magnusblitz:
 
I dunno, if Spider-Man existed in this universe, you’d think he have showed up during the Battle of New York, yeah?
 
 
It was a pretty big invasion. So it’s conceivable Spiderman and other heroes were fighting the Chitauri but in another part of Manhattan.
The more difficult question is why we didn’t see Jim Rhodes during the battle. We know at this time he was using a second Iron Man suit. You’d think Shield and the Avengers would have been happy to have two Iron Men during the fight.
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              
 magnusblitz:
 
I dunno, if Spider-Man existed in this universe, you’d think he have showed up during the Battle of New York, yeah?
 
 
Yeah, NYC is superhero central, but even in the comics they don’t all show up for epic battles unless it’s a big cross-over event. I always assume they’re currently off on different missions.
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              
 Little_Nemo:
 
It was a pretty big invasion. So it’s conceivable Spiderman and other heroes were fighting the Chitauri but in another part of Manhattan.
The more difficult question is why we didn’t see Jim Rhodes during the battle. We know at this time he was using a second Iron Man suit. You’d think Shield and the Avengers would have been happy to have two Iron Men during the fight.
 
 
By an odd coincidence, it was in the AIM paint shop undergoing the Iron Patriot makeover when the invasion started.  By the time it dried, they’d already nuked the Chitauri.
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              
 Little_Nemo:
 
It was a pretty big invasion. So it’s conceivable Spiderman and other heroes were fighting the Chitauri but in another part of Manhattan.
The more difficult question is why we didn’t see Jim Rhodes during the battle. We know at this time he was using a second Iron Man suit. You’d think Shield and the Avengers would have been happy to have two Iron Men during the fight.
 
 
They kinda established in Iron Man 3 that
The Iron Patriot is stuck with babysitting the President & Vice President.
 
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              Lacking a general thread, I’ll stick this here: They’ve cast Coulson’s cellist.
Amy Acker. As if that was a surprise. Pleasant idea, though.
 
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              
That’s why the first rule of being a successful supervillain in the Marvel Universe is “Move to Chicago”.
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              
 muldoonthief:
 
Marvel One Shots .  They’re released on the DVD/Blu-ray of whatever the latest MCU movie is, so there have been five to date, and no doubt more in the future.  The first two were very short, but they’ve been increasing in length.  The best so far was the one that showed Agent Carter’s future, but the one with the Mandarin was damn funny (and had Terry Tate, Office Linebacker in it).
 
 
Thanks. I’ll have to check those out sometime.
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              I’m a bit surprised that no one explicitly mentioned that Ward got raped in this episode.
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              I want to talk about the episode that aired tonight, but I want to wait until Pricciar  starts the thread with his recap, in case I missed something…
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              
Yeah, this is kinda pricciar ’s thing. The OPs are always good, worth being patient for.
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              
He was asking for it dressed the way he was and besides he really wanted it.
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              
Not a difficult question at all. The answer is, he was somewhere else