Hey youtubers, it's Charlie. This is gonna be my Agents of SHIELD episode 12 video
and since they made the big announcement about Marvel not going to Comic Con
all explain that too.
There's a lot of stuff going on in the Marvel Universe right now. Just to start
with the Comic Con stuff, I know that was a big WTF for everyone.
So here's the deal: James Gunn did a facebook Q&A like he does every
once in a while
when someone asked him if he was going to San Diego Comic Con and he replied
'I don't think that Marvel's going so I'm probably not going either, I'm not really sure'
So everyone was kinda like 'Wait, what? Did he just say Marvel is it going to Comic Con,
that's kind of a big deal.' Cut forward to like another day or so
and he was like 'No, I wasn't lying to the fans, I'm a pretty sure Marvel's not going'
That's why most of the actual news reporters in Hollywood right now
are reporting that Marvel isn't going to Comic Con.
They haven't made it official, Marvel isn't going to say anything about this definitively
like, they'll either show up or they won't, but they're probably not going to do a big Hall H panel
Just add a little bit more of context: Comic Con was moved way up to the beginning of July this year
they have Ant-Man coming out like a couple weeks after that, so
by the time Comic Con hits, they'll have already spent most to their marketing
budget on the movie so there's
there's really no point in them marketing the movie at Comic Con they
don't gain anything from it.
Plus, they already did their big phase three panel earlier this year where they announced
all the movies that are coming out in the next 4-5 years so they don't need to
do that again, they've already done that.
On top of that, because Marvel is Disney, Disney owns D23
they might be doing some presentations at D23 this year.
That doesn't mean that Marvel is never gonna do a Hall H at Comic Con.
It just means that they're almost most powerful enough,
like they almost have enough of a marketing machine that they don't need
Comi Con, like they had their
own conventions that they can do this at. I think it's actually a really good idea,
it certainly make my weekend at Comic Con a lot easier
Marvel, as a studio, does not benefit as much from Comic Con
as other studios do, so it just doesn't make as much sense for them to spend
a ton of money if they're not going to be promoting anything specific.
I'll post more updates about Marvel Comic Con stuff in the future it they
release any official updates but don't worry, it's not gonna be a huge deal.
So onto Agents of SHIELD,
careful for spoilers from the episode if you haven't seen it yet. If you guys didn't
recognize him, Eddie McClintock,
was the Kree soldier in this episode, so I'm gonna explain him first in what he means about
the TV universe because it's kinda Guardians crossover but not really. Like
they say some very specific things in the episode that made it seem like
they're not going to do something like this again.
His name in the episode was Vin-Tak, that is not a character from the comics
but it is a sign that Marvel is slowly bringing cosmic stories and Earth-based stories together.
As you can imagine this is a road map to the end of phase 3
and Avengers: Infinity War where the Avengers will have a cosmic story
whereas right now they're having mostly Earth-based stories. As Sif
said at the end of the episode 'I'm going to take him back to Hala, his home planet,
they won't bother you again'. That probably means we won't be seeing a
whole lot of other Kree
on Agents of SHIELD. Coulson said 'don't worry I'll track down the rest of these Diviners',
so the rest of this season is gonna be tracking down
all the other Inhumans. Obviously the teaser for the next episode implies
we're gonna meet a whole bunch of them.
Maybe not love them, but definitely most of them. So it's a little bit of them
winking at the audience, it's like
'yes this is going on and outer space, cosmic things, you know
"tides of the universe" as Sif said are influencing what's happening on Earth'
but they're not gonna be happening on earth all the time. And yes the Bobby-Mack stuff,
the secret planning,
probably Secret Warriors from the comics. I don't think it's Secret Avengers, I think
that'll happen like after Captain America: Civil War.
