Makabriel said:
tdylan said:
Nowhere Man said:
I'm worried about them being cannon fodder the the Chitari from the first Avengers movie. I'll still go see it in order to see how they/Ultron is used, but I'm really hoping it's not "fight your way through droves" again. They did that in Avengers, Stark and Rhodes did that in Iron Man 2, Thor (kinda) did that against the Frost Giants, Rogers took on (to a far lesser extent) scores of Hydra agents in "First Avenger," and we saw Widow taking down Hammer goons in IM2 as well. And realistically, how bad ass are these robots if Widow is able to take them in hand to hand? I think you get away with that once with the Chitari, but I'm not eager to see them fighting wave after wave of generic bad guys again.
My first instinct is "please let this just be promotional art."
You must be new to comics. What you are describing is pretty much every big fight in most every comic ever. The heroes fight the badguy's legions and eventually confront the villain himself.
Sorry to disappoint, but that's how it's going to be.
You must not read a lot of comics, because they're not all like that. I gave up on comics after Spiderman's "Brand New Day," but even then, the "make the hero fight through waves of bad guys" trope was pretty well worn. For example, Spiderman didn't fight through waves of bad guys before confronting King Pin in "One More day." In fact, he didn't fight anyone. He snuck into Riker's island where Kingpin was being held, beat the shit out of him, and then said "This is how easy it is for me to kill you. When my aunt May dies (because of you), this is how easy it will be for me to kill you."
Superman didn't have to fight through waves of enemies before facing Doomsday. Batman has often had to fight through waves before facing his rogue, but that's because, to paraphrase yatzee "What are batman's foes except villains with really good human resources departments?" And comics need to fill lots of panels with lots of action/spectacle. Movies do as well, but having the next Avengers movie not evolve beyond the "wave after wave of bad guys until we ultimately pull the plug on them" of the first Avengers movie doesn't bode well.
What's odd is that in Age of Ultron, the "we took out the boss, so all his minions died as a result" would actually make more sense than the Chitari all dropping dead when the mothership was destroyed in the first Avengers.
In other news, isn't War Machine supposed to be in this one? Does the color scheme of Ultron and the red glow remind anyone of War Machine from Iron Man 2? War Machine was grey/metallic in color, with red eyes. Ultron has red glow going on. Just wondering if that's a coincidence.
