Running MCU thread

Marvel is a long, winding novel that has movies and series act more like chapters of a book than stand along items.

Loki was a great chapter.

 

This was the premise of Avengers Forever, which also featured both Kang and Immortus - and just for a little cosmic fun: the Kree Supreme Intelligence.

 

Finally had time to look it up. The series I was thinking of was Exiles. It had a rotating cast of various alternate-reality characters or forgotten ones like Blink and Thunderbird, and they just bounced from reality to reality trying to correct the screwed up ones. Kind of a cross between X-Men and What If?

Exiles (Marvel Comics) - Wikipedia

 

That's what I thought you meant. I started to reply earlier today but was interrupted. If I remember correctly, Blink and Thunderbird were also from alternate realities. Blink was a refugee from the Age of Apocolypse. The Sabertooth from that reality also ended up on the team at some point. I think the only team member they ever had from the main Marvel universe was Psylocke. Part of the mystery was how the realities were broken in the first place and who was pulling the team's strings.

 

Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney Over ‘Black Widow’ Streaming Release

 

Finally saw Black Widow.

Liked it well enough but struggled to get over the timing. It just screamed of someone, during production for Avengers Infinity Wars saying “ya know, we should make a movie for ScarJo.”

“Sorry man. We should have but it’s too late.”

“Na. Let’s do it anyway. Maybe no will notice.”

The pandemic delay only exacerbates the issue because it feels were a long way from when it’s placed chronologically.

Her fate in End Game was the wrong decision and this doesn’t fix it.

Fine movie though. Enjoyed myself.

 

One question I had from BW and going forward: I love the way they’ve embraced the long term effects of the snap and all the other events of the previous movie. I love how that drives the action in Wanda and Falcon/Soldier. (Haven’t seen Loki yet.)

BUT, does it get more difficult to find superheroes going forward? How can one have super powers and not have found a way to volunteer to help? There have been a few “all hands on deck” events in this universe and having someone who opted not to get involved might be a little tricky to explain going forward.

 

They are all teenagers right now.

 

So 10 rings guy — not at all familiar with the source material, obviously — was too young to fight Thanos?

Ok. Just saying, that will take a little explanation for awhile I feel like, because we’ve been shown that the events of Avengers 3/4 were defining moments for the entire world and presumably the universe.

To be fair, it’s also been made clear many times that heroes often have better things to do than jump in on whatever the disaster of the week is for, say, Iron Man or Spider-man, etc.

 

To this point is actually my only issue with the timing of Black Widow. I don't mind at all that we go back to look at this story. It's a good story that if you know the timeline it kind of adds to the intrigue of what came before and after.

That said, they introduced several new characters and just where in the world were they during all the snap fun? Maybe they aren't as big or imorant and didn't need to be around any heavy lifting and were just going about their normal things and bam, but what were they really up to?

They are certainly going to have to answer that some how in the future but in the moment it's the one thing I don't feel totally works.

 

Exactly. There were theoretically 25-75 un-brainwashed Black Widow clones running around out there during the events of the last few big movies. Surely they wouldn’t have been decisive against Thanos, but it’s also hard to believe BW wouldn’t have put in that call.

 

A wizard did it.