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My favorite part of the new Cosmonaut Variety Hour video was when he said Winter Solider was a good Metal Gear Solid movie
edited 1st Jun '18 12:54:55 PM by RedM
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There is a tanker chapter, some tactical espionage action, and a couple super soldiers
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIt would take a while for all the pieces to be introduced, but I really enjoyed Matt Fraction's FF series from a few years ago and I think it would make for a pretty good movie. It's basically 4 heroes have to fill in as the Fantastic Four, which includes babysitting the pack of genius kids that is the Future Foundation (including mutants, Inhumans, Atlanteans, mole people, aliens, and ). In the comic it was Ant-Man (Scott Lang), She-Hulk, Medusa, and pop superstar Darla Deering (who later became Miss Thing), but I think any combination of 4 heroes has the potential to work if they put enough thought into it. I'm envisioning it as something like a lighthearted slice-of-life family story set in an elementary school, but with the weirdness cranked waaaayyyyy up.
Why do I get the feeling that's gonna be a moment of Harsher in Hindsight?
edited 3rd Jun '18 11:24:45 AM by VoidsEmpathy
[DATA LOST]I had a partly joking idea that he could become Taskmaster.
I based this both on a thought that Luis' quirks/expert knowledge could fit well with Taskmaster's Photographic Memory, as well as the fact that the recent Nick Spencer comics run sort of framed Taskmaster as Scott's Arch-Enemy. Which is why I moved away from the idea. Because while Taskmaster is a really cool guy, to become him, Luis would have to lose everything that makes him lovable.
edited 3rd Jun '18 3:54:26 PM by Hodor2
Give him a non size powerset though please. We're already at five characters with it. It can still come from pym particles if you like; they can do a lot. Ghost and Vision being able to become super dense or sparse so to phase through things is cool. Luis liberating Ghost's suit and powerset would be fitting for his existing criminal expert powerset.
Well, I do hope that Ghost will survive the movie and become a good guy or at least Boxed Crook in a future Thunderbolts/Dark Reign movie.
Had a thought though (not saying it's likely). So I was looking on the Ant-Man wikipedia page and I was reminded of the Hijacker identity which was originally used by one guy as an Ant-Man villain and then used with an unnamed second guy who takes on the identity in Nick Spencers' series (the central joke is that just as Scott is sort of a Sketchy Successor to Hank, a lot of Hank's opponents also have sketchy successors), as an opponent and later ally.
Since the character (both of them) is basically a crook/car thief who uses technological paraphernalia (first incarnation) and nanomachines (second incarnation), it would totally work for Louis to have a suit that can manipulate matter in some way due to Pym Particles/ Quantum Realm tech, and I could totally see him calling himself The Hijacker and being told it is an Atrocious Alias.
And I like it because although it was temporary, the second Hijacker was an ally of Scott and an employee of his security company, which makes for a good parallel with Luis.
Ghost is interesting me, because it seems from what little clips we see of her that she doesn't actually seem to like having the power she was given. From the looks of it, I get the impression that she was trying to steal Pym tech but ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time - in the middle of a Quantum Realm experiment - and got inhuman (not literally) power that horrifies her. I really want to know what makes her jump from that to threatening the world.
edited 3rd Jun '18 7:33:28 PM by KnownUnknown
So, I came across a pretty old but interesting statistic: Google Search
for Captain Marvel spikes by around 3000% around the release of Infinity War, with the highest spike not in the US and Canada, but in... South East Asia! (Philippines and Singapore have the biggest spike by 60% while Hong Kong and Malaysia spikes by 50%, roughly equal with Puerto Rico and far more than the US 27%). Seems that Infinity War gave Captain Marvel significant hype in the international market.
edited 4th Jun '18 5:58:29 AM by shatterstar
So it seems Benedict Cumberbatch is a lot more herioc in real life than I thought given he saved someone from a mugging recently.
https://www.themarysue.com/benedict-cumberbatch-stops-mugging/

What is your opinion on "Surfer Dude" Silver Surfer? Far as I know, only one adaptation did that and it was Super Hero Squad, which did a lot of odd things (like having said dudebro Silver Surfer be the Big Bad of Season 2). That said, it is a unique idea that does add a bit of inherent levity to what is usually a fairly humorless character. It also explains why he'd make the Power Cosmic give him superpowers incorporating a surfboard, of all things: he was already a surfer and just went with what was familiar.