receive to the All - New , All - unlike Postal Apocalypse ! It ’s like nothing you ’ve ever seen before , unless you ’ve actually record my silly small postal service column before . I have a superhero sound doubtfulness that is go to blow your mind — earnestly ! — followed by The Force Awakens , Batman V. Superman , Game of Thrones and more !
The Webs in Your court of justice
Tom R. :
Postal worker of the far future !
I was wondering something the other day and realised you were the most dependent person I do it who could serve it ( interpret that as you wish ) .
If I was a random someone in ( say ) the Marvel creation , and I ( say ) sold a plaything with the alikeness of ( SAY ) Spider - Man … could he sue me ? Is there any possible way for Spider - Man to protect his ( extremely vendable ) trade name image ? manifestly he ’s never tried to sue the Bugle for libel , but that could be out of fearfulness for his task and ( I opine ) because he like most of the the great unwashed there .
Who owns the Trademark ( or IP or whatever ) on the various Marvel heroes in the Marvel universe ? ! In the MCU in Agents of Shield we see Avengers natural process physique . Does Stark Industries construct those ? How did Tony acquire the figure of speech rights to the other Avengers ? Do the others get a cut ? ! IMPORTANT inquiry ! !
By an odd coincidence , Ms. Postman is a lawyer by trade , and is friends with a great many other lawyers in my foreign , post - apocalyptical town ( which has bogus mailmen and lawyers , but not , say , blacksmith . Go pattern ) . When I ask your question to them , hoping to get a simple reception , they in reality cackled at my naiveté . flex out it was just a touch more complicated than I thought . But I did get the result , with the especially helpful assistance of one Carolyn H. give thanks you again , Carolyn !
So say you ’re a dude selling stinky , wholly unauthorized Spider - Man product in Times Square ( in the Marvel 616 - macrocosm ) . Spider - Man sees it and is peeved , rightfully so . The simplest thing to do would be to issue the Times Square Guy [ TSG ] a cease - and - desist varsity letter , which is usually prescribed enough to scare the pants off people and smaller companies . ( Actually , the easy matter for Spidey to do is to threaten to dumbfound TSG up if he does n’t stop , but that ’s a bite out of character . )
In order for Spider - Man to even need to sue Times Square Guy , TSQ would have to only resist to stop making unauthorized Spidey merchandise . But this means TSQ has to show up in court and basically claim “ Spider - Man say I could sell this dust ” , which is something TSQ can not even slightly prove . All Spider - Man would have to do to shut TSQ down is reveal he ’s Peter Parker , demonstrate that he ’s Spider - Man to the court ’s satisfaction , and denote TSG is lie . Boom . Done . Of naturally , this means that Spider - Man would need to reveal his hush-hush identity , and we all jazz how badly it goes for him when that befall .
So can Peter Parker quit Times Square Guy without reveal his name ? Yes and no . No , because literally Peter Parker does ask to corroborate his identity on some piece of paper , because otherwise anyone could show up in a Spider - Man costume and affect to be him . However , Parker can find a lawyer he trusts — presumably a fellow champion like Daredevil or She - Hulk — and prepare a variety of document :
1 ) One that fundamentally says “ My name is Peter Parker . I blaspheme under penalty of perjury that I am Spider - Man . Any sound natural action take on under the name Spider - Man are authorized by me , Peter Parker . ”
2 ) One that detail the rational property rights owned by Spider - Man , including earmark , copyrights , and publicity right , and explaining how they were first created .
3 ) One that grants to his lawyer full power of lawyer to act in Spider - Man ’s behalf .
And finally the lawyer would then throw these documents into a very prominent safe , and potential move the secure to the Negative Zone so supervillains ca n’t get their bridge player on them . At this point in time , the attorney can sue Times Square Guy into oblivion . And the lawyer could also entirely certify Spidey ’s stylemark rights to a troupe such as Stark Enterprises .
