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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The MCU is in the weird position where Avengers Academy would totally make sense in the post Endgame quo but it likely won’t happen because all the buildup is being done for Young Avengers
Forever liveblogging the AvengersAnachronism is so boring that I know who you mean and can visualize him but the instant this conversation is over I’m going to forget him again
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThere actually is (was?) an X-Man with the mutant power to be forgotten the moment people lost sight of him, Forget-Me-Not. Think The Silence.
Edited by M84 on Mar 30th 2021 at 11:14:51 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedThey could always composite them. The MCU is ripe enough for concepts from both concepts (or, heck, even a few concepts from The Initiative) that mixing a bunch of them together at once together makes a lot of sense.
I’ve been hoping Taskmaster coming up means we might get Finesse, for instance.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Mar 30th 2021 at 10:24:05 AM
I've finally got around to watching the Doctor Strange movie,the impression I always had is that Dr.Strange was Marvel's equivalent to Merlin (old wizard dude who knows loads of powerful magic) so looking at Benedict Cumberbatch I'm wishing he looked a little older and more wizardened somehow,also a proper wizard's beard
Also,they name dropped The Living Tribunal,which is a neat
Edited by Ultimatum on Mar 30th 2021 at 11:33:43 AM
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverNot like Marvel's Herc is all that accurate either. Marvel's Hades is also a villain anyway, so it's not that different from Disney's Herc .
As for Amadeus, it would make sense for him to debut in something Hulk related.
But Strange isn't Merlin and he isn't all that old, especially not when he started.
Only if he survives the Black Widow film.
Edited by Cortez on Mar 30th 2021 at 10:12:40 AM
Interestingly, "Merlin" is a nickname Black Cat uses for sorcerers in solo comic.
Evidently, the Marvel Comics equivalent to Merlin is Merlin
.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Mar 31st 2021 at 12:27:28 PM
Besides the Otherworld Merlyn, I remember an early Thor story where Merlin was revealed to be a mutant whose powers were mistaken for magic, who was revived in modern times and wreaked a bit of havoc. (Which would make him an early example of inter-comic X-Men shilling.) I think he was later retconned to be a Bloodstone mutate (not a mutant) who impersonated the real Merlyn.
Trope Editor (he/him)A look at the Shang-Chi characters via the leaked toys
. It's kinda crazy that everything we know is basically coming from leaked merchandise because there's still no trailer.

EDIT: Pagetopper context: talking about Reptil getting surviving a nuke to the face.
Edited by Aleistar on Mar 30th 2021 at 10:38:08 AM