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Actually this brings up an interesting point: Tony Stark has had his eyes opened to all the death and destruction his weapons cause both in the right and WRONG hands, so he orders his company OUT of the weapons business. Ironically he then creates one of the greatest weapons in the form of the Iron Man armor, but there are securities to keep unauthorized personnel out of the armor. (Rhodey was authorized in IM2). But my point is this: will Tony keep the synthetic element that he created from his father's notes in IM 2 to himself?

Yes, he now can take the arc reactor to it's maximum potential and presumably give safe, clean energy to the world.....but SHOULD he? He was adamant that Obadiah not have engineers study the mini reactor in his chest in IM1, and I wonder if now his feelings have changed on the matter? He won't want it for weapons at all, but you know how the military can be about wanting the next best thing to stay ahead in the arms race. Arc reactor powered weapons would be something they'd love to have.

I figured she would be Sharon, she's unnamed in First Avenger but Avengers would be the big reveal.

Also I'm also loving how these movies are all intertwined, and how DC plans something similar after Dark Knight Rises when they reboot Batman movies, and get a hopefully good Superman movie going as well.

I listed a few posts above some of the connections the movies have:

1. Studying of the Skull's "energy ammunition" is quite likely what led Howard to start research into what becomes the arc reactor. He saw first hand the energy in action from that one fragment and thus realized what he could build to benefit humanity. As Fury states in IM2: "he was going to kick off an energy race and make the nuclear reactor look like a battery". But it's likely that the tesseract itself was too unstable/dangerous and Howard then attempts to synthesize the new element but cannot due to technology of the era not being up to the task and thus leaves his message and notes for Tony in IM 2. IM1 also has Obadiah mention how Howard helped give the world the atomic bomb, possible spin off of the research of the tesseract energy? Howard also developed the shield that Roger's uses and we see unfinished models in IM1 and IM2...possible advanced prototypes of non-vibranium shields for replacement Captain Americas?

2. The Super Soldier Serum: the unused vial gets stolen and shattered in battle between Rogers and the Hydra agent-Ratzi. So they then take a lot of blood samples from him stating that his genetic code is the sole hope of rediscovering the formula to the serum but without Erskine who knows how long it would take (Erskine in the comics never wrote the whole formula process down). We then see in 2008 Hulk that stored in deep freeze IS the super soldier serum (Erskine's name is on the storage container). So either they DID remake the serum or else very close copy of it, but still can't make it work right since the vita-rays that they used on Steve is vital to the process. Hence why Blonsky developed problems, aside from being a trained soldier-killer always looking for a fight. Tony Stark appears at the end to speak to Ross about a team being put together. There is also a deleted scene of Hulk smashing an iceberg and frozen Cap is seen in the ice but that scene doesn't count now. They could say a Hulk rampage in the arctic shifted the ice flows and caused the flying wing to resurface. Also we see in the beginning that Stark is supplying hardware for the Hulk hunt.

3. Iron Man 1: Tony makes the mini arc reactor to stay alive, it's revealed that otherwise the arc reactor has been a dead end. Nick Fury appears at the end after the credits.

4. Iron Man 2: new revelations about Howard Stark and the arc reactor, Fury tells Tony a few things about his father including how Howard helped start SHIELD. Tony then reviews the notes left behind, figures out the clues, discovers the new element and synthesizes it. His new mini reactor outperforms the old and he is free of palladium poisoning. So Howard's work is finished by Tony. Tony is then hired at the end by Fury as consultant which leads to his meeting with Ross in 2008 Hulk. Also Black Widow appears in the movie and will be an Avenger. Also teh bonus scene at the end is the hammer of THOR.

5. Captain America First Avenger: links to THOR in that the tesseract/Cosmic Cube is allegedly the jewel of ODIN's vault. Skull also sees and recognizes the picture of Yggdrasil, the world tree. Also the tesseract was hidden in Norway.

6. THOR: we see many items in ODIN's vault, no mention of the cube at the beginning but it is revealed after the credits as being in SHIELD storage all these years. Jane's mentor mentions a pioneer of gamma research that disappeared after SHIELD got ahold of him, that had to be Banner. Minor Iron Man reference when the Destroyer appears and an agent asks Coulson if Stark made it. Also Hawkeye appears.

