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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Whedon says
the nightmares the Avengers experience are gonna be a turning point and hugely important, and that he liked having a woman be the one to have such a big impact on the plot.
The fight between Bruce and Tony is real. Downey cited that when talking about the collateral damage that plays into Civil War.
Widow's look like involves her past (the stuff with her strapped down and injected with something and ballerinas being involved), Tony's is about the Avengers being dead in space, and Thor's is about becoming corrupted by power like Loki.
I think it depends on whether or not he willingly shifts into the Hulk. I don't remember Incredible Hulk too well but when he involuntarily shifts on the Helicarrier he seems dazed and confused when we see him again as Banner. When he enters it willingly near the end he seems to have some level of self awareness.
edited 28th Mar '15 12:04:46 PM by Kostya
Besides the level of willingness in his transformation affecting it, Bruce is also shown (namely in the Incredible Hulk) to remember bits and pieces of his rampage, like a nightmare of some sort.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I guess we can forget about Ben Affleck making a Remake Cameo in the Daredevil then. Meh, no biggie.
So...anyone wondering when/where the MCU will introduce Taskmaster?
Maybe in a movie, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., or a future Marvel Netflix show?
Ooo! Or maybe they can make Taskmaster a Legacy Character (the idea that there has been more than one user of the Taskmaster title) just so they could introduce him in Agent Carter! (I just came up with that idea while typing this.) (Or they could use that for a flashback scene in AOS...)
EDIT: Bah, just found out that AC is a miniseries. Dang it.
Meh, there's still the aforementioned flashback scene.
edited 29th Mar '15 11:01:17 AM by TargetmasterJoe
Considering the (somewhat unfairly) shellacking the original film got, I doubt most people would welcome Affleck or Garner cameos in Daredevil anyway.
I've heard people speculating Ward will become the Taskmaster in the MCU, although since I don't follow it too closely I'm not sure how much validity there is to that.
edited 29th Mar '15 12:02:06 PM by AlleyOop
It doesn't sound like it. I'm not even sure where the Ward rumor keeps coming from.
Sounds like Karen Gillan is returning as Nebula
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edited 29th Mar '15 12:43:29 PM by comicwriter
I think perhaps because of a combination of a recentish comic having it that the Taskmaster is an ex-SHIELD agent and that Ward is supposed to be at the same level as Hawkeye and Black Widow (you could add Bobbi to this two- basically SHIELD agents who are so skilled they might as well wear costumes).
But yeah, character-wise it doesn't make much sense.
One thing I think is kind of a problem, is that as much as Winter Soldier gives some nuance, at this point, HYDRA are still a bunch of Nazis (I mean for all that we get the Equal-Opportunity Evil vibe, the head is still Strucker, who looks like he escaped from Hogan's Heroes). With that in place, it's difficult to have mercenaries working for HYDRA and have them come off as somewhat sympathetic.
edited 29th Mar '15 12:55:22 PM by Hodor2
Before Season 2 started I had this theory that Taskmaster was the guy who trained all the SHIELD field agents (including Ward, Coulson and Garrett, though they were ultimately given their full training by Garrett and Fury respectively), but became a freelance trainer for mercenaries and agents from all factions after SHIELD's fall. Because he had a hand in training... well... everyone, and still had his comics memorization skills, he would be the only person who could curb stomp people like Ward and May without having any special powers.
He'd be in the Heel–Face Revolving Door, or maybe even out the Heel Face system in the first place - since he has no allegiances, he'd be one of those "does the bad guys a favor, does the good guys a favor, don't care either way" characters.
Giving a character in one of the shows a role like that - that's established but not really plot important or distracting should he show up elsewhere - is a good way to avoid the whole "if they show up in the films without preamble the audience might be confused" issue, so it'd be a good way to have the character show up for a later appearance fighting Cap or something.
edited 29th Mar '15 1:01:26 PM by KnownUnknown

In the now soon to be killed Ultimate universe she actually puked after finding out his age IIRC.
Edit: Yep.
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edited 28th Mar '15 8:46:40 AM by LordofLore