NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 126: "The Witchfinders" is Up!

"Honestly, if I was still a bloke, I could just get on with the job and not have to waste time defending myself!"
--The Thirteenth Doctor, Doctor Who: "The Witchfinders"

With Karen off in time and space, I'm joined this week by my partner in time Jesse Jackson for a new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast!  This time, we review "The Witchfinders", the eighth episode from Doctor Who Series Eleven, featuring Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, Alan Cumming as King James I, Siobhan Finneran as Becka Savage, and Tilly Steele as Willa Twiston!

In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like Jesse and me being Time Bros, friend of the show Ken Schaefer's son Parker, taking the rough with the smooth with Doctor Who, Alan Cumming as King James I, Jesse needing to watch Downton Abbey, the Thirteenth Doctor having difficulty as a time-traveler because she's now a woman, a really awkward Next Stop Everywhere transition, Jesse cosplaying Graham O'Brien, wondering if the Doctor will be more sympathetic and enlightened toward her female companions, Jodie Whittaker getting to express some frustration through her character, King James I hitting on Ryan, Yaz being underwritten once again, the Doctor's clash of ideology with King James I, the no-win scenario of accused witches being "innocent" of witchcraft if they died, the Santana version of "Black Magic Woman", the Covers channel on Sirius XM, the mud monsters called The Morax, our favorite quotes of the episode, a quick Reverse the Polarity segment, some feedback from Holly from Wisconsin and Paul from Australia, and more!

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Be sure to come back next week as Jesse, Karen and I review "It Takes You Away", the ninth episode from Doctor Who Series Eleven, featuring Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, Tosin Cole as Ryan Sinclair, Mandip Gill as Yasmin Khan, and Bradley Walsh as Graham O'Brien!  Look for more of Next Stop Everywhere on iTunes, Google Play Music, YouTube, Libsyn, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and the official Southgate Media Group website!

TITANTALK 014: "Asylum" is Up!

"If I had even the slightest chance of getting my mom back, there’s nothing I wouldn’t do."
"But…you said—"
"Yeah, I lied.  I just said what they wanted to hear.  You get pretty good at that when you live with Dr. Caulder.  If you agree with people, they tend to leave you alone."
-- Garfield "Gar" Logan and Rachel Roth, Titans: "Asylum"

Hello again, Titans fans!  My fellow TitanTalker Jesse Jackson and I are back with another new episode of TitanTalk: The Titans Podcast!  This time, we discuss “Asylum”, the seventh episode of the DC Universe series Titans, introducing Rachel Nichols as Angela Azarath, and featuring Reed Birney as Dr. Adamson and Tomaso Sanelli as Young Dick Grayson!

TITANS TOGETHER!

In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like enjoying our Thanksgiving weekend, Jesse binge-watching Star Trek: Discovery Season 1, Jesse discovering the Next Time trailers after the Titans closing credits, Rachel Nichols being cast as Raven's mom, wanting Tomaso Sanelli to star in a Young Dick Grayson Chronicles series, Beast Boy giving in to his bestial side, wondering if Rachel reciprocates Gar's crush on her, Gar lying to Dick and Kory to get them to leave him alone, Dick Grayson being drugged and confronting his younger self, wondering if Dick is finally going to stop blaming Bruce for his anger, not knowing what was going to happen to Dick Grayson in the comics after he gave up being Robin, thinking we've finally seen the last of Brenton Thwaites as Robin, Kory getting a breathing tube down her throat, wondering if Kory is a mass murderer after burning down the asylum, Raven talking with Dr. Adamson alone, Dr. Adamson betting on Raven healing him by cutting his own throat, Rachel's raven tattoo, still waiting for the first mention of Trigon, wondering if we'll get to see Azarath, our favorite quotes of the episode, more on Kory's bad fashion choices, new feedback from DJ Nik in Milan, Italy, looking forward to Conor Leslie as Donna Troy, an update my wife Lori's opinion of Titans, and more!

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Be sure to come back next week for Episode 015 as Jesse and I discuss "Donna Troy", the eighth episode of the new DC Universe series Titans, introducing Conor Leslie as Wonder Girl/Donna Troy!  Look for more of TitanTalk: The Titans Podcast on iTunes, Google Play Music, YouTube, Libsyn, and the official Southgate Media Group website!

Sony Pictures Developing Animated SPIDER-WOMEN Film

The webbed women of Marvel are getting their own animated movie.

