Avengers 2: Age Of Ultron.

Seeing as the drone suits were what killed IM3 for me, if they go with that angle and IM3 was a setup for A2, then I'll like IM3 better.

Why? It just stands to reason from the other ones.
If Jarvis can control the unfolding of the suits, he can control the suits.
Really not that big a leap.

It's not Iron Man without Tony Stark in the suit.

If one of the goals of the film franchises is to generate interest in the comics, it doesn't make sense to completely change the origins of the characters. All that does is generate needless confusion.

And Marvel's constant fucking around with Pym was why I quit reading The Avengers. For a long time, it just seemed like Pym's hand was in everything that went wrong. If he wasn't having some kind of emotional crisis, he'd done something that turned out to be a disaster. They went through several story arcs like this, then Pym announced that it was him changing identities (Ant Man, the Wasp [or Yellow Jacket or Honky Hornet, I don't remember], etc.) and that by sticking with being Ant Man, he'd be fine. Then he promptly went crazy again, and I said the hell with it.

West Coast Avengers went a long way towards redeeming him only to have it chucked out the window. Then Secret Invasion sort of fixes things a little bit. So far, Avengers AI has done a good job of giving him a purpose.

West Coast Avengers brings me back to 1986. I used to always see issues of it in the neighborhood comic book store when I bought issues of the now called G1 TF comic book. I used to think back then it was cool both WCA and TF took place on the West Coast.

But as I learned later that wasn't the case. Marvel segregated TF off into its own isolated canonuity, separate from the mainstream conventional Marvel canonuity. Well, at least, FWIW, Peter Parker/Spider-Man has a counterpart in that Marvel TF micro-canonuity, as he was the Special Guest Superhero in issue 3 of the then 4 issue limited TF series. To boo$t $ale$ obviou$ly!

Why?

He was never a good fit for its creation, whilst Stark makes a great deal of sense.

Yup, and look at how many of those suits under JARVIS control got fucked up in the fight almost immediately. He can control the Iron Man suits if need be, but he's no Iron Man.

I'd love this because it also seems like an opportunity to do the I Robot idea justice. Have the rise of JARVIS (or at least something descended from him) be a believable logical progression where JARVIS is just doing what makes the most sense based on mission goals programmed into him.

Okay, haven't updated this in awhile.

As you probably know, Kick-Ass is Quicksilver, and Elizabeth Olsen is Scarlet Witch.

Now comes word that Baron Von Strucker will be the secondary villain.
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/30194/another-age-of-ultron-villain-revealed

No word on casting yet.

I nabbed a scoop after all!

Moar fotoz.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/308551-first-official-photos-from-avengers-age-of-ultron-revealed

I'm shocked. Ultron looks good. Really good.

Whedon spills some beans on Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and Vision.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/3...let-witch-quicksilver-and-the-vision#/slide/1

Quicksilver and Vision!!

Whedon says there are 4 prominent female characters.
The obvious 3 are Black Widow, Mariah Hill, and Scarlet Witch.

Who's the fourth?
Get speculating!

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/33110/-ultron-scores-another-female-role-photo

Wasp? I mean, Ultron always had an Oedipal thing going with her . . .

The fourth is Peggy Carter. (She's listed in the cast on IMDB.)

And it's Maria, not Mariah!!!

So the film is just going to be a rehash of the first one, only replacing generic alien cannon fodder with robot cannon fodder?

Didn't Lucas do that already with the Droid army vs. Gungans at the end of Phantom?

That's the genre.

Superhero movies are about good versus evil, and a tale worthy of a movie is going to have some huge (probably existential) threat worthy of a TEAM of superheroes, therefore the climax will probably center on a battle.

In a western, the climax probably involves a gunfight.

In an Indiana Jones film, it will be Jones forgoing the artifact he was questing for (e.g., the ark of the covenant, the Sankara stones, the Holy Grail, the treasure of the Incas) because he realizes something else (Marion, the children of the Indian village, his father's love, the release of the inter-dimensional beings) is more important.

I'm sure someone could make a great World War II movie about a corporal working at a logistics center in Iowa, but audiences probably won't see it. They want to see soldiers fighting the Germans or the Japanese.

I'm not a fan of any of this stuff, but I'm curious to know how Tony Stark is coming back as Iron Man after getting rid of his chest implant.

War Machine/Iron Patriot doesn't need an implant.

The big Avengers 2 uber-poster is complete!

The implant existed to power the electromagnet keeping the shrapnel from killing him, powering the suit was a byproduct, just means the new suit will need it;s own ARC reactor as IP and all the other suits from IM3 had.

Glad IM3 removed it, as given his tech the need for it was getting silly, although IM3 did at least hint at him not doing anything about it sooner as being psychological.

It's . . . busy.

This film is going to kick sooooooo much ass...

I've recently re-watched all of the MCU movies in order. All were were at least good (even IM 3, my least favorite). They've built up a lot of trust. It's going to take several bombs in a row before I lose faith.

Yep. Marvel's now banked so much goodwill that it would take more than 1 bomb to shake my faith.

They could absolutely ruin phase 3, and Avengers 3 with Thanos would course correct it.

It's a wrap!

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/33302/-avengers-age-of-ultron-wraps-production