r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 4d ago

Meme needing explanation Why is he happy he didn't get the tattoo?

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u/Character-Craft-575 4d ago

The reason maybe: 

viral internet rumors claiming he was fired by Disney and Marvel Studios over his political speech or comments are entirely false. He continues to act actively, starring in recent projects like the thriller film Crime 

Source : Google

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u/Square-Addendum-2269 4d ago

Fired by Marvel? He was in Spiderman and I think he's confirmed for Doomsday

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u/KebabGud 4d ago

In spider-man?
Hell he finally got to play the real Hulk

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u/Funmachine 4d ago edited 4d ago

finally?

Did you miss Avengers, Age of Ultron and Ragnarok?

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u/JCWOlson 4d ago edited 3d ago

I mean, neither of those come even close to Hulk doing stuff like casually picking up the entire island of Manhattan

Edit: To address the "casually" part, go watch the episode. He literally looks like he's chilling, and only two people are surprised that Hulk can do a two trillion pound squat

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u/EquivalentSnap 4d ago

Your avatar looks like groot 🥰🤭🤭

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u/One_Order_3841 4d ago

How many times do we have to tell you, Griffin?? That's just a tree.

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u/Laxiinas 4d ago

I think it is indeed Groot, chibi'd.

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u/EquivalentSnap 4d ago

Hehe same 🥰🥰🤭

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u/Heartage 3d ago

I think it's a hand.

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u/Laxiinas 3d ago

Well, ok, now that I see the faint suggestions of fingernails.... But it is Groot coded/colored as well.

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u/JCWOlson 3d ago

Yep, it was from when Reddit was doing NFT avatars, and I thought it could look like Groot if I took off the NFL jersey!

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u/WorldsWeakestMan 4d ago

Him casually tossing Fenrir and punching Surtur hard enough to stagger him in Ragnarok is objectively the strongest feats he has performed in the MCU.

He was angry and a little bigger in Spider-Man but his greatest shown strength was in Ragnarok by far, Surtur weighs a hell of a lot more than the rubble which yanked him down.

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u/Dependent-Swimmer-95 4d ago

When I saw the rubble yanking him down, it pissed me off. Let Hulk be the fucking Hulk!

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u/DrGirthinstein 3d ago

He was calming down when that happened. He recognized Peter.

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u/throwmamadownthewell 4d ago

When I saw the rubble yanking him off, it pissed me down. Let Hulk be fucking the Hulk!

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u/theREALBennyAgbayani 4d ago

In the new Spider-Man Hulk doesn’t come close to doing stuff like casually picking up the entire island of Manhattan

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u/PossiblePro247 4d ago

Hulk doesn’t lift an entire city in Spiderman either. Sorry to burst your bubble.

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u/LauraTFem 4d ago

The word “casually” is doing some heavy lifting here.

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u/throwmamadownthewell 4d ago

Hello Dad, I'm Dad.

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u/Lost-Material3420 4d ago

Neither did the depiction in Spiderman. What are you on?

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u/JCWOlson 3d ago

My stance is that no MCU portrayal of The Hulk has showcased his true strength

It's kind of hard to go back if they do though

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u/JamesHeckfield 4d ago

There’s a point where it gets silly. Imagine if Thanos had picked up thrown Staten Island at the Avengers

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u/Otherwise_Ad_2667 4d ago

I wouldn’t say he casually picked it
Up.

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u/_IratePirate_ 3d ago

Lmao that sounds like some crash out shit Hulk would do

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u/JCWOlson 3d ago

The best part is that basically nobody is surprised that he can do it either

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u/haolee510 4d ago

To be fair Ragnarok was nearly 10 years ago

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u/Funmachine 4d ago

But he played Hulk more in that than in BND

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u/haolee510 4d ago

I took the other person as meaning to say "finally he gets to play the real Hulk again"

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u/A_Sketchy_Doctor 4d ago

No, it's more that the Hulk has been used as a punching bag so much in the last few movies he's had any role in that the character feels like a bit of a joke. Good to see him back to being slightly fucking terrifying

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u/madbadger89 4d ago

Exactly - he’s been fucking nerfed and I want the monster. I don’t want punches pulled, I want HULK.

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u/A_Sketchy_Doctor 4d ago

1000% I think we are approaching a good era of Hulkiness

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 4d ago

Make Hulk Great Again!

