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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

Punisher286 Since: Jan, 2016
#79127: Jan 16th 2018 at 2:09:11 PM

Yeah the actual design of it looks really good. It's just too muted color-wise.

Really if you took this design, and added the color scheme from the one in the mid-credits scene from the first film, then it'd be almost perfect.

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#79128: Jan 16th 2018 at 2:15:34 PM

I hope Ghost cans.wav's when she gets defeated.

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AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#79129: Jan 16th 2018 at 3:10:08 PM

I agree that the colors look kind of muted in a bad way but otherwise the design is pretty good. If they were worried about it being too bright they could've just make it not so saturated instead.

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#79130: Jan 16th 2018 at 3:45:21 PM

Wait a minute...

Okay, the front of the costume looks like a dick.

Oh God! Natural light!
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#79131: Jan 16th 2018 at 4:15:33 PM

My first thoughts were a bug face (two eyes and a proboscis), but now that you point it out I can't unsee it. Goddamnit.

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#79132: Jan 16th 2018 at 4:36:19 PM

Ant-Man and The Crotch.

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#79133: Jan 16th 2018 at 4:47:36 PM

I have also realized this fact

A misguided adaptation of the gold and black boob cups and arrow pointed at crotch Wasp outfit

Because those boob cups were shaped like spider man eyes instead of testes

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ManOfSin Since: Mar, 2015
#79134: Jan 16th 2018 at 4:52:42 PM

[up]x4

I guess its symbolic. She can shrink down to the size of a sperm cell.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#79135: Jan 16th 2018 at 4:55:41 PM

Not really...the boobs aren't round. If they were, I would agree, but the sharp edges keep it from looking too dickish.

Punisher286 Since: Jan, 2016
#79136: Jan 16th 2018 at 9:45:08 PM

I mean the obsession that comics/films/TV shows/etc have with putting boob cups/armor on their female costumes has always been rather irritating imo. It looks stupid and serves no purpose. And from what I've heard, armor like that would be rather uncomfortable, and at times perhaps even flat-out dangerous, to wear.

But I've also kind of accepted that they're just not going to stop doing this. I mean even the freaking Wonder Woman movie did it with Diana and the Amazon's armor. It's like they think that you'll forget that women have breasts if they don't draw attention to them in the outfits.

It's part of why Captain Phasma's armor from Star Wars was so refreshing imo.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#79137: Jan 17th 2018 at 1:18:57 AM

I don't mind in this specific case because it is not supposed to be armour. With armour it would be indeed dangerous to have boobs, because they would lead the sharp weapons away from the fleshy, protective part of the body right to the not so fleshy part which you don't want to get hid. The purpose of an armour is actually to lead the weapons away from exactly that area.

In this case, though, we are talking about a suit which is supposed to cover the body tightly while also not being particularly stretchy. Granted, they could have put the lines elsewhere.

Punisher286 Since: Jan, 2016
#79138: Jan 17th 2018 at 1:56:31 AM

I get that. It's more just a passing "oh of course her outfit has to have boob cups as well" thing for me. It's a lot less egregious here than in other places and it's a good design overall. But It'd be nice if they could, you know, not do that at all in the future.

It's less about this film specifically and more it being a recurring trend across films/TV/comics/etc as a whole that makes it irritating imo.

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#79139: Jan 17th 2018 at 3:51:14 AM

I honestly can't tell if the chest area is supposed to be dark silver or dark gold. In this picture it looks gold, but in other ones it looks silver, and it appears to be a lighting trick.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#79140: Jan 17th 2018 at 5:04:03 AM

[up] Thank god I am not the only one!

But I reserve my judgement until I see it in the movie anyway. Sometimes a costume looks great on pictures but silly in movement and sometimes it looks silly on the pictures but absolutely great in movement.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#79141: Jan 17th 2018 at 9:50:28 AM

I think the reason it looks like both/either depending on the lighting is because it's actually more of a pewter color.

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#79143: Jan 17th 2018 at 4:03:27 PM

I'm a little dismayed that there was no pun about Coulson successfully privatizing world pieces.

EDIT: Also, Coulson's not wrong about having way more screentime, either. There have been 95 episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. thus far. Estimating 50 minutes to an episode, that comes out to 4,750 minutes of S.H.I.E.L.D.

At two and a half hours per film, the show's had the equivalent of 31.7 movies.

edited 17th Jan '18 4:08:29 PM by TobiasDrake

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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
#79144: Jan 17th 2018 at 4:29:24 PM

Serialized fiction

It rocks

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RavenWilder Since: Apr, 2009
#79145: Jan 17th 2018 at 8:56:57 PM

That's nothing compared to Ant-Man, who's been in every installment of every MCU movie or TV show. He may have been very, very small most of the time, but still.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#79146: Jan 18th 2018 at 2:04:09 AM

[up] I think you were confused. That's actually the Wasp.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#79147: Jan 18th 2018 at 7:55:11 AM

So that's where Jan got up to

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#79148: Jan 18th 2018 at 10:37:14 AM

Ant-Man and Wasp have been fighting the Ghost in the background of every single Marvel movie, every episode of Agents of SHIELD, and it was their fight - not the explosives - that accidentally took down the building in Defenders.

edited 18th Jan '18 10:40:55 AM by KnownUnknown

Punisher286 Since: Jan, 2016
#79149: Jan 18th 2018 at 11:15:21 AM

^That'd actually still make far more sense than the actual Defenders being the ones to blow it up, to be honest.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#79150: Jan 18th 2018 at 1:03:05 PM

[up][up] Do you think that they are also responsible for the destruction of the world?


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