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Since Thor and now Captain America came out this year, I wanted to get what Tropers thought of the concept and execution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general. Personally I love the idea and wonder why this idea hasn't been seriously tried before. It sorta seems to me like the DCAU in movie form (And well, ummm, with Marvel), and really 'gets' the comic book feel of a shared universe while not being completely alienating.

Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM

SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#43951: Oct 5th 2015 at 11:25:19 PM

I only watched the first season of Ao S, so I never saw Ward emote. And then by the time Until Dawn came out, I had almost completely forgotten the show.

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higherbrainpattern Since: Apr, 2012
#43952: Oct 5th 2015 at 11:26:57 PM

Well, Ward emotes a great deal from the ending of Season 1 onward.

stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#43953: Oct 5th 2015 at 11:28:11 PM

Fun fact*: Ward's backstory is actually a version of the game where his character is the sole survivor. The whole thing about his brother was a coverup to hide the existence of the Wendigo.

  • fact=bullshit I just made up

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#43954: Oct 5th 2015 at 11:29:15 PM

One of the coment actually said a valid question about HYDRA: why their damn imagine is not a hydra? instead they got this weid skull....thing. it dosent cover well the point.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
Tuckerscreator (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#43956: Oct 5th 2015 at 11:36:20 PM

There's a bit in The First Avenger where Schmidt shoots a man and gets blood on his HYDRA badge. So that suggests the skull on it is to reflect himself, the Red Skull of course. Sometimes the insignia itself is red, increasing the connection. As for the tentacles, well, as much as the Red Skull went on about "cut off one head two more grow back", he clearly meant it as "everyone of you is expendable except for me". They're not HYDRA's heads, he's the head and they're his arms.

edited 5th Oct '15 11:36:50 PM by Tuckerscreator

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#43957: Oct 5th 2015 at 11:45:46 PM

[up]Yeah but is taking the symbol and put outside down, the idea of "cuting one head and other will grow" is that not matter if you destroy them, they will grow again and again and again, HYDRA can have a lot of leader but they organization will endure them all until the objective is complete.

The one you speak is the oposite: one guy rulling all with their hand everyone, more of "new world order"

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
Tuckerscreator (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#43958: Oct 5th 2015 at 11:51:27 PM

I know it's the opposite. My point is that it's just that: Schmidt SAID they're supposedly all equals, but he didn't actually mean it. He was just using them all to gain power. Not like he was sharing the Cosmic Cube much.

edited 5th Oct '15 11:51:44 PM by Tuckerscreator

xbimpy Since: Jul, 2015
#43959: Oct 6th 2015 at 3:57:01 AM

Everyone who would follow him would not live by their own creed but hydra so they appear united like ants. He wants only one state of mind and that's hydra. This is the equality he spoke of. A hive

edited 6th Oct '15 4:40:18 AM by xbimpy

comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#43960: Oct 6th 2015 at 7:23:03 AM

Another Jessica Jones teaser.

DeathsApprentice The Ultimate Lifeform from The Ark Since: Aug, 2011 Relationship Status: Is that a kind of food?
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#43961: Oct 6th 2015 at 7:32:03 AM

SO MUCH HYPE

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#43962: Oct 6th 2015 at 7:39:18 AM

"Cut off one head and two more take its place," is bullshit rhetoric meant to inspire the grunts so they're more willing to die for the Skull's cause. That's not uncommon for recruitment tactics. He never meant it to apply to himself, he just wanted a cool way to phrase We Have Reserves so his men will eagerly throw their lives away in service to his cause.

Schmidt was a Nazi scientist who plotted to conquer Berlin and assassinated Hitler's envoys. It should not be surprising that he paid lip service to principles he had no intention of upholding for as long as those principles were useful to him.

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KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#43963: Oct 6th 2015 at 8:42:58 AM

[up] Perhaps.

Either way, Zola managed to turn it into something more intimidating, I think. "Hydra will always come back", or something along those lines. They have proved pretty resilient.

Oh God! Natural light!
dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#43964: Oct 6th 2015 at 8:45:31 AM

Sorry to interrupt, but I just had to post this pic, because it's just so adorable. [lol]

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#43965: Oct 6th 2015 at 8:46:54 AM

Why is Wolverine poised to begin having sex with Iron Man?

edited 6th Oct '15 8:47:20 AM by TobiasDrake

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#43966: Oct 6th 2015 at 8:56:53 AM

Welp, I'm sure there is at least one fanfic with a good justification for that. Or not. Whatever it is, it amuses me.

I would watch the crap out of a miniseries about Captain and Bucky being roommates and just go around exploring 21st century, getting into shenanigans and other dohickeys.

Yay.

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#43967: Oct 6th 2015 at 9:06:19 AM

I missed this because I had so many questions about Wolverine interrupting an MCU gag to sex up Iron Man.

Perhaps.

Either way, Zola managed to turn it into something more intimidating, I think. "Hydra will always come back", or something along those lines. They have proved pretty resilient.

That's true. As is also often the case with extremist groups, the ideology has outlived the person who manufactured it. There was a joke in Dogbert's big book of business about how etiquette is a practical joke played by a group of French people a long time ago, who tragically died before they could reveal the joke and so the concept of etiquette just kept being passed around as though it was supposed to be a real thing.

That's Hydra. The Red Skull undoubtedly did not intended the rhetoric to apply to himself. He planned to lead Hydra to domination. But he's dead and the hypocrisy died with him; his successors rose to power on the rhetoric, internalized it, and kept passing it down through future generations of Hydra.

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Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#43968: Oct 6th 2015 at 9:33:51 AM

Okay...I have gone from "Mmm...Jessica Jones might be good" to being really hyped. Those trailers are awesome. The time in the beginning, the purple tint (So, if Daredevil's signature colour is red and hers purple, which colours will Luke Cage and Iron Fist have?), the tone....If the whole show is like the trailers I might end up liking it more than Daredevil.

alliterator Since: Jan, 2001
#43969: Oct 6th 2015 at 10:07:27 AM

So, if Daredevil's signature colour is red and hers purple, which colours will Luke Cage and Iron Fist have?

Luke Cage: yellow, of course.

Iron Fist: green.

higherbrainpattern Since: Apr, 2012
#43970: Oct 6th 2015 at 10:12:04 AM

The Jessica Jones teaser starts off looking like the Daredevil motion posters when Jessica's walking through that area in the beginning. Nice.

Wackd Since: May, 2009
#43971: Oct 6th 2015 at 10:12:21 AM

That logo still bugs the fuck out of me. We get it! You can do Photoshop! You know how to add texture! What you don't know, apparently, is how to pick an interesting font or color scheme.

Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#43972: Oct 6th 2015 at 10:37:55 AM

On a second thought...Jessica's colour might be blue and the one of her villain is purple, just like Matt is red and the king pin white.

alliterator Since: Jan, 2001
#43973: Oct 6th 2015 at 11:01:05 AM

This just in: Defenders mini-series just a remake of RWBY.


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