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The Avengers! or why a Justice League film can't succeed!
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DC's The War Time Forgot.
They've got a showcase of it. 500 pages for less than 20 bucks.
It's pretty great.
The first issues are brutal. Almost everyone gets killed by dinosaurs. The "heroes" are just the guys the dinosaurs don't eat.
Later issues turn down the random, senseless death in favor of raw crazy. You'd think that just dinosaurs V. the army would be enough. This is why you are not Robert Kanigher. Every issue combines dinosaurs with another crazy plot, like a family of stunt skiers who were assigned the same unit and all but the youngest go snowblind, so they can't see the dinosaurs. (A typical issue)
If that didn't sell you, (doubtful), this might:
G.I. Robot.
Is Assemble even in 616? Because
They give plenty of information about Thor: he's an Asgardian and the brother of the main villian. His people are powerful enough that they are essentially gods. He can control lightning. He's here to try and stop Loki and take him back home, because dispite what Loki has and will do, he still loves him. We have backstory and motivation. Ray Palmer got niether. Just a generic "He's a scientist" from what I remember. He just shows up, hands off the plot device and calls it a day. But even disregarding that, the situations are not similar at all.
It'd be more akin to watching the Avengers, having it presented exactly as it is, only with some extra news clippings at one point with Reed Richards on them. Then Reed Richards show up right before the final battle, hands off the Ultimate Nullifier to Tony Stark, who then uses it to kill the baddies and save the day. People are going to be "WTF?"
And "it's a love letter to blah blah blah" isn't a a good answer: the movie should be able to stand on it's own merits, espcially if it's presented as a stand-alone product.. ESPECIALLY if we're talking about using it for the basis of a Justice League movie, which is where this conversation started.
This does give me an idea.
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a) i'm almost positive people are talking tonally not literally "just do it like new frontier"
b) my point is you're expected to know who these people are in the avengers much like you're expected to have a passing familiarity with the golden and silver ages and furthermore you're wrong because new frontier kicks ass and you are a goose
Oh yeah.
I didn't even mention Mace and Morgan.
They're a two man suicide squad team. Mace is an ex-olympic bobsledder who cost the country the medal and his partner his life when he froze up.
Morgan is the brother of Mace's bobsledding partner. And he is just a tremendous dick. Nothing will convince him Mace won't freeze up. So he constantly shoves a gun in Mace's back and tells him if he doesn't complete the mission, he'll be murdered.
Mace regularly kills dinosaurs. This does nothing to convince Morgan he isn't a coward who needs to be shot. Mace, meanwhile, never reports any of this to the higher ups.
It's great.
Is it reader friendly if it doesn't match up with other titles? Won't that just confuse new readers when they expand their horizons into other series?
The entire plot of the movie is that the superhero community is banding together to face a giant threat. Ray Palmer is mentioned several times in the film, and the whole thrust of the last battle is that all of these dudes are coming together, not just the central Justice League. The movie is about community. It focuses on several pillars of that community, but the last battle is about the group as a whole finally leaving their separate lives and forming a coherent world.
The story is literally about the formation of the DC continuity. Palmer comes in because Batman is shown to know about him, and forms a complicated plan that uses all of the heroes' skills to pull off (flash to implement, atom to design, lantern and fighters to go inside, and the larger group to engage the dinosaurs etc.).
It isn't a deus ex machina, because that term means that something entirely alien to the plot of the story comes out of the sky to save the heroes. This specifically does not happen. The theme of a large community is coherent through the entire story, and the final battle is the culmination of that.
Uh, actually, no you're not. They specifically wrote the Avengers so that you can watch it if you haven't seen the previous five movies. Every character has their motivations and personalities explain or shown. You're comparing the starring characters to a character that, had he not just shown up to deliver a plot device, would have amounted to a cameo.
Actually, there's my issue: the plot was decided by a cameo. And more importantly it could have been avoided. Just a scene or two showing off Palmer building the device, and explain why he's building the damn thing. He doesn't even have backstory, let alone an arc, which would be okay if the entire plot didn't wind up riding on him.
I'm sorry I disagree with how a movie you really like ended. It was a pretty good film aside from the flimsy way they beat the final boss, and I would not like to see it repeated if they decided to use the center in a Justice League movie.
Time to kneel before darkseid
Have two of their rogues come together for a bigger plot, then have Batman and Superman team up. They can allude to run ins with other characters in the universes, but not use specific names. Then at the end, they mention that they should start a team.
still sounds like michael ironside, though
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So Grandpa goodness sounds like Mary Tyler Moore?
I see no downside if she plays with my omega beams
Scene before this Starlord is all "Yoohoo, Thanos! Over here!"
Just seems weird. We wouldn't be able to pull from different solo story-lines, we'd be cut off from past references, jokes and cameos.
Just seems odd.
it doesn't seem like Wonder Woman can get past TV
everyone knows Batman and Green Lantern
the general public wouldn't recognize the rest of the crew, which are mostly Wonder Twin and Aquaman jokes
Flash. You're tied to a very large boomerang.
Yeah?
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That sounds fucking incredible.
You've shattered my mind.
so, any movie with Darkseid has to have Black Racer and Metron and Scott Free and Big Barda, and has to be really silver-agey and ridiculous?
any major dude will tell you
Oh my GOD.
It has to have at least one other New God for Darkseid to talk to, like Granny Goodness or Desaad or Glorious Godfrey
It also has to have a planet named Apokolips with continent-sized fire pits
Not to mention it has to feature the line "the tiger-force at the core of all things"
Well, that last one is just something I really want to happen
I guess I can roll with that
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