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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
They probably and very wisely decided not to have that circumstance be in any way considered for inclusion in the MCU.
Much like they unwisely decided never to do Cap-Wolf, the fools
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThe incident was entirely overblown in the comics anyway. Pym hits Janet...during a period of mental instability when he's planning on attacking the Avengers with robots and then pretending to save the day. People tend to forget that part and assume he's just a wife-beater, but he was actually literally mentally unstable. (Janet, meanwhile, manipulated Hank when he was mentally unwell in order to marry him, so she's...not actually good either.)
edited 8th Mar '17 10:03:48 PM by alliterator
I blame Mark Millar for this and anything else.
Oh, and Chuck Austen.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersWhat does Austen have to do with this?
edited 8th Mar '17 10:05:41 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!Mark Millar wrote The Ultimates which included a version of Hank Pym who was a wife-beater (and, in fact, attacked Janet with ants). And Chuck Austen wrote a run on Avengers that was terrible and included a very OOC Hank Pym, too, I believe.
I mean, can you believe that Mark Millar wrote the super bright Superman Adventures and Chuck Austen ended up working on Steven Universe?
edited 8th Mar '17 10:09:48 PM by alliterator
Half of Chuck Austen's run on Avengers may as well have been a Very Special Episode about domestic abuse so that he could bring up that Hank not only hit Jan that time but apparently all the time and then have Jan and Clint have sex with Hank accidentally walking in on it.
I don't think Jan and Hank need to or even should be together but its such weird whiplash going from Busiek's run where the two are back together and taking things slow to Chuck Austen's where Jan hates Hank's fuckin guts.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersHonestly, at this point Mary Jane not even being in the movie would make my day not only because I always felt that they should wait a little bit to introduce her, but because I am so tired of people setting rumours into the world and everyone is running with them as if they are facts. The whole Mary Jane thing started with one source...the same source which claimed that Chris Pine would play green lantern and implied that James Gunn was a liar when James Gunn denied his oh so sure scoop that Quill's father would be...I think it was Adam Warlock, but whoever it was, he was wrong about that one, too.
Speaking of, isn't Quill's dad in the film supposed to be Ego, the Living Planet? I totally want Rocket to have a snarky line about, "Your dad's literally named EGO? Well, that explains a flarkin' lot."
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I would not be surprised if Zendaya does turn out to be MJ, like at all. For one, they seem to be setting her character up as sort of a moody loner type and it was reported they plan to have her adopt a bigger role in the sequels. That sounds like a prime set-up to have Liz Allen be the unlucky first girl who ends up with someone else and have Peter and MJ hook up in the sequel.
The other is Spider-Man is like the one franchise on the planet where you couldn't possibly need to introduce a Canon Foreigner in his supporting cast. He's got dozens, if not hundreds of supporting characters you could draw from. So I'm very skeptical that they hired Zendaya, a relatively well known child actor among the Disney set, to play some random made-up character named "Michelle". This isn't Ant-Man where you kinda have to have a big chunk of his supporting cast be new characters because he has no supporting cast in the comics.
It was autocorrect on my phone. I typed "nickname" and somehow it ended up jock name.
In theory? So they can present Liz Allen as the main love interest and treat it like a surprise when he instead doesn't end up with her. My thoughts at least.
edited 9th Mar '17 6:15:56 AM by comicwriter
Didn't they racelift Ned Leeds and Flash Thompson? Unfortunately Ambiguously Brown is a thing, which is why I didn't rule out the possibility.
edited 9th Mar '17 6:25:40 AM by Cross
EW has a more detailed rundown of the plot:
Sakaar’s most popular and successful gladiator? Bruce Banner, a.k.a. the Hulk. Comics fans will recognize this plotline as part of the popular Planet Hulk series. “He’s much more of a character than the green rage machine you’ve seen in the Avengers movies,” Ruffalo says of this new Hulk. “He’s got a swagger. He’s like a god.”
Once Thor and Hulk unite, Ragnarok becomes a sort of road-trip film, with director Taika Waititi drawing inspiration from movies like 48 HRS., Withnail and I, and even Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The director particularly wanted to show off Hemsworth’s comedic abilities, only recently exploited in films like Vacation and Ghostbusters. “He’s so good and underutilized in that department,” Waititi says. “He’s legitimately one of the funniest things in this film.”
Fans will also see some familiar faces, like Benedict Cumberbatch’s Stephen Strange. The New York-based sorcerer met with Thor in the post-credits epilogue of Doctor Strange, and he will help the Asgardian locate Odin. Teases Feige, “There’s not a whole lot that takes place on Earth in this film, and that’s one of the things that does.”
edited 9th Mar '17 7:54:06 AM by comicwriter
Michele Gonzales in the comics is basically a Girl of the Week.
That Zendaya interprets her, would be a great example of Ascended Extra

Can we maybe not make jokes about this?
Oh God! Natural light!