Didn’t you mean Fred Hembeck?
Or Squirrel Girl
Or Marvel Zombies
To paraphrase from Spaceballs…Avengers V: The Search for More Money(tm…arr). They will probably market Musk’s flamethrower with an Avengers logo on the side (I hear the kids love it).
I kind of think it’s not Avengers 4. It’s going to be released as The New Avengers.
Pure speculation…
Infinity War sees MOST of the Avengers die against Thanos–but die in a “their souls are trapped in the soul stone” kind of way. The remaining heroes retreat and regroup and recruit. That’s why we haven’t seen Hawkeye in the Infinity War promos but we know he’s there and in the next one. He’s a minor character --probably declining to take up against a cosmic threat… but when Widow and Cap are killed, he can’t say no. I think he may even be one of the focal stars of the 4th one.
So we have a NEW Avengers team with Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Hawkeye, Antman, War Machine, Bucky, Scarlet Witch and a infinity stone-less Vision (the MCU version of the white Vision). Also maybe a Guardian or two… maybe Starlord and Rocket. They take the fight to Thanos
I was thinking along the same lines. A LOT of heroes are going to be dead at the end of Infinity War. They’ll have to keep at least some of them that way for most of the next movie.
I was thinking time travel. There’s a stone for that, right? So they maybe look like they’ve been blasted out of existence — since, well, technically, they have — but with a perfect plot device for the sequel, albeit one they can’t yet advertise.
I wonder how Marvel is going to handle this. Every hero they kill off is potential future movies they are losing revenue on. Maybe future comic book revenue as well, since comic readers may not want to read about an alternate version of a hero they saw die messily onscreen.
On the other hand, frankly, Robert Downey isn’t getting any younger, some of the heroes are played by actors and actresses who are not going to look the part as time passes.
So who dies in the script has to be carefully run by the beancounters to see who is the most kill-able.
Maybe the plan is to reboot these heroes later with younger actors.
But a lot of the superhero roles could be filled by other characters. If Stark dies, you keep on making Iron Man movies about Rhody. If Rogers dies, you keep on making Captain America movies about Bucky, and so on.
Now, now. We all know that the heir to the Iron Man title is going to be Harley the Potato Gun Kid.
Stranger
Of all the reasons why someone might stop reading superhero comics, if “the character died and then a different version came back” was a show-stopper for many people, then the comics market would have died decades ago. It happens all the damned time.
And, frankly, Downey, Evans, Hemsworth, etc. very likely don’t want to do these films forever, anyway – particularly actors like Evans and Hemsworth (and, for that matter, Hugh Jackman), who have to go through a heavy-duty workout regimen to prep for playing the part.
As has been pointed out, in the comics, other characters have taken on the title of Iron Man, Captain America, and even Thor, from time to time. It’s entirely plausible that Marvel could take the same approach with the characters in the films.
With Purdey and Gambit? Oh, I hope not.
Found it. I loved that issue of What If? “Spidey Intellectual Stories” was awesome.
My vote is for Avengers 4: Chrises on Infinite Earths. The Guardians go back to space, where they answer a distress call by James T. Kirk. Misunderstandings lead to a fight between Star Lord, Thor, Captain America, and Kirk. Who will be the One True Chris?
DC would sue but it would be worth it.
Yup, that was it, Tamerlane, thanks!