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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Only if they don't use it as a reason to kill Moondragon. Who will totally be in GOTG by that point. Clearly.
edited 6th Apr '15 6:01:55 PM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI'm sure this was posted somewhere before, but whatever. You can see Quicksilver flash by in the last part now.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectI dunno, we've been hyped before. Could just be not much.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectI always thought Sam's choice of Anne Hathaway for Black Cat was the purrfect choice, but then she got cast as Catwoman. Emma Stone seems so wrong to me; she's far too down-to-earth an actress.
I'm not sure what could be announced about now. Possibly something to do with Civil War considering some set photos are beginning to slip out.
edited 7th Apr '15 9:13:47 AM by Whowho
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13125974270A57100500&page=1211#30273
I mistyped. I think the death seemed like a more realistic consequence. When you are writing you can either let the story unfold naturally moving from logical point to logical or you can twist the story into knots to come up with a predetermined ending. My big example would be 52 and countdown. 52 followed a logical series of events and made an awesome story. Countdown had a plan and failed in it's execution. I'm not saying you can't do a planned story well but it takes a lot of skill to do right. 52 failed in it's mission statement but still made a great story.
Regarding the death of Gwen Stacy, I would rather see new characters and new stories. When you adapt a work, you kind of have to use the most powerful parts of the story unless you do something completely new with it. Take Spider-Gwen for example. Fantastic idea. Then you have the story that had her sleeping with Norman Osborne. Good fucking god why?
Reading the old stories I felt that Gwen had her own story going on away from the cast and her return was more to make peace with Peter and her father's death. She had spent most of the previous comic year in France with family. I don't even know if she was a love interest at that point. She wasn't even the focus of the issue it happened. The goblin took her from the hospital where everyone was visiting Harry who had just had an overdose.
Why did Norman pick her? The writer thought the villain would pick the person most likely to hurt Peter Parker. Which would be Gwen.
I think that boiling the whole thing down to a single death or idea does the story itself a disservice.
I think the argument against seems to be in regards to her own agency. I think the character had agency it just had nothing to do with the plot at hand.
I'm not for fridging. To put it simply there are better ways of providing angst than killing a character off, but this one isn't a straight example.
What about Aunt May?
Oh God! Natural light!My god, brilliant! Without her, there will be no one to make Peter wheatcakes and he'll sicken and die
edited 7th Apr '15 10:24:54 AM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYou just summarized every instance of fridging ever. Why did the villain stuff the hero's girlfriend into the fridge? Because it would hurt the hero. This does not disprove that this instance was an example of fridging, because this is the precise definition of fridging.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Here is the panel of her Death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Gwen_Stacy_Died
Read the trope page. I just did.
edited 7th Apr '15 10:31:14 AM by lackofsense
Nope, Janet back from dead/actually the Microverse
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Forever liveblogging the Avengers

I don't want to be considered annoying, but I feel like some previous questions are getting buried, so to avoid that I'm just gonna quote them here:
edited 6th Apr '15 6:01:12 PM by TargetmasterJoe