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Marvel Fans Have Hilarious Reaction To Diane Morgan's 'VisionQuest' Debut Thanks To Her 'Philomena Cunk' Persona
Oct 21, 2026
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has survived alien invasions, rogue artificial intelligence, and Thanos snapping half of existence into oblivion. But there's one thing it may never be prepared for—Philomena Cunk.
Well, technically Diane Morgan. But after the British comedian appeared in VisionQuest, fans had a hard time separating the actress from her famously clueless documentary presenter.
Morgan plays Handler, the sharp-tongued associate of bounty hunter Paladin (Todd Stashwick), who's hunting Paul Bettany's White Vision for a mysterious client. And judging by her interactions with Paladin, she's already mastered the art of making someone feel spectacularly foolish.
DiscussingFilm shared a first look at Morgan's Marvel debut, giving fans a glimpse of Handler in action:
First look at Diane Morgan in Marvel's new series ‘VISIONQUEST’. https://t.co/EPRCUODvba
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) October 14, 2026
Morgan is best known for playing Philomena Cunk, the fictional documentary presenter created by Charlie Brooker. Across Cunk on Britain, Cunk on Earth, and Cunk on Life, she interviews real experts about history, science, and civilization while asking questions that suggest she's somehow become less informed with every answer.
For a perfect example of Cunk's unique approach to education, watch her tackle the scientific legacy of Sir Isaac Newton:
And now she's landed in a universe where robots have existential crises and half the population once vanished with a snap. What could possibly go wrong?
Spoiler alert: Handler really knows her Marvel history. Paladin just wishes she'd stop bringing up his part in it.
For example, Handler reminds Paladin of a painful run-in with Hell's Kitchen's resident vigilante:
"Remember the concussion you got from that steel fiber billy club to the noggin?"
Daredevil apparently left quite the impression. And unlike most people who suffer a concussion, Paladin has someone on hand to remind him about it.
Handler also brings up bite marks from his encounter with a creature resembling Werewolf by Night and suggests sending the Ten Rings Syndicate a gift basket for supplying his Adamantium chest armor.
Nothing says workplace appreciation like thanking a criminal organization for keeping your bounty hunter in one piece.
When Paladin's physical condition comes up, Handler offers some brutally practical career advice:
"That's because you're old and your body sucks. Might be time to retire?"
Well, that's one way to conduct a performance review.
It's the same deadpan precision that made Cunk a comedy favorite, although Handler has the distinct advantage of knowing what she's talking about.
VisionQuest continues the story that began in WandaVision and carried through Agatha All Along. The Disney+ series follows White Vision as he confronts his fragmented memories and identity, with James Spader returning as Ultron.
And for Bettany, playing an android who keeps finding his way back has become something of a running joke.
Reflecting on his years playing Vision during D23 in August, Bettany acknowledged the character's complicated history:
"It's been an enormous joy playing Vision as he's evolved through the years, helped turned the tide in some enormous battles, rather inconveniently died a number of times."
Apparently, dying repeatedly is just another occupational hazard in the MCU. Paladin might want to take notes.
After years of watching Philomena Cunk bewilder actual experts with questions no reasonable person would think to ask, seeing Morgan deliver perfectly timed insults in a Marvel series was always going to invite comparisons.
And naturally, fans wasted little time bringing Cunk into the conversation:
Of course, Handler and Cunk are two very different characters. One coordinates a dangerous manhunt involving an android. The other asks historians questions that make them reconsider their career choices. Still, Morgan's ability to deliver the most outrageous observations with a perfectly straight face works remarkably well in either universe.
And with Vision still trying to understand what it means to be human, perhaps it's best that Philomena Cunk hasn't been assigned to interview him. The poor guy's died enough times already. No need to finish him off with a question about Sir Isaac Newton.
