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After dropping the huge news on Tuesday Thor will now be a woman in the upcoming comic book series, Marvel dropped more big news announcing the next Captain America will be black.

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Marvel Comics dropped the bomb Tuesday on The View that one of their most beloved heroes, Thor, will now be a woman.

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What about Mantis, an Asian female superhero? What about casting a Latina as Maria Hill, a role that went to Cobie Smulders? Where was James Rhodes during the attack on New York City?

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Yes, it’s Superman! And hey, look at that “S.” That is one impressive “S.” Nice, um, typography.

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The action scenes are all a beat or three too long, the jokes are just above that lowest common denominator range, and its presence as a product is transparent, no matter attempts at the self-aware bet-hedging—in fact, all those nods at the audience wind up like tics. For a film full of “confidence,” it sure seems to desire approval, just like its hero.

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Kick-Ass invites us into the world of Dave Lizewsk (Aaron Johnson); an average New York high school kid who, while chatting to his friends in their local comic-book-come-coffee-shop stumbles across an obvious question which will change his mundane life for good. “How come nobody’s ever tried to be superhero?” he asks.