Warning: This is a spoilery scoop. If you want to remain as cold as possible on The Avengers for as long as possible, you might want to skip over.
By now it seems to be common knowledge that The Avengers will face two big villains: Loki and the Skrulls. Given the bits and pieces dropped throughout the Marvel 2011 movies, he comes in possession of the Cosmic Cube, and uses to manipulate the Skrulls into attacking Earth.
However, it seems there may be yet another Big Bad at work. Latino Review reports that the brooding and unhappy Eternal Thanos will be making an appearance.
Obviously, the hows and whys of the plot remain under tight wraps. But if Marvel mythology is anything to go on, Thanos wants the Cosmic Cube for himself — and he’s not above manipulating the Skrulls to achieve his own ends. Or he may want the Infinity Gauntlet, which the sharp-eyed must have spotted in Odin’s vault in Thor. (Not me, because I was an idiot and left my glasses at home.)
I suspected Joss Whedon might employ a puzzle box of villainy, and we might have more than Loki and Skrulls in store. Still, that’s an awful lot for one movie, especially the first superhero team-up. But considering Marvel has been pulling their punches a little bit (I think we all expected Iron Man 2 and Thor to have a little more bang in their battles), it makes sense they would go far out — in the most cosmic of senses — in The Avengers. I just hope the chemistry and the plot can handle that much space madness.
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Yeah they sure owe us a lot more bang in the battles. Bring the Thanos. Awesome. Whedon should be able to make good use of him.
I just hope they don’t try to cram too much into one film and ruin the whole thing.
Oh, and just for the record, someday I want to see the Inhumans on film. Blackbolt was always a great tragic figure and Medusa was great as both a hero and villain.
I suspect Thanos might amount to a post-credits appearance. That’ll be his introduction, and then they’ll start using their post-credit stingers to work towards Avengers 2: The Infinity Gauntlet (or whatever).
Because otherwise, yeah…start to veer into Spider-Man 3 territory, although Loki has already been introduced, so at least they don’t really have to do an origin story on him.
Oh, and reportedly an Inhumans movie is in the early stages of development.
I totally second your worries. Skrulls and Loki already sounds dangerously crammy.
An Inhumans done right, would be awesome, especially if they really grasp Kirby’s designs. (they failed in “Thor“ IMO, it just looked weird and cheap, not at all the “otherworld-liness“ of Kirby’s original designs)
And Blackbolt’s “superpower“ (it was always more of a “force of nature“ to me) would be awesome on the big screen. Again, if done right of course.
Elisabeth Rappe, If…Thanos appears, maybe Eros, Mentor, and Drax The Destroyer will also appear at some point. All of course are from…Titan, also a place that Captain Marvel died in the 80’s. I would love Avengers to be able to obtain…Earth’s Mightiest Box Office Hit, so there could be a…TITANic sequel!
Yeah, I have a feeling this will be one of the big teaser elements in The Avengers next summer. He won’t be a main player in it.
As long as we get a take on the “Ultron Unlimited” saga in one of the sequels, Im good; that story seems perfect for the screen, specially when it comes to action and memorable moments.
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