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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
If there will be any Heroic Sacrifices for Infinity War, think it ought to be like how Onslaught, ended, only with Thanos on the receiving end?
edited 26th Jun '17 1:19:02 PM by HallowHawk
Bucky dying in Infinity War would make his whole arc a big Shoot the Shaggy Dog. The guy's suffered enough and Cap and a lot of other people went through a ton of crap to free him.
Kevin Feige confirms
Miles Morales exists in the MCU.
There's an interesting mockup for an actual poster in that new Inhumans ad, but it has the same problem as all Marvel's posters lately, where it looks like they got their fourteen-year-old/receptionist who's somewhat handy with Photoshop to do it. Emphasizing the Bolt symbol and Medusa's hair is a good idea, except that Medusa's hair still looks terrible for what it's supposed to be. It's a wig, and what's worse, an unflattering wig. I mean, that centre part, and it's so flat-looking on top. How do you mess that up?
Anyway. We already knew Bolt, Medusa, and Maximus were the leads, so while I'm not especially enthusiastic about all of the non-white cast being out of focus, I'm not surprised.
From the promo material we've seen, I have to wonder how much in the way of fantastic locations and effects are even in this thing. And this had the potential to be one of the most colourful properties Marvel could adapt, too, almost a TV version of GOTG in terms of visuals if not tone, but instead it all looks so austere. Apart from Lockjaw, who we've also barely seen, this just seems so joyless and rote, just the bare minimum of lip service to still be identifiable as the property it's based on.
They still have time to hook me back in, but they really need to step it up. End of November could mean it's going to be slotted in after AOS's first pod, if they end up following the same structure as S4. Part of me wonders if that's just so they can just run it with some of the crossover audience for AOS and be done with it.
edited 28th Jun '17 8:58:28 PM by Unsung
The problem with TV is you're bound by a TV budget. I would be very shocked if the lame costumes and really silly looking wig weren't at least partially because they don't have the professional budget you'd get on a Marvel movie.
Seriously, look at any of the costumes in the trailers for Thor: Ragnarok or Black Panther and then look at Black Bolt in a fucking trench coat.
Hey guys, remember that kid with the Iron Man costume in the 2nd Iron Man film? Well, Tom Holland actually had a conversation about it with Kevin Feige and said that the kid is in fact Peter Parker all along.
Given the timeline though, it's actually quite a reasonable confirmation.
The only good fanboy, is a redeemed fanboy.Infinity War set pics featuring Tony, Doctor Strange, Bruce Banner and Wong
.
Interestingly it looks like Tony has an arc reactor?
Is Black Bolt really king superhero? He doesn't go out of his way to fight crime or supervillains or do any superhero-y.
He mostly does king shit like going into space and take over empires and destroy the space time continuum
Forever liveblogging the AvengersKey words: "not in-universe." The premise of Black Bolt is 'what if a superhero was also a king?' Hence the name, hence the costume. That's a lot of the appeal of the character, and most of the reasons being brought up to say he's not a superhero are justifications after the fact, which I don't really think are necessary, because again, him being King Superhero is, y'know, great. Like, I don't even know why anyone would want to downplay that.
He's super, and he's a hero to his people, and he's a king. He's just not a vigilante.

Let me get this straight. The most prominent Inhuman, right now, is Daisy Johnson, so an Asian woman, right? And the poster features three white characters?
Ok.