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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The ones not in the show yet(from what I know since I haven't watched S2 yet) from the picture:
- Bullseye
- The Hand
- Typhoid Mary
- Maya Lopez/Echo
- Mister Fear
- Lady Bullseye
- Tarantula
- Stilt Man
- The Enforcers
- Sister Murdock
- Kirsten Mc Duffie
- Blindspot
Edit: An article compared greenscreen photos to how it looks in the final movie and there were two MCU pictures from Avengers
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edited 19th Mar '16 10:40:26 AM by LordofLore
Just finished season 2 of Daredevil. Great as usual. I appreciate that they despicted the Punisher with more of a gentle/sympathetic side. Nowadays thanks to morons like Garth Ennis (no offense intended to any of his fans), I have a hard time imagining him as anything else than a combination of everything wrong with Nineties Anti-Heroes and the most obnoxious application ever of Muggles Do It Better. It's good to see a version of the character I actually liked for a change.
Sorry, that was a bit harsh of me. You probably guessed it, but I am not a fan of the guy. I am sure he is not really an idiot, but... let's just say the way he inserts his ideas in comics pisses me off. A lot of what I heard about it gives me the impression he is doing Hate Fics that got published.
edited 19th Mar '16 4:23:44 PM by Theokal3
Ennis's best work is with the Punisher, yeah, because he is excellent with the Black Comedy, over-the-top violence and generally bloody grim nature of the series. But he does veer into problems with some frequency. His hatred for basically everyone who isn't the Punisher in the Marvel universe tends to bleed through. Another issue of his is that, as our tvtropes page mention it, he tends to make villains "worth the bullet" (and Ennis has almost made Complete Monster into an artform), but as a side-effect his villains tend to be a bit one-note and rely a lot on shock value rather than actual emotional depth, And because all the villains are thoroughly loathsome Castle rarely gets to actually gripe with the moral ambiguity of his actions when Ennis's in charge. Ennis's general prejudices sometimes bleed through as well.
The netflix Punisher, amusingly, goes out of its way to differentiate from Ennis's take on the character and harken back to Castle's earlier portrayals. Namely in that Punisher is a lot more human and fallible in the show than he is in Ennis's stories, where the character's specific point is that he is a emotionally dead machine of slaughter. Netflix-Castle actually cries, screams, and seems actually highly vulnerable to both the war and the loss of his family and more human in the sense of not being quite as unstoppable as his comic self (as befitting of Netflix's more realistic heroism).
Namely there's the fact Ennis's work on the Punisher often raised the implication that the death of his family was just an excuse for him to go out on a killing spree and he was always kind of a bloodthirsty psycho, while the Netflix series seems to take a more sympathetic view on the man.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."It'll be interesting to see how Civil War plays out, and if it will indeed be as good as the people are saying it is. Maybe it'll finally silence stuff this.
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Well define succeful screenwriter. Winter Soldier, Civil War, First Avenger, and Infinity War all have Christopher Markus and Stephen Mc Feely as main screenwriters, and both have very well-received movies under their belt, chiefly in the Chronicles of Narnia franchise and, more "artistically", the Life and Death of Peter Sellers, which is pretty outstandingly well-received (controversies about Historical Hero Upgrade aside).
Ant-Man had Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim, Attack on the Block, The Adventures of Tintin)
Hell, even Iron Man 1 had Markus Fergus and Hawk Ostby, who worked on the critically acclaimed Children of Men, for which they received a nomination for best adapted screenplay in the academy awards.
edited 19th Mar '16 8:57:17 PM by Gaon
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I always heard it pronounced Tchala (T as in trembling, ch and is ketchup, and alla as in galla), and Tchaka (T as in trembling, ch as in ketchup and aka as in ahkah)
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Stop taking /tv/ so seriously. They're shitposters, the lot of them. At this point most people including even hardcore DC fans can accept that Marvel (or at least the Russos) can handle serious plots just fine. Hell, hop one board over to /co/ and it's covered in posts praising the "based Russos".
For the MCU, it doesn't really matter what DC does or doesn't do. The question is always what the fans will do. As long as Marvel delivers, they will flock to the movies or TV shows. That won't change just because DC suddenly starts to make good movies again (if their output even is any good...as far as I can tell, the reactions to Bv S are mixed).
Also, both companies have hired a lot of talent. Let's be real here, one of the reasons Warner can even score those high-prolific people is because Marvel made it kind of en vogues to be cast in a superhero movie. It is no longer embarrassing to take those roles because those movies are no longer the schlock feasts they used to be. Instead it is a great exposure.

Didn't Cox say he wanted to see Stilt Man on Daredevil?
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?