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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
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@alliterator Yup.
Yeah, Ultron still manages to be far more interesting and fun to watch then the majority of the MCU villains barring the obvious big 3 and Spidey villains.
Joss Whedon has a lot of issues with his writing but he sure succeeds with dialogue and quips.
Edited by deuteragonist on Apr 10th 2020 at 8:32:16 AM
I liked his powerset.
Iron Man usually fights 'guy in armor', 'guy in armor controlling a lot of armor', 'robot made out of armor', 'Captain America', and 'his own bad decisions'
It was refreshing for someone to look at the problem of Iron Man and do something that wasn't just building a better suit of armor. The Extremis powerset is a cool case of a villain cutting the gordian knot.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersWeirdly enough, the thing that bugs me most about Iron Man 3 isn't the writing, the twist, or the characters, it's one tiny scene in the final battle. Tony is fighting Kilian in an Iron Man suit and Kilian does an overhead chop with his heat powers, Tony removes his arm from the Iron Man suit and lets Kilian chop off the Iron Man arm. Tony just LEAVES THE SUIT ON, with WHITE HOT METAL SLAG right next to his normal human arm and they don't even acknowledge that his shoulder should be suffering serious burns.
Well it's the same movie where Extremis users burst into flames and none of their pants or undergarments burn off.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Apr 10th 2020 at 12:28:02 PM
Aldritch Killian was incredibly boring in personality but his powerset was cool (figuratively speaking) and gave us an interesting matchup and final battle against the armored Iron Man.
Malekith, on the other hand, was a boring character and a boring powerset.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!I’m still not sure what Malekith’s power set was
Was he arms fall off lad? Wait, no, that was outside effort
Forever liveblogging the AvengersNo powerset, beyond background level fantasy-race strength and durability so that Thor doesn't just turn him into soot right away. Once he absorbs the Aether he does a few things like shoot cloudy laser beams and grow in size slightly, but is mostly just the-same-but-stronger.
Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Apr 10th 2020 at 5:26:54 AM
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Ultron quips for me dosent do the work and in fact mask he single issue that is a lack of presence, when he with wanda was great, him monologing to black widow was no, him choking thor was great, him be hit by vision and them finish with a joke was no.
Killian.....is weird, is motivation is bad and he is defeat it by a trick without using the full of is power, on the other hand he does give trouble to tony for start to end, a problem that many MCU villians lack, they dont feel like a challange at all.
the worst villian would be yellowjacket, if i stop to see evil CEO after this, I will happy.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"

I also really liked Spader's Ultron. 90% of his dialogue is scenery-chewing ham, but Spader does a fantastic job of chewing that scenery.
Shame about that dialogue change, though.
"You want to protect the world but you don't want it to change. How is humanity saved if it's not allowed to... evolve? With these? These puppets? There's only one path to peace: your extinction."
Chilling.
"There's only one path to peace: the Avengers' extinction."
The f*ck is that even supposed to mean? Why change the line if you're just going to have him try to exterminate the human race with a meteor anyway?
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