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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
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The novelizations are usually non-canon. Aside from just deviating from the movies, they often specify things that aren't true. For one, Tony couldn't possibly have invented something that the U.S. government was aware of and working with as far back as World War 2, and if you notice, even in movies where vibranium is explicitly mentioned, that supposed tidbit from the novel is never mentioned.
And if you're going off the books then the nerdy white guy Banner gives a pizza to in The Incredible Hulk was Amadeus Cho.
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edited 15th Feb '17 12:29:51 PM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYup. Novelizations are often written based off the script before the actual movie is released, so that was likely some miscommunication gone horribly wrong.
Yup. Probably just a lack of foresight on the author's part.
edited 15th Feb '17 12:38:26 PM by comicwriter
The Ironman movies were very specific that the arc reactor technology was based on the Tesseract - which was the big McGuffin of Phase 1.
It's less that the infinity stones are driving the plot so much as the potential threat behind the infinity stones has been present since The Avengers. It's the Myth Arc, the endgame, and without it the overall MCU story will need something else to feel like an endgame.
I propose either Masters of Evil or Squadron Supreme.
Although harder to get a several phase story out of the Squadron probably.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThey don't need to trade anything for Kang.
He was not part of the rights signed away.
Also, they have the Skrulls. So I guess Secret Invasion is on the table too. Except stretched out over movies and movies.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersWord of God from James Gunn was that Kang can't be used
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edited 15th Feb '17 7:58:36 PM by comicwriter
Take it with a MASSIVE grain of salt, but...R we Gonna Haz Namor?
I mean, apparently Namor's film rights are back at Marvel, but I doubt they would make him an Inhuman since there is a very easy way to get out of calling him a mutant: call him an Atlantean.

That novel was probably written without knowledge of Black Panther's confirmed existence.