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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
But they certainly can write the story just as well for the Mc Carthy era.....
edited 25th Jul '15 4:31:32 PM by Swanpride
If they changed the timeframe to the 50s they could always use a Mc Carthy standin instead. It fits better for the time period and has less risk of causing a backlash.
If Agent Carter decides to move on from the One-Shot I hope they adapt the Psycho Imposter Cap storyline. I know Markus and Mcfeely said they wanted to do this for Cap 3 a while before it was revealed to be Civil War, but I don't think they were ever actually serious about it, and it would probably be hard to make a proper film about it without things getting silly.
Also since Peggy and the audience already know where the real Cap is, they don't even need Chris Evans to do it. Just skip all the stuff about magic plastic surgery. Any actor who's tall, blond, and handsome could probably fool the in-universe general American public.
edited 25th Jul '15 4:32:21 PM by AlleyOop
Hm...
PEGGY CARTER: GOOD LORD! YOU!! But you— you're—
HARRY S. TRUMAN: Exactly! But high political office didn't satisfy me! My power was too constrained by legalities! I gambled on a coup to gain the power I craved — and it appears that my gamble has finally failed! I'll cash my chips then!
CARTER: No, wait—!
''{HARRY S. TRUMAN promptly shoots himself in the noggin, accompanied by a loud ' KRAK! '.}
CARTER: Don't...
edited 25th Jul '15 6:03:19 PM by kkhohoho
From what I understand they actually danced around the issue even in the comics. They strongly implied the leader of the Secret Empire was the president, but all they ever explicitly confirmed that that it was a very high ranking official.
Perhaps what they could do is have the leader of the Secret Empire be a completely fictional character who is a high ranking member of the President's cabinet and is on track to taking over directly. Or perhaps we will be lead to think that, but it turns out the real leader of the Secret Empire is closer to home (such as the head of the SSR).
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I guess that also means VP Alben W.Barkley is a Fat Bastard who travels on rollerskates and blows everything he sees to kingdom come.
edited 25th Jul '15 5:50:57 PM by kkhohoho
Ok. My brother has a theory that Nick Fury might actually know about the Infinity Stones.
Now I keep thinking this is crazy:
Fury knew a lot.
He knew about the potential of the Arc Reactor because the man who created the theories behind it helped form Shield. That's why he was able to give Tony the info to improve the tech and save his own life.
He already knew about Aliens because of the Kree body they'd found years ago. So when Thor showed up, it only confirmed what they had already knew: Aliens are out there. At most, Thor showed them that some look human, and may not necessarily be hostile.
He did not know about Hydra, but he did create The Avengers independent of Shield because he knew the world might need something not bound by them.
I don't think it's been said when Cap's body was discovered, or how long he was awake before the events of The Avengers. Could have been a very long time for all we know (maybe a year or two, but then again, if he was around that long, he'd have been less culture shocked).
So yeah, Fury has things he knows, things he does not know, but gets ready for anyway, and things he really shouldn't know shit about.
I put being aware of the Infinity Stones (he'd have no way of knowing the Tesseract was a stone, let alone that there were more) on that list. My brother says different.
What say you tropers?
One Strip! One Strip!Re: Nixon as supervillain:
Maybe it's just because of how much I've watched The Simpsons and Futurama, but I don't see why portraying Nixon as psychotic and evil would be at all controversial.
I went and watched Ant-Man today with a group from Meetup. It was pretty cool, i liked that they took a lot of it less seriously, not to the point that it was goofy but that there were a lot of absurd moments which helped balance out the angst in a better way than Avengers 2.
Poor Wasp, taken out pre-emptively. Though they set her up for a second generation, so it amounts to the same thing.
The closest we've got so far is Nixon in the Watchmen film and that one portrayed him as a Well-Intentioned Extremist, if a still unlikable one. Having real life people as supervillains encounters too big of a pitfall in that it makes the real life consequences feel simplified into "big evil man did this for evulz". I don't think Iron Man would have been improved with Bin Laden capturing Tony Stark or The First Avenger with Hitler being the Big Bad flying the bomber to blow up the world.
x4 JANET'S NOT DEAD, SHE'S JUST REALLY TINY AT THE MOMENT! AND ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE IS A LIAR! *sobs hysterically*
edited 25th Jul '15 7:55:11 PM by spashthebandragon
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.Janet has been helping the Avengers all along. We just couldn't see her.

It doesn't have to actually be Nixon in the show. Even so making a Republican president from the 70s a supervillain would have obvious implications.