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« Reply #620 on: August 11, 2014, 07:35:45 PM »
On the notion of Howard the Duck.

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« Reply #621 on: August 11, 2014, 07:42:49 PM »
On the notion of Howard the Duck.

There's already a canon film on the subject.

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« Reply #622 on: August 11, 2014, 08:15:53 PM »
I would have liked more Thanos screentime, but whatever.

I'm liking him having little tease scenes in the movies, because it's going to be all the more exciting when he's finally the main antagonist.


So, what? That's like 3+ movies based around chasing macguffins?

That depends on how you define "MacGuffin" for this. Some people use it as a generic term for "any object a film's plot revolves around", whereas others use the definition of an ultimately meaningless item (like the briefcase in Pulp Fiction) that's meant to drive the film without actually mattering or being important in the overall plot or continuity. If you mean the former then yes, but if you mean the latter then no.
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« Reply #623 on: August 11, 2014, 08:24:29 PM »
I would have liked more Thanos screentime, but whatever.

I'm liking him having little tease scenes in the movies, because it's going to be all the more exciting when he's finally the main antagonist.


So, what? That's like 3+ movies based around chasing macguffins?

That depends on how you define "MacGuffin" for this. Some people use it as a generic term for "any object a film's plot revolves around", whereas others use the definition of an ultimately meaningless item (like the briefcase in Pulp Fiction) that's meant to drive the film without actually mattering or being important in the overall plot or continuity. If you mean the former then yes, but if you mean the latter then no.


The Infinity stone falls into the former. I usually just ignore macguffins altogether, but an entirely different trope is used in GotG. I can't remember the trope name, but it goes something like this: character is in possession of said macguffin, doesn't understand the macguffin until later, and then gets into an unwinnable situation in which the macguffin ultimately resolves.

Deus ex Macguffin?

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« Reply #624 on: August 11, 2014, 08:46:56 PM »
That's pretty much The Avengers too.

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« Reply #625 on: August 11, 2014, 08:56:15 PM »
So, what? That's like 3+ movies based around chasing macguffins?
Just 3 movies.

I really want an infinity gauntlet movie.
Avengers 3.
That's the rumored Infinity Gauntlet movie.  Hence why they put each stone into every single move.

By the time Avengers 3 rolls out, all of them will be shown and Thanos will suddenly have all of them.
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« Reply #626 on: August 16, 2014, 02:13:14 PM »
Avengers 3.
That's the rumored Infinity Gauntlet movie.  Hence why they put each stone into every single move.

By the time Avengers 3 rolls out, all of them will be shown and Thanos will suddenly have all of them.

We literally just went over how they've only appeared in four of the movies.

Also, these movies have enough white male leads.  Where are all the women and/or people of color?

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« Reply #627 on: August 16, 2014, 02:19:57 PM »
Well, the Hulk is green.

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« Reply #628 on: August 16, 2014, 06:24:04 PM »
Avengers 3.
That's the rumored Infinity Gauntlet movie.  Hence why they put each stone into every single movie.

By the time Avengers 3 rolls out, all of them will be shown and Thanos will suddenly have all of them.

We literally just went over how they've only appeared in four of the movies.
Point.  Sorry, I was thinking wrong.  But they are putting the gems in a lot of their movies, especially since Thor 1.

Gauntlet in Thor 1
Gem of Space in both Captain America 1 and Avengers 1
Gem of Reality in Thor 2
Gem of Power in Guardians of the Galaxy
Gem of Mind is rumored to be in Loki's staff in Avengers 1

So that leaves 2 more gems. 

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« Reply #629 on: August 16, 2014, 09:03:31 PM »
Where are all the women
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« Reply #630 on: August 17, 2014, 04:21:08 AM »
Also, these movies have enough white male leads.  Where are all the women and/or people of color?

They aren't hero material.

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« Reply #631 on: August 17, 2014, 04:23:44 AM »
Is there even such a thing as a black female hero?
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« Reply #632 on: August 17, 2014, 04:54:33 AM »
Is there even such a thing as a black female hero?
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« Reply #633 on: August 17, 2014, 02:15:47 PM »
Storm

Name an X-men movie where Storm played the lead role.

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« Reply #634 on: August 17, 2014, 03:15:30 PM »
He didn't ask if a black female hero played as the lead protagonist.

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« Reply #635 on: August 17, 2014, 03:52:24 PM »
He didn't ask if a black female hero played as the lead protagonist.

Where did I say he did?

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« Reply #636 on: August 17, 2014, 05:25:09 PM »
She never did play a lead in any of the live action movies, I don't know about cartoons. But she is a black female hero.

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« Reply #637 on: August 17, 2014, 05:27:14 PM »
She never did play a lead in any of the live action movies, I don't know about cartoons. But she is a black female hero.

Which is probably what lead Saddam to this:

Also, these movies have enough white male leads.  Where are all the women and/or people of color?


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« Reply #638 on: August 17, 2014, 06:34:08 PM »
wow gr8 point rush
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« Reply #639 on: August 17, 2014, 06:40:04 PM »
mkaaay, so here we are. What a fun circle.