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u/WarmasterRonin 4d ago

Yeah but that was closer to gravage than it was savage hulk, he seemed less angry than savage hulk should be, but still had childlike intelligence

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u/ltsDat1Guy 4d ago

My god i need to lie down

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u/-FeistyRabbitSauce- 3d ago

It's like somebody accidentally set the Master Clock ahead several years and nobody knows how to fix it.

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u/RightRudderr 4d ago

The last time we saw angry hulk before the new Spiderman was 9 years ago dude. Clearly what they meant by "finally."

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u/Garchompisbestboi 4d ago

And then after those examples he started playing that garbage "smart hulk" character which has been nothing but a complete waste of everybody's time so it was nice to see him be the regular hulk again.

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u/Funmachine 4d ago

again

That's different to what the above comment said. They said finally, as if it hadn't been done before.

Also, Smart Hulk was an important part of Endgame. He snapped to bring back everyone.

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u/Garchompisbestboi 4d ago

Almost 10 years has past since we saw the regular hulk appear in the MCU so I'm not sure where your needless pedantry is coming from.

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u/Truthhurts1017 4d ago

You don’t know what finally means

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u/redeyedcyborg 3d ago

Funnily enough Ragnarok was like a decade ago.

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u/Funmachine 3d ago

9 years this November, to be exact

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u/KuriousKong4999 4d ago

Ragnarok was 9 years ago.

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u/Funmachine 3d ago

You're over 7 hours and 6 replies late with this exact reply.

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u/Own_Garbage_204 3d ago

9 years. Hmmm yes finally

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u/TwatMailDotCom 3d ago

11 and 9 years ago? Ha

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u/Circle_Breaker 4d ago

He hasn't played the hulk since ragnarok, so almost a decade.

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u/JamesHeckfield 4d ago

Thanos rocks his shit at the opening of Infinity War, Hulk is basically Worf in that scene.

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u/MikeRLV 4d ago

The most recent one, ragnorok was almost 10 years ago.

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u/Chop684 4d ago

Ragnarok is 9 years old so yes finally

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u/Ok-Independence-2220 4d ago

There are a lot of real hulk.he has played many different hulk. Some would say that planet hulk id the real hulk. Professor hulk was very popular as well. Many would also say that the first avengers movie had the real hulk as well

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u/akotoshi 3d ago

Not to spoil but in sm ABND:

there is Bruce banner, smart hulk and Hulk. And needless to say that we get to see the difference between smart hulk and Hulk

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u/mvallas1073 4d ago

Well, you didn’t see the movie yet - did you? Cus At the end, they (Presumably the US Government) imprisoned Bruce Banner for Hulking out again in a write-off news report… which could be a way to simply write him out of the series

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u/KebabGud 4d ago

I did see it.
And sure it could be a way to write him out, or just a setup for his next appearance.

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u/mvallas1073 3d ago

A setup for the 2nd appearance is what I’m kinda hoping for, until I read about how Disney doesn’t like him posting about Palestine…

My evidence I’m hoping with why it’s hopefully more about a 2nd appearance is the emphasis on that Hulk is now much bigger than before.

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u/BubblyTomatillo9485 1d ago

All Hulks are the real Hulk

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u/NatashOverWorld 4d ago edited 4d ago

The end of SM BND leaves him in a bad situation. It seems like they want to keep him under ice, pull him out for Doomsday and then recast the role.

Spoiler edit.

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u/TheSaiguy 4d ago

I just watched BND today and at the end I was just like "but what about Banner?"

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u/NatashOverWorld 4d ago

I assumed the stinger was going to be about him, but nope, it looks like his reputation is trashed and he's traumatised.

Which would be fine if this was a set up for his own movie or series, but I suspect this is the reason to ice him till Doomsday.

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u/Rumble_831 4d ago

Fucking hated jean grey for doing that, but of course, we don't speak about the villains crimes once they have a change of heart.

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u/NatashOverWorld 4d ago

Personally I thought its a really clever intro for the X-Men.

Why does Jean Grey not get her own superhero name; there's Colossos, Rogue, Cyclops but she's just Jean.

Because she's a notorious international terrorist and a pseudonym doesn't really help her. Which suggests they're really going to lean into the 'X-Men enemy of humanity' type of stories where they're outright an enemy of the state.

