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Sam being a pimp would explain how his pimp hand got so strongWhich would be the lesser of two evils, the bird telepath or the pimp?
Sam being a pimp would explain how his pimp hand got so strongWhich would be the lesser of two evils, the bird telepath or the pimp?
First of all, Falcon is not an iconic character, he does not have an iconic power. Some of y'all throw around the word iconic all willy-nilly.
Second of all, he can have a telepathic connection to birds without having a pet falcon that follows him around. And I think the bird wings cover him being named Falcon.
I think Falcon is lame
I think Falcon is lame
The people who are whining about potential changes now will love those very same changes two years from now. It's an endless cycle on SHH
The "core" of the character is that's he's Cap's bestie and he flies with big wings attached to his arms. Doubt either of those will change. I'm game with the filmmakers doing just about anything with the character, to be honest
I think Falcon is lame
Me too. But I also think Hawkeye is lame
Me too. But I also think Hawkeye is lame, and they made him awesome. That's what I figure will happen with Falcon.
Here here. The character is obscure enough to be almost completely flexible from background to costume. While bird telepathy might set him apart... it's the hardest to explain in the context of the MCU. His wings however, like Hawkeye's bow, leave a lot of room for cool execution from solar panels to razor sharp projectile feathers to energy shielding to whatever. All sorts of cool stuff.
This movie is called Captain America: The Winter Soldier. There won't be enough room to give Falcon a backstory for his powers. I assume He'll just be like Black Widow and Hawkeye, a special SHIELD agent.
The telepathy isn't hard to explain in the context of the MCU. Yeah, maybe the full-blown bird telepathy/control that Sam exhibits nowadays, which tend to indicate he's a mutant, but MS can't explore that corridor even if they want to. But a link to Redwing? Here's the way I see it playing out, simple enough:
Sam is a SHIELD agent somewhere in the Middle East. At some point, he is alone and lost in the desert (maybe his chopper crashed, maybe he was ambushed by al-Qaeda or Taliban, whatever), and about to die. Suddenly, there's a falcon standing in the sand beside him, and Sam realizes he must be getting close to water and food --- hey, if the bird is alive, it's eating and drinking something, right? So he follows the falcon as it flies, and the falcon oddly seems to be trying to lead him to safety. And that's what the falcon does --- leads him to an oasis, where he recovers, and finds that the falcon is a trained bird belonging to some mystic sheikh or other. Sheikh befriends Sam, teaches him the ancient art of falconry, Sam and Redwing develop a strong psychic bond, and the sheikh lets him take Redwing back to the States.
As for the wings --- yeah, they look cool and they let him fly. But that's not nearly unique enough to qualify for a superpower, especially if he's trying to put together a resume to join the Avengers. As I said before, there's at least two other fliers already on the team, and both are *better* fliers than Falcon could ever hope to be.
Sam *needs* far more than just the power of flight to sell the character. Just keep it simple --- what's worked for Marvel Studios so far has been to be true to the comic book characters' powers, look and origins. Whiplash is the only MCU character who significantly deviated from his comic-book counterpart, and by all counts (especially by Mickey Rourke, of course), it ruined the character.
I hate the Ultimates too, but there are a couple of good ideas, and Ultimate Falcon is one.What is Ultimate Falcon's bio like....god I hate Ultimates...
It would be pretty out of left field, though.How much time do they need to spend on backstory for secondary heroes, anyway? Unless they get into the convoluted Exile Island rigamarole with Red Skull (they won't, since Skully hasn't made his return to Earth yet), or the reformed pimp backstory (unlikely, to avoid cries of racial stereotypes), then the only thing they need to reveal is that he's a SHIELD agent who has a very handy falcon, and a great big pair of wings.
Personally, I'd like to see Falc earn his (literal) wings during the course of the movie. i.e., a special gift from the King of Wakanda. (I always thought that gave Steve and Sam an extra layer to complement their friendship: i.e., both of their iconic tools of the trade were made with Wakandan technology/vibranium).
It would be pretty out of left field, though.
The movie is going to be about Winter Soldier. It's been touted as a political thriller, there's going to be remnants of the Cold War, rogue KGB types, maybe the Black Widow, espionage and intrigue.... And then there's a guy who got his powers of bird-whispering from a mystic.
This movie is called Captain America: The Winter Soldier. There won't be enough room to give Falcon a backstory for his powers. I assume He'll just be like Black Widow and Hawkeye, a special SHIELD agent.
It isn't a question of realism. It is a question of how much fantastic elements are directly the focus of the plot.He fits in pretty good with the WWII-era chemically-enhanced superman who spent the last seventy years frozen and unaging inside an iceberg.