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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Unless the AOS spinoff is a miniseries like Agent Carter I doubt there's much point trying to reach an audience within an audience like that.
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I'm simultaneously both glad and annoyed that Tony is still suffering from his PTSD after Avengers. Glad because it seems a bit cheap to resolve it all within that film through what seems like Epiphany Therapy among other things, especially when The Winter Soldier stressed the exact opposite point with Steve and Sam's entourage, plus it would be a bit trivializing of real life PTSD which isn't nearly that easy to fix. A little annoyed because it seems like less and less of Tony's character development in that film seems to be holding up so what was the point of it all then?
edited 9th Apr '15 11:21:28 AM by AlleyOop
I hope they learn from their (mis)use of Fan Bingbing in IM 3 and incorporate her into the plot properly and without turning her into a walking Big-Lipped Alligator Moment or thinly veiled advertisement vehicle.
@Alleyoop: I never thought Tony was supposed to be over his problems in Iron Man 3. Just that he was willing to try to work through them instead of just putting a bandaid on the problem. Granted, talking to Banner instead of an actual psychologist is a baby step but at least he's talking to someone.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersLike Skye. Or Bobbi. Or Hunter.
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Ultron's basic characterization is that of psychotic petulant teenager lashing out. He is Frankenstein's Monster without the Freudian Excuse. His entire motivation can be summed up succinctly in three words.
"FUCK YOU, DAD."
edited 9th Apr '15 12:54:08 PM by Nightwire
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IT'S RED WITH DEVIL HORNS!
Ha! Spoiled it for you.
edited 9th Apr '15 1:17:37 PM by spashthebandragon
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.Is it showing up at midnight? And if so in what time zone?
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.(Covers ears) LA LA LA LA LA! Not Listening!
edited 9th Apr '15 2:17:50 PM by TargetmasterJoe

The Junior novelation (which adapts roughly the first 30-45 minutes) is out and some spoilers are across the web.
I'll not post any others but it seems the major one connecting this to Infinity War is Early on in the film, Scarlet Witch uses her powers to show Tony his worst fear, which is the Avengers dead in space after being killed by (presumably) Thanos. When he gets back home this pushes him to aggressively try to activate and perfect Ultron and incorporate Loki's scepter. He is still suffering from the anxiety and paranoia seen in Iron Man 3 and is terrified that the aliens are inevitably going to come back.
So his major motivation for Ultron and the Iron Legion is his belief that something terrible is on the horizon, and that it will be too much for the Avengers, as they exist now, to deal with it.
I wonder how this will factor into Civil War.
edited 9th Apr '15 10:52:22 AM by comicwriter