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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Too much Photoshop or Uncanny Valley maybe? Looks to me like Sharon's wearing Black Widow's old costume or something.
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Technically we don't know what the spinoff is going to be about as no synopsis has been released nor have any of the showrunners described the premise in any meaningful capacity. All we know is the main cast will include (but not necessarily be limited to) Mockingbird, Hunter, and the recently cast Dominic Fortune and the show is called Marvel's Most Wanted.
Given the title, I think it will be more of a crime procedural with superpowered bad guys then a spy show, but that's really just conjecture on my part.
There just isn't enough information out there for anyone to form a meaningful opinion of the show unless they absolutely love the character's of Mockingbird and Hunter to the point of being willing to watch them sit around and do nothing for an hour every week, or absolutely despise them to the point of refusing to watch any show that includes them regardless of what the show is actually about.
I just had the (maybe not good) idea of reintroducing AC/DC music to the MCU by opening Thor: Ragnarok with Thunderstruck similar to how Iron Man 2 opened with Shoot to Thrill. Maybe, also Highway to Hel(l), but that song's kinda overused.
edited 2nd Feb '16 11:04:25 PM by FoxBoxKid
Make mine Marvel.Listing World War Hulk is kind of cheating. It's basically the second half of Planet Hulk.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I wouldn't want to see World War Hulk at all, because it would require so many characters to do a complete 180 on characterization and show a total lack of faith in Banner.
Not to mention about 40% of the people who made the decision aren't even with Marvel Studios.
edited 3rd Feb '16 8:18:49 AM by Khfan429
Not necessarily. It could work with things just generally getting shittier for Banner.
Launching the Hulk into space wasn't a malicious move. He was supposed to land on an idyllic planet with lots of wildlife and flora where he could live out the rest of his days in exactly the way he's always said he wanted: Hulk just wants to be left alone.
What was stupid about it was the fact that they didn't tell him they were doing it, they just sprung it on him. Take out the pointless treachery and the basic plot still works: they send him into space, his pod is hijacked by the priests of Sakaar, he mistakenly believes he was sent to this godforsaken death planet to die.
He thrives, he conquers, he makes a new life, some dumbf*ck tampers with his pod during a parade and it explodes killing many, Hulk mistakes the accident for further betrayal and returns seeking revenge.
The entire story is driven by Poor Communication Kills with the exception of the one pointless moment of legitimate treachery that can easily be excised.
edited 3rd Feb '16 8:25:01 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Yeah. Coming right after Civil War, they also tried to milk the CW fallout by doing the "CHOOSE YOUR SIDE!" thing again. Given that the entire plot was based on Poor Communication Kills, however, this didn't go well. Half the fanbase Flanderized the Hulk into a mindless beast, the other half didn't care about the Hulk's motives and really just wanted to see him punish Iron Man for Civil War.
Meanwhile, tie-in writers bent over backwards to justify whichever side they were on - with the most egregious example being the retcon that the reason the Hulk has always been justified with every rampage is because he's constantly doing complex mathematics in his head to calculate the trajectory of every piece of debris from everything he ever smashes, ensuring that no collateral damage ever injures a bystander.
edited 3rd Feb '16 8:47:19 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I mean, yes, billions in property damage, but no deaths.
edited 3rd Feb '16 8:52:53 AM by alliterator
Though Iron Man absolutely needed to be punished for Civil War. Thor giving him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown while telling him what a loathsome piece of shit he is was one of the most cathartic things Marvel has ever published.
edited 3rd Feb '16 8:53:54 AM by comicwriter
Basically, what they missed in the marketing for WWH is that it's actually kind of the opposite of Civil War, conceptually. Although it was poorly executed, the central idea behind Civil War was that both sides are in the right. They both have good points to make and are doing what they feel is right.
The central idea behind World War Hulk was that both sides are in the wrong. They've both made terrible mistakes and the conflict is a consequence of failures on everybody's part. Telling the audience to pick a side was effectively asking people to choose which set of Leather Pants they liked best and let the blame wars begin.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.It wasn't really a World War Hulk, either, in that it was pretty much confined to New York. And the ending to it was kind...meh (basically: the Sentry and the Hulk trade blows until both are knocked out and the Hulk reverts back to Banner).
It also led to one of the worst Hulk stories ever: Red Hulk. (Although while Red Hulk was going on, Greg Pak was doing his excellent "Skaar, Son of Hulk" story which was much, much better and was actually all about Banner.)
edited 3rd Feb '16 9:01:51 AM by alliterator
Honestly, if we want a bad Hulk, I'd say bring in the Maestro. Have somebody tamper with the Time Stone before/during/after Infinity War and have versions of characters that could or could have been show up. End it with all the heroes banding together, mending the timeline, banishing Maestro to a future that may never be and sending everybody back. Everybody... except a black and red suited Spiderman.
Obviously this story would happen after Infinity War. The tamperibg is the only event that can come whenever.
edited 3rd Feb '16 9:03:25 AM by Zeromaeus
See, the advantage of World War Hulk over the Maestro is that WWH doesn't involve cluttering up the MCU with all that "80 bajillion Evil Alternate Futures" nonsense from the comics.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.

It's cool but kinda ugly.