Review: Dragon Ball Super Episode 50

Sorry I'm so late with this week's review. The holiday weekend was very busy and I was not able to get a chance to sit down and write, but, anyways, episode 50 was definitely one of the more insightful episodes of the current Future Trunks/Goku Black story arc. The episode starts with Whis and Beerus examining Black from their lawn chairs, noticing that he is both Goku and not Goku, and seeing that he has a Time Ring. They would later tell everyone that Time Rings are only possessed by the Kaioshin, which all, but proves the theory that Black is a fusion between Goku and a Kaioshin. The only question left is: How? Because in the timeline that Future Trunks and Goku Black exist in Goku is dead, and will have been dead fro some time. Might the Kaioshin have brought him back to life and used his body for the fusion? Or is it possible that the Kaioshin that fuses with Goku is in the present and fuses with him before him and Vegeta go to the future with Trunks? Honestly your guess is about as good as mine. The jacked up timeline makes explaining everything about this show even more difficult. 

Well, getting back to the review, after Whis and Beerus made their observations, we see Goku challenge Black to a fight, to which Black accepts and gives Goku a cryptic message: "I was hoping to fight you in this body." Goku was of course confused by this statement, and so was I. The thing that me really stop and think was the fact that he said "this body." This made me wonder if there were other bodies that he has been using, like maybe Vegeta's body or something. However we do actually find out why he wants to fight Goku in that body. Goku starts the fight in super saiyan form, because like Vegeta says to Trunks, mid-fight, "[he] has a habit of holding back at the beginning." At this point it seemed as though they were evenly matched, but after exchanging a few punches, it seemed as though Black was getting stronger after every punch. He even said, "This pain will make me even stronger!" What he means by this becomes even more clear after he is forcibly brought back to the future by the Time Ring and says, "I was able to engrave [Super Saiyan Goku's] fighting style into my own being. This is what makes Goku Black so dangerous. Ever since he was first introduced, I've wondered how would he possibly stand a chance against either Goku or Vegeta, let alone both, and this is how: As a fight goes on, Black's power level will rise to surpass whomever he is fighting, which may even cause Beerus to get involved in the future (who knows). 

Also, before being dragged back to the future (you see what I did there?), he destroys Trunks' time machine, seemingly keeping Trunks in the past for good while he is able to go back to the future and continue the annihilation of mankind. However, Bulma is able to find the time machine used by Cell, in her lab. This time machine is broken, but Bulma is more likely to fix this one than the one destroyed by Black. 

Lastly, before the episode ended the, we brought to the future and shown a, what we had previously assumed to be, dead Mai laying on the ground, but the camera pans down to her hand and we are able to see movement! Mai is alive! This scene perfectly transitions us into the next week's episode titled: Trunks And Mai.

Review: Deadpool v Gambit #1

The Deadpool v Gambit mini-series kicked off yesterday, and it had all the elements of a classic "Deadpool vs." comic. It starts out with Deadpool waiting in line for coffee, at Work Juice, of course talking to himself, making a reference to something of cultural importance. This time he was muttering to himself about how Sartre, a French philosopher and playwright, was wrong when he said, "hell is other people," but Deadpool continues by saying, "Hell is the best coffee in town being featured in 'Time Out New York... Because the lines are just... Wait! Sartre was right!" He kind of misinterpreted the famous quote by Jean Paul Sartre, but it is Deadpool, and the reference makes, because not everyone is going to know what the quote is really trying to say.

After Deadpool realizes that Sartre is right, Gambit, who is few spots in line ahead of Deeadpool, realizes that they are waiting in the same line and greets him. At this point it appears as though that thy are going to fight; Gambit charges his cards with kinetic energy, ready to throw them, and Deadpool reaches for his katana. But, instead of fighting they set the scene for flashback sequence, from the last time they saw each other. Deadpool starts it off by saying, "Last time [we saw each other] was that thing with Spider-Man and Daredevil, right?" The flashback begins with Spider-Man, in a button up shirt, pants, and sports jacket, with his "Spidey-Suit" and mask on underneath, in a museum looking at a clay-stone artifact, talking to a little girl about how he lives in the best city in the world, but never takes advantage of it.

Then at that moment he is hit in the head by one of Daredevil's batons, and Daredevil says, "Spider-Man, I am mad at you!" Then the "super-hero fight" begins and the fight takes them all through midtown, running into the Jade Dragons, a theatre where a rehearsal for a musical is taking place, and a hipster street market. And the whole time they were making witty remarks and observations. One of the funniest things they talked about was their own fight and how there seems to be so many "super-hero fights." At some point during the fight Daredevil says, "A lot of super-hero fights these days come down political or philosophical differences." And Spider-Man would later say in response, "Instead of talking, it's coming to blows." Later they would both make more witty observations and references about hipster diet restrictions and why they dislike musicals, but if I sat here and tried to tell you every joke they make I would be here forever.

The whole time I was reading this fight I am sitting there anticipating and waiting for Deadpool and Gambit to join the fight some how, but they never do, because (plot twist) they were pretending to be Spider-Man and Daredevil the entire time. After finding this out, I thought to myself, "Well, it was weird that Daredevil was contributing to the banter through out the fight," but at the time, because I assumed Deadpool was narrating and giving his own interpretation of the story, I did not even question it. 

Deadpool and Gambit were fighting as Spider-Man and Daredevil, because they were pulling a con for a guy named Chalmers and did not want to be recognized. Chalmers sold diamonds to criminal organizations, and through out the fight Deadpool and Gambit would break into the headquarters of these organizations and steal the diamonds back, mid-fight. Then at the end of the con, when they were celebrating and congratulating each other, Gambit notices that there is a gun taped underneath the table and in response to Deadpool asking him why they do not team up more often, he says, "Because of the inevitable double cross..." A fight then breaks out where Deadpool and Gambit completely retrace their steps and at some point they realize that they were set up by Chalmers, who ended up making off with the entire score. 

Now the story comes back to the present where they both say how badly they want to take revenge on Chalmers, and seemingly out of nowhere Chalmers appears. The comic ends with all three of them sitting down drinking coffee, and Chalmers telling Deadpool and Gambit that he has another job for them, one that would be even better than the last.