If you decided, so flippantly, to blow off watching the Kids Choice Award that Kevin James hosted Sunday, you missed a new IRON MAN 2 spot that’s got some things many fans have been itching to see. In addition to more footage of War Machine in action and Tony Stark chilling in a giant doughnut, this spot’s got Scarlett Johannson speaking for the first time as Black Widow. And, if my ear serves me true, she doesn’t have a Russian accent!
* GASP *
You know, as we’ve been leading up to this, I’ve thought it would be funny if Marvel ended up approaching the accent the same way the Russian’s accent was approached in the Thomas Jane PUNISHER. See, “Big Daddy Cool” Kevin Nash isn’t a trained actor. I’ll always know and love him as Diesel, but something tells me the guy wasn’t about to take classes to learn how to talk like comrade outta St. Petersburg. So that left the filmmakers with a dilemma, right? Do you try to make Nash speak with a Russian accent? Do you make a character called “The Russian” speak like a good ol’ boy from the U S of A? What do you do?
In that case, they just didn’t let the man talk. Obviously, that approach would be HORRIBLE for the Black Widow here, but the prospect tickles me, never-the-less. Imagine all the hype, all the hoopla, and she doesn't say a word.
Considering that this was dropped at an award show, I was fooled for a second - - just an itty bitty second - - into thinking that the whole thing started with Shellhead dropping down onto the Kids Choice stage and presenting it himself. That would make the audiences go nuts, wouldn’t it? Again, I can’t help but further the connections to pro-wrestling and recall that one WCW event where ROBOCOP stomped up to the ring and gave Sting some illegal assistance. What do you think? Would that work on a May episode of Raw? Just have War Machine pop out from under the ring to give the Undertaker a steel chair shot?
Alright, enough of my blather. Enjoy the TV spot…
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-- Tom Pinchuk is the writer of UNIMAGINABLE for Arcana Comics and HYBRID BASTARDS! for Archaia. Watch out for the HYBRID BASTARDS! hardcover collection this March - - available for pre-order now on Amazon.com.