Unused concept art of Sidewinder in ‘Captain America: Brave New World’
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Serpent Society for Captain America Brave New World. Keeping to the techwear theme, I tied each member to a cultural serpent that reflects their identity. For Sidewinder, I drew from the Naga Raksha, abstracting its design while keeping elements of the original character. Since he can turn invisible, I hinted at that ability through his clothing.
Serpent Society for Captain America Brave New World. Keeping to the techwear theme, I tied each member to a cultural serpent that reflects their identity. For Sidewinder, I drew from the Naga Raksha, abstracting its design while keeping elements of the original character. Since he can turn invisible, I hinted at that ability through his clothing.
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There’s a reason the MCU never did anything with the character besides being in the background and why every other actor around him stands out. He’s a good support role but a horrible leading role.
You like the dude, good on you but to act like he’s some masterful actor that blends into the role and it’s the fault of the MCU that somehow can write almost every other actor and character except for him. The dude is a perfect supporting actor. He never upstaged the actual stars.
There are actors that just play themselves in their roles and that’s fine when they’re actually likable. Every single interview I’ve seen from the dude, he just sounds so full of himself. “No one goes to see an Anthony Mackie movie, they go to see a Falcon movie”, like no shit, because Anthony Mackie isn’t a leading man so he just plays himself and got lucky with the MCU.
This whole backwards logic of "this actor was never good" is so demeaning and it takes all the blame off the MCU using Anthony Mackie as Cap's funny sidekick for the first 6 years of his time in the MCU, and when he finally got the mantle, he was relegated to a D+ show with writers who gave him little substantive material to use. Like seriously how are we gonna pretend a black man in his 40s who's gone through so many struggles in his life both outside the army and in, losing a close friend, was given a story about how he's scared that he's now taking on the mantle of a white guy?
Its a story with a good message that works far better for a younger protagonist, but for what we know about Sam Wilson, it would've been much better to actually explore the lens of US Governments beyond "they are racist". We know that, what we deserved was *how* does a black man operate in a prestigious position and symbol of the country? *How* does he manevoure in ways that Steve never had to?
Too bad the show stripped him of the mantle and made the main goal him simply accepting it at the end.
>There’s a reason the MCU never did anything with the character
There's a reason the MCU has been on a blatant decline as well. Those two things have the same reason, and its shitty writing.
Meanwhile Mackie was never that popular. He was always the supporting character. Even his episode of Black Mirror is seen as one of the worst episodes of the worst seasons.
I never said the MCU was blameless, but I’m also not going to act like Mackie is anything but a supporting actor with no real charisma or leading man talent. Yea, Cap 4 was a failure from everything from spoiling red hulk in the trailer to changing the designs of the villains, to bloating the movie with brand new characters but when the new Falcon and Bucky are giving these emotional scenes against him and he’s just this wooden doll, who can’t emote beyond shouting, that’s also a failure on him.
So no, they’re not friends, because he’s a racist bigot.
Nothing personal against the person, but he completely lacks the charisma needed to be leading man, let alone leader of the Avengers.
When Cap 4 came out, this sub was openly saying anyone that wasn’t praising the movie, and specifically Mackie, was racist. Even now, people are working so hard to explain that he’s the only good thing about the movie when his performance is part of what was wrong when compared to other actors.
Meanwhile with Mackie, I’ve seen him in half a dozen things and there wasn’t a single project where I thought he elevated it.
Hey now, this film did have the blue-costumed black superhero forgive the octogenarian anger-filled red president for all the crimes he did, including having hunted him and his allies back
in 2016, branding them as criminals.
The ultimate lesson of this movie was that the authoritarian president could be redeemed and forgiven because hey, he loved his daughter a bit too much, therefore his attack and rioting at a federal building could be excused.
What the HELL was Marvel thinking?
That one military guy who the Leader killed didn’t need to be Demolition Man but he was for some reason.
Was told to stay after the credits and wondered, "Who tf stays after the credits?"
Then, "... What the fuck? Wait! WHAT?! AVENGERS IS HAPPENING?!"
I had no idea Sam Jackson was even in Iron Man 1 for a long time.
Shit, I get mad when they fuck up the suits and over complicate them with all those stupid seams, weird lines, and superfluous shit.
Deadpool exists in the same universe…they 100% could have turned Demolition Man into a Peacemaker-like character if they wanted.
that’s one gripe about the early mcu (and as of BNW, still today) that i’ve always had- taking lesser known comic names and assigning them to random agents or villains who have no relevance whatsoever and usually end up dying.
we’re in a colorful world of heroes at this point so they should have done more with him to expand the lore and characters on Sam’s era of Captain America
And for the most part it's pretty minor in the MCU but it's a little sad for Brave New World which could have definitely used more flair.
In this one they decided that all of the characters, except the new captain America and red hulk, were just to silly to show and decided to make all of them more or less regular people.
What?!
They aged Ross from being a 70 yo man to an 80 yo.
How they put those elements together and whether it did or didn't work for different viewers is another discussion entirely, but I have trouble agreeing that they "stripped out anything remotely interesting" from it.
The Leader was already pushing HARD on the boundary of how much camp was going to be tolerable in a straight-laced political thriller. Changing the Snake Goon Squad to Gus Fring was a mundane, but extremely wise decision.
Madame Web, Fant4stic, Inhumans, Kraven , Morbius : are u kidding me ?
Yeah it definitely felt like one of those films that were ashamed of its comic book roots.
"No, we can't have comic-accurate Leader or the Serpent Society cause that'd be dumb... turn the Leader into some monstrous abomination taken out of a Zack Snyder movie and replace the SS with Homelander's boss! This is a super duper serious thriller for super duper serious adults! Now if you excuse us we gotta get the CGI of this scene of regular human Sam Wilson tanking a flag pole from the Hulk with his bare hands ready before Feige fires us!"
Sam walked like 5 feet down a hallway to talk to him but it was like they were somehow in another area or something.
I thought the movie was decent enough but it probably could have been a lot better.
Sucks to see what it could have been.
Kinda like Mackie's acting as Captain America.
But it’s interesting how they made it so not interesting, all the same.