[quote]LTKO wrote:
this question is for all the geeks out there. since there are pretty different variations of the marvel universes. isn’t this avenger movie more towards the ULTIMATE marvel universe? since nick fury is a bald black badass (nick fury is white in the normal marvel series, also badass though) and thor’s armor in the movie is pretty much the one in ULTIMATE marvel. (in the normal marvel series he’s much bigger and doesn’t have the facial hair and wears a helm)
the reboot of spider-man into a small gangly teen would actually be in line with the ultimate marvel series as in ULTIMATE SPIDER MAN, he is actually still in high school, and a small gangly kid. so i guess there’s a higher chance of the “new” spiderman to star in the avengers?
or am i just wishful thinking. ):
*as a marvel fanboy, id have loved it x9999 if hawkeye and black widow were replaced by wolverine and spiderman though. (they are all members of the avengers)
and wtf were all the other superheroes in america doing when the aliens attacked? i.e ghost rider,spiderman, the x-men,daredevil,punisher,fantastic 4. were they all chillin’ at home? lol[/quote]
I was hoping there would be cameos, but like others said, due to licensing agreements, those characters won’t be in the movie. Although, the city is big enough, if marvel wanted to, they could simply explain that they were all fighting at the time, just not in the same exact place that the Avengers were in. Or they could have been out of town, since all of them travel quite a bit and if you weren’t directly involved with the storyline to know it was about to happn, the end battle scene was pretty sudden and over relatively quickly for someone to come help if they’re not there already.
As far as Wolverine and Spiderman, this is the story of how the team came together. They’re Avengers NOW, but they weren’t when the team first started (not that the group from the movie was the same original group either). Also, who hasn’t been an Avenger anyway? I bet if we made a list of all the superheroes who have been Avengers, it would be longer than the list of people who haven’t (especially if we include the West Coast Avengers, Young Avengers, etc.).
I like the idea of the nod to the Defenders. I believe earlier in this thread someone said they thought Namor was going to be in Iron Man 3. Throw Dr. Strange into the mix (a Dr. Strange movie would have potential to be very awesome) and we could easily have a Defenders-type movie in the future.
Oh and the Avengers movie was fucking awesome. Arguably the best comic book movie, depending on what criteria you use.
I’m interested to see how they tie in the Guardians of the Galaxy and especially how they do Warlock with one of the Infinity Gems. Maybe they will have Odin disperse them, but instead of scattering them, he’ll go out and find worthy protectors to keep watch over them and over the course of the next few solo movies, we’ll see Thanos going around gathering them in cutscenes or something. Either way, it’ll be epic.
I hope they introduce Ant-Man, Wasp, Vision, and Scarlet Witch at some point before the Avengers sequal. Not the same without all them… I actually heard a long time ago that they were going to make an Ant-Man movie.
Sorry for the long post, so many things to discuss!
