Thanks for the heads up.

To everyone else please don’t make me do work and have to ban things. :)

TLDR Yelena & Bob are the standouts, which is good to hear.

Pike. The old one.

It’s the chair.

Franklin Richards confirmed.

Also we still don’t have a reveal for John Malkovich. I know the expectation is Downey Doom in a mid/post credits but I’m wondering if we get him earlier. Reed Richards has a lot on his plate and I wonder if he makes some poor Doom-related choices.

I expect they’ll patch both. Start with patches to the Switch and then, if the game can be patched, patch that.

If I only get to pick one, I pick Jessica Jones.

I think you can easily say that Luke & Claire moved away and Danny moved to some new magic realm.

But! If you’re bringing them back, bring back everyone. Not just Jessica, Luke & Danny, bring back Misty Knight and Colleen Wing and just any side character we’ve introduced. We had Endgame. We’re going to have Secret Wars. Give us the small screen version.

I mean in a war on vigilantes, the return of the Defenders makes sense. I expect us to see a new White Tiger next season. We already have Swordsman. Why not bring back some old ones?

I mean it was just declared, so they probably haven’t had a chance to take interest yet.

But… If the show takes place during the Ritson administration (Secret Invasion president) you can just say that he is a weak/shitty President and that’s why the federal government isn’t doing a lot.

But… If the show takes place during the Ross administration (Brave New World president) you can just say that the President just turned into the Red Hulk and the federal government is in disarray and that’s why the federal government isn’t doing a lot.

I expect it will come up next season, but I also guess that Fisk will have/create a generally good approval rating for himself so the New York governor will be hesitant to step in.

I think that’s the most likely with the special presentation, just start with that exact scene. However I’d prefer if we saved the next story beat for Daredevil season 2.

The reason I want to hold back is that we know Frank can’t win during his special presentation, because we need the anti-vigilant task force for Daredevil. We also know he can’t kill the current face of the Taskforce, Officer Powell, because again we need him in season 2.

I think going back and seeing what Frank has done and been up to prior to the current season makes more sense. Maybe Frank isn’t even in New York until he hears something about the Punisher in New York. Frank can then find and defeat a whole team of knock offs, only to realize this hydra has too many heads, setting up the team up with Daredevil and others more directly.

Yes.

Marvel TV shows also tend to hover around TV-14 (US ratings), which is the TV equivalent. Echo & Daredevil Born Again do venture into TV-MA but that’s more for violence, they still don’t (rarely?) say “fuck”.

It’s like Smash Bros, we’re getting everyone.

Technically only Benedict Wong is the spoiler, since James Marsden had a chair in the chair reveal teaser. Plus of course the Sorcerer Supreme is in the film, that’s why Doctor Strange is allowed to sit this one out. (Although he probably won’t.)

Honestly he’s what excites me the most about the film. I like all the characters, don’t get me wrong, but Marvel has the opportunity here to do something really fun with Sentry.

I think Fantastic Four will be the kickoff of a new high quality Marvel era as they setup Doomsday and Secret Wars. My hope is they get to start early and can sneak it into Thunderbolts.The characters are there, the story is there, I just hope they can pull it off.

Killing Kingpin would be a huge mistake. Villains should stick around (generally). I’m fine if someone wants to step up and eliminate Fisk, but keep him around.

But really I want to see Kingpin win, and keep winning. When Kingpin showed up in Hawkeye, Hawkeye says that’s the guy he’s worried about… And he basically just loses.

As Mayor he’s rising up. He’s just won back Vanessa. His Taskforce are free to do whatever they want. Now he needs to win something else. He needs to just dominate. Others can try to take him down, maybe some are even successful, but he always needs the ability to come back.

Wow. I did not have Daredevil taking bullet for Kingpin on my bingo card.

So much about this episode to love, it’s sad the finale is next week. I know they’re filming season 2 right now so it’ll be “soon”, but the wait will suuuuuuck.

Anyway Michael Gandolfini continues to be my favorite new character. He’s a believer in Fisk. BB playing him, but Fisk has to know. Oh it’s going to be brutal.

Also confirmation of Swordsman. I hope Tony Dalton sticks around for a long time. I just love when a minor character gets elevated to top tier status.

But of course our winner this week is Bullseye. Nearly killed a guy with his tooth, then finished him and another off with a pair of scissors (?). It’s the perfect level of “superhero” wackiness. Kingpin created him, so to see him fully unleashed is just beautiful.

I suspect the MCU Spider-Man is a special case.

While legally Sony can use Tom Holland Spider-Man whenever and wherever they want, see Morbius post-credit where Vulture appears and says “I think it has something to do with Spider-Man” or Venom 2 post-credits where Venom jumps into the MCU and sees Spider-Man.

I suspect they won’t actually jeopardize the Sony-Marvel/Disney relationship by actually using him, unless the two companies agree to use them (and associated properties) together.

I think Sony COULD introduce a new Kingpin, but they want to leave that position open for a deal with Marvel/Disney.

I think Marvel also could probably put Kingpin in a film, but doing so without Sony slightly jeopardizes future deals with Sony.

I also agree there are probably rumors of a future Sony deal, so this is a misdirect. (Although he might not actually have any insider knowledge.)

Technically Spider-verse is Sony and those are excellent films.

However for live action I completely agree they are duds.

The article doesn’t specifically name Sony, but since it’s probably them, I wonder if it’s a situation similar to Wanda & Pietro Maximoff?

Based on my reading elsewhere “New Regency” was the last company to hold the Daredevil rights (distributed by Fox), but those reverted to Marvel in 2015.

So the 2003 Daredevil film could use Wilson Fisk as a Daredevil character, but can’t reference Spider-Man. And the 2002 Spider-Man film could have used Wilson Fisk, but can’t reference Daredevil.

Just like Wanda & Pietro, they are “Avengers” characters, but we couldn’t call them “mutants”. Similarly the Fox X-Men could use Pietro as a “mutant”, but not as an “Avenger”.

If that’s true then technically they could probably make a Daredevil film with Fisk as the villain, but they can’t talk about Spider-Man. Unless there was something special in the revert to Marvel in 2015 that left live action film right for Daredevil exclusively with Sony.

We’ve seen Daredevil in live action film, but to be fair that was a Sony Spider-Man film. So it may loop around to not happening, unless Sony says yes. Which, if we assume the newly announced Spider-Man is a planned trilogy, I fully expect Sony to agree to having Daredevil & Spider-Man team up to take on Fisk in Spider-Man 5 or 6.

Sure… until the end of the film. I suspect the mid credits will setup the introduction to the rest of the MCU.

I’m surprised how quickly the Muse storyline seems to have wrapped up.

Also Vanessa betraying Fisk, but he seems to know about it and not care. I feel like a conversation between them could clear things up without the killing, but maybe that’s just how villains say <3.