Tex

**Tex** is a YouTuber who primarily makes videos about superhero media.

### vs The Cosmonaut Variety Hour

MauLer, Rags, Fringy, Southpaw, and Metal first encountered Tex on EFAP 130, where they took a look at his video defending *Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice*. The man he was defending it from was none other than The Cosmonaut Variety Hour, putting the gang in the novel position of technically being on the same side as Cosmo.

According to the videos title "**Cosmonaut Variety Hour Doesn't Understand Batman v Superman**", and Tex intends to prove that his points were wrong. He didn't want to watch his videos because Cosmo had tweeted that he was going to make money off of the *Snyder Cut* and wanted to review the other two movies since the release of the Snyder Cut would increase the interest in Snyder's other DCEU films. Tex hates this since it's capitalism but he respects the hustle. The only reason he watched the videos was that the other people in the comments asked his opinion on them and he found that he disagreed with him and that Cosmo had misunderstood things.

He found it ironic that Cosmo thinks it's stupid that Snyder is given DC characters to adapt when he didn't understand *Watchmen*, since according to him Cosmo is the one misunderstanding Snyder's DCEU movies. He is snide to Cosmo for including Joss Weedon's cut of the *Justice League*, as that is not so Snyder's vision but Whedon's vision (which was proven false, as Snyder cut has more scenes, but mainly slow motion extended cut and cuts that make characters come out dumber or more horrendous morally)

Cosmo says that Marvel can make a bad movie but they will still have good and interesting characters to make money (showing *Black Panther*), as most Marvel movies are not that interesting but have charismatic characters, which Tex sees as bad thing as most of the movies can be skipped since they are not that plot-important and the charisma is not enough to keep movie going.

Cosmonaut thinks the movie is boring and too long, saying he does not need to see Superman's dad flying around with monsters and doing karate, which Tex counters by saying that many superhero movies are a similar length and he doesn't understand Cosmos dislike of Krypton, since it's more comic-accurate and Cosmo prefers things to be comic-accurate. Tex argues the Krypton scenes serve to show the world Kal-El came from and its politics and bring up a key item, but if Cosmo does not like it, then Tex won't care as it's his opinion, prompting EFAP to ask why bring it up if you don't care?

Cosmo argues there is too much action in the third part of the film, and it drags on, with no interesting fight choreography Snyder uses, so he just doesn't care about it. Tex counters by saying that all superhero movies are mainly made out of action and *Man of Steel* saves most of it until the last part of the film.

The destruction is apocalyptic in Cosmo's words, with Superman crashing trough buildings with no regard for the people inside, which Tex counters by saying that that level of destruction is the natural outcome when people with superhuman abilities fight, and most of the destruction is not Superman's fault. Cosmo thinks it's wrong how people react so kindly to Superman in *Batman V Superman*, even thought he destroys so much property in *Man of Steel*, as that sort of destruction is would not be forgiven, to which Tex says it's forgivable since Superman destroys property because his mother was threatened - him destroying things was the point. He was thrown into things which was not his fault, since he was fighting people as strong as he is and he is not responsible for the destruction in Metropolis since he was at the Indian Ocean when world engine destroyed it. Sure he does some damage while fighting Zod, but it's only a few buildings and satellite. Besides, a big plot point is that people don't like him in BVS and at the end when he sacrifices himself people like him.

Cosmo thinks Superman killing Zod is wrong, since if he is strong enough to snap Zod's neck he could have simply turned it away from the civilins , which Tex counters by commenting that that is how would the fight would have ended, since Zod said he was going to kill people and Superman wasn't getting any headway. He was willing to make the hard decision to kill Zod, a genocidal maniac. This is also him siding with the humanity by taking out the last of his living member of his species for their safety.

Cosmo comments that the best Superman stories center around his humanity and he has not seen a movie that does that well. Tex counters by saying that *Man of Steel* does do it, but people just wanted Superman to have all his admirable qualities from the get go. The movie is him becoming the Superman character, to which EFAP comments that that means he agrees that Clark doesn't care about human life at the beginning of the film. Tex goes on to say the movie is him learning its not okay to fight in a populated city, but he compares to him not being infallible like the comic book Superman as he steals clothes and destroys a "douchebag's" truck. Cosmo does not like that Superman steals clothes, as he would want Clark to go and ask for the clothes, so there would be an interesting character interactions with him and the clothes owner. He sees Clark destroying a truck as "sinister" and "vengeful," and something Clark Kent would not do. Tex calls Clark putting logs trough the truck for small slight a "dick move" and its okay as this is not a "perfect Superman we all know and love", he makes mistakes... like flying through houses, its all a learning experience.

Cosmo says the laziest thing someone can do is to compare Superman to Jesus, and that's all Snyder does. Tex counters by saying that he has been compared to Jesus in some comic imagery and the movie is obvious about it only twice.

