The Avengers roster for 2012

[FaT_tONle]

Well we don't need Wanda and Pietro for Avengers 1... but I think down the line... especially if you add a character like Vision... SW would be pivotal for a love triangle or whatever. Definitely would be cool for Marvel to reintegrate the mutant universe into their world. You don't have to go crazy with it but some vague connections to Magneto/Brotherhood or Xavier/X-Men could work. They need the rights first.

[darthlaney]

Originally Posted by Venomfan

whats the deal with Cap on the avengers. I recently read Demon in a Bottle TPB and Iron Man is the leader of the Avengers. I always thought Cap was

The Avengers have a revolving leadership depending on who is active at the time - they all live very busy lives.

Iron Man, Wasp, Black Widow, Hawkeye (and others) have all been leaders when Cap has been inactive.

[Venomfan]

Originally Posted by darthlaney

The Avengers have a revolving leadership depending on who is active at the time - they all live very busy lives.

Iron Man, Wasp, Black Widow, Hawkeye (and others) have all been leaders when Cap has been inactive.

well in Demon in a Bottle Cap is on the team, but Iron Man is above him. Seemed really wierd to me because i had assumed Cap was always the leader. Later i discoved he wasn't on the original lineup either. speaking of which does anyone know why Cap wasn't on the original line up?

[Spider-Vader]

I don't think he was found yet.

But I'm not sure.

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[Iron_Stark]

Judging from the new cartoon, the roster for the movie's going to have the Big Three, Hulk, Ant-Man/Giant Man and the Wasp.

[CaptainStacy]

Originally Posted by Spider-Vader

I don't think he was found yet.

But I'm not sure.

Correct. They found and revived him in Avengers #4. He was made an Honorary Founding Member later on.

[RAMORE]

Which is weird cause he is the avengers you know

[Rich Santoro]

Well... all that played out a few decades ago, so now that fact is obscured by time. Not too mention that when Cap took over, the team was called the Captains Kooky Quartet.

[GNR]

I hope they include the black ops side of things,that would really separate this movie from a typical superhero team up.

Hawkeye,Widow and maybe Quicksilver could be Fury's team which gets their hands dirty and go on missions that the main team can't.

[captaintass]

I'd like to see the She Hulk in some capacity...but then again I have more than a little tumescence for women with muscles.

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Originally Posted by captaintass

Hmm.. hello.

[captaintass]

Originally Posted by Aeghast

Hmm.. hello.

My sentiments exactly.

[I'm Venom]

The biggest moneymaker would be to have Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Wolverine, as they already have movies out and people are familiar with them. Now that would be awesome! They fight Hulk in the first half of the movie and gain him to fight against Brotherhood/Magneto.

[Matt312]

Originally Posted by FountainDrink

I thought this thread was going to be for speculation on the roster, anyways, I'll throw my perfect team out there:

Captain America
Thor
Iron Man
Hulk
Giant-man (No Ant-man, lets have Pym be big!)
Wasp
Vision (not really a must but I like the character)

If we get Ultron we should get Vision.

[spider_man_2]

Originally Posted by KangConquers

I think you can do Thor and the Asgardians as "Powerful beings who were once worshipped by humans as Gods" and leave it at that.

I'd love it if this movie had a scene in which Tony starts rambling about how Thor is actually native to an extra-dimensional planetary system, and then Thor calmly chides him for being all too human when wanting to explain away every little piece of fantasy/magic/whatever in the world using science, something which Thor claims cannot be done and is attempted only by mortals.

[Rich Santoro]

^ That is actually not bad... I get caught up on the details... and that scenario would be a great way to ground the situation, without having to "know".

[GNR]

Cap,Thor,Iron Man,Hulk,Giant Man,Wasp

Black Ops supporting team;Fury,War Machine,Hawkeye,Widow

[Superhero 101]

Thor Iron Man Hulk Black Widow Nick Fury and Captain America

[Lobo]

I'd want

Cap
Thor
Iron Man
Hawkeye
Black Widow
Ant-Man
Wasp

[Aztec]

I'll be the first to admit that I didn't want anyone outside of Hulk, Cap, Iron Man, and Thor; but after reading The Ultimates and seeing how cool Hawkeye, the Pyms, and Magneto's kids could be I wouldn't mind including them as well.

[marcvader]

This movie needs to center around the icons, Cap, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Giant/Ant Man, and Wasp with Fury, Black Widow, and Hawkeye in support. The villains should be Loki along with either Ultron or Kang.

[chris moore]

No black ops team. No 10,000 support soldiers. It should be Nick Fury's hero team for superpowered threats - not terrorist ones of any kind.

Nick has already begun putting together the team and already has Hawkeye and Black Widow on board as non-superpowered agents who can nonetheless do what they do better than anyone alive. Then he goes to Stark (as the first emergence of a civilian superhero style person), who in turn goes to Ross. Then the emergence in the public eye of Iron Man prompts Giant-Man's movie/foray into self experimentation with his discovery of Pym Particles. This attracts Fury's attention, so he gets approached too (at which point he has been forced to infuse his fiance Janet with altered Pym particles to save her life during his movie).

The gist being the superpowered heroes get approached about the Avenger initiative firstly to assemble a team that can stand against superpowered threats. But secondly (and the reason SHIELD is involved) to make sure that emerging superheroes who are being heroic stay that way, don't get corrupted or take the law into their own hands too much (property damage, recklessly endangering civilians with superbattles in the street) and can be controlled to a degree.

Cap comes in as the last addition to the team by whatever way they bring him into modern times in his own movie - either the Avengers are the ones who find him if his movie is entirely WWII ending in falling into the arctic. Or by his being approached nby Nick at the end of his movie just like Tony was if Cap's movie moves into today but he doesnt work directly with SHIELD in it so only meets Nick in the after credit closer.

Oh, and Thor could go either way depending on how his movie is handled (too little realism/unexplainable myth doesnt fit in enough with the linked world Iron Man and Hulk movies have created). No Quicksilver or Scarlet witch cos that means Mutants, which is a can of worms in a movie series where mutants are unheard of.

[UltimateJustin]

Originally Posted by chris moore

No Quicksilver or Scarlet witch cos that means Mutants, which is a can of worms in a movie series where mutants are unheard of.

No way!

My Avengers 2010 lineup:

Wolverine
Gambit
Ice Man
Rogue
Beast-Man
Tri-Klops
Man-E-Faces

[FVD]

I think as long as Fox doesn't really own the rights to Pietro and Wanda then perhaps they can appear in an Avengers sequel with Vision included. They don't need to be in the first movie.

As for Hawkeye well ain't it rumoured that he'll be making an appearance in IM2?

And this crap about Thor being an alien what the hell are you smoking? I don't want any form of science revolving around everybody's favourite Norse Thunder God.