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One of the various teaser images from Madame Web, featuring the titular character (Dakota Johnson) and two of the Spider-Women (Sydney Sweeney and Isabela Merced).

Madame Web review: Wait… this isn’t Marvel???

By Natalia Nguyen and Kevin Pham March 4, 2024

DISCLAIMER: This review will contain minor spoilers about Madame Web. About an hour and 54 minutes after preview trailers ended, we came to the shocking realization that “Madame Web” was not a Marvel...

Fandoms of high popularity trapped behind a gate to emphasize gatekeeping

Op-Ed: The dangers of gatekeeping

By Sakina Hafeez, Staff Writer December 13, 2022

Gaslight. Gatekeep. Girlboss. Or not. According to the Urban Dictionary, gatekeeping is when one uses a hobby to make themselves superior by using their knowledge to self-inflate their ego. This...

Doctor Strange plays second fiddle in his second film.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is not a Doctor Strange movie

By Jessica Lin, Feature Editor May 27, 2022

[Spoiler Alert: This review contains spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse and previous Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) properties.] Spider-Man managed to get a whole trilogy in the time it...

Marvel's portrayal of DID in the new show Moon Knight

Dissociative Identity Disorder in Moon Knight

By Alex Samano, Staff Writer May 27, 2022

[Moon Knight spoilers] One of the latest additions to the Marvel universe, Moon Knight recently, premiered on Disney Plus. Released weekly from March 30, 2022, through May 4, 2022, Moon Knight showcases...

Marvel's superhero movie Shang-Chi makes strides to break stereotypes of Asian-Americans.

Shang-Chi: a superhero to fight the Asian monomyth

By Jessica Lin, Feature Editor November 8, 2021

As a fourth-grade Marvel fangirl needing a Halloween costume, I scoured the web for Asian superheroes. However, most of the lists resulted in obscure heroes that I hadn’t even heard of, so I eventually...

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