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giveamadeuschohisownmovie · 6 years

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Hypothetical plot outline for a possible pilot episode of a “Ghost Rider” TV series (don’t mind me, just stretching out my writing muscles):

We start off exactly where we last saw Robbie Reyes. He leaves SHIELD with the Darkhold for an unknown world. He buries the Darkhold and says, “The debt is paid” before opening another portal, this one leading back to Los Angeles. There’s a close-up on the buried book, indicating that this will come back at some point.

Title credits.

Several months later, Robbie is back to being a mechanic. We see him go through his normal routine (fixing cars, picking his brother up from school, on and on) and for the most part, he’s left the vigilante life. However, he still gets urges to go after evil people and to deal with the urges, he becomes a recluse. It’s to the point where Gabe Reyes says he’s concerned about him and that he needs to find friends or else he’ll go insane from isolation.

We then cut to another series regular on the show, Sister Sara Yang, a nun from the UK who has arrived in Los Angeles. It’s revealed she’s part of a special sect of the Catholic church that deals with supernatural foes and that she’s some sort of monster hunter. Sara contacts the Los Angeles branch and asks them to point her to the Ghost Rider. The head of the Los Angeles branch says, “Why did the Pope choose you of all people to deal with the Ghost Rider?”, to which Sara says, “Penance”.

It’s to imply that Sara has some sort of dark past, that kind of stuff.

Going back to Robbie, he’s visited by a high school friend (and another series regular), Hamilton Slade. Hamilton is a computer technician and one of the only people who still talks to Robbie, despite him becoming a recluse. Hamilton is concerned about him and Robbie says he shouldn’t be. Hamilton then drops the topic and says that he’s come by to invite Robbie over for his birthday party. Robbie says he’ll think about it and Hamilton leaves.

That night, the Ghost Rider spirit warns Robbie that it senses something strange about Hamilton. Robbie tries to ignore it but eventually decides to attend the party.

At the party, Robbie meets another series regular, Lisa Ortega (loosely based on Lisa from the All-New Ghost Rider books). In this version, she’s another high school friend who is now a lawyer trying her hand at politics. It’s pretty obvious from their interactions that Robbie had a huge crush on her in high school and it’s still there to this day. Think...Barry and Iris, or Fitz and Simmons.

Lisa says she was invited by Hamilton and that she’s glad to see Robbie after not having seen him for years. The conversation is going fine until they’re approached by a couple of douchebags who are angry at her politics. Robbie tells them to back off and the douchebags leave before the Rider comes out. Robbie excuses himself in order to regain control.

Going back to Sara, she’s staying at a motel, studying all she can about Robbie Reyes. Suddenly, someone knocks at the door. Sara answers it and we see another series regular, Danny Ketch. Danny, one of the previous Ghost Riders, is an old man now. Sara asks why he’s here and Danny says that she needs to leave town and that he’s done with the Ghost Rider. Sara says she’s here for a man named Robbie Reyes and Danny leaves, intending to seek out Reyes himself.

During the conversation, we learn that at some point in the 1990s, Danny lost his mind as the Rider and something really bad happened that forced him to retire. We’ll learn what the awful event was later on the show.

We then cut to Gabe Reyes at school. He bonds with the new girl at school (and another series regular), Alejandra Jones, who will eventually become the All-New Ghost Rider. Alejandra is quiet and detached from everyone else. When Gabe asks her about her home life, Alejandra angrily storms off.

Back to Lisa, the douchebags who tried to harass her are planning some sort of smear campaign in order to ruin her career. The lead douchebag says that first, they’ll try to intimidate her into quitting the campaign. The attempt goes wrong when Lisa spots them and tries to contact the police. This results in one of the douchebags opening fire, hitting Lisa’s brother who was hiding behind her.

Robbie hears about the shooting from Gabe and Hamilton. Filled with anger, Robbie finally decides to let the Rider out. He goes out to the douchebags’ hideout and we get a glorious sequence where Robbie murders all of them. It’s mostly to highlight the Ghost Rider’s strengths, such as the metal chain whip, the fire, and the car.

