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Edited by Fighteer on Dec 15th 2022 at 9:55:58 AM
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they most likely will just use cgi I feel
The Head of the Hydra
I feel like there's the possibility they might chicken out on the hypothetical design and give her armor covering instead of the naked silver skin look.
Edited by slimcoder on Apr 3rd 2024 at 9:16:45 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
well mystique got away with the naked look even though she wasn't even like that in the comics so they many not chicken out.
Funny but not helpful
Sometimes they gave silver briefs to Norrin so he'd look less naked.
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Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
that just makes him look sillier, like how a parody of himself would look
Edited by Kiobi20 on Apr 3rd 2024 at 9:22:29 AM
The Head of the Hydra
It's like there is no way to give him a practical redesign or at least you shouldn't.
His whole thing is that he's this cosmic being beyond logic and physics.
If you are trying to make him realistic you are missing the point of the character. He's supposed to be weird.
It's like the Guardians, several of them had the more cosmic elements sanded off like Drax and Star-Lord to make them more grounded space travelers and aliens. You shouldn't do that with Surfer.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Funny but not helpful
, Neither of you are wrong. But there have been eras where Marvel was terrified people might think Norrin Radd was bare assing it through space. Despite his no toes.
Edited by Bocaj on Apr 3rd 2024 at 9:28:03 AM
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Spider-Man it. Assume the audience is already familiar with the Fantastic 4 and skip the origin story. Given the older cast and 60s aesthetic, that might be the route they're already going.
That is not a plot, that is character development. That is a thing that happens while the plot is already happening. You don't have to sacrifice the story to do this.
How much screen time did Gozer the Gozerian have? Like, four minutes? Are you going to tell me that the ending of Ghostbusters isn't memorable as fuck? Adding more time to something does not automatically make it better. In fact, too much time can actually reduce mystique. You really only need good setup and like one or two really strong bits to have a great villain.
Having Faun
Hang on a second, itsn't this film set in an alternative universe? And if Galactus is the villain. Oh dear. I predict that he will succeeded, destroy the FF's Earth, and they are forced to travel to the main Earth (maybe to find a way to reverse the destruction?).
Edited by king15 on Apr 4th 2024 at 9:01:27 AM
“Sometimes they gave silver briefs to Norrin so he'd look less naked.”
That was generally the case in his early appearances (though not in his first appearances in the Galactus Trilogy), seems they stopped doing that by the early 80s.
Other characters who seemed to have a coating like the Surfer or were inhuman like Fin Fang Foom got the trunks treatment in the same era as well.
Edited by Dayraven1 on Apr 4th 2024 at 4:46:16 AM
Takat Empress
Like clockwork youtube is throwing a fit about "MsheU" surfer like we won't ever get the 616 version... >_>
Edited by Mizerous on Apr 4th 2024 at 8:24:13 AM
Mileena Madness
Having Faun
I imagine, if they go the Mystique route, those complaints will soon disappear.
Owl House / Infinity Train / Inside Job Fan
We have an image for 4-4 day. And LOOK AT THAT CITY!
Seems like they're abandoning Cap 4 and Thunderbolts, to push the FF hype? OR maybe that's just what's reaching this thread, lol.
Owl House / Infinity Train / Inside Job Fan
They really are doing a separate universe!
The Owl House and Coyote Vs Acme are my Roman Empire.
The Man Outside Reality
Between this and John Krasinski in Multiverse of Madness, it's starting to look like Fantastic Four don't actually exist in Earth-616.
I guess that makes sense, and between that and the multiversal X-Men shenanigans recently, it gives Marvel a reason to lean into Kang or some other multiversal Big Bad.
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Takat Empress
It would have been easy to say they got stuck in Negative Zone but that would be too similar to Antman...
Mileena Madness
The Scrappy of the Trope Pantheon, God of Thumps
That Xmen movie be looking really fine when set in another universe…
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Funny but not helpful
It is harder to suddenly have the Fantastic Four and X-Men pop up all of a sudden
If there’s a benefit to a multiversal saga, it’s that you can have the Fantastic Four and X-Men be established things in their own universes since the big crossovers are going to bridge universes anyway
I think maybe people would have cared more about the multiverse sooner if one of these big projects came out sooner
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I hope the plot isn't something like 'Galactus eats their Earth so they have to relocate, and Dr. Doom comes along too.'
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The Scrappy of the Trope Pantheon, God of Thumps
Be cool that since the FF are established, Doom already is their nemesis. He can even show up for a bit of the movie to help with the planet-eating threat. But that probably means you wont get him as a big villain for awhile.
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They probably won't make them Failure Heroes like that in their first movie.
I could see something like... they save their Earth from Galactus and then its gets blown up by an incursion in the Stinger though.
If FF is another universe it looks more and more like Secret Wars will do the 2015 thing and merged them together to in-universe retcon in the FF and X-Men.
Edited by dcutter2 on Apr 4th 2024 at 4:40:23 PM
Funny but not helpful
That’s my guess too
Crisis on Finite Battleworld merges all the relevant universes into one
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The Man Outside Reality
It would be kind of ironic to be introduced to a variant of Reed Richards who has to live in another universe after his home world was destroyed, after previously meeting a Reed Richards who put our Doctor Strange on trial for accidentally entering his universe.
Trust no one.