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Edited by Fighteer on Dec 15th 2022 at 9:55:58 AM
The Permanently Confused
According to Wikipedia he's been genetically altered.
I think it varies by adaptation.
"War without fire is like sausages without mustard." - Jean Juvénal des Ursins
From what I remember Rocket Raccoon started out as an Earth raccoon that was genetically altered. Now he's a alien that happens to look like an Earth raccoon.
He wasn't born on earth, though, if I'm not mistaken.
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He's the child of an alien raccoon and an earth rocket.
The sad, REAL American dichotomy
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Sounds logical. Make it canon!
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No, the cannon is the godfather.
The sad, REAL American dichotomy
No, that would be your mother!
I've been saying pretty much this since the release of the first Captain America movie.
He's Captain frikken America, for crying out loud. He ought to get the 4th of July weekend by default!
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He also respects his country too much to try and commercialize their most important holiday.
edited 15th Feb '14 11:11:38 PM by SonOfSharknado
My various fanfics.
I'm still surprised that neither of the Thor movies were released on a Thursday.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
Spoilered out for obvious reasons:
One of the Olympic TV Spots for Captain America The Winter Soldier showed Alexander Pierce saying his "Gift to Mankind" speech in a room same to the one we see the Winter Soldier in at the beginning of the trailer
◊. We even get a clearer view of Ed Brubaker in his cameo. So yeah it's pretty much confirmed that Pierce has a hand in the organisation assocaited with Winter Soldier, which may as well be HYDRA.
Funnily enough, the usual release date for films here in Aus are Thursdays, so technically we got both Thor films on Thors- I mean Thursday.
edited 15th Feb '14 11:50:06 PM by JRPictures
And none of the Iron Man films on an Iron Monday.
"CARLOS!!"
Depends on the time of day, I work at a theater and most of the time new releases show up Thursday night.
"In distress", my ass.
A lot of theaters have a single advance showing late Thurs night (usually around midnight local time), but Friday is traditionally the first full release day for a new film, due to what Wack'd mentions.
edited 16th Feb '14 8:06:19 AM by Nohbody
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Yep, so when someone says "Friday premiere", they usually mean "I'm going to go wait in line Thursday evening". Some theaters, my local one for example, show certain movies Thursday evening too. For example, I saw Hunger Games 2 at 5:30 on a Thursday.
Is anyone else not really excited for Avengers 2 yet? This whole Hank and Tony thing has gotten me down. That, plus I'm caring less and less about Black Widow, I feel it may be overloaded on characters, and I haven't yet seen enough of Scarlet Witch.
The sad, REAL American dichotomy
"In distress", my ass.
Not being a slave to comic canon, the Tony/Pym thing doesn't really bother me. 
That said, given that there's still a lot about A2 that's not yet known, I'm reserving judgement on any excitement beyond continuing the MCU line.
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Queen of Good Things, Honest
I refuse to form an opinion on the quality of a movie I haven't even seen a trailer for yet.
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Pretty much. I'm mostly concerned with the Vision though, he's not just a robot dammit.
More and more I wish Avengers had chucked out Widow and Scandanavian scientist and put in Wasp and Pym instead.
edited 16th Feb '14 9:12:02 AM by C0mraid
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Rocket Raccoon was the director of a space asylum. The architects of the place thought that the crazy people would handle funny talking animals better than regular orderlies. They engineered a wide variety of animals for the place.
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We weren't talking quality, we were talking anticipation.
Eh, Selvig worked just fine for me. A minimum role that blended well into the Verse. Due to his connection to Pym, I might have preferred if we got to Pym sooner, especially with A2 and Ant-Man being back to back, but what are you gonna do? Black Widow was alright, because she was already established, and the role was more up her alley.
I feel that if Pym were to be introduced, he'd need a meatier part than Selvig had. Janet might have worked with Hill's role, but you kinda needed Hill for that movie and a more well rounded expansion of the MCU.
edited 16th Feb '14 9:53:46 AM by wanderlustwarrior
The sad, REAL American dichotomy
Me too. We should make a club.
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edited 16th Feb '14 9:28:44 AM by jdj42
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I'm not sure if that is being serious or not.
Heh, that would be funny if the movie had that.