What gets me is that Secret Wars is absolutely going to take Victor's dynamic with Valeria and give it to Franklin (if they even bother with it) and it'll be a miracle if Val ever makes it to a FF sequel
Which is a shame because Val is absolutely the superior sibling
I will say I am actually kind of enjoying how MCU Doom's dialogue so far has that Lee-esque campy on the nose dialogue. But how much of that is on purpose vs simply being hack writing. Who's to say!
It is funny how all the villains of Russo Avengers movies are Eastern Europeans going against the Good Honest Americans. There's something there I think.
@LongArmsPerk Thor is not allowed to have his flowing gold locks. Steve's dream is to have a literal white picket fenced house. Role of a female character is to either get fridged or emotionally support and be a motivation for the male characters
@LongArmsPerk You can also have an easily mean spirited reading of these films where Avengers are the Good Guys simply because they want to preserve the Status Quo which happens to be The Traditional American Family Values
@LongArmsPerk You know it's a sad state of affairs when the Whedon Avengers movies have more stuff going on under the surface (setting aside all the dumb things)
@1610SPlDEY There is also something kinda insidious about removing Victor's relationship with his mother, which is arguably his only truly selfless relationship (and not something you see with a villain often), and turning that into "MY wife and MY son were TAKEN from ME."
@LongArmsPerk There is like an almost Leto Golden Path-esque way where a more stripped back Secret Wars acts as a complimentary part two to farsically over the top Doomsday that is a more somber examination of The Blockbuster as a concept. Will they go for that? Of course not.