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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
And once the hand was on the other foot.
So probably not a good overall indicator of who is better.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersAgents of Shield also had the advantage that there definitely are synergy effects with the movies. Believe it or not, but there are actually people who start watching Ao S and eventually decide to check out at least the Winter Soldier, which is a great movie to get convinced to watch more of the movies.
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All it really proves is that Doom is a lot more "hands-on" when wielding godlike power than Thanos is.
And in both cases the "better" one is relying on outside power: Doom relied on the Molecule Man and Thanos relied on the Infinity Gems.
Edited by M84 on Mar 26th 2019 at 1:18:52 AM
Disgusted, but not surprisedFirst season of Agent Carter was great, they kind of lost focus in season 2 though. Still enjoyable, but you kind of have a problem when you switch from your female character having to overcome the dead of her big love while also dealing with the struggles female face in a male dominated workforce, ending the season with the realisation that she truly doesn't need the approval of anyone, to an arc which is mostly about which guy she should hook up with.
I still would like a proper conclusion to everything which was set up in season 2.
I loved Whitney, and felt turning her into an world domination semi-possessed ink-monster was a somewhat generic turn that somewhat undercut what made her character so great: that she was the real power behind the Illuminati, who was tired of being marginalized and intended to use her gifts to take things for herself.
I wish she had gone more of a Luthor route and ousted/terminated the others with mad science they couldn't understand and better control over the power they claimed to master, rather than going "I have demon powers now, die, die, die," and then essentially becoming Cell. She seemed like she was going to become a cerebral Evil Counterpart arch-enemy for Peggy, and instead she became something of a Generic Doomsday Villain.
That was kind of the problem with Agent Carter's season 2 in general, imo. It's a series that worked best when it was a slow burn, because Peggy was a quintessential spy detective, piecing together incident after incident and winning the game of cat and mouse with the bad guys before they even knew they were playing. Season 2 went too supervillain, too fast.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Mar 25th 2019 at 1:40:25 AM
Came across a Little Gold Book adaptation of Captain Marvel in a store and flipped through it out of curiosity.
It seems to include spoilers for Endgame, so just a heads up, in case someone here wants to buy it for their kid.
Like creepy stories? Check out my book!They really should bring Peggy back for another movie. Hayley Atwell always seems like she's willing to come back, the fans love her, it'd be great.
Like, a Howling Commandos movie. She leads the commandos, and they go up against some of the weirdest Golden Age pulp-styled villains Marvel has no other opportunity to use now.
One of my favorite bits from EMH is the early episode where one of Cap's classic enemies from WW 2 (Zola, I think) attacks the Avengers with a giant goo monster. One of the others asks him if that's the kind of thing he had to do every day back then. Cap responds "nah, that's nothing. Sometimes, it got weird."
So just... do that. Indiana Jones up this shit: ragtag soldiers vs Nazi's with superweapons. Mix seemingly grounded pulp heroes with fantastical pulp phenomenon: mad science, magic, whatever. With Chris Evans leaving my hope for an Invaders movie is pretty much kiboshed, but they could still do a reference to it without Cap himself.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Mar 25th 2019 at 6:09:08 AM
That was an alternate universe Peggy
in the 2018 Exiles comic. Steve was shot by the assassin who killed Dr. Erskine, so Peggy became the supersoldier, getting the Captain America name for propaganda reasons. There was also Becky Barnes
, a.k.a. lesbian Bucky Barnes.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Mar 25th 2019 at 6:41:35 AM

Are people seriously debating who's better between Thanos and Doom?
Because that got answered a while ago.
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