[trailer] Avengers! My day is made

Is that last thing Jörmungandr, the Midgard serpent?

It's good to see Loki bringing his kids to work...

double post

Interesting to see that in NA, it is called Avengers, and in the UK (according to the trailer), it is called Avengers Assemble.

mudbunny wrote:

Interesting to see that in NA, it is called Avengers, and in the UK (according to the trailer), it is called Avengers Assemble.

It's not very hard to guess the reason

What in the hell did they do to Cap's costume? (I'm a huge Cap fan.) It was fine for his film. I know they want to modernize it a bit, but ugh! It looks worse than the 70s film version. Other than that, looks good.

sithcundman wrote:

What in the hell did they do to Cap's costume? (I'm a huge Cap fan.) It was fine for his film. I know they want to modernize it a bit, but ugh! It looks worse than the 70s film version. Other than that, looks good. :)

Agreed. Also, he was fine with using guns in WW2, but he doesn't need them anymore in the 21st century?

Nevin73 wrote:
sithcundman wrote:

What in the hell did they do to Cap's costume? (I'm a huge Cap fan.) It was fine for his film. I know they want to modernize it a bit, but ugh! It looks worse than the 70s film version. Other than that, looks good. :)

Agreed. Also, he was fine with using guns in WW2, but he doesn't need them anymore in the 21st century?

He has been working out a lot since then.

Nevin73 wrote:
sithcundman wrote:

What in the hell did they do to Cap's costume? (I'm a huge Cap fan.) It was fine for his film. I know they want to modernize it a bit, but ugh! It looks worse than the 70s film version. Other than that, looks good. :)

Agreed. Also, he was fine with using guns in WW2, but he doesn't need them anymore in the 21st century?

Now he has a Hulk.

Grenn wrote:

*squee*

Man, that looks fun.

Bow-guy looks silly, still, he better do something cool u_u

Mex wrote:

Bow-guy looks silly, still, he better do something cool u_u

Hawkeye looks out of place.

Hawkeye has always seemed out of place. Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, Iron Man, etc, etc, and then... a guy who's great with a bow and arrow.

Wee.

Thin_J wrote:

Hawkeye has always seemed out of place. Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, Iron Man, etc, etc, and then... a guy who's great with a bow and arrow.

Wee.

Hot Girl AKA Chikipie AKA What's Her Name isn't anything better than a gun toting martial artist either, right?

HedgeWizard wrote:
Thin_J wrote:

Hawkeye has always seemed out of place. Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, Iron Man, etc, etc, and then... a guy who's great with a bow and arrow.

Wee.

Hot Girl AKA Chikipie AKA What's Her Name isn't anything better than a gun toting martial artist either, right?

Hot girls always have a place!!

These guys better fight the X-men. Colossus vs Thor was pretty great in the comic, although the Wolvie vs Cap fight could have been better.

Spoiler:

Colossus beats the crap out of Thor. Cap just shoots Wolverine a bunch, Iceman shows up and destroys the machines stopping the phycics and then Prof X just knocks everyone out

HedgeWizard wrote:
Thin_J wrote:

Hawkeye has always seemed out of place. Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, Iron Man, etc, etc, and then... a guy who's great with a bow and arrow.

Wee.

Hot Girl AKA Chikipie AKA What's Her Name isn't anything better than a gun toting martial artist either, right?

Black Widow is indeed another great example of a character who doesn't fit in with the others. There's been a fair number of characters that don't really seem to belong with the others over the course of the Avengers existence.

Thin_J wrote:
HedgeWizard wrote:
Thin_J wrote:

Hawkeye has always seemed out of place. Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, Iron Man, etc, etc, and then... a guy who's great with a bow and arrow.

Wee.

Hot Girl AKA Chikipie AKA What's Her Name isn't anything better than a gun toting martial artist either, right?

Black Widow is indeed another great example of a character who doesn't fit in with the others. There's been a fair number of characters that don't really seem to belong with the others over the course of the Avengers existence.

Pretty common in the super hero mythos, though; I've heard the JLA described as "Superman, plus six people whose job it is to kick the green rock out of the room".

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Pretty common in the super hero mythos, though; I've heard the JLA described as "Superman, plus six people whose job it is to kick the green rock out of the room".

It stands out more with the incarnation of the Avengers that we're seeing here though. Everybody's massively super powered in some fashion or another and then you have an archery expert and a genetically engineered martial arts expert along for the ride.

Thin_J wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Pretty common in the super hero mythos, though; I've heard the JLA described as "Superman, plus six people whose job it is to kick the green rock out of the room".