Deadline is reporting that Sony Pictures is working on an animated Spider-Women film that will "focus on three generations of women with Spidey powers."

According to the article, Bek Smith (Zoo) will write the script, with Amy Pascal producing.

It's not known if Spider-Women will be connected to the previous animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which featured Hailee Steinfeld as Spider-Gwen/Gwen Stacy.  The studio is already working on a sequel that continues with the Miles Morales Spider-Man.

Presumably, Spider-Women will be based somewhat on the recent Marvel Comics event storyline "Spider-Women", that was centered around the superheroes Spider-Gwen, the Jessica Drew Spider-Woman, and Silk.  

The Jessica Drew Spider-Woman was created in 1977 by Archie Goodwin and Marie Severin, first appearing in Marvel Spotlight #32.  At a young age, Jessica's family moved to a lab built by her father and Herbert Wyndham near Mount Wundagore in Transia, where she became gravely ill from months of uranium exposure.  To save her life, her father injected her with an experimental serum based on irradiated spiders' blood.  She was later captured by a HYDRA reserve unit under Count Otto Vermis, who erased her memories, brainwashed her, and recruited her as a HYDRA agent under the codename Arachne.  After an encounter with The Thing, she recovered from her brainwashing, and took on the identity of Spider-Woman. The two superheroes soon encountered Modred the Mystic, who removed HYDRA's memory implants and restored Jessica's memories.

Spider-Gwen, a.k.a. the Gwen Stacy Spider-Woman, was created in 2014 by Jason Latour and Robbi Rodriguez and first appeared in Edge of Spider-Verse #4 as the Earth-65 version of Gwen Stacy.  Instead of this Earth's Peter Parker, this Gwen Stacy was the one bitten by the radioactive spider during a demonstration on the use of radioactive rays at a science exhibit.  She became a superhero going by the name of Spider-Woman.  Shortly after she began fighting crime, Peter Parker attempted to exact revenge on those who bullied him in Midtown High School, becoming Earth-65's version of the Lizard.  Gwen subdued him, but Peter died towards the end of the battle due to a chemical that he used.

Silk was created in 2014 by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos, first appearing in The Amazing Spider-Man (vol.3) #4, following a brief cameo in issue #1.  After the radioactive spider that gave Peter Parker his Spider-Man powers, the spider bit Cindy Moon as well.  Soon after, Cindy’s abilities manifested, including organic webbing (unlike Peter), but she was unable to control them.  Some time later, the character known as Ezekiel approached the Moon family and offered his help with Cindy controlling her newfound abilities.  After six years of training to use her powers, Cindy was locked up inside a facility by Ezekiel to protect her and the other "spiders" from the villain called Morlun and his family known as the Inheritors.  After learning of her existence, Spider-Man immediately searched for Cindy to break her out of the facility where Ezekiel had kept her.  Cindy made her way out of the facility to finally see the city of New York, and became the superhero known as Silk.

GHOSTWOOD 045: "Laura's Secret Diary" is Up!

"Mr. Cooper, how do you find our little corner of this world?"
"Heaven, sir."
"Well, this week, heaven includes arson, multiple homicides, and an attempt on the life of a federal agent."
"Heaven is a large and interesting place, sir."
-- Judge Clinton Sternwood & Special Agent Dale Cooper, Twin Peaks: "Laura's Secret Diary"

It is happening again...My co-host with the most Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast!  This time, we continue our commentary tracks as we watch "Laura's Secret Diary," the fourth episode from Twin Peaks Season Two, featuring the introductions of Royal Dano as Judge Clinton Sternwood, Claire Stansfield as Sid, and "Fumio Yamaguchi" as Mr. Tojamura!

LET'S ROCK!

