re: Avengers Doomsday Official Trailer

Black Widow 2.0 featured on the trailer with zero powers.

Never mind. Black Cap has zero powers too.

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There's an AI video of Doom walking into the council of Kangs and just completely massacring all of them I think something like that would be cool to put in to get rid of Kang while also having the audience understand how powerful Doom is

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Or maybe this in one of those dumb multi verses

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On top of that, they haven't gone back to some of the good ones. I really enjoyed Hawkeye(2021) and Moon Knight(2022). Instead of Hawkeye S2, we got a spinoff nobody asked for or cared about.

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Truth. I also enjoyed Wandavision but we still haven't gotten "VisionQuest" and the payoff for Wanda's storyline was a letdown in the Dr Strange film.

Just seeing Loki show up enough to get my butt in the theater.

Speaking of OP villains, did we ever see a body with Hela? What was the final verdict on that, after Ragnarok and Asgard was destroyed.


* She died with Asgard. Oh well.

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They killed a guy that could literally alter time and reality, and this new boss is more scary? STFU. They need to stop making these things.

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No they didn’t. They lost to that version of Thanos. They killed Thanos when he was without the stones.

I'm assuming they'll demask Dr. Doom and all of Tony Stark's friends will just not recognize him?

I guess Doom has some deformities that will mask his face a bit.


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Or will we get a "I know that guy from somewhere" type comment from one of the heroes...

Or could Tony, in an alternate reality of the multiverse, have turned into Doom?

No one thinks Yelena is fighting Doom. That’s a silly thing to get caught up in.

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See, that's why I hate with a passion alternate timelines and crossing over of realities. It's a cheap, lazy way to retro in almost any scenario the studio could want, without doing any of the heavy lifting.

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Should probably stay away from super hero stuff.


It's literally in the DNA of comic books. Let me put it this way:

Books (and tangentially movies) are about telling a hero's journey from point A to point B. Even a series of books is about telling a story from point A to Z with maybe point A to point B or Point K to Point R. You just break up the arc differently. Let's say this is most narrative mediums. You are watching a single hero go from here to there. And that's it. There's rarely much outside of that progress shown. Every now and again you might go and get a historical Point E to F as a one off, but that's it.


Comic books, superheroes, are not about that thing. The fun of comic books is seeing your hero put in wildly different scenarios, often with wildly different perspectives and versions, only loosely adhereing to an overall point A to B. There's often very little change, on a Grand Scale, from beginning to end because the hero is already the hero. Not "becoming one," as most stories focus. You want to see your hero, your Captain America up against Baron Zemo, then up against Doom, then up against a reincarnated Rasputin, etc. etc. etc.

This mean,s he's generally always Steve Rogers, he's already a great hero, and you watch him tested over and over again in the multiverse, in history, etc.

Now, there are certain heroes that have inspired some grander stories, Steve Rogers behing one of them, but most of the time you are seeing the parts rearranged. The multiverse plays right into the multiple-writer structure of superheroes. Cap has had like 12 different writers on his "main" storyline, everyone wanting to put their mark on the character some good, some bad. Some rewritten, some ignored.


It's not cheap and lazy, it's a different method of constructing a narrative. It often isn't as deep as say a book, but that's not a bug, that's a feature. It can't be. You can't have that much fun with all of the parts of comic books without the general chaos that has to happen.