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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Yo-Yo: Why would he do that? Has he watched no American movies from the eighties? Robots always attack.
Mack: I've been saying that all day.
Yo-Yo: Smart people are stupid.
Mack: Alright, gear up. The robot apocalypse is finally here.
Mack: ...even Salvation?
Yo-Yo: He brought this onto himself.
Random Black Widow theory: the version we see in Endgame turns out to have been a sophisticated LMD, because the one we know is trapped somewhere or otherwise forced to hide herself away from everyone, with only that one line to the rest of the world. Black Widow then sets up a story in future sequels and such of Nat saving the world from horrible secret things, never again able to let anyone know she's still alive.
LMD's aren't exactly robots: they are (depending on the version, the writer and the continuity) sometimes controlled via consciousness.
The way I'd see it, if Nat needed that lifeline to continue a normal life and had to give it up forever, she basically made that sacrifice regardless. If for some reason she now has to live without ever letting anyone know she's alive, on the fringes of society, never again to interact with the things that gave her life meaning, then she's sacrificed everything she ever loved.
It's a loophole, but the situation surrounding the Soul Stone is a good example of why loopholes like that exist in fiction in the first place.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jul 30th 2019 at 1:14:25 AM
Personally I think if they are going to bring back Black Widow, the best way to do it would be for her to just break out of the Soul Gem.
So for example her own movie is revealed to be a stealth sequel and the entire movie is actually her reliving an experience in her past within the soul gem. Ending with her realizing what's happening and managing to escape the gem.
So while she might be lost in time and space, and perhaps even become a wraith like the Red Skull, she's alive.
I mean, we don't even know if anyone can just bust out of the Soul Gem, right?
Random mutant thoughts:
- What if they sprinkle mutants here and there, like having Kitty Pryde be a classmate of Peter Parker, a la the Ultimate Spider-Man comics?
- If a hypothetical Deadpool/Spider-Man team-up was marketed more as a Deadpool movie, it wouldn't have to concede with whatever Sony wants, right? (Look, I just REALLY want that Spider-Man/Deadpool team-up, ok? Sue me.)
Is Groot really male or female? If "he" is biologically a plant, then the question has no meaning. Of course, he is treated and addressed as male in the films, so the point stands regardless of the technical truth.
Edited by Fighteer on Jul 30th 2019 at 4:58:19 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"> What if they sprinkle mutants here and there, like having Kitty Pryde be a classmate of Peter Parker, a la the Ultimate Spider-Man comics?
Scene:Peter Parker goes to a school that's all mutants and he's oblivious to this until Kitty phases in front of him,and it's in a class taught by Jean Grey
have a listen and have a link to my discord server> Is Groot really male or female? If "he" is biologically a plant, then the question has no meaning. Of course, he is treated and addressed as male in the films, so the point stands regardless of the technical truth.
He's probably a Monoecious Tree
-adjusts nerd specs-
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverImo, that's exactly what they should be doing. A couple mutants here, a couple mutants there: Kitty in Peter's class would be fun. Mystique as a villain Captain Marvel. Whirlwind as a villain Antman / The Wasp 3. Etc and so on.
And then only give us the X-Men when the existence of these mutants has become a clear universe-wide thing. In that case, we would already have the mutants here: the plot wouldn't be "OMG suddenly there's mutants!" it would be "leaders emerge to rally these superpowered people, and how does the world react?" Rather than go the DC route and try to dump the whole team on us as fast as possible.
Also, I'd prefer if - even if they do the same sort of conflicts as before - they choose different stories to adapt. Like, if we do Magneto, do Genosha instead of the typical "radical terrorist with a posse" storylines the previous X-Men series was so attached to.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jul 30th 2019 at 2:22:04 AM
Play him up instead as the leading voice in arguing that mutants can't coexist so they should go off and live on a cool island away from those dumb humans?
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI can see mutants being more of a rarity in the MCU, mostly because after he lost his two children some time before Winter Soldier, Magneto and the rest of mutantkind hid out in a little island called Genosha. Whoever meets the mutants would stumble across Genosha by complete accident after a fight with a villain goes awry.
The legend has returned.

Mack from Agents of SHIELD stated that he has a "Death by Killer Robot" clause in his insurance policy. This ep was post Age of Ultron IIRC when such things were no longer out there as something that can plausibly happen to a person.