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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Looks like we got another shared rights case
. Spoilers for Guardians 2 (those who've already seen it probably know what I'm talking about).
edited 10th May '17 8:42:23 AM by comicwriter
there is also the fact thing will be pretty awkard if they adress agent of shield, I mean shield face HYDRA again who have a alien who try to fill the world with parasite and people with power are showing all over the world and the avenger....star hitting each other.
also were is Ian quinn? in the same place rising tide is, in "who gives a fuck"
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"Going back to the subject of the Mind Stone being able to subtly influence people of its own accord, and the theories that it may have been responsible for Loki's behaviour in The Avengers and Tony getting the idea to build Ultron in Ao U, I just had a thought. The Mind Stone has been in Vision's forehead ever since Age of Ultron, and he's been hanging with the rest of the Avengers for the entire time been then and Civil War.
Let that sink in. Pretty much all of the Avengers still on Earth have been exposing themselves to a semi-sentient thought controller for close to a year, and one of them is permanently attached to it.
Kind of puts Civil War on a whole new light, doesn't it?
Interesting thought, though I'd still prefer to think it was their own issues bubbling over. That's just more interesting to me than yet another mind control plot. It's enough with the mind control already, guys.
Plus I like the idea that Ultron managed to exorcise himself from the stone in gaining sentience, and that without his presence (possibly baked into the stone's housing, Loki's staff), the stone itself is more neutral.
Just goes to show.
Always break important thingers out of evil staffs before using them.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersDo we know how strong each Stone is in the MCU? I only have the comics to compare to, and, well, the Infinity Gems can vary a lot. And the Infinity Gauntlet, which I can only assume is MCU Thanos' ultimate objective, is ridiculously hax. Like, you command he universe with it.
That's...quite a bit above MCU levels of power. Sorry, Power Levels do matter to me. If the IG is gonna be in the movies, I want it to be suitably impressive. But if it is suitably impressive, I can't think of anything short of a plot device that could stop it.
Right, but I think you're answering your own question, there. That's how Thanos is fought, but not how he's beaten.
I don't think we have any idea how powerful the stones are at this point. It feels like the Aether/Reality Stone gets the biggest showcase of its raw power, or maybe the Eye of Agamotto/Time Stone. I'd say it probably only goes up from there.
Well, the feats we see for each stone, both in terms of their respective "ability" and their generic energy output...
- Space Stone/Tesseract
- Can open portals between disparate points in space when properly harnessed.
- Can send people off to god-knows-where and then burn its way through solid metal when mishandled.
- Outputs enough energy to power HYDRA's base.
- Can power weapons strong enough to completely vaporize targets.
- Reality Stone/Aether
- Violent energy discharges when mishandled.
- Malekith is demonstrated firing off a barrage of small energy blasts with its power at one point.
- Can potentially destroy the entire multiverse when properly harnessed, but only with the assistance of the Convergence amplifying it like Bart Simpson's chain of megaphones.
- Makes Malekith grow bigger, for some reason.
- Power Stone/Orb
- Causes moderately large explosions when mishandled.
- Can wipe out all organic life on a planet when properly harnessed.
- Can fire extremely powerful beams, able to vaporize a fleet of starships (or Ronan).
- Nothing short of a demi-Celestial can handle direct contact with it for more than a few seconds, and even then not without assistance.
- Mind Stone/Scepter
- Can directly supplant and "replace" an individual's mental identity (the way Hawkeye describes its mind control), but only temporarily.
- Seems to be able to emit subtle mental manipulations when harnessed by the Scepter, albeit unconfirmed.
- Like the other stones, can output simple energy beams; Loki fires a few from the Scepter in Avengers, and Vision uses it to fire powerful rays from his forehead.
- Captain America states that simply destroying the truck carrying it is not an option because the stone's reaction could wipe out the city.
- Time Stone/Eye of Agamotto
- Can reverse time, on a universal scale or upon selected objects (such as an apple). However, doing so risks fracturing spacetime.
- Can create time loops that carry themselves out even if the wielder dies repeatedly.
- Powerful enough to even affect Dormammu's realm.
For what its worth, Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet was defeated not with a Deus ex Machina, but through his own hubris. He thought it smart to full ascend to metaphysical godhood and discard his mortal body, not realizing that doing so meant Nebula could just walk up to his body and pull the Gauntlet off.
edited 10th May '17 1:30:38 PM by Anomalocaris20
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Hey, I've always been very upfront with the fact I liked Thor 1. Easily my favorite MCU movie. Action doesn't hold up as well after seeing some DCEU stuff but the acting is still fantastic and the overall plot is very good and well-paced. I even liked the humor.
And as long as I'm finally watching MCU movies again, I might as well finally see the sequel.
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Seems like the Stones are kinda different here compared to the comics, at least in how they are utilized. I guess they won't be passed around a lot in this universe.
edited 10th May '17 1:38:10 PM by Nikkolas
They've been passed around a little bit.
The Mind Stone Scepter went from Thanos to Loki to SHIELD to Hydra to Tony Stark to Ultron to Vision's forehead.
The Space Stone Tesseract went from Asgard to some hiding place on Earth to the Red Skull to SHIELD to Loki to Asgard.
The Power Stone Orb went from some crappy ruins to Peter Quill to Gamora to Peter Quill to Gamora to jail to Peter Quill to the Collector to Gamora to Ronan to Peter Quill to Xandar.
I liked Thor 2 better than Iron Man 2
edited 10th May '17 1:42:45 PM by Bocaj
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It does, but The Incredible Hulk only beats it by 1 point.
Personally, I think a lot of the hate Dark World gets is rather undeserved for the most part.
edited 10th May '17 1:42:42 PM by LordVatek
This song needs more love.

He got it from Coulson in Agents of SHIELD. Probably the closest the movies are ever gonna get to acknowledging the TV shows.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?