Trailer for The Avengers - first "real" one

[kirke_novak]

We still don't know who the enemy is (my money on Skrulls), I don't believe it's Loki
I already ship Natasha/Loki
Steve has a gun, all is right with the world
Don't like how they just attached Hulk at the end - is he in the film for just 3 seconds?

Comments

[mrstatham]

I think if they'd gotten Antman out a lot quicker, any potential for Wasp to be in the Avengers would've been there, since I knew Edgar Wright was working on that film since before I knew he was working on Scott Pilgrim. But I don't quite know what happened there.

But I agree that there are easily ways she could fit onto this team. She could be a uniform/equipment designer for SHIELD who ends up using her own tech as the plot demands, she could be the suggested 'interesting' version of her Ultimates scientist incarnation. Or she could just be fairly removed from the comics and be something of a hardcore secret weapon for Fury who still maintains a cute attitude.

But why are we really surprised she's not there? Marvel has zero respect for her, even as the founding Avenger who came up with the name, in the books, and if Bendis has any influence over this movie - and he did for Iron Man, as did Millar (god knows why) - then he could've nudged them away from using her, since he has some obvious disdain for the character.

Also, whatever happened to those rumours about Eva Longoria as Jan? She's the last person I'd want in the role, personally, but those rumours were thick a year or so back, and she was even seen going into Marvel..

[khamelea]

It's not because it's predictable that I can't react with disbelief.

But really, what I expressed surprise at was that Hawkeye took priority. To be honest, I was thinking that about Black Widow as well. But explaining that would be more complicated, and also since I actually saw Iron Man 2 I had more advance warning that she'd be in there.

[mrstatham]

To be fair, unlike Hawkeye being shoehorned into one scene of Thor, I thought Natasha's role in IM2 was quite well done and a great nod to how she originally appeared in the books, only simplifying her role down to make her just an agent of SHIELD.

[khamelea]

Yes, her role was pretty much no more or less jarring than the rest of the SHIELD elements of IM2.

It's her role as the only female part of an iconic superhero team that I can't really conceive of as not being jarring.