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Really felt something for Khonshu in that episode. His powers of manipulating the sky and the stars was incredible. And when he says "I remember that night, I remember every night", it felt to me like he was tired of his own immortality, punishing criminals since the beginning. It really did a great job at showing Khonshu's weaknesses and how he is not as mighty as the first two episodes suggested.

I've always found the definition of aliases on the wiki wider than the one I would personally use, but I've tried to go along what was considered consensus.

More often than not, people tend to add mere descriptions to the Alias section. I remember deleting an entry for Ulysses Klaue where "Arms Dealer Strapped to a Chair" had been added as an alias.

"Underoos" still works fine for me as, even though Stark only calls him that once, he would have been susceptible to call him that more than once (problem is that we fall into speculation). Even though it's more of a nickname than an alias. But I do think that there is a lot of cleanup to do in the Alias sections of many characters.

The Multiverse featured in Doctor Strange is more like a vast set of different dimensions (Earthly Plane, Quantum Realm, Dark Dimentsion, etc.). We used the term "Multiverse" here on the MCU Wiki before the release of Loki to name the vast variety of dimensions.

Loki brings a new meaning to the term "multiverse" as we are no longer dealing with different dimensions, but different versions ("original" and "alternate" versions, even though which is which depends on the perspective, hence the notion of "Variant") of the same dimension.

Prior to Loki, we had a Multiverse within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now, with Loki and the future release of What If ?, we tend to get Multiverse(s ?) within a Marvel Cinematic Multiverse.

Thanos views himself as a teacher, someone on a mission to correct things; not as a savior. He was traumatized by the fact that his homeplanet ended up destroyed by the lack of resources. Increasing the amount of available resources wouldn't change things in his mind: it would only enable people to continue using them and wasting them just like they had before, thus increasing the lack of balance he thought to see in the universe. On the contrary, by cutting down the needs by half (and by showing by example what happened when people overused the resources), he thought that the universe would be more balanced.

Well honestly, I don't think he has much to say. His gaze is already expressive enough.

I think it's for the best that they did not gave him a voice, to make him appear more dark and frightening. The only time that we hear his voice is when he roars after Aida escapes from him, and it never gets old, you can feel his rage, and I think that it would have not been as powerful if he had spoken before.

@Itlosz honestly I don't care that much in the "haters"'s opinion on that matter, especially if it's based on such a weak and easily opposable argument that "The Darkhold looks different so the shows are not canon". But I'll guess we'll first have to wait for a confirmation (or not) that Agatha's book is indeed the Darkhold.

Personally, I don't really see the different designs as a real problem. It is a magical book of tremendous power, the fact that it can have different designs depending on whoever uses it wouldn't shock me. As for its capabilities, we have yet to see more about it in WandaVision. But if it does indeed end up being the Darkhold, I wouldn't mind that much. Maybe I have a too strong tendency to the suspension of disbelief.

I might not have followed all discussion about it, but what is the problem if the book we saw in Wandavision ep. 7 is indeed the Darkhold? The fact that it does not look like the one in AoS/Runaways or the fact that it is in Agatha's hands?

Ego: "Listen to me! You are a God! If you kill me, you'll be just like everybody else!"

Star-Lord: "What's so wrong with that?"

One of the deepest roots of geek culture. You don't need extraordinary powers to be someone extraordinary.

Considering the Words of Creation lighting up on the throne, the Kree are the most plausible explanation.

In a flashback, Ruby is already seen being able to question what is forced upon her, when she refuses to kill her pet dog, calling that a barbaric and outdated ritual without any real meaning.

I like to think that the Superior completely stripped Blake of leadership because of his ideology of "Man is the Superior Machine", mocking Blake for his injuries which disabled him, and that Blake ended up bitter and alone, blaming everyone but himself.

Well, judging by other articles, there are many misuses still going on around the Wiki (BTW I had removed it in April 2019, but it had been re-added later and I figured out that maybe it was me who was wrong to remove it in the first place). Since it's quite minor compared to other needed edits I've not tackled this problem more seriously (only removed some when I worked on particular articles, but more often than not these "descriptions" were readded later by someone else), but I might deal with at least some of it more thoroughyl.

I'm also uncomfortable with some of the names that are listed under the "Alias" section, even though it seems to be in agreement with the Wiki policies. I think that there should be a clear distinction to be made between an alias/nickname and a description.

