Quote:
Originally Posted by
Art Decade 
2) Every few years, Marvel will have these BIG cross-title mega-events where a single storyline or crisis will occur that shakes up the Marvel universe for a time, thus selling a shitload of comics & often rebooting & refreshing entire character lines. Thanos was the central figure in one of these major Marvel mythos shake-ups 20 years ago in "The Infinity Gauntlet" crossover event:
Thanos is the guy in the middle. In the storyline, Thanos acquired a mystical Marvel macguffin that gave him the power to kill HALF the population of the entire universe. In the Marvel mythology, Thanos is a bad guy with BIG plans. So when we hear that THANOS might be realized on the big screen in an Avengers movie, that means that Marvel Films are about go BIG in way we can barely imagine.
I thought we were going to be spoiler-tagging any discussion of Thanos, but oh well.
Thanos is my ALL-TIME favorite Marvel character. The whole interest in killing half the universe is because in the Marvel universe, Death is a living entity, and Thanos is MADLY IN LOVE WITH HER. Hence, his desire to appease her, usually by ending all life in the universe. In fact, I do believe he's already done this once or twice, though something in his heart would make him revert everything back to form. He's by far the most interesting and complex of Marvel's celestial beings.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Reasor
Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, and the Thing have all been Avengers at one time or another. So has Daredevil. The X-Men franchise's Beast has been an off and on Avenger for ages, and Wolverine is an Avenger in comics being published now.
Hulk archenemy General Thaddeus Ross is currently an Avenger, in his capacity as the Red Hulk. Hulk sidekick Rick Jones, who has yet to appear in film or non-cartoon television, has played crucial roles in some classic Avengers stories in addition to sidekicking for Captain America for a time.
In addition to Spider-Man, who is currently an Avenger in print, Spider-Man's nemesis, Sandman, was a probationary member during a reformed period that didn't last.
And that's just Avengers who have been in films recently. So it's a versatile franchise. Me, I want Jim Hammond to come back from his cameo appearance in Cap's first film before this huge crazy series of films is done. the scene where Chris Evans meets him would be cute.
To re-iterate what everyone's said, yes, everyone in the Marvel universe has been an Avenger at one point or another. It's like Marvel's varsity team (Avengers West Coast/Force Works is probably JV)
I know there were some bullshit reasons for Marvel to torpedo a proposed Black Avengers lineup in the comics, but how glorious would that be onscreen? Marvel has MORE than enough cinematic black characters that have been Avengers and could form an amazing team.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
hughJ It will be interesting how they build to Thanos and any sort of cube/gem/gauntlet type story. It seems to me the entire reason for injecting Thanos and an unlimited power macguffin is to provide an easy means of superseding all their previous characters and efforts at cosmic scale danger. In the comics, you've got a Universe populated with a hierarchy of gods and demigods over decades of writing, but really almost none of that hierarchy has been established in the films. And once you get to that level, there's such a disparity between your villain and the heroes that both the confrontations and the final resolution can only be anticlimactic. The present Avengers film universe just seems awfully small to bother throwing Thanos into the mix so quickly.
Yeah, this is where I would think the Nine Realms come in. Asgard has already been shown to house the Infinity Gauntlet.
To non-fans, this is essentially a POWERGLOVE that harnesses the power of the nine Infinity Gems which control the universe. The gems are located in various corners of known existence, and each has a protector - together they form the Infinity Watch. I believe Thanos is actually a guardian of one of these gems, though he has been kept from the Gauntlet by a number of forces.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
MikeI
Blade (New Line... do they still exist?), X-Men (Fox), Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer and Galactus (a villain) (Fox), Daredevil (Fox), Ghost Rider (Columbia)... you see the problem.
New Line, which no longer has Blade, does indeed still exists, though it's more of a subsidiary of Warner Bros. They haven't yet disclosed what to do with the company, though they downsized massively in recent years. Most current New Line releases were merely in development before the company went under.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
S.D. Bob Plissken
The better question here is why wouldn't Fox consider combining some of the properties they own? Or why not chuck Ghost Rider into a future Spidey flick?
Neveldine and Taylor recently talked about Ghost Rider and they said adding him to the Spider-Man would be slightly like damaging the golden goose. Though it does seem said goose is about to be damaged a whole lot more this summer with marc Webb's reboot, I still don't think we'll be seeing GR again, even if that second film introduced Danny Ketch as a young boy, meaning we could be five years away from a Twilight-themed relaunch of the character.
