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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
https://asapland.com/ever-anderson-will-play-a-young-natasha-romanoff-in-black-widow/28116/
I like that they hire another actress for her young version, instead of simply putting a wig on Scarlett and pretending she is a teenager.
Disney had a a shareholders meeting recently and revealed some things:
- The Loki series is looking to come to Disney+ early 2021.
- Another Loki update: Richard E. Grant will appear in an unknown role.
- Another Loki update: Richard E. Grant will appear in an unknown role.
- Avengers Campus is opening July 18 at Disney's California Adventure.
- Yes, you'll be able to have shawarma.
- Tom Holland WILL voice Spider-Man in Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure.
- There will also be a stunt show featuring Black Widow, Captain America, and Black Panther vs. Taskmaster.
- Taskmaster will serve as the Big Bad overall in Avengers Campus.
- Yes, you'll be able to have shawarma.
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Mar 11th 2020 at 11:54:32 AM
I already added that to my initial post a while ago. Some are already speculating he might be Kang the Conqueror.
Anyway! More Avengers Campus updates!
- The Spider-Bots you'll be fighting off in Web Slingers? You can buy your own Spider-Bot from the Avengers Campus gift shop, WEB Suppliers!
Think of this as similar to the droids you can build at Galaxy's Edge minus the building aspect, because these were made for battle!
- Yep! Not only are they remote controlled with eight moving legs, you can also customize them with upgrades and colors based off Spider-Man, Iron Man, Black Widow, Ant-Man, The Wasp, and Black Panther, and you can have them fight others' Spider-Bots!
- Plus, there's some world-building with Moon Girl and Squirrel Girl being name-dropped via civilian names!
- There'll also be exclusive Funko Pops of Spider-Man and Iron Man based off their costumes in Avengers Campus!
Gah, now I REALLY want one of those Spider-Bots!
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Mar 11th 2020 at 1:42:17 PM
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I think he will be Future Loki, being the true villain and mastermind behind Kang and the blonde.
Edited by JoLuRo075 on Mar 11th 2020 at 1:32:38 AM
This is probably going to ruffle some peoples' feathers here, but I think not undoing the 5 year gap of the Snap in Endgame will be the biggest mistake the MCU has made.
The reason I say this is because it's extremely difficult to tell stories that deal with the full implications of an event of that magnitude, while also telling fun adventure stories. Not just in the logistics. But just think about it from a character and storytelling perspective.
From now on, for every single character they introduce in the MCU, forever, they have to consider whether:
- This person died for five years, and came back, and had to adjust to that.
- This person lived in a dystopian nightmare for five years where half of the population, including people they knew and loved - unless they all got lucky like Peter Parker - died, and then came back.
- And for the above, they're going to have to consider how that affects the character.
- In addition to how this has impacted the character psychologically, and how it's impacted their lives, they also have to now work this five year gap into the backstory of every single show, movie, and character. That's a tall order.
- It also impacts how characters interact with each other - look at character pairings, for example. If a character has close friends, you have to consider who was snapped and who wasn't, and what that person did during the time their friends were dead.
Rather than deal with all that, the easier choice is always going to be to pay lipservice to it, or to just completely ignore it. It's kind of a major downer on a big shared universe enterprise like the MCU that they can't fully address it, at least not without radically changing the MCU from a superhero franchise to a post-apocalyptic psychological drama franchise about people from different backgrounds having to cope with them or their friends having disappeared for five years before coming back. Think Manifest but on a larger scale.
Okey Dokey!They should also revive Natasha and Tony.
They should make Captain America young again.
Learning to live with the consequences is for fools.
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Maybe I'm exaggerating, but it would seem silly to me, that the writers initially made the 5-year jump permanent, only to apply a retcon in a future movie.
Edited by JoLuRo075 on Mar 11th 2020 at 2:12:40 AM
Personally I feel like the possibilities suggested by the five year gap are more than worth it for the writing headache it may be.
Far From Home for example touched on the repercussions enough to be satisfying as a permanent element of the setting.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersOh yeah, it would be game over for civilization, no doubt. And assuming it's truly unbiased and effects all creatures, it would push a lot of species over the edge to extinction. Sure, humanity would quickly have a dramatically lowered impact on the environment as half of them disappear and modern society collapses, but it doesn't make up for losing half a critically endangered species. And in some ways, humanity's environmental impact would get worse. Most people would be willing to hunt endangered species if the alternative is starvation. And the EPA wouldn't be around to do anything about it.
