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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Maybe he’ll costume change into Secretary Bird Man
Anyway, I think the Sons of the Serpent predate the Society
Since they’re a Not-KKK that appeared when the Avengers were still in double digits. And the Society apparently appeared in the 80s.
The Sons could sue the Society but I’m pretty sure that after multiple attempted takeovers of the US, ties to foreign powers, racially motivated assaults that they proudly took credit for, etc etc that the Sons don’t have much legal standing in the courts. Or I’d hope anyway.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI'd like to see either or both of the serpent groups in a Captain American movie.
I kind of feel though like the MCU wouldn't do the Politically Incorrect Villain one though because I have the sense that politically conservative villains are sort of off the table as an option.
Something I've suggested previously is a humorous plot where the two Serpent groups fight with both the heroes and each other, and the Serpent Society doesn't like being confused for the racist Sons of the Serpent.
Also, I had forgotten her until recently, but it would be cool to include Diamondback (the female one) and have a Dating Catwoman plotline for Sam or Bucky (probably Bucky, assuming that the MCU decided to adept Sam's romance with Jane Foster). Yes, I know this would likely be accused of "straightwashing".
Imagine yourself being a hardworking snake-themed villain, only to have the name of your union used by a bunch of fucking racist. I would be mad.
Unfortunately, I think the Sons of the Serpent would win that case by arguing they
came first
.
Plus American courts tend to favor white supremacists anyway. Yeah, the Serpent Society is probably better off going for a gang war instead.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.As far as I remember, the Sons of the Serpent are about as well equipped as your average comic book villain group. Secret bases and high tech devices and vehicles.
Since their average member is a racist in a silly costume, anyone with superpowers or your street level amount of martial arts training tends to rip through their ranks like a knife through racist butter.
But for the purposes of tension, the Sons also tend to be able to capture and hold captive superheroes they face, until they break loose and thwart the evil scheme de jour
I can’t say how that would stack up against the Serpent Society overall but in a straight up fight, the Society is going to mop the floor with the Sons and maybe clean the counters too
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI like the idea of having the Sons and Society be the same organization in the MCU. Have the Sons be an old, Revolutionary-era group, and the Society is a modern offshoot made of supervillains.
Or do that, but switch the names. "Serpent Society" sounds like an older organization while "Sons of the Serpent" sounds like an edgy modern offshoot.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Apr 22nd 2022 at 1:06:17 AM
I'm not going to hope for much but this makes me wonder how far they'll go in depicting America Chavez as a lesbian, or if they only did it preemptively because they were aware America is a lesbian in the comics.
Well Phastos is a pretty secondary/tertiary character.
He only really majorly enters the movie around the halfway point as the second to last Eternal to rejoin the team right before Makkari in the final act.
Chavez though does appear to be a fairly major character compared to Phastos at least.
Edited by slimcoder on Apr 23rd 2022 at 7:26:26 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."Phastos is odd that given that he only really shows up (bar flashbacks) in the last third of the film, but he has such an important role in the final battle (building the machine to save the world) that makes no good sense why the Eternals went to retrieve him second to last on their globetrotting travel.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Apr 23rd 2022 at 8:39:50 AM
To quote another Disney movie: "Maybe this is a different Hercules. Hercules is a very common name nowadays."
Edited by RavenWilder on Apr 23rd 2022 at 10:30:46 AM
The Asgardians were the sufficiently advanced alien type of gods.
Maybe the Greek pantheon is going to be the type actually created from faith. The Eternals and mostly Sprite made up all these legends, people of Greece believed in A Thena and so on, Olympians sprang into existence and started doing their thing, retire gracefully to wherever the movie has them when people stopped believing.
The retcons to explain how Hercules can be real and how Forgotten Gilgamesh inspired the legends of Hercules are pretty hilarious.
Apparently, while Hercules was working on mucking out the super stables for his trials, Gilgamesh coincidentally redirected a river through the area and everyone just assumed Hercules did it. While the man himself stood there dripping wet and confused.
Edited by Bocaj on Apr 23rd 2022 at 1:38:20 PM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI do like the idea of creatures of faith co existing with the beings who inspired their myths.
To answer why they recruit Phatos second to last when he's the most important member of the the effort; Druig is the only one who knew his current wearabouts as after Phatos turned his back on humanity during world war 2 he started his exile in Druig's village.
And the team also knew that Druig was going to be the hardest person to convince, so they elected to be a united force (to the best of their ability) when visiting him.

It would definitely make more sense for Sam to fight the Serpent...people (whichever group we get) as Captain America rather than the Falcon. Since apparently, falcons don't like to eat snakes very much
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