Later on I’ll give you my full impressions of the Marvel panel that closed out Comic-Con 2010, but for now I want to share something that had me geeking out:
Despite only being in production for a week Captain America: The First Avenger arrived with a complete scene, set in Norway in 1942. The Red Skull, before he becomes the Red Skull, smashes through the front of an ancient temple and sends his Nazi goons to a crypt looking for something he calls The Tesseract. They open up a sarcophagus and find a large, misty cube atop the corpse of a Crusader. But the Skull can’t be fooled, and he knows this is a fake, smashing it to the ground.
Instead he finds a hidden compartment in a wall carving of Yggdrasil, the Norse Tree of Life. And within that is a box, the contents of which glow an unearthly blue.
I knew it was the Cosmic Cube, but after the panel I cornered Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige and got the confirmation. Yes, he told me, the Cosmic Cube is in Captain America: The First Avenger.
The Cosmic Cube is one of the strangest and most enduring aspects of Captain America’s mythology. A containment unit for vast extradimensional energies, the Cosmic Cube gives its wielder almost unlimited control over reality. The Red Skull has, time and again, tried to control the Cosmic Cube, and its limitless power has played into many, many classic Captain America stories – including The Winter Soldier arc, where it was revealed that Bucky, Cap’s long-thought dead sidekick from WWII, was actually a brainwashed Soviet super assassin (yeah, it’s comics).
The introduction of the Cosmic Cube – and the fact that the film connects it to Asgard (in the Marvel Universe Cosmic Cubes have been created by many civilizations) – seem to set up unique and large scale possibilities for The Avengers and whatever comes after. The possibilities, when one has a Cosmic Cube, are endless.
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Interesting! Actually, I didn't see this one coming…at least not for the first film. Although they need to be careful and not ape Indiana Jones TOO much.
massive geekgasm wave hits the interwebs..
Consider me geeked! I dig all stuff CA, Red Skull, Cosmic Cube and I want Kirby influences all over the place in these films. At least I hope they are all over. Kirby helped bring Cap to life and I hope his spirit is throughout this film and some of the others!!!
using the cube as a superweapon that sets up the crisis in Avengers is fantastic, it's the perfect reason to why Thor would get involved with mortal heroes on a team. Well-played Marvel, let's hope the films follow through.
Cool news! I'm very psyched for Captain America. I'm sure Chris Evans will do a good job; and I'm absolutely stoked to see Hugo Weaving as the Red Skull.
This is a great idea to further tie Cap and the rest of the films together. A lot of cosmic cube stories feature a partially functional cube with the bad guy trying to "fully charge" it, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's what we see in Cap and a fully functional cube is part of the Avengers plot. A shard from a cube was also used in the creation of the Super-Adaptoid, which opens up another possible villain for the Avengers film, too.
So it's wrong for other sites to spoil the appearance of Thor's Hammer after the credits in IRON MAN 2, but it's okay for Devin to spoil the appearance of the Cosmic Cube in the Avengers? Weren't you whining about how people should experience the movie for themselves, not be spoiled by scoop greedy internet reporters, Devin?
Thanks for the spoiler Mungo, you rancid dickhole.
@7 It's a bit different, a post-credits bonus scene vs the first footage shown at Comicon… Any excuse huh?
As someone who hasn't read any CA comics but always liked the iconography of the character I'm looking forward to this, Marvel seem to be getting people who want to be involved for the right reasons, whether they always hit the mark is another question, but good intentions is a good start.
Hey, crossovers are fun and this kind of thing obviously has never been done on the big screen before.
But, please, for the love of god, DON'T end "Captain America" on some horrible cliffhanger just to set up the Avengers film.
Please let each movie stand on their own.
hmmm…. no Utron huh?
sets up for warlock and thanos with any luck
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