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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
It is interesting how the use of the Serum on Steve Rogers and the use of the Serum on Emil Blonsky contrast each other. With the former it was used to give an unfit fresh recruit the strength to compete with hardened soldiers. With the latter it was used to give a worn down veteran the strength to compete with younger soldiers.
Edited by M84 on Mar 12th 2021 at 12:20:16 AM
Disgusted, but not surprisedHe had three operations. The first injection of serum gave him boosted speed and agility but it made him arrogant and he lasted exactly 1 second against the Hulk. After healing every bone in his body overnight, he had a second injection, which caused his spine to start poking out ominously. Finally he had Doctor Sterns imbibe him with the Hulk's blood, which turned him into a very handsome and kind man.
Getting a second dose may have caused his body to start physically changing the way Steve Roger's body changed when he was given the Super Serum.
No wonder Steve screamed in agony during the transformation. Every bone in his body was going through what happened to Blonsky's spine. It's probably a good thing the transformation itself wasn't actually shown.
I picture it as a somewhat less grotesque version of what happened to Bane in Batman: The Animated Series when he got an overdose of Venom.
Edited by M84 on Mar 12th 2021 at 2:34:55 AM
Disgusted, but not surprisedYeah. I remember that moment where Erskin was explain how the formula enhances what's already in a person, not just physically, but mentally, and then thinking back to what happened to blonsky.
The revelation that the only thing that went wrong is that the formula did exactly what it was supposed to do was heavy.
One Strip! One Strip!RE: Sam Wilson Xbox commercial:
Awfully well made for an Xbox commercial. It really does feel like they did their homework because apart from die-hard comic nerds, who would know Sam had nephews? And apparently Aaron, the clerk Sam talks to, is the same Aaron who worked at the Apple Store in The Winter Soldier.
Probably forgotten until needed. That's too bad, having Pepper permanently gain fire and regenerative powers would have been cool. Agents of Shield got some mileage out of Extremis if I remember correctly, but they sadly don't quite count.
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.Man, they did Pepper dirty on that regard, they definitely should have given us pyrokinetic Pepper in Endgame in addition to the Rescue armor
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THEY DO COUNT!!!!
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Excuse me. I gotta cool my head.
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Alright. Now, just because a book has a different design doesn't mean they've tossed the entire series out.
Has anyone said it's been tossed out. Cause again, it's only the last two seasons that should be.
Now until I hear Word of God, I'll have no more of this Agents of Shield is no longer canon talk.
And if I do hear Word of God saying other wise, then like a proper internet hypocrite, I'm gonna be nettled.
Pepper's armour being powered by Extremis rather than an arc reactor would have been interesting.
Edited by HandsomeRob on Mar 12th 2021 at 5:34:50 PM
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Believe me, I'd like nothing more than having AoS still counting. I just don't want to keep my hopes too high up. The best I'm hoping for is never having the MCU outright contradict AoS (I've stopped hoping for a cameo or reference, although the power limiter Carol had in Captain Marvel reminded me a lot of what Kasius used on Quake), but I fear it will happen at some point, especially if they decide to make Ms Marvel an Inhuman.
Edited by C105 on Mar 12th 2021 at 6:42:06 PM
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.Agents used it as part of a slightly silly storyline, where someone made a super-serum by mixing together a bunch of stuff from various movies. Erskine's serum, gamma radiation, extremis, and some other stuff (platelets from an original character, DNA from an Inhuman with regenerative powers, and a drug made from Kree bodily fluids). It felt quite "remember all these films we're in the same universe of!" though that was kinda Agents' vibe for the first few seasons.
I actually liked it as a story element
Didn’t feel to me “remember all these movies” so much as people in universe working with everything available, which yes did happen to be all the movies
Forever liveblogging the AvengersMiddle-earth fans will be coming in drives for sure!
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I mean even before he chugged a gallon of Hulk blood the initial serum was already doing unsettling things to his spine...