That's part of my top five moments so don't worry, I'll totally explain it. So top five moments:
number 5: welcome back Sif. They buried the lead a little bit but Sif
was following Vin-Tak to Earth, to keep him from taking the Diviners,
or at least trying to find out what it was he was looking for. She kept saying
the word 'Kava'
that is the Kree word for 'keys'. They ended up going back to the original dig site
where they found the Diviners in the first episode. Remember where Whitehall had that case.
So this episode is a direct link to that flashback to the Agent Carter flashback in episode one
I always give the writers a giant high-five when they're able to tie the arc
back to big WTF moments in the first couple episodes.
Also some the funniest moments, some of the funniest jokes
were Agent May talking to Sif about stuff that she couldn't remember.
Like Thor. 'I don't know why but this name makes me smile' and then you see Agent
May just smile herself and go, 'I know exactly why she's smiling',
'Odin? Yeah you totally met Odin,
you guys are bros'. I cheered a little bit when she said that because remember
Loki has been posing as Odin since the end of Dark World.
So if he set Sif on this mission to find the Diviners,
it was actually Loki sending her on the mission. We will definitely talk more
about what's going on with Loki in Asgard because it'll tie in with Avengers: Age of Ultron and
Thor: Ragnarok, but that's not gonna happen for a while.
so at a tad chrome we'll come back to that later don't worry. Onto number 4:
Bobby and Mack tease a new secret organization inside SHIELD.
Probably Secret Warriors. I was really happy the added a lot of context to this
secret Bobby-Mack plot. The language she used is very important she said 'remember
what happened when we found out our friends were HYDRA?'
and then Mack said 'we are not HYDRA'. That implies that whenever shadow
organization that they have running
is not bad, they're not evil. For those that haven't read the comics
there are many secret organizations inside SHIELD. There's
SWORD, although technically that's not a secret that's kinda like a cosmic-space based
version of SHIELD,
I don't think that that's what they're doing. There's also Secret Warriors which is
like a big comic book line and then there's Secret Avengers.
All those things kinda tie in around like the Secret Invasion
Dark Reign era of the comic books. What I think is going on
what I think they're doing is Secret Warriors just because the show
runners would not stop talking about Secret Warriors last year.
Like they were huge fans of that story line in the comics and Daisy Johnson, the
character from the comics
that Skye is and that they turned her into the Inhuman, she is part at the Secret
Warriors team.
If you guys have a Marvel Unlimited subscription you can totally read that Secret Warrios
storyline for free, so check it out. Onto number 3: everyone figures out that Skye
is one of the Inhumans I'm so happy they didn't drag this reveal out.
Nothing is worse than a TV show teasing us with someone having super awesome powers
and never letting the character have fun with them. I was a little worried
with the way Skye was acting whenever the show came back, like she in quarantine,
she started to freak out, you want Karnak to come judo-slap her silly.
Get a hold of yourself, you have awesome powers, have some fun.
Now that the whole team knows about it, they can deal with it and they can get
there much quicker so
by the end of the season I think Skye will have a better command her abilities,
she'll be more self-assured.
Now right away half the group is still freaking out about it, which is a
little frustrating but they'll get over it.
You can look at it as like a minor tease for Civil War
from the comics but that not what's going on. There was a lot of language
that sounded very Civil War-esque,
like 'these people are freaks', 'no, these people are humans',
'we need to regulate them', 'we need to lock them away'. Civil War in the comic, if you
haven't read it you can also read it on Marvel Unlimited,
it's all about the idea of superhero registration.
Captain America: Civil War - the movie - is going to be different from that.
Onto number 2: meet Vin-Tak, Kree from Hala.
Most of you guys are familiar with the Kree from Guardians of the Galaxy.
Ronan the Accuser was a Kree, but he was part of the Accuser CorpsAccuser Corps
and he was a fanatic. So he's like a crazy example of the Kree.
There are Kree that are totally normal, totally nice people.
Vin-Tak explains he's just trying to help, he's just trying to take the Diviners
so that they can't create more "monstrosities"
I'll explain that in a second because that there's a lot of extra context to be
added there.
