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Edited by Fighteer on Dec 15th 2022 at 9:55:58 AM
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Okay, 'cause he should be an unbreakable bag of slurry if he's punching concrete walls.
My various fanfics.
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Tony survives hits like this in his suit just fine.
It's comic book logic. I assume that Luke Cage's skin works like a bulletproof armour.
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
I mean, he's still probably more durable than most, but still...
edited 27th Nov '15 1:50:07 AM by KarkatTheDalek
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I'm cracking up.
That would be much funnier if that were the way the show actually operated and not the way people who don't really watch it perceive it.
edited 27th Nov '15 8:37:46 AM by Swanpride
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
It is true that the big name heroes almost never show up, though.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
I posted that in the Agents of Shield thread a week ago.
But they aren't constantly mentioned either. And most of the problems aren't big enough to require their involvement.
Before season 3, that was a good argument. Now it's just a little strange that no one in the current Avengers roster is being informed of the Inhuman kidnappings and killings.
Who says that they aren't? They happened after Age of Ultron. For all we know, they know.
Yeah, we haven't had a movie chronologically set after the public became even vaguely aware of the Inhuman crises.
Having said that, I wouldn't be surprised if they at least make an offhand reference to "a recent dramatic rise in the number of enhanced individuals" in Civil War.
They already did suggest something in this direction in Ant-man.
The Avengers know SHIELD is around. There was a press conference that the ATCU was dealing with "alien threats." Sounds like those two groups have got it covered.
I wasn't paying close enough attention, but what was the specific injury that had rendered him comatose?
There's nothing to say there's not correspondence happening off screen.
I might watch through Agents of Shield after Agent Carter, just for 100% completion of the MCU. What's peoples opinions of it at the moment?
That it is just getting better and better....even the Superhero roundup says that it is currently the best Superhero show on TV, and they were all over Flash last season and very hard on Agent of Shield.
Personally I think that the current season is blowing everything else out of the water (and I say that as someone who binge-watched the first season because, well, it started very weak). If they keep it up until the end, they will have made up for the slow start tenfold, and I will fight everyone who claims that it doesn't deserve to be spoken of with the same reverence which is usually reserved for Agent Carter and the Netflix shows.
I think the first season was given way more flack than it deserves. It wasn't anything special, and it had some particularly cringeworthy episodes ("The Hub" and "Yes Men" especially tuned me out), but compared to say, Arrow, a show that I have hated pretty much every step of the way for its tone and characterization, I thought it was at least passable for the first nine episodes, after which it got genuinely good, and aroudn episode 16 it became FUCKING HARDCORE!
Season Two was overall on par with the back half of season one, though a few subplots were resolved kind of unsatisfactorily to me. Season Three has been similarly amazing, but the latest attempt at tying all of its subplots together has me very worried, because it's the sort of far-reaching thing that could make or break the series in terms of its connection to the MCU if they don't handle it well.
All in all, definitely worth checking out. I don't necessarily think it's on par with Agent Carter, but it's also nowhere near as bad as the detractors say.
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
"Yes Men" sounds...insensitive, to say the least, especially after Jessica Jones.
It's a good episode...if you ignore some internal inconsistencies.
edited 27th Nov '15 4:36:12 PM by alliterator
I wouldn't call Agents of SHIELD better than the Netflix shows, and I've never seen Agent Carter so I can't comment on that show's quality, but it's really in a better place than it was after season 1.
The first half of Season One was really So Okay, It's Average. I think the reason it gets so much hate is because the show had a huge amount of Hype Backlash against it when it first premiered.
@Khfan429: Just out of curiosity, why do you hate Arrow?
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If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say their hatred probably stems from the pitiful writing quality and excessive melodrama.
Also Arrow being so grimdark that it resembles a Batman show than anything to do with Green Arrow.
edited 27th Nov '15 1:36:00 AM by KarkatTheDalek
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