Mostly Nitpicking

Mad Bracket Status braves snowstorm Jonas to bring you the results of the Top Thirty Two round of voting on the Superior Sidekick bracket. Roommate of the show Kenny Goff is our sidekick and he bluffs his way through match up after match up in an attempt to seem like an expert and it almost works! We also talk to Seed from the excellent Poprika podcast about his new Indiegogo comic book project called Pineville.

This week, the sidekick field is finally starting to narrow. We bring on Disney superfan Michelle Coraci to take the 64 remaining competitors in the Superior Sidekick bracket down to 32. DJ brags about his Morty related Reddit post. Nando asks whether Bucky is a better Cap sidekick than Falcon. Michelle questions whether Pikachu is really a sidekick at all.

Sooooooo this week's episode is two and a half hours long. We think it's really good, so we didn't trim it. Perhaps in the future we will attempt to shorten the episodes from Tarantino film to regular film. No promises though. This week we go over the second half of the 128 round of voting on the Superior Sidekick bracket. Kevin Su stops by to go through some of the anime match ups. Nando explains why Groot might be the most powerful character in the Marvel Universe. DJ gives preemptive reviews for 2016's comic book movies.

We have made it to 2016 and with the new year, we have the new round of the bracket! Well, actually its more of a half round. You see, because we decided to make the Superior Sidekick bracket a 128 competitor contest, we split the first round of voting in half. So this week, we have the results from the Comics and Anime/Video Games Conferences and the match ups from the TV and Movies/Book Conferences. We also take some time at the end of the episode to look back at the pop culture that made 2015 so...yeah...TV was good, though.

Let's get it started! This week we kick off the Superior Sidekick bracket with help from MBS CTO Caroline Amaba. It is a 128 competitor bracket and this week we are focusing only on the first 64 competitors which is made up of the Comics and Video Game/Anime conferences. Next week we will explore the TV and Movie/Book side of the bracket and vote on those match ups. Nando explains the tragic origin story for one of the most feared Red Lanterns, a blue house cat. DJ explains the premise behind a show called Kill La Kill and why that name is actually great. Caroline gives us some background on everyone's new favorite show, One Punch Man!

No bracket this week! I know, right? Instead we are going to talk for an absurdly long time about our Star Wars: The Force Awakens opinions. There are plenty of Spoilers! We warn you a bunch. If you don't want to be spoiled, don't listen. We won't be mad. Next week we will start the Superior Sidekick bracket.

It is the will of Steins;Gate. This week we reveal the winner of the Top Time Traveler bracket. Resident Whovian Chris Diggins stops by to give his two cents on the Doctor. The guys do a little Reckless Speculation on the new Nintendo Direct and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

The time has come to reveal the final two competitors in our Top Time Traveler bracket. We bring on Nick Berrios, who has seen some of Steins;Gate, to give us some insight on the character of Okabe. DJ gets a voting result he is very unhappy with. Nando explains why the Batman v Superman trailer is awful. Vote all week at http://www.madbracketstatus.com/p/polls.html

This week we reveal the Final Four in our Top Time Traveler bracket. Dan Ward comes back on to school us on Dr Who. DJ reiterates his completely unfounded dislike for Life is Strange. Nando goes over the many time travel escapades of Fry. The episode ends with a lengthy discussion of the Civil War trailer that we would completely understand if you skipped. Vote all week at http://www.madbracketstatus.com/p/polls.html

Life really is strange. This week we bring on friend of the show Jon Kim to finally shed some light on some of our less well known competitors in the Top Time Traveler bracket. Nando explains why the T-800 should be in the Time Traveler hall of fame. DJ breaks out the Hyrule Historia to get the final verdict on Link's timeline. Finally, Jon Kim gives us his informed and honest opinion on Life is Strange.

We have a huge show for you this week. Our anime expert, Kevin Su, comes back on the show to explain who some of those guys are in our Top Time Traveler bracket. Nando and DJ figure out what Steins;Gate and Life is Strange are and we get a visit from a star of stage and screen who has played many a time traveler before.

Great Scott! This week on the show we eliminate half of the field to bring everything to an even 32 in the Top Time Traveler bracket. Emily comes on to clear up a bit of vampire lore. Nando posits that The Flash may be the worst time traveler in history and DJ tries to figure out what the plot of Terminator: Genesys was all about.

The time is now. Nando and DJ sit down with Dan Ward to start the huge new bracket, The Top Time Traveler. We reveal all 64 competitors and the 32 first week match ups. Dan talks about time travel in the Star Trek universe. DJ figures out what the Time Force Power Rangers were while Nando goes on about another dumb Yu-Gi-Oh! thing.

It is time to strike down with great vengeance and furious anger! Last week, we decided the competitors for the championship match up in our Samuelest Jackson bracket and we have the results! The creator of the bracket, Frank DiCola, comes on to dissect the results and plug his excellent board game, Mr Game. We look back at the surprising history of Nick Fury in film. We talk about the future of the Kingsmen franchise. Nando also talks about why Bill from Bill and Ted may be set to win our next bracket, The Top Time Traveler.

This week, Steve Unwin aka Stunwin stops by to help us reveal the final match up in the Samuelest Jackson bracket. We talk about Sam Jackson's favorite accessory, strange apps, and some of the movies Sam is working on the future. Also a friend from the Avengers pops by to tell us what it's like to work with Nick Fury. Vote all week at http://www.madbracketstatus.com/p/polls.html

This week we are getting even closer to determining which character is indeed the Samuelest Jackson. We bring friend of the show Miles Bado on to guess which Sam Jacksons are going to move onto the Final Four. Nando picks apart some of the Winter Soldier action scenes. DJ waxes romantically on the forgotten art of the DVD extras. We even get an appearance from a special Jedi Master who worked with Mace in the past. Vote all week at www.madbracketstatus.com/p/polls.html

Hold onto your butts! We are another week closer to determining which character is the Samuelest Jackson. Nando and DJ go over the results of this week's voting and look at some lesser known Jacksons. They figure out what the hell was going on in Jumper. DJ explains the difference between Afro Samurai and Ninja Ninja. Nando talks about Sam's character creation process and how it proves that Mace Windu is the worst SLJ character. Vote all week at http://www.madbracketstatus.com/p/polls.html

This week Nando and DJ are sitting down with Pop-Break.com​ contributor Chris Diggins and revealing the Sweet Sixteen round of the Samuelest Jackson bracket. We talk about why Shaft was a pivotal moment in Sam's career. We debate the ethical remifications of a Velentine-esque population culling. We even get a visit from an old friend who has worked with Sam in the past. Vote on the Sweet Sixteen round at www.madbracketstatus.com/p/polls.html

Samuel L Jackson may be the greatest actor to ever have lived. That may be a bit of an overstatement. What is definitely not an overstatement is that he has played some of the most memorable characters in the history of film. You've got Nick Fury. You've got Jules Winnfield, You've got Shaft. We at Mad Bracket Status have set up a bracket to look at all of his various performances in an attempt to tease out the Samuelest Jackson. This week we talk with board game designer and SLJ enthusiast, Frank DiCola. Frank offers his opinion on where the Star Wars prequels went wrong. DJ gets an education why those monkey fighting snakes were on that Monday to Friday plane. We even tease out some of the issues with the Amazing Spiderman 2 even though we are well aware that it has nothing to do with SLJ. Vote all week on the Samuelest Jackson at www.madbracketstatus.com/p/polls.html

This week, we reveal the winner of the Most Powerful Princess bracket, we talk about some of our favorite Sam Jackson roles, and we figure out how the hell King Kong is gonna stand a chance against Godzilla.