"By Earth and Sky, By Craft and Hex -- By The Past and The Future – I Call HOPE Forth From The DARKNESS! I Speak The Words We Made Into MAGIC! Let THEIR Power Augment Our OWN! To Strike ONE BLOW From Our HEARTS and SOULS – From ALL THAT WE ARE! Let The CALL Go Forth -- AVENGERS! ASSEMBLE!" Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff ~~ From Avengers #689!
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There is the thing that if you start to explain magic then it ceases to be magic. That's what makes it different from science. Even in all these magical schools and universities in fiction the research basically bows down to if I do A, B happens or if I combine A and B, C happens. It's pretty much never deeper than that.
I'm reminded about what the Ancient One said to Strange who as a man science struggled with understanding magic. "Not everything makes sense and it doesn't have to."
I get where you are coming from though. In games you have a resource be it mana, spell slots or just cooldowns and you have a list of spells with pre-defined effects so at any point in time you know what someone is capable of and what not.
I just don't believe these kind of rulesets translate well to other media though. I mean imagine if Strange could only cast 5 spells before having to rest. That would be kinda lame especially when others like Thor or Captain Marvel or any mutant could use their powers all day.
Sure a magic user pulling out the exact spell that is needed to win might come off as cheap but that's because the storyteller just failed at his job then.
In Immortal X-Men #2 Hope killed Selene with an Anti-Magic bullet which was a complete asspull too so that's not something that is unique to magic either.
Meanwhile Gandalf freeing Theodon from Sarumans influence didn't feel like an asspull despite the fact they we never got any insight at all into what Gandalfs abilities are.
I wouldn't call MCU costumes over designed but there is certainly the trend to make them look like modern body armor which fits some characters but not all.
That being said I really like both Scarlet Witch costumes that we have seen so far with MoM being my favorite because they made it look more witchy and less like body armor
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Well, just make their basic skill set cost-free for the most part.(Or that the cost is nearly the same as their recovery.)
And make their heavy-hitting spells/abilities cost more, it's really simple.
The mages can be pretty spammy with their basic skill set.
But casting a mega nuke spell and nearly pass out from exhaustion afterwards is pretty reasonable. (Or they took a lot of time or outer energy source to charge it.)
They've gone into some history of magic in comics without it being overbearing and without explaining everything. This movie didn't even try... in a Doctor Strange movie no less. It doesn't have to be an encyclopedia. But they could at the very least do bare minimum.
I hope at least Strange's third film goes into lore about the Vishanti and the Faltine.
Love is for souls, not bodies.
The same way you differentiate walking and sprinting, there is no arbitrary line but I think people can understand the simple logic of different tasks taking different amount of energy out of you?
Anyway, her showing at the end of Morgan Le Fay quest and Avengers No Surrender is her typical nuke which requires her teammates as battery of some sort..
Also a lot of fantasy works explain their magic system lol. Even the ones with softer magic systems.
At least explain their origin and catergories, which deity grant which power etc.
The notion that magic needs to be this ambiguous thing is ludicrous. Sure, Marvel Universe cannot be one of those fantasy world where magic is simply another version of science(with unique fantasy quirks).
But it still has lot of interesting lore embedded into them. The LoTR example Galerion listed works because it goes smoothly with the narrative and the arc of those characters involved. It felt like a natural conclusion instead of "rushing to finish this storyline".
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Love is for souls, not bodies.
Yeah, I KEEP hearing good things about EEAAO. Unlike many posters on these forums, I consider that movie FAR more successful than a lot of the studio "blockbusters" that have been released this year. According to this GQ article, many of them such as The Lost City, Morbius, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, The Bad Guys, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness are already fading fast. But EEAAO is absolutely hanging in there. And that's almost entirely through word of mouth. I never even heard of EEAAO until I read and watched some reviews of the MoM which stated that EEAAO is the movie that the MoM should have been:
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/cultur...office-success
So I just don't look at nominal box office numbers to gauge a movie's success. I absolutely feel there's been a growing backlash against the MCU since the release of Black Widow last year. I think Disney should definitely be a bit concerned about what's going on. I don't even pay attention to "nerd" and "geek" websites and YouTube channels as much anymore. Remember, they have a VESTED INTEREST in superhero movies/shows doing well, and I don't consider them to be objective sources of information. I just found out about this chick Grace Randolph recently. I don't really give a **** about her "scooping". I'm more interested in her reviews because she's not afraid to criticize Marvel and DC when they are not living up to the hype.
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Yeah, who could’ve guess that the indie movie made as a passion project by filmmakers with unrestricted creative vision would have better writing than corporate studio blockbusters? Crazy, right?
If your not going by box office numbers, there really is no way to prove or disprove a movie’s “success.” It’s completely subjective at that point. All it comes down to is how much you personally enjoyed it.
But EEAAO has definitely succeeded at the box office. I don't there's any way folks can deny that. AND it has succeeded in the word of mouth game. Sonic 2, Fantastic Beasts and MoM all lost lost the better word of mouth game when compared with EEAAO, unfortunately. A combination of both is key, in my opinion, to what constitutes a "success" in Hollywood. I think corporate blockbusters can be creatively fulfilling and liberating for the folks working on them. I think the people working on WandaVision definitely did something different. And why can't Marvel explore the multiverses in more original ways? They're just using them to insert cameos into their movies at this point. And I'm pretty sure they're gonna do it again REPEATEDLY later on in this phase. Don't you want something more than that? I want MCU's movies and shows to stand on their own merits without relying on cameos and Easter eggs.
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I think this is more relevant to someone like Strange though. Wandas powers are innate, are they not? While someone like Strange has to study and deal with otherworldly entities to obtain power. It's basically the difference between a D&D Wizard and Sorcerer.
Since this started with a focus on the MCU. Wanda has done incredible things already with nobody ever teaching her anything. I do expect the Agatha series to go deeper into witch lore and what exactly differentiates them from the sorcerers. So far we have only seen a few things like that witches can fly on their own while sorcerers cannot.
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