost loved ones, one time he decided to pay Peter’s way through college, and one time he saved Peter’s life.

It sort of depends on how the writer feels about JJJ, really.

racefortheironthrone:

This is something people have been asking for about as long as the character has existed. According to Brian Michael Bendis, the writer who co-created Miles and his supporting cast, it was an unintentional error; a family friend had been named Jefferson and he wanted to name a character after this friend and didn’t think about the historical figure of the same name. (Also, I think Bendis had started with the last name “Davis” b/c of the jazzman Miles Davis and then worked his way backwards from there.)

Now, in the comics, this issue has actually been solved pretty permanantly in a Doylist fashion by having Jeff choose to take his wife’s last name and have a conversation with Miles where he discussed his feelings of discomfort about the racist implications of his birth name, but also his previous reluctance to get rid of it because of family issues - which was also a good way of deftly addressing it from a Watsonian perspective.

racefortheironthrone:

As a huge fan of Excalibur, I am also a huge fan of Rachel Summers, who I would argue is not only a brilliant, tragic, resilient, hopeful character who seamlessly manages to exist within both sci-fi and high fantasy genres, but also the best of the Phoenix hosts. (Fight me, everyone who disagrees.)

I think we could see Rachel Summers in an adaptation…eventually. As much as I love the character, she’s not one who can be introduced right off the bat, because her backstory and core motivations are inextricably enmeshed with Days of Future Past and the (Dark) Phoenix Saga, and you need audiences to be invested in the alternate timelines and the Jean/Scott romance and the concept of the Phoenix as more than just an evil force for Rachel’s introduction to carry the weight that it’ll have to. So I’d say Rachel is a character who you’d want to introduce jumping timelines in the post-credits scene of the second movie so that she can be a main character in the third sort of thing.

In terms of actresses…I’m tempted to suggest someone from the wrestling world, because the casting sheet should call for a beautiful butch woman who’s tall, muscular but not bulky, willing to wear full-body fetish gear, can rock a mullet, and can really ham it up (Rachel tends to very extreme emotions). I’d say Rhea Ripley, but she was born to play Callisto so she’s already booked.