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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
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That one's actually pretty obvious. It made the most because it came RIGHT after the best movie of the three. When you watch a movie you really like, you're gonna see the sequel.
Fortunately/Unfortunately, online reviews weren't AS big a thing back then.
"Yo, those kids are straight up liars, man. All I told them to do was run product. And by product, I mean chewing gum."MCU Zemo is also a weird pick for a Thunderbolts plot, despite the Masters of Evil / Thunderbolts very much being a Zemo thing, because they made it so clear that in this incarnation he despises the idea of giving superhumans any kind of power or influence at all, and how his whole vendetta is - specifically - against the Avengers being around. He doesn't even really care if the individual members are alive, either.
The best set-up for a Thunderbolts movie is for a team to be created as a sort of replacement for the Avengers after they get wrecked but still win the events of Infinity War, only for them to turn out to be plundering supervillains pretending to be heroes, masterminded by a... well... a mastermind (I'd really love the idea of Thunderbolt Ross trying to create a team he can control, only to turn out to be John Trelawney and be tricked or pressured into acquiring the worst possible people). But either way, creating a powerful team of supervillains who will go on to bedevil the world is kind of the opposite of what Zemo wants.
edited 11th Mar '18 12:06:06 AM by KnownUnknown
Isn't the Thunderbolt story that initially they were criminals posing as heroes for some nefarious plan? I certainly can see Zemo coming up with something like this, trying to destroy the notion that Superheroes are a good thing once and for all, and I can even see him snapping out of his desire for revenge after seeing the work the Avengers do from their perspective.
Well, I would like Zemo to do something Thunderbolts-related, partly becuse it's a cool idea, but partly because I really find unsettling that he's given such a cruel Fate Worse than Death, such that almost anything would be better, including (for instance) having the Rosses implanting an Explosive Leash in him and using him for missions.
That being said, the guy is a very smart ex-special forces operative, but IIRC, he doesn't give any signs of having the Charles Atlas Superpower skills of say Natasha or Barton. So other than the kidness of someone's heart, I'm not sure there is a good pragmatic reason to use him as a Boxed Crook. Well, possibly for his intellect (Hannibal Lecter style), but I'm trying to think of a good in-universe justification for him being on a super-hero team.
Know this is a long post, but was imagining a future film where at the end of the movie, Zemo (?), Toomes, Ghost, and whoever are in a room and Hawkeye Scott walks in and welcomes them to the Thunderbolts Initiative- it would be a parody of Nick Fury's scene. Maybe Scott would even put on an eyepatch as a joke.
The hype because the second one was really well regarded, and people were excited to see the follow-up. Same thing happened with X-Men: The Last Stand. X2 was very well reviewed so people went into the sequel going "Well, the last one was so good, this one has to be even better, right?"
The key difference is that Marvel was always betting on Black Panther being a success.
The first trailer already featured T'Challa prominently and revealed that a major action sequence takes place in Wakanda. So Marvel doesn't need to change course in their Infinity War marketing since the "If Black Panther is successful" plan was Plan A.
Someone I know has a theory that Vibranium might have another Infinity Stone in it or something.
Any thoughts on that.
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