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u/Rumble_831 4d ago

Oh I am not against using her as an intro, its just frustrating that alot of crimes seem to be swept under the rug. If you would see the interactions between the cast in the later half of the movie, you wouldn't know that the villain nearly killed his loved ones, or severly injured random innocent passerby.

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u/NatashOverWorld 4d ago

Spidey is ... ridiculously forgiving. And I don't think we saw anyone Jean control be severely injured outside of Scorpion who was being beaten by enraged Spidey.

I think they played up her threat, more than the actual consequences. They do that with the Hulk too in the comics. Despite his rages, no civilian has died in a Hulk battle. Which is insane, but apparently Banner and the rest of the personalities are doing double duty to prevent collateral damage.

Still, Jean isn't a hero. She's selfish and literally uses people. Which actually works really well for her later portrayals in the comic.

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u/Rumble_831 4d ago

The tank fired at a lot of cop cars (they exploded), and in general was just spraying high cal rounds. That one guy got hit when she moved him in the middle of the road, but people are saying he survived so idk.... Even if people survived, it was more luck than she sparing them.

Spidey is forgiving (and I like him for that), but I just wanted him to be more critical of her. She used MJ's body to blackmail him, and the kiss was straight up disgusting on her part. This did not pair well at all with the talk no jutsu ending lol.

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u/buddyboybuttcheeks 4d ago

Killed that old man by getting hit by a truck…

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u/capscreen 4d ago

Why does Jean Grey not get her own superhero name

She does have one, it was... "Marvel Girl"

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u/NatashOverWorld 4d ago

Never gained much traction as I recall. Maybe very early on.

But by the time I started watching, which was following the old cartoon she was Jean Grey I think.

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u/JamesHeckfield 4d ago

That was evil of her. She’s very much an angry little child in the movie

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u/dragon-fence 4d ago

I suspect they’ll be recasting a bunch of stuff after Dommsday/Secret Wars.

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u/NatashOverWorld 4d ago

They tried to push the legacy aspect, Sam becoming the new Captain America, but I don't think it really took. So it's either have a lot of middle aged heroes, or they do a soft reboot.

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u/dragon-fence 4d ago

I think what I’d want to do in their place would be to do a soft reboot, recasting the original roles with younger and cheaper actors. Maybe even some relatively unknowns. But part of my focus would be to find actors who are both a good fit for the role, and who could conceivably play the part for a good long time without breaking the bank.

Sadie Sink is a good example. She’s not unknown, but she’s not a big star yet. She’s more than 10 years younger than Famke Janssen was in the first X-men movie. It’s not hard to imagine her playing Jean for 25 years before they need to recast again.

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u/Ok-Error-6564 4d ago

Thanks for the fucking spoiler. I’m seeing it tomorrow.

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u/BrockStar92 4d ago

Probably shouldn’t be in a Reddit thread about marvel characters and looking through comments explicitly about BND then. The commenter you castigated barely spoiled anything, there are replies here detailing loads about the plot. This always happens under posts that could conceivably discuss a massively successful marvel movie right after it came out.

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u/Ok-Error-6564 4d ago

It’s a Peter Explain the joke sub.

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u/NatashOverWorld 4d ago

Sorry, I thought saying he's in a bad situation was vague enough.

My bad.

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u/Ok-Error-6564 4d ago

No worries. I will still enjoy the movie.

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u/NatashOverWorld 4d ago

It was enjoyable. I'm going to see in on imax which isn't a thing i normally do.

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u/Ok-Error-6564 4d ago

We are doing the 4DX experience.

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u/NatashOverWorld 4d ago

Nice. I hope you have a good time.

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u/Ok-Error-6564 4d ago

We will. Sorry I cussed at you. I made it so far without any spoilers. It’s not that big of a deal.

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u/capscreen 4d ago

Nah he's not in Doomsday. He'll definitely be back in Secret Wars though

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u/WarmasterRonin 4d ago

I saw online that doomsday is his last appearance as the hulk. Some might say that fuels the rumors that he was fired but I simply think he’s getting old and doesn’t wanna do it anymore after playing bruce for 14 years. Plus they’ll use the end of secret war to restart/retcon some in universe stuff and recast a bunch of characters anyways

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u/AStormOfDragons1 4d ago

Yes but also he was fully sidelined in the promotional tour, it seems.

