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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Yeah, when Quicksilver's actor was the only one to not say "Civil War will be fun" his chances of surviving pretty much dropped to zero.
Everyone being public about being in the movie from the moment it starts production pretty much means that any cameos or secret characters are almost always out in the open from day zero nowadays.
edited 8th May '15 6:27:26 AM by LordofLore
I'm fine with knowing certain people will survive. To me being upset the contracts spoil that is like being upset that future movies spoil that the hero wins in the end. Did anybody honestly expect that to not happen?
Now whether or not some people will die in Infinity War is another story. If I had to guess Vision will probably die in the first part and Steve will die in the second.
I'm fine with the Interface Spoiler. It just get's me seeing people who already know this predicting deaths anyway.
edited 8th May '15 6:31:03 AM by VeryMelon
I don't really have much interest in seeing characters die in these movies. In any persistent story telling medium, killing a character is always the least interest thing you can do with them, because it just flat out removes them from the on going narrative. It's fine in stand alone films or franchises you expect to have a small finite number of instalments, but in something the scale of the MCU, you're just robbing yourself of storytelling opportunities by killing characters.
And you don't need death to show there are stakes, Especially in a persistent setting, where ramifications and consequences can actually be explored.
That's because it is.
The vibranium that Ultron purchased from Klaw wasn't used for Ultron. It was used for Vision.
It could be speculated that his final upgrade might have been made from vibranium, but it's never suggested; he hands off the vibranium capsule to Helen when they're preparing the Cradle, and they even discuss how the vibranium will make the process work.
edited 8th May '15 7:20:41 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Probably not for long, no. There's a reason most superhero movies try to get a lot of mileage out of the actor's face.
At least Ultron got to have his Crimson Cowl hood for a few seconds in that one scene...
Some MCU actors have renewed their contracts but we don't know which ones.
Evans probably didn't since he wanted to make his own movies after this phase IIRC.
Also Ant-Man and Yellowjacket toys.
edited 8th May '15 7:55:40 AM by LordofLore
Either that or Marvel offered him a directing gig paired with "you will be more a background character", meaning along the line of Nick Fury, popping up from time to time but not having to spend ages with shooting.
It will be, btw, interesting to see if they go with the trilogy-concept for all their franchises in the franchises or if they will decide it on a case to case basis.
Yeah, Quicksilver is a dick in the comics. He convinced his sister to rewrite reality to put mutants in charge and then when that backfired and he lost his powers, he stole some Terrigen crystals, got his powers back (sort of), found he could touch mutants to give them new powers but that they would also explode, and then did it anyway. And then after Secret Invasion, he blamed a Skrull impersonator, even though he was never impersonated by the Skrulls.
And hung around with him for the rest of that recently (Jan I think) cancelled series.
I hate it when Quicksilver has been presented as an actual villain. Being an arrogant, controlling, bigoted in different ways to different degrees, jerk is fine. But his brief 80s spell of villainy was cartoonishly OTT, and like most characters Bendis wrote him completely OOC. Most of what PAD did with the character during his latest villainy was salvaging some kind of workable character.
edited 8th May '15 9:29:13 AM by C0mraid
Am I a good man or a bad man?
They were trying to help her. Xavier had her in a telepathic therapy and everything. But the efforts weren't working.
And, if I remember correctly, most Avengers were against killing Wanda.
Anyway, I agree his (over) reaction was understandable. His sister was really bad and there were no foreseeable solution.

Knowing all these contract details is basically the ultimate Interface Spoiler.