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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I know we've left the what can hurt Luke discussion, but I'm guessing little old Madame Gao and some of the higher members of the hand know techniques that'll make Luke's Steel hard skin seem more like paper.
She knocked Matt clean across the room when he should have seen it coming, and the hand made his senses useless through silencing their own heartbeats (Nobu did the same).
I once commented that Luke is a good weapon against them because nothing in their arsenal could really hurt him, but that's only in the early going. Expect them to be much more dangerous once they know what they are dealing with.
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Being new to the throne would be a good way to excuse an Exposition Dump if they justify it as him being fairly sheltered as a youth or having gone abroad for much of his schooling.
Remember: Madame Gao doesn't work for the Hand. Nobu was the representative of the Hand; Madame Gao represented something else. Her drugs were all stamped with the symbol of the Steel Serpent
◊, too. And she said that she knew every language.
Odds are, she is Crane Mother
.
And then Marvel throws a curve ball and it turns out she's Fin Fang Foom.
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This tweet is much better than the other one on Comic Con because it humanizes Larson much more. I agree with some of my female nerd friend that the tweet at Comic Con made her too... I don't know, "sexy".
Edit:
Are you talking about Madame Gao or Brie Larson? Because based on Aloha, only Emma Stone can lowered her standard enough to play a half-Asian woman.
edited 26th Jul '16 6:39:00 PM by shatterstar
I wonder what they actually mean with "classic" inhumans characters....there are still a number of Nuhumans they could use. There is a whole list of characters they could use without ever touching the royal family or Ms Marvel.
And honestly, there isn't really that much room for more Inhumans...they barely used the ones they already have so far.
Also, because it's suspicious that Lupita herself is the one informing us of the number of villains.
Makes sense. For me, I thought having two characters who have past personal beef with T'Challa/the royal family might be a bit too similar, but they could easily change that in Nakia's case to something a little more political. As long as it's not jealousy/jilted wannabe-lover.
I mostly thought Klaw because he is connected to Killmonger already, too, and because he would have a vested interest in de-stabilizing T'Challa's leadership to get at vibranium. In that case, in would be more of a deal-with-the-devil thing for Killmonger.
True, but they usually try to use at least some aspects from the comics, and I think especially the early Black Panther runs and the one by Christopher Priest in the late 1990s are quite beloved. But they've mostly found a good balance in picking and chosing comic elements for the movies so far.
I've heard MOYWBM lady has a part in Wonder Woman, but I don't know if the movies have scheduling conflicts.
Don't know much of the later runs other than T'Challa's marriage with Storm (bad), Wakanda refusing to share the cure for cancer from the rest of the world (very bad), the part where Wakanda gets invaded and a lot of the Priest supporting characters like Zuri get Stuffed in the Fridge (also bad), and T'Challa having a younger sister (could be good).
To be honest there's probably a lot more to it than that. Those are just the most salient points I know, because Never Live It Down for the first three.

I believe it was said to be a geopolitical thriller. I hope they delve on the politics in a way that TWS didn't. Whereas the latter is more Three Days of the Condor, and dealt more with ideals, I'm hoping the former gets to go more ASOIAF. Ramonda forming alliances and playing The Mole, T'Challa pitting his enemies against each other, winning by playing of the rules of engagement to his favor, seeing and so on.
It'll be interesting to see how the movie characterizes him too, since the T'Challa of Priest's comics is old and weary with experience, whereas the one we see in Civil War at least is righteous, but also young and impulsive.