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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Guardians of the Galaxy
A few weeks ago, Marvel announced a new movie that will be tied into the Avengers's cinematic universe. Guardians of the Galaxy should come out in 2014 or 2015 based on the currently expected timeline. I'm super excited for this movie. I have a reasonably extensive collection of comic books with the Guardians of the Galaxy, and I greatly enjoy several of the characters. I cannot wait to see what they might do with these options in the movie universe.
Because I'm so psyched about this I've been thinking about which characters they might cull to join in for the movie. Several of these characters were originally created in several years ago, and, in some cases, suffered from the associated costume designs, but most of the cosmic heroes were given redesigns only a few years ago, in 2008. My guess is that the new, updated, cool looking designs will be used in most cases.
Oh yeah! Two more quick notes:
1. Thor 2 is expected to deal a bit more with stuff in space, which might be a way to tie in some of these characters and help lead into the cosmic aspect of the Marvel cinematic universe.
2. Partway through the credits for the Avengers there was a tease for a villain called Thanos. He is a space villain and would probably be involved in the Guardians of the Galaxy film. I'll give him a better bio later on.
The Original Guardians
This team was mostly set in the 31st century and occasionally did a little time travel. Most of the characters were the last of their respective species, and banded together to protect the galaxy/universe from the threat of an alien race called the Badoon.
Altogether, this selection was solid enough, and several of the characters can garner a reasonable amount of recognition the team isn't currently used and the new Guardians doesn't technically stem from this original team. However, they did do a tie-in between these Guardians and the updated 2008 version.
I would personally cite time travel as one of the difficulties with using this series consistently. Time travel is tough to write and its even tougher to read on a regular basis. And there is just too much mess with what does or doesn't change in the past, and things like that.
The New Guardians
Neither of these pictures really show much of the team, but they do show how legit the redesign looked in 2008.
This is the team I am more familiar with. I started reading these stories more or less when they originally came out, and I started to collect all of the new comics with these characters.
This team formed in the wake of the Annihilation Wave, which threatened the entire universe with extinction. Marvel used this as a chance to revamp most of their cosmic characters that hadn't been used recently. Some of the characters were brought in as essentially brand new, while others were introduced with slightly modified origin stories, or stories that could trump their originals. All this was very useful for me, because I was able to jump right in and know what was pertinent, even if I didn't know what each character had been up to in the seventies.
This team also became very large at one point. I think they had at least three operational units with five to seven members each.
Some of the best cosmic characters never really were part of the Guardians, but they still have a good chance of being in the new film because they are strong characters with solid stories, and a good chance to reach some popularity. I'll give some bios and reasoning and personal expectations for different characters.
A solid one I expect to be in the film:
Star-Lord
Old school look:
Peter Quill is half-human half-alien superhero. His alien stuff gives him some super-powers. For the most part he is an ordinary guy, but does seem to have some extra strength. Originally his suit granted him some additional powers, but he no longer wears that same suit, and therefore has none of those powers.
Before the annihilation wave he had long-since stopped acting the hero, but returned to those actions as a result of the conflict. He got a new costume, command of the new team, and he started using guns as his main weapons.
His new costume also has the sweet helmut. The mask offers some protection and also lets him survive in space with no additional equipment, although only for a short time. When he's inside or not fighting the mask portion can retract. The costume was designed to reflect the symbols of his old one (not by his choice) and is the same sort of template that all of the redesigned Guardian uniforms had, but each with personal flourish. His guns fire ordinary bullets and are equipped to do so in the vacuum of space.
Y'know what, This post is getting a bit longer and more intensive than I thought. I'm going to go ahead and post this one, and get to more of the other characters at a later date. Star-Lord is a good one to end with; he's the team leader, he looks cool, and he is one of the only ones that I have absolute confidence will be in the movie version.
Look for more bios on other Guardians in a new blog post coming soon.
Because I'm so psyched about this I've been thinking about which characters they might cull to join in for the movie. Several of these characters were originally created in several years ago, and, in some cases, suffered from the associated costume designs, but most of the cosmic heroes were given redesigns only a few years ago, in 2008. My guess is that the new, updated, cool looking designs will be used in most cases.
Oh yeah! Two more quick notes:
1. Thor 2 is expected to deal a bit more with stuff in space, which might be a way to tie in some of these characters and help lead into the cosmic aspect of the Marvel cinematic universe.
2. Partway through the credits for the Avengers there was a tease for a villain called Thanos. He is a space villain and would probably be involved in the Guardians of the Galaxy film. I'll give him a better bio later on.
The Original Guardians
This team was mostly set in the 31st century and occasionally did a little time travel. Most of the characters were the last of their respective species, and banded together to protect the galaxy/universe from the threat of an alien race called the Badoon.
Altogether, this selection was solid enough, and several of the characters can garner a reasonable amount of recognition the team isn't currently used and the new Guardians doesn't technically stem from this original team. However, they did do a tie-in between these Guardians and the updated 2008 version.
I would personally cite time travel as one of the difficulties with using this series consistently. Time travel is tough to write and its even tougher to read on a regular basis. And there is just too much mess with what does or doesn't change in the past, and things like that.
The New Guardians
This is the team I am more familiar with. I started reading these stories more or less when they originally came out, and I started to collect all of the new comics with these characters.
This team formed in the wake of the Annihilation Wave, which threatened the entire universe with extinction. Marvel used this as a chance to revamp most of their cosmic characters that hadn't been used recently. Some of the characters were brought in as essentially brand new, while others were introduced with slightly modified origin stories, or stories that could trump their originals. All this was very useful for me, because I was able to jump right in and know what was pertinent, even if I didn't know what each character had been up to in the seventies.
This team also became very large at one point. I think they had at least three operational units with five to seven members each.
Some of the best cosmic characters never really were part of the Guardians, but they still have a good chance of being in the new film because they are strong characters with solid stories, and a good chance to reach some popularity. I'll give some bios and reasoning and personal expectations for different characters.
A solid one I expect to be in the film:
Star-Lord
Old school look:
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| NEW LEGIT LOOK |
Before the annihilation wave he had long-since stopped acting the hero, but returned to those actions as a result of the conflict. He got a new costume, command of the new team, and he started using guns as his main weapons.
His new costume also has the sweet helmut. The mask offers some protection and also lets him survive in space with no additional equipment, although only for a short time. When he's inside or not fighting the mask portion can retract. The costume was designed to reflect the symbols of his old one (not by his choice) and is the same sort of template that all of the redesigned Guardian uniforms had, but each with personal flourish. His guns fire ordinary bullets and are equipped to do so in the vacuum of space.
Y'know what, This post is getting a bit longer and more intensive than I thought. I'm going to go ahead and post this one, and get to more of the other characters at a later date. Star-Lord is a good one to end with; he's the team leader, he looks cool, and he is one of the only ones that I have absolute confidence will be in the movie version.
Look for more bios on other Guardians in a new blog post coming soon.
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