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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Updates:
- Erin Kellyman, better known as the space pirate Enfys Nest from Solo: A Star War Story is joining
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.
- Disney+ released a sizzle reel of some upcoming stuff
...including WandaVision?
I wouldn't get too excited about that game. It's absolute trash: a cynical marketing exercise to get you to buy cosmetics.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"It should be noted that game began development around the time when Marvel was pushing the Inhumans & Fox still had the X-Men license.
Its why the games plotline involves "Inhumans popping up all over the world" which was a thing done in every medium to push the Inhumans.
Even then visually & gameplay-wise its also pretty dull.
Edited by slimcoder on Sep 16th 2020 at 6:24:02 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."![]()
I thought the story was apparently pretty good, though the gameplay was wonky.
But I've been getting mixed messages quite a bit from it.
Yeah. I'm never gonna get over the irony that the Inhumans as a brand died when they tried to make them the X-Men, while the X-men becoming the Inhumans (more isolationist, having their own homeland, and even taking over the moon) is the best thing going for them in years.
Edited by HandsomeRob on Sep 16th 2020 at 7:25:03 AM
One Strip! One Strip!Yes I've actually seen people go "No shes not popular."
This is a good comment showcasing that presumption from the comment section in Gamespot review which is full of such people.
"that’s a stretch to say she’s remotely popular.
It’s a shoehorned in concept that allows Marvel to shatter their historically biased products.
Note: I have no problem with it but it’s delusional to think this was about popularity and variety and not “expanding the demographic of the product market” while earning PC points."
I believe know nothing know it alls is an apt description.
Edited by slimcoder on Sep 16th 2020 at 6:39:19 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."Kamala is one of the most popular characters created by Marvel in the past decade, and she's gotten a decent push by the company since her debut.
And that includes outside of comics as well, although I wonder what her most well-known appearance would've been before the recent Avengers game. Probably one of the cartoons like Avengers Assemble and Marvel Rising?
Hmm, considering how Marvel's recent cartoons have been received, maybe the Avengers game is her biggest appearance yet outside of the comics. At the very least, the announcement of the Disney Plus show should've gotten her more publicity.
Weird. Some impressions I read regarding the game say that while the ads rope you in with the usual Avengers, the game itself ends up making you care more about Kamala.
And since our favorite embiggening girl is being brought up, an insider I follow on Twitter
got me into finding a popular fancast for her: Saara Chaudry.
Some apparently know her primarily from Degrassi, but I'm more familiar with her work as Parvana from the animated film The Breadwinner and...she just sort of fits the glove rather perfectly?
She's both Pakistani and 16, like Kamala, has some Oscar cred thanks to The Breadwinner and funnily enough, on Twitter she's following some Marvel and Kamala involved folks like Kamala creator G. Willow Wilson, current writer Saladin Ahmed, Marvel editor C.B. Cebulski, Marvel Entertainment...and Marvel Studios' Canadian Twitter.
...Might be reading too much into that last one.
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Sep 16th 2020 at 11:24:45 AM
This is a good comment showcasing that presumption from the comment section in Gamespot review which is full of such people.
Not surprising. Rememeber when Carol Danvers was one of the more popular requested characters for being the MCU, but then overnight the Vocal Minority filled the airwaves with "she's just an obscure spinoff of a male character that nobody likes, but Marvel is forcing down our throats because of diversity" once it became clear that her movie was actually going to be a reality?
Intolerance will reinterpret reality however it wants to justify itself.
Really the annoying thing is that they aren't going that far in diversity because the Avengers game still engages in Token Minority.
Kamala is the only person of color in the base with the rest of the Avengers being 5 white people continuing Marvel's tendency to only have the main 5 or 6 movie squad plus one person of color.
Avengers Assemble did this as well but with Falcon as the lone black guy who oddly enough had a similar characterization to Kamala as the kid newcomer.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
x3 - That perception can work when dealing with a medium as obscure as comics are. Because the comic audience is so small (100,000 copies on a good day), it’s easy for people to manipulate that to the average person, filtered through a Youtube video that says “This character isn’t popular, she’s being shoved down our throats”.
Then you put the character in a game being advertised on ESPN or TNT during the NBA or during baseball and that opinion becomes much harder to shape, since the audience is just that much wider by an order of several million people. And that’s where all the weird conspiracy theories start.
Unless you count some of her animated appearances, this is Kamala’s first real big budget mainstream exposure for a big project. And people go “OK, she’s a superhero fan girl who gets turned into a mutan...In...mutant, and now she gets to fight bad guys with her stretchy powers.”
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But I'm not buying into any of it.
I just found the fancasting by happenstance and thought "huh, I wouldn't really oppose this. Pretty curious she's following so and so..."
I'm sorry if it's looking like I'm barking up a barren tree...again. I guess the back of my mind is hurting for good news. I was itching for Phase 4 to kick some major ass...but then the pandemic had to go and ruin everything.
Come on, when can we get our own Marvel-themed FanDome thing?!

For context, the scene where he's screaming about hating time travel is here:
[I] HB: Waste exactly four hours on this tomfoolery.
He's struggling against time travel duplicates of two Dumb Muscle members of a rival gang called The Felt who all have Time Master powers.
And that arc isn't even the most convoluted when it comes to time manipulation. The entire series revolves around time loops, to the point that every member of the cast could be considered an example of My Own Grandpa.
It is somewhat ironic that one of my favorite stories would revolve around a narrative device that I tend to despise on principle...but the writer made it work.
Edited by M84 on Sep 16th 2020 at 5:33:44 PM
Disgusted, but not surprised