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Whosoever holds this hammer lock, if they be worthy, shall possess the power tools of Thor.

I think most people will be worthy, considering how easy it is to unlock this lock shaped like the MCU version of Thor’s hammer.

Truth be told, I’d still find something to use it for.


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Hey Overwatch, can I copy your homework?

NetEase Games debuted a new trailer for Marvel Rivals during Sony’s State of Play. And while I know nobody can claim sole ownership over a 5v5 hero shooter, it’s getting really hard to ignore the Overwatch-ness of it all when all of the trailer’s action takes place in a techno-futuristic Japanese temple festooned with cherry blossoms. Maybe things will look different during the closed beta coming this July.


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Marvel’s What If...? Vision Pro mixed reality story will debut on May 30th.

Marvel says What If...?  An Immersive Story will have viewers (players?) casting spells, fighting battles with Marvel characters, and using the infinity stones. Judging from the trailer, that means making Doctor Strange’s magic sparks with your hands.

This edition of What If...? will be “free for a limited time” when the app is available on May 30th.


Daredevil will be born again next year.

While we still don’t know a lot about the upcoming Disney Plus reboot of Daredevil, we do at least have a release window: Marvel says the show will start streaming in March 2025.


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Ralph Ineson hungers.

After announcing the new live-action Fantastic Four leads, Marvel revealed that Julia Garner will play a new version of the Silver Surfer, now Deadline is reporting that they’ll all be beefing with Ralph Ineson’s Galactus when the movie hits theaters.


“The Tragedy Of Macbeth” European Premiere - 65th BFI London Film Festival
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X-Men ‘97 is about to become a Cable show.

Disney Plus is well on its way to becoming a cable channel, and the final trailer for X-Men ‘97 makes it feel like the series is going to be following suit given the Cable of it all.


To me, my Xbox.

Unfortunately this X-Men ‘97-themed Xbox is only available through a sweepstakes, which is disappointing since reading the comic book panels would be great for killing time while your controller updates.


An X-Men ‘97-themed Xbox console.
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The clock is ticking on Disney’s streaming strategy.

Today’s episode of Decoder is all about Disney, the massive activist investor revolt it just fought off, and what happens next in the world of streaming. Earlier this month, Disney survived an attempted board takeover from businessman Nelson Peltz. While investors overwhelmingly sided with Disney and CEO Bob Iger, the boardroom showdown made something very clear: Disney needs to figure out streaming and get its creative direction back on track. 

To help me better understand what’s happening here, I brought on my friend Julia Alexander, who is VP of strategy at Parrot Analytics, a Puck News news contributor, and, most importantly, a former Verge reporter. She’s a leading expert on all things Disney, and I always learn something important about the state of the entertainment business when I talk to her.


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TikTok’s trending topics list just punished me for not watching enough X-Men '97.

And so I’m warning you. If you haven’t watched X-Men '97’s fifth episode, take extra care with TikTok’s search function, as today, one of the trending topics’ names might spoil a big development for you (as it just did me).

Instead of tapping TikTok’s search icon, I’d suggest reading Charles’ interview with the show’s sound designers.


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Marvel Rivals’ remixed Asgard x Yggdrasill map looks perfect for tearing up.

Yggsgard, a fusion of Asgard and Yggdrasill, is just one of the destructible battlefields where Marvel Rivals’ characters will be duking it out when the game launches later this year. The map looks gorgeous in this new reveal video, but it also seems like the sort of place that’s going to be fun to blast apart.


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In a parallel universe, this would be my game of the year.

Unfortunately it’s not real. But the fictional arcade game The Rise of Jubilee from yesterday’s episode of X-Men ‘97 hit all the right nostalgic notes. If only it wasn’t so hard to find a Motendo to play it on.


Surf’s up.

Marvel confirmed the main actors for its Fantastic Four reboot at the beginning of the year, and now Deadline is reporting that another pivotal character has been cast, with Julia Garner as the Silver Surfer. Which means we can probably expect Galactus to make an appearance as well.


Julia Garner attends the 66th GRAMMY Awards Pre-GRAMMY Gala & GRAMMY Salute to Industry Icons Honoring Jon Platt at The Beverly Hilton on February 03, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California.
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Why the giant face?

This clip from the next X-Men ‘97 episode looks truly deranged. From the big Miyazaki-style face in the elevator to flying demons, this is shaping up to be one of the weirdest episodes of X-Men yet.

The full episode should be up on Disney Plus tomorrow.


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All of Sony’s live-action Spider-Man movies are swinging back into theaters.

You can easily watch most of Sony’s live-action Spider-Man movies on Disney Plus if the mood strikes you. But if you’ve been yearning to see Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland’s Peters Parker back on the big screen, you’ll have a shot at catching all eight of the past Spidey films in select theaters beginning April 15th.


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The cast of X-Men ‘97 want you to feel the hype.

It’s kind of telling how X-Men ‘97’s creator / showrunner Beau DeMayo isn’t featured in this new sizzle reel hyping up the show before its March 20th premiere, but the cast seems pretty excited to be back voicing their iconic roles.


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Ignore the “development game menu” in the latest update to Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.

The Spider-Man 2 update adding features like New Game Plus, time of day options, mission replay, and more, arrived today. But players quickly discovered something wasn’t right with version 1.002.000, which included a “development game menu” that wasn’t meant to be there. Players who poked around told Polygon they found cheats and more.

Insomniac Games later warned players not to tinker with the menu or risk corrupted saves. A hotfix is on the way.


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“If you build it great, they will come.”

At the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference in San Francisco, Disney CEO Bob Iger summarized his gameplan for Marvel and Disney movies to get more butts into theater seats, as reported by Deadline:

“A lot of people think it’s audience [superhero] fatigue. It’s not audience fatigue. They want great films. And if you build it great, they will come,” he said. He noted that has made nearly $30 billion from 33 films. “We got to return to something akin to that. And I actually am confident that we will.”

A string of bad superhero movies certainly isn’t helping, though, even if they aren’t all from Disney.


Madame Web is a love letter to the golden age of bad comic book movies

Sony’s Madame Web isn’t especially great or terrible, but it’s surprisingly committed to transporting you back to 2003 — a golden age for comic book movies that were aggressively mid or worse.