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Steve Rogers and Hydra Reset

Black Panther, Iron Man, and Black Widow Reset?

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Plus we have news and rumors around Doomsday, Blade, and Thunderbolts. And we’re getting ready for Daredevil Born Again starting this Wednesday.

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Who do you think from the Star Wars franchise might be playing Mr Fantastic, if the casting does go that way? And thoughts on the director news as well for the Fantastic Four? Plus, how are you enjoying She Hulk. What do you think Abominations plan is?

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What Is Dice Throne?

So before we get into what Marvel Dice Throne is, it’s probably worth knowing what Dice Throne is. Dice Throne is a competitive board game where players take characters into battle. Each character plays and fights differently than the other ones, though the basic mechanics of the game stay the same.

Turns are pretty easy to follow in the game. First off you have a chance to play cards, then you roll dice, Yahtzee style up to 3 times keeping dice along the way. The rolling of the dice is how you attack your opponent and they can roll defense, maybe. The cards are used for a number of things, manipulating the dice, but also improving your attacks and defense.

You can read more about it here. And my Top 10 favorite characters here.

Checkout GloryHoundd’s playthrough for even more information on the game.

What Is Marvel Dice Throne?

So Roxley is taking their Dice Throne system and taking it to Marvel. We are going to get Marvel characters fighting other Marvel heroes in this game. Right now we know that we’re getting Captain Marvel and Black Panther as one of the duel boxes. And that’s what we’re going to be talking about, what characters do I hope that we’ll get in Marvel Dice Throne?

What Heroes Do I Want?

Let’s start with putting out some ground rules. The first is that I think right now we’ll only be getting heroes. We might get, eventually, a Dice Throne Adventures style game with Villains. I’ll talk about that game soon, but for now let’s just say we’re going to do heroes in this first round.

Who we know thus far are Black Panther and Captain Marvel. What other characters do I think/hope will be in there?

Duel Box 1: Black Panther and Captain Marvel

We know it’s coming. I think Black Panther should have a lot of upgrades, probably more upgrades than some other characters, except for one that I expect to see and will talk about later. But his upgrades should make a bigger jump than most as well.

Captain Marvel, I think flight should play into it. She should be able to get a flight token which should boost her defense. It could be something like evasion where she has a chance to avoid some damage or all damage if the roll is right on her defense. Beyond that, I think it should be a big blast attacks with a bit more all or nothing to what she does.

Duel Box 2: Spider-Man and Hulk/Bruce Banner

Spider-Man seems like an obvious choice, and extremely popular character. What I think would work well for Spider-Man is the idea of slowing down other characters. He has the webbing so he should be able to sling that around and reduce how much a character can attack and play defense.

I paired him with an interesting character idea I saw online. The Hulk should be like the Cursed Pirate, in some ways, the Cursed Pirate starts on one side and then flips to the other which does more damage. You can do the same with Hulk. But you can flip back and forth depending on triggers. Do over 5 damage as Banner flip to the Hulk, less than 5 as the Hulk, you’re Banner again.

Duel Box 3: Iron Man and Black Widow

This is the dead box, I mean, is that too soon? But two popular characters. I’ve heard that it might lean more into what is coming up, but I think there’ll be a box of characters who we might not see again.

Iron Man is obviously very popular with the movies, and he’s going to be a character who can have a lot of upgrades. I think there might be some fun stuff you can do with him. Again it’ll be about upgrades for him, the one who might have more than Black Panther would. Or maybe even different suits of armor that allow for freer upgrading, like you start with some basic stuff, but you can upgrade anything over anything.

Black Widow is going to be one where it’s less upgrades. She’d still have moves that she can upgrade, but she’s a character in the movies and comics who can take advantage of a situation. So stronger or more interesting dice manipulation. Or maybe it is more attack modifiers. Either way, she can adapt better to a situation than most.

Duel Box 4: Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch

We’ll call this one the magic box. Obviously both going up against each other in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Doctor Strange could be about time manipulation. Forcing opponents to reroll dice more. Or even putting out tokens that he can use to make them reroll their whole offensive phase, though that’d be hard to get.

Scarlet Witch would pack a wallop and also be able to alter the reality of the game. I don’t know how to balance it, but maybe have her ultimate do less damage and have it remove an upgrade. Or give it two different paths on what you can do. Something that is just game breaking, but not because it’ll slow down how fast she can hit you. It’d be an interesting choice to have to make.

Do I Really Expect These Heroes?

I think that some are more likely than others. I think that Doctor Strange and Spider-Man are the two most likely out of all of them. But there are a ton of characters out there. I’m guessing they won’t dip into X-Men yet. And I fully expect that there will be additional “seasons” of both this and regular Dice Throne to come out over the years. So like CMON did with Marvel United, a second season could be the X-Men.

What Heroes Do You Want To See?

It’s really going to be what we speculate on until October 25th. There are a ton of options, and right now I’m just guessing that the X-Men might come later. And of course the Fantastic Four are an option as well. That’d be two boxes right there if you wanted to get them all.

