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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Is it just me or is Marvel currently doing a lot of "vergangenheitsbewältigung"? I mean The first Avenger was a very critical view on the propaganda tool their comics used to be, Iron Man 3 is basically taking a shot on "Feindbilder" and how characters like the Mandarin used to present things like "the yellow plague", Agent Carter is in a lot of ways a parallel to how female writers where pushed out of the comic book world after WWII and the characters they created with them....it's like Marvel took a very hard look at their history and is now acknowledging it.
I will save everyone else the work by posting definitions for those words.
Vergangenheitsbewältigung: "struggling to come to terms with the past
."
Feindbild: "Foe image
".
To go back to the Lego Avengers discussion, Traveller Tales's contract ends in 2016. This is most likely the last chance of getting a new Lego Marvel Superheroes game. Its a real shame. I was hoping that Spider-Gwen would be playable in the next game.
The world will look up and shout "Save us", and I'll look down and whisper "Too bad, Waluigi Time" Vote Loki 2016Marvel doing Deconstruction on the less than savory parts of their history is something I noticed. They did some of that in the comics too.
The Allies Forever series they did a few years ago had a subplot about addressing the racism that was present in a lot of Golden Age stories. And of course just yesterday we were talking about how in the 70's they took steps to retcon away the awful Commie Smasher Captain America stories.
edited 29th Jan '15 4:23:54 PM by comicwriter
Here's the preview for the Ant-Man prelude
, with a young Hank Pym being trained by Peggy Carter.
I'd like to see "Commie Smasher" show up in some form in Agent Carter, maybe as like a finale kind of thing- where some American soldier would be given a serum derived from Cap's blood and proceed to go increasingly jingoistic and crazy. Thinking it would either end with his being instiutionalized (with shades of MK Ultra
), or else Peggy would have to put him down.
edited 29th Jan '15 8:33:06 PM by Hodor2
Would there be a way of like CGI-ing his face and have it as The Reveal after a masked Cap has been going around creating havoc?
Or else, do the above, but the unmasked actor wearing make up so it looks like a bad attempt at plastic surgery to look like Cap.
In both cases, I imagine the actor not looking like Cap before undergoing the process.
edited 29th Jan '15 9:20:06 PM by Hodor2
CG would look sorta unconvincing, but I guess that's partly the point. Though in the comics Sharon Carter couldn't tell him apart from the real Steve, at first. Plastic surgery might have been advanced enough by then; the first sex change operation was just six years after the end of WWII.
It'd be amusing if he were also to recruit Jack Monroe as 50s Bucky, and Peggy would be like: "Who is this kid? Bucky was a grown adult!" An inaccurate perception thanks to the in-universe Captain America comics made in the MCU.
edited 29th Jan '15 9:34:11 PM by Tuckerscreator
Right, thought so. Just wanted to be sure.
Well, they're certainly talking about sexism in Agent Carter. Perhaps they should use that setting to talk about other prejudices of the time.
Oh God! Natural light!Contracts get re-upped all the time. I doubt their original contract from 2005 was for 11 years. The Lego games are popular, and a diverse range of licenses benefit from their existence. There's no way anyone involved is going to let them die.
edited 30th Jan '15 12:17:20 AM by BadWolf21

They might be worried about "Patsy" sounding dated. Like how in Arrow Black Canary's real name is Laurel because the writers felt nobody names their kid Dinah anymore.
edited 29th Jan '15 3:01:44 PM by comicwriter