Super Heroes

As one of the few surviving heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe at the start of Avengers: Endgame, Black Widow goes on to play a central  role in the film. The character is a founding member of the MCU's Avengers and has been a prominent figure since 2010…

All signs point to a very different Marvel Cinematic Universe moving forward. By Rosie Knight Warning: Full spoilers for Avengers: Endgame follow. The Russo Brothers' Avengers: Endgame is the 22nd film in the blockbuster MCU franchise, a sprawling epic whi…

With the trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home, we have no been introduced to the cinematic equivalent of the Marvel Multiverse. Mysterio supposedly hails from an alternate Earth and crossed over to ours due to Thanos’ snap. Whether he’s truthful remains a qu…

Jay Maidment Now that we're all getting over Avengers: Endgame, Sony has released a new trailer for this summer's Spider-Man: Far From Home sequel. Now that Endgame's spoiler ban has lifted (according to the Russos at least), the trailer also seems to defini…

Superhero comics have always been a playground for the imagination, more so than any other creative medium. If you have a great idea for a dead character, there’s always a way to bring them back. If you have a great idea that shatters the laws of the natural …

With Conan the Barbarian now firmly reintegrated into the Marvel Universe, the Cimmerian warrior is poised to be a founding member of a dark, bloody incarnation of Marvel's premier super-team in Savage Avengers by Gerry Duggan and Mike Deodato, Jr. Picking up…

Tasha: So let’s be frank about this: we started having a version of this conversation a week ago when Julia said she was super into the Night King on Game of Thrones. We talked about her writing a piece about villain-lust, coming in part out of a Tumblr and p…

(Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: Avengers: Endgame doesn’t honor its female characters in a way that actually carries weight.) There’s no question that Ma…

Significant spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones, season 8, episode 3, “The Long Night,” and for Avengers: Endgame. Heading into last weekend, we were expecting a lot of big, meaningful pop-culture deaths. Avengers: Endgame threatened to kill off some major Mar…

Abilities: Members of the Asgardian Royal Family are not actual gods, per se — but they're as close to gods as you can get. Thor is ridiculously powerful, such that only his father and older sister (both dead) would surpass his strength. He's not immortal but…