I could list many examples, but one that comes on top of my mind is Thanos. In his aliases, there is "Survivor". To me, this is not an alias/nickname. It's a description. The sentence spoken by Thanos is: "I'm a survivor". He is describing himself. He's not using the word as a name, nor is someone calling him that as a name (no one tells him, for example, "Take this, Survivor!", or refers to him like "Remember what the Survivor said?")

I know that there would be several cases that would be ambiguous, but I still think that what we are calling "alias" on the wiki encompasses a broader set of names than what an alias theoretically is.

It's the whole point of Iron Man's entire arc in the MCU. Going from a kind of selfish and individualistic person to someone willing to give his life to save the whole universe.

Don't know if that counts, but it baffled me how many people in the theatre were surprised by the plot twist in Captain Marvel that the Kree were the bad guys after all. I entered the session with everything I knew about the MCU Kree from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (I'm not very knowledgeable on the comics), so it was easy to predict.

That is so cool! Makes me proud to be part of such a colossal effort to create and update all those articles. Nice recognition of the work of dedicated fans.

And May would not have tricked Ward into killing Kara if they had not kidnapped Bobbi, which they would not have if Bobbi had not given the location of the safehouse in which Kara was, which she would not have if she had not needed to be and remain undercover in HYDRA, which she would not have if HYDRA..., etc. etc. You can pull back the chain of events indefinitely, but I don't think that this is a relevant exercise to do.

Ward betrayed S.H.I.E.L.D., that's a fact, and barely showed any form of regret for his actions (as underlined two or three times in the show, he has a tendency to blame others instead of expressing regret). Yes, he had a tragic childhood, but that does not give him license to kidnap, torture, harm and kill. One could argue that he had been given a chance to redeem himself when he joined Coulson's Team, but his loyalty to Garrett was too deeply rooted. One should also note that following his defeat, he was imprisoned, not killed, and had much time to reflect on his actions. Did he? No. All he could think of was manipulating Skye by talking about her father in an attempt to escape.

You're right when you say that Ward could have been good as evidenced by the Framework. That's exactly what Coulson LMD tells Kora when she claims that they should kill Ward in his childhood to save lives (something they refuse to do, by the way).

I also wanted to reply to some other points you made:

- The decision of killing Ruby was not a S.H.I.E.L.D. choice. Yo-Yo (who is indeed an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.) killed her, but she had no orders for that, and in fact she was heavily criticized for it.

- The case of Daisy is interesting as she did indeed turned on S.H.I.E.L.D. on several occasions. But the example of Hive is poorly chosen: it is once again a case where a person has no choice, as an Inhuman she was unable to resist Hive's sway. Her siding with Jiaying is much more relevant in that regard (even though she was manipulated by Jiaying as well)

- Morse did have a hard choice. It is the classical situation where there are no good options. Giving intel about S.H.I.E.L.D., and risking the life of someone in the process (as I recall, Morse did not specifically gave Kara's name, she gave the location of a safehouse and did not know that Kara was there), or blow her cover in HYDRA and reveal herself as an agent loyal to S.H.I.E.L.D. (and therefore risking being killed and putting the whole operation in jeopardy, thus endangering other lives as well). It's not an easy decision either way. That is, unfortunately, common in wars.

It is clear that May regretted killing Katya. She retired from field missions, something she was exceptionally skilled for, because she was traumatized by what she had done. And it is literally the one thing Aida changed in May's life when she was in the Framework.

I did not enjoy Inhumans for several reasons (although I found some little things to enjoy). The most important to me is that the show failed to build up significant stakes to be considered. Maximus overthrows the Royal Family and they are exiled on Earth. I don't want to say "Boring" but once it is done, the Royals are just like "Let's return and take the throne back". It is reduced to a simple "good guys/bad guys", whereas the MCU had already demonstrated its ability to create more subtle and complicated stories.

The problem is that the show took too much time to explain why the situation was really problematic, and the dramatic consequences it could have. Most of the Royals are "We shouldn't return on Earth" without really explaining themselves. The threat of the Kree is only mentioned two or three times (never explicitly), and is easy to miss (especially if you haven't seen AoS). The thematic of changing the caste system is a good one, but how it is treated is too poor in my opinion (people want change -> authorities refuse -> authorities hesitate -> authorities accept).