After the massacre, we get a montage of the other characters reacting to Robbie’s rampage. Danny Ketch sees it on the news and says, “Well I’ll be damned...there really is a new Rider”. Gabe sees it and is visibly disturbed. Alejandra Jones watches, slightly amused. Lisa Ortega watches in awe and is somewhat satisfied seeing her brother’s murderers be torn apart. Hamilton talks to Gabe about how cool it is to see the Rider at work.

The next morning, Robbie talks to Lisa and says he’s sorry about what happened to her brother. They hug it out and, as Lisa leaves, Sara Yang shows up. She introduces herself before saying, “We need to talk...Ghost Rider”. Robbie looks at her, puzzled, and the episode ends.

Just kidding. We then get a post-credit where we see Alejandra Jones, sitting alone in her room. We learn that she’s into witchcraft and is talking with ghosts. As she talks about her day and how crap her home life is, we see that the ghost she’s been talking to is Eli Morrow, Robbie’s uncle (Eli is another series regular in the show). Episode truly ends with that reveal.

Future plot details

1) Sara’s dark past is a tie-in to Agents of SHIELD. It’s revealed her sin is that she murdered her abusive father before running away from home. Her father is revealed to be Alistair Fitz, making her Leo Fitz’s half-sister.

2) Danny becomes Robbie’s mentor while Sara becomes Robbie’s sidekick (along the lines of Bucky and Falcon)

3) Lisa is the main love interest, unless Daisy comes into the show later on

4) Alejandra Jones eventually dies this season but is resurrected by Eli Morrow, like in the All-New Ghost Rider books. Eli’s ghost bonds to her spirit, which is how she can become a Ghost Rider.

5) Danny’s dark past is related to Johnny Blaze’s disappearance.

6) Hamilton Slade is revealed to be a descendant of Carter Slade, the Ghost Rider of the 1800s. That’s why the Ghost Rider sensed something strange about Hamilton.

7) Eli-as-Alejandra Jones is the main villain of season one.

8) Series regulars: Robbie Reyes, Gabe Reyes, Alejandra Jones, Eli Morrow, Sister Sara Yang, Danny Ketch, Hamilton Slade, Lisa Ortega

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aion-rsa · 4 years

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Will the Real WandaVision Villain Please Stand Up?

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This article contains WandaVision spoilers.

WandaVision is in its home stretch, with one big “villain” reveal hitting at the end of episode 7, and more expected any episode now. Agatha Harkness’ basement gave off some real strong bad gal vibes, but historically in the comics she’s never been the mastermind behind Wanda’s troubles, so much of the world is expecting another.

And while all the speculation so far has centered on Mephisto – justifiably so, considering his history with Wanda, Billy, Tommy, and Master Pandemonium’s arms – we think there’s one dark horse contender that not enough people have been talking about. With his history with Wanda and his future with the Avengers (and very likely in the MCU, if the tea leaves we’re reading are correct), there’s a better than decent chance that this guy will be popping up in WandaVision’s final episodes.

But first, let’s get one thing straight…

Agatha Harkness…is a red herring?

The end of episode 7 of WandaVision plays up the sinister aspects of Agatha Harkness. Her basement looks like it could have been ripped from the set of Sabrina the Teenage Witch. But that doesn’t mean she’s actually evil.

In fact, through the entirety of Wanda’s story in the pages of Marvel Comics, Agatha has been one of the few people actually interested in Wanda’s well being. Sure, she was often very matriarchal about it, but she actually seemed to care that Wanda was messing with her own children’s existence. And in a Scarlet Witch solo miniseries from the mid ‘90s, she was the only one actually concerned with trying to give Wanda agency. It would be a big swerve for the show to adapt her into an outright villain.

However, she was also prominently involved in Wanda’s “nexus being” storyline as the one trying to snap Wanda out of Immortus’ trance (more on that in a minute). I am willing to bet a small amount of money that Agnes is not the main villain of WandaVision, just acting shady about how she’s trying to break Wanda free of someone else’s control.

That you, Mephisto?

