Oh, what a time to be alive. Echo is debuting in a few days, and all episodes being dropped on day one is NEVER a good sign, but all I know is it’ll be a fun time reviewing this show. Check out my preview of what will certainly be a full week of content.
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Wonderman is Alive?
My apologies everyone. I was under the impression that the Wonderman TV show was canceled during the Hollywood strike, but now that the strike is over, it has been reported that it will start production around Thanksgiving.
Wonderman and many other MCU shows will be part of the “Spotlight” section of the MCU, which means they aren’t part of the larger MCU continuity. Ok, let me see if I get this right. Marvel is now making shows and potential movies that won’t interact with the bigger world ending and Avenger Level Threats…and this is a good idea?
Which tells me one thing. The writers realized that added too many chaotic things to the franchise and there is no way to tell such stories in a logia manner anymore. Maybe having multiverse incursions, Celestial beings, Soul Eating Dragons, and a million Skrulls may have jumped the shark in the logical department.
For note, I wrote about how the Punisher wouldn’t be able to be in the MCU because why would he care about drug deals and gangsters when an alien invasion happened? But back to Wonderman, it’ll flop. This is more of a vanity project now than adding a new and exciting character to the MCU.
World War Joe
Why Wasn’t Heimdall Soul Stone?
Here is Google’s explanation of Heimdall’s all-seeing eyes:
“Heimdall sees and hears, all thanks to his extrasensory capabilities. His sight can extend across all Nine Realms and from the Bifrost Observatory, he can see 10 trillion souls”
So, he can see 10 trillion souls, and his eyes are orange, so why not make him the Soul Stone? Does that make more sense than flying to a distant planet, killing something you love, and then somehow ending up with the stone in your hand?
The Vormir concept still makes no sense, and is Thanos has some kind of Infinity Stone detector, attacking the ship that Heimdall was on makes sense. On that note, how did Thanos know where all the stones were? He just was flying through infinite space to somehow interact with the ship that Loki was on with the Space Stone? And then he just parks a block away from Dr. Strange’s house to get the Time Stone. But I’m getting off track here.
Long story short, Heimdall made the most sense as the keeper or the vessel of the Soul Stone and not Vormir, were the Red Skull was just watching over for some reason.
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March To The Twitter Drum
Loki the Skeptic Loki the Believer
Remember that sad emotional scene where Loki watches his future and becomes a better person from it? He sees himself and Thor becoming friends, getting along, seeing that he is the reason his mother was killed in Thor 2, ultimately sees himself die at the hands of Thanos and realizes this is his fate if he doesn’t change. Yet when He Who Remains shows Loki the script of what’s about to happen, he says “It’s a parlor trick”.
Ummm what?
Loki watched a montage of his future, took it as gospel, became a better person from it and now, all of a sudden, after he’s gone on this massive journey, now you’re a skeptic.
It reminds me of one of my favorite and most hated movies The Polar Express, where a child who doesn’t believe in Santa goes on a magical train ride, meets elves, sees Santa’s workshop yet when he finally sees Santa in person he doesn’t know if he believes.
That’s what happens when you try to shoe horn 3 movies of character development into one montage and then all of a sudden make the lead character go through actual moments of doubt.
X-23 : Marvel Strike Force
Easily one of my favorite characters in the game. X-23 has all the healing abilities as Wolverine, but I mainly use her because of the attack Feral Rage, which attacks the most damaged opponent for 4 attacks and if that enemy gets defeated, she continues the attack on to the next most damaged opponent. So, depending on how powerful the targets you can take out many opponents in one attack.
Simptastic Joe
Thor : Marvel Strike Force
0 downside to Thor. He deals a ton of damage on his 1st attack; his 2nd attack damages adjacent targets and his 3rd attack shoots lightening at all opponents and Stuns them. He is part of the Cosmic and Mystic classes so you can use him for the long run. I’m also leveling up Heimdall and Loki as well so all 3 give each other Asgardian buffs. And eventually the more damage Thor takes, he’s able to unleash a massive counter that hurts all opponents. Thor is a character that is built to be in a lot of starting rotations so I highly recommend putting a lot of points into him.
Simptastic Joe
Namor : Marvel Strike Force
I hate Namor. Don’t know why, but as soon as I got him, I’ve been trying to get him out of my main Villain squad, but he’s so easy to level up and does so much damage that I’m forced to keep him. Obviously, I’m drawn to characters that Summon other characters to my team or have more Perks and Bleeds to their moves. Namor doesn’t impress on paper, but somehow, he’s gotten me through a lot of the game as soon as I unlocked him. So, I don’t know if I recommend him. He will get you over the hump I think, but in the end, I keep him around until I get something better.
Simptastic Joe
Punisher : Marvel Strike Force
There really isn’t anything special about the Punisher. He feels like a more powerful Minion character. Attacks are simple, no real added Perks to them and his categories aren’t vast enough to put a lot of focus into. I wouldn’t bother with the Punisher in any aspect.
Simptastic Joe
Crossbones : Marvel Strike Force
Crossbones is one of the first characters you can unlock through the Events. All new users in this game start off with the Crossbones and Electra events. He’s not the best character you can get, but he still helps you a lot early on. He has just a simple attack, a Taunt with a 1-2 Counter you can upgrade, but his main use is his Detonate attack. Detonate gives him 2 Death Proof and hurts all enemies for 440% damage. It can’t miss, but it can be dodged. Either way this is the one reason I keep Crossbones around. There have been many matches where that Detonate saved my characters.
Would I recommend using him? Kinda. Like I said before, he’s mainly in my rotation because he’s easy to upgrade. His attack does have a chance of a bonus attack and does Defense Down, but it’s not like stacked on Bleeds or anything worse.
Simptastic Joe
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