The Problem With Lucky Superheroes

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  @Waldohasaskit210 · 1 month ago

  If you understand the law of averages, that rat wasn't lucky but inevitable. That warehouse was invested with rats, sooner or later one of them was going to wander over the right spot.

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  @BenjamenMcCauley · 1 month ago (edited)

  I think we can forgive the avengers rat because it took 5 years. That time is both the cost and the believability of rng getting rolled day after day. Eventually something was going to hit that switch. <br>I also think Domino works well because it’s contrasted by the cost of everyone else not getting lucky around her.

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  @ilikerum · 1 month ago

  With Spidey and Vulture I believe the phrase is &quot;The Parker Luck&quot;.

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• MO

  @mogemon · 1 month ago

  all i imagin is how different it would be if spider man startet swinging around the earth really fast and prevents he&apos;s &quot;cannon events&quot;

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  @krabman6297 · 1 month ago

  The rat is different from wonder woman because it&apos;s entirely reasonable for the rat to be there doing rat things and accidentally save Ant Man, it&apos;s also the start of the story and not the end completely undoing the emotional climax. It&apos;s like if the Red Guardian showed up at the end of Endgame and brought Tony back to life

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  @reillymoran6727 · 1 month ago

  I want to see the timeline where the rat didn&apos;t save Ant Mat, and soloed Thanos

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• XD

  @xdragon2k · 1 month ago (edited)

  Unearned luck is considered to be Deus Ex Machina. &nbsp;The writer doesn&apos;t even know what he was doing. &nbsp;He just give the protagonist impossible upon impossible tasks and just wrote resolved at the end without making sense of how to get there.

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  @patrickcole7896 · 1 month ago

  The Joker&apos;s plan in the dark knight. Great film, but if you think about it for too long, it makes zero sense. Literally everything needs to go exactly right for it to work at all, including his army of hired criminal thugs not only keeping the plan quiet (unlikely) but also being completely loyal unto death (fuckin impossible), everyone needs to be in the right place at exactly the right time, or Joker is just rotting in jail with no way out.

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  @JohnArktor · 1 month ago

  Only good lucky hero in superhero movies is in Deadpool 2.<br>The rest is writers incompetence

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  @sporkifying · 1 month ago

  While the rat is coincidence, I think that the foreshadowing of ant man being stuck makes it work. Being stuck typically foreshadows being unstuck. The cost is clear and it&apos;s time. Meanwhile the cost is also necessary for ant man to realize he even did time travel so much. The rat works because it&apos;s not so random that a vehicle could be in storage, storage isn&apos;t kept most clean, and rats are in less clean places.

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  @sheldon... · 1 month ago

  The un-earned lucky event feels like a similar vibe as the Macguffin that is pulled out of nowhere at the very end to just-so-happen-to-solve the issue the main characters are facing

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• GA

  @gameraz1990 · 1 month ago

  The thing about Superman reversing time could be attributed to a similar thing to Domino:<br>It&apos;s already established in the Superman lore that he can &quot;do anything&quot;. Making up bullshit to solve issues in the last moment is kinda his thing. If time travel is needed, then &quot;ok, yeah, I can time travel now. Neat.&quot;<br><br>Not saying it&apos;s a good solution (it&apos;s a cop out and it sucks, like you said), but it CAN be explained in a similar manner like Domino.

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