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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
He just wants to play tiddlywinks with someone but no one seems interested
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIt's fun! Ever since playing Poker Night 2 I've loved thinking about "what would X character's playstyle be in a poker game?"
It's up there with Hogwarts houses as a favorite character thought exercise.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Mar 13th 2021 at 2:37:31 AM
The question is, do we try to genuinely imagine which character's style would be in a poker game (assuming they accepted to play in the first place), or do we have fun transposing the character's behaviour during the movies they appeared in into something they do at the poker table. Both can be fun.
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.Didn't Gambit dabble in gambling a little? I thought his cards were not just for throwing at people.
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.The question is, do we try to genuinely imagine which character's style would be in a poker game (assuming they accepted to play in the first place), or do we have fun transposing the character's behaviour during the movies they appeared in into something they do at the poker table. Both can be fun.
I was doing the former, and the latter feels a lot more lazy to me. Like, the MCU villains aren't necessarily going to play poker in exactly the same style as their evil plot from their movie, that's just silly.
If you put Domino and Wanda into a room how soon would it explode?
Forever liveblogging the Avengers
x6 There's Chance, the hitman from the Spider-Man comics. Instead of charging for his services, Chance makes a wager with his employers — if he succeeds in his task, he gets paid, but if he loses the "bet", he pays them the same amount.
There's also Senor Suerte/Senor Muerte (Mister Luck/Mister Death), a gambling czar and one-time Luke Cage villain later succeeded by a pair of villains, each one of which took one half of the name (Senor Suerte and Senor Muerte).
Edited by ClancyGardener on Mar 13th 2021 at 4:36:10 AM
Trope Editor (he/him)Rewatching Far From Home, and a fun thing I noticed. In the scene where Mysterio flies up to talk to Peter
, there's a camera shot that's supposedly focused on Peter, but the background noticeably tracks from a prominently open door behind Peter to the empty seat next to Peter just before Beck sits down.
Just in case anyone was wondering how Beck really got there when his powers are fake. Really love all the different visual tricks the movie used to accentuate itself.
Mostly unrelated, but I remember the very first time I saw this movie I figured Fury was fake and in on whatever Beck was up to, simply because he made Beck's plan so easy by being an ass in ways that Fury probably wouldn't. I liked the twist that Fury was real, but also not real, simply because he's Talos and Talos was bad at being Fury.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Mar 14th 2021 at 12:06:20 PM
I recall deploring the Badass Decay Fury had undergone while watching this movie for the first time. Made the stinger all the more enjoyable.
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.I really hope Talos doesn't die in whatever comes up next. I mean, he probably will knowing his role, but I hope he doesn't.
Also, it'd be neat to have the foursome of kids who were personally rescued by Happy and Spidey in FFH become Peter's sort of security net in NWH. Michelle and Ned are a given, but it'd love to see more of Betty and to finally have a piece of media outside the comics complete Flash's journey from insecure punk to Peter's friend.
You know, lots of people were quick to criticize Flash's change in character but this is a great chance to truly make him Spidey's ally, hell if they want to they could even make him a parallel to Peter if he becomes Agent Venom.
Also lowkey hoping Miles Morales gets some acknowledgment in No Way Home, they've already teased him with Aaron Davis in Homecoming and a deleted scene outright namedrops him, he could also be 5 years older than last time he was mentioned so there's a chance for him
Prettiest Meta Knight Gijinka, nglI dunno if there's time any more to do a "Flash went into the army, and came back a different man" subplot, especially since the Spidey movies didn't do the "Time Skip from highschool to college and beyond" thing people expected it to do. I would've expected that sort of thing if the Homecoming series did an "in the intervening years X stuff happened" thing with the characters, but the MCU films and Homecoming in particular being very in-the-moment puts the kibosh on that.
So I'm guessing that if Flash does become a better person, it'll be through knowing Peter rather than through being in the army.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Mar 14th 2021 at 3:15:58 AM
I mean, Flash was a nuanced and interesting character before he became a Agent Venom.
Hell, he was a nuanced an interesting army veteran even before he became a disabled nuanced and interesting army veteran. Flash initially had his character development decades ago during the Vietnam war, followed by a lot of development through being Peter's friend.
The Agent Venom lead-in to development was Character Rerailment after a run... I think the otherwise phenomenal Straczynski run... briefly hit the reset button on his personality.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Mar 14th 2021 at 3:19:49 AM

Killian would have hired a washed-out actor to play in his place as a superstar poker player.
Hammer would be all bluff but completely transparent every time.
Malekith would glower from a dark corner of the room without playing.
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.