Think about it. His muscles all glistening. Gamora jumping on the perfect being. Add in the love triangle bs with quill you got yourself some thirtysomething twilight.
Small changes here and there can be acceptable. Drax being from an alien race instead of a human whose soul was put into a genetically engineered body? I can deal with that since it simplifies things for the general, non comic book reading audience.
But Quill’s father not being J-Son? That’s a huge part of his character in the books. Half the reason he does anything - especially anything relating to the Spartax - is due to buried daddy issues from J-Son abandoning his mother.
Gunn is going to have to come up with something really, really impressive for me to buy in. The whole “ancient race” line from the movie doesn’t help either.
Thanos will be his dad…hey it’s the movies who cares about the source material cause you know it’s stupid and only for loser fanboys.
I’m gonna be writing for Dr.strange…in my version he doesn’t have magical powers he’s just a con man and hard working street magician. His sidekick will be a young kid who’s apart of a gang called the black panthers, and his villain is a angry tax collector called celestial.
I ask - out of ignorance - but ‘daddy issues’ can originate from anyone not being there. so why does that guy have to be his father?
I think there is a line MArvel doesn’t want to cross. Yes, tying the movies together is great, giving nods to the comics is great, but on some level they have to ‘curb’ how deep into comic lore they go or it will become entirely too convoluted. Whomever his dad is going to be, it needs to be someone who has impact on the overall arcing of the Marvel universe.
And Nick Cage for Adam Warlock. You know you want it…
It’s just… why pick that specific thing to change? Drax’s origin could be complicated to explain to an audience that isn’t accustomed to comic books and their fantastical shenanigans. But what about J-Son is so troublesome that it has to be changed? Like I said, Gunn is going to need something really impressive to legitimize changing something so simple, yet still a character defining nemesis for Star-Lord. Not to mention that J-Son is a great character.
Change for the sake of change is probably the underlying reason I don’t like it. IMO it’s what ruined X3 and every X-Men movie that followed until DOTFP cleaned up the mess. Admittedly, change for the good of the film and change for change sake is a thin line and the MCU has done a great job of staying away from the latter, but this is the biggest change they’ve taken on thus far and I don’t see a clear reason for it.
And I guess that’s a neater way of saying what I was getting at. It’s not a matter of “Naw son”, I just think Marvel is trying to keep it contained to a point. I mean as it stands we had aliens in Avengers, but outside of that ‘this’ was our first trip to space, and I’m not sure how deep into space they are going to go. Yeah this was a successful gamble, but the safe money is on the established veterans most folks know…who are on earth; I wouldn’t expect Marvel to steer too far from them.
Well that’s the thing - that’s even more reason to keep J-Son his father. The Spartax people (who J-Son is the ruler of) look human. Unless you were explicitly told they’re from another planet, you’d think they were human.
What you’re saying is in contradiction to what they seem to be doing. Instead of keeping things tied to Earth, they clearly plan on going deeper. I mean they showed a friggin’ Celestial, Howard the Duck, Adam Warlock’s cocoon, Cosmo the Russian Space Dog, etc in the first movie alone. I don’t feel like they’re straying away from the out outer space thing, they’re embracing it wholeheartedly while keeping explanations as simple as possible.
