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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
You cut one head...
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.I'm fine with HYDRA reappearing as long as they're not the main threat. Ant-Man's whole bit with them sending agents to buy supertech was cool, and I wish they had gone with the original idea to have Zola's android body appear instead of an anonymous agent.
Agents of SHIELD's problem was doing the plot wholesale, twice, and then introducing a supposed "real HYDRA" so they could do it again, even though it was getting increasingly obvious that the rest of the MCU didn't give a crap. Them realizing this later on and getting far more inventive and creative with the kinds of threats they faced resulting in much better stories imo.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Oct 21st 2020 at 12:26:13 PM
After HYDRA was "for really-real" defeated in season three of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., I think they're was only one time they brought them back as a splinter group, and that was near the tail-end of season five. Every other time they came back, it usually alternate reality or time-travel shenanigans.
I remember when Ant-Man 1 first came out, I thought how cool it would be if it was Ward doing the transaction with Cross, since he had started his own HYDRA faction at the time. Obviously, I know better now, but that was back when the shows were more willing to incorporate parts of the movies.
Mark Ruffalo says Kevin Feige was set to leave Marvel if MCU wasn’t allowed more diversity
That might be why we've been hearing rumors of a Black Widow solo film since around when Avengers came out: Feige managed to convince Ike to greenlight it, but Ike sunk it into Development Hell as pay-back, and it only started actually getting made when Ike left.
Eyup. Legend has it that Black Widow was pitched back in PHASE ONE, at least 3 different teams pitched it all nixed by Ike. At least one pitch had the Black Widow Film among the first 5 of the MCU.
There were very good reasons why Disney decided to break off the films and get them away from Perlmutter, Feige's leadership gave them a series of films that was raking in BILLIONS no way were they going to let him leave.
Oh damn if we had gotten that Widow movie all the way back, then Hawkeye would have been the only original Avenger without his own movie.
Also I just realized, we already got Vulture and Electro's coming, now all we need is Rhino & Goblin and we can have a reunion of the boys.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."The funny thing about the "me and the boys" meme is that the Rhino wasn't even in the episode where Vulture, Goblin, and Electro teamed up.
But you know who was in that episode? Doctor Noah Buddy. Don't know who he is? He was one of the original villains created for the show. He was the one who put together the team and his superpower was that he was invisible.
Get it? Noah Buddy? And he's invisible?
No, they're not wrong. Noah Boddy
was one of the original villains for the '67 series, along with the Human Fly Twins and few one-offs. I bet they came up with the concept because it would save (even more) money with regards to animation.
Edited by Aleistar on Oct 23rd 2020 at 8:31:47 AM
I don't know when that became a thing, but I always did think that clip of those three smiling was kinda funny. Guess I wasn't alone.
Now for my bit of silliness for this thread:
A certain Prince of the seas tries to sue the surface world and hires a blind lawyer to make it happen:
Why post this?
Cause they I believe they have the rights to Namor, and they got back the rights to Daredevil from Netflix. I wanna see this fight. I think for their next phase, Marvel should have all the crazy crossovers. It'd be great.
One Strip! One Strip!I think that MCU Tony especially should not be anywhere near Illuminati
Forever liveblogging the AvengersWell that's gonna be easy I think.
So...I'm torn on whether I want things to continue to go wrong and be the fault of Tony killing Thanos (since the Hulk undid the snap), or not.
On the one hand, he's Tony Stark and everything must be his fault, and result in a new villain who wants to kill a lot of people to ruin what he's done.
On the other hand, why not let him have this win? After years of trying so hard to do right ever since he found out his weapons were doing more harm than good (which to be fair, is something that happens with weapons, so that's on you Tony), he finally did some lasting good, even if at the cost of his life.
....What do you chuckleheads think?
One Strip! One Strip!In the sense that the most powerful characters in the setting having that reinforced by having them secretly (trying to) run the world while none of the other characters are aware, a concept that includes guys like Namor and Tony Stark who already sometimes get uncomfortable fascist leanings (and Reed Richards, who is just awful), is rather difficult to make sympathetic.
Not to mention that due to the nature of comic books, the team mostly just meets during big events to establish that they can't actually do anything about said events.
At any rate, as of Endgame the MCU Avengers is already more or less does what the Illuminati tries to do, but without the overt totalitarian vibes. Not that the organization's existence is entirely ethical overall either, of course.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Oct 23rd 2020 at 9:46:39 AM

HYDRA I think is still around. If you go by the films it's not that weird but agents complicated things as they keep having them destroyed "permanently" only to return again and again.
Edited by miraculous on Oct 21st 2020 at 11:54:51 AM
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."