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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The F4 have plenty of their own villains to pick from, this would be unnecessary.
Plus people seem tired of villains who are just evil versions of the heroes.
Edited by Cortez on Apr 2nd 2022 at 9:26:18 AM
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Carol deals with the Shi'ar fairly often in the comics and Deathbird is a major enemy of hers, and she'd be the most likely to show up to save the day (probably thinking it's Deathbird or D'ken yet again) first when Vulcan decides to go buck wild. Also, Carol has a ridiculously good fight record and Vulcan is out of basically everyone's league save for maybe Wanda, and that's a HUGE maybe.
Edited by HasturHasturHastur on Apr 2nd 2022 at 6:30:05 AM
He’s an energy manipulator and she absorbs energy
That seems like it would devolve into stalemate
Forever liveblogging the Avengers
Well, yes, because he's a Summers and has fought them and the Shi'ar are traditionally X-Men characters, but again, given Carol's status as the galactic protector and the dysfunction junction that is the Shi'ar royal family, it makes perfect sense that she'd be the first to deal with him. He's also hardly restricted to the X-Men, given his clashes with Black Bolt that ripped open the fault to the Cancerverse.
No I mean because he has all the powers
X-Men barely remembers how to make new villains that don’t just write “yes” next to the superpowers? question on the application
Least in the 90s. Maybe it’s gotten better.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersHe's overpowered as shit, there's no doubt, but his biggest weakness is that he also barely knows how to use his abilities because he's never had to learn - it's not like anyone can survive a fight against him past the first few seconds. He's a means to an end in either case - his saga would eventually lead to the creation of the Cancerverse fault as one of the biggest consequences of multiversal meddling.
https://www.cbr.com/daredevil-confirmed-canon-mcu-marvel/
APPARENTLY the Netflix Daredevil series (and presumably by extension the other Defenders shows) are now fully Canon to the MCU. I say apparently because the article making the claim seems to be reaching a bit frankly and it could just as easily be a soft reboot IMO
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."At one point (before No Way Home), I was pessimistically sure they were going to take the easy route and never reference any of those shows or characters in any capacity ever again, but I suppose I was wrong.
Edited by Lymantria on Apr 3rd 2022 at 5:22:17 PM
Join the Five-Man Band cleanup project!I suspect it's no accident that the Netflix shows suddenly becoming canon happens to coincide with Disney getting the distribution rights to stream them on Disney Plus.
That was likely the main obstacle before. Disney didn't want "required reading" for their franchise to motivate people to sign up for a competing subscription service. But now these shows are a way to pad content.
If seeing Matt Murdock in a movie would encourage you to sign up for Netflix and find out what he's about, then he's unwelcome. But if it encourages you to sign up for Disney Plus, then we are going to market the shit out of him!
Edited by TobiasDrake on Apr 3rd 2022 at 10:29:25 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Plus Daredevil is probably the most popular/least controversial of the group. Jess is a sex crime victim, Cage has the whole racial prejudice angle and Iron Fist brings the racebender arguments back into play (and is fairly obsolete in marketing terms now Shang Chi is pretty much him, but better in all ways.)
Start with the white male protag and go from there... (though to be fair he is probably legitimately also the most popular/famous of them in "general" terms too.)
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."If they were to continue the Netflix shows rather than reboot them, how should they handle the Snap and five year timeskip?
I feel like Luke Cage and Iron Fists' third seasons would need to be set before the Snap in order for the storylines to make sense, and could address it in their fourth seasons. Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Punisher, due to the relatively complete notes they ended on, could just pick back up five years later without needing to do much other than a quick "here's what each character has been up to for the past five years, including possibly not existing" recap.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Unlikely. First-degree murder usually gets you at least 20 years in New York, and that's just one charge.
Trish has two counts of first-degree murder, one count of second-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, multiple counts of aggravated assault, kidnapping, B&E, and trespassing. Even accounting for Trish being a woman and a local celebrity, she's not going anywhere for a long time, if ever.
Unless she escaped.
Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Apr 3rd 2022 at 4:32:52 AM
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!

Yeah, if they're going to do the old Xavier vs. Magneto ideological clash, it should be approached more deeply. Xavier is advocating for peaceful acceptance because, at the end of the day, he has been surrounded by privilege his entire life and has never really known true hardship, while Max survived a genocide and many other violent encounters with unrepentant and unyielding bigots who wanted him and his kind wiped off the face of the earth, and has his "fuck 'em if they don't like us, we'll defend our right to be here by any means necessary" approach because he knows that not everyone can be reasoned with and sometimes will only understand violence.