In our latest episode, Xan and I discuss things like wondering if Josie bought Peter a stuffed mongoose, the Alan Smithee version of Dune putting Xan to sleep, Best Buy spoiling one of my upcoming Christmas gifts, the slow reveal of the interrogation room soundproofing, another round of "Leland or BOB?", Andy wanting to retake his sperm count test, that awkward moment for Andy when Lucy catches him with a copy of Flesh World, Cooper rocking the old PDA device, the impending arrival of food critic M.T. Wentz, rabbi chili vs. rabbit chili, the legal age for drinking in 1990 Washington state, Harold reading awkward passages of Laura's diary to Donna, Josie pretending to be upset that Catherine supposedly died in the sawmill fire, Jean looking for any excuse to off Emory, wondering if the Sheriff's Department has a recycling program for their doughnut boxes, Cooper's attempt at dealing with Lucy, Hank going overkill on the tablecloths and flowers, the secret Double R booth, whether Josie actually cared for Harry, peeping Jonathan, the Judge Sternwood spinoff series, Dick trying to get Lucy to have an abortion, the slightly racist Mr. Tojamura, David Lynch keeping Fumio Yamaguchi's identity secret from the cast, Cooper going all Rain Man with beer nuts, enjoying Hank getting the crap kicked out of him by Jonathan, Hank moving like a pregnant yak, being willing to write Twin Peaks Season 3 for free, Nadine getting a happy ending in "The Return", Xan completing her Twin Peaks trading cards base set, the passing of Stan Lee, Harold keeping Laura's diary from the police, Xan's cats eating her tissue boxes, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks as Xan and I continue our commentary tracks as we watch "The Orchid's Curse," the fifth episode from Twin Peaks Season Two, featuring the introduction of David L. Lander as Tim Pinkle, Cooper and Harry's rescue of Audrey Horne, and Harold Smith's disturbing use of a garden rake!  Look for more of Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast on iTunes, YouTube, Libsyn, and the official Southgate Media Group website!

NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 125: "Kerblam!" is Up!

"How would you like a warning for insubordination?"
"I'd love one.  I could add it to my collection."
-- Jarva Slade and The Thirteenth Doctor, Doctor Who: "Kerblam!"

With Jesse stuck at work, I'm joined this week by my partner in time Karen Lindsay for a new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast!  This time, we review "Kerblam!", the seventh episode from Doctor Who Series Eleven, featuring Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, Julie Hesmondhalgh as Judy Maddox, Lee Mack as Dan Cooper, and Claudia Jesse as Kira Arlo!

In this episode, Karen and I discuss things like Jesse being stuck at work, Karen and I bringing Next Stop Fandom Zone, Karen being on pain meds, hyphens being cooler than semicolons, Steve Carell as Jeff Bezos on Saturday Night Live, Lee Mack on the British quiz show QI, my recommendation for the first season of Broadchurch, The Doctor hating The Man and throwing serious shade on Jarva Slade, the Thirteenth Doctor looking for a moral fight, the Kerblam Man somehow finding the Doctor's TARDIS, the return of the Doctor's fez, Karen not being able to stop loving Graham, Graham as the blue-collar companion, the great conveyor belt sequence, why you should never high-five on a conveyor belt, Chekhov's bubble wrap, less episodes allowing for better production values, the 2018 Christmas Special becoming the 2019 New Year's Day Special, Yaz wanting to tell Dan's daughter how much he loved her, Kira being naive and desperate for approval, sweet characters not lasting on Doctor Who, Charlie being a completely unexpected villain, why Ryan's bubble wrap didn't explode in the TARDIS, wondering how the A.I.'s receipt got in the fez package, Kerblam packaging their products much better than Amazon does, reading books before the author even writes them, our favorite quotes of the episode, a quick Reverse the Polarity segment, some feedback from Isaac from Michigan, Holly from Wisconsin, Paul from Australia and David K. Proctor, Karen being happy with me doing the heavy lifting on Next Stop Everywhere, and more!

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Be sure to come back next week as Jesse, Karen and I review "The Witchfinders", the eighth episode from Doctor Who Series Eleven, featuring Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, Tosin Cole as Ryan Sinclair, Mandip Gill as Yasmin Khan, and Bradley Walsh as Graham O'Brien!  Look for more of Next Stop Everywhere on iTunes, Google Play Music, YouTube, Libsyn, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and the official Southgate Media Group website!

TITANTALK 013: "Jason Todd" is Up!

"So, how did you and he--?"
"I was out boosting cars.  Guess I chose the wrong one...or the right one."
"You tried to steal the Batmobile?"
"No, man.  Just the hubcaps."-- Dick Grayson and Jason Todd, Titans: "Jason Todd"

Hello again, Titans fans!  My fellow TitanTalker Jesse Jackson and I are back with another new episode of TitanTalk: The Titans Podcast!  This time, we discuss "Jason Todd", the sixth episode of the DC Universe series Titans, featuring Curran Walters as Jason Todd, Kyle Mac as The Melting Man, Lester Speight as Clayton Williams, and Richard Zeppieri as Tony Zucco!