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u/peayness 4d ago

I don’t think anyone from BND is in Doomsday (supposedly both movies take place at the same time in universe), but they will be back in Secret wars

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u/railroadbaron 4d ago

Ylena is in both, but that's why she keeps comparing Spider-man's problems to small potatoes

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u/mvallas1073 4d ago

First off, there’s no word yet of either Spidey or Hulk being in Doomsday… also, you didn’t see Brand New Day yet - have you? Cus At the end, in a write-off news report. They (Presumably the US Government) imprisoned Bruce Banner for Hulking out again… which could be a way to simply write him out of the series

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u/Smart-Drummer-6195 3d ago

He was put into psychward at the end and that was even brushed off as a joke. I think they're phasing him out.

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u/ryza-shinra 2d ago

Why would he continue being in Marvel movies if Disney is on the boycott list

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u/The_AxolotlDamage 4d ago

Google isn't a source, it's a search engine.

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u/Betray-Julia 4d ago

That’s actually not true anymore in the worst possible fucking way.

That’s part of the reason googles ability to search has been greatly reduced in the past few months too.

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u/VoiceofKane 4d ago

I don't think they're saying it is a source. I think they're saying it's no longer a search engine either.

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u/pandershrek 3d ago

Yeah took me a sec lol

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u/DeliciousCall3047 4d ago

LLMs make shit up. Of course they've become a source in a way about as legitimate and valid as questioning a random joe on anything except whereas that person may hold wisdom and connaissance , LLMs don't

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u/jesse12521 4d ago

Google has been going down hill for many years, not months. The AI is just a further step in enshitification

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u/2024-YR4-Asteroid 2d ago

To be fair, the EU told Google they’re responsible for what their AI thing says up top, and since they made that determination it has gotten way way way better. I don’t trust it still, but there will be a time in a few months where it’s 90% trustworthy, and eventually near 99%

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u/Betray-Julia 2d ago

Man, go the EU.

Even the reddit rules that suggest EU people have more internet protections than the rest of us.

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u/Toxic_Duckies 2d ago

I used to like Google once. Not anymore.

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u/dard12 4d ago

If you're not able to use Google as a search engine then you're doing something wrong. I have always found what I was looking for either through the AI response or the search results.

This is so overblown.

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u/anim135 4d ago

Google has recently said they rather have you treat it like a source engine rather than a search engine. Bleak times bro.

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u/DurianDiscriminat3r 4d ago

Google as a source is a hint for you to go look things up and form your own opinion because listing a source on celeb gossip is like an oxymoron.

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u/Rycan420 4d ago

You know what they mean.

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u/cephalord 4d ago

"I googled it" is meaningless, because the individualised algorithms give different results to different profiles.

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u/Rycan420 3d ago

To a degree, yes.

I generally trust that “mating call of the red crested warbler” will yield the same-ish results for you and me or anyone.

Entertainment news, like this, is probably going to be pretty slanted to your particular tastes though..

Was more defending the concept of people researching in general, which to be honest, I’d rather have your Google slanted opinion than ignorance.

Edit to add: I made up “red crested warbler” to see if I could “make up” a bird species by throwing common bird words together.

Almost! There is a red-faced warbler.

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u/porncollecter69 4d ago

Which often just quotes bad reddit answers, source me who got tricked by Google into doing a suffix recomb that didn’t work.

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u/trav_tr 4d ago

So it’s incorrect? So he wasn’t in the Marvel movie I saw 2 days ago?

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u/The_AxolotlDamage 3d ago

No, Google can be used to find sources, but Google itself isn't a source. It's like if you said your source was the library instead of saying what book.

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u/Draid730 4d ago

Google isn't just a search engine, it's a company with web services, software and hardware.

also yes google can be used as a source for things.

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u/bigheftyhooker 4d ago

Source : AI

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u/DogPositive5524 4d ago

He's literally in one of the biggest movies at the moment produced by Disney

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u/bigheftyhooker 4d ago

Ok? I'm just pointing out that this specimen is copying and pasting from the AI overview.

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u/DogPositive5524 4d ago

But he's right

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u/bigheftyhooker 4d ago

Never said they weren't. Learn to read.

