Scorch? That’s a villain’s name!
I guess it fits, then.
My vague recollection when Flower Dress gave him a codename was it was a tease for us:
(paraphrasing) “How about…Sss(drawing out the ‘S’ sound for a second before continuing with the ‘C’ – I leaned forward in my seat, knowing she was about to say ‘Sunfire’)scorch?”
Being as the character in the show was Chinese and Sunfire was Japanese, it would have invoked this trope (although the actor is Japanese).
I doubt they could use Sunfire if they wanted. Too tied to the X-men.
Just in the interest of due diligent geekery: there is (or was) a DC villainess named Scorch, and she was romantically interested in the Martian Manhunter (whose weakness was fire, naturally).
More relevantly, there was a asian marvel villain named scorch with pyrokinesis. Tiny, minor character, but he existed.
The S was not drawn out at all. In fact, it was the shortest S anywhere in her dialogue (at least in that scene). She is a very sibilant girl.
Of course, since the Asian Scorch in the comics is Vietnamese, that still applies. (There are at least two other Scorches. One is white.)
I would’ve found a better name than Scorch. How about Firebrand, Enflame, Wildfire, Firestorm, Burner, Red Heat, Hotshot, Hazard, Blaze, Inferno, etc? Sure they may have been taken already, but so had Scorch.
They did lampshade the name in the episode, the guy himself called it ridiculous.
That could just be her natural Irish-Ethiopian accent.
I’m pretty sure he was commenting on the concept of having a codename, at all, no matter what it was. She mostly convinced him by mentioning Cap, after all.
Firestorm is the name of a fairly major DC character (currently headlining his own book, AND a Justice League member), with no Marvel use of the name. That’s out.
Marvel’s Firebrands are specifically Iron Man related, so that’s a possibility, but they’re fairly major, saving the name for something bigger than a born-to-die one-off villain makes more sense.
DC’s Wildfire (long running member of the Legion of Superheroes) is significantly better known than Marvel’s (a one-off Power Man villain), so, while probably legally safe, and certainly a safe name to blow on a one-off, not a good name, for a show that’s aimed at an audience of comic nerds.
Blaze is primarily associated with Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze went by simply ‘Blaze’ when he wasn’t possessed), so, between being associated with an outsourced franchise, AND a hero’s name, it’s out.
Inferno’s not bad. Maybe off the table since at least two uses of that name (a character and a story arc) are primarily X-Men related.
Hazard is a fairly generic name…not a bad one, but nothing about it screams ‘fire’ (though the character who used that codename was pyro-kinetic - but probably had the name because he couldn’t really control his powers), which rather loses the point of helping to make him memorable. Also, primarily an X-Man character, so likely off the table.
Burner’s probably caught up in the X-Men franchise, but it’s honestly a far worse name than Scorch to begin with, even if not, as are Enflame and Red Heat, which is probably why neither of them have been used before.
Hotshot’s a hero, so that name’s out.
on another note, the human torch’s Cantonese was painfully bad. it made it a joke when he was taken aback that the Flower Dress had understood him at all.
A warning to people: Hulu only holds five episodes of an ongoing series. There are currently five episodes of Agents of Shield on the site. When they upload today’s episode a few hours from now, they will delete the pilot episode. So if you want to watch or rewatch the first episode, you should do it now.
According to TVGuide.com, tonight is a rerun of the first ep.
Yeah, my Verizon guide shows the same.
Well, that sucks. Especially when Fox is running a two hour episode of The X Factor and I won’t get a new episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine either. At least there’s a new episode of Trophy Wife.
Disregard my previous warning.
A question occurs to me.
In the movie, Coulson obviously “died” and in the pilot episode we saw that Shield has maintained this cover story. But in subsequent episodes Coulson has made no efforts to conceal his identity (despite classifying it a Level 7 Secret) and we’ve seen him encounter people who know him.
- As far as I can recall, nobody has been surprised to see Coulson alive since Ward was in the pilot. Shouldn’t some of these people have heard he was dead and have had a second of surprise at seeing him?
- If Coulson is going around in public, how long do Shield expect to keep the fact that he’s alive secret? How long before word gets back to Tony Stark or Steve Rodgers that Coulson’s alive and Fury lied to them?
- Who were they trying to keep it secret from? Other than the Avengers, who is supposed to think Coulson is dead?
Well, of all the people kept in the dark about what happened to Coulson . . . it seems the most significantly “kept in the dark” person is Coulson himself.
All your questions are valid and worth wondering about, but it’s clear that the actual secret is far more complex than “Coulson died/Coulson didn’t die”. As the show slowly reveals the secret I suppose some of your questions will be answered and that we may find out that, given the actual truth, some of those questions turn out to be irrelevant.
I’m guessing the “Welcome to Level 7” line was just for that instance and the fact he was still alive was classified until they did whatever they did to resurrect him. He’s been seen interacting with the rest of SHIELD pretty regularly since then, so the words out. I expect someone out of the loop will Plissken him eventually…