TITANS TOGETHER!

In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like Jesse going for some damn good coffee, Ben Kingsley's Mandarin, Terry Tate: Office Linebacker, my skipping breakfast so Jesse can watch Cowboys football, Jason being a little bit of a psychopath, Jason's excessive violence helping Dick become Nightwing, possibly seeing the last of Brenton Thwaites in the Robin costume, wondering if Jason will be killed off camera and replaced as Robin by Tim Drake, Clayton and the Haly Circus, Dick's life being completely different if he had stayed with Clayton, Jason having a better Robin suit, Dick giving Jason a fist bump, Tony Zucco murdering Dick's parents, connecting Dick Grayson to Two-Face, the Stephen King book and film Dolores Claiborne, Dick's guilt over not saving Tony Zucco's life driving his current anger, Kory snapping Rachel and Gar to attention, Kory telling Dick the Nuclear Family is dead while he's surgically removing a tracker from his arm, Jason meeting Batman by stealing the hubcaps off the Batmobile, more frustration at not seeing Bruce Wayne on Titans, Jason being clueless about Frank Lloyd Wright and Niccolò Machiavelli, our favorite quotes of the episode, Jason's bad Snake Plissken fake ID, the upcoming Young Justice: Outsiders animated series, new feedback from DJ Nik in Milan, Italy and Stephen from Dallas, the Legion of Collectors exclusive Nightwing Funko figure, and more!

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Be sure to come back next week for Episode 014 as Jesse and I discuss "Asylum", the seventh episode of the new DC Universe series Titans, featuring Reed Birney as The Messenger!  Look for more of TitanTalk: The Titans Podcast on iTunes, Google Play Music, YouTube, Libsyn, and the official Southgate Media Group website!

NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 124: "Demons of the Punjab" is Up!

"Love in all its forms is the most powerful weapon we have.  Because love is a form of hope, and like hope, love abides in the face of everything."
-- The Thirteenth Doctor, Doctor Who: "Demons of the Punjab"

Back to a full TARDIS crew, I'm joined once again by my partners in time, Jesse Jackson and Karen Lindsay, for a new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast!  This time, we review "Demons of the Punjab", the sixth episode from Doctor Who Series Eleven, featuring Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, Tosin Cole as Ryan Sinclair, Mandip Gill as Yasmin Khan, and Bradley Walsh as Graham O'Brien!

In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like Karen dropping the F-bomb, keeping Karen off the Disabled List, learning about the Partition of India, Doctor Who becoming an educational series as it was during the early William Hartnell era, Idris Elba becoming the Sexiest Man Alive, Karen cougaring over Prem, humanity being the "demons" instead of the Thijarians, the Thirteenth Doctor looking for a fight with the Thijarians, the Thijarians' vague objectives, Yaz's nani Umbreen, Yaz ensuring her own existence, Chris Chibnall wanting to explore new ground and places we've never been before, 1947 noir films, living in perilous times these days, Manish being corrupted by talk radio, Prem's last stand against his brother and his armed allies, Bradley Walsh giving James Corden a run for his money, Segun Akinola's haunting Indian version of the Doctor Who theme, our favorite lines of the episode, Karen and I bringing The Fandom Zone to Next Stop Everywhere, a quick Reverse the Polarity segment, some feedback from Holly from Wisconsin and Paul from Australia, fun with saying "Kerblam!", and more!

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Be sure to come back next week as Jesse, Karen and I review "Kerblam!", the seventh episode from Doctor Who Series Eleven, featuring Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, Tosin Cole as Ryan Sinclair, Mandip Gill as Yasmin Khan, and Bradley Walsh as Graham O'Brien!  Look for more of Next Stop Everywhere on iTunes, Google Play Music, YouTube, Libsyn, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and the official Southgate Media Group website!

THE FANDOM ZONE 152: "What Comes After" is Up!

"It feels like it's ending."
"Little things do end, but it's never the end of everything...because we don't die.  It's not about you, or me, or any one of us.  It's about all of us."