We’ve been inundated with Mephisto references to this point – between all the “Demon Spawn”s and Coronet Theaters and devils in details. And to be completely fair, Mephisto makes a lot of sense as the big bad of WandaVision.

Billy and Tommy’s birth in the comics was a bit of a mystery when it happened. As in, how could a woman and a synthezoid possibly have offspring? Also the fact that they were twins was a surprise, but I don’t know that that’s especially relevant. Anyway, turns out Doctor Strange is a crappy OB and also, the way a woman and a synthezoid could have children was if the woman loved the synthezoid very much, she could capture wild magical energy loose because of damage caused to the lord of Hell’s soul by a battle with Franklin Richards, channel that energy into her womb, and create life and souls with it. Mephisto was not powerful enough to escape battle with the Fantastic Four’s firstborn, and Wanda unwittingly used shards of his soul to create Billy and Tommy.

Later on, a movie exec who cut a deal with Mephisto, one Master Pandemonium, tried to capture the twins, as he believed that the kids were actually fragments of his lost soul. Alas, instead they were just his arms, and when he went to reabsorb them into his body, Mephisto hopped in and took his complete soul back from the sleazeball with babyhands.

So Mephisto is deeply entwined with the origins of Billy and Tommy, and with Wanda’s story in the comics. But what if he’s not in the show? What if, while everyone else is focused on Mephisto, WandaVision actually gives us…

Immortus

Immortus is, among other things, the Scarlet Centurion, Iron Lad, Victor Timely, Pharaoh Rama Tut, and a Pope. He is a continuity black hole, but the simplest explanation is that he’s the oldest version of the being who, at varying points in his history, was/is/would become Kang the Conqueror.

Here’s a…profoundly condensed version.

The being who would become Immortus was born in the 30th century, to a post-scarcity world of peace, prosperity, and plenty. He was bored as shit by this. So he stole a time machine, traveled back to ancient Egypt, ruled as Pharaoh Rama Tut for a bit, got a taste for conquering, and eventually became Kang, who would come to rule tens of centuries as the undisputed lord of time. Eventually he got so good at conquering that he ended up just…ruling…instead of conquering anymore, and that was where his downfall began.

After a series of paradoxes he got his own damn self into, he eventually hooked up with the Time Keepers, a trio of beings from the end of all time trying to do a bunch of stuff that ultimately would end up ensuring their own creation. As a brief aside, the Marvel time travel characters are like if you kept introducing new invasive species to a pond to wipe out the last invasive species you put in the pond. It’s grandfather paradoxes all the way down.

Anyway, the Time Keepers put Immortus in charge of cleaning up his own timeline as well as monitoring the Avengers segment of the timestream. Along with his mastery of time, Immortus also had the ability to dance around the multiverse. He could peer between timelines, prune the bad ones, trap Kang and Songbird and Yellowjacket in the wild west, etc. etc.

Also his name is Nathaniel Richards.

The Fantastic Four Connection

Wait, does this mean Immortus is the father of Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards?

Technically no. But he may be a descendant of Reed Richards. Or Dr. Doom. That’s where he gets the time portal from. Apparently.

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This is probably not how they’re introducing the Fantastic Four to the MCU. It would be very weird to, say, flash back to Howard Stark and Nathaniel Richards going on a SHIELD mission in the ‘50s that had them cross paths with the Time Stone, have Howard believe Nathaniel was lost in action when Richards merely created an offshoot timeline that included the Fantastic Four and mutants, only to have an immortal Nathaniel, embittered by countless lifetimes of loss and hollow conquering, travel back to find a way to remerge the timelines so his past self could have a happy life.

It would be particularly ridiculous for that to happen in a future Marvel show like Loki. Anyway, let’s get back on subject.

What Does Nexus Mean?

The commercial in episode 7 featured an anti-depressant called Nexus, a pointed reference to one of Wanda’s roles in the greater Marvel Comics cosmogony. Wanda is a Nexus Being, an entity with tremendous power over the path of reality, who can alter futures even after they’ve set, create branching timelines, and possibly prevent powerful, important beings in the future from being born. And they typically have exceedingly powerful children – kids who, when fully mature, can rival universal constants like Eternity, the Living Tribunal, Chaos, Order, or Death.

