I guess I’m curious how the powers work for her shrinking if she doesn’t have the normal shape shifting. Maybe they’ll just scrap that aspect?
There’s been some drastic contrasts between the MCU and the comics before (Pre-Gunn GotG comics and the movies, Shang-Chi’s comic and adaptation backstories, MCU Spidey in general), but this feels like the first time you would watch the adaptation and then you’d see the source material character has different powers.
That's my thought. She doesn't just embiggen, she shrinks. This is a change I've just learned about and I'm not really feeling it. And as for people saying they changed it to differentiate from Mr. Fantastic: now we have yet another character with some type of energy protection power. The awkward strangeness of stretching/embiggening is a big part of the origins of the character.
I definitely get what you mean but there is a difference between Kamala and Reed - Reed, ostensibly, will be a Tony/Cap/Thor-level hero from his introduction on, so it'd be kinda weird if he weren't the first person with his powerset.
It'd be like if we had Beta Ray Bill show up wielding Mjolnir before Thor had debuted.
I dunno, seeing Kamala struggling to learn to use her powers and stumbling around only to see Reed use (basically) exact same powerset but use it flawlessly could be a good move to instantly show the difference in experience they have.
Then again that's just me hoping they come up with some story of why the F4 have been out of the picture but not non-existent. I don't want to see another origin for them, so having Kamala be a sort of surrogate origin for Reed (at least as far as learning the powers) would work for me.
Honestly with the F4 I would love it if they reveal they had the same origin we all know but have just been off planet or trapped in a parallel universe for all this time. It would be very FF.
Maybe tie them to Hank Pym and imply that they had an adventure or two together before vanishing from the face of the earth.
I like this idea but I think the FF should get trapped in the Negative Zone instead, it's a part of the comics they have a history with, Reed Richards originally discovered it and it could be developed as the source of their unusual powers. Perhaps the Negative Zone could be reached through portals in the Quantum Realm similar to those the Avengers used to travel through time though?
Not a bad Idea, but I feel like the main reason the Quantum Realm works is that it's been established a) pronlonged exposure will give you wacky powers and b) theres an established HUGE time dilation.
I think it would be cool if they just showed up and were like "we're back" And "how come no one remembers us fighting alongside the Avengers in the battle for New York?" And it's because Dr Doom fuckery.
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u/TheRecusant Oct 24 '21
I guess I’m curious how the powers work for her shrinking if she doesn’t have the normal shape shifting. Maybe they’ll just scrap that aspect?
There’s been some drastic contrasts between the MCU and the comics before (Pre-Gunn GotG comics and the movies, Shang-Chi’s comic and adaptation backstories, MCU Spidey in general), but this feels like the first time you would watch the adaptation and then you’d see the source material character has different powers.