Edited by FGHIK on Mar 11th 2020 at 5:03:05 AM
Civilization as a whole is I think is actually a lot more resilient then people give it credit for. When the black death swept through medieval Europe and wiped out a 3rd of the population, it changed society but it didn't unmake the entire social order.
Heck, when diseases introduced by Europeans wiped out a massive percentage of the people living in the Americas (the true number is unknown, but I've seen it placed in the 90% range), the societies that existed there were severely weakened and depopulated, but for the most part they weren't destroyed outright.
That being said, I don't disagree that the impact would be greater then what the MCU is likely to portray. There would likely be at least a little of reshuffling of national borders and an economic crises both when everyone disappeared and when everyone reappeared.
Edited by Falrinn on Mar 11th 2020 at 3:02:47 AM
Things like pilots, nuclear plant operators, drivers, emergency services, any position where vanishing would be dangerous, would lead to who knows how many more deaths in the immediate aftermath of the snap. And in our modern society, we're in many way more vulnerable to these kinds of apocalyptic scenarios than say, medieval Europe or the Native Americans. They were much more self reliant. Modern civilization is a heavily interconnected machine, all built with the assumption things will continue more or less smoothly. How many people now produce their own food? Water? Power? Or even live in areas where such things can be readily acquired in an emergency, and aren't shipped in from miles away? A lot of key people in food production would be gone, and we don't have a lot of redundancy there, so mass starvation would result. That means even more critical people dying. Even if the remaining food production was enough, supply lines would falter, with all the highways covered in wrecked cars that we're in no way prepared to clear even without more than half the people who do that dying, and surviving delivery drivers would go home to check on their families. Power would go down soon in most places because they aren't getting fuel, or some critical employee is gone, or there aren't enough people to maintain the power lines (if they could even get to them with the aforementioned wrecks). Hospitals would be completely swamped since tons of people are severely injured in the chaos and over half their employees are gone or injured themselves, so don't expect any help if you catch a disease. And if you need medical supplies to survive already, you're in deep trouble as production for that medicine would be failing and supplies will run out quickly. Surviving firemen and police can't get through the blocked roads, so fires and crime will go unchecked. And crime is quickly going to skyrocket, everyone doing whatever it takes to survive when there's not enough to go around.
It's not like humanity can't survive a lot of disasters, but the instant, unanticapted, global nature of the snap would be catstrophic on a scale to rival nuclear war (which might happen as well if any dead hand systems are active). Our disaster relief systems are all built for one specific location having a disaster, with the rest of the world functioning as normal. The For Want Of A Nail domino effects would be beyond imagining. The death toll would skyrocket far beyond the original 50%. Anarchy would absolutely result. Humanity would survive, but I'm not sure civilization as we know it would ever recover, and all the superheroics in the world wouldn't have things back to normal in five years. It would probably take a generation or two at the very least.
And yet, all of that might pale in comparison to what would happen when 50% of the population is brought back five years later.
Edited by FGHIK on Mar 12th 2020 at 4:15:18 AM
Endgame avoided discussing any of those apocalyptic scenarios because the writers knew they wouldn't be able to answer resolutions to them in a single film's timespan. The only problem focused on caused by the Snap is "people are sad because friends are dead", and the only one shown being resolved is "people aren't sad anymore because friends are alive again".
That's partly why the Avengers are never shown discussing their plan to fix the universe with any government leaders or other authorities, because the story is more invested in getting back Doctor Strange and Spider-Man and so on as fast possible rather than the economic implications of restoring the population of distant planets in the Xandar system and so on.
Oh, hell yeah!
Interesting. If Avengers Academy is like Galaxy's Edge and is meant to be canon to the MCU in a time capsule sort of way, that could spoil Taskmaster's survival.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Mar 12th 2020 at 4:42:49 AM
Now that you mention it, I can see this as being set between Spider-Man: Homecoming and Avengers: Infinity War (since the events of Black Panther are set a week or so after Civil War).
The only thing that bugs me would be the stunt show. If it's Cap, T'Challa, and Nat vs. Taskmaster, then it would mean Cap won't have his shield since he ditched at the end of Civil War, but what if they wind up forgetting about that?
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Mar 12th 2020 at 8:18:15 AM
I don’t think Avengers Campus will be canon. The temptation to feature dead heroes like Iron Man is too great. The Guardians ride already doesn’t fit into MCU continuity (Peter has his Walkman but Mantis has joined the group. Also Groot is a baby in the ride but an adult in meet and greets.)
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Mar 12th 2020 at 10:31:51 AM

He ate paste when he thought nobody was looking.