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[Edited by Fighteer]
Edited by Fighteer on Dec 15th 2022 at 9:55:58 AM
Two-bit blockhead
Well, if memory serves, his chi-based powers (and chest tattoo) are the result of killing a dragon during his training.
EDIT: Yeah, that. ![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
edited 12th Feb '14 9:01:30 PM by DrFurball
Weird in a Can (updated M-F)
Love is Love is Love
20 bucks says that the dragon will be an alien.
And instead of Kung Fu magic, it'll be nanomachines.
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Cleric of Banjo
Huh, not sure why I was lumping in Iron Fist with the rest. I'd imagine that he would have mystical powers, but wouldn't really go into their origin, as people wouldn't believe him.
Interested in seeing how the others are handled though.
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Or he will have superpowers and claim he got it by punching a mystical dragon to death and everyone will just think he's a superhuman who happens to be crazy and it isn't confirmed one way or the other.
Like early Ult!Thor.
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Two-bit blockhead
I can buy the dragon being an alien. I mean, there's a whole planet of alien dragons in the comics.
Hey, why not make Danny's dragon victim be Fin Fang Foom? It's not like Composite Characters are unusual for this franchise.
edited 12th Feb '14 9:11:35 PM by DrFurball
Weird in a Can (updated M-F)
This is being done on a TV budget so I'd be really shocked if they had him fighting a dragon period.
Make the dragon a Silurian.
Mad Scientist Wannabe
Just have him mention it offhand during his origin episode. Preferably, after he does it, Luke calls him out on it.
Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great
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Rascal King
That's just how they should be done.
Role Model
I wish we'd get to a Doctor Strange movie so that the MCU wouldn't be tech limited instead of doing "Phase 1 connected hero storyline number 17". That way people would be able to accept Iron Fist easier.
Also, SHYEAH, GOTG!
edited 12th Feb '14 11:57:43 PM by wanderlustwarrior
The sad, REAL American dichotomy
Darling.
Finally, a Guardians trailer. I must see a raccoon.
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Rascal King
edited 13th Feb '14 12:21:46 AM by kalel94
The last hurrah? Nah, I'd do it again.
They're already doing Iron Fist anyway and the MCU is hardly tech limited, what with all the alien magic flying around. Guardians is gonna add a bunch of weirdness as well I'd expect. I don't see how Doctor Strange existing would make them any more likely to stop connecting storylines to Phase 1.
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.
Space tech is still tech. Magitek is still tech. Actual magic would be nice but's that's not happening ever so whatever.
Except, y'know, the Doctor Strange movie that they're actually making.
And the Aether that was in the last movie. And the Tesseract. And Loki's magic which is specifically referred to as magic and doesn't use any technological components at all.
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Rascal King
Are we really still doing this? Guys, magic is science. Science is magic. There is no distinction in this world.
The last hurrah? Nah, I'd do it again.
It's easier to just ignore that discussion and move on.
One Brunch Man
So what kinds of villains should be on our Defenders wishlist? I'm hoping for Typhoid Mary on the Daredevil end. And Stilt Man. I dare some Marvel head honcho to give him a serious backstory.
If I had that kind of power, I'd have dropped a meteor on your house ages ago~
"After my parents were murdered by a superhero, a pair of stilts flew into the window of my study. I then knew what I had to do."
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Role Model
The vast majority of hero origin stories have come from technology, or science derived from Erskine's experiment. Vision and Ultron will be more of the former. Doctor Strange is the most likely to be straight up "magic", but possibly GOTG and Inhumans may also provide an alternative to tech. We'll find out this year, with GOTG, and possibly soon with the origins of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.
I shouldn't have singled out Doctor Strange, but I'd still like something different from tech.
Also, "alien tech = 'magic' = tech" is only true for certain aspects of the Thor films. It is still recognized that magic may be a thing, mainly through Frigga (and Odin and Loki).
The sad, REAL American dichotomy
Armless Tiger Man should be a villain.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
Is it wrong that I'm getting Farscape vibes from the Got G stuff?
Iron Fist was a normal human who punched a dragon to death to get a superpunch that can bring down a helicarrier.
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