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It’s brains versus… brains, as social media debates a never-ending topic: who is the MCU’s smartest character? Whether it’s in the comics or on screens both big and small, Marvel has a revolving door of characters dubbed “the world’s smartest person.” The usual suspects tend to be the top inventors of the Marvel-616 Universe: Mister Fantastic, Doctor Doom, Bruce Banner, Hank Pym, and Tony Stark. Between Reddit and Twitter, this has been a raging battle since the MCU was created. One Redditor posed the question…

via Marvel Studios MCU fans are attempting an oxymoronic task: picking the most realistic film in the franchise. Unrealism is the MCU’s MO, which made Redditor Skallager0252’s proclamation that Captain America: The Winter Soldier is “the most realistic MCU film” hard for Marvel fans to stomach. “Absolutely not,” replied the_boogiemane before citing a “self aware AI” and “three floating airships about to destroy the world” as insufficiently real. However, they acknowledged that Winter Solder may be the “most…

JC Olivera/Getty Images It was to be expected that after the release of Jordan Peele‘s latest mind-bending thriller, Nope, there would be plenty of discourse surrounding the successful filmmaker’s merit and how much he deserves to be called “the new Stephen King of horror” and “horror Jesus.” Also expected, Nope has been conquering the box office since its release on July 22. With that in mind, why is Peele’s excellence being questioned and Get Out receiving so much flak, despite grossing north of $255 million…

Centi-billionaire Elon Musk provoked Twitter and challenged the company's CEO Parag Agrawal to a "public debate" about fake accounts and spam in the midst of a contentious legal battle over a $44 billion acquisition.Musk filed a bid with the Securities and Exchange to acquire Twitter back in April this year. After the companies agreed to move ahead with a take-private deal, Musk said he was terminating his acquisition, and accused Twitter of presenting false numbers, including in its SEC filings, pertaining to the amount…

A mere two days after , Elon Musk has challenged Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to a public debate about the percentage of bots on its platform. “Let him prove to the public that Twitter has <5% fake or spam daily users,” Musk said in a spotted by . The Tesla and SpaceX executive issued the challenge after responding to a thread in support of his legal case against the company. “If Twitter simply provides their method of sampling 100 accounts and how they’re confirmed to be real, the deal should proceed on original terms,”…

Maybe Elon Musk doesn’t want a court battle with Twitter? After having his lawyers spin up a 165-page argument about why he no longer wants to go through with his $44 billion deal to buy the platform, Musk suggested hashing things out in public — perhaps before a jury of the Tesla fans, Dogecoin hodlers, and potential Mars colonizers among his Twitter followers — to get to the bottom of Twitter’s so-called bot issue. “I hereby challenge @paraga to a public debate about the Twitter bot percentage,” Musk proclaims to all…

Robin Stone found out that her seminal 90s house hit Show Me Love was sampled on Break My Soul, the lead single from Beyoncé’s new album Renaissance, at the same time as everyone else. As the performer rather than the writer and producer of the song, her approval wasn’t required to clear its use – nor does she receive any income from it.While Stone sees the nod as a compliment and proof of her 30-year relevancy, it also brings up old wounds. The writers of the song, Allen George and Fred McFarlane “never gave me my proper…

The seemingly unresolvable ethical dilemma of basing films on true tragedies and crimes, especially without the involvement of victims’ loved ones or survivors, is again up for debate ahead of the Australian premiere of a controversial new film, The Stranger.Thomas M Wright’s film, which debuted at Cannes in May and premieres at the Melbourne international film festival on Friday, centres on the lengthy undercover police operation to capture the man responsible for the 2003 murder of 13-year-old Queensland schoolboy…

Image via Marvel Studios It almost feels strange to call the ending of a Marvel Cinematic Universe film as such; with each entry’s captivating connectivity to the wider nuance of the MCU, the ending of one film can often feel like opening shots to another. Nevertheless, we’ve had countless character and story arcs beautifully tied up over the course of this decades-long project, but it begs the question of which entry stuck the best landing of all. Well, the Marvel fans over at r/marvelstudios, ever the bearers…

Via Lucasfilm/Disney There seem to be a lot of intricacies involved with the light and dark sides of the Force in the Star Wars universe, where one misstep could mean the difference between living out your days in piety as a warrior of peace and justice or joining a long line of villains who have haunted the galaxy far, far away since time immemorial. And according to the rules established by the Skywalker Saga, fans are now realizing that Obi-Wan came awfully close to succumbing to that fate in The Phantom…