Though, with the Fantastic Four, my dream would be to get all of them in a Dice Throne Adventures style box, it makes it cooperative against a villain. For me, I would love to see Fantastic Four as heroes that come with that Kickstarter, when/if that happens. And then Doctor Doom as the main bad guy creating a Battleworld type situation. And do some interesting villains as the henchmen beneath him. I’d be a good way to have the Fantastic Four come out at once.

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There was a bunch of news as I look at two games, one board and one app that are coming for Marvel. Plus we’re now two months away from Black Widow. Then there are character rumors and casting rumors for the She-Hulk Disney+ streaming show and Captain Marvel 2. Will either of them come true, we’ll have to see.

Then for the main topic of the day I take a look at Jennifer Walters, aka, She-Hulk. What’s her backstory in the comics and how is she possibly going to be fitting into the world being created in the MCU? I run through a few ways her story might go, and talk about her interesting background and her cousin.

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However, before we get to those, let’s talk about what this article will be covering so that we don’t get spoilers in the blurb on the main page. This article is going to be looking at the character arcs of Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Thor, and Hulk, the original Avengers team and to look at their arcs throughout the MCU.

I’m hoping that’s enough text, I think it should be, but I want to split up my look at characters into three different pairs. Captain America and Iron Man, Black Widow and Hawkeye, and Thor and Hulk. Not surprisingly, that’s how they’ve generally gotten split up in the movies a well, and for that reason, they’ve ended up in similar points.

Again, spoilers ahead.

Captain America and Iron Man

The big reason to put these two together is because they have had their “end” in the MCU. I put “end” in quotes, because this is comics, there are ways to bring them back easily. I’ll toss out some stuff in the speculation article on Friday. But both of them had very satisfying ends in Avengers: Endgame.

With Captain America, we’ve seen him as the hero and the “man out of time”. However, I think we’ve mainly seen him as someone whose only real story is that of him and Bucky. Him losing Bucky, him finding a broken Bucky, and him defending Bucky. For me, this is a flaw in the development of Captain America. We’re supposed to see him as this person who will always do the right thing and who strongly believes in what he believes, but at times it’s just Bucky, Bucky, Bucky. That said, in Avengers: Endgame, we see him grow from that. He really leans into the man out of time. He can’t save everyone, he failed to live up to his own code by not being able to take out Thanos, and he feels out of place and that the world has passed him by, that isn’t laid out super well though. But he starts to see how kind of silly some of his things are and his hang-up with Bucky. Eventually, at the end when he is returning all the stones, he decides that he’s better staying back in his real time with Peggy Carter and finally getting that dance. What does this do to the timeline, who knows. But this is why I can say it’s the “end” of Captain America, we see him as old at the end of Endgame, but there’s no reason he couldn’t be brought forward again if needed, and also no reason that we couldn’t get Captain America in the 1950’s. But it’s a very satisfying ending for him, and does punctuate the whole out of time aspect for him.

With Tony Stark, Iron Man, we get the biggest arc of any character, I think. We get him going from being this playboy style character who decides he doesn’t like arming both sides, but still living a huge life, to someone who has his toys, but wants the simple life. It was fun seeing Stark as a family man, just living in a somewhat humble house for him, in the middle of nowhere, just off by himself. His real arc, though, focuses in on how his families legacy, as he saw it, was destruction, and he wants to keep everyone safe instead. He doesn’t want to be known for selling to both sides, he wants to be known as the man who saved the world, because he feels like he has to make up for everything he’s done. In Iron Man, we see that he’s armed both sides, or his company has that he doesn’t pay attention to. In Iron Man 2, he’s created the bad guy in some ways, and in Iron Man 3, he’s almost directly responsible for the evil that is happening by how he lived his life. Not to add in Avengers: Age of Ultron, he built Ultron. But Ultron is his first attempt to save humanity from itself. It gives him that complete arc by him being the one who does the snap. As Pepper Potts tells him, he can finally rest, because by destroying Thanos, and with how they tried to set-up time travel, the world should be safe from the Infinity Stones for a bit.

Iron Man’s arc is just really well written and whereas Captain America’s lacks depth, and looking at it from a long view, is all about Bucky. I think it’s an interesting thing to look at, because Stark is not always on the right side, but he’s always trying to help, and that is driving him so much. That’s why, though the movie doesn’t say it, just implies it, in Endgame, when he is working on time travel and solves it, the implication is that he’s been doing that already, he just didn’t have everything he needed. In the end, both of them get what they needed. Steve Rogers gets his dance and Tony Stark gets to rest knowing the world is saved.

Black Widow and Hawkeye

This one is probably going to be shortest section, as their stories are so intertwined. Black Widow and Hawkeye is really the story of two characters who need each other. Black Widow needs Hawkeye to keep her from slipping away from reality in her work. His family, at the beginning, help keep her grounded. Hawkeye needs her to keep pushing him forward into doing things and trying to save the world, when needed. I think that’s one thing that I really like about Clint Barton is that he isn’t always needed, and he makes space for his family.