Cosmo calls it stupid that Jonathan Kent doesn't want Clark to save his life, as in the comics he encourages Clark to use his powers to help people, but here he says he should let people die if it lets him keep his powers a secret. Tex counters by saying that Jonathan wanted him to keep his powers a secret because he knows how people would react to him if they saw what he could do. It then turns out he was right since people are against him in *Batman V Superman*. Jonathan wants Clark to reveal himself when he is ready. Tex argues it's also thematic to Krypton where people had their purpose decided for them, while Clark gets to decide what he does.

Tex enjoyed Lois Lane, but understands why Cosmo hates Lois. Tex likes how she used her journalist skills to locate Superman, as she seemed to be smarter than other versions of her.

Tex argues it's a nitpick that Bruce's friend didn't evacuate from the building when the World Engine was destroying the city, which literally leads to his own death, and it's a nitpick that Lois asked terrorist if he is a terrorist, something terrorists usually don't call themselves.

Cosmo asked how people could make Superman look more violent by killing people with fire, Tex response by saying that its to make Superman look like a killer.

Cosmonaut asks why Lex is asking for more Kryptonite when he already has a lot of it, to which Tex counters by saying he is asking for a license to import it so he doesn't have to smuggle it, as he does not have enough to make weapons.

Cosmo wonders why Lex and Batman don't team up to kill Superman since both want to kill Superman. Tex counters that Bruce doesn't trust anyone since he knows that good people can turn bad and would rather do it himself and Lex would rather reveal that Superman is a fraud and turn people against him or alternatively kill him. He also wants to kill other superpowered beings like Wonder Woman and only relies on Batman since he is close by.

Cosmo thinks the man who lost his legs is trying to sue superman and when courthouse blows up, Superman doesn't look like he cared that people died and just flies away without helping people. Tex counters by saying that the court house blowing up was intended to show that bad things happen when Superman is involved, and Superman does care, as he looks around and shakes his head, and did pull people out of the wreckage but left because paramedics didn't want him there.

Cosmo doesn't like other Justice League member cameos as they seem forced, Tex counters by saying that this is something Lex had been looking into.

Cosmo thinks that Lex creating a monster is stupid and he seems to know things and anticipate things he can't, like how Batman wants Superman dead or how mixing his blood could create a monster out of Zod's corpse. Tex counters by saying that the machine told him he could create a monster and since he knows that Batman is violent he could push him into being more violent.

Cosmonaut comments how the gas grenade is stupid since Superman has X-ray vision, Tex counters by saying that he had smoke lined with lead, but that doesn't counter fact that Batman would die from lead getting to his lungs. He argues that the fight isn't stupid since Batman is great at planning and used Kryptonite and Superman tried to stop the fighting once but couldn't.

Cosmonaut think "Martha" scene is stupid since very few would call their mother by their first name. Tex counters by saying it would have be stupid for him to say "save my mother." He is going to die so he tries to get as much info out to Batman, he tries in couple of occasions to tell Batman about Martha.

Cosmonaut doesn't like how Batman personality changes from his murderous nature to much nicer when he decides to help Superman and they are not begrudging towards one another for killing people. Tex counters by saying that by saving Martha he can get redemption, in his mind saving his mother.

Cosmonaut doesn't like how the fight with Doomsday is just characters slamming into Doomsday and how Batman jokes about not knowing about Wonder Woman even though he met her. Tex counters by saying that the fights between other superheroes are mainly just them slamming into one another. Batman's joke about not knowing Wonder Woman is him originally thinking she is a Kryptonian like Superman.

Cosmo believes that there being lines about how the places where they are fighting are abandoned are Snyder trying to avoid the criticism for saying that very few people died in the Kryptnian invasion. Tex avoids this point by simply saying that god forbid characters would care if there are people in the middle of the danger.

Cosmo comments how its weird that people mourn Superman's death, especially Batman, since he tried to kill him hours before he died. Tex counters by saying that people mourn him since he saved their lives and Batman regrets trying to kill Superman and he feels he failed Superman by not living up to his ideals.

Cosmo thinks Batman didn't learn his lesson since he threatens to brand Lex, which Tex counters by saying that he didn't brand Lex, just punched the wall and he is not hopeful since he said "Men are good."

Cosmo thinks it is weird that people like this movie and he doesn't understand. Tex counters by pointing out that Cosmo likes *Captain Marvel* and thinks that Joel is not a beloved character, commenting on "people in glass houses."

Cosmo thinks Batman should not be using guns or killing people, so Snyder's version has lost all the nuance and is just "angry punching man" and if you like Batman killing, then he and you can't be friends. He is not trying to gatekeep, but he thinks movies get the character wrong. Tex counters by saying that this is old and grizzled Batman that has lost people close to him and "lost his way" and Batman thinks that blowing up a car is him saying "you should not been in the way," so its okay that he kills people.

Tex thinks that Snyder understands Batman and Superman, he just wants to explore them and build them up from the ground up. He wanted to show a Batman who has lost his way and a Superman who does not always do the right thing, as he is still learning.

In the end it's up to that he likes Snyder universe and Cosmo doesn't, so it doesn't really matter.

## Trivia

* He doesn't want to answer to points that people regurgitate.
* He's a fan of Twin Perfect's videos on the DCEU