
To be proud of where you come from – That’s what we all wish to be. To be able to say, with your head held high, that you come from a proud, noble people. Your homeland is the envy of the world and you are one of its many fine citizens. A nation is defined as a large body of people united by common grounds (culture, history, language, etc). So, it’s time to fly your flags high for our Top 10 Fictional Nations!
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June 23, 2018 | Categories: Entertainment, Film, Literature, Television, Top 10, Traditional Gaming, Video Games | Tags: A Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire, Arendelle, Atlantis, avatar, black panther, Cyrodil, discworld, Disney, Durotar, Electopia, Elwynn Forest, Fictional Nations, Fire Nation, Fourecks, Frozen, Kaladesh, Lord of the Rings, Magic: The Gathering, Marvel, MegaMan Battle Network, Middle-Earth, Oblivion, the elder scrolls, The Island of Sodor, the last airbender, Thomas The Tank Engine, Top 10, Wakanda, Westeros, World of Warcraft | 5 Comments
Spoilers Ahead!
Tuesday I summarised the MCU as best as I could in brief, and tried to give you some idea of what to expect from Infinity War without giving too much away. Today the gloves are off, and so begins the review proper.
Given the volume of characters in play, it makes absolute sense to divide the narrative between them, each group trying to find a way to halt the progress of the Mad Titan. So let’s take this group by group, doing insufficient justice to each character as we go because we have many years to summarise with each:
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May 3, 2018 | Categories: Comics, Entertainment, Film | Tags: Avengers, Avengers: Infinity War, black panther, black widow, Bucky Barnes, Captain America, doctor strange, Drax, Eitri, Falcon, Gamora, guardians of the galaxy, Heroes, hulk, infinity stones, iron man, Iron Spider, Loki, Mark L, Peter Dinklage, Peter Parker, Peter Quill, Rocket, Scarlet Witch, Scarlett Johanson, Shuri, Spider-man, Spoilers, Stormbreaker, Thanos, The White Wolf, thor, Tony Stark, Vision, Wakanda, wanda, Wanda Maximov, Warmachine, When was the Infinity Gauntlet created? | Leave a comment
This will be a relatively short review, as from the perspective of a white British man there’s not an awful lot to comment on. This is a Marvel origin story, in the vein of Ant Man and Doctor Strange, it brings to light a character that has seen little screen time and attention in the past, and while we have met T’Challa before and know the basics of the Black Panther (at least from the MCU perspective) he’s still a relative unknown compared to the likes of Spidey and Iron Man.
Still, from someone with little investiture in African and African-American culture there was a lot to enjoy, remark upon and unpack. I am calling a Minor Spoiler warning but*… well I’ll get to that in a little while. (more…)
February 22, 2018 | Categories: Entertainment, Film | Tags: black panther, Chadwick Boseman, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, MCU, movie, nuclear deterrent, Review, Ryan Coogler, T'Challa, vibranium, Wakanda, Wakanda forever | Leave a comment