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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I just finished rewatching the first Ant-Man movie, and I have to say, the line "You can't stop the future with a heist!" is much funnier than it was when the movie was new.
I just realized something about Endgame!Loki.
1. He's Loki's "second life," so to speak, with the first incarnation being heavily established as a somewhat separate entity and dead for good.
2. Said second life will be spent as more of a heroic (or at least protagonist-esque) Wild Card instead of a villainous Wild Card.
3. Said second life will also be spent as an agent of a powerful organization/council that sends him to do less-than-moral things to protect reality.
Holy shit, Endgame!Loki is the MCU's adaptation of Ikol.
So The Extractor just added a synopsis for all of the films on the Franchise page.
I like it. Have a few things I'd change, but otherwise not sure why no one thought of this before. I'd make some for the tv shows, but...
Well, I'm shit at descriptions.
Side-note, it really feels like I only comment on Marvel-related threads. I swear I don't stay up waiting for something Marvel related to happen, I just have nothing to comment on for the rest of the threads I read.
Edited by EmeraldEmperor on Dec 29th 2020 at 4:48:54 AM
So...I'm hearing rumours that Joseph Gordon-Levitt may be Reed Richards in the MCU?
One Strip! One Strip!
Yeah, my understanding is that it's basically unheard of for actors to have non-competes preventing them from taking work from other studios. Either because it violates SAG rules or no agent in Hollywood would agree to such a clause without a payout so ridiculously huge that it's not worth it for the studios.
There are practical reasons why an actor would have trouble playing a major role in both franchises, but Marvel and DC aren't special cases here and it would apply to any two franchises.
Watching Doctor Strange again.
Man, this is the strangest negotiation ever.
Like, actually think about it: Strange's demands were fuck off or I keep dying.
It takes real creativity to take the fact that you have no way of winning and turn that into a position of strength.
One Strip! One Strip!It's also very in character for comics Strange, who while incredibly powerful by Earth hero terms is pretty puny on the cosmic scale compared to some of the things he's up against. Trapping yourself in a permanent death loop is the kind of "logic" you HAVE to apply sometimes.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."I legitimately think it's one of the best scenes in the entire MCU, possibly even the best, despite the rest of the movie being somewhat middling.
It's seriously cool and clever, and "No. But I can lose. Again, and again, and again, and again, forever. And that makes you my prisoner." is an amazing line.
I was worried Dormammu was gonna get Parallax'd when I heard he was actually in the film, but that scene let Strange win without overexaggerating Strange's power or downplaying Dormammu's, while leaving the possibility for a rematch one day.
Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Dec 30th 2020 at 3:56:33 PM
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!And it still could have gone very wrong.
Like, what if Dormammu was will to just kill Strange again and again and again.
Though now that I think about it, Stephen never actually experienced his deaths. Only Dormammu experienced going through the same thing over again, but it was still a risky plan.
One Strip! One Strip!You ever see a take so bad that you're not sure how to respond?
Because I was browsing another site and saw someone argue that the Red Skull would've been a more compelling and sympathetic villain if they made him a Jewish SS member, and his plan was to destroy the old world so he could build a safer one for minorities like him.
If there was the perfect antithesis to HYDRA!Cap, I think Jew!Red Skull would be it.

This is certainly going to be....something.
Edited by Falrinn on Dec 25th 2020 at 9:22:14 AM