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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
IIRC, Gunn's specific gripe about Dick Rider is that he was human and he wanted Quill to be the only human in the series he was connected with. Hence stuff like Drax and Mantis being aliens in the MCU.
Gunn has - I think - since changed his mind. There were rumblings about possible Nova appearances or even a movie a couple years ago, though we haven't heard anything about it since COVID.
Fun Fact: Gamora was in a major-ish relationship with Nova.
Presumably Quill and Gamora's romance was at least in part lifted from Gamara's tryst with Dick.
Actually Dick was the one who convinced Gamora to join the Guardians in the first place. It was after Annihilation, he called her up to his room, she got pissed and trashed it because she thought it was a post-victory booty call, but he managed to convince her so she can do something good with her life.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."The Nova becoming the not green lanterns we all know and know would be an interesting direction for post Thanos kicking their asses
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYeah, apparently he's read "approximately 75 percent of all Nova comics
since Guardians 1 came out, so he may be more amenable to including him.
About the power stone on Morag: IIRC Word of God said that Morag got covered in oceans due to some climate disaster and now the planet is only accesible once every 100 years or something.
Edited by Unoriginalusername3 on Feb 27th 2021 at 11:46:36 AM
You know, there's an easy time to get all the stones in one go.
2018 Wakanda, after Thor goes for the chest but before Thanos snaps his fingers. You've got, like, a 30-second window to go for the head and take the full set of stones, gauntlet included.
With the original surviving Avengers they could have just sent Thor back to stick a second axe into Thanos.
Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Feb 27th 2021 at 5:52:12 AM
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Maybe, but that the risk of failing that attempt with such a tiny sliver of time to act might be too great the gamble, especially with future Thor not being in a great state of mind. Plus all their past selves are there and now they have to deal with them assuming the past Avengers presume the worst of these sudden future selves.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Feb 27th 2021 at 2:55:29 AM
They totally would.
Like, it's a miracle they haven't flat out elected Thor as leader yet.
One Strip! One Strip!Rocket did use everyone’s unspoken unity of dunking on Quill in the face of Thor to promote himself to leader
Not that it really matters since the guardians tend to do whatever they want in a given situation
Forever liveblogging the AvengersDifference is Ra's al Ghul does not come from one of the biggest and most powerful film markets on the planet. While I do think a desire to avoid offensive stereotypes partially influenced the route the Iron Man movies went with the Mandarin, I am guessing Marvel's bigger worry was potential backlash from the Chinese film censors.
Even at the time I remember Asian and Asian American commentators discussing the change and saying it was almost certainly motivated by money rather than progressivism.
Edited by comicwriter on Feb 27th 2021 at 6:19:22 AM
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I was more talking about how Shane Black seemed bizarrely insistent in interviews at the time that the Mandarin was still the exact same stereotypical character he was in his early Silver Age appearances. Like, he seemed legitimately unaware that later writers toned down the yellow peril stuff greatly and made him an actual character.
Not to mention how Ben Kingsley's Mandarin could've been legitimately awesome if he wasn't Trevor.
Edited by lbssb on Feb 27th 2021 at 6:59:53 AM
Disney100 Marathon | DreamWorks MarathonKillian: "I'm the Mandarin!"
Someguy: "I'm the Mandarin and so's my wife!"
Forever liveblogging the Avengers

Yeah! Does that sound like someone boring to you?
Does it? Cause it doesn't to me, and if Gunn thought he was uninteresting, then he wasn't reading the right stories if you ask me.
If he read them at all, considering how different Star Lord is now.
One Strip! One Strip!