Hey Everybody

With these simple words Marvel has restarted their hype engine and completely stolen the Thunder from DC. Honestly, I know the thunder god  is one of their characters but this was supposed to be DC's month. No longer fighting Civil War in May, right after Deadpool's momentous winter opening this was supposed to be the sweet spot, but I guess Marvel wasn't in the sugar sharing mood. It also may hilariously be a shot at Joss Whedon, because having a trailer with:iron man, War machine, vision, black widow vs captain America, hawkeye, scarlet witch, winter soldier and adding in the black panther on Tony's side, Antman on Steve's with some awesome fight sequences can be considered an embarrassment of riches, that was honestly enough....

Until it wasn't, I already said this on wordpress but Tony Star screaming "underoos" was the cherry, pineapples and whipped cream on top of my already free awesome sundae. It harkens back to Tony's irreverence, it jokingly talks about Marvel's history as the home for spandex(vs DC's love for cowls and capes), and it allows the wall crawler to show up in a flashy, wacky, cocky, and ridiculous way. This is almost as awesome as Chris Evans pretending to be Loki, pretending to be Captain America. You take a tense scene and toss a fart machine in the middle of it. And it lends itself to such awesome parody, as both the webslinger and the merc with the mouth often do because what is a Spider-man or Deadpool cameo without some existential moment of either seriousness or ridiculousness.

I am a little bit upset, when I was ORIGINALLY looking for the last about 20 seconds of the trailer JUST to show the spider-man reveal, cause you know it is 17 shades of awesome, this parody never came up. Now I kind of JUST want to discuss the awesome parody, because if you have ever watched Spider-man recently in an animated form, Micheal Jackson, Mr. T, Rocky Balboa, and any other pop culture references they can throw in there always pop up. Hell Webhead and The Merc had an existential off in Ultimate Spider-man Web Warriors, I mean it was always suspected that the "Quip off" would be awesome, and it didn't disappoint.

Spider-man is known for verbally accosting his villains before webbing them up and leaving them for the local constabulary, but in the animated arena he is also known to skip off for animated exposition, asides, and monologues to explain why it is your favorite wall crawler is either in the predicament he is in or how he is feeling about a current situation. Between the angelic and the devilish chibi spider-men on his shoulders, to some costume additions, animated spider-man always gives you a chuckle so somebody adding said chuckle to the live action webhead is awesome. Some may call this breaking the fourth wall(which in essence he is), but it isn't to the same tune as Deadpool, Deadpool does it mid episode, while people are standing and looking at him, making them scratch their heads and ask "what in the world are you talking about." Spider-man kind of pauses the action and talks to the crowd and then hops back into it, and ONLY as Spider-man Peter Parker is usually doing the "thought bubble" think when you hear him talking. He isn't talking to the audience but remarking mentally to a situation like a normal person(you know when you roll your eyes, suck your teeth, or mentally want to slap the taste out of someones mouth) and it is a small distinction but it is a big one. Deadpool is Deadpool, and mask or not he talks to the audience.

Another awesome thing in this new trailer is the fact that Spider-man has "emotive eyes" the web head has a few things that people are used to seeing, moving eyes and Spider sense. Now in comics or animated form his Spider Sense is usually accentuated by some random lightening bolts floating around his head as well as a weird not exactly schwing sound but sort of schwing sound. Where as in the live action movies it's something like somebody playing a saw or a wine glass, and in both previous live action version it was pretty similar. And I am not complaining, but I like that fact that his eyes move now, Spidey smiles with his eyes, frowns with them, is confused with them, now some may say "well Deadpool did it first" and as far as the movies are concerned yes Deadpool out earlier this year had animated eyes, but as far as comics and cartoons are concerned the wall crawler has dibs.

So we now see it, T'challa kicks butt, Antman is about to try and smack Iron Man(honestly I have Iron man in that fight, love ya Scott but ummm not this time), and Spider-man steals Captain America's shield AND does the Spidey pose(Squeeeee, what I am allowed to have a moment), this movie looked awesome before but son I am about to buy the tickets like now. Should have bought them last week when it dropped but I had these pesky bill things that I had to pay (bills suck kids, never become an adult) and after being captain responsibility bills should be taken care of in time for Civil War early ticket purchases. Now some might be wondering "Did you preorder Dawn of Justice tickets"

Nope, if we see it we see it on opening night/weekend cool, if we don't oh well. I mean I will try and do a review of it if we do see it, but I don't have my hopes up. Everything I see about this movie and the more I read the more it screams X-men Origins Wolverine, not Iron man 2, Thor, Captain America Winter Soldier(cause honestly no other hero was introduced in First Avenger, Thor introduced Hawkeye, IM2 introduced black widow. Winter Soldier gave us Gray Winged Falcon) and that isn't a good thing, since Origins:Wolverine gave us the not as charming as we would like Gambit, the Silence of the lambs Deadpool, and a strangely preteen and all together first class. Like seriously it's as if they said to hell with all the actual origin stories lets just throw characters in here and say "HIIIIII Audience, let's ignore all the other X movies, the actual comics books, and canon, this is a stand alone movie and continuity doesn't matter," this movie is giving me bad vibes. While a fight between Batman and Superman is potentially awesome, the question becomes "Why?" if anybody understands collateral damage it's Batman, do you see his villains, all they do is blow things up. Even if he was there, he would feel a kinship not anger to Superman, one man against a gang of highly trained, well outfitted assailants, yes there was some spill over, and yes the main big bad cause a lot of damage while they were fighting, but err um: Mr. Freeze, Killer Croc, Mad Hatter, JOKER, Two Face, Royal Flush Gang, League of Shadows anyone? Anyone? Have you not seen what Gotham looks like after they finish slinging freeze rays, lead, wind up characters, joker toxin, or a rock I'm saying a BIG ROCK(sorry, Batman the series flashback) around trying to take down the Dark Knight? Wayne Industries does so much construction to fix that crap you would think it was a form of insurance fraud.

Do I want to see Wonder Woman on the big screen, yes, The Flash, yes, Aquaman, hell yes(what he has had a few cool iterations since the old super friends days), Cyborg, Martian Manhunter, and Hawk girl too. We saw green lantern and I already mentioned how I felt about that, I just think that trying to play catch up in this fashion is fraught with disaster but we shall see.