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Since Thor and now Captain America came out this year, I wanted to get what Tropers thought of the concept and execution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general. Personally I love the idea and wonder why this idea hasn't been seriously tried before. It sorta seems to me like the DCAU in movie form (And well, ummm, with Marvel), and really 'gets' the comic book feel of a shared universe while not being completely alienating.

Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM

LordofLore Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#54976: Apr 12th 2016 at 11:35:11 AM

If you want to see more of Vision wearing normal clothes you should read his current comic.

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#54977: Apr 12th 2016 at 11:37:46 AM

I don't watch Archer and I'm pretty sure that joke is older than that show.

[up]I've been shown bits and pieces. It's... weird. Not just Vision in clothes, the whole... family thing.

edited 12th Apr '16 11:38:24 AM by MousaThe14

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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#54978: Apr 12th 2016 at 11:45:31 AM

It is older, but Archer did give us a great example as applied to an obviously-sapient being.

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Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#54979: Apr 12th 2016 at 11:50:44 AM

Poor Vision. Barely one year old and he is already orchestrated for being a little bit different....

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#54980: Apr 12th 2016 at 12:06:10 PM

Someone got a freeze frame of a certain somebody's slightly spoilery cameo in the last tV spot. [1]

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#54981: Apr 12th 2016 at 12:09:00 PM

I can't tell what it is.

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#54982: Apr 12th 2016 at 12:10:17 PM

If it's supposed to be Spider-Man, we already saw him in one of the trailers.

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LordofLore Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#54983: Apr 12th 2016 at 12:10:26 PM

Giant-Man I think? Can't tell what he wants us to look at in the picture aside from the big leg. Hawkeye is screwed in that case if he tries to fight him but they're on the same team so maybe he's just surprised or attacking someone behind him?

edited 12th Apr '16 12:34:03 PM by LordofLore

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#54984: Apr 12th 2016 at 12:11:11 PM

It could be, but I don't know if the big leg is Giant-Man. It might just be big because it's so close to the foreground. The color of the fabric makes me think it's Black Widow staring down Hawkeye.

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MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
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#54987: Apr 12th 2016 at 12:30:58 PM

Lol

And why would Antman fight Hawkeye? They're on the same team, guys.

edited 12th Apr '16 12:31:16 PM by MadSkillz

comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#54988: Apr 12th 2016 at 12:32:42 PM

They're not fighting they're standing next to one another.

LordofLore Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
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#54990: Apr 12th 2016 at 2:49:52 PM

I long feared this day would come.

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LordofLore Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#54991: Apr 12th 2016 at 2:53:48 PM

Wasn't the Ultimate!Vulture a cannibal? Last time I read a story with the 616!Vulture he was trying to get money for his sick grandson but got his face messed up by Black Cat IIRC but that was years ago and happened before OMD.

edited 12th Apr '16 2:58:22 PM by LordofLore

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#54993: Apr 12th 2016 at 3:11:52 PM

Ultimate Vulture wasn't a cannibal. He was just some dude in a suit.

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#54994: Apr 12th 2016 at 3:15:39 PM

It was Noir!Vulture who was the cannibal.

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#54995: Apr 12th 2016 at 3:23:57 PM

Feige talks Spidey.

By the way, when's that first Doctor Strange trailer coming?

LordofLore Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#54996: Apr 12th 2016 at 3:34:49 PM

[up][up]Knew it was one of them, thanks.

Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#54997: Apr 12th 2016 at 3:38:48 PM

It seems like a surprisingly large number of villains in comic books are cannibals in either mainline versions or alternative versions of them.

Like I had looked up Grizzly at one point and he's mentioned as being a rumored cannibal, which I assumed was probably a Dark Reign thing, since he's otherwise an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain.

On topic though, Vulture is a great Starter Villain and introduction to Norman Osborne. Do wonder how his tech would work though since it's so similar to Falcon's-suggesting that the U.S. government stole his technology long before Norman Osborne did.

edited 12th Apr '16 3:41:20 PM by Hodor2

Gaon Smoking Snake from Grim Up North Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#54998: Apr 12th 2016 at 3:40:23 PM

Noir Vulture actually made a surprisingly memorable villain in Spider Man Shattered Dimensions. They patterned him after Count Orlok and played up the dark, animalistic aspect of the character to its maximum extent, making him a ferocious sadistic cannibal with wings who lurks in the shadows and strikes his prey from the darkness.

He also had a bitching theme.

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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#54999: Apr 12th 2016 at 3:51:41 PM

So this version of Spidey will beat up a confused octogenarian as his first superheroic action.

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#55000: Apr 12th 2016 at 3:55:21 PM

Isn't that what we deserve from all our heroes?

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