gotta be honest, Thunderbolts being a B-sider collection is kind of appealing. it won't be as fun as Suicide Squad/Peacemaker I'm sure but kinda has that vibe to me.
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To Infinity and Beyond: The Marvel Cinematic Universe
So the asterisk is officially part of the title for this show?
...
That is certainly a choice...
Assuming you mean either Red Guardian or US Agent, they were prominent in Black Widow and Falcon & Winter Soldier, respectively
I remember Red Guardian, but not US Agent. And I watched Falcon & Winter Soldier but barely remember it, I found it pretty dull. So that explains that! Thanks Octo!
Yes. They made a big deal about adding the asterisk, and have been very coy about what it's supposed to indicate.
My prediction:
At the end of the movie, a familiar voice will congratulate the surviving Thunderbolts on working together as a team and declare that he sees great things in their future. It's Willem Dafoe, as this universe's Norman Osborn. The final title card will then read:
THUNDERBOLTS*
*A wholly-owned subsidiary of Oscorp Industries
THUNDERBOLTS*
*A wholly-owned subsidiary of Oscorp Industries
He's the guy who was poorly standing in for Rogers as the "new" Captain America and beat a man to death with the shield in a PTSD/drug-induced haze.
Olli
(he/him)
On the other hand, I'm always excited to see more of David Harbour as Red Guardian. Just a fantastic character.
Hint: Keep an eye on Bob
What? Why should you... Oh. In the movie. Never mind.
It is so strange to me as a Disney+ "outsider" that when WandaVision premiered and was then a weekly event, it was practically all anyone was talking about. I swear I absorbed that show through cultural osmosis via 10,000 posts on the subject. I know it is complicated, but this is its ostensible "Season 2", and, three years later, it is hard to say if anyone gives a damn. Again, approaching this entirely as someone who is outside that ecosystem and occasionally steals their friend's D+ subscription to catch up randomly, but it is such a weird shift to experience as someone outside looking in.
It is so strange to me as a Disney+ "outsider" that when WandaVision premiered and was then a weekly event, it was practically all anyone was talking about. I swear I absorbed that show through cultural osmosis via 10,000 posts on the subject. I know it is complicated, but this is its ostensible "Season 2", and, three years later, it is hard to say if anyone gives a damn. Again, approaching this entirely as someone who is outside that ecosystem and occasionally steals their friend's D+ subscription to catch up randomly, but it is such a weird shift to experience as someone outside looking in.
Marvel's mortgaged a lot of goodwill in the intervening years.
I think the fact the the sitcom style conceit meant it had a gimmick that made each week / episode sufficiently new and interesting played a role. Virtually every other series has been a four-hour Standard Marvel Movie told in six episodes. WandaVision had a "what are they going to do next?" effect to keep pulling people back in, even ones who were starting to get tired of superhero stories.
Today's What If...? finale had me sighing and checking my phone. The worst part of any What If season is always when it tries to get huge and epic at the end, and this was the most self-indulgent of all of those by a longshot. Just 15 solid minutes of eight completely invulnerable people pounding on each other. Incredibly boring.
All I wanted was clever little twists on the familiar! We could have had What If... Moon Knight Was a Talking Monte Cristo Sandwich? instead of this mess. Yuck.
All I wanted was clever little twists on the familiar! We could have had What If... Moon Knight Was a Talking Monte Cristo Sandwich? instead of this mess. Yuck.
I’ve only seen the first two episodes so far and they were both laser targeted at me.
Weirdly I liked the Agatha Harkness and Kingo in Old Timey Hollywood episode *way* more than the Pacific Rim episode
Weirdly I liked the Agatha Harkness and Kingo in Old Timey Hollywood episode *way* more than the Pacific Rim episode
I feel like singing and dancing is far more impressive when it's a bunch of humans who spent months practicing to get every step perfect instead of a bunch of models stringing together fortnight emotes.
I know that's a very dim view on the amount of work the animators put in.
but like.
You know?
I know that's a very dim view on the amount of work the animators put in.
but like.
You know?
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF THE RED GUARDIAN AND WINTER SOLDIER BEST FRIENDS POWER HOUR was the first one this season I... really liked! Bucky and "Bob Toledo" were a fantastic straight man/wildcard comedic duo and the animation served the action by being over the top and goofy, something that other "fights" in this series have real trouble with. I think it might be my single favorite episode in this whole What If mess, as none of the others had me smiling like this.
I'm glad What If is over now. Very boring show.
I read the feedback here and decided to skip to the last two episodes to see what the hubbub was about, thinking "It can't be THAT bad..."
Yep... That was a boring fight sequence, alright. I might check out a couple of the episodes y'all mentioned like the Red Guardian one, but I'm good on this show for now.
Yep... That was a boring fight sequence, alright. I might check out a couple of the episodes y'all mentioned like the Red Guardian one, but I'm good on this show for now.
The thing about the Red Guardian episode... it asks the question, what if he stopped Bucky from killing Tony's parents? But it doesn't look at how this would affect the stories we already know about. Completely uninterested in that. It's just a silly romp throwing together a random handful of characters.
That's... Fine?
I don't really care about how the avengers could assemble if Howard stark lived and Beardo the dork ass loser died. They probably figured it out. Who cares.
The goofball antics of two losers who are super bad at spying but super hard to kill is much more engaging to me than the minor differences to an alternate timeline that a bunch of B+ movies tricked me into following.
I don't really care about how the avengers could assemble if Howard stark lived and Beardo the dork ass loser died. They probably figured it out. Who cares.
The goofball antics of two losers who are super bad at spying but super hard to kill is much more engaging to me than the minor differences to an alternate timeline that a bunch of B+ movies tricked me into following.
Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
This is my favourite 1950s Marvel monster.