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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Yeah. I'm incredibly disappointed with both Wright and Lilly as people, but I still truly enjoy their characters. Not as much as I used to, but I still don't hate them or anything.
At this point, I'm starting to feel this is less about honoring Chadwick Boseman and his portrayal of T'Challa, and more that they're feeling sorry that he's dead.
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."I’d say hold onto the anger until more details are out about the game since it seems like all it has so far are the broadest concepts
Edited by Bocaj on Jul 25th 2022 at 6:51:36 AM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIts kinda getting to the point where it feels like people are forgetting that at the end of the day Boseman was an actor playing a character..... a 56 year old character at that (Black Panther was created in 1966, a full ten years before Boseman's birth in 1976).
We are associating a fictional character way too strongly with an actor.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."You know, folks, Marvel-themed video games are only loosely connected to the MCU and off-topic even for this very broad thread.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"To get back on-topic, I thought Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars were actually fake logos, that clickbait YouTubers used to get that green paper. Phase 5 is looking superior than Phase 4 in every way possible and this is very pleasing.
Okay one last thing about the BP vide-game, I just wanna mention how needlessly vague the announcement is.
I found this one comment that perfectly sums it up
And they confirmed it’s not a character creation so it seems like if the rumor is true, they’re developing a blank slate OC with a set story that players customize. Unless they’re not saying who the actual character is to not spoil the movies. Why do that rather than just telling a story about young T’Challa?
The whole thing is weird, it’s so weird that I have a hard time believing it’s that complicated so the story is really just about T’Challa lol. Because theoretically speaking, T’Challa can be customizable in-game and the story beats do match up with his comic origins.
Its like announcing a Spider-Man game but being needlessly coy about who's under the mask. Hell they announced a Wolverine game a year back and they didn't beat around the bush over who "Wolverine" is.
Its just weird all around.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."Per the description -coming from toys- of Namor, he is not the ruler of Atlantis, but of Talocan.
In nahua mythology, T Lalocan is the domain of water and rain god Tlaloc.
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He's going to take off his mask and turn out to be Captain America, for some reason.
Okay I'm on board with Namor being this figure from Wakandan mythology revealed to be a flesh and blood asshole.
I'm still confused by Wakanda suddenly having a tidal coastline, I thought the country was land locked and boarded lake Turkana.
Regarding Kang dynasty, I wouldn't mind it as a film if they keep the scope of participating characters small. I really didn't appreciate Infinity War trying to juggle the Avengers, The Guardians, Spider-man, Black Panther and Doctor Strange.
If it's called Avengers: Kang Dynasty I'll enjoy it if it's a story about the avengers going up against Kang.
And to be fair, the characters who are tied to the timelines plot are on the most part primed to become avengers; Ant-Man and Stephan Strange. Not to mention there is remit for new!Loki to be reunited with Thor.
So I kind of expect it to be
Stephan Strange, Scott Lang, Professor Hulk, Capt Marvel, Thor (with new!Loki) and Sam Wilson as the Avengers. (Though I'd expect Rhody to still be around depending on how Armour Wars ends)
Secret Wars can just be everyone, you can't do that title without having most of your entire setting turning up. I might sit that film out.
Yes, New Rockstars speculated in their breakdown video that the undersea earthquake that Okoye mentioned out of nowhere in Endgame foreshadowed the conflict in this film.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"To be clear, we don't know that Namor is the villain here. The trailer is very cagey about showing him personally attacking Wakanda. It's fairly obvious that there will be some conflict with him, but he may not be the actual Big Bad.
The Endgame thing was so odd when it was first said that everyone immediately started speculating, knowing full well that Kevin Feige slavishly obeys the Law of Conservation of Detail.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Namor may not be the Big Bad, but he's definitely going to be some kind of antagonistic force for at least part of the film.
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."Oh, yes, obviously. I just think we'll find out that someone else is pulling the strings of that conflict.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I think the underwater earthquakes from Endgame were confirmed by Markus & Mc Feely to just be earthquakes. Which makes sense, as that's also their purpose in the scene with Natasha asking about it and Okoye saying "it's just an earthquake under the ocean. we handle it by not handling it."
Though, so many people seem to think it was a Namor reference and since Namor is coming anyway, those earthquakes can kind of be sideways retconned to be rumblings of Atlantis.
Edited by filmstarscarlet on Jul 26th 2022 at 9:29:16 AM
made ya lookAlso, there was a storyline where T’Challa was out of the picture and Shuri was Black Panther that concerned a conflict between Wakanda and Atlantis where really Doom was pulling the strings
Of course the MCU doesn’t always follow things beat for beat but that’s one storyline where Wakanda Forever might be drawing inspiration
Forever liveblogging the Avengers

... Well, that's just depressing. I liked her character.