In the comics, Wanda was a threat both to the Time Keepers, who wanted nothing more than to ensure their own existence would come to pass, and Immortus, who wanted to also ensure his own timeline would come to pass and ALSO screw those fish faced Time Keepers out of their jobs. To do this, he decided the best path would be to be a real dick to Wanda.

First, he tricked Wanda and Vision into falling in love, thinking nobody could make a baby with a synthezoid. Then he screwed around with Vision’s body and timeline, making him inhabit the body of the original Human Torch, then not inhabit that body, then do both at the same time. Then he just up and drove Wanda insane, infusing her with additional power to amp her nexus abilities, letting her manipulate the timestream at a whim.

Which leads us to…

MCU Phase 5: Avengers Forever

Here is a sampling of things we know or can reasonably ascertain about the future of the MCU.

Time travel is probably going to be the thrust of Loki. We see the Time Variance Authority in the trailer, along with a brief flash of statues that look like the Time Keepers.

A lot of the MCU TV shows seem to be pointing towards Young Avengers. Kate Bishop is in Hawkeye, Billy and Tommy are in WandaVision, and while it’s not a TV show, Cassie is in Ant-Man 3.

Also in Ant-Man 3 is Kang the Conqueror himself. He fits the Young Avengers theory – the youngest version of Rama Tut/Kang/Scarlet Centurion/Immortus was Iron Lad, the mysterious Iron Man analogue from the teen hero group.

Chris Evans is rumored to be coming back one more time for an Avengers role.

The Young Avengers theory feels like a slam dunk. It would be the least surprising thing in the world to have Patriot (Eli Bradley, the grandson of Isaiah Bradley, a recipient of an experimental super soldier serum in a dark, Tuskegee Experiment-style follow up to the original super soldier program) show up in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, and there’s no way Marvel would spend that much energy laying the groundwork for a new generation of Avengers and not have it pay off. However, if you squint hard enough, you can see a second path being cut by these shows.

Avengers Forever.

Avengers Forever is a 1998 miniseries by Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco that is widely beloved for its distillation of decades of Marvel continuity into one epic story. It has Kang and the Kree Supreme Intelligence gathering a team of Avengers from disparate points in the timeline – Yellowjacket from the early days of the Avengers; Hawkeye from just after the Kree-Skrull War; a disillusioned Captain America from a low point in the medium past; present day Wasp and Giant Man; and Songbird and Captain Marvel from a future Avengers team – to battle Immortus and the Time Keepers for the life of Rick Jones.

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All the elements are there, from the time travel nonsense to the easy opportunity to get the whole gang back together. The key is Immortus, and he could be revealed soon in WandaVision.

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duaneodavila · 6 years

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The New York Times’ New Low

When Hillary Clinton ran for the presidency, one accusation thrown at her was that, as a lawyer, she defended a rapist. “She was a rapist lawyer!” shrieked the fools. Even worse, she wasn’t doing so as a public defender, compelled by her position to take on such a horrible client, but she chose to do so. What did it prove about Hillary? That she was a lawyer.

The New York Times published a news story, a distinction that’s growing less meaningful by the minute, about the lawyer who would be so scummy, so awful, as to defend “Infowars” Alex Jones. Who would be such a disgusting horrifying lawyer?

Lawyers for Neo-Nazi to Defend Alex Jones in Sandy Hook Case

The lawyers have names: Marc Randazza and his associate, Jay Wolman. If Marco’s name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s been written about here numerous times. He’s my friend. He’s my lawyer. He’s also Andrew Anglin’s lawyer. He’s represented the “sort of” people the New York Times would deign to call “good people.” He’s represented people the Times crowd despises. Just like Hillary representing a rapist. Just like me representing murderers and drug dealers. This is what lawyers do, represent the people in need of representation.

