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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Sokovoia was an Expy of a similarly-Ultron attacked country called Slorenia from the comics. Not sure why they changed the name.
Whedon said that working on the film was trying enough that he didn't have time to slip in in-jokes, so my guess is he made up the name of the country and at no point did someone go "this script would be a lot better if that name was in the comics somewhere."
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Fans would have complained that Ultron didn't wipe out the population.
"Clearly marvel studios has no respect for the original material" they would say. And then they would adjust their monocle. Because this is my hypothetical strawman and they get a monocle. I'll fight you on this.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersAlright. They have TWO monocles, dammit!
PSN ID: FateSeraph | Switch friendcode: SW-0145-8835-0610 Congratulations! She/TheyThe strawman isn't actually made of straw at all! He's comprised entirely of monocles.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Nah, you're thinking of Carl Burgos.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.I'm not doing myself any favors, am I?
edited 23rd May '15 8:57:56 AM by kkhohoho
Ah.
So, does he not watch his own show? Because SHIELD does *not* have the resources it did in Ao U anymore.
My various fanfics.

I'm old enough to remember the 80s, and I think this moment
◊ (which happened a bit before the Dark Phoenix saga) was pretty much the starting point of Wolverine's success. Before that he'd never really been shown to be the sort of badass he later became, but in this story all the other X-Men had been defeated and Wolverine has to face the Hellfire Club alone - and he kicks their ass. IIRC Dave Cockrum didn't much care for Wolverine in Uncanny X-Men... But when John Byrne became the artist, and eventually the co-plotter, he wanted to give Wolverine a bigger push (possibly because of some Canadian national pride?), and X-Men #133 is where it really started.
I think it's interesting that both Wolverine and the Punisher were created in the 70s, but they didn't really get super-popular until the latter half of the 80s, when the The Dark Age Of Comic Books kicked in. They were much easier to mold into the sort of grim'n'gritty anti-hero favoured by that era than most other pre-existing superhero comic characters. (Though to be fair both of them went through some retooling before that happened: the Wolverine miniseries introduced the whole "man or beast" conflict that became a major part of the character, and some of Punisher's earlier actions, such as shooting at litterers, had to be retconned so they could turn him from a villain to anti-hero.)
edited 23rd May '15 3:15:58 AM by Tuomas