What the F*** ?
Um, simster, were you replying to the post you thought you were replying to, there?
pretty sure he’s referring to the end scene in Spider-Man: Homecoming
Whose appearance we can hope Marvel won’t waste as they did with Judy Greer and Rachel McAdams in Ant-Man and Dr. Strange respectively. Fortunately, they put her to good if limited use in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Stranger
FWIW, my mom and her “baby” sister are eighteen years apart. My mom had me when she was relatively young (early-20s), and my aunt had her only daughter a little later (late-30s)… My mom was older when my cousin was born (mid-50s) than my grandmother was when I was born (late-40s), so when my cousin is the age that I believe Peter is supposed to be in the movies, my mom will be in her early-70s.
Not quite eighty, but not as far-fetched as it sounds.
absotively - See posts 83 and 84 and watch for flying objects overhead.
Yeah, it make sense now. It just kind of seemed out of nowhere, without that context.
So did that scene, which is what made it great.
As for Marisa Tomei as ‘Aunt May’, not is she more age appropriate as an aunt to a teenage Peter Parker, she’s also a great character in grounding the often too fantastical pantheon of superpowered characters. I’m not sure who complained about her but with apologies to Rosemarie Harris, who was a fantastic (great-)Aunt May for the Raimi films and Sally Field who did her best with the underwritten reboots, Tomei is the best casting ever of a supplementary non-powered character in the MCU. I am so disappointed that they brought Pepper Potts back because she brings nothing interesting or useful at this point.
Stranger
J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson.
Not the MCU.
Stanley Tucci as Dr. Erskine in CA: First Avengers.
::drops mic::
As if there aren’t excellent, Oscar-winning actresses older than her? :rolleyes:
I’m going to make another prediction for everyone to poo-poo :):
Thanos gets defeated in this movie (probably at great cost). So who does that leave to top him as a villain in Avengers 4? The Red Skull of course. Imagine Thanos, defeated, dropping the Infinity Gauntlet and the Red Skull picking it up. That’s an ending.
You’re close…not the Red Skull, but the green Skrull… 
Thanos being defeated only to discover an even Bigger Bad is basically one of the two narrative routes the film can take. (The other is Thanos surviving and becoming even more powerful while scattering the Avengers across space and time, but that is a little too conventional, methinks.) There are plenty of other threats from Marvel Comics to mine from and alter to fit the story, but yes, the Skrulls and their unending war with the Kree would seem to be a promising candidate. However, it could be something completely new as well, including perhaps a non-entity threat like the boundaries between different dimensions being compromised and the Avengers/Revengers/Guardians having to overcome their differences and figure out a way to save the universe. In the end, the villain really doesn’t matter all that much in these films; the driving conflicts are within and between the characters purported heroes themselves.
Stranger
I’ve always thought Red Skull may make another appearance. At the end of CA:FA, he was holding the tesseract, and the “death scene” looked more like teleportation.
At the time of the movie, the properties of the tesseract were not known, so it was easily missed. I actually figured Thanos had picked him up as he had picked up Loki out of the void.
As good as Hugo Weaving was at chewing scenery in Captain America: The First Avenger, the character of Red Skull is really only a fit for a pseudo-fascist villain, and unless they completely reinvent the character it would seem to small to present a cosmic-scale threat in Avengers 4. Really, at this point, they’ve faced such massively more powerful threats that the true threat needs to be something beyond mere space and time (since Dr. Strange can control the both), although again, the real point of villains in the MCU is to pit the heroes against one another and themselves in moral and ethical conflict.
Stranger
k9befriender:
I had assumed he’d return in CA:Civil War, simply because Brock Rumlow, known in the comics as “Crossbones”, was going to appear, and everyone (prior to the movie) referred to him as Crossbones, and that code name makes no sense without a Red Skull connection. But in the actual movie, they never use that code name, so the absence of a returned Red Skull didn’t cause an incongruity there.
However, the door is definitely open for a Red Skull return, if Marvel ever wants to use that.
he really should have been somewhere in the background in Thor:Ragnarok
:smack: