The Super Bowl Ads You Might Actually Want to See Again

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Susana Polo

Published: Feb 4, 2013 10:15 am

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Sure, Iron Man 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness got their spots out to eager eyeballs, but another old Star Trek alumni also made his Super Bowl debut, a Budweiser ad made grown men weep, and some robots wrecked the place.

Iron Man 3 ran this ad:

And cheekily promised an extended look online, only to deliver this:

Star Trek Into Darkness told everybody how much better it was than them:

While, in some markets, Wil Wheaton got to be in a Super Bowl commercial!

And we’ll admit it. The use of “Landslide” is just cruel in this context.

I embed this video purely because somebody in my Twitter feed, and I wish I could remember who, suggested that these robot women be on hand to disrupt all gross, sexist, gender-stereotyping Super Bowl commercials, and that is an effort I am completely behind.

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Susana Polo

Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.