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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Yes! D'onfrio is back. This is great great. Maybe the Netflix cast is not done yet. But it's probably a different version or broad strokes.
Edited by Bullman on Jul 23rd 2021 at 7:54:27 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadI pointed this out before but Chris Claremont actually said
his view of Xavier and Magneto was as parallels to David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin.
Which is a really messed up take, to put it lightly. Ben-Gurion was on the "liberal" end of the Israeli political spectrum but he still oversaw the Nakba. Begin was a flat out terrorist who committed massacres on Palestinians (for which he was even arrested by the British!), then his premiership saw the Israeli intervention in Lebanon and alliance with the fascist Phalangist movement, alongside multiple other massacres...and Claremont literally viewed Begin going from terrorist to Nobel Prize-winning prime minister as an inspiration for Magneto's redemption.
Edited by Diana1969 on Jul 23rd 2021 at 11:08:46 PM
I just hope Fisk doesn't get taken out in the first episode but since he's Echo's dad, he might be perfectly fine. Hell, he might be the Big Bad here.
The legend has returned.Crazy theory, but I wonder if he might be connected to Valentina and whatever she is up to, you know forming the Thunderbolts.
Edited by Bullman on Jul 23rd 2021 at 8:30:46 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadTo answer the question from last page in another way: Hawkeye Freefall has Hawkeye dressed as Bullseye and Bullseye dressed as Hawkeye square off
Hawkeye (dressed as Bullseye) was in a very bad mood so their confrontation was very lopsided against Bullseye dressed as Hawkeye
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI still say he was fun in Age of Ultron. It's when you get to Endgame and he's some edgy anti hero that I stop caring about him. Because that is just a boring direction.
Edited by Bullman on Jul 23rd 2021 at 10:25:18 AM
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Lack of good feats doesn’t help.
I remember watching this clip from one of Renner’s movie Wind River and at the end he basically goes cold sniper slaughters a group of armed gun men in quick succession while looking like a ghost.
Hawkeye could use some cool sniper stuff.
What did he even do in Ultron exactly?
Edited by slimcoder on Jul 23rd 2021 at 8:46:35 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."> What did he even do in Ultron exactly?
- Tasered Wanda when she tried to mind rape him. (And he made a crack about how Loki did it to him already.)
- Gave the Avengers a place to crash.
- Gave Wanda an inspiring speech about how she’s an Avenger if she keeps it together.
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Jul 23rd 2021 at 11:49:56 AM
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I found him funnier and a better character. Him being revealed to gave a family was interesting, he acts more like the heart, and I loved his speech to Wanda.
Edited by Bullman on Jul 23rd 2021 at 10:49:54 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadAOU was definitely Clint's best showing. His interactions with the Maximoffs were one of the film's better aspects, and that bond serving as the backbone of his cameo in Civil War is what turned it from me not giving a damn to actually enjoying it. There was also going to be a scene of him bonding with Bucky in the prison transport car over having also been a victim of brainwashing, which would've been an interesting angle to pursue if they ever had any real interest in developing him any.
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I feel like you're just determined to dunk on him.
Tasered Wanda when she tried to mind rape him. (And he made a crack about how Loki did it to him already.) Gave the Avengers a place to crash. Gave Wanda an inspiring speech about how she’s an Avenger if she keeps it together.
And in the first movie, lets not forget how he clowned Loki with that exploding arrow. He probably did need more appearances though.
I don't have any issues with Jeremy Renner either, which is probably why I don't have any problem with him.
Likely teh biggest mistake they made with him was not having him do more with his cameo in Thor.
Edited by HandsomeRob on Jul 23rd 2021 at 9:12:22 AM
One Strip! One Strip!He was brainwashed when he did it but he did a good job almost taking down the Helicarrier.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI remember his cameo in Thor. It was during one of the best scenes of the film. I wish he had more scenes with Coulson as the two's banter was funny.
Edited by Bullman on Jul 23rd 2021 at 11:20:09 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadI do think the probably with Renner as Hawkeye is that he came across as too broody. And while some broodiness is justified, I think it took up too much of his general demeanor.
I mean, thinking back, there are plenty of scenes that have me thinking “Yeah, that sounds like Hawkeye”. I just thinking you need someone who could do it with a bit more cockiness (and also someone who didn’t look too much like Chris Evans, who DOES honestly look more like comics Clint).
I don’t know who that would be, though.
Oh God! Natural light!

Gotta say, Maya is the only reason I'm watching this show. A deaf, Native American woman that easily beats the everlasting shit out of Daredevil, Bullseye, and Moon Knight? Sign me up.
Just hope some good writer comes around in comics and removes the Mystic Bird of Ruining Perfectly Good Characters that Aaron saddled her with.