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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
A live action version of that has a good chance of either being Narm Charm or straight up Nightmare Fuel.
Is a bird clone of Thomas Edison any stupider than having a talking raccoon with a machine gun being one of your leads?
As long as you make sure it fits the tone of the movie and makes sense within the context of the story, you can get away with anything. I would imagine a Ms. Marvel movie would be less serious than the Avengers or Cap movies anyway, given that a lot of her book runs on Rule of Funny.
If nobody balked at JFK being assassinated for being a mutant, no one's gonna balk at Thomas Edison being a parakeet.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.First Class and Days of Future Past rope in a ton of historical allusions, though, such that it's basically an alternate history with superheroes. Isn't that the problem with Edison? That he's a famous historical figure?
I mean, audiences came out for Abraham Lincoln fighting vampires.
edited 20th Mar '16 6:25:17 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.I'd be on board with Thomas Edison as a bad guy and a bird as a bad guy, but both in the same character seems the kind of bizarre silver age (or silver age-inspired, in this case) that is hard to do in a move without making the entire thing a farce.
Henry Ford's brain inside a Diesel Punk Iron man suit however I am fully on board with.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Thomas Edison DNA just explains why the Inventor can build giant robots and why he's such a jerk.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersAgreed. It's too cartoon-y for general audiences to accept.

We all know Stan Lee's favorite cameo but what is his least favorite?