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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I liked that Earths Mightiest Heroes episode, especially that aspect of Mar-vell being involved in the stock world-conquest Evil Plan for all the right reasons, as well as that aspect mentioned of his sort of False Reassurance, which as mentioned, would work great in the MCU, since the audience already knows the Kree are bastards.
On the other hand though, that episode does relegate Carol to a Distressed Damsel role (which kind of makes sense since it's a deconstructive parody of 50's alien invasion movies), and alien abduction and probing seems even worse in that respect.
edited 20th Oct '16 5:08:23 PM by nervmeister
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I want to be optimistic, but I think Lupita Nyong'o might be the one who'll get by far the most screentime, and the others might be smaller roles (I mean, technically, Civil War had eight female characters with lines, and of those three have more than one or two scenes.)
edited 20th Oct '16 5:01:17 PM by hollygoolightly
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Dude, I'm talking about bizarre, Frakenstein-like, alien surgery. I want to see Carol being literally dismembered and somehow kept alive without losing a drop of blood thanks to Kree medical/lab tech. I want to see weird techno-organic wires (or veins) tunneling throughout Carol's body while Kree scientists get ready to pump an entire reactor's worth of proto-waves into her.
edited 20th Oct '16 5:17:01 PM by nervmeister
I'd rather they do the accident version. Maybe that renegade Pink Kree gives his human accomplice powers, and we get Moonstone. While he's fine-tuning Moonstone's abilities, Captain Mar-vell and Badass Normal Carol Danvers attack, the whatever device blows up, and Carol's caught in the blast.
Honestly, I know next to nothing about Moonstone or her powers (besides being fairly similar to Captain Marvel's flight, strength, and energy blasts) but I do remember she worked with Baron Zemo on the Thunderbolts, right up until the point where Zemo tried to take over the world instead of raking in the cash.
Yup. I'd like if they introduced her in a Captain Marvel movie as her Evil Counterpart and then put her in Thunderbolts.
I think if they're to adapt Mar-Vell in the modern day the pink Kree stuff will probably have to go. With the likely Pragmatic Adaptation changes they'll have to use for him it's probably an unnecessary detail on top of just seeming out-of-touchnote , even if it may have been intended as an Aesop on racial diversity for the white-majority readership of the time.
The CGI definitely looks cool, but the generic skeptic-gets-converted and chosen one of destiny dialogue and Strange having what seems to be a Token Romance with Christine Palmer played dead straightnote aren't exactly inspiring my confidence for the screenplay.
Props to Cumberbatch for what seems to be a decent Brooklyn accent though.

Shuri maybe? Or Queen Divine Justice?
I know they're bringing Shuri back in the comics so I hope she gets to be a part of the MCU Black Panther cast from the getgo as opposed being retconned into T'Challa's backstory.
edited 20th Oct '16 4:44:13 PM by AlleyOop