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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Isn't it kind of the point of the MCU to make silly costumes and names believable? Jewel's costume turns up exactly once, just to make fun of it and the name, otherwise Jessica Jones is Jessica Jones. With all the other heroes it is either some sort of code name or a moniker the press made up. They rarely call each other by those names anyway...with the exception of Steve, who is often called Cap, but, well, he actually IS a Captain and the leader of the group, so it makes sense. So why should the villains start to wear silly costumes and have silly names?
As I suspected
, the Russos have clarified that there aren't 67 characters in Infinity War, and that it was them being figurative.
I've never understood the point of having a superhero codename if you don't have a secret identity anyway, so I like how the MCU is handling codenames and costumes.
That's one of the things that always bugged me about X-Men, that everyone's supposed to call him Cyclops, for instance, when in the field even though there is literally no reason why they can't just say Scott. The costumes at least make sense as a team uniform sort of thing, but the codenames are arbitrary Standard Superhero Traits present just to be there.
edited 14th Jan '16 8:30:21 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.If Civil War works out, than Captain America is officially the best franchise within the MCU. I admit, I have no doubt that it will, not just because of the people involved, but also because everyone seems so confident and/or excited about this movie. Yes, unless they are name Josh Trank, movie crews more or less always say that their project is great, but it is rare that you get this feeling of "I can't wait to show it to everyone" in every single interview.
Depending on the Writer some used the codenames as their "mutant" or "real" names.
It's a sort of "Scott was my slave name" thing with some mutants, especially when Magneto's involved. I think I remember a moment in the X2 movie where he asks for Pyro's name, Pyro obliges with his civilian name and then Magneto asks for Pyro's "real" name.
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edited 14th Jan '16 9:52:16 AM by MousaThe14
The Blog The ArtIsn't it kind of the point of the MCU to make silly costumes and names believable? Jewel's costume turns up exactly once, just to make fun of it and the name, otherwise Jessica Jones is Jessica Jones. With all the other heroes it is either some sort of code name or a moniker the press made up. They rarely call each other by those names anyway...with the exception of Steve, who is often called Cap, but, well, he actually IS a Captain and the leader of the group, so it makes sense. So why should the villains start to wear silly costumes and have silly names?
There is making costumes and codenames more believable (Winter Soldier, Iron Man, Captain America...), and then there is discarding them altogether to the point we lose what make the concept something from a comic (Savin, Killian's "Mandarin"...) or using them just to mock them without actually adapting them (Trevor's Mandarin, the Jewel costume thing). I will let you guess which one I prefer. And personally, I find the whole "avoiding to use the superhero names as much as possible" pretty ridiculous: these are comic book movies who had their success by embracing this kind of sillyness, they don't need to feel embarassed about it! Especially stupid when both Roger and Stark have been referred under their superhero aliases in their respective movies. I can buy that they would call each others by their real name to be fair, but Banner calling Hulk "the Other"? Seriously?
To be fair though, I am fine with things like Yellowjacket being the suit's name rather than the villain's alias, but in some case the fact they discard the suits and alias rather than adapting them is kinda annoying. This ends up making a lot of them feel generic and unmemorable.
I can respect that with the villains but it kind of undermines the whole equality message to have the X-Men themselves running around going, "Don't call me by my SLAVE NAME! I reject humanity!"
Having everybody take a new name when they become X-Men only drives home the idea that mutants are fundamentally different from humans and should be treated differently. This is antithetical to the principles of a civil rights cause.
edited 14th Jan '16 10:06:15 AM by TobiasDrake
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Personally, I feel that names and costumes are secondary to giving Falcon his bird telepathy powers.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersAnd on that note, now that Disney owns Marvel, Falcon/Cinderella Team-Up when?
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.They call her Phoenix sometimes, which gets confusing because the Phoenix is a separate character, and Jean is only one of the hosts it's had over the years.
edited 14th Jan '16 10:09:33 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.A separate character/Jean's Superpowered Evil Side.
I wonder if it will literally be a hoodie (along the lines of Spider-Gwen).
Looking at it, it actually looks like a combination of Miles' costume
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Also not many take Hulk's name as a proper name but a descriptor to refer to "that thing".
Also, the lack of secret identities in the MCU sort of foregoes the need for them to go by codenames all the time. It's useful for someone like Daredevil or Spider-man but virtually worthless to Scarlet Witch or Falcon.
The Blog The ArtPretty much the only hero with a public identity who a codename would work for in the MCU is Richard Rider and that's mostly because it's a rank, a job and kinda cool.

There's not really anyone else it could.