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Black MAGA Influencer Stunned When Ken Paxton Forces Her To Leave Rally After He Assumed She Was A Democrat
Oct 21, 2026
A MAGA content creator who goes by Thelma Louise online said she "cannot believe the disrespect" after she was ejected from a campaign rally for embattled MAGA Republican Texas Attorney General and GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton.
The MAGA-aligned influencer, who had over 200k followers on TikTok before the incident, is a Black woman. She was accused of being a Democrat attending only to protest, was escorted out of the venue, and was told not to return.
Most people, across the political spectrum, believe her race was the basis for the Paxton campaign targeting her on sight. Thelma Louise stated she had just filmed footage to share online, but wasn't being disruptive in any way.
She took to her TikTok to share her woes, with her first video also going viral on X after conservatives and liberals shared it.
You can see her first video about the incident here:
The MAGA minion said:
"Oh my gosh. I cannot believe this. Someone just came up to me and said that Ken Paxton’s campaign manager wanted me to leave. I am just … My mouth is wide open right now. I really can’t believe this."
After asking if there was someone she could talk to about being targeted for removal, and being told no, Thelma Louise shared:
"I was just asked to leave this event, and I did nothing wrong... I drove two hours to be here."
"And I have done nothing but support everyone on the Republican side, and this is how I get treated?"
A commenter on her TikTok post replied:
"You forgot, and they just reminded you."
Wiping away tears in her second video, the self-described MAGA Republican President Donald Trump loyalist asked why she was removed and banned without explanation by Paxton’s campaign manager.
Thelma Louise said she left the Democratic Party two years ago and had volunteered for Trump's 2024 presidential campaign.
"I put everything in. I worked my butt off. I was a ‘Trump force’ captain."
But despite everything, she stated she didn't blame the GOP at all for how she was racially profiled at a Republican event.
She added:
"[Republicans] have loved me, and they have welcomed me with open arms. But Ken Paxton’s campaign manager, that person is 100 percent responsible for the disrespect that I received this evening."
"This, I will never forget. Never. This was beyond disrespectful."
You can see her second video here.
@iamthelmalouise TikTok · ThelmaLouise

People were shocked that Thelma Louise was shocked about a Republican event racially profiling her.








People had difficulty feeling any sympathy for Thelma Louise.


Others questioned Thelma Louise's motives, asking if she was a true believer or a grifter.

While Thelma Louise's choices and opinions are hers to live with, Trump himself has provided ample evidence of racism and misogyny as a feature, not a bug, in his MAGA movement.
From the way the POTUS speaks to and about women, especially Black women journalists, to his long history of racial discrimination and racist rhetoric, to his continuing relationships with White supremacists, no one should be shocked by racial bias or misogynoir in the MAGA GOP.
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Andrew Garfield Reveals The Disgusting Thing He Once Found In Robert Pattinson's Bedroom—And Yikes
Oct 21, 2026
It's always fun to hear behind-the-scenes stories from our favorite films, but it's especially fun to hear early-career stories from actors before they found fame.
The Amazing Spider-Man's Andrew Garfield recently reflected on the Dish Podcast and later the Capital Breakfast podcast about befriending a group of fellow young actors who were all living together, including Jamie Dornan, Eddie Redmayne, Charlie Cox, and Robert Pattinson.
Though Garfield didn't live with them, he frequented their home and was quite comfortable moving through their space. On Capital Breakfast, he shared how he'd once ended up in Pattinson's bedroom, only to discover a half-eaten cheeseburger that had to be at least a few days old and had cigarette butts pressed into the top of it, clearly too old to eat but just right for putting out smokes.
While recalling the memory, Garfield was a mixture of amused and grossed out.
"I remember going up into his room at one point, and I think there was like a half-eaten cheeseburger from four days previous with cigarette butts put out on the thing."
"It was like that vibe. It was students. We were students, ostensibly. We were just like actor students, and we were just absolute messes."
