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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Whose to say Red Skull wasn't transported forty-five years into the future and then took forty-five years to get back?
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.red skull was transported into space. just say where and whos he been hanging out with. pretty simple. he can be like Charnel. merged with some cosmic enininty or power. or perhaps thanons found him like loki. or he found his way onto w/e planet and started building a new hydra army. or went into another universe
edited 17th Aug '15 11:19:10 AM by xbimpy
Cap only needed bullshit to make up for the time gap.
The Red Skull needs bullshit for the time gap, the fact that he arrived somewhere survivable, the fact that he was able to return, and the fact that he was able to become a dangerous threat again, as opposed to a 100-year-old Nazi pooping himself and babbling incoherently in an alien wheelchair.
It's not just a matter of coming up with a way to bring him back. It's matter of coming up with enough ways to solve all the different problems of bringing him back that by the time he returns, the Earth should just surrender because God himself clearly went out of his way to restore him to prominence. The sheer number of Contrived Coincidences that would be required to make the Red Skull a threat again after First Avenger would strain credibility beyond its breaking point.
As a general rule, if a character requires three or more separate instances of Deus ex Machina to be established before he can even enter the story at all, this is maybe not a good character for use.
edited 17th Aug '15 11:45:32 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.So yesterday, I decided to skip straight to the 11th Doctor last night on Netflix.
Now I'm stuck wondering how they can use Matt Smith on the MCU.
(Dodges a petrol bomb.)
Yup, should've known it was Too Soon.
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It really wouldn't be.
It's an awful lot of work just to reintroduce a one-dimensional Evil Nazi with zero character depth, no interesting powers or abilities, and - at this point in time - no political connections, minions, or grandiose plans to achieve his one-dimensional Evil Nazi goals.
The Red Skull has served his purpose, been definitively and irrevocably defeated, and has nothing left of value to offer the MCU.
edited 17th Aug '15 12:03:21 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Answer: Leave him there. Some dipshit with no political power or ability to do anything more dangerous than shaking his fist at the sky and raging about how Captain America defeated him, locked in stasis a billion light years from Earth, is utterly harmless and will never be a threat to anyone again.
edited 17th Aug '15 12:06:47 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Though it would be kind of interesting if the Got G encounter a planet and it turns out that this is the place where the Red Scull ended up and he actually left a mark on it in one way or another.
How?
Guys, the Red Skull is not a Hulk. He cannot fly through space shooting planet-busting lasers at warships. His only true strength is his role as the visionary leader of Hydra. He is a political threat, not a physical one.
Being decapitated from his Army of Doom, the Red Skull is effectively permanently depowered. All that's left to him is Captain America levels of physical ability, and that's not enough to threaten a planet.
edited 17th Aug '15 12:11:01 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.there are plenty of aliens who would rally up with any competent life form out there. plus hes a supervliian so conveniences are automatically okay for him. we dont need lengthily exposition to say how he got there much like Loki. they both went into unknown space except one was pulled out by one of the MCU's super bosses. the tesseract opens portals and the Other said not only to Earth but far greater places. just say Red Skull fell into one of those places. he found some power and therefore is still alive. not that hard. theres a million ways you can reason it without going over 1 sentence per way. for example do something with power cosmic: he died but his connicsouion fused with the natural energy of the universe. its a comicbook guys just handwave. the MCU did far wackier things off the spot.
edited 17th Aug '15 12:46:21 PM by xbimpy
I suspect there won't be a Marvel Land in America anytime soon because I bet that a lot of the rights for those kind of things are with other Themeparks.
Huh? Why would their rights be with other theme parks? Marvel sold off the movie rights to some of their properties, but that's all. Disney can totally make attractions with the X-Men and Fantastic Four if they wanted to, although they probably won't.

edited 17th Aug '15 11:01:44 AM by xbimpy