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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I mean, do they need to do anything with it, though?
I feel like at this point we've genuinely reached a time where they could keep the whole Inhuman thing, right down to the weird cocoon in her first episode, and just not even begin to explain it until halfway through the show. Make the fact that she doesn't understand where the powers even came from part of the "mystery". I think Marvel's built up enough goodwill that the people who aren't comics fans (or even just Inhumans fans) won't mind the questions, and the people who do know should be kind of used to certain elements from the comics being treated as surprises (Bucky as the Winter Soldier, Mysterio, etc.).
Do they? Freaky mist gives her powers. She spends the season trying to find out what happened and then we get an explanation as things progress. You don't need to do an exact 1:1 adaptation of the original Inhumanity event to still have her be an Inhuman.
Yeah. I know a lot of people are kinda dunking on the Inhumans, and her lack of connection to them makes it easy to cut them out, but if it's not necessary, then I don't think they need to do it.
One Strip! One Strip!I honestly think Inhumans is likelier than mutants. Mysterious power granting cloud gives Kamala something to look into and it doesn’t step on the toes of any upcoming X project
Since the Inhumans movie was cancelled and everyone would like to pretend that the show didn’t happen, Ms Marvel lets marvel relitigate the concept
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI don't think Kamala's origin would lose much if she was just born with superpowers that manifested in her teen years, or got bitten by a radioactive rubber band or whatever. Her story as the trip to meet the Inhumans and Lockjaw, but neither it nor where her powers came from really affect what she's about and the things she faces.
It's like putting a streak of blue hair in in terms of portraying evilness, really.
So, let's hang an anchor from the sun... also my TumblrCap's the only one wearing a new costume the US Agent outfit.
What the Hell Iron Man's color scheme is just the Mark 42 from the 2012 Iron Man run. They couldn't even pick a color scheme from an actual evil character like the Superior Iron Man.
And Hawkeye's color scheme is just his Ultimate look who granted was an anti-hero but he also wasn't a villain either.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."Ahh, Avengers Assemble. The half-assed successor to Earth's Mightiest Heroes. We were done dirty there, folks.
Anyway...
Spider-Man: No Way Home wrapped filming and the film crew got some swag with some...curious details.
The shirt has what most definitely appears to be the Spider-Suit from Amazing Spider-Man 1 and a card on the lower left uses the signature font from the Raimi films...
One of the top comments suggests that the Amazing Spidey suit being on the primary cast shirt of the movie wasn't intended to be literal, and I'd be inclined to agree. After all, even if Amazing Spidey was in the film, why would he and not Tom Holland's Spidey be on the actual crew clothing?
It's worth noting, however, that pretty much everything on that table is a reference to bits of Spidey's history, be it comic covers, old merch, etc.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Mar 26th 2021 at 5:38:04 AM
All right, that's a fair point. But it's still weird the suit's there in the first place.
I couldn't help but notice one of the goodies (namely the one with Spidey holding what appears to be a color palette thingie) reminds me of that one screenshot
◊ they like using for the Insomniac game to promote that game's Photo Mode. Or something.
So, I just saw a clickbaity new on my feed saying that Snyder recieved another proposal from Marvel to direct a movie.
Ignoring the fact that it's fake and just clickbait, it made me wonder what hero could benefit from his style, just for fun.
The obvious answer I came with was Daredevil. He goes well with all the religious allegory Snyder likes to use, the dark and noir aesthetic his movies tend to be, and the Batman fight scenes from his previous movies showing he can do the same with Daredevil.
The big problem being in (surprise there) the narrative, with the big ones being Snyder's tendency of making heroes feeling grandoise, above humanity (which goes against Daredevil being a street-level hero) and his tendency of making heroes use lethal force even in situations they shouldn't, and believing heroes should kill, which again, goes againts what Daredevil is.
But the thing is, with Marvel Studios involved, and after all the criticism that the Netflix show got regarding the hand and Matt's indiference about killing Nobu, I can see them covering Snyder weaknesses and reining down his more out of there ideas. So basically, it would be a experiment to see if with someone (competent) taking care of the narrative we could get an amazing movie from him that ends being liked by everyone and not only to his fans.
But, it never going to happen as Snyder likes the freedom to do what he wants and Marvel isn't looking for his style on their movies.
I don't like the idea of Snyder with any mainstream superhero I can think of, to be honest. He's just not competent as an artist and his ideological leanings go from distracting to downright toxic with the Objectivism.
Daredevil has elements suited to his strenghts (religious imagery, violence, prominent link to Frank Miller) but also that can play to his weaknesses (mysoginism and retrogade social beliefs, Miller's achilles heels). Snyder is the kind of guy who'd do Karen Page becoming a cocaine-addicted pornstar who sold Daredevil's identity for a quick buck unironically (that was an actual bit from the comics that the show deliberately skipped out) if he could.
Besides, there's not much to be done with an adaptation of DD for me. The netflix show was already so close to pitch-perfect I can't think of an effort that would really add anything. It's a tough hill to climb.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Snyder's stated he doesn't agree with Rand's philosophy and the only reason he likes The Fountainhead is because his mom taught it at school.
His superhero work isn't really anymore Randian than the genre is on its own (if I'm being honest, I see more Randian philosophy in the MCU, particularly the Captain America movies, especially Civil War, and Wanda Vision).
That said, I don't want or need to see him direct an MCU film. And that's all I'll say on the matter.
Edited by windleopard on Mar 27th 2021 at 9:15:00 AM
Snyder claim about the Fountainhead was more precisely
this
:
I don't know if you've read the Fountainhead or tried to read the Fountainhead (I don't recommend it, it's a terrible book) but reading it and going "I like it for the plot, not the political message" is somewhere between willful obliviousness and intellectual dishonesty, particularly when coupled with Snyder saying "it's such a good thesis for the creative process" (when the creative thesis posited in The Fountainhead is its most obvious Objectivism display) and him trying to defend Ayn Rand as some sort of progressive figure because she stood against Reagan and would probably stand against Trump.
And that's without getting into his actual films, since that's a more hot-button topic and outside of that thread's scope.
I'm pretty safe, based on those interviews alone, on calling him a man with Objectivist leanings (if not a full-blown Randian in identity crisis or pretending not to be one).
"All you Fascists bound to lose."

She still gained her powers through terrigenesis, so they'd need to find an alternate way for her to have them.
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