It stands out more with the incarnation of the Avengers that we're seeing here though. Everybody's massively super powered in some fashion or another and then you have an archery expert and a genetically engineered martial arts expert along for the ride.

The reason it isn't a big deal is they don't always fight super monsters, etc. There are plenty of things that die by gunfire and plenty of evil minions that are meatflesh underneath. If you watch the newest Avenger animated series you can get a feel for the different enemy groups they encounter.

karmajay wrote:

The reason it isn't a big deal is they don't always fight super monsters, etc. There are plenty of things that die by gunfire and plenty of evil minions that are meatflesh underneath. If you watch the newest Avenger animated series you can get a feel for the different enemy groups they encounter.

This is terrible reasoning.

If you have something for regular people to do, send some Shield agents. That's what people like Black Widow and Hawkeye should be anyway. There's zero reason to associate them with the Avengers like that.

It's something that's never made any sense, and never will. Even in the confines of a silly thing like the Marvel comics universe, it still doesn't make sense.

Thin_J wrote:
karmajay wrote:

The reason it isn't a big deal is they don't always fight super monsters, etc. There are plenty of things that die by gunfire and plenty of evil minions that are meatflesh underneath. If you watch the newest Avenger animated series you can get a feel for the different enemy groups they encounter.

This is terrible reasoning.

If you have something for regular people to do, send some Shield agents. That's what people like Black Widow and Hawkeye should be anyway. There's zero reason to associate them with the Avengers like that.

It's something that's never made any sense, and never will. Even in the confines of a silly thing like the Marvel comics universe, it still doesn't make sense.

Well, by that token I'm not sure Cap should really have much place there either. He's more or less human with a shield. No real super powers to mention.

Nevin73 wrote:

Well, by that token I'm not sure Cap should really have much place there either. He's more or less human with a shield. No real super powers to mention.

You mean except the part where he could break Black Widow or Hawkeye in half without any real effort?

Meh.

I don't know much about the regular Avengers, but in their Ultimate incarnation Black Widow and Hawkeye (as well as Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch) were kind of a B-team black ops subsection of the Ultimates, doing things the superheroes wouldn't do. The movie version of the characters certain dress like the Ultimate ones...

DFKQ wrote:

I don't know much about the regular Avengers, but in their Ultimate incarnation Black Widow and Hawkeye (as well as Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch) were kind of a B-team black ops subsection of the Ultimates, doing things the superheroes wouldn't do. The movie version of the characters certain dress like the Ultimate ones...

And in the older versions of the comics Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch both ended up on the West Coast Avengers team with Spider-Woman and a bunch of other low tier characters.

But that's neither here nor there. These movies use the comics as a base but only use details, never the whole thing.

Maybe Hawkeye fires really poisonous arrows to make up for his lack of superpowers.

Scarlet uses her super tight pants to distract enemies.

mooosicle wrote:

Scarlet uses her super tight pants to distract enemies.

Pfff, what kind of morons are these guys figh-
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DAAAAAAAAMN

I'm worried about the new trailer. It sounds and the fighting looks scarily like Transformers. Total turn-off.

jlaakso wrote:

I'm worried about the new trailer. It sounds and the fighting looks scarily like Transformers. Total turn-off.

With you there. Yeah, it looks all nice and shiny, but I'm seriously starting to think that they're not showing plot, not because, ooooooooo, spoilers, it's that awesome, but because there isn't any. Cookie cutter, paint by numbers...I'm really, REALLY skeptic about this one...Even Spiderman's reboot has me more intrigued than this...

Mex wrote:
mooosicle wrote:

Scarlet uses her super tight pants to distract enemies.

Pfff, what kind of morons are these guys figh-
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DAAAAAAAAMN

Yeah, that distracted me.

BACON!

A really kick ass Japanese trailer. WOW!!

No, no DOUBLE WOW!

Thin_J wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Pretty common in the super hero mythos, though; I've heard the JLA described as "Superman, plus six people whose job it is to kick the green rock out of the room".

It stands out more with the incarnation of the Avengers that we're seeing here though. Everybody's massively super powered in some fashion or another and then you have an archery expert and a genetically engineered martial arts expert along for the ride.

Stories are about the characters, not the character sheets. A superhero's powers are only interesting in as far as they define their interaction with the world. The most interesting thing about Wolverine isn't his claws but his longevity. Batman's an exciting hero because he's far more than the sum of his abilities whereas Superman is far less. Hulk could eat the rest of the Avengers for lunch but the problem is he just might. Black Widow isn't much more than a female Jason Bourne in a catsuit but, hey, that's a movie I'd watch.