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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
So... any comics moments we absolutely want to see translated to screen?
I want to see Tom Hiddleston do this.
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It'll never happened simply because of how Loki is practically regarded as super-Hitler to Earth people in the MCU, but still.
I wanna see the "For Asgard!" "For Midgard!" "For myself!" bit in Ragnarok (especially since they dropped the ball by not having Thor request words with Ultron).
Since the MCU Spider-Man will likely be taking cues from the Lee and Ditko era, I want to see the heavy lifting scene from the Master Planner story in live-action (yeah, we kinda got it in Spider-Man 2, but not quite).
And I still wanna see Sam Jackson as Nick Fury do the "crash-through-the-wall-while-riding-a-jet-powered-motorcycle-without-a-shirt-as-a-nuke-explodes-outside" scene, as contrived as it may be.
I want to see a 616 Fury just...one last time. He's not in the movies, he's not in the cartoons, and the comics have gotten rid of him.
I just want to see one of my favorite marvel characters one last time to give him a proper send-off (instead of the abomination that was Original Sin) before he's swallowed by Samuel L. Jackson's version.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I want Colonel Fury to show up in Agent Carter as the OG Director of SHIELD. Gray sideburns, scowl, cigar, whole works. Then he dies, someone else puts on the eyepatch and is now the new Director Fury.
edited 23rd Oct '15 10:00:31 PM by SonOfSharknado
My various fanfics.I'd pay to see Hawkeye being mistaken for "Hawkguy"
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edited 23rd Oct '15 10:39:08 PM by Tuckerscreator
Not being familiar with Nick Fury Classic...is he really that different from the Jackson version? All I ever hear anyone talk about is how they look, that and the whole immortality angle that let's be honest is really only there to keep his WWII stories from getting retconned.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.He's kinda different. Being rooted in WWII, classic Fury has more in common with Captain America and part of his Anti-Reg motive in Civil War was because of having seen dictatorships like Stalin's Russia emerge. MCU Fury constantly clashes with MCU Steve because they're used to such different time periods.
It's curious what gets retconned and what doesn't. 616 Black Widow is as old as Fury, but 616 Reed Richards having been a WWII veteran is instead ignored today.
edited 23rd Oct '15 11:07:40 PM by Tuckerscreator
Classic Fury is more of a world-weary war veteran, rough-on-the-edges, tough-as-nails, often grumpy, coarse and hot-blooded. MCU Fury is more of a ellusive, sleek, cool-headed and smooth operator.
They are more or less entirely distinct characters who intersect at points, in my opinion.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Like, the draft was a thing? Any character from the sixties that would've been eighteen or older in the forties was probably a WWII veteran. It's incidental.
I want to see a 616 Fury just...one last time. He's not in the movies, he's not in the cartoons, and the comics have gotten rid of him.
Fury actually appeared in the recent SHIELD 50th Anniversary issue where Nick Fury Jr ended up time traveling back to the '50s and teamed up with his own father. (And then at the end, we're reminded that Nick Fury Sr. is still trapped as the Unseen on the moon, so he's not dead.)
But yeah, Jack Kirby envision Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD, as a James Bond-type, but instead of being suave and sophisticated, he was a rough riding, cigar-chomping military man. So he was pretty much the anti-James Bond.
Because Marvel had other characters they were doing those stories with? I don't think it's a difficult question. No one's buying books with Reed Richards in to see him in a gritty wartime environment without superpowers. That's what Fury and such were for.
The response would probably be that risking a group that powerful falling under Kilgrave's control would be an extremely bad idea. Of course, Vision ought to be immune to his powers, but he might not be known to the public. It depends on when exactly this is set on the timeline.
What they could do, assuming the Avengers know about his powers, is have Tony send a remotely controlled suit after Purple Man. It's a machine. His pheromones won't do squat. Basically, Tony can fight him without even needing to be there.
Ok, who let Light Yagami in here?The issue then becomes of collateral damage. If Kilgrave is in a open space with a lot of people? Well, he can just command everyone around him to attack the robot and it will become overwhelmed. Or he can say, "Leave me alone or I will tell everyone here to stop breathing."
He's a sociopath who can control people. He will have no qualms about killing large crowds.
As has been mentioned already, if you can figure out where Kilgrave is, having a sniper shoot him from far away with no warning is the most obvious solution.
However, depending on how the Netflix series adapts his powers, he may be able to make people forget he exists, so no one but Jessica would really know to be looking for him.
edited 24th Oct '15 1:02:10 AM by RavenWilder

Of course, Vision ought to be immune to his powers, but he might not be known to the public. It depends on when exactly this is set on the timeline.
edited 23rd Oct '15 7:52:01 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!