Cobie Smulders

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q200566: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: The Avengers (2012); Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014); The Lego Batman Movie (2017); Jack Reacher (sequel).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Batman (1966 Adam West film) (1966): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Lego Batman Movie (2017), which they acted in: Batman (1966 Adam West film) ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read). The Joker's all-villains-together plan is the Adam West movie's plan.
    “it's essentially like the, the, uh, Adam West Batman movie plan, where it's like, I know to finally defeat Batman, call in everybody.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:12:49 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through The Lego Batman Movie (2017), which they acted in: Batman (1966 Adam West film) ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read). Robin's costume transition and the Kick Butler nameplate are Adam West-style text and costume jokes.
    “It's essentially like a doing the Adam West transition.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:44:07 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

The Incredible Hulk (2008): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Avengers (2012), which they acted in: The Incredible Hulk ⇒ The Avengers (the host's read). Avengers' line about Hulk 'breaking Harlem' is false: the Abomination did it.
    “That's the one thing they reference in Avengers, where he says, I kind of broke Harlem.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:34:36 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through The Avengers (2012), which they acted in: The Incredible Hulk ⇒ The Avengers (the host's read). Ruffalo's first Hulk scene in a slum echoes this film's Rocinha opening, though otherwise the continuity is thrown out.
    “The only tale is that when the Mark Ruffalo hook was introduced, they find the little hot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:25:11 · Griffin or David (0.25 sure it was them)

Three Days of the Condor (1975): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), which they acted in: Three Days of the Condor ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the maker said so). The filmmakers say outright they were making a Condor movie.
    “But they're like, we're like, we're making a 3 days of the Condor movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:27:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), which they acted in: Three Days of the Condor ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read). The Russos and Marcus/McFeely were told they could make a Three Days of the Condor style political thriller inside the MCU, provided Feige got his Helicarrier back.
    “You want to do a 3 day of the Condor movie?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:19:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Batman (Burton/Keaton films): 1 line

  1. theme (theme) · through The Lego Batman Movie (2017), which they acted in: Batman (Burton/Keaton films) ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read). The film shares the Burton/Keaton take that Batman is fully broken and has not processed his parents' deaths.
    “this movie sort of has the Burton Keaton take of like, he's fully broken by this fucking thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:40:08 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), which they acted in: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read). Zola surviving and joining the other side is the seed for Winter Soldier.
    “Because you need Zola to join the other side.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:34:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Doctor Who: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Lego Batman Movie (2017), which they acted in: Doctor Who ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read). A Dalek is an iron-lung garbage can with a plunger arm, and the Lego film's villains riff on such designs.
    “But his main villainous called the Dalek, and it's like this sort of like big garbage.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:31:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Ed Brubaker: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), which they acted in: Ed Brubaker ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read). The film adapts the Brubaker Winter Soldier comic arc.
    “They wanted to take the Ed Brubaker Winter Soldier Arc, which is one of the most famous Captain America Arcs.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Galaxy Quest (1999): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Lego Batman Movie (2017), which they acted in: Galaxy Quest ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read). The Phantom Zone security system gets the Galaxy Quest joke: who would ever build this?
    “It's like the Galaxy Quest joke of like, why would this ever be your security system?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:49:34 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

Grant Morrison: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Lego Batman Movie (2017), which they acted in: Grant Morrison ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read). The film's premise is Morrison's idea that every Batman era is canon, so the goofy and the grim must coexist.
    “which is he did his run where he was like, every single thing that Batman's ever done is canon.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:01:43 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

Hanna-Barbera cartoons and Mike Judge: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Lego Batman Movie (2017), which they acted in: Hanna-Barbera cartoons and Mike Judge ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read). Repeating slightly varied copies of a drawing makes still characters vibrate, and the Lego films use the same trick on flames and clouds.
    “if you want to have a character standing still, essentially trace the same drawing 3 times on 3 different pieces of paper.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:52:26 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

Iron Man (2008): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through The Avengers (2012), which they acted in: Iron Man ⇒ The Avengers (the host's read). The post-credits Nick Fury scene established the shared-universe model that changed Hollywood for a decade or more.
    “I mean, this has changed the next 10 years of Hollywood filmmaking.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:13:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jerry Bruckheimer: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Lego Batman Movie (2017), which they acted in: Jerry Bruckheimer ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read). Its action is played like a Bruckheimer movie, with jokes placed inside as character jokes.
    “Like the joke is kind of treating this all like it's a Bruckheimer movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:05:46 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)

