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This is amazing but one thing I'll never get is why people keep their scraggly little facial hair when it can barely grow in. Makes you look terrible.
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StrugglingHoneybun posted:
Cap wielding mjolnir was so awesome for me that it would be embarrassing to explain it any further, but I don't really get the connection (nor the thrust of the post you quoted). I just remember Wanda's chaos magic overpowering Cpt Marvel's in a DBZ beam battle, and then she drops a statue on her which.... shouldn't really have been able to kill a hero who punches through nukes and spaceships, and survives getting punched into the atmosphere by Thanos. Can somebody clear up what I'm missing?
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The Grumbles posted:As a born and raised north Londoner I disagree! It’s heaps better than a lot of American attempts, but it’s still pretty hokey. It's like how people were complaining that the de-aged Jeff Bridges face they used for Clu in TRON Legacy looked slightly wrong and off. Good! That makes perfect sense in context! (though I didn't actually notice anything wrong myself, I'm bad with faces) BRJurgis posted:I just remember Wanda's chaos magic overpowering Cpt Marvel's in a DBZ beam battle, and then she drops a statue on her which.... shouldn't really have been able to kill a hero who punches through nukes and spaceships, and survives getting punched into the atmosphere by Thanos. Can somebody clear up what I'm missing? Robot Hobo fucked around with this message at 16:32 on May 11, 2022 |
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May 11, 2022 16:10
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BRJurgis posted:Cap wielding mjolnir was so awesome for me that it would be embarrassing to explain it any further, but I don't really get the connection (nor the thrust of the post you quoted). Dr Strange spoiler Darcy and Jimmy were talking in WandaVision ep 4 or 5 about if Wanda is more powerful than Captain Marvel and they retold the detailed story of the Endgame battle as their evidence for who would win. Problem is, how did they know what happened at the Endgame battle? It was never explained, maybe a news helicopter was there? I dunno. But, now that we've seen 616 Wanda melt 838 CM, it would be funny for Marvel to call back to the Jimmy/Darcy bit with their description of another battle they should know absolutely 0 about, and Marvel should wait a time similar to the length of time between Age of Ultron where Cap "can't" move Mjolnir, and Engame, when he clearly is worthy and uses it masterfully. Mouth Ze Dong fucked around with this message at 17:14 on May 11, 2022 |
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May 11, 2022 17:11
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StrugglingHoneybun posted:Dr Strange spoiler It's because they didn't want to write extraneous dialogue or break up the scene explaining why and you are supposed to suspend disbelief. Alternatively: 
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May 11, 2022 17:14
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StrugglingHoneybun posted:Dr Strange spoiler There were, like, a few thousand people at that battle, minimum. It's not hard to assume that word got out about everything that happened there.
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May 11, 2022 17:32
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thrawn527 posted:There were, like, a few thousand people at that battle, minimum. It's not hard to assume that word got out about everything that happened there. Darcy probably at least has a contact number for Thor... and Thor would likely take her call, if only so he could work a "So, heard from Jane lately?" into the conversation. Plus, there were likely a battalion of news vans and drone cameras rushing to the Avengers compound as soon as the second snap happened, because obviously the Avengers are the first people the world is going to suspect might know what is going on. Robot Hobo fucked around with this message at 17:56 on May 11, 2022 |
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May 11, 2022 17:50
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Robot Hobo posted:As soon as Jimmy Woo found out that Scott Lang was still alive, he would have immediately called him to ask for all the juicy details of that fight. That is 100% what Woo would have done. Technically, it might even be his job to do that, since he was probably still supposed to be keeping an eye on Lang... But Jimmy makes that call either way. I think that's a big thing people don't get about these movies, or maybe it just doesn't jive for them, or whatever. But it's pretty much spelled out that these people for the most part lead mundane and normal lives outside of their big event movies. We see time pass from movie to movie and show to show. The fights and heroing are what we see in the movies, but it is implied the characters have lives outside of what we see. And they chat and gossip and hang out and have friends outside of their superhero circle. And of course depending on the superhero battle or event you have every number of reasons to assume that much of it was being recorded, not least of which would likely have been via Iron Man's suit recording his point of view. Just assume that the people like Jimmy and Darcy basically saw Avengers: Endgame via in universe live streams or media interviews.
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May 11, 2022 18:37
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The should revisit the Damage Control show idea or something like that so we can get a more regular person perspective of what's going on. Like how excited everyone got at the wedding when Strange bounced, or Kate in general.
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May 11, 2022 18:44
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live with fruit posted:The should revisit the Damage Control show idea or something like that so we can get a more regular person perspective of what's going on. Like how excited everyone got at the wedding when Strange bounced, or Kate in general. They could do The Office/Parks & Rec/Community of the MCU with the Damage Control stuff, I can't believe it's not a thing already. Smaller scale than the hero-focused series, you could do half-hour comedies and have more like 10 eps a season on a potentially much lower budget. It could be really good if executed well.
