Danny Trejo should play Forge
and he should be a big part of the rising x-men phase in the MCU.
it’d be cool to see him as an older mutant dealing with younger students as a friend of Xavier who had been building tech since the weapon X-ish era. He was a gov’t guy developing for the US gov’t and Charles was always in his ear saying stuff like “yo these guys are evil dickheads come work with me I need a floating chair it’ll be awesome also lol i know you’re def a mutant wtf”
Have part of his history be interning for starks dad or someone who was tied up with Stain or some other iron man villain so he could I have that “I’ve seen some shit and been down some wild dangerous roads which is why I look and act like Danny Trejo” type of vibe while also planting the seeds for wider MCU integration down the road.
it’d be cool to see him as an older mutant dealing with younger students as a friend of Xavier who had been building tech since the weapon X-ish era. He was a gov’t guy developing for the US gov’t and Charles was always in his ear saying stuff like “yo these guys are evil dickheads come work with me I need a floating chair it’ll be awesome also lol i know you’re def a mutant wtf”
Have part of his history be interning for starks dad or someone who was tied up with Stain or some other iron man villain so he could I have that “I’ve seen some shit and been down some wild dangerous roads which is why I look and act like Danny Trejo” type of vibe while also planting the seeds for wider MCU integration down the road.
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one thing I was thinking about why the MCU kicked off so well is that in Iron Man and Thor, you can tell the producers and the writers sincerely labored to make the science of everything “grounded”. I remember talking to a bunch of my cousins who used to break my balls for reading comics and drawing talking about how much they loved Iron Man that year.
I realize the idea of grounded physics and scientifically explaining magic in comic book movies is silly, but I think the concept is clearly on display when Thor is talking to Jane about the Einstein-Rosen bridges. I think it gave everyone who struggles with suspension of disbelief a permission slip to take the narrative seriously and just say “oh these handsome aliens are just so far advanced intellectually that they’ve mastered the physical universe in a way we think is silly.”
Trejo is Hispanic.
As much as I love Danny Trejo, it feels wrong to deny an Native American role to any potential Native American actors, just for pop culture recognition.