The Avengers 2 -- Age of Ultron

Re: crying Dr Doom. I read that when it came out, at the height of my delusional fanboy mindset and even I and many fans thought it didn't seem right. Later on Romita said Dr Doom, Juggernaut and Magneto weren't literally supposed to be there, it was just supposed to nail the mood down, but I don't think that worked at all.
If you read online articles about this, there are loads of comments saying "Dr Doom is just crying because he didn't do 9/11".

I saw the Birdman director saying why he hated superhero movies.

I was out of comics fandom for a while when that came out, but I recall at the time some questioning as to whether 9/11 should have even taken place in the MU. They probably should have skipped it, if only because their reaction was practically preordained. That issue would have made an interesting aside in the Sean Howe book.

Also there was a lot of talk of Marvel storylines of genocide and stories where Juggernaut actually knocked over buildings and killed thousands of people without that ever being remembered.

Marvel, DC and lots of independents did some storylines for it.

IIRC, that was basically the extent of Marvel's in-continuity acknowledgement of 9/11, and it was pretty much a stand-alone issue. Crying Doom was awful and embarassing but, as such, wasn't wholly out of place in Straczynski's run on Amazing Spider-Man.

There was also that Moment Of Silence comic. The Heroes gallery too but that wasn't stories.

Remember there being a lot of talk about the motivations of these and Art Spiegelman's In The Shadow Of No Towers.
And the speculation of these becoming worth something in back issue market.

Trailer breakdown. Had completely missed that was Andy Serkis in there.

http://io9.com/shot-by-shot-breakdown-of-avengers-2-trailer-reveals-sp-1649782452

tony starkis

haha thanks for sharing crying doom, had never seen that.

http://cdn1.smosh.com/sites/default/files/ftpuploads/bloguploads/villains-takeover-doom1.jpg
lots of good gises for "crying doom"

i wonder if doom cries equally for the victims of american military interventions overseas

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/25176235/images/1370125134806.jpg

well that wasn't supposed to happen. Curse you Doom!

heh, i tried to post that one too and caught myself in the act

BTW, is the use of the song from "Pinocchio" the first official Marvel/Disney crossover? Maybe second, after "Phineas & Ferb?"

depends what you define as a crossover, I guess. marvel characters appeared in the Disney infinity game recently:

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5578/14533012778_b7e82a3674_z.jpg

But that looks like a Marvel game, right? Just produced by Disney? Ultron is a Disney song (property) from a Disney movie popping up in a Marvel movie. Just like Marvel characters popping up in a Phineas & Ferb (Disney) ep.

i am in no position to mock a typo on ilx but i am in a position to love the one above

Noooo ooone hits like Ultron
matches wits like Ultron
In a spitting match nobody spits like Ultron

Give it time! Odds of a scared little girl clutching an Elsa doll ...

Ha, my typo.

I think you can mix and match marvel and disney characters but I haven't played it tbh

Noooo ooone hits like Ultron
matches wits like Ultron
In a spitting match nobody spits like Ultron

― da croupier, Wednesday, November 12, 2014 5:59 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dying

we are so close to cloud strife showing up in an avengers movie

It's a cross-Disney megaproperty game; the Marvel Super Heroes were added in this year's edition (2.0).

I love the Donald Duck figure for some reason
http://i.imgur.com/7Jq7Y6Q.jpg

He looks like Sonic the Hedgehog or something, so much badditude.

disney has been trying to make donald A DUCK WIT ATTITUDEZ for a long time now

hulkbustin' new trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZoO8QVMxkk

Apparently there must be a certain subset of nerd who is looking forward to the Hulkbuster suit more than anything else in this movie

Probably the same folks who used to write to the letter columns as a kid, asking whether Hulk or Thor can lift more.

there is such a great Jan Strnad/Gilbert Hernandez strip about that ("Who's Stronger, Thor or the Hulk?")

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/whyfight1.jpg

tbf isn't Downey basically the biggest star in the avengers crew? I also think theyre not making any more iron man solo movies so featuring iron man a shitload also makes sense.

tbf isn't Downey basically the biggest star in the avengers crew?

Er, he's basically the biggest star in Hollywood.

which is why everyone saw the judge oh wait

so you guys actually think that trailer shows what the movie is gonna focus on

huh

Were those Thor/Hulk partisans on their way to an NCAA basketball game?

Very chill Hulk there.

I'm not sure who everyone would have gone to see in the Judge.

New trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAUoeqvedMo

oooh

watching Manhattan get decimated yet again makes me wish for a cinematic adaptation of Damage Control

looks boring

that's a mirror, dude

Would mirror universe Tony Stark be clean shaven?

No, but he would be Samarium Man.

meh

smash smash self-referential joke smash smash

Looking forward to a whole lot more insightful opinions from uninterested parties.

When the MCU started picking up steam, I never thought the Cap movies would be more interesting than the Avengers movies, but I'm interested in this more as a lead-in to Civil War than on its own merits.

I think overall the Cap movies are the best self-contained stories; I never cared that much about Captain America as a comic book character but I really, really enjoy him as a film character.