I choose to look at this way (because their way is likely to give me rage blackouts g):
It took Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman to earn that $166M for BvS, plus a couple of big name villains, an 'epic' dramallamadingdong superhero battle 'to the death', and a mishmash of Bats and Supes comic arcs. [PARADEMONS OMGS! I never thought I'd see the day... :D]
Wonder Woman earned $100M with her backstory. Not even a split second cameo from any of the big boys. [And I'm also choosing to believe that that was due to Patty's faith in Wonder Woman, and not the probably more likely interpretation of TPTB keeping their big boys away from the girly movie in case it flopped and tarnished their reputations.]
Thor earned $65.72M in 2011, and he came with LOKI.
Our girl done good. And I only had to wait 40+ years to see it.
So, anyone know when Black Widow gets her own movie? Anyone? Bueller?
Omg, Prey! Yes! So much still to tell in that universe. I loved the concept. And WotW S1 too. It was well setup and then S2 happened and...wtf? Why so crazy, WotW?
I was heartbroken by the ending of Prey. About 10 years later, I find out Vincent Ventresca went on to play the Invisible Man a couple of years after Prey ended, and actually got the IM people, completely unrelated production companies, to sign off on an opening sequence for S2E17 that had him breaking into a warehouse to find a man in a cage...and freeing him. And that man was actually played by Adam Storke (Tom Daniels). Even 10 years on, it was such a relief!
Just had to join in with the F&F love. I'm currently rereading my stash of Dom/Brian fics and still very clearly remember my intense scouring of the yahoo groups archive last year for every half-decent piece of fic i could find after being lured into the fandom.
I've never seen such a well-behaved yahoo group in my life! And the LJ is just as cheerful and supportive.
'defiantly' instead of 'definitely' always annoys me. I figured out years ago (after seeing it in fic SO DAMN OFTEN) that MSWord autocorrects 'definatly' to 'defiantly', so seeing it in fic makes me think 'If author didn't bother reading what they'd written, why should I?'
A lot of it comes down to prejudice and othering, I think.
Choose the subset(s) of your created peoples that (another subset of) the rest of society looks down upon, has prejudices about, or sees as substantially different from themselves, and build those differences into the humour of that subset.
Q: "How many Kreepits does it take to change a macguffin?"
A: "None. They'd get a Boopum to do it."
And you get to decide whether the Kreepits are stupid, or lazy, or too rich or rareified to do anything for themselves. And you get to decide if the Boopums are paid staff or servicepeople, slaves or caretakers, or even highly paid specialists trained in hazardous macguffin management. Choose your macguffin wisely. :D
Readers/viewers will recognise the format of the humour even if the basic ideas behind it aren't clearly articulated. Done correctly, it can provide cultural hints about the Kreepits, the Boopums, possibly the macguffins, but most especially the speaker(s) themselves. And you need to keep track of it all to keep it consistent throughout.
I think every culture/people has prejudices, assumptions, some form of othering. A lot of humour is based on an 'us and them' mentality, (even if it's as basic as who lives north or south of the river, whether you crack your egg open from the big end or the little end, etc etc) and 'they' will always be the butt of jokes and sly digs and deeply ingrained 'humour' that you pick up long before you reach adulthood and have any clue what's coming out of your mouth as you parrot it back to your elders.
And then you can make a Nightstroke movie and I can die happy. :D



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