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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I wonder how long it'll take to do a rendition of the Animaniacs theme song, but with lyrics relevant to what will happen in Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania.
Quantumaniacs. You know you can hear it.
Also, Chris Seavor, better known as Conker the Squirrel made a crack
in light of the Fantastic Four news.
Try not to hear that tweet with Conker's voice!
.... I don't think it will ever happen but also I really want American Kaiju to be adapted.
They'd.... have to tweak the design.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI'm surprised too. Now that I think about it, I remember seeing someone on Reddit suggesting it as Hammer's Thunderbolt identity and I kind of thought they made it up at the time.
But I think it would work really well, despite the caveat that it probably makes for a pretty similar story as the one in the Falcon and Winter Soldier show (I say probably because it depends on how evil U.S. Agent is in that show, but same basic idea of a "morally iffy substitute being promoted through an advertising campaign).
Edited by Hodor2 on Dec 10th 2020 at 9:16:14 AM
US Agent isn’t usually portrayed as completely evil, just a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who nevertheless thinks he’s more important than he is.
To put my cards on the table, I want to see U.S. Agent as the villain, so I may be making assumptions here (specifically that he'll borrow a bit from the outright villainous Burnside "Commie Smasher" Cap).
But the main reason why I figure he'll ultimately be a bad guy is that it seems (I could be wrong though) that the premise of the show is partly that U.S. Agent is the officially promoted new Cap and that there's some resistance to Sam taking up the mantle and/or he feels uncertain about it. Hence why he's wearing the Falcon costume (and is called that in the title of the show).
And I would assume the audience is not supposed to come away thinking that Walker should be Cap rather than Sam.
Edited by Hodor2 on Dec 10th 2020 at 9:42:40 AM
I was wondering what they were going to call the sequel to Ant-Man and the Wasp, since they kind of set a weird naming convention by adding a second name to the second movie's title rather than using a number or subtitle, so like were they going to stick in a third name or add a subtitle just for the third movie?
Their solution was to stick a made up word derived from "quantum" onto it, which is very on brand and I respect that.
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That Walker isn't the right fit for Captain America doesn't mean he is or has to be the main villain. Zemo is in the series too, I assume that he's probably the Big Bad.
Edited by Khfan429 on Dec 10th 2020 at 7:42:43 AM
Maybe US Agent is just a decoy villain and he's a dupe of the real Big Bad.
Perhaps even the Red Skull; they've shown they're willing to recast the character, he's still somewhere out there, and if coming back to Earth, with his nemesis gone, he might as well just taint his legacy through a replacement.
Edited by AmazingSpiderHam on Dec 10th 2020 at 7:43:36 AM
x5 If they do introduce Doom, hopefully they'll make him closer to the comics than his previous movie portrayals were. Maybe update him by making Latveria an Iran-type terrorist-funder.
Edited by ClancyGardener on Dec 10th 2020 at 7:44:34 AM
Trope Editor (he/him)I’m thinking John Walker is The Dragon to the true mastermind, as a symbol replacing Cap.
@PMC I think the list is something like (in rough release order):
- Wanda Vision
- Falcon and Winter Soldier
- Black Widow
- Shang-Chi
- Eternals
- Thor: Love and Thunder
- Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness
- Black Panther II
There's also some projects without release dates:
- Ironheart
- MS. Marvel
- Hawkeye
- She-Hulk
- Captain Marvel 2
- Spider-Man 3
- Moon Knight
- Fantastic Four
- Secret Invasion
- Armor Wars
What if is also coming out next year I believe, but I don't think it'll tie into anything directly. Also, as far as I know, nothing has been labeled explicitly as "Phase Five" or anything.
Edited by Aleistar on Dec 10th 2020 at 10:46:26 AM
To clarify, I don't think that Walker will be the main villain. I'm thinking a pawn of someone else.
Basically, I see the show ending with Sam in his Cap costume which would lead me to think that either Walker goes over the edge (villain option) or else after some kind of misunderstanding acknowledges Sam as the "rightful successor" (hero option).
Edited by Hodor2 on Dec 10th 2020 at 9:48:47 AM
At worst Walker is an Anti-Hero, but he's not a villain.
Seems out of character for Doom. Doom built his own armor.
I'm gonna add in Blade, since we know it's coming eventually:
- Wanda Vision
- Falcon and Winter Soldier
- Black Widow
- Shang-Chi
- Eternals
- Black Panther II
- Secret Invasion
- Armor Wars
- Ironheart
- Ms. Marvel
- She-Hulk
- Captain Marvel 2
- Moon Knight
- Blade
And to contrast:
- Thor: Love and Thunder
- Spider-Man 3
- Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness
- Loki
- Fantastic 4
- Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
See the connection? The upcoming MCU slate has over double the number of films/series with the main character being a non-white man than the ones that do.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Dec 10th 2020 at 9:04:47 AM
About time the MCU had some diversity, then.
So, let's hang an anchor from the sun... also my Tumblr

"Whoever he insulted this time in like the five minutes they interacted."
So...the entirety of spiderman rouge gallery them
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"