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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I find it highly unlikely we will ever get to Hercules and Amadeus. Imagine 18 years from now Feige saying "Oh there was another race of highly advanced aliens who all happen to have the names of Greek gods who haven't shown up at all or even been mentioned despite the world almost ending a dozen times".
I doubt that the Greek gods will ever turn up, too (they are pretty lame either way), but that won't really prevent them from using Amadeus in another context, right? His thing is mostly to be hypersmart after all.
Is there any word if the distribution agreement has some sort of expiration date?
edited 2nd May '15 2:03:05 AM by Swanpride
So, this naturally has to happen at some point.
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Even better, on the off chance something like this does actually happen in the MCU, Thor should still go "not again" despite us never seeing it happen before (in the comics I think that was at least his third time).
edited 2nd May '15 3:19:03 AM by KnownUnknown
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Most of Amadeus history is either connected to the Hulk or Hercules. He's the 7th smartest person in the world(number 6 doesn't like that and kills his parents Helen and Phil with a bomb meant for Amadeus). He and Hercules hanged out enough to make people think they were a couple.
edited 2nd May '15 3:19:20 AM by LordofLore
I agree that there was nothing whatsoever to imply that his new body was made of Vibranium. And, well, the fact that it got damaged at all implies it wasn't. The impression I got is that he used half the vibranium on the android body that became The Vision, and the other half on his giant rocket engine to lift the city. Remember, vibranium isn't just strong, it's also... magic? I dunno, but he scoffed at humanity building a frisbee out of it, so using it just as armor seems like it'd be hypocritical. He's not really all that attached to any particular robot body anyway.
Another thing to remember is that Ultron considered himself a plurality. While for the conveniences of the plot and the fighting he clearly had a "main body" at all times, in theory each separate robot contained the entirety of his personality. His "vision" was that humanity would adopt his own perfectly harmonious mindset, ergo his "vision" was a perfect human he could upload himself into. That wouldn't have replaced the robots, since those are also him, but he would just gradually create more of himself.
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Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.If you broke it down into two days, it works. Do Phase 1 the day before, sleep, marathon Phase 2, then go to the movie.
How it should've been done in theaters, frankly. Except maybe don't even bother with the Phase 1 marathon. Just do Phase 2, maybe tack Avengers: Age of Loki onto the front.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Highly disagree. Helen Cho is such an extremely minor character that one of the only reasons I could see to introduce her is if they eventually want to set it up to have her son show up.
In fact she's so minor that pretty much everything about her in that movie was stuff Whedon came up with. In the comics all we ever knew about her was that she was Amadeus' mother and then she got blown up. At that point she might as well have been a Canon Foreigner if not for the fact that she's related to a much more important Avenger in the comics.
edited 2nd May '15 7:34:18 AM by comicwriter
Maybe Whedon just wanted a random scientist for the role and she was the character he found out that happened to fit the bill. That was why he introduced Klaue, for example. Knowing there will be a Black Panther movie, we might assume Whedon got the character to build up for that. But it turns out he didn't even know there was a Black Panther movie in the works back when he picked the character. He just wanted someone some Vibranium smuggler and figured out Klaue could play the role.
For all those who said they can't show Hercules: over on Agents of SHIELD, they currently have Agent 33, Kara Lynn Palamas, as a recurring character. She's the agent who actually found Hercules in the comics and in the last episode, recommended they skip out and go to "Mykonos" instead of SHIELD.
I mean, this doesn't really mean anything, since AoS also referenced Man-Thing and I'm not sure they would ever use him, but I think Hercules is a big enough hero that the movies would totally use him. It helps that he's basically "Thor only funnier and drunker."
I would love, love an Incredible Hercules movie.
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Laura Barton and the children also received that treatment. In the Ultimate comics, they all die at the hands of Black Widow.
edited 2nd May '15 7:51:48 AM by alliterator
I guess her being an Asian character and female to boot was an additional benefit. But now that she is there, there is actually no reason not to let her turn up again, perhaps even show her baby at one point, and then introduce Amadeus down the line. Especially since she somehow survived. Let's face it, Whedon might have picked her, but he wouldn't have been above killing her off. Her survival at least suggests that Marvel want to keep the option to introduce Amadeus at one point open, even if there are no concrete plans for it yet
When did AoS reference Man-Thing?
Episode 1x20, "Nothing Personal":
Maria Hill: [on the phone to Pepper Potts] Congress is like kindergarten: 'Where is this 'Fridge'? What was in there? Who or what is a 'Man-Thing'?" I swear, I need a cocktail and a lobotomy!
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I actually think the 6th is either Black Panther or Beast. It was shown that Amadeus is actually smarter than Dupree.
edited 2nd May '15 8:26:10 AM by alliterator

I agree that I never really thought that Coulson had died for real. The combination of Fury confirming it over the com with his lie about the cards made me believe that it was all a ruse from the get go long before I knew the character would be in Ao S.
Killing off Dr. Cho was not really an option either because she first has to spawn Amadeus Cho, right? I would have expected Hawkeye to die if the actor hadn't been confirmed already for future projects. The moment he said to scarlet witch "you and your brother will be safe in here" I was all "Quicksilver is as good as dead" though. It didn't help that they showed Wanda breaking down in the trailer.