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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
So, if this is a sequel, are we going to explain how Nick Fury turned black between games?
I mean, he was taken over by nanites in the last one, and everyone knows they can basically do everything, but...
The Marvel Strike Force game has designs mostly taken from the MCU, and as such its Wolverine wears what is essentially an MCUized take on his costume.
I don't dig it
◊, but I could see something similar being his movie look.
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True but it’s like the Guardians had some really bitchin uniforms during the Dn A run.
Seriously the whole blue & red color coordination rocks, & Star Lord rocked a bombing helmet.
I’m rather sad we may never see those designs again because the MCU look has totally dominated the Guardians.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."Rewatching Ant-Man and the Wasp. Still and extremely fun movie.
Also, no offense to Groot, but Cassie Lang is the most adorable character in the entire MCU. Hands down.
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Call me crazy but... I don't hate that. The bright colors actually make the militaristic design really pop.
I think the MCU could use like a mercenary or something with what would be a grounded movie-style design, if not for the fact that it's really colorful. Like, Taskmaster with his comics color scheme.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Dec 6th 2018 at 11:06:04 AM
I have to admit I love ant and the wasp because for once Marvel actually see the issue and used to devopt Scott, granted it was hard to see Hank to be mad at him considering how Pym nearly ruin everything...that jerk....
So, scott is trap....AGAIN....is this going to be a thing for now on?, scott being a diferent sort of prision each time?.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"![]()
Oh, I don't mind the colors. The time to rag on Wolverine for wearing bright blue and yellow has been and gone. I just think it's kind of busy and plasticky. Wolverine's not completely invulnerable so armor could make sense, but this just seems like a lot of pads. And vinyl piping. Piping is something you can get away with, but it's, well. A fine line. Literally.
I can think of worse running gags than Scott getting trapped a different way in every movie he's in. Sign me up.
Edited by Unsung on Dec 6th 2018 at 12:06:35 PM
I do really like love the responsibility flip in this film: that Hope and Hank are "competent people eyerolling at the silly lead" characters on the surface (like they were in the first movie), but are ultimately more assholes condescendingly self-righteous than responsible or practical, whereas Scott is the off-color manchild on the surface but is actually the one busting his butt trying to be responsible for everyone throughout the whole movie.
They really sell Scott being the necessary emotional core of the film - as the unexpected element these people need to grow - a lot better than the first did. I wish that the writers had drawn attention to it more directly - it almost comes off as an accident at times, until the story really gets rolling.
In Ant-Man 3, Hank Pym creates The Big House. Scott, naturally, gets trapped in it with like a billion supervillains. Hilarity ensues.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Dec 6th 2018 at 11:14:14 AM
And about Ghost....I dont feel she is sympathic, to quote Linkara about ransik: is one thing to have sympathic backstory and another is to be sympathic.
Also....another stuff from shield? does fury know about it? how many thing escape is graps?.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"I'd love to see Taskmaster in a Thunderbolts plot.
Like, if they have the members of the group who stick with being supervillains, the members who decide to really become heroes, and Taskmaster, who's just kind of meh on everything.
They one thing I don't want to happen is for him to become "lol the guy who loses to Deadpool."
Edited by KnownUnknown on Dec 6th 2018 at 11:22:47 AM
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Well her backstory and motivations are sympathetic but she is pretty violent.
Sure desperation and all that but still.
Though my main issue with her is that she doesn't show much aside from the sympathetic backstory. In a way she's kind of a flat antagonist.
Taskmaster is indeed a dream character.
Edited by slimcoder on Dec 6th 2018 at 11:22:16 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."One of my first reactions to the movie back when it first came out was that Ghost isn't really evil, but doesn't do much but do evil things that aren't over the top, and does have much personality outside of that. She's basically defined by what she's not without a firm showing of what she is: not too evil. Not nice either. Etc.
It feels like there was more personality building to her, but it was just cut out beyond backstory.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Dec 6th 2018 at 11:32:15 AM
It's a shame, too. I was looking forward to Hannah John-Kamen in the role. She's great in Killjoys.
I expect she'll be in the next one. The character has a lot of potential as the heroes' amusing Heroic Comedic Sociopath ally, a la Nebula.
I still think it'd be a really cool (and amusing) twist if in a Bad Future shown by Avengers 4, thanks to everyone in her life being snapped, in the intervening five years Cassie was raised (in part) by Ghost and ended up with a skewed moral compass until Scott goes back in time and helps Carol fix everything.
As for SHIELD being oblivious to the innocent kid / miracle of science being turned into a psycho stealth assassin, I assume that was just another thing that HYDRA was up to.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Dec 7th 2018 at 12:09:59 PM

I find it amusing how the Black Order looks completely comic accurate.
Look Supergiant is there.
It kinda clashes with the MCU looks like with Star Lord.
Edited by slimcoder on Dec 6th 2018 at 10:10:18 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."