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I never really followed him until I realized apart from Alfred, he's the only balding character in a superhero comic who isn't a bad guy. Maybe he can be in a team book with other unknowns (like the Defender... but that's changing because of the Netflix series). Maybe someone can put a twist that he's linked to Doctor Strange in some way.

Everything has its end, either it ends on a good note or falters away clumsily.

Comic book movies are at its golden stage, where people who don't normally cue in a movie filled with characters clad in colorful outfits, would be lined up in theaters expecting good entertainment.

It's the era of grand escapism. Yet, like food on a table, you don't want turkey served every dinner. Sometimes meatloaf and lemonades is a pleasant change.

People will tire of the genre eventually. The same way we have not been too eager to see war flicks, love stories, and low brow comedy featuring an Everyman character that gets lucky in the end.

But here's hoping that before the producers or the audience grow tired of it, they get to finish the Infinity story arc at Marvel, and somebody aside from Zack Snyder gives Justice League a powerful story arc.

How come there were no longer legacy characters like Batman or Superman?

Maybe in the future, older superheroes retire early. But yeah good point. The legion started as a clubhouse of teens with unique abilities. And then they got big, the galactic federation known as the United Planets sanction them as a peacekeeping force. The only recognized group of heroes. You also have the Wanderers, the heroes of Lallor, but the Legion of Superheroes was like the Jedi in Star Wars. They are in the big leagues.

Later storylines, the characters have aged into twenty somethings, and have admitted older members. But yeah, still a good point, why are there no older Superheroes?

@shroudofsorrow: I'm trying to look for that re-design from deviant art, somehow it's not there.

I'm a colored person (malay/asian), and I think if movie makers would use a different ethnicity for a character established as another, it's no problem. However, what would people of color think if a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. will be portrayed by an actor of lighter complexion (i refrain from using the "r" word, since we are all the same species)?

I think the most logical way of seeing this is if a character is well established as a certain skin complexion (as opposed to the "r" word), that we, as and audience/reader should be given the proper satisfaction of seeing the character in its original incarnation, and not explore new avenues just to creat hype and publicity.

My take on this: Trevor might be doing a "Kaizer Soze". wherein he is really the one pulling the strings, pretending to be helpless (just in time for the next Avengers movie). Why would Killian be so hellbent like that on the destruction of Tony Stark? He could be the puppet for all we know. Or, as the movie puts it, the ruse, the fake figurehead. Either way, the plot twist was satisfying since not too many people are aware of the Mandarin, outside of the comic book world.

Another thought, Iron Man was never this big until the first movie came out, which Robert Downey Jr. portrayed. So, I think, we the fans should be glad about the movie turn out, since if the Iron Man franchise didn't work out, we would never had seen the Avengers or its subsequent franchises.

The only way we can sustain this film trend, is to continually support the directors, the actors, the producers and everyone involved in making our fanboy dreams come true. There will be hits and misses, but we don't need to be so overly passionate on how it doesn't match up to the way we visualize our favorite stories turned into film reality.

Awesome detail!

i'd like to see cyclops too.

I actually liked this article a lot! Cyclops being a true blue boy scout would logically go to extremes to protect his mutantkind. Too bad, I haven't followed on the X-books lately. Aren't many radical extremists like these? They get burned by the restrictions of their own code when their opponents bend the book every which way, what would that result? A pissed off, do-gooder, going for the enemy's guts.

Meanwhile, Wolverine, the polar-opposite of Cyclops, becomes the mentor that Cyclops can't become right now. Isn't it how things are in real life? When the straight laced guy explodes on pressure and unleashes his true, angry self, while the devil-may-care guy, becomes the more rational one who would pacify his out of character friend?