You can watch the segment here:
@capitalofficial TikTok · Capital
Though Garfield seemed perplexed by the memory, fans sort of shrugged it off as typical Pattinson behavior.









Since his Twilight days, rumors have swirled about Pattinson's personal hygiene and cleanliness, or lack thereof. Though he might want to distance himself from it, it's hard to forget he was Edward Cullen when fans keep getting reminded of that era.
While there are plenty of examples of creative people who keep messy homes and appearances, it's also an interesting element that Pattinson brings to his characters.
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Ohio Democrat Rips Vivek Ramaswamy For Using Estranged And Abusive Mother In 'Disgusting' Attack Ad
Oct 21, 2026
*Trigger Warning: this article contains mentions of child sexual abuse
Democratic Ohio gubernatorial candidate Dr. Amy Acton and her brother criticized billionaire entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, her GOP opponent, after he used their estranged mother in a political attack ad.
Acton has long said that she became estranged from her mother when she was a child, after her stepfather was charged with raping her at age 12. He pleaded not guilty, according to decades-old court records published by the Acton campaign, and reportedly later fled the state.
Although Acton has not discussed the childhood abuse during her campaign, she recounted the painful final encounter with her mother in a 2019 interview with The Youngstown Vindicator, recalling that "in the courthouse after they were charged, I went to give her a kiss, and she just turned her cheek away. That was the last time I ever saw her."
But now Ramaswamy's campaign has dropped an ad featuring Acton's mother, Donna Arthur, urging Ohio voters not to vote for her daughter on November 3, at one point saying:
"I love my daughter, but when I saw her lying about her opponent — and it's not easy for a mother to say this — that Amy has a serious problem. Amy is a liar. She lies about her past. ... She's lied her entire life. My daughter needs help." ...
“Don’t let her become your governor. If you think she’ll make your life better, you’re fooling yourself. It will only get worse.”
You can see the ad below.
Facing criticism for the ad, Ramaswamy's campaign spokesperson Connie Luck said the following in a statement to Politico:
“We don't know what happened between Amy and her mother, who first spoke out about Amy in 2020, but we know that Amy Acton is a serial fabulist who has some serious problems with the truth that the public needs to be aware of before deciding who to entrust as governor." ...
"Everyone who knows her best — her former boss, her former state colleagues, her fellow physicians, and now her own mother — are clearly warning Ohioans not to vote for her."
Shortly afterward, Acton responded to the ad and criticized Ramaswamy in an appearance on Spectrum News, saying:
“I won’t normalize somebody who has said that my childhood is just something I’m complaining about, who today just released an ad using my birth mother, who I was removed from at the age of 12 for severe abuse and neglect and sexual abuse. My brother and I were removed."
"I just can't normalize somebody who calls me things like a socialist, which I'm not, and then follows that statement by saying the Second Amendment was made for times like these to eradicate socialism, to get rid of socialists, that's what I am made for."
"The words our leaders use matter, and I think it's going to take courage right now from all of us to stop normalizing this sort of rhetoric. People need to see that this is a pattern. It was a pattern in the presidential debates."
"You know, I remember Chris Christie going at it with him. I remember Nikki Haley, because he was such a liar and he was attacking Nikki Haley's 14-year-old daughter on air during a presidential debates. You know, this is a lifelong pattern with my opponent."
You can hear what she said in t.he video below.
Acton's brother, Philip Stearns, also issued an official statement that was disseminated by Acton's campaign:
"It's not surprising that Vivek Ramaswamy has stooped to such a despicable low as to attempt to turn the sexual abuse Amy endured at twelve years old from our birth mother's husband into a political talking point."
"After he was arrested and Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amy's rapist until he died. This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core — a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants."
You can see the post and the statement below.

Critics have condemned Ramaswamy in response.
Ramaswamy remains unrepentant. People of Ohio, you can stop him in his tracks on November 3.
