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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
And then, the crossover directly after Siege was Fear Itself, where Odin took Asgard back to Asgard-space and that crossover ended with a new floating Asgardia that could go anywhere. Since then, it hasn't really been on Earth at all, but floating around the moon and the rings of Saturn and so on.
edited 9th Jan '17 9:12:02 AM by alliterator
I could do with a few more black actors being added into Black Panther. Diversity-wise, it would be a great moment for a depiction of a (fictional) African culture, especially after Doctor Strange just ended up shitting over the concept of even pretended to showcase Asian culture when they whitewashed the Ancient One.
edited 9th Jan '17 9:16:06 PM by higherbrainpattern
Could be, but geographically it doesn't make a lot of sense as isiXhosa is a South African language while Wakanda is in East Africa (specifically Uganda) where the lingua franca tends to be Swahili, a very different language. However T'Challa's stepmother who raised him after the death of his own mother from childbirth is originally from, South Africa, so it could be rationalized as that being the language he grew up with at home and his father spoke it to him out of convenience?
edited 10th Jan '17 2:08:03 AM by AlleyOop
Yeah, T'Challa was raised by Ramonda after the death of his mother N'Yami in childbirth. She's also the mother of his half-sister Shuri.
Regarding the Xhosa thing, it's kind of like having a microstate in the middle of Spain speaking Ukrainian as their native language. Not completely impossible, but unlikely due to language drift over time unless Wakanda has a large number of South African immigrants, which is also unlikely due to Wakanda's canonical isolationism.
It's not impossible at all....for example, the Sorbs are a Slavic minority group in Germany, who have been in the country for so long that their official nationality is German, even though they have their own culture. African people were travelling the continent just as much as everyone else, so it is not impossible that a long, long time ago a group from another part of Africa searching for a new home stumbling over a part of the nation which lay hidden and wasn't that easy to reach and decided to stay there, since nobody else had staked their claim yet. The actual unbelievable part in all this is more than they would use a modern version of the language in question, instead of a version of it which developed slightly differently.
Yeah, but depending on the source, some rumors are more credible than others.
Plus, what is there to discuss? They might actually cast the highly prolific Inhumans for the show. Shocker. This won't get interesting until we actually learn who has been cast.
Plus, I have a hard time to believe that they don't already have actors in mind for the main parts. It's not like there is that much time left to shot the show.

Site says Cloak and Dagger aren't cast but should be soon. I assume same holds true for Runaways.