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Since Thor and now Captain America came out this year, I wanted to get what Tropers thought of the concept and execution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general. Personally I love the idea and wonder why this idea hasn't been seriously tried before. It sorta seems to me like the DCAU in movie form (And well, ummm, with Marvel), and really 'gets' the comic book feel of a shared universe while not being completely alienating.

Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#67876: Mar 31st 2017 at 8:38:44 PM

I'm so excited for Infinity War to finally get here.

  • Vision: (shows up out of nowhere and starts lasering Thanos)
  • Tony: Boy, it's a good thing I ignored you and built an awesome protector robot, isn't it?
  • Thanos: (tears Vision limb from limb) Oooh! (plucks the Mind Gem)
  • Steve: Boy, it's a good thing you put an important MacGuffin right inside his face.

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#67877: Mar 31st 2017 at 8:44:24 PM

In fairness, Ultron did that.

Tony just sort of rolled with that bad decision.

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comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#67878: Mar 31st 2017 at 8:55:55 PM

At least put some duct tape over it.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#67879: Mar 31st 2017 at 9:02:09 PM

And Tony Stark fucks up again.

Clearly, he's gonna somehow help Thanos win.tongue

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#67881: Mar 31st 2017 at 9:16:05 PM

Well the thing shoots lasers.

Anything you put over it is going to get a hole shot through it. Or maybe explode.

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TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#67882: Mar 31st 2017 at 9:51:21 PM

Then again, Rhodey might prefer if it shot a few less lasers.

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#67883: Mar 31st 2017 at 10:02:34 PM

That's fair.

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Nightwire Since: Feb, 2010
#67884: Mar 31st 2017 at 10:28:36 PM

At this point, the MCU should be renamed the Tony-Stark-fucked-everything-up Universe

tommy1138 CT-1138 from Present conditions ≠ Japan Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
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#67885: Apr 1st 2017 at 3:42:20 AM

Ahem. "Does anybody remember when I put a missile through a portal, in New York City? We were standing right under it."

Yeah, so if I could just find happiness, that'd be great.
GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
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#67886: Apr 1st 2017 at 5:12:38 AM

Tony Stark really messes things up with his lack of foresight, inner demons and general negligence.

"Mai waifu."
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#67887: Apr 1st 2017 at 5:16:50 AM

I just realized that if Hulk is in Thor: Ragnarok, Loki's probably going to meet him again at some point.

comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#67888: Apr 1st 2017 at 5:18:41 AM

Why do you think he's been hiding out as Odin? He doesn't want that ass whooping again.

windleopard from Nigeria Since: Nov, 2014 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#67889: Apr 1st 2017 at 5:26:18 AM

Ahem. "Does anybody remember when I put a missile through a portal, in New York City? We were standing right under it."

"We also remember that it was your stupid tower that allowed that portal to be opened in the first place. Maybe next time you feel the need to validate your manliness with excessive phallic symbolism, you should think about that"

alliterator Since: Jan, 2001
#67890: Apr 1st 2017 at 7:17:37 AM

"We also remember that it was your stupid tower that allowed that portal to be opened in the first place. Maybe next time you feel the need to validate your manliness with excessive phallic symbolism, you should think about that"
"Actually, Loki could have opened the portal anywhere he wanted, but he chose Stark Tower specifically so he could make a big spectacle of it (and partially to punish Stark's hubris), which the Avengers figured out in that scene after Coulson died."

edited 1st Apr '17 7:18:13 AM by alliterator

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#67891: Apr 1st 2017 at 8:05:04 AM

Not quite, he also needed the energy source.

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#67892: Apr 1st 2017 at 8:14:49 AM

No, Alliterator's right. They explicitly state that he set up there because he wanted to wipe his balls on the Avengers. Steve mentions that he needed a power source and Loki does use the arc reactor for that, but it's never indicated that he needed the reactor specifically. Just "a power source".

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alliterator Since: Jan, 2001
#67893: Apr 1st 2017 at 8:46:20 AM

Chalk up one thing that wasn't Tony's fault!

Punisher286 Since: Jan, 2016
#67895: Apr 1st 2017 at 10:54:26 AM

Ah yes, that could be Marvel's motto at this point. "Marvel where everything is somehow Tony Stark's fault (even when it blatantly isn't)."

windleopard from Nigeria Since: Nov, 2014 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#67896: Apr 1st 2017 at 11:41:18 AM

[up]Not that he'll actually suffer any comeuppance for it if it is any way.

comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#67897: Apr 1st 2017 at 11:53:10 AM

His friends will be very mad at him for five minutes and then completely forget halfway through the movie.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#67898: Apr 1st 2017 at 12:38:34 PM

Chalk up one thing that wasn't Tony's fault!

NEVER!

Eh. I'm sure the crippling guilt he suffers and the fact that he continues to destroy his own friendships will be more than enough.

Send him to jail so he can get beat up too though.

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comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#67900: Apr 1st 2017 at 6:36:33 PM

Hadn't seen this before but Madame Hydra is coming to Agents of SHIELD.


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