A scientific deep dive into the Marvel movies’ most hilarious trope: the shirtless scene

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Whether it’s Iron Man fiddling with his arc reactor or Star-Lord getting hosed down, you can almost always count on the hero of any given Marvel movie to lose his shirt — it’s practically a trope.

At this point —17 films and nine years into the Marvel Cinematic Universe — the “shirtless superhero” scene is up there with Stan Lee cameos, post-credits scenes, and 30something blond men named Chris in terms of reliable franchise staples. 

Such serious commitment on Marvel’s part, then, would seem to warrant some serious analysis on our part. And we do mean “serious.” This isn’t just an excuse for bald-faced objectification — goodness, no.  Read more…

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Lebron James decided to get pretty freaking scary with his Halloween costume

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LeBron James deserve a triumphant slow clap for one of the better costumes this Halloween.  

The NBA MVP decided to make a scary impression this year and transformed into the sewer dwelling demented clown from the movie It and it looks great. 

Georgie!! Georgie!! #HappyHalloweenFolks 🎈🎈

A post shared by LeBron James (@kingjames) on Oct 30, 2017 at 7:35pm PDT

LeBron has the classic red balloons and the crazy red hair style. The make up and teeth are all on point. 

It looks like a tailor stitched together a bespoke It costume for LeBron James and that person deserves some kind of award. Read more…

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