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Ep. 150. Marvel Cinematic Universe loose plot threads · Vigilante Vibes Podcast

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  Hi guys, it's Megan with vigilante vibes and I am here
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  today to talk to you about the random plot threads that are
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  just there in the MCU. Marvel Cinematic Universe plot
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  threads are just they're waiting to thrive.
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  I want to discuss all the ones I came up with.
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  If I missed any, which is more than likely I did because it
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  happens, let me know in the comments.
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  But before you comment and say just be patient or Kevin Feige
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  said in 10 to 15 years all of these will be resolved, yadda
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  yadda yadda. You're absolutely right, we
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  should be patient and just enjoy the ride.
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  But I don't think there's anything wrong with being
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  excited to see how all of these threads play out.
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  We're just discussing them in general.
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  So the first one that comes to mind, that kind of just sits
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  there in the back of my brain a lot is in the Eternals.
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  Black Knight, played by Kit Harington, picks up the Ebony
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  Blade, which concretes his role as the Black Knight.
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  But that's not all. We also hear Blade whisper sweet
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  nothings in his ear, which is the first and only time so far
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  we got Blade in the MCU. So that's kind of like A2 gut
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  punches in one. Speaking of Eternals, we also
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  got Star Fox, the brother of the Mad Titan Thanos who made a
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  cameo in the post credits scene along with Pip the troll who's
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  CGI sure was something. Star Fox, played by Harry
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  Styles, shows up to help the remaining Eternals.
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  And he looked so good doing it. And then they just took it away.
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  Something about Marvel, they do not want us to remember that
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  Eternals happened. They want us to pretend it never
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  happened and to just move on with our lives.
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  And I don't think we should. Just out of pure spite.
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  Even if you didn't like the movie you got to, you got to go
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  for the little guy, you know, the underdog.
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  The next one, Sharon Carter, played by Emily Van Camp, is the
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  Power Broker. And in a strange turn of events,
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  is a villain and is a part of a bigger government conspiracy.
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  Personally, I would have really liked to see where that went.
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  But they were just like, you know what, Just do this and
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  we'll never talk about it again. And I like Emily Van Camp, she's
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  a good actor, so I would have liked them.
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  White Vision, of course, we have the Vision series coming up and
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  I can only assume it'll be White Vision that's the main star.
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  But I think it's bananas how long it's been since we last saw
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  Vision and Wanda Vision. So yeah, it'll be followed up.
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  But as of now, dangling thread. The next one.
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  Hercules. Y'all remember at the end of
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  Thor Love and Thunder we randomly got Hercules played by
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  Roy Kent and he's sent by Zeus to get revenge on Thor?
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  Yeah. What's wild to me is that the
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  actor who played Hercules in that very small scene was rushed
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  into the role. Like I think he only had a
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  couple weeks notice and he didn't have any time to prepare.
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  Like putting on muscle for the role to make him look more like
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  Hercules should, only for it to never be spoken about again.
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  So seems like a lot of wasted effort and stress to go into
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  nothing. Speaking of Thor Ford, Thor is
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  now a father to a little girl named Love who's actually his
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  real daughter in real life, which is cool or whatever.
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  But are we ever going to see love?
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  Because I don't think we will. I think we're we're done with
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  that point, which is fine. It's cool.
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  It was kind of, it felt a little forced from both characters
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  anyways, not I mean, I know they're father and daughter in
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  real life, but it was just like, I guess in Thor Ford, after you
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  watch the movie, you're kind of like this might as well happen.
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  He might as well be a new dad. For some reason, I really hate
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  that movie. But so Speaking of father
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  figures, Hulk and She Hulk, well, at the end of She Hulk, we
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  were introduced to a fully grown Hulk's son, Sakhar.
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  We were introduced to him by the same man who told Natasha
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  Romanoff that he cannot have children.
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  So there's that. And it was, it was a it was a
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  choice. If you know anything about
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  Sakhar in the comics, you know that the only thing he really
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  has in common with a human being is just 4 limbs.
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  This guy is crazy, he is unhinged, he is nuts.
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  And then we get this mild mannered, calm, balding son and
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  it was just like, OK, sure. Moving on.
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  And Speaking of more father figures, T'challa had a secret
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  son and no one knew about T'challa Junior except the
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  mother Nokia and T'challa's mother.
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  Can I just say how excellent the casting was for little T'challa?
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  I feel like that doesn't get brought up enough.
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  But like, he could very well pass as Chadwick Boseman's son.
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  RIP. Now the next one, a piece of the
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  Venom symbiote was left at a bar in the Sacred Timeline.
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  What's wild is that Tom Hardy is done playing Venom and the Venom
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  versus No more. So what exactly was their plan
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  here? Did they think they were going
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  to go past Craven the Hunter and Venom 3?
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  Because there's just no way it, I don't know if I feel like it
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  was just there just to toy with us.
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  But the next one, I didn't want to bring it up because I don't
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  there's only a couple things that MCU I do not like and it is
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  Thor Four and Secret Invasion. So Secret Invasion Gaia, played
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  by Emilia Clarke. You guys wasted her in the MCU.
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  She could have been something great, but you did this to her
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  is now the strongest being on Earth, holding all of the powers
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  of The Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, even Thanos.
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  So she is the most powerful being on Earth and it's like
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  we're just going to pretend she doesn't exist.
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  She doesn't. Nothing happens.
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  No one, no one is alerted to that.
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  No one is nervous about that. Doctor Strange isn't like I've
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  been keeping an eye on her. Nothing at all.
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  We just pretend it didn't happen.
