In Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Wars, when the multiverse was collapsing from Incursions, the Avengers, the Illuminati, and cosmic entities like the Celestials all failed to stop the apocalypse. Doom stepped up, stole the power of the Beyonders, saved what was left of reality, and created Battleworld ruling it as an absolute god. In the comics, when Thanos challenged God Emperor Doom face to face, Doom ripped Thanos's spine out with his bare hands in a single move.
Thanos relied on cosmic items and giant armies. Doom is a self-made nightmare, second only to Reed Richards in scientific intelligence and second only to Stephen Strange in dark magic. Iron Man can hack a computer and Doctor Strange can cast a spell, but neither can combine quantum physics with demonology to rewrite reality. Doom fuses high-level tech with ancient sorcery, making him impossible for standard Avengers tactics to predict or counter.
I’m not kidding when I say these are some of the best and most beautiful end credits I’ve seen in a while.
Moved me in a way I couldn’t have anticipated and I can’t even fully articulate why.
The new Spider-Man movie proved to me once again that forced isolation might make you super productive in the short term, but you pay a very heavy price for it. Ultimately, you destroy your own potential.
Even Peter Parker, despite having superpowers as Spider-Man, a clear sense of purpose, and being loved by all of New York City, struggles with being completely on his own. He develops real mental health issues and is driven by his trauma. He feels lost, and the exact same thing happens to so many people without anyone talking about it.
No matter how talented and successful you are in life: if you stay isolated for long enough, the silence will eventually drive you crazy and tear you down. The dangerous part is that you can't really predict when it starts getting bad. For some, it's a week; for others, a month or a year...
The point is, no matter what you're going through, you don't have to face it alone. Be spontaneous, follow your gut. Stop overanalyzing every little thing and measuring everything by productivity, efficiency, or profit and loss. The world isn't black and white, and it certainly isn't made of numbers. It is so much more than that. So get out there and face your fears. Get out there and have fun. Be like Spider-Man.
And btw, the movie was great. I highly recommend it
The first trailer for ‘AVATAR: SEVEN HAVENS’ has been released.
The series follows Earthbending twins after a world-shattering disaster where one discovers she’s the new Avatar after Korra.
Releasing October 9 on Paramount+