Reminds me of Thor’s hammer.
D’oh! I’m a giant nerd in so many ways, but a complete comics noob. Thanks for the correction!
Although, in this movie, they made a big deal about how Superman specifically, out of all of the heroes, was an alien, so they presumably had some other origin for Hawkgirl.
I believe that Hawkgirl is Kendra Saunders, as I noted above, not Shayera Hol, the Silver Age Hawkgirl from Thanagar. (Similarly, the Hawkman in Black Adam doesn’t appear to be Katar Hol from Thanagar).
Well, yes, but anyone can use it. You dont have to be worthy.
That’s good news for me ; I would definitely be judged unworthy.
The text at the beginning said how the metahumans first appeared 300 years ago, but never said anything about how they appeared or where they came from. I just figured it was the same as all immigration: The first groups come and after generations get assimilated and become part of the culture and then the new immigrant comes and is now the dangerous alien.
But that’s with zero knowledge of the comics, so I don’t know if that was explained there.
My theory is that this refers to the Frankenstein monsters that featured in Gunn’s Creature Commandos.
Fun Fact: this exists. And the fact that Metamorpho is in the movie suggests they might be going there.
A few years ago, DC had a comic that was a deliberate homage to the Fantastic Four. The Terrifics: Mr. Terrific, Metamorpho, Plastic Man, and Phantom Girl.
Never read it, but it was reportedly really good.
They haven’t delved into the details, but they’ve said she’s a human reincarnation of a Thanagarian. So she’s probably still gonna be Shayera somehow.
ITYM, “Goddam Mr. Terrific”
Maybe it isn’t actually summer time in Metropolis. Maybe it’s Spring or Fall, in which case there could be daylight both in Metropolis and in Antarctica at the same time.
I don’t recall calendar dates being given on the events in the movie.
I really enjoyed the movie. It wasn’t perfect, but it had a nice mix of serious and comedic. All the following my opinion, of course, but while I wasn’t sure about Corenswet pulling off Kent/Supes but he did a very fine job. I liked the treatment of Lois Lane - very much independent and headstrong, but not taking wildly stupid/crazy risks as she does in some treatments. I was not all enthused about Guy, Hawkgirl, and Mr. Terrific but the were slotted in very well. I especially liked Mr. Terrific - can this guy have his own movie? I’m not sure of his entire power set here but brains are certainly at the top of the list.
One thing that did strike me is that all of the scenes in the trailer were included, but they were slotted into the movie in a different order/manner than I anticipated, which I found refreshing.
I like how they addressed the “Superman can’t be in two places at one time” problem.
I would like to see more in this version of the Superman/DC 'verse.
ETA: I also liked the very nerdy shout-out to fluoroantimonic acid. by Mr. Element. Dude must really know his chemistry.
Yikes! Did “Stuff I Won’t Work With” ever cover that stuff?
In college I knew of a friend of a friend who was working in a Chem lab using Hydrofluoric Acid which is a component of that acid. He didn’t know there was a pin hole in his glove and the acid seeped in and went through his skin and damaged his bones. His hand had to be amputated. Nasty stuff.
I just checked Derek Lowe’s blog and apparently not. Although others have.
It’s one of the nastiest chemicals out there. And which is commonly found in rust remover you can buy in a hardware store!
Back when I taught chemistry it was frequently utilized as an archetypal example of a weak acid (weak because it doesn’t dissociate completely in water) because its chemical formula is very simple: HF.
But to emphasize how dangerous it is, I used to give a copy of an article
From Discover magazine that is still available online:
I thought I’d share my shirt with the goodest boi:
I love that.
As I said above, I liked this movie (James Gunn has a magic touch with comic book=based movies), but one thing bothered me.
Lex Luthor and his cadre of control-room operators with their monitors and headsets (as if overseeing a NASA launch) are shouting instructions to The Hammer of Boravia/Ultraman by giving him the numbers of fighting moves they’ve worked out in advance.
This reminds me irresistably of the old Monogram studios Bowery Boys movies, where Leo Gorcey, as Terence Aloysius Montgomery “Slip” Mahoney, would shout out “routine number 9” (or whatever number) before the Boys would start whaling into the gangsters opposing them. It’s disconcerting when a a bald Master Criminal is using the same methods as a a malapropism-wielding gang leader from the Lower East Side.
The Bowery Boys gag comes from boxing where trainers had a number for every move which they would shout out to the fighter. Boxing is a sweat science and Lex is into science, ergo…