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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
So in non-rumor mill news, Chris Hemsworth and his trainers went over some of the specifics of his diet and training regimen as he bulks up to play Hulk Hogan in a biopic
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Gotta get those 24 inch pythons ready for the cameras, brother. It’s also not hard to see why Endgame was viewed as something of a relief for him preparation wise.
Edited by Beatman1 on Jul 22nd 2021 at 1:29:53 PM
As per the man himself when he confessed to doing them. Of course if Hemsworth wasn’t on the juice he would look more ready for a Bruno Sammartino biopic than a Hogan one (although a Bruno story would still be plenty interesting).
The problem is like other Hollywood muscle-men Hemsworth has a good side-hustle promoting himself like a sort of pseudo-bodybuilder. And because there's still such a massive social stigma against any form of steroid use Hemsworth has to jump through hoops to pretend like his physique is just naturally gained, despite that being arguably far more damaging in the long run.
Yeah. Evolution wasn't the first time Eric was a child rather than an adult in WW 2 (that again goes to the Fox movies) but that appearance was pretty cool.
Unfortunately, I think even know, there's no way to make him younger enough to not be utterly geriatric in this series, unless they have him experimenting on himself like he was in Evolution as well (as the machine that made Steve a Super-Soldier in the Evo universe was good for extending the lives of mutants and Mags had been using it).
One Strip! One Strip!There are plenty of proposed ways of having Erik be Long-Lived to some extent in order to preserve his Holocaust origin.
I'm personally a fan of the Technobabble route with him having electromagnetically-induced slowed aging as a result of his magnetic powers. However the more popular suggestions of him having a secondary mutation or some variant of the Super-Soldier Serum work as well.
If there's one thing I'd really want Chris Evans back to do, it's a brief scene with the Howling Commandos where they go up against one of those oddball WW 2 era supervillains, and Cap interacts with a "Private Howlett" or something. Basically the same thing they did with Logan's cameo in Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
Really, not specifically Logan related (more Captain America related) but the big thing I really wanted from Marvel One Shots before they stopped doing them that we never got was an Invaders short. Or at the very least another look at the Howling Commandos era.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jul 22nd 2021 at 3:46:08 AM
Here’s how you solve a problem like Magneto
The government launched him into space, relativistic time, he’s back now
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIt is in fact kind of strange they never did the classic Captain America thing where he faces some foe or concept from WWII (often unmentioned until it resurfaces in the present). Zola (and HYDRA as a broad concept) is the only one who got to do this. Red Skull never re-emerged, Strucker and Zemo lost their WWII roots (as Strucker lost everything else).
A shame, really, because while it can be a bit funny that so many people from WWII became ageless in some fashion, it is always part of the appeal of Rogers-America to see how those figures representative of WWII still linger in the world and the struggles of the 1940's never truly ended in a variety of fashions (and there's always the dark irony of Steve being able to relate with his arch-foes moreso than anyone else). TWS is the only one to follow that beat, kind of.
This is a plot beat you really can't replicate with any of the other guys except maybe Bucky, though in a different way.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Would it not make better sense for Magneto to be updated as a descendant of the Holocaust survivors and growing up with parents who speaks of the horrors they endured during that time period. Trauma of that caliber doesn't die out with the generation that experienced it, it can be passed down to those grew up hearing these stories and seeing how it affects the survivors.
Which is why the MCU retired Steve Rogers and had Sam Wilson take up the mantle and deal with more relative topics in today's America. Steve cannot hope to deal with every modern day problem in America, especially when he's a man out of his time. He can adapt to society but he can't hope to fully understand what others see, even when it's something as simple as passing down the shield to Sam.
Magneto, like many other Marvel characters, will have to be updated to better fit with today's world. While the Holocaust is an important part of his backstory, I would say it'll be disingenuous to treat it like it was the only modern genocide in 20th and even 21st century. There are other ways to make Magneto's character work without needing to retain his original backstory.
The closest we got to Cap fighting some WWII-era villains was the non-canon Captain America: Super Soldier game, where we had Steve going up against villains like the Iron Cross, Madame Hydra, Baron Strucker (guess why it's not canon anymore), and climaxing with a fight with Zola's robot bodies and the Sleeper.
I personally have always kind of enjoyed the concept of making Magneto a Legacy Character with the OG Magneto having been established during WWII, but the current Magneto standing for a different genocide (the Rwandan genocide being a popular one).
Current Magneto being Palestinian would be taking the pin off a political grenade and chucking it at the general direction of the comics, and I'd be here for it.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Definitely chucking a political grenade at Chris Claremont's interpretation of Magneto. He actually viewed Xavier and Magneto's relationship as being akin to...David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin.
Not, uh, not an interpretation I like.

He was trying to sneak around, but he's dummy thicc and the clap of his Liefeldian pecs kept alerting the guards.
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