With The Raft Becoming Overcrowded, Yelena Decides To Recruit Some Of Its Superpowered Inmates And Her

I know it's way too early to start thinking this far ahead, but I just can't help it...

The Furious Five - Concept Poster/Synopsis: Mantis

"After an unexpected message summons Tigress far away from the Valley of Peace, Mantis gladly tags along with the group to put some distance between himself and his abnormally clingy fiancée. But when his decision comes back to bite him in a less gruesome manner than expected, the Five begin to wonder what Mantis is truly afraid of."

The moment I saw the two of them together, I couldn't not think of this.

Crazy to think Kung Fu Panda 4 has already aged worse in six months than the first three movies have in 8-16 years.

Wait…

Did I predict this…?!

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one…

Way better pitch than what Ego went with.

[GOTG1 Nebula developing a crush on Peter somehow]

Nebula: Together you and I will be the strongest couple in the entire world. We will dominate the galaxy!

Kung Fu Panda 2 is a movie I'm rarely able to sit through without crying anyway, but seeing Oogway's spirit sitting on the Dreamworks moon already makes me feel all kinds of emotions before the damn film's even started.

Transformers: One - What's In A Kneel?

!!!!!MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!

With the responsibility of leadership and the dangers of pedestals and hero worship being such major themes, it only makes sense that all three of the film's leaders would show their true characters, and in doing so seal their fates, in moments where they have to kneel/bow.

Sentinel Prime essentially sets the entire second half of the film in motion when both the heroes and we as the viewer see him kneel to the Quintessons. It confirms everything that Alpha Trion was just telling them/us about him, and it's also the very thing that ends up getting broadcast to Iacon in order to finally expose Sentinel and turn the public against their False Prime.

For all his superficial charisma and his talk of looking out for the little guys, Sentinel himself is truly nothing more than a self-centred, spineless coward, who couldn't care less for the needs of the many and gladly bends to the will of bigger bullies/oppressors in order to keep himself in power.

After learning of Sentinel's betrayal and being subsequently captured with the High Guard, D-16 makes a point to stand while in custody and adamantly refuses to kneel. Even when Sentinel begins beating and torturing him, D-16 makes it abundantly clear that he has no intention of bowing to him or anyone else ever again.

In better circumstances this could be a heroic trait, a courageous defiance and the willingness to stand up in the face of injustice. But it just as becomes a negative one, and it's one of the last warning signs to the kind of leader that Megatron is going to be.

He may have started out with good and heroic intentions, but because of this Megatron sees himself as superior, and whether by choice or by force, he expects his fellow Cybetronians to rally behind him just as they did with Sentinel. While he sees himself as a revolutionary, in the end he's just going to become another tyrant.

And then we have Orion Pax. For much of the film, he's a far cry from the noble, legendary leader that we know and love from other iterations, but he starts to grow into it as he devises the rescue mission, and is tasked with rallying his fellow miners to help.

Having gotten a major upgrade since the last time he saw them, Orion now towers over his former peers and they're utterly awed by the sight of him. Rather than trying to take advantage of their admiration or even intimidate them with his new size and strength, Orion almost seems frustrated by the new height difference, and before beginning his speech he kneels down to literally speak to them on their level.

Orion doesn't make a point to do this, no one has to ask or prompt him to, in fact he himself doesn't even give that much thought to it, it's just his first instinct for how to best communicate. He may look larger and stronger now, but he still values the miners as his friends and his equals, and nothing is ever going to change that.

Gaining the Matrix later on may have gotten him the name, but it's this moment when Orion truly begins to embody the true core and heart of Optimus Prime. Powerful and inspiring, yet humble and caring. Or perhaps, as the legendary Peter Cullen himself has always said:

"Strong enough to be gentle."