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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Someone here once had the idea of having minor villains showing up in Bond Cold Openings and I think that's a good strategy.
edited 1st Jun '15 3:06:37 PM by comicwriter
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The trick is there just needs to be a Bigger Bad involved so the audience can root for the villains to begin with.
Villains with their own books in the comics usually work with this. Catwoman and Harley Quinn are both crooks, for instance, but the writers usually succeed in pitting them against someone so much worse that the audience views their crimes as far more forgivable by comparison.
Superior Foes of Spider-Man did the sympathetic villains thing, right?
Forever liveblogging the Avengers
To a degree. Boomerang's still a massive tool, Speed Demon's not much better, and Beetle - while at least trying to be professional - is still a jerk. Overdrive's not so bad, though, and it's hard not to feel sorry for Shocker.
I'm trying to decide who's worse, actually. Boomerang's a dick through and through, but Speed
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To quote the comic, who does that?
edited 1st Jun '15 4:49:10 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!I need to re-watch AOU but at the same time, I kind of don't want to, because when I watched it I liked it, but the movie does a have a whole host of issues that I didn't like, so I don't know if rewatching the film will completely tarnish what I enjoyed about it when I first saw it.
Anyways, who's excited for Ant-Man?
I mean, it can't possibly as terrible as you're dreading it to be. At least the visuals seem like they'll be cool, even if you don't care about Pym or Lang.
True enough. As an Indian person, I definitely want more diversity in superhero movies,, especially in the MCU. But that trailer really sold the hell out of me for the movie.
edited 1st Jun '15 5:10:45 PM by higherbrainpattern
On the one hand, I'm with Mukora in the "bring on the superheroes that ain't white guys" boat.
On the other hand...that trailer really sold me on the shrinking as a power. I wasn't sure about it beforehand but damn that trailer makes it look cool; I especially like the comparing-Ant-Man-to-a-bullet thing, that's part of what sold me on it. I just need a little bit of an explanation for stuff, not much, I don't require hard science in my superheroes, but just a bit of justification makes it really work for me.
"We're home, Chewie."I'm hyped for Black Panther and Captain Marvel too.
If I had my druthers I'd have had either of those moved up. Especially given that Wakanda is mentioned in AOU.
But since its already been made, I'm hype. It looks fun.
Plus plus pluuuuuus, shhhhh. Hope is going to become Wasp. Shut up. I feel it in the unrestrained optimism gland of my heart.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI don't think either will be terrible (Well... Doctor Strange, maybe)
But, like, in Ant-Man's case, specifically, I'm still very upset Janet is apparently dead, and I'm not nearly as big a fan of Paul Rudd as Mark Ruffalo, so it's just kinda... eh.
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."![]()
She got eaten by a Kree artifact.
Fair enough. I wasn't happy that Jan got off-screened either. Apparently she was a superhero in the past and associated with the Avengers Initiative? I hope we get a flashback movie or something.
edited 1st Jun '15 5:20:03 PM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the AvengersY'know, personally, I find it a lot less stressful to just admit to myself that it's a bad movie...
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.@Mukora: If you haven't seen the second trailer, maybe watching it will convince you?
edited 1st Jun '15 5:21:07 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!

The only way lesser villains will get a chance in the big blockbuster movies is by being a lesser villain to the Big Bad. Scarecrow was slated to be the follow-up villain after Batman & Robin, but I think his shtick is a bit too one-note to be the primary villain (the base story for Scarecrow ALWAYS comes down to blackmailing the city with fear toxin). Batman Begins ended up using him as the Starter Villain with connections to Ras Al-Ghul, which allows Batman to do more than just be a chemist, find the antidote, beat up a guy who has never been physically imposing (Knightfall excepted).
The MCU has already done this quite a bit, Crossbones and Batroc were minor physical threats (as they would be given the established level of Captain America's strength and abilities), leaving Winter Soldier and Hydra as the real danger.