I get the feeling that Stark has had to go through this with the scads and dozens of heroes that have serve as Avengers over the years so many time that he ’s got a special attorney or law firm or legal philosophy robots specifically to lock these rights down for members — hell , possibly even potential penis . Again , She - Hulk or Daredevil would be required for any torpedo that wants to stay anon. , but finally Tony would get selling rights — and , just as significantly — forestall others from pulling stunned crap like Times Square Guy .
The Empire State
Max Rebo :
I do n’t know how too put this , but here pass away . In the original trilogy , and in all the books and stuff , Stormtroopers were always blank humanity . In The Force Awakens , there ’s a black Stormtropper and if the rumor are true at least one female Stormtrooper .
This modification bugs me , but NOT because I ’m a racist ( I cognise everyone who says that sounds like a racialist but here me out . ) The Empire only has white Isle of Man as Stormtrooper because they detest aliens and were sexist . It was part of what made them evil , and what made the Rebel Alliance commodity , because all sorts of alien were part of it . And a major part ! They had an alien for an Admiral !
I ’m all for diversity in world – - REALLY ! ! ! – but it seems uncanny that the Evil Empire has gotten more diverse over prison term . It just make them less vicious to me . Does this make sense ? Or am I on the QT a racialist ? I do n’t want to be a racist !
Do n’t occupy , Max Rebo ( which I ’m certain is your real name ) . I see what you ’re saying . racialism and sexism are malefic . The Empire is malefic . If the Empire has done aside with racial discrimination and sexism in The Force Awakens , does n’t that make them less evil ?
It might strike you as mistily disconcerting for the Rebels ( or whatever they ’re calling themselves in Episode VII ) to be attacking an entity that is technically amend , but I feel exceedingly surefooted that the Empire — or whatever remains of it — will be plenty evil even if they have instituted better hiring policies . I intend , they built not one but two space station adequate to of committing planetary race murder . No amount of work force variety makes up for mischievousness like that .
Besides , I ’m guessing — and I calculate the movie defecate a point in time to make this clear — that the Empire has been drive to be less choosy about its scout troop , because they ’ve suffer so many resources to the Rebels since RotJ. They have mastery of fewer planets , and thus are forcing whoever can retain a gun into the Imperial army to agitate their fight — include John Boyega . Because he does not calculate at all well-chosen to be serving the Empire in the poke .
What a List !
First of His Name :
What happened to Arya ’s list [ on Game of can ] ? In last hebdomad ’s episode she says the name The Mountain , Cersei , Walder Frey and Meryn Trant as the masses she ask to drink down . plain , Tywin and the Hound are dead as far as she fuck . But what happened to the others ? Where ’s Ilyn Payne , Melisandre , Beric and Thoros ? I ’m getting worried the show is already getting too off track from the books .
This is just the show skin itself down to a reasonable distance . Before you decry that its ruin the books , please remember GRRM has , essentially , an infinite amount of page to publish up everything he wants to happen . If the show puzzle to its guns and stick to seven seasons , we do n’t have much more that 25 hour of Game of Thrones TV to determine . And there ’s a ton of stuff that take to pass off in this time frame .
But watching Arya kill all eight or so people on her lean is not one of them . All we need to do is see her kill a few to get the point ( or the pointy end , as the sheath may be ) . I mean , if it derive down to watching Arya hunt down and vote down Joffrey ’s headman Ilyn Payne , or giving an extra 10 minute of screentime to the final battle with the White Walkers , we ’d all choose the White Walkers , good ?
As for why certain names have been removed while others have stayed , I reckon that showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have get along to the conclusion that Arya confluence back up with Melisandre and the Brotherhood with Borders is n’t go to fall out in the show ’s remaining timeframe . As for Ilyn Payne , I bet they acquire most GoT ’s non - nerdy audience has forgotten who Payne is , and could safely overlook him — and that leave him in might just confuse citizenry .
As for the names remaining , even if Arya wo n’t be kill them herself , they ’re obviously the 1 that Arya would most desire dead — Cersei and Walder Frey for betray the Starks , and the Mountain for the repulsion he inflicted at Harrenhal . Sir Meryn Trant is the exception — he ’s the beau who ( presumably ) killed Arya ’s swordfighting teacher Syrio Forel back in season one , but I think most audience appendage would have forgotten him entirely because he ’s such a minor character . So why does Arya remember ? Because Benioff and Weiss necessitate audiences to commend the theatrical role , too . If there ’s anyone on Arya ’s list that she ’s going to cross off herself , I think its give-up the ghost to be Trant .
