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Yelena in Hawkeye > the entirety of Natasha’s character arc/story

There are some likely clues to this within the initial Thunderbolts comic.

This guy gets it ETA: well...maybe not, given the confused emoji reaction lol

it’s a movie, not a show; and yes

"Bulletproof Bob" (aka, The Sentry) has one of the wilder origin stories, in- and out-of-universe, of any character at the Big Two. Well worth a bit of research, and I'm super curious if the MCU implements any of it. The Sentry's mini-series was written and illustrated by Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee, hot on the heels of their Inhumans series. They are both quite good (Jenkins won an Eisner for Inhumans).

Apologies in advance if this has been raised, but I would love to see many of the secondary Face items (the various masks, but especially Diamonds/Pointed/Rounded) added as Detail 1 parts. The current options suffer from the “painted skin” look.

Respectful.

Recommending those books (Warren Ellis's Planetary and the Whedon X-Men run) in 2024 is...a little fraught, given their writers, but they are really good books.

Cassaday drew some of my favorite books of a certain era (Planetary, Astonishing X-Men, Captain America) and won or was nominated for a bunch of Eisners for that work. More importantly, he always seemed to be incredibly well liked among his peers. He was just 52 years old. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/john-cassaday-dead-joss-whedon-astonishing-x-men-planetary-1235996404/

Some of the concepts they play with are pretty great; there’s a Superman-related conspiracy that’s particularly fun.

It's hilarious that anyone would be so prejudiced against a movie that they would downvote a post pointing out that one of the things they're upset about isn't real.

Honestly, unabashed salesmanship in the form of a 'LOOK AT THIS NEXT THING' stinger is exactly the kind of thing Stan Lee was about, so maybe it was the *best* choice.

I personally am very ready for Marvel fandom generally to move away from the notion that Stan Lee requires some sort of obeisance.

I miss the days when "In Before The Lock" was a thing.

This is where the discourse is at, huh?

What's to garner interest? Scummy TV creator does scummy things, is fired. This dude's career is over.

How many Topics can this forum handle that start with, "[IP X] Fans Say {some crap we read online]"

Would very much enjoy a Batman Incorporated animated.

This hurts.

I keep getting this series confused with Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. I really enjoy that movie even though Ultraman sounds like a terrible mobster impression, and the best character in the movie (Owlman) is voiced by the worst human in the cast (James Woods).

Asking people great questions as they become increasingly unable to answer them is pretty much the point of Hot Ones. I'm a bit of a hipster about that show, in that I much prefer the early episodes before they became a part of every big movie/album's press tour, but it still holds up. There are multiple compilations on YouTube of guests being blown away by the Hot Ones research team.

The MCU movies have been pretty hit or miss when it comes to star power translating to box office. From the Phase 1 through 3 movies, four were headlined by relatively little known (or more specifically, 'unknown commodities vis a vis box office draw') actors: Thor (Hemsworth), Guardians (Pratt), Black Panther (Boseman), Spider-Man: Homecoming (Holland). (I excluded Evans because of Fantastic Four, but he could probably be added to this list). Those four have an average box office of $387,116,982; that would be good for the #14 spot if it was one movie (Black Panther is doing a lotta lifting here, with a $700M take by itself). Post-Phase 1, the MCU itself was the lead. By contrast, the bottom of the MCU box office rankings is littered with well-known leads: The Marvels, Incredible Hulk*, Ant-Man, Black Widow, Eternals and Shang-Chi are the non-sequels with the worst box offices. Hulk is a weird one since nobody knew what the MCU was then. I don't know who people consider the 'lead' of Eternals, but none of the top 4 or 5 names in that cast are or were unknown. Shang-Chi probably lays the most claim to 'check out this newish actor'. I...kinda lost the thread of this rabbit hole, but I think the point is, the broader movie-going public doesn't care if these actors are known or unknown. They just want good movies. And there are fewer new, upcoming actors being cast because studios have largely stopped making the kinds of movies that would generate buzz about an exciting new face. Hell, everyone keeps calling Glen Powell a fresh new face, and that guy is currently five years older than Evans was when the latter made the first Cap movie.

I do wonder, of the folks who enjoyed the Snyder film, how many had read the comic before they saw the movie.

I was mostly being tongue-in-cheek; the same two dozen actors get name checked every time there's speculation or fan-casting. At least we seem to finally be moving away from Nathan Fillion as a leading man playing a canonically mid-20s character.

This is sorta the crux of casting Doom for me. Casting RDJ seems like a clear signal that he won't be in the mask much. Just get Hardy in there and let him invent an Authentic Latverian Accent.