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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I'd say Dottie Underwood and Whitney Frost are fairly phenomenal villains. (Well, Frost's breakdown in the back end of her season is not great, but up to that point she's pretty good.)
I dunno that I can say Fisk is a great villain anymore. Like. Daredevil season two was written so melodramatically and basically boiled Fisk down to a generically bombastic ringleader with a rage problem, stripping him of any nuance he had in season one. It didn't help that Vincent D'Onofrio visibly stopped giving a shit. And unlike with Frost, where there's a visible source for this shift, Fisk just...stops being dimensional.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Difficult to register how much of a threat he was since he ruined his own plans. Malick may have been right when he said Ward was the best thing Garrett did for Hydra.
I like Dottie, Whitney, and Cal. Meh on rest from Agent Carter and Ao S.
edited 31st Mar '16 12:26:12 PM by Cross
Fisk is awesome.
Agent Carter Season 2 disappointed me so heavily that I couldn't care much about Whitey Frost. I almost never subscribe to the concept of They Changed It, Now It Sucks!, but Whitney may be my very first exception.
edited 31st Mar '16 12:30:23 PM by comicwriter
The conversation three pages ago about Killgrave made me think of him walking into the Avengers tower to take over the world, but the entire team no selling his powers.
Vision and Thor aren't weak to human viruses, Iron Man, War Machine and Ant Man have sealed suits, Clint is deaf and can't hear Kilgrave's orders, Natasha is too literal minded to get Kilgrave's meanings, Bruce is under his control, but Kilgrave can't figure out how to order him to be angry, Bucky simply goes into shock from mind control triggering him, and Wanda just can't understand Kilgrave's accent.
I was pretty impressed that they managed to put a call back to season 1, a hidden hint towards the Netflix shows, a name drop of damager control while adding some more story to Agent Carter in the last episode of Agent of Shield without anything feeling forced at all. Oh, and they mentioned age of Ultron, too, for good measures.
edited 31st Mar '16 1:20:25 PM by Swanpride
There was one cosmic superhero who fought a couple of mind readers and virus-like people and his AI friend who protected his mind spent most fights with them going "You have 27.4 Earth seconds left before our mind/hack shields will go down so punch their face in".
I also recall someone being impossible to read or control because their mind was trained by filling it with catchy 80's songs.
"Finding out he's just some guy reading people's psych profiles was underwhelming. "
Not, what was underwhelming is him becoming a saturday cartoon villian after having the serum and being defeat by freaking monologing!
"Ward is above all currently unbelievable creepy...nearly Killgrave creepy, and that is saying something."
Nonsense, for me is a sick puppy, you dont care to much but feel you have to mercy kill because is mind is suffering to much.
The issue with the villian is already talk a lot: Marvel only care about then as antagonist for the hero and eveyrthing else is bullshit, Winter soldier Hydra and Loki are good because they get time and care as chararter.
Which I said I will disagree with Swanpride here: having personal stakes is not all and sometimes it dismiss the work around, Iron man 2 is bad because it focus to much in Tony at the expense of all other plots, Thor 1 didnt do much for Thor while Loki pathos resonate with theme of the movie(rulership) and with Winter soldier there was more than just Cap feeling lost, the movie feel greater as result.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"I don't believe he is in the MCU.
In the comics, it varies.
He was deafened when he stuck a sonic arrow in his mouth but then Franklin Richards fixed his hearing and then a mime assassin stabbed him in the eardrums with arrows
Forever liveblogging the Avengers

Basically Garrett was reduced to reduced to a joke when he should have stepped up.