Jerry Maguire (1996): 1 line

  1. theme (theme) · through The Lego Batman Movie (2017), which they acted in: Jerry Maguire ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read). Batman's arc ends with him giving the Joker the Jerry Maguire speech, completing the film's running Jerry Maguire joke.
    “just like it's so good full circle to fucking have him realize I have to give Joker the Jerry Maguire speech.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:33:26 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Michael Bay: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Lego Batman Movie (2017), which they acted in: Michael Bay ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read). The camera work deliberately copies real rigs, down to a constant circling Michael Bay shot.
    “This sort of constant circling Michael Bay shot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:09:11 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Avengers (2012), which they acted in: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace ⇒ The Avengers (the host's read). The Chitauri transport creature with troops jumping off recalls the Battle Droid transport.
    “it's like the thing in Phantom Menace, the, uh, Battle Droid Transport.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:47:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Superman (Christopher Reeve films): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Lego Batman Movie (2017), which they acted in: Superman (Christopher Reeve films) ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read). The Phantom Zone comes from the Christopher Reeve Superman movies, though it is in the comics too.
    “Just from the Chris Reeves Superman movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:25:43 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Sydney Pollack: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), which they acted in: Sydney Pollack ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read). Winter Soldier's look is said to approximate a Sydney Pollack movie (transcribed 'Sydney Poland').
    “And, you know, Captain America's sort of trying to approximate like a fucking Sydney Poland movie or whatever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:34:31 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The Dark Knight (2008): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Lego Batman Movie (2017), which they acted in: The Dark Knight ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read). The Joker's need for Batman to see him as an enemy is read against the post-Dark Knight Joker.
    “It's this thing of like, right, especially post Dark Knight, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:15:06 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

The Lego Movie (2014): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Lego Batman Movie (2017), which they acted in: The Lego Movie ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read). The Lego Movie is where the earnest-Batman bit started, and the hosts doubted it could sustain a whole movie.
    “It's the thing that the Lego movie lashes onto, but you felt unsustainable for a whole movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:03:41 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Wreck-It Ralph (2012): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through The Lego Batman Movie (2017), which they acted in: Wreck-It Ralph ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read). Wreck-It Ralph began the modern IP-mashup movie, then The Lego Movie and this, then Space Jam-style follow-ons.
    “But it's also like Wreck-It Ralph was really the 1st of the modern Ralph, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:07:29 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015): 2 lines

  1. contrast (contrast) · through The Avengers (2012), which they acted in: The Avengers ⇒ Avengers: Age of Ultron (the host's read). Age of Ultron opens with the team already together and Fury in hiding, so it is a sequel to five films rather than to Avengers.
    “Avengers 2 can't be a sequel to Avengers one. It has to be a sequel to 5 other moments.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:39:42 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming) · through Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), which they acted in: Captain America: The Winter Soldier ⇒ Avengers: Age of Ultron (the host's read). The post-credits scene sets up the twins and Strucker's experiments.
    “You know what they're setting up here, Benny.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:12:03 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Iron Man 3 (2013): 2 lines

  1. theme (theme) · through The Avengers (2012), which they acted in: The Avengers ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read). Stark's arc across three Iron Man films peaks in Iron Man 3, and Avengers lays the track for its PTSD.
    “Iron Man 3 is all him being unable to cope with the psychological like trauma of this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 2:07:49 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through The Avengers (2012), which they acted in: The Avengers ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read). Iron Man 3 works as a quasi-sequel to The Avengers because it deals with Tony's trauma of the portal and aliens.
    “Except it's it is a sort of quasi sequel to the Avengers in that it's dealing with the fact that he got sucked into a portal into space for a 2nd there.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:15:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Thor: The Dark World (2013): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Avengers (2012), which they acted in: The Avengers ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read). The Dark World is the correction to Joss Whedon cracking Loki: he becomes co-lead, Thor 1A to Loki 1B.
    “This is the correction to Joss Whedon cracking Loki, where they're like, we get it now.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:20:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through The Avengers (2012), which they acted in: The Avengers ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read). Avengers ends with the team scattering, which is why the Phase 2 sequels can stand alone.
    “And also, Joss Wheaton's like master stroke at the end of Avengers is like, we're not a team.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:30:50 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Avengers: Infinity War (2018): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Avengers (2012), which they acted in: The Avengers ⇒ Avengers: Infinity War (the host's read). The Hulk echoes Tony Stark's words from the first Avengers; the movie is full of callbacks.
    “echoing Tony Stark's words from the Avengers 2012”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:25:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Captain Marvel (2019): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Avengers (2012), which they acted in: The Avengers ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read). The Tesseract, the glowing box, was a MacGuffin in the first Avengers and in Infinity War.
    “you may remember the Tesseract from the 1st Avengers film, and then, of course, the most recent Avengers film, Avengers Infinity War”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:09:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014): 1 line

  1. programming (programming) · through The Avengers (2012), which they acted in: The Avengers ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy (the host's read). Thanos' Chitauri subcontracting sets up the cosmic films; Guardians is next on their Marvel list.
    “We're gonna we're gonna cover Peter movie soon.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:34:57 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Thor: Ragnarok (2017): 1 line

  1. theme (theme) · through The Avengers (2012), which they acted in: The Avengers ⇒ Thor: Ragnarok (the host's read). Ben's favorite Marvel movie; Hulk's journey into space follows from here.
    “Ragnarok is 100% Ben's favorite Marvel movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:18:58 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (4) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Cobie Smulders → How I Met Your Mother. A host sold a friend on The Avengers via Smulders from HIMYM.
    “selling her on the Kobe smolders of it all because she was cheap into how I met your mother”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:41:59 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Cobie Smulders → Jack Reacher (sequel). Jack Reacher 2 wasted her; they say she deserves her own action film.
    “But that was one of the many reasons why Jack Reacher too was so disappointing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:04:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Cobie Smulders → Wonder Woman (unmade Whedon script). Whedon wanted Smulders as his Wonder Woman, and Maria Hill is described as the consolation prize.
    “He wanted Kobe Smallers to play Wonder Woman when he was going to make that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:03:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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