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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Scott Lang has no rogues gallery to speak of, because Marvel never gave him a solo series until he got a movie. He was not a big deal (no pun intended) at all until the movie.
They positioned Taskmaster as his enemy because the writer noticed that it just so happened that Taskmaster and Scott Lang had appeared in three stories together (they were created by the writer). The gag was that Scott considered these encounters enough to qualify Taskmaster as his Arch-Nemesis, while Taskmaster barely remembered who the hell Scott even was.
Huh, that's cool. Guess Whedon might come back to the MCU after all
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edited 19th Apr '16 10:48:36 PM by AlleyOop
Taskmaster's a really weird person to use as a villain for an Ant-Man movie. For one, Taskmaster's primary gimmick is wasted on Scott, whose entire fighting style is based on his shrinking ability.
I'd love to see him in a Black Panther. Like, as a Hitman with a Heart Noble Demon someone sends after T'Challa, but whom bails on the job when he decides he doesn't care about the politics or is being used as a Patsy or something.
Or maybe a Shang-Chi movie.
Nah, they're probably just going to stick him in one of the TV shows.
The cool thing about seeing Crossfire would be seeing him try, with his expert marksman ability. to shoot ants, and Scott actually having to dodge the bullets and maybe even climb atop a bullet mid-air or somesuch.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I'd definitely like to see Taskmaster show up, but Ant-Man is a poor choice. Taskmaster is at his best when he's up against Badass Normals whose techniques he can mimic.
Ideally he'd play small, Batroc-like roles in a few films across franchises, rather than being the Big Bad of a single film.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!It might be cool to get Villain Protagonist / Anti-Hero series starring Taskmaster.
http://imgur.com/r/funny/iEzjR57
That vid of Cumberbatch sure is getting a lotta play. Also I swear that's my comic shop he's in.
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Universal has no say in this. All Universal has are distribution rights for any Hulk movie. Naturally Disney prefers to do a movie which has NOT Hulk in the title and distribute it themselves instead of putting money in a movie and then have to share the profits with Universal. But the character rights should be all with Marvel by now.
edited 20th Apr '16 5:19:30 AM by Swanpride
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From my understanding Universal just has distribution rights to a Hulk solo film. Marvel doesn't need their permission to use any particular characters associated with the Hulk.
Obviously if they go overboard in one movie it could cause problems. For example if Thor: Ragnarok is just Planet Hulk that's been intentionally mislabeled as a Thor movie, I could see Universal suing Disney over the distribution rights.
But there are plenty of ways to bring back any individual character and not run afoul Universal.
Universal just has the rights to distribute any solo Hulk movie that Marvel makes, they don't actually have the rights to make one themselves.
Marvel didn't need to get Universal's permission to put the Hulk in the Avengers movies or General Ross in Civil War.
I think Abomination in particular might show up if they have a Masters of Evil. Zemo (or whoever is in charge of the Masters of Evil, but probably Zemo) might decide to jailbreak the Abomination to use as a blunt instrument.
Plot twist: the Leader has been The Man Behind the Man behind Thanos the whole time.

I've never read any Lang comics except Spencer's, so not sure whether or not that's a previously existing thing or not.