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May 11, 2022 18:55
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Bring back powerless
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May 11, 2022 19:02
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Professor Beetus posted:They could do The Office/Parks & Rec/Community of the MCU with the Damage Control stuff, I can't believe it's not a thing already. Smaller scale than the hero-focused series, you could do half-hour comedies and have more like 10 eps a season on a potentially much lower budget. It could be really good if executed well. They tried but canceled it when the DC show happened first and bombed.
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May 11, 2022 19:06
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All they have to do to guarantee at least some audience is one cameo from a big name MCU character an episode, even if it's only a b-lister like War Machine doing a 5 second walk through or something. If you pulled characters like Jimmy and Darcy into the first episode to segue into Damage Control taking over the location of a site once it's been investigated, and had Wong or some of the D+ new characters (Kate & Yelena, She-Hulk etc) show up as part of an episode's plot, and not just have 10 episodes where at most people talk about superheroes but they're never actually visibly part of the setting then it's all but guaranteed to get folks.
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May 11, 2022 19:24
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Hell just make Jimmy and Darcy the main characters of the show. You'd have two super funny and well liked leads, and then you could tie it into various films/tv shows being released at the same time.
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May 11, 2022 19:45
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:Hell just make Jimmy and Darcy the main characters of the show. You'd have two super funny and well liked leads, and then you could tie it into various films/tv shows being released at the same time. Then they can be fridged by Kang in Avengers 5.
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May 11, 2022 20:09
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Even that guy at the wedding knew specificly that Dr. Strange had let Thanos take the time stone. Probably everything that happened in Infinity War and Endgame was the subject of tons of press and millions of pages of government reports. No different than how everyone knows everything that happened in World War 2 because of all the reporting on it.
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May 11, 2022 20:14
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Zero One posted:Even that guy at the wedding knew specificly that Dr. Strange had let Thanos take the time stone. Yeah people on twitter are following every single destroyed tank in Ukraine right now, imagine if it were superheroes battling for the whole planet.
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May 11, 2022 20:21
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Marvel needs to give us a live action Agents of Atlas, I am sure they could squeeze Darcy in somehow.
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May 11, 2022 20:57
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Robot Hobo posted:If the accent sounded a little more fake, that would actually be a bonus. It's a fake accent an American kid started doing when his brain invented a backup personality and decided to base it loosely on his favorite cheesy movie. It wouldn't really make sense if the accent was perfect. I mean yes as I said they get away with it because of the nature of that character
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They did use the de-aging for the actual Flynn in the real world flash back at the beginning and it did not work there at all.
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May 11, 2022 21:16
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I got it, D'Arcy takes up a teaching position at State U and in her class are roommates Doreen Green and Nancy Whitehead.
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Professor Beetus posted:They could do The Office/Parks & Rec/Community of the MCU with the Damage Control stuff, I can't believe it's not a thing already. Smaller scale than the hero-focused series, you could do half-hour comedies and have more like 10 eps a season on a potentially much lower budget. It could be really good if executed well. To a way lesser extent, I feel like they were dipping their toes in this water with Agents of Shield. See what everyone thinks of spending some time with non super powered people in the MCU. And it became clear, I think, that people didn't like it, because they had to add super powers (via Inhumans, cameos from occasional B listers, loving Ghost Rider), possession by the original Hydra (...I think? I forgot exactly what all happened with Ward in that plot line), and eventually added a ton of other just crazy poo poo. So when that stopped being about "regular people" (even if they were Agents), I think Marvel probably decided anything approaching that wasn't going to work. At least that's how I remember the original pitch for AoS going. "See the MCU from the point of view of the regular people trying to deal with all of this." Totally a theory, mind you. I've never heard anything to back this up.
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Robot Hobo posted:The movie didn't exactly call it out, but as they're doing the DBZ energy blast fight, bits of Maria Rambeau's armor seemed to be disappearing. Her helmet completely vanished, and that would have been the absolute worst time for Maria to remove it on purpose. I took that to signify that Maria was burning through too much of her cosmic power at once trying to brute-force Wanda into submission. Then, by the time she had a statue dropped on her, Maria's power had been drained, leaving her as squishy as any other plain human. That might have been a temporary condition, but then... splat. I could be totally wrong, but that was how I had interpreted the scene. Dr. Strange spoiler Wanda was draining the energy from Captain Marvel. Just like how she was draining America's powers. So by the end of the fight, Captain Marvel was powerless and Wanda squished her.