In the comics SHIELD as I recall was formed to stop Hydra, in the movies it could be for same reason, and may also be tied to Captain America's actions in the war.

Hm I think I remember her being listed as a sister back in the beginning, but was retconned.....ah it looks like nowadays she's referred to as being Peggy's niece.

Amanda Righetti played the unnamed SHIELD agent at the end of First Avenger that greeted Steve after he awoke from his deep freeze. No confirmation if she was Sharon Carter, yet.

Ah yes. Not sure if that was a nod to '79 Cap or just a tactical choice, but still funny.

I think I missed that due to blotting the 1979 movie from memory, what was it?

For the purposes of getting Isolator and Jailbird, will the old tutorials still be part of the ouroborus training arc?

To firmly establish her relation to Peggy I would think, or else perhaps her parents split up and she decided to use Carter as her last name.

Originally in the comics, Sharon was Peggy's daughter but thanks to retcons and the sliding timeline that keeps characters eternally young she's now PEggy's granddaughter.

Also in the new Captain America #1, it started with Steve and Sharon going to Peggy's funeral, so they may have her dead in the Avengers movie.

Would he? Didn't the events of the movie start in 1941 and proceed forward? I don't recall them mentioning how much time passed as Cap began wiping out Hydra bases, so it's possible that he went missing before D-Day. It's also possible that once Schmidt was taken down, that if Cap suvived that encounter he would have been deployed to Normandy to assist with D-Day. The movie doesn't clarify how much time elapsed between Cap hitting the ice and V-E Day so it's all conjecture.

He was viewed and treated as the 98lb weakling even in school.

Sharon is supposed to be Peggy's grand daughter per the comics, so I suspect they would maintain that for the movie

I'm curious is to how they will handle Cap's angst at being 70 years out of time in the Avengers. I truly hope they don't gloss it over, but let's not take up the majority of the film with it either.

I hope he gets to read up on history about D-day and how the Allies won, and just what legacy he created as Captain America and that his defeat of Hydra and the Skull are not forgotten. Also I would think he would have received a posthumous Medal of Honor for stopping the Skull and saving New York and the entire eastern seaboard. Also that he gets to look up Peggy Carter and either see her or read up on how her life was.

The Clone Saga suffered from two major mistakes:

1. over extended and dragged out with too many clones
2. Stating Ben was the original Peter. Should have just had Peter as the true Peter, had him retire to be a daddy and Ben takes over despite being a clone.

Because in the Ultimates line of books they can get away with killing and replacing characters while the legendary characters never die for long, or get replaced for long, in the mainstream MU.

So was Wesley at times

This. What worked in comics in the 60's and earlier doesn't always work on the big screen.

Could the Hulk movie get away with using a gamma BOMB to create the Hulk in this rather politcally sensitive day and age or is it easier to stick with a lab accident with a gamma machine (Bill Bixby tribute not withstanding)

Should Iron Man have been in Vietnam like in the comics when he was captured or stick with the modern/current enemies?

Should THOR have been transformed into Donald Blake?

Should Cap have been in a large ice cube and hurled into warmer waters by the Submariner and then later found by the Avengers as it was in Avengers #4?

How many of things I listed above would really have worked for the movies? Maybe the gamma bomb or Donald Blake...

Given how strong Cap is, (if I recall he can lift up to 800 pounds MU handbooks have stated he is as strong as human can be without being superhuman), sending someone flying 30 feet with one hit seems about right. I doubt he was holding back much in battle as he IS a soldier and while he told Erskine that he didn't like the idea of killing he also knew there was a war on and that in war there will be killing.

All the leaping around that Blonksy was doing in his fight was definitely Captain America level agility, I wouldn't have minded seeing it a bit more in Cap's own movie but that's ok.

True the subject's personality would also affect the results. Imagine if someone like Wolverine or Sabertooth or the Punisher got dosed up with the Super Soldier Serum....YIKES!

Still, it's been established in the comics that without the vita-rays to stabilize and control the serum development that there will be problems, hence the 50's Cap being insane and paranoid.

Blonsky in the Hulk.....I don't think he needed that second dose of the serum. Once you receive the serum, it's in you and you are changed at the cellular level and augmented. Dosing him again was a mistake, as he was overdosed, his desire to fight was going off the scale and of course, no vita rays.

Bucky was essentially a good person similar to Steve, so he may have been a good candidate compared to Blonsky.