All posts by SeanWheeler

The Kang Dynasty was going to have anchor beings? Well, I still would have wanted to see it more than Doomsday. A scandal getting the next villain fired and replaced with the actor who portrayed greatest hero of the MCU now playing the greatest villain in comics? No thank you. Especially since Doom is not even a Stark variant. The only reason Chris Evans as Human Torch worked in Deadpool & Wolverine was because he was reprising a role he had before the MCU. RDJ as Doctor Doom is just desperation.

But yeah, the idea of a whole universe dying because one person dies is nonsense. I get that Wolverine was the star of the X-Men franchise, but Iron Man was the star of the MCU, and it moved on after his sacrifice in Endgame. Also, Logan took place in an alternate future, so Deadpool could still find the original Wolverine who is still alive in his timeline.

I will not use the idea of anchor beings in my books even with me dealing with the multiverse and incursions. An incursion would not happen over a man dying. That should be the other way around.

Yeah, they have artificial blood.

@Duke of Scales You said Skrulls don't do that around other species. Well, you're talking to humans. Also, if Skrulls have the habit of saying "skrull" like that, it would take a lot of therapy and acting lessons to break that habit. It's not good for a race of shapeshifting alien spies to talk like Smurfs unless they plan to infiltrate the Smurfs, in which case, they'd use the word "Smurf" instead of "Skrull." You're clearly a human joking around.

@Duke of Scales Stan Lee made up the Skrulls for a Fantastic Four comic. You're not a Skrull. And I never heard of Skrulls using their species for slang.

Reed is known to have grey hair in his temples, so they may as well hire a guy getting grey hair. Miles Teller was just too young for the role.

@Duke of Scales We kind of did with Ritson not knowing whether to shoot Fury or Rhodey. Sure, they weren't identical, but it was a similar situation.

As for that earlier conversation about Inhuman DNA needing Terrigen to activate, I'm pretty sure only the people born with the Inhuman gene needing Terrigen to activate their powers. When Nathaniel Malick got Daisy's powers, he didn't use Terrigen did he? So Super Skrull powers can get abilities from active Inhuman DNA without having to go through Terrigenesis just like how Nathaniel Malick, Daniel Whitehall and John Garrett enhanced themselves with stolen Inhuman blood.

Rhodey wore the leg braces, not Fury.

The Skrulls were working with Fury after he left S.H.I.E.L.D.

Would Mack approve of Project Doppelganger? I remember his feelings about AI and robots and the way he kept citing Terminator.

Nick Fury could not have used an LMD to fake his death in Captain America: The Winter Soldier because they were not made until Season 4 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The events of The Winter Soldier happened near the end of Season 1. So, it would be a couple years too early to even consider LMDs used for The Winter Soldier. And the LMDs were controlled by Aida who was corrupted by the Darkhold, so the MCU's S.H.I.E.L.D. probably wouldn't want to rely on them too much with their bad experience fighting them and since Director Mackenzie hates robots. Although, Fitz did use a Simmons LMD to trick Aida and there is a Chronicom Coulson LMD in S.H.I.E.L.D. now, I don't think there would be many LMDs in the MCU now.

Considering how actors' contracts run out, it is pretty reasonable that Marvel could kill off recurring characters. Iron Man and Black Widow had been killed off in Endgame, and they were founding Avengers. In fact, Iron Man was the hero that started the MCU in the first place.

As for Maria Hill appearing in the Marvels, maybe they could replay the footage of Gravik killing Maria again like how they did to give Cobie Smulders credit in the episodes of Secret Invasion after she died.

Well, if they are still looking for a Reed Richards, they could as well just talk to John about returning, right?

@Atari Chris The Frost Beast was in the initial four Super-Skrull DNA samples with Cull Obsidian, Groot and the Extremis.

Or maybe Strange confused the Fantastic Four with a band in Detroit?

Either way, I would much prefer John Krasinski to return than to see Reed looking like Kylo Ren.

Well, we know that Patrick Stewart is returning in Deadpool 3. But then again, there's Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner proving that Deadpool 3 is a multiversal movie, and Patrick Stewart would have to live longer than Stan Lee if he's going to be the MCU's Xavier. But even if Patrick Stewart won't be the MCU Professor X, at least he was already established as a recurring Professor X. Maybe the X-Men characters in Earth-838 would have their Fox actors' faces. But Krasinski's Reed Richards would not be based on any variant of Reed Richards if he doesn't reprise the role. In fact, I would prefer him instead of the rumored Adam Driver. And if Doctor Strange mentioned the Fantastic Four charted in the sixties, maybe they have been in the MCU since the sixties, which would make Reed old. But, that would make John Krasinski too young wouldn't it?

Oh yeah. That post-credit scene that tricked me into thinking Kamala finally got her shapeshifting powers only for The Marvels trailer to reveal that the characters are switching places.

But if there's a year gap, there really should have been a "One Year Later" caption telling us that so that we'd know that it's not taking place the next morning.

What do you think would happen to humans getting into the machine? Would it simply have no effect considering the way Gravik left Fury/G'iah in there with him when he turned it on?

Yeah, having LMD's and Skrulls really cheapen things. Let's keep the LMDs to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 4.

I'm actually hoping Krasinski would return for the Fantastic Four. All the other Earth-838 characters were played by the same actors as their Earth-199999 counterparts.

@Walker Tom I hope not considering the novels I'm writing.

Anyway, back to the Secret Invasion finale, before Emelia Clarke revealed herself, did anyone think that was the real Nick Fury gaining superpowers? Could humans gain the Super-Skrull powers from that machine?

Yeah, Doc Ock died redeeming himself to stop his machine, so redeeming him in the MCU would not work out for him because it would have led to him dying to stop his machine anyway.

How are they saying No Way Home is the best Phase 4 movie with all these plot holes? I know Phase 4 was the weakest of the MCU phases, but No Way Home's problem explaining how the previous Spider-Man series villains are back troubles me far worse than the other entries.

Edit: @Legoreader12345hello But the solution to their problems wouldn't be redemption. It would be moving them far away from where they died. If they were kept in the Sanctum Santorium, then there would be no risk sending them back and Peter would not have to fight Strange.