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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Miller's comics tease the idea that the reason Stick can be awesome without chemicals is because all Matt's and Stick's superhuman senses are actually natural to humans. They're just buried very deep within our psyche.
Stick says something to the effect of "You think those chemicals gave you power? They merely opened the road for the dormant abilities every man has."
Sadly Stick dies like four pages later and no writer since has attempted to explain what the fuck he was going on about.
edited 2nd Nov '16 5:25:57 PM by Gaon
"All you Fascists bound to lose."There's really not a lot you can do to top your entire cinematic universe fighting Thanos for the fate of all of existence.
Even getting back Galactus, he's just a dude who eats planets.
Also, there are so many smaller scope ideas they could still use for movies: Clint getting Natasha to defect from the Red Room. Sam and Bucky being forced to go on a roadtrip. T'Challa having to judge a cat pageant. All the times Steve somehow ended up stealing a car.
edited 2nd Nov '16 6:01:13 PM by hollygoolightly
They've said they regret killing off Ben Urich. They didn't think they were going to get the Spider-Man rights back, and as a prominent reporter for the Daily Bugle, Urich is predominately a Spider-character.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Oh, I believe they regret killing him. I sure as hell regret them killing him. But I can understand why it happened. The tone of these shows, Daredevil especially, is not one where you can get away with too many empty threats. With the Kingpin especially, the ability to back up his words is what makes him so formidable.
I wish that there'd been a way to still have Ben around, but his death does work in the script. It felt inevitable, not milked or staged. I can respect that.
They certainly didn't go through the trouble of folding Claire's origin story into Daredevil Season 2 and Luke Cage just to kill her off at the first opportunity. It is much more likely that something happens to her mother. Parental figure have a really short live expectation in those Netflix shows.
Claire is way more of a character than Coulson ever was, and she has a role which is nearly impossible to replace. Coulson was basically the cheaper version of Nick Fury, being the face of Shield. But Claire is on her way to become the expert for treating people with powers who can't ask Shield for help.
Yeah, I'm not seeing the comparison either, to be honest. Coulson is a presumably a character with his own profile now after three + seasons of development via Agents of Shield, but in Avengers he's pretty much a fanboy with a badge who dies so we can see how manipulative Fury is. Claire on the other hand is becoming a medical expert for supers, and she'll likely also be a middleman between people with problems and Luke/the Defenders. She's way more than an emotional tether for the main characters.
If I had to compare Claire with a movie character, it would be Black Widow, being a similar unexpected break-out character. As it stands, it is more likely that Claire will eventually get a show on her own than her getting killed. One thing for sure, she will keep turning up in all the Netflix shows.
For me it's not about whether or not she's "The Coulson" it's several decades of women getting fridged to motivate male characters. Obviously there's a huge history of it in comics, but it's still a pretty popular storytelling device in television as well. Just look at how many female characters were killed off last year. At least she's not a lesbian, then they'd definitely kill her off. Heck, if I didn't know about Punisher I'd probably be worried about Karen.
Honestly, I think there's about a 50/50 chance she bites it. And we get some nonsense from the showrunners about "well, it just wouldn't be realistic if someone important didn't die" (but the superhero characters are 'too important,' probably).
To be fair, there's also a decent chance they kill Foggy or Malcolm instead... but I don't want them to do that either.
Anyway, if I'm obnoxiously cynical about it there's a better chance I'll be pleasantly surprised instead.
One of the reasons I'm happy that Hogarth is sort of a jerk is that it greatly reduces her chances of dying. Bury Your Gays is usually for nice people (in that respect, it's probably better that Trish so far seems straight).
Wanted to comment on something that I was reminded of by that mention of it being cool and unlikely if Donald Glover was playing Phil Urich, and was consequently connected to Ben Urich of the Netflix-verse:
So, I'm wondering how the Spider-Man movies are going to incorporate organized crime in the MCU, because that's an area where the plotlines of the Netflix shows rather intersect with those of Spider-Man.
Specifically, although really important to Daredevil, Kingpin is also a major Spidey villain, which means that either the MCU will reference him but not show him (slightly possible), cast someone else as a different take on Kingpin (I think unlikely), or similarly to Spectacular, cast Silvermane, Tombstone, and/or Mr. Negative instead (most likely). Think Silvermane probably has the best chance because Agent Carter already had a Manfredi gangster, who depending on how old you want Silvermane, would either be his father or an older brother/cousin, and Agent Carter is pretty much canon for the MCU.
And I do wonder about Urich himself because he's someone you would expect if casting Bugle Staff. I don't think the MCU would necessarily cast someone else as him. Would be nice if there was an Easter Egg of mentioning a Ben Urich memorial prize for journalism.
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I never understood the fuss about Coulson, but I came in far too late to know how much of that is due to Avengers/Agents of SHIELD, and how much was because of his other appearances (how many were there, anyway? One or two?). Then again, nobody in The First Avenger particularly wowed me, either, and I love everyone from Steve to Peggy to Bucky and Howard after Winter Soldier and Agent Carter, so maybe I just generally take longer to warm up to characters.
edited 3rd Nov '16 7:40:14 AM by hollygoolightly

I'm not sure if Stick can do all the same things as Matt. And maybe it took him longer to learn?