When they were sent off to get the soul stone, I think that Marvel did a good job of not telegraphing who was going to die. I was actually thinking that it would be Hawkeye. The primary reason is that he wanted to atone for his sins that he had done after his family had been snapped away. However, I think it would have been much harder to get that feel good moment and then have it torn away when the phone rings after Hulk’s snap of the stones. I also think that it’ll be easier for Hawkeye to join the fight now, because he’s seen what has happened to the world, without Black Widow being there. Whereas, Black Widow, without Hawkeye, while the Avengers are her family, would struggle more on her own. I think this is another sense where they wrapped up Black Widow’s arc really nicely. And if Hawkeye doesn’t show up in anything else, I think that is fine, because it would be hard for Jeremy Renner to top that performance as Hawkeye. He had so much emotion and so much of a shell throughout the movie from the first scene on, that is just hard to explain. This is some of the reason why I’m not all that excited for a Black Widow movie. I do think getting her origin story would be interesting to watch on the big screen, even if it’s more her origin in SHIELD, but her character wraps up so well.

Thor and Hulk

Finally, we end up on Thor and Hulk, and that’s because I don’t think they’ve had the complete arcs like we’ve gotten from the other characters. I think that there is more for Thor and Hulk to do. Practically speaking, until The Fantastic Four are introduced into the world, Hulk kind of needs to stay around so he can be deus ex science, since Tony Stark isn’t around for that anymore.

I think with Bruce Banner and the Hulk, we’ve had a good arc for him though, so if it’s in a smaller role from here on out for Hulk, I think that’s fine. With Banner, we have the origin movie, which we’ll choose to generally ignore, but going through the movies we’ve seen him in. We’ve seen Banner fight to not be the Hulk in the first Avengers movie, eventually he admits who he is, and he turns into the Hulk and lets the Hulk go as need be. Then in Age of Ultron, he starts to feel like he’s being the Hulk too much, and we get the bit of a relationship between him and Black Widow, and it is clear that both Bruce Banner and Natasha Romanoff do care a lot for each other and really care for each other. I’ll unpack that a little bit, because Tony Stark, less mature at that time, does joke about it, but you really see
Natasha open up to Bruce and Bruce trust her to be able to bring him back from being a monster. There’s the scene early on in the Avengers’ tower where she is making drinks, and she, while she’s able to flirt and seduce people for her job, is having troubles being able to do that with someone she cares about, because she wants the feelings to be real back. Which they are from the Hulk, then there is the moment as Hawkeye’s farm where Bruce calls himself a monster and that he can’t provide her a family like Hawkeye has. Natasha responds with the story that she can’t have kids either and she’s done horrible things and is a monster in her own way. This isn’t a story about not having kids that makes her a monster, which some people took it as, it is that she’s done bad things that she wishes she could take back, and more so, it’s making Banner not feel like he’s an outcast and just a monster. However, Banner still thinks of himself as a monster and that he’s more trouble than good. And he leaves, in Thor: Ragnorak, we see that Hulk h as taken over. Hulks in charge and Banner’s personality and influence is being suppressed. When he comes back to Banner, we still see the struggle between the two halves and Banner being worried about losing himself. The change happens, and I think starts to happen, when Fenris damages the Hulk. Then Hulk loses to Thanos, and then Banner loses to Thanos. Hulk realizes that just as a beast, there is always a bigger fish, and Banner realizes that sometimes he needs more than just his brain, and in Endgame, we get Professor Hulk. I feel like his story isn’t complete though, because while Professor Hulk was able to help, I don’t feel like we got the hero moment for Professor Hulk where both the Banner and Hulk sides come into play fully at the same time.

With Thor, I think we’ve seen a shifting vision for him more than any other superhero. We’ve gone from him being a child who just wants to fight into looking like he’s going to be the new Odin in Thor: Ragnorak. And now we’re not back to him being a child, but to him kind of knowing what his strengths are and knowing that he’s better and leading a fight than he is at leading people. In terms of actors, we’ve gone from Chris Hemsworth just looking like and playing a fairly serious Thor with the jokes being from him not being all that familiar with Earth to a great comedy Thor being The Dude. Hemsworth has amazing comedy chops. It again, feels like we haven’t had Thor’s full arc though. Going back to what I wrote about Thor in my Endgame spoiler review, Thor gets a moment to cut off Thanos head, but in the final battle, Thor, while extremely powerful, isn’t back to the hero that we once knew. I think he still needs that final win, at some cost, more so than he had in Thor: Ragnorak. And with that, we need Thor to be able to have his moment of peace where he doesn’t feel like he’s failed because he hasn’t saved everyone.

There’s so much to unpack when you really look through all of the movies. I think that they did an amazing job from the beginning. While there are a few hiccups along the way, we’ll see those tomorrow as I go through my Marvel movie rankings, generally, they’ve written such as tight and arching story throughout all that movies, it’s just impressive. Marvel, I salute you. And I can’t wait to see what stories and arcs you take Spider-Man, Scarlet Witch, Falcon, The Guardians of the Galaxy, and the rest through.

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