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BrianWilly posted:It's been over ten years in-universe since Age of Ultron and she's obsessed with American TV. The accent's gone. That reminds me of another little touch I liked in MoM, the Illuminati's robot guards were Ultron used the way he was supposed to function if he didn't go all megalomaniacal. I think they had one line like "Ultron commands you to stop", but I spotted the design as soon as they showed up.
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I think Darcy and Jimmy knowing some details about the Thanos fight makes a lot of sense, but I do kinda have to draw the line at Dr. Strange's estranged former co-worker knowing the exact intricate details of how Strange specifically engineered the blip to occur and even his exact specific motivations for doing so. Everyone in the word just knows Dr. Strange gave the Time Stone to Thanos? Like how does that even come up in a conversation?
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BrianWilly posted:I think Darcy and Jimmy knowing some details about the Thanos fight makes a lot of sense, but I do kinda have to draw the line at Dr. Strange's estranged former co-worker knowing the exact intricate details of how Strange specifically engineered the blip to occur and even his exact specific motivations for doing so. Everyone in the word just knows Dr. Strange gave the Time Stone to Thanos? Like how does that even come up in a conversation? Tony's a loud mouth who came back from space pissed off. I can see him blabbing to anyone who'll listen.
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BrianWilly posted:I think Darcy and Jimmy knowing some details about the Thanos fight makes a lot of sense, but I do kinda have to draw the line at Dr. Strange's estranged former co-worker knowing the exact intricate details of how Strange specifically engineered the blip to occur and even his exact specific motivations for doing so. Everyone in the word just knows Dr. Strange gave the Time Stone to Thanos? Like how does that even come up in a conversation? It's Tony's fault. The only other people to witness Strange do this were Nebula and Thanos; the rest were dusted, and I doubt Nebula was talking to random Earth people about it. Tony probably blamed Strange for the decision and told as many people as possible during those 5 years that the stupid goddamn wizard gave up the Time Stone for no reason and hosed all of us. Especially in the immediate aftermath of the Snap, when Tony was maximally upset over how it went down and wanted to blame somebody. Being the only account on record, from a person who's now revered as Space Jesus, it probably made the rounds.
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Given that even during Endgame itself Tony's really pissed about it, yeah, that tracks
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I really hope season 2 of What If... does some stuff with the Illuminati universe. It would be nice to see them before they all were brutally murdered by Wanda
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twistedmentat posted:I really hope season 2 of What If... does some stuff with the Illuminati universe. It would be nice to see them before they all were brutally murdered by Wanda What If...some events played out differently in this universe we briefly visited and have no real reason to give a poo poo about? I have a theory/wild-rear end-guess (posted in the Dr. Strange MoM thread in in Cinema Discussion) that we will eventually (also briefly) re-visit the place. Otherwise I'd prefer to see the "real"/616 versions of two of those characters.
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They’ll be cheeky and have an episode from the point of view of the universe that gets obliterated in the incursion with 838
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Professor Beetus posted:They could do The Office/Parks & Rec/Community of the MCU with the Damage Control stuff, I can't believe it's not a thing already. Smaller scale than the hero-focused series, you could do half-hour comedies and have more like 10 eps a season on a potentially much lower budget. It could be really good if executed well. Soonmot posted:They tried but canceled it when the DC show happened first and bombed. tsob posted:All they have to do to guarantee at least some audience is one cameo from a big name MCU character an episode, even if it's only a b-lister like War Machine doing a 5 second walk through or something. If you pulled characters like Jimmy and Darcy into the first episode to segue into Damage Control taking over the location of a site once it's been investigated, and had Wong or some of the D+ new characters (Kate & Yelena, She-Hulk etc) show up as part of an episode's plot, and not just have 10 episodes where at most people talk about superheroes but they're never actually visibly part of the setting then it's all but guaranteed to get folks. https://twitter.com/ComicGirlAshley/status/1524400583767166978
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Kinda dumb making that complaint immediately after Moon Knight
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Ms. Marvel is not the character to raise that complaint with considering that in the comics she comes from a pre-established race and is inspired by a pre-established hero.
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True, but I appreciate the candor around "we changed her origin because we just didn't want to unpack the whole Inhumans thing
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And it's been 14 years. People need to accept that Feige's going to remix things. Especially since he adds so much fan service stuff as well.
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Ta da, Terrigen Mists are back baby
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live with fruit posted:Ms. Marvel is not the character to raise that complaint with considering that in the comics she comes from a pre-established race and is inspired by a pre-established hero. yeah kamala is very explicitly linked to "larger stories in the marvel universe" in the comics! since inhumans (and mutants) don't exist, it makes plenty of sense to give her some way to fit in
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Y'all know we're eventually heading towards Secret Wars.
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