I kind of like the Hulk. I definitely like Mark Ruffalo’s portrayal of the Hulk. But I have never liked the Hulk as a member of the Avengers, either in the comics, cartoons, or movies; he’s better as a tormented loner and occasional menace. Thus I will be perfectly happy if Hulk does not appear in the next Avengers movie. The mightiest Avenger is supposed tobe Thor, Athena damn it!
I am not in any way a fan of Scarlet Johanssen; I don’t even know how to spell her last name and refuse to Google it on account of being a jerk. (Me, not her; for all I know she’s a perfectly wonderful woman.) I’m a long-time Janet van Dyne time, and every time I saw the Black Widow rather than the Wasp on screen in the Avengers movies, my blood pressure went up seventeen points and my long-standing hatred of Joss Whedon (he killed Tara, damn it! And Fred! And Joyce! and NEVER killed Andrew! Gormless bastard probably from Llanfairpwllgwyngyll!) grew by another eight percent. Good thing I’m not a gamma monster.
Anyway, my point, and I do have one, is that the movie Avengers need a super-powered chick. And I don’t mean Scarlet Witch, either. Not actiony enough. I want a woman who’ll get down and dirty, who’ll blast guys in the in face, or crush theirs skull in her hands, and look good doing either. I’m sure we can all agree that there’s nothing sexier than a woman who can kill a Hydra agent using only her pinkie.
So I’m gonna nominate some. I’m a few years out of touch on comics, so feel free to add your own possibilities if you want.
Poll is up now. For “None of the above, I got a better idea than you, you hoser,” choose the Skald hasn’t bought a comic book in a decade or more option. Vote or I kill the elf.
Admittedly I’m quite likely to murder the elf anyway, but in my own defense, it’s Legolas.
ETA: How did I misspell “sexist” as “selfish” in the poll, you ask? Obviously I was distracted by the screaming of all those tortured Teleri in the other room.
I have it on good authority that Pietro Maximoff was in the first one too. He saved Hawkeye and Widow’s lives a dozen times each, but he was moving so fast no one knew he was there.
Except Thor. I may worship only Athena, but I remain a Thor fanboy.
I thought we had an agreement. You would not mention anyone from SMALLVILLE, and in turn I would not pelt you with grapefruit.
Okay, fine. I was going to suggest Adrianne Palicki as She-Hulk, but she’s already kind of associated with Agents of SHIELD.
and kind of nekkid in Smallville, so there’s that, too. Rowr. Ahem.
Can’t use Lucy Lawless for the same reason (AoS, not Smallville), or Famke Janssen for a similar one, and we’re running out of tall, statuesque actresses.
In the first place, Lucy Lawless is the goddamn Warrior Princess and thus may play whatever the fuck role she feels like at any time, and anyone is disagrees will be pelted with grapefruit.
In the second place I have only seen one episode of Agents of Shield, and thus it only barely exists and may be ignored for this thread.
In the third place Famke Jannsen or Jansenn or whatever the fuck her name is has too many consonants in her last name and will not be allowed to work until she gives one up.
In the last place, if we’re importing Firefly actresses, we should import the HOT firefly actress, by which of course I mean Jewel Staite, whom I’m sure we can all agree is perfectly perky enough to place the wondrous Wasp.
I figured Brigitte Nielsen was a little long in the tooth, but it looks like she’s the same age as [del](name of asian actress who played Mulan redacted)[/del], maybe she’s up for it?
Carol Danvers. I don’t care which alias she uses, or how they shoehorn her into the plot.
As I understand it, Hank Pym is an old geezer in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so how about Janet van Dyne in a cameo, played by an older-but-still-hot actress?
I would love to see the Valkyrie in a Thor movie, even if she is only lurking in the background in a crowd scene.
According to Wikipedia, she is already a regular on Agents of SHIELD.
It’s not shoehorning if it’s Carol Danvers, damn it.
Lucy Lawless!
But Jan was originally supposed to be much younger than Hank anyway–19 at most when she started her career. She, Spider-Man, Johnny Storm, and the original five X-Men were all around the same age.
You know I don’t watch commercials or know how to use Google. Nor do I watch, or even acknowledge as existing, movies with the word “Ant” in the title. Though I’d make an exception for one entitled “The Wasp and her weapons officer, Henry Pym, who used to be Ant-Man but realized he was more of a support guy. Anyway the point is that Kaylee Frye is playing the Wasp who does not have access to unstable molecules and thus spends a great deal of time flying around as skyclad as Eve.”
