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This seems to be a pretty standard idiot ball in science fiction. I would also point out that when it comes to other species that aren't even sapient-sentient-civilized and are on our own home planet, there isn't even a moral argument for not maintaining human dominance. The kaiju are literally...

Vulture *started out* justified -- he had a legitimate salvage and rebuild contract from the City of New York and Stark's people literally went out of their way to screw him over *and* rub his face in it out of sheer spite. But where he went from there was absolutely *not* justified.

In other words, more or less the same thing that Hank Pym did with Ultron, at least before all the retcons, ret-retcons and ret-ret-retcons they subsequently came up with to try to explain it away. . .

To a degree; and this is something that seems to vary a lot between different versions of the Peter Pan stories. The original story does explicitly identify him as the bo'sun but his actual duties are inconsistently portrayed; the Disney version did make him the first mate.

This is probably J.M. Barrie screwing it up out of character, because the boatswain is the seniormost rating on a ship, i.e. not a commissioned officer. Being a noble educated at one of the elite English universities, there is *no way* Hook would have been anything but a commissioned officer...

Very well; I didn't have that quote at hand. On the other hand, this quote from the very same chapter explicitly confirms that Hook *did* attend one of the elite British schools; the only implicit part is that it was specifically Eton, but details like "distinguished slouch" and being eligible...

True, but the connection to Flint/Silver is thin because they're not explicitly named; the only part that's explicit is the nickname "Barbecue", which is generic enough that it doesn't necessarily have to mean Long John. Given the parallelism of the whole, "the only man X feared" boast, I pretty...

The origin of Hook and the pirates is definitely a hole in the backstory. One interesting twist is that it is a casting tradition that Captain Hook is almost always played by the same actor as George Darling, which is a modification of Barrie's original casting intent that Hook be played by the...

Yes, but the "Peter 'thins out' his own Lost Boys when they grow up" part is canon, and the context does imply killing.

That's true, but given that the very same sentence casually talks about them being killed "and so on", it's pretty clear that the world of the "real" Peter Pan is not nearly as innocent as the Disney version. Also, if the Lost Boys and Pirates are constantly fighting with each other and killing...

No way, Men in Tights is totally the best Robin Hood forever and ever.

I don't think he *ever intended* to try. Remember, the mercenary commander was (correctly) convinced that wiping out the Na'vi was the only long term answer given how badly his employers wanted to harvest *all* the unobtanium ore, so he basically hijacked Sully's communications mission into...

That world and everything on it rightfully belong to its sentient native inhabitants, the Na'vi. The humans are violent thieves and morally in the wrong from start to finish. If the Na'vi do not want to deal, the only ethical thing for humans to do is go the fuck away and leave them alone.

Weren't Dragonflyz the male version of those Sky Dancer flying toy dolls?

Absolutely no way. Tolwyn at most counts as a villain who was sort of a well-intentioned extremist, not a villain who did nothing wrong. He committed treason, mass murder of innocent civilians, and was conspiring to commit partial xenocide against his own species. A villain who did nothing...

I disagree with your interpretation -- the point of the movie was that the conflict was both destructive and self destructive to both sides, that there were was good, bad, and neutral on both sides, and that ceasing to kill each other was the only way anyone was going to live. She's also still...

Even more than that -- the people she was taking in were prostitutes and lepers, people anyone else would have left to die.

Specifically, in Wing Commander IV, Tolwyn is the leader of a conspiracy to "strengthen" the Confederation through a Palpatine-style scheme of instigating a war between the Confederation and the independent Border States, with the ultimate objective of deploying an engineered plague which will...

That's a fanon theory. What is canon is that Pan "thins out" the Lost Boys when there are too many of them or they are getting too old, but it is never explicitly stated what this means.