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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Above all it might tone down the "how convenient that the shield always ends up back with him" complains.
MINIATURE TRANSISTORS!
I remember that after it was revealed that Cap's WWII shield was his vibranium one, they retconned it so that Cap used the radio-control shield mostly because he was too polite to turn it down and everyone is a little sheepish over it in the future.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThats the one where they had to make up a new bullshit form of admantium, right?
I like how it includes Thor saying the thing.
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"Antarctic Vibranium" which conveniently turns out to be Ultron's one weakness. Though to the writer's credit it was apparently mentioned before in some super obscure story so it wasn't a COMPLETE Ass Pull.
edited 19th Mar '15 12:21:05 PM by comicwriter
Btw, 616!Quicksilver's birth country is called Transia and is also a made-up country that is located between Romania and Serbia.
Interview with one of the stars of Ant-Man.
edited 19th Mar '15 1:12:00 PM by LordofLore
Since this is the comics going with Transylvania would have meant that Dracula
◊ would have to be involved instead of the High Evolutionary.
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Meh. They've already made up massive corporations and multinational defense forces.
edited 19th Mar '15 3:08:07 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.But Quicksilver isn't supposed to be a straightforward villain. I get it with Wakanda to a certain degree because they wanted a whole society around the vibranium issue, and it does work quite nicely as a placeholder for a commentary about the relationship between Western countries and those which have useful resources. But why not saying Quicksilver is from some existing country (or even one which doesn't exist anymore since the wars in the 1990s)? I mean Natasha can be Russian, too, right?
RE: The Maximoff twins, they might simply think using a real country or conflict would be kind of tasteless. The same way Iron Man had the Ten Rings as an Expy of various extremist groups instead of having Tony Stark literally beat up Al-Quaeda or another existing radical group.
I'm also not sure what if any wars are currently going on in that part of the world so it might not even fit the story if they made the Maximoff twins from a real country.
edited 19th Mar '15 5:17:53 PM by comicwriter
@Whowho
Me neither. Made up Throw Away Countries and Where the Hell Is Springfield? were always pet peeve tropes of mine in the original comics, and using fictional places takes away from the "grounded" feel that makes a lot of the MCU appealing (and one of the aspects I prefer the way Marvel does it compared to DC). I can understand it's a necessity for places like Wakanda or Kun-lun which have no real-world equivalents to speak of, but imagine if the first half of Iron Man 1 took place in a Qurac instead of Afghanistan.
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Metal Gear Rising had Abkhazia, which a lot of people think is a Ruritania but is a real place. And I guess Nagorno-Karabakh. They're more like the Caucasus region than what we normally think of as Eastern Europe, but such areas are significantly underrepresented in Western media.
edited 19th Mar '15 5:46:42 PM by AlleyOop