-- Rick Grimes and Sasha Williams, The Walking Dead: "What Comes After" 

That's right, Karen and I are back with another new episode of The Fandom Zone Podcast!  This week's reviews of comics on television include:

The Walking Dead 9x05: "What Comes After"

Legends of Tomorrow 4x03: "Dancing Queen"

The Gifted 2x06: "iMprint"

Daredevil 3x02: "Please"

In this episode, Karen and I talk about things like the George Burns Oh, God movies, the passing of Stan Lee, Brian Michael Bendis and I both attending the 1988 International Superman Exposition in Cleveland and meeting Stan Lee for the first time, the upcoming Rick Grimes spinoff movies, the return of Shane, Hershel and Sasha, homages to the original Walking Dead pilot episode, The Walking Dead Universe franchise, wondering what happened to Negan's bat Lucille, Lauren Cohan's last episode as Maggie Rhee, the six-year time jump, Judith becoming Mini-Carl, Nate & Gary's pointless mission to 760,000 BC, super-square Ray hanging with a '70s British punk band, wondering if new shapeshifter Charlie is actually female, Constantine's birth killing his mother, Constantine trying to kick his dad in the bollocks, hoping we'll see the Legends go back to see a Mucous Membrane concert, Shatter vs. Arseface, Reed wanting Thunderbird to teach him how to control his powers, the other two Stepford Cuckoos, wondering if Esme is going to die and be replaced by Mindee, wanting Jace to be killed off, Bullseye taking out Albanians attacking the Kingpin's convoy, the Toy Story 4 teaser trailer, finally seeing Foggy's family's butcher shop, Karen cougaring Foggy's brother Theo, some new feedback from Justina, our previous podcast Dangerous Habits: The Constantine Podcast, and more!

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Be sure to come back next week, as Karen and I review new episodes of AMC's The Walking Dead, Netflix's Daredevil and The CW's The Flash and Black Lightning, right here on The Fandom Zone Podcast!

TITANTALK 012: "Together" is Up!

"Anytime today would be good."
"It's uh...a little weird if you guys watch me and all.  The first time I transformed, I tore through my clothes, and uh...this is my favorite jacket."
"Hold on.  You have to be naked to --?"
"Yeah, but it'll be worth it!  I promise!"
-- Dick Grayson and Gar Logan, Titans: "Together"

Hello again, Titans fans!  My fellow TitanTalker Jesse Jackson and I are back with another new episode of TitanTalk: The Titans Podcast!  This time, we discuss "Together", the fifth episode of the new DC Universe series Titans, featuring the introduction of Curran Walters as Jason Todd, Reed Birney as The Messenger, and the return of the Nuclear Family!

TITANS TOGETHER!

In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like Sunday being TitanTalk Day, Titans Season One having a lot of writers and reshuffling episodes, Titans starting to get positive word of mouth, the Titans finally coming together, Dick wanting everyone to showcase their powers, Starfire being the opposite of Night Girl from the Legion of Substitute Heroes, Starfire's bad idea of hanging out in the overcast Midwest, Beast Boy only being able to transform into a tiger, wondering why circus boy Dick Grayson freaked at Gar changing into a tiger, Raven's soul self being a strange black goo, Titans fight choreography resembling Daredevil, Titans needing better lighting, the Nuclear Family getting a new dad, Titans finally showing some restraint on the gratuitous violence, worrying about Dick eating the butterscotch candy, Jesse eating a chicken embryo in Manila, the smokebomb signature move for Robins, Dick seeing Jason Todd for the first time, Kory worrying that Dick was going to blame her for the Nuclear Family's heads exploding, the Nuclear Family being stored in the cloud, Dick and Kory's sex scene, Kory shopping at the Happy Times liquor store, everybody liking Dick...Grayson, our favorite lines of the episode, Beast Boy wanting to meet Batman, new feedback from DJ Nik in Milan, Italy, Beast Boy needing to connect with people, and more!

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Be sure to come back next week for Episode 013 as Jesse and I discuss "Jason Todd", the sixth episode of the new DC Universe series Titans, featuring Curran Walters as Jason Todd, the second Robin!  Look for more of TitanTalk: The Titans Podcast on iTunes, Google Play Music, YouTube, Libsyn, and the official Southgate Media Group website!

THE MANDALORIAN Casts Pedro Pascal as Title Character

He's no good to us dead.

Deadline has word that the upcoming Disney+ streaming service's live-action Star Wars TV series The Mandalorian is in final negotiations with actor Pedro Pascal to star.  Pascal will play the show's unnamed title character from the planet Mandalore, home to the bounty hunter known as Boba Fett.