But we chose these clients? A rationalization has appeared to distinguish the virtuous public defender-types, who have no choice in the horrible people they defend, from those of us who do so out of choice. It’s a lie, and the downtrodden public defender-types are as guilty of perpetrating this lie as is the New York Times.

We would all be thrilled to defend the Pope from drug charges, but he doesn’t get indicted too often. On the other hand, the people who do get indicted have a right to counsel too. Defending the Constitution, and putting the government to its burden of proof, is what we do. For Marco, defending the First Amendment is what he does.

As with the people accused of a crime, First Amendment challenges are raised most frequently with people whose speech isn’t widely beloved, as least by the New York Times. So it involves a Neo-Nazi like Anglin? Of course, just as the old ACLU defended the Neo-Nazis at Skokie in 1979. Only a blithering idiot would conflate defense of First Amendment rights with the embrace of the client’s ideology. Elizabeth Williamson is such an idiot.

Marc Randazza and Jay Wolman of the Las Vegas-based Randazza Legal Group are defending Mr. Jones in Connecticut. The lawyers also represent Andrew Anglin, the co-founder of the Daily Stormer, who is being sued for harassment by a Montana woman after Daily Stormer followers subjected her to a torrent of anti-Semitic slurs and threats. Mr. Anglin has cited Mr. Jones as an early influence.

Anglin has absolutely nothing to do with Jones. But, you whimper, if he chooses to represent white supremacists, it “tells” you something.

If they choose to commonly represent white supremacists and insane trolls, well that was their choice. It would be a disservice to NOT have it noted that these lawyers have no qualms with defending the scum of society if they get paid for it.

But so what if some random non-lawyer demonstrates that he is incapable of grasping the concept that lawyers represent the people in need of representation? Holding idiotic opinions is not only the American way, but the very thing Randazza defends. Certainly someone with a double-Harvard-educated brain will set the clueless groundlings straight.

I get that Nazis need good lawyers, but good lawyers don’t have to like it.

That’s from Elie Mystal at Above The Law.

Full disclosure time: I know Marc Randazza. I’ve done podcasts with Marc Randazza. Marc Randazza has defended this website.

Not just “this website,” but Elie personally. Maybe not quite full disclosure?

And I respect what he’s doing. No, I don’t agree. I don’t think he should be doing it. Just because Nazis deserve a legal defense doesn’t mean you’re a good person for defending them.

Elie’s a smart guy, far smarter than anything he’s written for clicks in the past two years would suggest. But to burn a friend, someone who has been there for him when needed, to push a lie is disgraceful, no matter how many clicks it gets at that vacuous cesspool of Social Justice.

Randazza does his Nazi dance in court, and he doesn’t cry when decent people shun him.

Threading the Dersh needle doesn’t make language like “Nazi dance” disappear.

But you can defend deplorable people without adopting and promoting their deplorable logic. There’s a difference. The legal community does not talk about that difference very much: lawyers shun deplorable lawyers, and deplorable lawyers put their heads so far up their own ass that they think any suggestion of restraint smells bad.

This is where real lawyers see that Elie isn’t a real lawyer and doesn’t have a clue about what real lawyers do. Faux lawyers see lawyers who defend people they despise as “deplorable lawyers.” They shun them. Real lawyers don’t. Real lawyers defend those who need defending, and do everything they can to zealously represent their clients. The only difference here is that Elie is either happy to lie, whether for cause or clicks, or just doesn’t have the a clue what he’s writing about.

Hillary Clinton was no rapist lawyer, no rapist apologist, no rapist sympathizer. She was just a lawyer doing her duty to her client. Randazza is doing the same for his, just as he defended, and won, for me and, yes, Elie.

To the extent the groundlings believe in such moronic crap, people like Elie, the woke prawfs who will lie about anything for their cause, and the New York Times propagate it. Shameless disingenuousness for a cause is bad enough, but burning the guy who defends the First Amendment is inexcusable. Elie enjoyed Marco’s “Nazi dance” when it was his butt on the line, and the New York Times survives with the crap it publishes only because of the First Amendment. Yet, they are willing to throw it away for a cheap smear. And this probably isn’t as low as it will go.

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