Prodigy is so intelligent, even after he lost his mutant ability to gain more knowledge, he was kept on as an X-Man to help teach new mutants. 259 votes Super smart? 5 Sage Photo: Marvel Comics As a young mutant, Sage encountered Charles Xavier in a war-torn Afghanistan and saved hi...
In The Avengers movie, Loki develops a plan to subjugate humanity using an army of the Chitauri. But first, he willfully gets captured by Captain America and Iron Man to infiltrate their flying aircraft carrier. Using the Hulk and a brainwashed Hawkeye, Loki breaks up the Avengers to keep ...
On the surface,Verbal KintfromThe Usual Suspectsseems like a small-time con man with cerebral palsy, brought in to speak of the murder of his comrades, who were being manipulated by a crime lord named Keyser Söze. No one would suspect him to even hurt a fly. Not until he’s revealed...
Man, a lot of 1974 hits have gotten remade, and here is another. BeforeThe Longest Yardwas an Adam Sandler hit, it was a Burt Reynolds comedy with the same premise: A former NFL quarterback winds up in prison, where he winds up leading a team of inmates in a game against the jail’...
Well put. And it’s not that I only appreciated his work when it was vulgar– it was rarely vulgar. But it was unrelentingly harsh. Compare this with the November 27, 2006 New Yorker cover that featured two Thanksgiving dinner tables in Ware’s trademark orthogonal perspective. One was fro...
Superman is strong, and his arch-nemesis, his perfect foil, Lex Luthor, is smart. In the world of Marvel, that duality continues, and the Leader serves as the brains to oppose the Hulk's mighty brawn. Interestingly enough, paralleling how Banner wasn't born strong, Samuel Sterns wasn'...