Amph "You think you're the only superhero in the world?" - The Marvel Cinematic Universe

Actual Skrulls, the Shi'ar... it's quite exciting. On the other hand, I think Marvel has made Thanos look like a trucker, so I won't count my chickens.

 

Galactus and Doom...music to my ears!

 

Patiently waits for X-Men reboot... keep Deadpool, though, so he can explain the whole "Disney buys Fox" deal in one of his movies.

 

Crap.

 

DP

 

I had dinner with a friend yesterday and he was telling me that the rumors he's hearing about Infinity War is that "everyone is gonna die." He then enumerated the expected casualties. Our increasingly dire conversation went something like this:

"Captain America's gonna die. Thor's gonna die. Iron Man is gonna die. Wait, he's not gonna die. Cause he had the vision in Age of Ultron. Black Widow's gonna die. Hawkeye's gonna die." "And then they're gonna make a new team out of Falcon & Doctor Strange and . . .?" "No, dude, they're gonna die. Cause Falcon's in it. And he's gonna die. And Doctor Strange is gonna die. They're all gonna die except one of them and he's the one who defeats Thanos." "But they're doing more Spider-Mans so . . ." "No, he's gonna die. He's in it and he's gonna die." "Is Bucky going to become the new Captain America?" "I thought so, but I guess now he's gonna also die." "So, what? They're going to stop making Avengers movies?" "Yeah, I guess so." "What about Ant-Man?" "Hmm. I don't know. I bet he lives." "Hulk?" "He's gonna die."

I decided not to bring up Captain Marvel. I think I can guess what he would have said. Looks like everything's coming up Ant-Man.

 

Your friend is... probably half right?

Everyone's going to die. And there's the Reality Gem which will make them back alive again (and warp in X-Men as if they'd always been there!)...

 

What happened to Padme?

 

So everything’s down to Ant-Man. Good luck buddy!

 

Like I said, the positioning of Ant-Man and the Wasp as in between Infinity War and Avengers 4 is pretty interesting because it'd be hard to make a movie if Infinity War ends with "And then Thanos destroyed the universe. Cut to black" so they have to be survivable at least. Maybe Ant Man and The Wasp might have more to do with the Avengers movies than you'd think. Like there's a critical do-dad that Ant Man and Wasp need in their movie which turns the stakes in Avengers 4. So yeah, it'd be funny if it was true and the entire universe rested on Ant Man and The Wasp saving the day in their flick.

 

Didn't GOTG Vol2 already establish that Marvel is willing to have release order / chronology not line up with in-universe timing/chornology? IIRC, GOTG Vol 2 takes place Before Age of Ultron. Despite being released well after it. So, no reason they can't do the same with anything else that is released in between the two Avengers flicks.

 

That was addressed in Thor: Ragnarok.

 

GotG V2 is out in space so it's an easy cheat (and technically Stan's reference to being a Fed Ex delivery man breaks it's own timeline continuity anyway). The Marvel movies have been a vague "real time" releases (although we can all fall down a rabbit hole about what that timeline is ever since Spider-Man Homecoming title card and god knows how long a period Doctor Strange takes place over). Basically, I think it'd be really weird if Ant Man and The Wasp up and drop dead in Infinity War and then they get their own movie where everyone is alive, hunky dory and not destroyed by Thanos. Sure us nerds would get "oh, it's before Infinity War" but dunno how well that would play to wider, non-continuity Internetting folks.

It is very possible Ant Man and The Wasp will simply be set before Infinity War and have nothing to do with it but I'd bet it will somehow play off IW into Avengers 4.

 

There are varying reports on the chronology of Doctor Strange. Scott Derrickson basically said that it starts in early 2016 and ends around the real-world release date of November 2016, which is, in my opinion, insanely fast for that whole story to play out. Be a surgeon, be injured, recovery (such as it is), complete mental breakdown, discovery of Kamar-Taj, training, becoming the Sorcerer Supreme . . . I highly doubt that's in a period of nine to ten months. The MCU wiki indicates a starting date of April-May 2016. If that's the case, then I think it has to run substantially past the Nov. 2016 release date. MCU wiki has it ending after Homecoming, so that would be maybe a year and a half. Still a pretty short time for all that to happen.

But Strange does have surgeon awards and plaques dated 2016, so the car accident is definitely in 2016 sometime. And according to Derrickson, the reference to War Machine being injured in Civil War is actually not a reference to War Machine being injured in Civil War, it just sounds like it is. So, I think even the creators have no idea what's going on with the Strange timeline.

 

I’ve read about 10 months as well...but time is warped in Doctor Strange - so the training and such may have only been 10 months in ours or MCU time, but different in Kamar-Taj. Since time is in flux; I am okay with how quickly Stephen advanced (not forgetting his photographic memory) and Scott Derrickson not knowing Strange’s timeline.

 

It was a mutual killing.

 

He...he couldn't have.

 

nooo.....

 

It appears the Disney/Fox deal is done and will be announced on Thursday.