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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Literally every superhero could "just be an Inhuman" but that's a really lazy road to start going down.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.If Phyla-Vell shows up in Guardians 2, that might be a good way to introduce at least the existence of Mar-Vell.
Oh God! Natural light!Exploring how different characters react to their powers and how they deal with it is way more interesting than making up reasons how they get said powers.
Except some of those characters got powers in interesting ways that already explore their character. Changing them for the sake of simplicity would just be changing them for no reason.
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And some of them have very run-of-the-mill origin stories which perhaps should get rewritten. They already did it before, with more or less the whole team of Got G. For some (groot, Rocket, Drax) they simplified it, and for Star Lord they more or less changed his whole history.
Which is exactly why it would make sense to streamline it a little bit instead of introducing yet another source for superpower into the MCU. They did the same with Hulk by connecting his origin with the Supersoldier serum.
edited 30th Sep '15 8:58:23 AM by Swanpride
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All this proves is that it's possible to have more than one source of power in the MCU. Like with Thor and Loki. And Carol's powers will still be connected to other apsects of the MCU.
Just because Captain Marvel gets a movie of her own it doesn't mean that it has to focus on how she gets her power. We really had enough movies of this kind. I expect that Dr. Strange will deal with his origin mainly in flashbacks and delve directly into the weird, Black Panther will turn up before his actual movie so he won't get an origin story either and Spider-man is already around, too. I think the MCU is mostly done with origin stories, unless they encounter a really compelling one.
Just because Captain Marvel gets a movie of her own it doesn't mean that it has to focus on how she gets her power.
But wouldn't getting her power from Terrigenesis just be shifting one origin story to another? Then you'd have to explain the whole thing about the Kree and the Inhumans and why bother when she already has her own origin involving the Kree?
It comes up in relation to Captain Marvel a lot as a consequence of being a Legacy Character to someone who probably won't be adapted in a very major way as a consequence of having been Killed Off for Real decades ago.
Since we're not going to spend much time if any with Mar-Vell, the question of how, exactly, to skip him is often brought up.
edited 30th Sep '15 9:48:25 AM by TobiasDrake
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They just established in Ao S that the terrigen crystals in the eco system will cause Inhumans to appear all over the world. Which made me wonder if they will simply go for that explanation for Captain Marvel's power. Because, why not? That's how Miss Marvel (more or less) got her powers, through the terrigen bomb.
edited 30th Sep '15 9:48:28 AM by Swanpride
It really wouldn't. It only requires a scene in which, for example, someone gets briefed about the fact that due to a substance in the eco system people are suddenly displaying special abilities, they don't need to retell the whole arc in Ao S. Plus, the story with the Kree and the alien genes have to explained sooner or later in the movies anyway, for the Inhumans movie.
A film doesn't necessarily have to explain terrigenefish to have a character encounter the Mists, especially with the latest episode expositing that although the tainted fish oil has been pulled off the shelves, the dissolving terrigen crystals have globally saturated the ecosystem.
That said, I stand by my opinion that changing Carol's origin to just being an Inhuman is a pointless effort.
edited 30th Sep '15 9:59:58 AM by TobiasDrake
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I was under the impression they would have Mar-Vel never be Captain Marvel in this version and instead being a Abin Sur-like character who would give her her powers.