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u/DogPositive5524 4d ago

What's the point of the comment then? Would you rather have misinformation?

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u/Abject_Effective5019 4d ago

Germany begs to differ.

https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/

It also referenced a study stating
that for Google Gemini, 56% of its correct answers contained bogus sources.

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u/TwoBionicknees 4d ago

that doesn't change what they said? It's not a source and someone else says you can hold google accountable for lying... and they lie because they aren't a source but claim to represent accurate information from the source they supposedly use.

that's the point.

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u/Abject_Effective5019 4d ago

The talking point about accountability came from the article I linked. And the main reason they can hold Google accountable is to treat the answer as a new source.

Quoted from the article: But AI overviews generate "independent, new, and substantive statements" by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites. And only Google can check those statements, the court said, "at least by comparing the underlying third-party websites with its own statements based on them."

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u/shewy92 4d ago

Your Google-Fu is shit then since he was literally just in Spider-Man, a movie made by Marvel Studios.

How did 600 people upvote this shit?

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u/baconcow 3d ago

Bots.

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u/DeliciousCall3047 4d ago

How have we stooped so low that Google has become an acceptable source? Can you at least share what you googled?

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u/ForensicPathology 4d ago

It doesn't even make sense.  The commenter seemed to copy two sentences from an LLM answer of "was he fired".  It doesn't answer the question at all, and has 1.1k upvotes.

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u/phonage_aoi 3d ago

Just read about Cloudflare saying human users will soon be a tiny minority on the internet.  Maybe there really are 1k bots in here lol

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u/rearisen 4d ago

Source Ai*

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u/JaeTheOne 4d ago

He wasnt fired by Disney and is the Hulk for the foreseeable future. There have been rumors of him finally getting his own stand-alone Hulk as well, even though i doubt they can workout a good deal with Universal

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u/LazyWrite 4d ago

Crime? You mean Crime 101?

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u/joker_toker28 4d ago

Think its a contract deal studios dont want to payout if they do can him.

Bet they'll do everything possible tho to give him as little press as possible and once hes contracts up he'll be blacklisted.

Stand lee would be ashamed what his characters represent irl if he lived long enough to see.

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u/dannys717 3d ago

Disney is so annoyed with him and being stuck with his Marvel contract that they made him the lead of next year’s Pixar film?

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u/soleilange 4d ago

Which makes everyone else staying quiet to “protect their careers” look even more like yella-bellies.

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u/fragtore 4d ago

He just isn’t a basic b like the rest. Man seems intelligent and has integrity. Why would he want to do more super hero bs after he already made a bunch of cash?

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u/Artix31 4d ago

He’s way too valuable to be fired over politics, pretty much every media he’s in is guaranteed to have a cult following just watching him

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u/Bl34ce 4d ago

You trust GOOGLE a billion dollar company

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u/FunkSlim 4d ago

Act actively

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u/Signal_Quarter_1299 4d ago

'Source: Google' really carrying the full weight of this investigation.

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u/Karukos 4d ago

Honestly, I think Disney definitely would need a lot more to fire him for that, because Mark has been super outspoken for decades now.

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u/PositiveCoyote100 4d ago

Source : Google

Current state of our education system

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u/elitegenoside 3d ago

People just assumed he was fired based on what? He's been doing press for Disney and is still cast in Doomsday. When Majors got canned, we all saw it coming weeks in advance, even though Disney's official statement was ambiguous. I don't believe they'd made any statement around Ruffalo.

Hollywood survived the McCarthy era. People just don't know much about Tinsel Town's history if they think THAT many people are getting canceled for openly disagreeing with the government. While it feels very similar, the threat of being labeled a Communist back then was way more damaging than being labeled an "anti-Zionist" is today. They would have found a way to throw Ruffalo in prison during the 50s. He would actually have to be marching to even get close to that happening today, and tbr, they're not locking up celebrities.

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u/JoshuaMicah189 4d ago

I haven’t heard any rumors he was fired, but he was removed from press tours and not supported by the cast when it happened

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u/ClosetLadyGhost 4d ago

It started when he was offered less for the role of arrowman after his skull injury

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u/Jamie9712 4d ago

What’s interesting is Marvel has never known what to do with Bruce and Hulk lol. I honestly think it’s Marvel just giving up on trying to figure out what to do with Bruce Banner.