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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The Inventor's whole thing is that "Teenagers have no value, but perhaps I can invent something that can exploit value out of them!" Which is so amazingly whackadoodle.
I also have a big soft spot for Doc.X just a World of Warcraft expy virus that gained sentience and then eventually got themselves a robot teenaged girl body.
You guys are all flexing with your comic book knowledge, meanwhile I only remember a few villains because I barely read Marvel as a kid, lol.
Off the top of my head I remember Venom, Radioactive Man, the Green Goblin, some woman dressed up like the rabbit from Alice in Wonderland and a weird foreign exchange student friend of Peter Parker's who was actually a robot-like thing sent to kill the Fantastic Four.
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."The Inventor was like something out of Doom Patrol - "insane, possibly immortal man with a bird for a head who claims to be the actual Thomas Edison plugging teenagers into his whackadoo machine" - it was so insane that who knows if Marvel Studios will acknowledge him. I hope they do, though.
I'm expecting them to go the Evil Counterpart route and have the villain of the series be Rebecca St. Jude.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Feb 26th 2022 at 1:53:09 AM
Oh well if Kamren has been cast that makes Kamala being Inhuman all the more likely.
Huh, it occours to me that what we've seen of MCU Kamala's powers has a similar asethtic to Kamren's powers.
Kamala seems to be able to make enegery projections with a fluorescent scene, and in the comics Kamren's super form has a similar floresant sheen.
I don't know if they'll go that far.
She does have a few though. Though i wonder who should be the first in the show.
Edited by Cortez on Feb 26th 2022 at 7:18:45 AM
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All we know about Deadpool is that Ryan Reynolds is still playing him, and the new movie has some Bob's Burgers writers also attached to it.
Edited by lbssb on Feb 26th 2022 at 3:50:28 AM
Disney100 Marathon | DreamWorks MarathonFolks before me already responded to some of this, but here's one that should be more to-the-point:
- We know the Fantastic Four are coming to the MCU because of an announcement from a previous year with Jon Watts directing.
- X-Men in the MCU is still not really brought up, but given that we're due to see a Professor X variant in Multiverse of Madness, the wait shouldn't be too long.
- We also know there will be a third Deadpool movie. We know it will be in the MCU. And we know it will be rated R as God intended. (Actually, given how WB has been playing around with R-rated DCEU projects and the positive buzz going on some certain cameos in the last episode of Peacemaker, it might not be improbable that Marvel might want to play around with it as well eventually.)
I mean, we could argue that Deadpool technically popped up in the MCU already via that Free Guy trailer reaction guest-featuring Korg, but that was most likely just for laughs.
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Feb 27th 2022 at 11:53:23 AM
I doubt they'd do it, but I think it would be cool if they brought back some of the Netflix characters for Deadpool 3. It'd be particularly cool to see Wade duke it out with Frank Castle or Luke Cage. And since it's rated R...
Edited by MatthewWayne on Feb 27th 2022 at 8:38:08 AM
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."The Heroes for Hire and Deadpool both Working the Same Case (they are, after all, both mercenaries) would be an easy way to work them in. They could fulfill a similar purpose as Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead in the first one: the more traditionally heroic pair in contrast to Deadpool's anti-heroism (just significantly less squeaky clean and with 0 desire to recruit Deadpoool).
Edited by Gaon on Feb 27th 2022 at 8:45:36 AM
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
I don't think recasting Jon Bernthal is necessary. There've been serious characters in the Deadpool movies before, and I'm sure Frank Castle can be another one of those guys if he were to appear in 3. Plus, the Netflix fandom would have Feige's head if he recast any of the Netflix heroes, especially the Punisher.
I like Bernthal's take on the character alright but I'm nowhere near as attached to it as I am with Cox's Daredevil, Ritter's Jessica Jones or Colter's Luke Cage.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."If you don’t want to be goofed on you probably shouldn’t play the Punisher
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI'd argue the opposite, that Bernthal is as essential to get back as Cox and D'Onofrio.
And if you look back at his interview on it he never says anything about PG-13. He just wants the character to be done right and with respect, which I think can be satisfactorily done in both PG-13 and goofier movies - I'd argue Cable in Deadpool 2 is a good example of such. And quite frankly it'd be a missed opportunity not doing at least some of the sillier Punisher stuff (gimme his Battle Van dammit).
I agree on doing silly Punisher stuff in live action. Don't think they'll do that one arc where he turns himself into a black guy though.
Yes, that happened and it was weird. Not as weird as Frankencastle, though, which I do hope to see in some form.
Disney100 Marathon | DreamWorks MarathonI'm not going to lie, for all the love his runs got, I much prefer Punisher with a bit of comic book silliness compared to "cut yourself on the edginess" Garth Ennis. MAX seemed fresh at first, but got very tiresome for me after a point, even taking into account some successful humorous bits. Ever since his run started, Punisher stuff always seems to lean towards something like his approach, except War Zone, which I frankly love as a stupid-ass Commando-style murderfest. I would welcome the pendulum swinging in the other direction a bit.
That said, the character has increasingly wretched connotations now, so I don't think that's going to happen.
Edited by Prowler on Feb 27th 2022 at 11:50:27 AM

I love Bird Man sans bird from her book.
Just Makima.