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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Dorzma Forever! Artwork by Kris Dobbins.
So Batman lives long enough to see himself become the villain.
Maybe he'll just have the name and be someone who's been successfully hunting various Asgardians down throughout the past, and now that New Asgard has been established after the fall of the original, he's out to finish the job. It could even be done as further means of reckoning for the Asgardians' colonialist past.
Doing the God butcher stuff now would be a bit weird. I feel like if they were going to do that at all it should have been in Ragnarok (as has been pointed out many times, Hela's powers are even kinda similar to Gorr).
That being said, if Bale is playing Gorr then that's pretty good casting and given the right material, he could be legitimately terrifying.
Also this is now the second former Batman to become a villain in the MCU.
Edited by Draghinazzo on Mar 6th 2020 at 10:00:35 AM
Bucky and Falcon:
Speaking of Songbird, I have a theory of how her role in history will be.
She is a member of a group of female thieves, but pitifully in an assault that goes wrong, her companions are killed by the U.S. Agent.
Then, to avenge the death of her companions, she decides to ally with Zemo, because they both share the pain of losing their loved ones because of the "heroes."
Edited by JoLuRo075 on Mar 6th 2020 at 6:07:15 AM
Strictly speaking no but if we have a Hero Antagonist and Thor remains also a hero (which of course he will) then more than likely there will be a third, villainous party to manipulate or cause the clash between the two. For example Zemo in Civil War didn't really fight either Cap or Tony but was the instigator of their fighting each other.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."So I'm watching the mid 2000's Fantastic Four movie.
....Should I be lynched for thinking that even with all the flaws the movie had, they kinda got the Ben's issues right...and even got the four as a whole right?
One Strip! One Strip!No. The first one is... fine. It's fine. Ignoring Doom, everything else is alright.
My various fanfics.Yep. That's a paddlin'.
Not because you're enjoying Fantastic Four, mind, but for playing the, "Am I a bad person for having a personal opinion that deviates from the norm?" card.
I'm thinking that Doom might be hard to do an origin story of. He works best as a larger than life figure, and while there's an argument for not getting too wrapped up in the mystique he's created for himself, I do think actually seeing him progress from a normal guy to full-blown supervillain kind of makes it difficult to accept the whole Doom image. If you want to go with a "Doom's not as cool as he thinks he is", that's fine, but I think that's something you want to peel back his layers to get to, not something you start out with.
Oh God! Natural light!Think you can touch his concept properly. I mean, a tech super genius sorcerer dictator of a small country that's nonetheless so tough he could tell the Soviets and the USA to fuck off in the Cold War and has god knows how many robot doubles running around. Getting to that point seems difficult.
Wake me up at your own risk.Not because you're enjoying Fantastic Four, mind, but for playing the, "Am I a bad person for having a personal opinion that deviates from the norm?" card.
Fair enough.
<Breaks and burns paddle>
Now don't touch me.
To be honest, I think I've always liked the first movie. Maybe even the second one. I think the four's base personalities are pretty easy to get: Reed's genius (and guilt) Ben's difficulty dealing with his situation, Johnny being a hot-headed but well meaning ass.
Sue...is harder. She's the most powerful member (and always has been, even if it took the writers a while to realize it), but what really defines her in that early time: her relationship with Reed....because if so, then ugh.
I'm not really sure what to say about her actually. I'd say she's better defined now, but I'm not sure what to say about her in those early days.
One Strip! One Strip!I’ve heard that Ben is the thing that the movie got really right and a lot of people wanted the actor to come back and do another better FF movie
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI know those movies were far from comic accurate and got pretty cheesy, but they were a fun time. Especially compared to Fant4stic. Kind of a similar dynamic to the Raimi Spider-Man trilogy and the Amazing Spider-Man duology.
Not to say they couldn't have a better movie, but if that analogy holds true, I'd expect to feel lukewarm on an MCU adaption.
Edited by FGHIK on Mar 7th 2020 at 1:35:37 PM
I think the key is to brush past the origin as quickly as possible
Their origin took like a couple pages back in the day and a movie building up to that and having them learn their powers and all
You’re having to do that for four people. Skim past it
Forever liveblogging the AvengersAlfred Molina as Doc Ock is really the definite version for me, even to this day (and yeah, I realize that he was much different from the comics, but so fucking what).
His performance is on the same level as Heath Ledger's Joker for me.
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