[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
I read this article a while ago, but I thought that all you Marvelheads would like it:
Looks like the Thor movie will link all of the Avengers way before they team up on screen, through Odin’s artifacts. The Red Skull’s pursuit of The Cosmic Cube is supposed to be a major plot point in Cap: First Avenger and the creation of Caps’s shield has not been fully explained in IM1 & 2, so maybe the movie version of Vibranium is Asgardian in origin.
That would be a master stroke of writing, leaving the door open for The Black Panther and explaining the appearance of Vibranium on Earth in the form of a fallen meteorite.
To my knowledge, the comic never explained where the Vibranium came from other than “it came from outer space”.[/quote]
They showed Vibranium is Africa and Cap’s shield is the combo is vibranium and the metal that Stark’s father created.[/quote]
I would’ve missed this if PonceDeLeon hadn’t bumped the thread, so apologies for directing you back here from the Black Panther thread to a link you’d already seen.
Have they totally retconned meteor vibranium out of continuity and gone with the Wakanda-made type instead? I think they could easily fit both into the movies. Odin isn’t the custodian of the Infinity Gauntlet in the com-books, but it works because they have good reason for making him the custodian in the movies.
I see nothing wrong with making changes if it makes the movies work better. Far better than slavishly adhering to canon and trying to fit it all into the movies, which is doomed to fail. This isn’t a dig at anybody, but talking com-book canon is a very dicey subject. So many ret-cons, interpretations and changes over the years mean that it’s only going to end in a pissing contest to see who can one-up the other guy with superior knowledge.
It’s the same reason I won’t get involved in discussions like who is the most powerful hero (again: not a dig at anybody, as I used to get involved in them one upon a time. It’s just that people and their opinions change - and hopefully improve - over time…at least that’s the idea). It’s a question with no answer: depending on the storyline, the writer(s) will decide who is the victor then adjust powers and abilities to suit the outcome. It’s like asking who’s the best wrestler: you’re always going to have different storylines with set resolutions, and someone will be the ‘face’ and someone will be the ‘heel’.
Talking of heels, a similar thing happens on message boards like this one. When people side with a popular member against a less popular one they perceive to be an easy target, they are basically making one the ‘heel’ and one the ‘face’. It happened to me when I last posted on the bodybuilding forum. I played the role of patsy to an extent, but my opinion was a genuine one.
The opinion was ignored and I was shouted down by a gang of people who cared more about elevating their position than listening to the message I was sending. I was not trolling as I was accused of doing; I simply gave them enough rope to hang themselves with, and I was not shouted down as they probably think; I left because I did what I set out to do.
Point is, people can be more concerned with agreeing with people for the sake of popularity than judging people on what they say. Which is a problem for this forum and life in general.
