Showing posts with label avengers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label avengers. Show all posts

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Spider-man Trivia Part 2


The Women of Peter Parker/Spider-man's Life
Peter's first love was Gwen Stacy.  When Gwen died in the hands of the Green Goblin, Mary Jane Watson filled the void.  These two are the more famous women in Peter Parker's life.  But  Peter also dated other ladies like Betty Brant who worked as J. Jonah Jameson's secretary.  Their relationship was cut short due to Betty's jealousy over Peter's high school classmate Liz Allan (Liz became Mrs. Harry Osborn).  And then there's Carlie Cooper who became Peter's girlfriend after Mary Jane.




Carlie Cooper works as a crime lab expert
for the New York Police Department.


However, as Spider-man, he also got involved with rather some very interesting ladies.

The Black Cat



Burglar.  She's got the power to hex bad luck on anyone who thinks her harm.  She was Spidey's rebound girl when MJ turned down his first proposal for marriage.  Unfortunately, Black Cat does not like how Spidey's alter ego lives his life and the relationship did not prosper.

Silver Sable




Spider-man worked with Silver Sable in a couple of jobs and it's quite obvious that Silver Sable is enamored with the Wall Crawler.  Is the feeling mutual?  I think the Spider-man writers need to finally decide on that.  Right now, given a kiss or two from Sable ain't not such a bad deal for Spider-man.

Ms. Marvel


Carol Danvers aka Ms. Marvel worked together in the New Avengers.  She openly declared her attraction to Spider-man.  Spidey you're such a chick magnet!

Spider-man fought along side with the most heroes in the world
Peter Parker's did not live a financially stable life.  He worked freelance as a photographer for the Daily Bugle's but its not enough to live on.  When Peter and Mary Jane got married they had to shack up with Aunt May due to financial limitations.  This prompted Spider-man to ply his services to the Avengers and get financial stipend.  Unfortunately, he was deemed "disruptive" to the group dynamics and was denied membership though his services would be called upon time and again.

Spider-man also worked along side The Fantastic Four and became a member when the group became the Future Foundation after The Human Torch's death.

An inventor---officially that is!
Peter Parker have always been a man of science.  Unfortunately, being Spider-man got him too pre-occupied fighting bad guys that he almost did not finish college.  But now he is a creative engineer at the Horizon Lab which creates the most sophisticated technologies in the Marvel Universe.  This is where Peter creates Spider-man's special suits aside from other stuff on the side.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Robert Downey Jr.-The Highest Paid Avenger


Yahoo OMG revealed that Robert Downey Jr. was bankrolled by Marvel with a $50M salary to play the iron clad hero Iron-Man in the Avengers movie.  So?  What's the fuzz about?  Isn't it obvious who'll get the highest pay among the group?  Robert Downey Jr. after all is the most bankable actor in the lot. 


Monday, April 30, 2012

Avengers: Nick Fury

I grew up reading comic books.  I practically learned the English language reading Spider-man, Batman, Incredible Hulk, Superman, Green Lantern, and yes---Avengers comics.  

Movies eventually gave real life personification to these characters and I have indulged myself in almost every film depicting my favorite superhero.  However, I get irked when the characters I knew from my childhood are defined contrary to the way I knew them.  One such character is Nick Fury.



David Hasselhoff played Nick Fury in the Fox TV movie
Nick Fury:  Agent of SHIELD 
Nick Fury is a fictional World War II army hero and present day super-spy.  He is actually a contemporary of Captain America which leads you to wonder why in the hell is he still alive to this day.  Well, if Captain America was injected super soldier serum, Nick Fury was on an anti-aging serum---Infinity Formula--- that practically stunted his aging process.  He has no super power but he is a master strategist and a born leader with a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and a brown belt in Jiu Jitsu.  He is a war veteran of World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and other unspoken of conflicts where he lent his consultancy and went on missions in.

Well, I knew Nick Fury as a cigar chomping bad ass with an eye patch---and he was a WHITE DUDE!  This is why I was taken aback when he was portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson in Iron Man 2.  Obviously I'm no longer attuned to the latest in the comics world and did not know that this version of Nick Fury existed in a Marvel parallel universe.  This version of Nick Fury debuted in Ultimate Marvel Team-ups #5 (August 2001).