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[Edited by Fighteer]
Edited by Fighteer on Dec 15th 2022 at 9:55:58 AM
'Kosovo'? 'Sokovia'? They're one letter short of an anagram!
Sokovoia was an Expy of a similarly-Ultron attacked country called Slorenia from the comics. Not sure why they changed the name.
Whedon said that working on the film was trying enough that he didn't have time to slip in in-jokes, so my guess is he made up the name of the country and at no point did someone go "this script would be a lot better if that name was in the comics somewhere."
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Funny but not helpful
Fans would have complained that Ultron didn't wipe out the population.
"Clearly marvel studios has no respect for the original material" they would say. And then they would adjust their monocle. Because this is my hypothetical strawman and they get a monocle. I'll fight you on this.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers
Brightness
Alright. They have TWO monocles, dammit!
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&You're both wrong; our strawman has three monocles. As for where the third one goes, it goes right atop the third eye on his forehead. Because he's funny like that.
The strawman isn't actually made of straw at all! He's comprised entirely of monocles.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Uniocular
My god. It's made of monocles.
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
Funny but not helpful
You people are ruining my vision
Forever liveblogging the Avengers
Nah, you're thinking of Carl Burgos.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Wait; so, you're saying the Vision belongs to you? I think Marvel has something to say about that...
edited 23rd May '15 8:34:06 AM by kkhohoho
edited 23rd May '15 8:35:03 AM by LordofLore
Funny but not helpful
If I meant Vision I would have capitalized
Forever liveblogging the Avengers
The MCU never did it either in their subtitles
I'm not doing myself any favors, am I?
edited 23rd May '15 8:57:56 AM by kkhohoho
Funny but not helpful
-adjusts monocle sternly-
Forever liveblogging the Avengers
-steals monocle-
The world will look up and shout "Save us", and I'll look down and whisper "Too bad, Waluigi Time" Vote Loki 2016
-Wears his glorious invention, the sunglass monocle-
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
Oh for God's sake!
Who wants to see in Cap. America Civil War a recreation of the poster showing Cap vs Iro man?
edited 23rd May '15 10:14:13 AM by Archivist10
Absolutely no relation to NLK
-wears a single contact lens-
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
{Points monocle at the poster in the hot sun like a magnifying glass, burning the poster into complete nothingness.}
In case you couldn't tell, I'm not fond of my heroes fighting each other due to a God-Awful story, and I'll take my potshots at it whenever I can.
Love is Love is Love
Hey, I forget: does Joss Whedon write Agents of SHIELD?
My various fanfics.
He's an executive producer, but IMDB only lists him as having writing credit for one episode (the pilot).
Love is Love is Love
Ah.
So, does he not watch his own show? Because SHIELD does *not* have the resources it did in Ao U anymore.
My various fanfics.
I'm old enough to remember the 80s, and I think this moment
◊ (which happened a bit before the Dark Phoenix saga) was pretty much the starting point of Wolverine's success. Before that he'd never really been shown to be the sort of badass he later became, but in this story all the other X-Men had been defeated and Wolverine has to face the Hellfire Club alone - and he kicks their ass. IIRC Dave Cockrum didn't much care for Wolverine in Uncanny X-Men... But when John Byrne became the artist, and eventually the co-plotter, he wanted to give Wolverine a bigger push (possibly because of some Canadian national pride?), and X-Men #133 is where it really started.
I think it's interesting that both Wolverine and the Punisher were created in the 70s, but they didn't really get super-popular until the latter half of the 80s, when the The Dark Age Of Comic Books kicked in. They were much easier to mold into the sort of grim'n'gritty anti-hero favoured by that era than most other pre-existing superhero comic characters. (Though to be fair both of them went through some retooling before that happened: the Wolverine miniseries introduced the whole "man or beast" conflict that became a major part of the character, and some of Punisher's earlier actions, such as shooting at litterers, had to be retconned so they could turn him from a villain to anti-hero.)
edited 23rd May '15 3:15:58 AM by Tuomas