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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Lantern festival wouldn't get a full parade anywhere outside of Asia, even in New York. LNY is really the only parade we get to have in North America, and even then it depends where you are and when it happens.
Most likely It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans coupled with They Just Didn't Care.
edited 28th Mar '17 7:36:06 AM by czhang
I knew there was a trope for that. In fact, the page itself even mentions this, "It's also usually Chinese New Year whenever a show's characters end up in Chinatown (with the characters hiding from danger under a lion train)".
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On a positive note, great trailer for Homecoming. Oddly despite my issues with Tony Stark in the MCU (which I admit is tied with perceptions of RDJ), he really works well as a mentor figure and the fact that the bad decisions he cautions Peter against are often ones he makes himself doesn't detract from the message, but actually enhances it. Also, it's a good way of doing the "Great Power/ Great Responsibility" thing without having to have a flashback of Uncle Ben being killed.
One of the things I most liked about the Spectacular cartoon was that rather than have Peter be phenomenally unlucky due to the "Parker Luck", it's more like he's well intention ed and somewhat naive and bad things will happen as a result of poor decisions- but there's not a sense that the universe itself is against him. And plenty of good things happen to him too. The trailer seems to emphasize this kind of take on Peter, which is promising.
edited 28th Mar '17 8:54:00 AM by Hodor2
It's more than a couple of people, and because of the show's budget issues, it's hard to tell how big the crowds are actually meant to be. I don't think it's going to line up with any real festival. If they wanted to make it specific, they could have made it specific. They just wanted it as a setpiece.
Sounds like the new company Tony is running
is Damage Control.
Wonder if this is why we never heard anything more about the TV show.
edited 28th Mar '17 11:14:07 AM by comicwriter
Tony is running Damage Control? That's perfect. I love it. It fits right in theme with him being the Accountability Avenger and wanting everyone to start paying more attention to the size of their footsteps.
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With Bruce Wayne running the company in Powerless, it seems like another unintentional parallel.
I like Tony telling Peter to be better than him. Even before the disaster of Civil War, Tony probably never saw himself as someone to emulate.
I wonder what will convince him to give the suit back to Pete though.
One Strip! One Strip!It's referred to as new right here
and in the Fandango interview previously linked. He mentioned Stark Industries having a relief corps in Age of Ultron but this sounds like something different and government-affiliated, which makes sense after the end of Civil War.
edited 28th Mar '17 1:48:41 PM by comicwriter
And thus Tony's quest to clean up his numerous fuck ups continues.
More to the point, I'm sure it will get ruined by more and more people seeking revenge against him too.
This is why the world is better off without Tony Stark, and he ruins everything he touches.
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It was already mentioned by Daisy in Ao S season 3 in an episode which aired a little bit before Civil War (Watchdogs). So it can't be that new.....
You're assuming that this is going to be connected to what was mentioned in Agents of SHIELD, which given the general track record of the movies, is unlikely. For all we know they threw in a reference to it in AOS under the mistaken impression that the TV show was still happening.
This would not be the first instance of a minor discrepancy between the movies and TV shows.
edited 28th Mar '17 3:13:15 PM by comicwriter
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Not exactly...I just wanted to point out that unless the movie explicitly states otherwise, we can assume that this might one of Tony's projects started after Age of Ultron.
Daisy told Mack's brother that the guy from Damage control will take care of the clean up.
edited 28th Mar '17 3:15:14 PM by Swanpride
We've seen at least two sources now claim it's new, and the fact that them running the Vulture's company out of business seems to be an important plot point, so I'm just gonna assume that's the case.
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Looking at the Wiki, it's mentioned as a SHIELD branch that's cleaning up the aftermath of a battle. So for all we know it could be two completely different organizations. [1]
edited 28th Mar '17 3:16:47 PM by comicwriter

That explains the costume change.