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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
There's always the basic answer for any sort of "why comic book super science doesn't spread out to the world" question: It's too expensive/complicated/rare to mass-produce.
edited 13th Aug '16 5:46:32 PM by Gaon
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Probably one of the biggest Superman Stays Out of Gotham questions for the Avengers has always been why don't Tony and T'Challa outfit the other non-powered members with armor and protective gear. The closest they ever got was Hawkeye saying he hates wearing body armor because it slows him down and impedes his movement.
Looks like despite the doubts, the Warriors 3 will be back in Ragnarok
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It bothers me that the three warriors are shown as very weak in the movies. (I dare to say that Squishy Wizard Loki is stronger than them.)
In the first film, they wasn't a match against the destroyer, which he was easily defeated by Thor .
But surely they are training, in order to be useful against Loki, Fenri, Surtur and Hela.
edited 13th Aug '16 7:29:59 PM by dantecito
I could see Black Widow being put into the KGB at age 5, as it was the KGB she kept calling it that name even after it changed its name. I'm sure there are real people in the FSB who still say KGB out of habit.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranSo basically the Infinity Serum is a handwave for the sliding time scale
Forever liveblogging the AvengersAlso Thor doesn't beat the Destroyer through normal combat anyway.
He has an epiphany limit break or whatever.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersPredictably, I like Cap's Stealth Suit the best, but I do like most of his uniforms, except for - again, predictably - the one in Avengers. I also usually like Natasha's hair, but here, I vastly prefer the cut in Avengers. Seems more her, somehow. I wouldn't be surprised if her birthdate in TWS was fake, but I could imagine that in their universe, the KGB actually stuck around longer than in the real world.
OMG, who sneaked a link to a Liefeld drawing in here. My eyes!
edited 14th Aug '16 11:30:16 AM by hollygoolightly
He has an epiphany limit break or whatever.
This. The Destroyer's defeat was extremely anticlimactic as a consequence of the guys making Thor spending way too much time building up a character who isn't present in the film to be a threat, but rather to fulfill a very precise narrative purpose.
Ultimately, the point of the Destroyer was to set up Thor's Jesus moment so he could reclaim Mjolnir and head back to Asgard for the climax. So they built it up and built it up and showed it handily whupping the Warriors Three, all to set up this moment. But actually fighting the Destroyer wasn't what its scene was about, so once Thor had the hammer back....
Well, they STILL had this ungodly thing to deal with, which they'd spent so much time developing as a credible threat that you'd be forgiven for thinking it was going to be the villain or something. But the villain was Loki and Thor needed to go deal with that, not spend half an hour having an epic blow-out with the Destroyer. So the Destroyer was wrapped up as quick as possible by just having the newly re-powered Thor effortlessly demolish it to show off how awesome he is, without a care for how anticlimactic it is because it's not supposed to be the climax anyway.
End result is way too much build-up for a character that was meant to be more of a narrative utility than a serious foe. It's basically like if Winter Soldier prefaced the "Cap hands Batroc a smack-down" scene by spending 2/3 of the movie talking about how dangerous Batroc is and then had Batroc defeat Widow and Falcon simultaneously. But still had the same short, entirely one-sided curbstomp when it came Cap's time to fight him.
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Chill. If we didn't discuss articles it'd just be rehashing the same three discussions in here over and over.
....Which already happens but I guess it'd be more frequent.
Not necessarily. They might not have announced or even cast someone to voice him yet. A voice actor for Colossus in Deadpool was only revealed very late in the game as I recall.
It also depends on how big a role he has as well. As I recall, Josh Brolin was confirmed as Thanos until pretty late in the game as well (since his role in GOTG was quite small).
I think that Hela will be the main villain and Surtur is more of a force of destruction that needs to be stopped in the third act.

Hey, at least he didn't look like this.
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