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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Hmm...
What's she done in the comics other than jack Thanos' swag swipe the Infinity Gauntlet?
edited 28th May '15 5:33:20 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!I just realized my dream Marvel movie would be a Black Widow movie in which Natasha uses Mjolnir to fight Nebula. And also Peggy Carter is the new Captain America somehow.
Oh, and they'd do the thing! Have I told you guys about the thing? Lemme tell you about the thing. There is a specific scene that I want to see happen in a Marvel movie at some point.
So the Avengers are in a big city-wide fight, like they do. There's people/aliens/robots/alien robot people they need to fight in some high-up place (on top of a building, in a helicarrier, etc), and they need to get there fast. So what happens is Thor (or in my dream movie, Nat-Thor) spins Mjolnir and then throws it towards the place they need to get up to, then Hulk jumps up, grabs onto the hammer, rides the momentum all the way up, and then starts wrecking people OH MY GODS I WANT THIS SCENE TO HAPPEN SO BAD IT WOULD BE SO COOL.
"We're home, Chewie."I always felt Gamora vs Nebula was a good example of a female villain for a heroine that didn't feel like a Designated Girl Fight, because it was well established that Nebula's adversarial relationship was a major part of both of their characterization and their relationship with Thanos, and would thus continue to be so past the movie (much like Loki with Thor). So she felt more like an archenemy, rather than a woman on the Big Bad's team who was only there so the woman on the side of heroes will have someone to fight.
And that Gamora was involved with fights with both the other heroes and other villains, and that Ronan was established as being a major villain to all of them rather than just a few members, who required all of them to defeat.
Edot: NVM on the paragraph that was here. That is, there was never a paragraph here. Paragraphs don't exist.
edited 28th May '15 6:02:58 PM by KnownUnknown
Kang was originally a Fantastic Four villain named Rama-Tut, who debuted a year before his Kang incarnation.
Again this just goes to show how confusing this whole thing is because there are other characters who originated in the FF that Marvel can absolutely use.
edited 28th May '15 6:15:20 PM by comicwriter
The best part about Kang's convoluted and entirely ridiculous backstory is that you get instances of 'stop hitting yourself' from him every now and again.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers![]()
The thing is I don't believe the full text of the licensing agreements has ever been made public. It's possible that a lot of supporting characters and villains were explicitly listed as being part or not part of the package. Or the rules that determine who can use which characters are more complex then what book they first appeared in.
Which is probably why we have weirdness like both Fox and Marvel being able to use Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, and apparently Marvel being able to use regular Skrulls but not Super Skrulls, and Fox being able to use Super Skrulls but not regular Skrulls.
Wouldn't Mjolnir sense Hulk's unworthiness and plummet to the ground, like how it basically told Quicksilver to fuck off? If Hulk grabs Mjolnir, he won't be wrecking anything except his own stupid face.
My various fanfics.As far as female villains go, I want to know what the hell Madame Gao is.
Some are speculating that she is Crane Mother
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In the case of Gamora vs. Nebula though that one made quite a ton of sense from a thematic standpoint.
I feel like if they were to use Sin she'd have to be either changed to the Red Skull's granddaughter or just a fan of his. She'd probably also be pitted up against Sharon Carter as a foil to her connection with Peggy.
edited 28th May '15 5:38:15 PM by AlleyOop