The Mandalorian was revealed last month by writer and executive producer Jon Favreau and described as "After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe.  The Mandalorian is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order.  We follow the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic.…"

Pascal, 43, is a Chilean-American actor best known as Oberyn Martell on the HBO series Game of Thrones and as Agent Whiskey in the movie Kingsman: The Golden Circle.  Pascal's other films include the upcoming Wonder Woman 1984, The Equalizer 2, The Great Wall, and The Adjustment Bureau.  His additional TV appearances include episodes of Narcos, Homeland, Nikita, Charlie's Angels (2011), The Good Wife, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Graceland, Nurse Jackie, The Mentalist, and NYPD Blue.  In another Wonder Woman connection, he played Ed Indelicato in the failed 2011 Wonder Woman pilot starring Adrianne Palicki.

According to the article, the first episode of the series will be directed by Dave Filoni (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), while other directors of early episodes include Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok), Rick Famuyiwa (Dope), Deborah Chow (Jessica Jones) and actress Bryce Dallas Howard, whose previous directorial work has been limited to short films.

HBO's WATCHMEN Casts Jeremy Irons as an Older Ozymandias

He doesn't mind being the smartest man in the world, he just wishes it wasn't this one.

Slashfilm has revealed that the upcoming HBO series based on DC Comics' Watchmen has cast veteran actor Jeremy Irons as an older version of Adrian Veidt, better known to Watchmen fans as the superhero (or supervillain) Ozymandias.

Irons was announced for the Watchmen cast several months ago, when it was revealed he would be playing an "aging and imperious lord of a British manor."  According to a report back in June, Ozymandias is officially declared dead in the show's first episode, so Irons may be playing the role in flashbacks, or those reports of Ozymandias' death have been greatly exaggerated.

Irons, 70, is best known as Alfred Pennyworth in the DC Extended Universe movies Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League, as the voice of Scar in Disney's The Lion King, and as Simon Gruber in the action film Die Hard with a Vengeance.  His other films include Red Sparrow, Assassin's Creed, Eragon, Inland Empire, Kingdom of Heaven, The Time Machine (2002), and The Man in the Iron Mask.  Irons' television appearances include episodes of The Borgias, The Simpsons, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Saturday Night Live, and The Civil War.

Created in 1986 by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons as a modified version of Charlton Comics' superhero Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt, Ozymandias first appeared in Watchmen #1 as Adrian Veidt, the son of wealthy German-American immigrant parents.  As a child, he received high grades in school, and it was noted that he was very intelligent.  He then hid this information from his elders and peers by deliberately achieving average marks.  After his parents' deaths, he inherited their substantial fortune at age seventeen, but chose to give it all to charity as he wanted to make something of himself on his own.  Veidt embarked on a vision quest, following the route of his childhood idol Alexander the Great.  During an excursion into the Middle East, Veidt consumed a ball of hashish and saw visions of the past.  As he finished his travels in Egypt, he realized that Alexander was a pale imitation of Ramesses II, who became Veidt's new hero.  Returning to the US, he began training himself to achieve peak physical condition, becoming a world-class gymnast in the process.

At age nineteen, Veidt named himself Ozymandias (the Greek name for Ramesses II) and became a costumed vigilante, earning a reputation as "the smartest man on the planet” and using his physical skills to non-violently incapacitate opponents.  He debuted in early 1958 by exposing a drug ring in New York City.  An early attempt at his “bullet catch” trick worked, though it deprived him of the first three fingers of his right hand in the process.  Undeterred, Veidt had his entire hand replaced with a bionic prosthesis.  In 1966, he was invited by former Minuteman and adventurer Captain Metropolis to become a member of the Crimebusters, but the group never came to fruition due to the Comedian breaking up the meeting.  It was at this moment that Veidt began to believe superheroics were not enough to save the world, and began plotting to think of a method that could.

Due to the increasingly negative perceptions of vigilantes by the media, Veidt predicted that the public would turn away from them.  Two years before costumed heroes were banned by the Keene Act, Veidt revealed his secret identity, retired from superheroism and marketed his image.  He became very wealthy and was known as a great humanitarian, and used this to bankroll his secret scheme of creating a catastrophic event to deceive the world into uniting against a common enemy and thus avert nuclear war.  Upon completion of his project, Veidt planned to murder all of his (unwitting) accomplices and arrange the psychological deterioration and self-exile of the presumably invincible Doctor Manhattan.  Fellow vigilante Edward Blake, a.k.a. the Comedian, stumbled upon Veidt's plans.  This led Veidt to personally murder the Comedian at the beginning of Watchmen.

