Apparently, the Sharon Carter thing was established before the Hydra Cap story line. According to some random guy on Kotaku, she got stranded for a while in an alternate dimension where time ran faster.
Uhhhh…and this is *not *throwing too many things at the wall all at once?
It’s apparently (per my iron-clad source) something that happened months and month ago, and isn’t related to the current arc. So… no?
We went with a friend to a 3D showing at 1:00 today. The three of us were the only ones in the theater.
Well, it has been out for almost a month now…
I just watched it again yesterday.
I know I said this earlier in the Thread but, having just rewatched it, I really feel this warrants repeating: Wanda should not throw people’s cars. Seriously. I’ve used long term airport parking before and I would be very upset upon returning to find that my car had been used as a projectile weapon while I was away. I’m imagining it now. I’ve just gotten off a long flight having returned from a trip. I want nothing more than to go directly home, have a shower, and lay down in my own bed for the first time in a week. First, I must retrieve my car. Upon approaching the parking garage, I find that it’s a disaster area. My car is nowhere to be found… wait… is that? My front bumper and license plate dangling from atop the Cinnabon??? Fuck you, Wanda Maximoff!
THERE’s a vengeance story for you.
Wanda, defeated and broken, facing her attacker: “What…what did I do to antagonize you so?”
Random vengeance guy: “I’d just finished paying off that damn car!”
“Well, it’s this rug I had; it really tied the room together.”
She ATE MY SANDWICH!
Seriously!
By the end of Burn Notice I started thinking the same thing about the sheer number of cars Michael and Fi blew up over the run of the show.
I picture and episode where a client hires Michael because he fears someone is trying to kill him. Why does he think this? Because every time he gets a new car, it gets blown up. No matter if he moves across town, whatever, it blows up. Michael is forced to confront the fact that he (and Fiona) is the culprit.
Which was a pleasant fix from the stupid comic book version of Civil War, where the writers never actually talked to one another about what the law actually said. In the comics, if the writer was on Tony’s side, the law was what Miller said. If the writer was on Cap’s side, if you had powers, you either got a life-long draft as cannon-fodder/slave labor or got tossed into what amounts to a Space-Gulag. I’m glad the movie focused on the more nuanced of the two options.
I didn’t catch that at all in the movie. I like it and it makes sense though. As it was, it seemed very out of character for “The Champion Of Democracy” to say “Screw what everyone else wants, I’m right and I ignore your stupid laws”
To be fair, the “law” wasn’t passed by the people or by elected representatives. It was passed via a UN resolution which had not yet had time to be ratified by the US Senate when all the shit went down. Many UN countries are democracies only nominally.
Saw it over the weekend with two of my teenaged sons and we all enjoyed it, although it dragged now and then, and was overstuffed with characters IMHO. Already plenty going on without bringing in Spiderman and Ant-Man. Great action sequences, though, some weighty (for a superhero movie) issues discussed, not to mention some funny jokes (“So you like cats?” and “Could you move your seat up?” “No.”). I liked that the villain wasn’t superpowered but knew just what he had to do to defeat the Avengers (i.e. tear them apart) far more effectively than if he openly fought them.
Some questions, and pardon me if they’ve already been answered in this very long thread:
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Who set up the cameras that recorded the Winter Soldier’s murders of the Starks? How did he, she or they know that the car would go off the road right there?
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How did Tony find Peter Parker?
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What is the U.S. Secretary of State doing hanging around in a secret prison?
The Winter Soldier was sent on the mission by the Soviet secret agency that he worked for. They told him when and where to be to intercept the Starks. So they would have been able to set up surveillance in the area to record how the Winter Soldier worked. Admittedly some of the camera angles seem improbably but that’s just the nature of movie making; you improve the shot.
It hasn’t been explicitly stated but it appears that Leviathan was the Soviet counterpart of Shield. And like Shield (and the SS during WWII) it was heavily infiltrated by Hydra, which was using Leviathan resources to run its own operations. I think it’s also implied that Natasha Romanoff is a former Leviathan agent.
I’m guessing Stark initiated a database of public incidents where there was evidence of super powers being used. And then he used other data bases to track down the individuals who were using them.
That one makes no sense.
I will Quote myself from earlier in the Thread:
Thanks. Not convinced, but that’s as good an explanation as any.
It’s what I thought the first time I saw it in the theater.
SHIELD is, or at least was, keeping a list of “enhanced” and “gifted” people, and this seemed to be acknowledged by Scott Lang (“I know you know a lot of super people; thanks for thinking of me!”) Stark’s Avengers organization is presumably doing the same thing.
Stranger
I finally saw it a few days ago.
It wasn’t as good as The Avengers, but it was still plenty good, and for much the same reason: They managed to have a huge cast, all of whom still had a fair share of screentime and character focus. I mean, can you name any other film which manages to do so much with a full dozen different main characters? Though I’ll agree that it wasn’t really a Captain America movie. I mean, in the end, it’s Black Panther who resolves the problem, not Cap.
And I have no problem with Stark recruiting Parker. Don’t think of him as a fifteen-year-old kid; think of him as the second-strongest human being on the planet. Which, so far as I know (not having seen Agents of Shield), he pretty much is, and the whereabouts of the strongest are unknown.
Apparently, not just SHIELD. The woman Falcon meets on the park bench at the end of Ant-Man seemed to knew about him, too, and I don’t hink she was with SHIELD.