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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I see!
Doom is trying to ruin superheroes by making them dark and gritty and stupid so that ??? and then he rules the world!
Forever liveblogging the AvengersDarkness-Induced Audience Apathy is a hell of a drug. Maybe his endgame is that when everyone is equally douchey, people will root for the ones that at least aren't self righteous about it.
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.By Inhumanity event, I mean in the sense of terrogen mists being spread over a population center and activating the powers of anyone in the area who happens to be an Inhuman descendant. What's happened thus far on Agents of SHIELD isn't anywhere close to the scale I'm thinking of.
Because Kamala Khan starts off more or less as an ordinary Pakistani-American teenager, in order for her origin story to remotely follow the comics we would need a situation where a significant number of civilians are exposed to the terrogen mists, even if it isn't a global event.
True. The current storyline in Agents of SHIELD doesn't support Kamala Khan, at last for now. With two exceptions, all Inhumans there are part of a super secret group/clan and have been so since always.
About Millar's Ultimates. Personally, I like them. I think people exaggerate a bit how terribly dark and gritty they were. Sure, they were cynical, but not downright nihilistic. Most of the heroes were still heroes in the end of the day, despite their flaws (though some bad apples were definitively there). The problem with the book was that its success set the tone for the whole Ultimate line. And although a book or two being like that is fine, a whole universe full of jerks (except Spider-Man) is rather tiring.
No one said it was hardnote , just that Agents Of SHIELD's current story line is not an Inhumanity event akin to the one that created Kamala in the comics.
I saw one tumblr post that complained that by killing Janet, the only female character in Ant Man would be Cassie Lang, the five year old (or however old she is).
Which...okay, Janet not being there sucks, but that is a blatant falsehood, as the trailers clearly showed Hope, and press releases have made it clear that she'll have a fairly important role in the movie. Hell, she punched Scott in the face!
Anyway, going back to this
, I'm slightly disappointed that they didn't have her use that lipstick...
edited 4th May '15 7:59:13 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!
I mean, I'm willing to bet that too, but it's always possible that that won't pan out.
What they did with Janet still sucks, though. Although from the way I hear them talking about it, maybe we'll get to see her as Wasp in a flashback? That would actually be the best way to set up Hope as Wasp.
edited 4th May '15 8:05:24 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!As a Jan fan, I'm just sad that she got backstoried out.
I'll probably love Hope and I do hope she gets to Wasp.
But... geez, its a shame y'know.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersAlso, pretty sure scripts don't bother mentioning the actor. Though I'll admit I don't read many scripts.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.personally I thought it would've been cool if Bridget Regan had played Yelena Belova instead of "Dottie Underwood" on Agent Carter, but Natalie Dormer as Yelena Belova would be a pretty cool choice.
It's a fan script. It was a young woman who was annoyed at Widow's characterization, so the joke was she's attempting an Author's Saving Throw by suggesting Nat had literally been tied up and replaced by an impostor.
edited 4th May '15 9:00:23 PM by comicwriter
We were never given Dottie's real name, but Word of God says that she's not Yelena.
I find it interesting that so many people have gone all freak out on Black Widow's characterization in Age of Ultron when, to me, she's always been out of character in the MCU. While I love most of the MCU characters, and Black Widow is great in the comics, I've long since written off her cinematic interpretation. To me, she is a very poor representation of the cold, determined badass that Natalia is supposed to be, instead replaced with a much Lighter and Softer version with a terribly miscast Scarlett Johansson.
edited 4th May '15 9:17:47 PM by Over9000Pylons
An alternate time. An alternate world.I'd say there's nothing wrong with a different interpretation
Like, the MCU Tony is very much not what his comic version was.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers

Which also doesn't help things because Ultimates 1 and 2 were extremely popular and proved very influential.