Dark Side personal effects
Matt K. :
Recently we watched Star Wars Episodes IV , V and VI with our untested girl , who is seeing them for the first fourth dimension . Her refreshful reactions to all of it have caused me to vicariously see everything in the trilogy through unexampled eyes , especially what , for me , is the big payoff : the moment when Vader turn on the Emperor and shoot down him to save Luke , and at the cost of his own liveliness .
It ’s patently meant to elicit gasp and astonishment from the watcher , but then again , should it ? I love utilization of the Dark Side of the Force apparently corrupts you and makes you more uncoerced to harm others and overpower them to get your way , but are we reasonable to guess it might make you able to sit back and do nothing when another person , even a fellow Sith Lord , is torturing your shaver to expiry in front of you ?
True , Vader seemingly receive indecisiveness and it never occurs to the Emperor that Vader might intervene . Is this just extreme overconfidence on the Emperor ’s part , again ? Or does he have good reason to expect Vader ’s continued loyalty even if he ( the Emperor ) chooses to kill Vader ’s Logos in front of him ?
Well , in the Emperor ’s defence , Anakin / Darth Vader had a satisfying history of not just watching innocent children die , but polish off them himself . He kill those Tusken Raider babies in Attack of the Clones , and the endearing Jedi moppets in Revenge of the Sith . Additionally , Vader only latterly chance out he had a Word , and most of the clock time he and Luke spent together , they were generally campaign to the dying . But mainly , Vader has been serving the Dark Side in general and the Emperor in specific for like 20 + years at that point . It ’s not unreasonable to assume Vader would keep toe the companionship demarcation .
Last but not least , the Emperor is not only super - evil , he has no family ties . He in all likelihood could n’t even imagine the tycoon of the adhesion between a father and a kid , even an estranged father who tailor off his kid ’s hand with a laser - blade . I doubt Palpatine could even imagine Vader stag him — at least for Luke . For king ? Sure . But not for his Kyd .
Save ‘ Em For Later
Andre M. :
Hey Mr. Postman .
Just saw the Batman Vs Superman trailer . I saw it in the dramatic art , before a press screening of Avengers 2 here in Brazil .
That ill at ease silence after the “ you will ” part ? Yeah , here in Brazil we commonly go nuts after a long hold off funny - book movie trailer like this . Like , Comic Con nuts . But this one .. no one even show a reaction .
Well , anyway , I just receive amazing how firmly is to do a Superman moving-picture show without strongly bank on the religious symbolisation of the “ savior ” bod .
Will we ever have a Superman movie that ’s just a comic ledger / sci - fi movie ? Can it be done ?
It can be done . Easily . Please check out , uh , 99 % of all superman comedian and all non - Zack Snyder - directed Superman motion-picture show .
I ’m not say Superman ca n’t be used as a Jesus - y savior , I ’m just suppose Superman does more real economy than Jesus - ing . That is to say , he usually saves us because of his character and his heart and his superpowers , not through his misery and hurt and last .
Zack Snyder is really , really interested in go through Superman endure . Man of Steel is just two hours of moral anguish , where he has to determine if keep children from drowning is a good thing or not . But the new preview shows , BvS is kicking the religious symbolism into high gear . Who ’s idolise Superman as a god ? Who is getting so furious at the knuckleknobs who are worship Superman as a god that they ’re spray - painting mediocre statue of him ? Why does Batman not only want to fight Superman without approximate his design , but wants to verbally jeopardise him so he knows he ’s going to make Superman stand for the hubris of having superpowers ?
Seeing Batman and Superman finally fight back onscreen will be thrilling , no matter what . But I would love it significantly more if this scene would happen without Superman indulging in a massive messiah complex or Batman sounding like a playground yob .
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