I want to know what deal Phil made with The Rider.
edit: I'm wondering if the space station is a variation on the Negative Zone prison.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Marvel Universe: Infinite Chrises
Discussion of all Marvel Cinematic Universe related movies and TV shows, including, but not limited to, the Avengers, Captain America, Agent Carter, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Daredevil, Spider-Man, Ant-Man, etc., etc., etc. ad-infinitum.
Discussion of non-MCU Marvel titles like the X-Men or the Fantastic Four is also permitted. Ties to comics may be discussed, but this is not the primary forum for comics discussion (see the Other Media thread).
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Connie Neil - May 17, 2017 7:09:20 pm PDT #1507 of 4006
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aurelia - May 20, 2017 9:52:50 pm PDT #1508 of 4006
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
What was the thing that froze the team for a two minute window? Who took them?
aurelia - May 20, 2017 10:05:16 pm PDT #1509 of 4006
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Different topic... I'm reading Ms. Marvel and really enjoying it, but some of the crossover stuff seems to presume the reader is following the entire Marvel catalog. The most confusing bit involves The Inhumans and their control (or lack of) of New Attilan. Does it matter that I have no clue what is happening there? Also, is there a recent-ish entry point to Carol Danvers story or am I better off finding a summary of her history somewhere?
Kalshane - May 21, 2017 9:02:05 am PDT #1510 of 4006
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Yeah, I have no clue who took the main characters or how they froze them.
My first thought is SWORD (which in the comics is a sister organization to SHIELD focused on cosmic threats) if only because of the super tech and then Coulson ending up in space, but that's just a wild guess. I thought maybe they were setting stuff up for Captain Marvel, but then I saw that movie isn't coming out until 2019, so it'd be too soon.
Tom Scola - May 21, 2017 9:08:32 am PDT #1511 of 4006
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Infinity War is going to be pretty darn Cosmic.
However, the TV side of Marvel (Jeph Loeb, Ike Perlmutter) isn't talking much with the movie side of Marvel (Kevin Feige) these days.
Kalshane - May 21, 2017 10:21:13 am PDT #1512 of 4006
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
However, the TV side of Marvel (Jeph Loeb, Ike Perlmutter) isn't talking much with the movie side of Marvel (Kevin Feige) these days.
Which, while disappointing on one-hand, has actually seemed to help SHIELD out quite a bit. I think this was the first full season they weren't handcuffed to what was going on in the movies and it led to a season where nothing really felt like filler or forcefully wedged in.
ETA: I do think they're still taking cues from the movies (the addition of Dr. Strange to the MCU allowed them to open up "magical" stuff like the Darkhold and Ghost Rider, for instance) but they're not beholden to them anymore.
I'd forgotten about Infinity War, since that will likely introduce the Avengers to space stuff (well, even more so than the Chitari invasion in the first movie), it makes sense for SHIELD to be potentially dealing with space stuff as well.
Connie Neil - May 21, 2017 12:22:12 pm PDT #1513 of 4006
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Yeah, between the planet Hydra came from and the space station, it lets MCU become literally bigger. I like that there's more than the portals of Asgard to move around the universe with.
Calli - May 22, 2017 8:02:14 am PDT #1514 of 4006
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
What was the thing that froze the team for a two minute window? Who took them?
I thought it was the same thing that Stane used to temporarily paralyze Tony Stark in Iron Man. Not sure who took them, though.
Zenkitty - May 22, 2017 3:18:35 pm PDT #1515 of 4006
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I really enjoyed the first season of Daredevil. Now we've started bingeing the second season and it's not as good, sadly.
Tom Scola - May 22, 2017 3:29:03 pm PDT #1516 of 4006
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The best thing in Season 2 is The Punisher, which isn't saying much, because The Punisher always kind of sucked.