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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
So random thought: assuming No Way Home does end up being a Maguire/Garfield crossover, would that mean that Stan the Random Bystander/Stan the Distracted Librarian are both actually the Watcher Informant?
Disney100 Marathon | DreamWorks MarathonI recall hearing that Stan's cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was planned to originally have him mention working as a DJ at a strip club, basically confirming that he does travel across universes for his cameos.
Anyone else find it amusing that the movies have pretty much adapted the tight longform continuity style of the comics?
Like every product is either a technical sequel or continues a story or arc established in a previous film?
Wanda Vision for instance calls back Age of Ultron, Civil War, Infinity War, Endgame, and Captain Marvel. While Winter Falcon is technically Captain America 4.
Edited by slimcoder on Jun 6th 2021 at 5:38:21 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."How long until it starts to fall into the pitfalls of long form comic storytelling, with the status quo always reverting because "it's what the audience is familiar with"/the writers don't like the changes? Or hyping up every new installment as "the greatest challenge the hero has EVER faced!" when it would be better if treated as a non-event story? Or reminding the audience what they just saw and treating it as foreshadowing/establishing plot points while ignoring and contradicting the older foreshadowing and plot points?
I mean, most of those can't happen because it's a live-action medium, so you can't, say, go back to Tony Stark being alive if people/writers don't like Ironheart because Robert Downey Jr. may not be available or even willing to return, and you can't really run into the pitfall of one-upping every story to challenge the same character when you're constantly rotating them out. Especially when they can only make/release so many movies and television shows in a year before they start cannibalizing each other.
As others have made it clear, the movies have been doing what the Comics can't/won't and changing the status quo, both out of necessity and due to not being bound to that endless narrative that has come to define comics.
One Strip! One Strip!Three days ago, some BTS photos
of Mark Ruffalo doing some mo-cap work for She-Hulk came to light with actress Anais Almonte.
While there are villains out there who could theoretically surpass Thanos, Marvel clearly isn't rushing to them to get an Avengers 5 that is bigger than Endgame was out the door.
Kang isn't even slated to appear until Quantumaina, and that movie doesn't release until 2023. And they haven't even announced an Avengers 5.

Apparently promotional material lists Loki as gender fluid, at least according to the TVA’s dossier on him
.