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Apu Finally Returned To 'The Simpsons' With A New Voice Actor—And Fans Have Mixed Feelings
Oct 21, 2026
Eight hundred episodes. More than three decades of television. Countless couch gags, celebrity cameos, and questionable decisions by Homer Simpson.
And somehow, The Simpsons managed to go nearly nine years without giving Apu a single line.
Well, somebody finally remembered the Kwik-E-Mart was still open for business. Apu is back, but the voice coming from behind the counter might sound a little different.
And Springfield's long-lost resident made quite the entrance:
Apu is officially back!!!! https://t.co/25FBva9J9i
— Out of Context Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 🎃 (@OOCCouchGags) October 19, 2026
The surprise came during this year's Simpsons Halloween special, Treehouse of Horror Presents: The Revengening. In a parody of I Know What You Did Last Summer, a masked figure called the Daft Monk turns out to be Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, apparently ready to settle a few scores after years of being forgotten.
And The Simpsons knew exactly who was responsible for that awkward absence.
After comedian Hari Kondabolu's 2017 documentary, The Problem With Apu, challenged the South Asian stereotypes surrounding the character, the show attempted to address the criticism in its 2018 episode No Good Read Goes Unpunished..
But Lisa Simpson's response didn't exactly help matters:
“It’s hard to say. Something that started decades ago and was applauded and inoffensive is now politically incorrect. What can you do?”
Viewers criticized the scene for appearing to dismiss concerns about Apu's exaggerated accent and the South Asian Americans who had endured racist impressions of the character. Hank Azaria, who had voiced Apu for decades, eventually stepped away from the role in 2020.
Azaria revisited his involvement during a 2021 appearance on Dax Shepard's podcast Armchair Expert:
“I apologize for my part in creating that and participating in that. Part of me feels like I need to go to every single Indian person in this country and personally apologize. And sometimes I do.”
That left the show's producers with a familiar face but no speaking voice.
Enter Sunil Malhotra, an Indian American actor born in New Delhi and raised in Chicago. An Indiana University Bloomington graduate, Malhotra has appeared in Grey's Anatomy, House, and The West Wing, with voice credits including The Legend of Vox Machina and Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi.
Joining The Simpsons might sound like a dream opportunity. But Malhotra knew this wasn't just another voice-acting gig.
And his first reaction to the audition wasn't exactly what you'd expect:
“When my agent called me about a ‘Simpsons’ audition, I knew exactly what role it was for, and the idea actually made my stomach sink. But admittedly, part of me was also curious.”
Malhotra met with the producers to discuss Apu's portrayal before accepting the role. Meanwhile, The Simpsons kept the comeback under wraps with nondisclosure agreements and no advance screeners for the Halloween episode.
With the secret finally out, Malhotra had something to share with fans on Instagram:
Malhotra described the opportunity as a reclamation, and he wasn't the only new voice joining the family. Janina Gavankar also took over as Apu's wife, Manjula.
But the comeback didn't win everyone over. Some fans welcomed the casting of South Asian American performers, while others questioned whether Apu's new accent had moved beyond the stereotypes that sparked the controversy in the first place.
Apu finally has a voice again, and the internet isn't holding back:
For anyone wondering whether this was simply a Halloween cameo, the show's producers have confirmed that Apu, Manjula, and their family will continue appearing.
And while fans debate the comeback, executive producer Matt Selman is already looking toward Apu's future:
“We love this character, and wanted to bring him back in a smart, ‘Simpsons’-y way that allowed him to evolve. We’re excited by what Sunil has already brought to the role, and look forward to seeing more of Apu in the future.”
Kondabolu also welcomed the casting of two South Asian American actors, a development that might have seemed unlikely when his documentary first sparked the conversation.
As for Apu's revenge spree, it was all a nightmare. He woke up at the Kwik-E-Mart, where Homer invited him to a Halloween party.
After nearly nine years, Apu's back in Springfield. Let's just hope Homer remembers to pay for his next Squishee.
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