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  But I also think Marvel Studios would really like us to forget
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  Secret Invasion ever happened. And with that, I will happily
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  comply because if you'll remember, Nick Fury said that
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  you have to watch Secret Invasion to understand what is
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  happening in The Marvels. I think when we all watched The
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  Marvels, we were like, this has absolutely nothing to do with
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  Secret Invasion. So I think Marvel's like, you
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  know what, back it up, backed it up, Terry, we're not going to
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  keep going. So that's fine.
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  I will comply with that. The next one, we can't not talk
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  about the Council of Kings. At the end of Quantum Mania, we
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  see an entire football stadium filled with various kings.
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  And like we all know this scene is absolutely useless thanks to
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  all the stuff that happened with Jonathan Majors.
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  But it doesn't have to be useless folks.
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  My dream for Marvel and this scene is to be the opening scene
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  of Avengers Doomsday. We see all the Kangs being
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  thrown about, dead kings laying around just to see a being in
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  the middle of the arena. And we see from behind, by the
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  way, has to be from behind or the the aesthetics won't flow.
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  And the Last King variant off and we zoom in and we see it's
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  Doctor Doom. It's the perfect way to
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  establish just how strong Doom is.
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  And Doom's introduction should have always involved Kang
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  because they're so intertwined in the comics.
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  So it just makes sense. And plus, it's right there,
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  Marvel, just call me. I'll give you the rights to it.
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  My gosh. Moving on.
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  Mordo believes there are way too many sorcerers on Earth and is
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  out to take them all out out to take them all out.
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  This was a post credit scene in Doctor Strange and in Multiverse
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  of Madness. Start with This was a post
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  credit scene. This was a post credit scene in
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  Doctor Strange and in Multiverse of Madness.
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  Mordo hunting them down as talked about in a past tense,
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  but it felt like the credit scene was leading up to Mordo's
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  quest being a bigger thing to be explored in the future project.
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  But as far as I'm aware, we only ever got that mention in
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  Multiverse of Madness and that scene basically means nothing
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  now, So what can you do? But also Speaking of Doctor
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  Strange, Charlize Theron shows up as Clay Clea Clee.
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  I've never heard someone say it out loud.
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  She's Doctor Strange's wife in the comics, and I believe she
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  becomes Sorcerer Supreme in the comics as well.
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  After Steven Strange kicks the bucket, she shows up to take
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  Doctor Strange into a dark realm to stop an incursion.
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  If you don't remember the scene, maybe a good way to remember is
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  when it is when we saw Doctor Strange's third eye and it sure
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  was a sight. But Speaking of that movie,
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  America Chavez, where are you? I know she was interviewed
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  earlier this week about if she's in Avengers Doomsday and of
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  course, in the Marvel Way. She didn't confirm it, but her
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  answers were interesting to say the least.
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  Like when she was asked about her being so hard at work on
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  Avengers and she responds with very.
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  And there's a few other little instances that sounds like she's
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  in the movie and she never actually says she isn't in the
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  movie. This is an ET online interview,
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  by the way, if you want to check it out.
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  Moving on, Moon Night's third personality, Jake.
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  This one has eaten away at my soul because I'm such a huge
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  Moon Night fan. As much as I enjoy the series
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  for what it was, it just wasn't a great origin for Moon Night.
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  And that is very, very evident seeing as though they left off a
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  third of Moon Night until the very, very end.
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  And of course, I'm talking about Jake.
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  Jake is seen driving around Konshu and I would really like
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  to see what they do with Jake, but they they just, they want us
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  to not think about Moon Knight for some reason.
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  Moving on, Miss Marvel, played by the amazing I'm Aman Vilani,
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  is putting together what we can assume was once Young Avengers,
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  but with the aging process and the fact that it's been years
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  now, they'll probably be called champions.
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  We see her try to recruit Kate Bishop in a very Nick Fury way.
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  The next one, Scorpion, played by Michael Mando, wants to know
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  Spider Man's identity. The good news is that with this
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  will actually be handled in Spider Man 4 Brand New Day.
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  The actor has been posting his looks from the set of Spider Man
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  4 and it's been confirmed that he's in the movie and all good
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  things are coming. So it's nice to see one of these
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  things get resolved and I'm excited to see what they do with
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  Scorpion. That's a very underrated villain
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  in my opinion. So also this is a whole group of
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  dangling threads that are lumped together.
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  But Werewolf by night, Man Thing, Elsa Bledstone, Where are
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  you hiding them all? Marvel because they are great
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  characters. Elsa Bledstone is so cool.
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  Man Thing is so cool. I want to see them give us
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  another special presentation for the Halloween time.
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  I don't care about Marvel Zombies, I want this.
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  So the last two is the Fantastic Four tease and Thunderbolts and
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  the Doctor Doom tease and Fantastic Four for steps.
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  These are teases for Avengers Doomsday and I'm so glad they're
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  actually teasing the movie, giving us some kind of build up.
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  Personally I think they should have taken the Thanos build up
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  route and dropped a Doctor Doom and credit scene with every
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  Marvel project until Doomsday. But that's just me.
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  I think they have a lot of ground to cover when they
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  pivoted from the whole Kang of it all.
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  And no matter what Kevin Feige says, they're they're they did
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  not decide to pivot 2 Kang before the Jonathan Major stuff
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  happened. There's no possible way you put
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  an entire phase on one man's shoulder.
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  And I hope you guys learn from this.
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  But we're getting Doctor Doom. We will see how it goes.
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  Can't judge it till we see it. So yeah, those are some of the
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  MCU threads that are just loose ends threads.
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  They're just dangling there. If I forgot any, which of course
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  I did, I'm sure, let me know in the comments and be sure to like
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