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    Quote Originally Posted by Witchfan View Post
    Avengers: Age of Ultron - Hawkeye Should Have Died, Not Quicksilver
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    It would make for an interesting what If? episode .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Witchfan View Post
    Avengers: Age of Ultron - Hawkeye Should Have Died, Not Quicksilver
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    I agree on the title. IMO Pietro was way more interesting.

    Of course, both could've lived

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    I used to think it was a damn shame Quicksilver died; what little we see of Pietro is engaging and interesting and fun and the MCU lost something by writing him out like they did.

    But I've kinda come around on that, and now I think Pietro's death is better *because* he was engaging and interesting and fun and the MCU lost something with his death. There's a real impact felt there. AoU was what, in 2015? Six years ago? We're still talking about Quicksilver and there's always theories about how the actor will reprise the role. That's impressive, really, especially when you think about all the rest of the spectacle in that film and the fact that the MCU has introduced a good dozen or more new characters since then.

    Pietro dying felt like, and still feels like, an actual loss. That's pretty rare, and pretty impactful, I think.
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    I thought it felt like cheap emotional manipulation, like a Pixar movie. He didn't have much in the story. He was just there to create that emotional punch. But the worst is, that neither movie Pietro has had much in the movies and was pretty cheated.
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    I didn't feel it had much impact. IMO killing off characters is overrated, at least in terms of stakes. Civil War had way more emotional stakes and nobody died. Keeping characters alive actually allows us to get to know them, so we get good death scenes like Iron man's

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    Count me in the camp in that I don't think we needed an Avenger to die, although I'm not sure what they would have done with Quicksilver otherwise.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frontier View Post
    Count me in the camp in that I don't think we needed an Avenger to die, although I'm not sure what they would have done with Quicksilver otherwise.
    He could've been in Civil War on Cap's side, then Vision could've actually done something in that battle. I assume he'd get snapped in IW. Then maybe he could connect to the Inhumans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mik View Post
    He could've been in Civil War on Cap's side, then Vision could've actually done something in that battle. I assume he'd get snapped in IW. Then maybe he could connect to the Inhumans.
    They could've at least kept him around for civil war and then kill him in Infinity War (in battle) thus keeping the premise of WandaVision around

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    QS's death felt more like Joss trying to be clever than it serving any real purpose. The movie also didn't give him enough scenes to make us care about him.

    QS should have survived AoU but defected to Hydra's side then died in the opening of Civil War thereby causing Wanda more anguish. Or Hawkeye should have died in AoU or Civil War and QS takes his place in EG but sacrifices himself to bring back Wanda.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Venus View Post
    QS's death felt more like Joss trying to be clever than it serving any real purpose. The movie also didn't give him enough scenes to make us care about him.
    Yeah, Joss pulled all the 'foreshadow the death' tropes on Hawkeye in that movie. Everyone dies just after you meet their family, or they tell you about their farm, or they announce that they are two days from retirement, and he seemed to be tugging on all those threads, and then, bait-and-switch, Quicksilver intercepts the kill shot and looks right at the camera and Joss smugly says to the audience (through him), 'Bet you didn't see that coming.'

    Pissed me right off, it was so ham-handed and meta.

    Joss has written some great stuff, and worked with some amazing actors, but he can be a little too impressed with his own brain at times.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sutekh View Post

    Joss has written some great stuff, and worked with some amazing actors, but he can be a little too impressed with his own brain at times.
    He had too much control after Avengers.

    I like AoU but it was too much Whedon. He needed held back a bit.

    I also still think there were shenanigans in regards to Fox and Disney. I think one reason they were ok with killing him off is that "Evan" existed in the Foxverse.

    Or they didn't know WTF to do with a speedster. Speedsters kinda break things, even if Marvel QS was kind of "tame."

    But yeah... killing him off in CW or IW or EG would have meant a lot more without effecting the "future" with WandaVision. "You took everything from me" would have hit even harder if Thanos was responsible for killing them both directly or indirectly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Frontier View Post
    Count me in the camp in that I don't think we needed an Avenger to die, although I'm not sure what they would have done with Quicksilver otherwise.
    In Civil War, he could have been fighting Vision. Give him something to do. Speedster vs phaser battle, where vision eventually knocks him out.

    Then in IW, he rushes in to save Wanda, Thanos uses the time stone to slow him down, and kills him lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MindofShadow View Post
    He had too much control after Avengers.

    I like AoU but it was too much Whedon. He needed held back a bit.

    I also still think there were shenanigans in regards to Fox and Disney. I think one reason they were ok with killing him off is that "Evan" existed in the Foxverse.

    Or they didn't know WTF to do with a speedster. Speedsters kinda break things, even if Marvel QS was kind of "tame."

    But yeah... killing him off in CW or IW or EG would have meant a lot more without effecting the "future" with WandaVision. "You took everything from me" would have hit even harder if Thanos was responsible for killing them both directly or indirectly.
    They didn't nerf Carol Danvers, so I don't think they had to nerf Pietro.

    Idk if he even needed to die at all yet. If he got snapped, then returned, Wanda would've still had a breakdown because she actually had to kill Vision, only for that to be pointless

    Quote Originally Posted by MindofShadow View Post
    In Civil War, he could have been fighting Vision. Give him something to do. Speedster vs phaser battle, where vision eventually knocks him out.

    Then in IW, he rushes in to save Wanda, Thanos uses the time stone to slow him down, and kills him lol.
    Vision floating around in the airport battle was so dumb. Why give people cool powers only for us to watch Hawkeye shoot lame arrows?

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    Here's How Much 'Falcon and the Winter Soldier' Debut Topped 'WandaVision' in Viewership
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    Falcon ranked 7th in its debut week on the Nielsen chart.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Witchfan View Post
    Here's How Much 'Falcon and the Winter Soldier' Debut Topped 'WandaVision' in Viewership
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/he...BingNewsSearch

    Falcon ranked 7th in its debut week on the Nielsen chart.
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