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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
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While the historical record is a little foggy on the subject, the Russians likely set Moscow on fire in 1812 in order to screw over Napoleon, destroying about 3/4ths of the city.
Now it should be noted that at this point the Russians had evacuated the city, so it's not exactly morally comparable to the World Security Council nuking New York, but it is nonetheless an example of the defenders destroying their own city in order to screw over an invader.
If that is the case it'll probably be the MCU Hope van Dyme Wasp rather then Janet. That's the way the Ant-man trailers seem to be leaning anyways.
edited 20th Mar '15 5:31:54 PM by Falrinn
I don't think so. The characters have absolutely nothing in common other than the insect theme. Even though they're both everyman types they're still vastly different takes (Scott is a divorced dad while Peter is a nerdy Kid Hero).
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Spiders are arachnids, so they don't even have that in common...
edited 20th Mar '15 6:17:33 PM by spashthebandragon
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.![]()
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Probably not, seeing as the Ant-Man film has been in development for quite some time now and predates the formation of the MCU. It's only taken as long as it has because of Wright's departure and some personal issues regarding a friend of his with cancer. Marvel might have given it a reduced budget and advertising but I doubt they would have done away with it altogether.
I mean, did occupied France try to blow themselves up for the good of Europe? Was that a thing that happened?
It's the bottleneck opportunity that's important here. There has never been a single installation so pivotal to a war as New York. The entire war will be won and lost solely on the question of whether or not the Chitauri take the city.
The WSC is operating on a pretty serious time window. Destroying the portal generator isn't going to remain a Win Condition forever. If the aliens fortify New York, that window closes and the Earth has to fight and win an actual war against an unknown extraterrestial force with uncertain destructive capacity.
Once the invasion has progressed to such a point that the "Blow up the portal and win automatically" option leaves the table forever, the Earth is screwed.
Because the portal is parallel to the ground, and nobody has nuclear missile silos in the middle of downtown Manhattan pointed straight up.
Which was incredibly daring, I'll note. Nukes don't detonate on impact, they have a timer so as to explode in midair and cause more damage. That nuke could have gone off in his face at any point while he was doing that.
edited 20th Mar '15 7:29:32 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Really hope the rumors that Quicksilver dying aren't true. I've heard people clamoring for it because it would be a subversive move on Whedon's part to Gender Flip the Women In Refrigerators trope, but as is kinda suggested on the page, it's not a trope that is only bad because it happens more to women, it's an already often bad (well not always, but it's often a sign of lazy writing in general) trope whose gender bias just makes it even worse. Just like how writing a Damsel Scrappy to be male instead of female isn't that progressive since it doesn't change the fact that you still just made a bad character. Stuffed in the Fridge was renamed to be more gender-neutral for a reason.
For the record I consider Coulson's death in the first movie a borderline case that was still done well enough to not really count as Stuffed in the Fridge, and besides he came back, but at any rate Quicksilver dying at all still heavily runs the risk of rehashing beats from the first film, which would still be a form of lazy writing even if it's not necessarily because he was Stuffed in the Fridge.
edited 20th Mar '15 9:08:55 PM by AlleyOop
Quicksilver dies, and then the Speed Force opens up and vomits out the version from Days of Future Past.
Yes.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Having now watched enough of The Flash to get a feel for him I just want to say that, if anything could put me off Spider-man films, it'd be him. He's like a black hole of charisma.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.![]()
Honestly, I'm more of a Wally West kind of guy, having grown up with him on Justice League, as well as having read a few JLA books. I don't hate Barry (I have little reason to, really), but I'm mostly indifferent towards him.
edited 20th Mar '15 9:56:04 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!He accounted for that, luckily. It's hard to see, but when Tony sees the nuke going over Manhattan Bridge a timer shows up on his HUD reading about 4 minutes or so. Apparently he scanned the nuke and could see how much time was left on it. Presumably if there wasn't enough time Tony would have vaporized the nuke or something.
edited 21st Mar '15 10:40:18 AM by Tuckerscreator

Also, Wasp is gonna be in Civil War? Cool!
edited 20th Mar '15 5:09:31 PM by DeathsApprentice
When we're done, there won't be anything left.