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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Which might be for the best in this regard. It's super-silly that Kree blood has magic resurrection properties that can bring any human back to life. And while the Kree blood serum was an important plot point for Coulson, specifically, IIRC they were very vague on why this is a thing in the first place.
Personally, my biggest question was always: Who the f*ck was working at S.H.I.E.L.D. one day and was like, "Hey, I have this alien carcass here. What if I SHOVE HIS BLOOD into some random corpses?"
In any case, given the franchise's aversion to resurrection, it's probably for the best that they can't just go kill a random Kree mook and use his corpse to revive all of the Avengers, and then still have some left over for those hapless bystanders that Ross was upset about. Of all the things about Agents that the films ignore, I feel like that's getting ignored the hardest.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Nov 19th 2019 at 1:19:54 PM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Probably they were testing it on a cell culture to see if it was poisonous and found the opposite
With aliens you’re going to want to make sure they don’t have acid blood or something
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIt's also of great interest for xenobiologists and applied biologists since figuring out whatever survivability adaptations the aliens developed for the environment they grew up in could have durability ramifications for developing technologies as well as medical applications (as it turned out).
Edited by AlleyOop on Nov 19th 2019 at 3:45:36 PM
The way I understand Natasha is that the “trade” for the Soul Stone on Vormir isn’t just a plain old death. It’s like a ritual or taboo. Possession of the Soul Stone is contingent on a certain circumstance being upheld that supersedes the natural order, what with it involving an Infinity Stone and all. Call it Equivalent Exchange if you want.
Edited by tiamkara on Nov 19th 2019 at 1:55:02 AM
“If you have a message for the devil give it to me and I’ll take it to him.”Yeah, that's the Russos' explanation. IIRC, they haven't really touched on the question, "Okay, but could the Infinity Gauntlet resurrect Quicksilver or Tony or something?" They've settled on "Nat couldn't be raised because she was the Soul Gem sacrifice, and that makes her super-special ultra-mega Deader than Dead dead."
I haven't been able to find the interview again; shit moves crazy fast on the internet. But when I read the "Infinity Gauntlet can't resurrect anyone ever" thing, it was in the context of Tony's death IIRC. Someone was asking why nobody just Infinity Gauntlet'd Tony back to life, and the answer was that the Gauntlet can't bring people back to life, period.
The only way to raise Tony would be to use the Time Gem to reverse his death, and since he died Snapping Thanos and his forces away, doing such a thing would bring them back too. So the Gauntlet can't just poof Tony back to life because actual resurrection is beyond its power. And doing it with the Time Gem the way Thanos did to Vision would have terrible consequences. Thus, Tony has to stay dead. His death is the lock sealing Thanos and his forces out of existence.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Nov 19th 2019 at 4:22:03 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.If we’ve learned anything from Victor Frankenstein, it’s that step one in all scientific endeavors should involve corpses.
And if the SCP Foundation has taught us anything, is that if you ever have a completely unknown and Incomprehensible substance, if you toss enough scientists at it someone will eventually do the exact horrific and unorthodox thing required to make it work.
More seriously, I’d love a movie about crazy mad science. Like, not weaponized, standardized mad science like in Iron Man or Ant-Man, but the whole plot being someone doing something nuts and extreme - bizarre and kooky, maybe even eldritch and breaking of the laws of physics - and the main characters having to rein it in before it goes way out of control.
That sort of thing was one of my favorite things about Agent Carter, but the films have never really focused on it and have instead mostly used it for plot devices.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Nov 19th 2019 at 3:37:27 AM
Well, a lot of things were nerfed.
Comics can go big, but movies and other series need some limits.
One Strip! One Strip!What’s weird is that the Gauntlet itself has been nerfed as a result of the stones themselves being beefed up in a sense
The comic stones aren’t quite so hazardous to use
And by making them so difficult to use, it keeps them from being such a storybreaker
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI’m on The Avengers right now and what I’ve learned so far is that Thor and Loki, despite not technically being related, are highly similar men: arrogant, impulsive, short-sighted, prideful to a fault. Loki doesn’t even strike me as evil he just never thinks what he does through.
Edited by tiamkara on Nov 19th 2019 at 4:13:58 AM
“If you have a message for the devil give it to me and I’ll take it to him.”I'd expect an Infinity Gauntlet to do Infinity things. If not, what's the point of calling it that, then?
If my Sword of Dragon Killing doesn't kill dragons, it's a very crappy Sword of Dragon Killing, isn't it?
Who named it, anyway?
Edited by fredhot16 on Nov 19th 2019 at 4:24:44 AM
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.It’s a gauntlet that holds and channels infinity stones
The name is fine
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I think the people revived by Kree blood were only mostly dead
And also the movies ignore what Agents of Shield is doing so best not to fret
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