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A New Superhero Costume

We don't need to get rid of everything that's fun about bond. We can just update him. We'll lose the races bits. We'll add consent and mutual respect to all the sexual encounters. There's no real loss to scissoring out all that. Sure, it's adolescent, but at least it's grown ups who aren't wearing their underwear. Ok? Superhero costumes give me toxidoes and loungere and nudity - tastefully done over a character dressed up like a spider or a bat. Day punches and fast cars over super breath and ex ray vision and radioactive misadventures that give one super powers. And rant start.

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