Veidt was first seen when Rorschach visited him to get his opinion on Blake's murder and to warn about a possible serial killer targeting superheroes.  Rorschach was unconvinced of Veidt's theory that Blake was assassinated by a bitter arch-rival.  Veidt was one of the few people attending Blake's funeral, at which he reminisced about the failed Crimebusters meeting.  Later, Veidt narrowly escaped an assassination attempt that left his assistant dead.  The would-be assassin died from an unseen cyanide capsule before Veidt could interrogate him.

Rorschach and Nite Owl deduced that Veidt was behind the whole plot, after they linked one of Veidt's shell companies to a plot to discredit Manhattan.  The duo realized that Veidt exposed Manhattan's former lover, colleagues, and an enemy to radiation and deliberately monitored them for cancer, so Manhattan would flee Earth out of either guilt or public enmity.  When Rorschach and Nite Owl arrived at Veidt's Antarctic retreat, he easily overpowered both of them and explained his plan to save humanity from itself -- teleporting a biologically-engineered, telepathic creature to New York, which would kill millions and convince the world that they were under extraterrestrial attack.  The US and the Soviet Union, on the brink of nuclear confrontation, would then join forces against the supposed alien invaders.  He also admitted to framing Manhattan. killing the Comedian. framing Rorschach for the murder of Moloch, and staging the attempt on his own life, killing his attacker in the process.  When Rorschach and Nite Owl asked him when he planned to execute his scheme, Veidt revealed that it was completed before they arrived, saying, "I did it thirty-five minutes ago."

When Doctor Manhattan and Silk Spectre confronted Veidt, he attempted to disintegrate Manhattan, but he soon reformed himself.  Silk Spectre attempted to shoot him, but he caught the bullet and knocked her out.  Realizing that exposing Veidt's plan would undo the early stages of world peace, most of the heroes agreed to remain silent on the plot. Rorschach, a moral absolutist, prepared to return to the US and reveal Veidt's plan to the world, but ultimately let Manhattan kill him.  Before Manhattan left Earth to create life in another galaxy, Veidt asked him if he "did the right thing in the end."  Manhattan replied that "nothing ever ends", leaving Veidt in doubt about how long the peace would last.  Unbeknownst to Veidt and the other characters, Rorschach previously mailed a journal to a newspaper detailing his findings about Veidt's plan.  It was left ambiguous whether the newspaper ultimately published its contents.

Irons will be the second actor to portray Ozymandias in live action, after Matthew Goode in the 2009 Watchmen film adaptation by Zack Snyder.

Watchmen is expected to debut on HBO sometime in 2019.

NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 123: "The Tsuranga Conundrum" is Up!

"While you've been mucking about on YouTube, I've been learning useful life skills."

-- Graham O'Brien to Ryan Sinclair, Doctor Who: "The Tsuranga Conundrum"

With Karen Lindsay on the Disabled List this week, I'm joined once again by my other partner in time, Jesse Jackson, for a new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast!  This time, we review "The Tsuranga Conundrum", the fifth episode from Doctor Who Series Eleven, featuring Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, Tosin Cole as Ryan Sinclair, Mandip Gill as Yasmin Khan, and Bradley Walsh as Graham O'Brien!

In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like Karen being the star of our show, how we divide our show responsibilities, Doctor Who being a positive series, Jesse not getting so-called "fans" not getting Series 11, calling episodes like we see them, Chris Chibnall not being a great writer or a horrible writer, McDonald's being consistently mediocre, the Pting being reminiscent of Stitch and Nibbler, why it's sometimes better to have the Sonic Screwdriver off the table, the Doctor geeking out over an antimatter drive, Yaz inventing the game of Pting Ptong, the Doctor becoming famous again, Ryan and Graham helping deliver Yoss' baby, guys knocking out pregnancy in just a week, learning what happened to Ryan's mom, Yoss naming his baby Avocado Pear, Graham watching Call the Midwife, our favorite lines of the episode, a quick Reverse the Polarity segment, some feedback from Isaac from Michigan, Holly from Wisconsin, and Paul from Australia, whether Donald Trump is evil or not, Doctor Who always being a political show, and more!

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