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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I do worry about how they'd use The Enchantress, Lorelei's use on SHEILD rather exposed a big issue, some people don't seem to get that a mind controller using mind control or a person and having them have sex with them is rape.
I'd really like to not have another instance of mind control rape being ignored occurs in the MCU, hopefully Jessica Jones has made the point to the people behind the MCU that mind controlled sex is rape, but if the message didn't get though we could end up with a mind control victim being made out to be at fault for being mind controlled into having sex with someone, again.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranHow about have Natalie Dormer as the Enchantress and make it so that Private Loraine is not just a case of You Look Familiar- it's actually one of her cover identities while on Earth.
I'd also throw into that this fan theory/joke I read to the effect that Private Loraine is behind that awful Captain America radio drama.
The Russos talk a little bit about Spider-Man
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That all makes sense, especially as the comics typically portrayed Peter as coming from a hard working, but very poor background (pretty much everything he did as a youngster was to help his Aunt May pay the bills). Does this mean that we'll no longer see him and May living in a cushy house in Queens? It certainly sounds that way, and Anthony then went on to address how they're going about fitting this new version of Spider-Man into the MCU. "We're bringing Spider-Man into the movie in that universe, now, in that specific tonal stylistic world. I think underscoring everything Joe was saying about your question in terms of how were we thinking about the character in relation to past interpretations of the character, part of our choices were all so colored by the specifics of the world what we were playing in with these two Captain America movies, meaning Winter Soldier and Civil War. It's a very specific tonal world. It's a little more grounded and a little more hard-core contemporary. That was also coloring our choices a lot about the character on Spider-Man."
"We're not trying to denigrate other interpretations of Spider-Man," he adds. "Raimi's movies are fantastic. Spider-Man one and two are amazing. Two, is one of if not my favorite comic book movie of all time. But he made a very strong choice with those movies from a color palate standpoint to a costume standpoint, execution standpoint, camerawork standpoint to honor the feeling of the comic book. We're trying to honor the feeling of naturalism and to honor the feeling of reality. The harder we can pull these characters into reality, the better for us, especially because we're all so connected now through social media, the Internet. We're all so dialed in to what's happening in current events. That it's important for us that these characters live in the world that we live in because it makes them more real and it makes our experience of watching them more passionate and more well-rounded."
Spider-man 1 and 2 are game changer movies and as such they will always be hold on a high pedestal by those who experienced the game-changing moment.
What he is saying about creating a more realistic environment is exactly what they tried with TAS - that the studio interfered and tried to make TAS 2 more like the outdated first take was what caused the tonal mess which ruined a series with a lot of potential.
But no one at Marvel who knows how to manage fans will mention TAS.
edited 8th Jan '16 5:24:42 PM by Swanpride
Glad that it's something they've taken into consideration. It's definitely something that Tony's been criticized for, albeit it usually comes with too much Ron the Death Eater to take seriously.
One of the plot points in the Ultimate Universe is that some people were wary of a team like the Avengers because if they ever decided to invade someone's country, nobody could possibly stop them.
People in the international community are likely wary of the balance of power being so heavily in America's favor.
edited 8th Jan '16 7:29:22 PM by comicwriter
Two of those are currently gone, and the team as a whole is lead by Captain America, in addition to having (assuming nothing's changed on that front) at least one U.S. military agent in the form of War Machine and being based out of New York. It's still a team skewed heavily in favor of the U.S. and its interests, or at least the rest of the world could easily see it that way.
edited 8th Jan '16 10:28:14 PM by Khfan429
Hulk smash puny drum, not march.
Anyway, if the other nations feel threatened by America's superhumans, maybe they should just step up their game, yeah? Leave their researchers in range of gamma bomb detonations, try injecting random chemicals into their scrawniest soldiers, ect.
edited 8th Jan '16 10:33:37 PM by Anomalocaris20
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Hulk does run around making people pay their taxes.
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edited 8th Jan '16 11:50:12 PM by KnownUnknown
So, if the first look at Spider Man will be a hoodie, does that mean the hoodie will have a picture of the movie Spider Man printed on it, or is the hoodie just themed after Spider Man, like this?
edited 9th Jan '16 2:45:48 AM by edvedd
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I would like to see Spidey's costume represent what a kid like Peter Parker can afford (something like what Matt Murdoch threw together off the internet in Season 1 of Daredevil), instead of the familiar 616 number masterfully woven together from some kind of flexible polymer. That can perhaps come later.

The Russos talk about where Cap and the Avengers stand at the start of Civil War
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