Talking to a fellow believer that over-specialization is a bad thing, she told how a geekish girlfriend who wore an Avengers T-shirt on a blind date. “He’ll have to accept my nerdy side, too,” assuming he was a Normal. Rhut-rho! I knew how this would end! Yep, he was a DC fan and the conversation deteriorated from there. There will be no crossover babies from them.
So we have two Hulk Nemeses: Glen Talbot and The Absorbing Man.
How long before we get a visit from the Big Guy himself?
I like to send my sons out in their Justice League and Avengers tee shirts.
We were on the commuter line last Saturday, which was apparently stopping at Beerfest, so we had a large contingent of already-drunk 20-somethings with us. One was wearing a Captain America body shirt. The other was wearing a Hulk bodyshirt… and carrying Thor’s hammer. I spent the ride trying to figure out which 2-1/2 Avengers we had with us. 
Creel was originally one of Thor’s rogues gallery: he got his powers because Loki slipped him an Asgardian “herb”. He didn’t start fighting Hulk until later, and really he’s faced a wide variety of Marvel heroes, including the Avengers and Spider-Man and others.
I don’t know anything about real prisoner protocols, but you’d think that number one on the list when you’re guarding super-powered individuals would be “Don’t open the cell door!”
I personally prefer that. It’s a nice shout-out to the comic fans, but we don’t have a lot of characters running around with silly comic-book names. (And I say that as a comic fan.)
Originally Posted by Intergalactic Gladiator
Ehh, I wish they would be better at it then a nudging, winking reference to the character’s comic counterpart. I thought this one with Absorbing Man was fairly weak as in “Hey fans, we know his name, he is an Absorbing Man. Huh? Huh?” Some of the movies are worse, Nolan couldn’t even call Catwoman by her name and they were pretty wishy washy about calling Superman by his. Compare that to the end of Iron Man where Stark comes out and says “I am Iron Man.” That’s a pretty awesome scene that isn’t diluted by him winking and going “I’m an Iron Man, get it?”
Jim Morita was also in that opening scene with actor Kenneth Choi reprising his role from Captain America as well! He was my second favorite of the film version of the Howling Commandos (Yes, Dum Dum was my favorite just like the rest of you).
I feel the same way. I come here to see who it was I was supposed to recognize. I’m still enjoying the show though.
I haven’t read the comic books and I don’t find anything confusing. You know, it’s okay if you don’t know who a new character is when they first show up–you just watch and find out.
Or, well, common sense really. But I’m not sure they really knew he was super-powered, and even if they did, remember, they’re the stupid good guys fighting the smart good guys out of misunderstood duty, so they must bungle up sometimes so the smart good guys have something to fix.
I’m not sure the following is a spoiler, but since it might contain information relevant to other Marvel films perhaps not everybody’s seen yet, I’ll take no chances:
[SPOILER]So, is this obelisk thing going to turn out to be related to the infinity gems/infinity gauntlet? It doesn’t seem to fit any of the ones listed on wikipedia, but they kinda retconned the tesseract/cosmic cube as being one of them, too… Also, it’s clear that with the combination of strange, mysterious artefact with unknown properties and a guy with the ability to absorb the properties of whatever he touches, sooner or later Creel will absorb the obelisk’s powers, and then there’s this line from his wikipedia article:
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After a defeat, Creel escapes prison and absorbs a shard of the artifact the Cosmic Cube.
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So there’s some precedent for a connection between him and the infinity gems (as they are in the movies).[/SPOILER]
Hmm, I maybe was thinking of the 2nd season renewal not being announced until May (which is late for a “bulletproof” show)