Eddie McClintock, awesome actor, I'm totally sad Warehouse 13 got cancelled,
he was a little ridiculous. I mean I like him when he's playing a little straighter,
he's a great comedic actor. To explain the monstrosities thing:
so there is like a subform of Inhumans that are more genetically deformed than others.
They try to prevent that with selective breeding. Genetic tailoring is really
important idea for the Inhumans.
They practice thousands of years of selective breeding so they can create better Inhumans.
But every once in a while you get like someone who's really really deformed.
You could look at that as a teaser for Raina because she is more physically deformed
But the way Vin-Tak use the term in the episode, he calls them all monstrosities,
so like even Skye who looks,
you know, totally normal is a monstrosity by his definition.
They do stray a little bit into After School Special territory when they're like
'okay you're not deform, you're special'. Like in the last episode when The Reader
rescued Raina and he says 'hello beautiful' he himself is, you know,
obviously a little bit deformed.
I'm not a huge fan when they get really on the nose with with their morality like this
like yeah, of course everyone is supposed to be special, we get it.
Really though, my number one WTF awesome moment was when
Vin-Tak explained the Kree-Skrull War in Terrigenesis.
I've read a lot of videos on the Inhumans, so I havesome links in the description, but
the Kree-Skrull War was where the Inhumans story was born out.
Like Stan Lee created and they kinda weaved it into that. The Kree were
trying to create a super race to use as a weapon against the Skrulls,
obviously the Skurlls kinda exist in the Fantastic Four universe,
it's a little up in the air as to wether or not Marvel has the rights to use them.
That's why Joss Whedon used the Chitauri in the Avengers film,
otherwise it would've been a Skrull invasion. Vin-Tak actually spelled it out clearly:
the Kree, at a certain point realized that, the Inhumans, as a project,
we're going downhill, like they were gonna result in something really terrible happening
so they just abandoned, they just like kinda closed up shop,
you know, locked the doors and walked away and the Inhumans were left to themselves.
That was thousands of years ago, so Attilan like, you know, the royal family - Black Bolt -
they all arose out of an independent society that evolved on their own.
So the Kree today don't have a whole lot of interaction with the Inhumans.
And yes, Attilan is out there, they just haven't introduced in the film universe.
I will be interested to see if they mention it by name on the series.
Probably not, I'm not expecting it but they might. Here's my big question for you guys:
if they could have anymore like cosmic cameos, like stuff from the Guardians of the Galaxy universe
on the TV show who would you wanna see? Now remember
like they probably not gonna have Chris Pratt or anyone like that but
any, you know, alien races, who do you wanna see on Agents of SHIELD?
I think the next logical step would for Coulson to make jokes about
talking dogs, like Cosmo,
or Howard the Duck. Just jokes I don't think there's any way we're gonna see him on the show
Here are some of the bigger Easter Eggs I saw, there was a whole bunch of loaded comments,
loaded dialogue,
it was a lot of fun. Starting off with for Full Mortal Kombat
So next week, Kevin Tancharoen, he's the brother of showrunner
Maurissa Tancharoen, is going to be directing. He is the one who started the
Mortal Kombat web series animated series a long, long time ago.
He was gonna do Mortal Kombat reboot movie but he passed on the project after a while
so Kevin Tancharoen Mortal Kombat to Mortal Kombat reference in the episode.
When Bobbi and Hunter had that sex scene and he said
'then you turn into a bit of a nightmare' she actually she got mind-controled, she got
brainwashed in the comics,
the Mockingbird character amd was evil for a while so she literally turned into
something of a nightmare.
I already explain the Sif-Loki-Odin stuff but when she says only seven species
across the Nine Realms require nitrogen to breath, she was talking about
the Badoon, the Brood,
the Dire Wraiths, the Phalanx, the Shi'ar,
the Skrulls. Very clearly Marvel does not have the film and TV rights
for all those races but most of them, so it's just a nice
teaser for things that they can always introduced at some point. I know everyone
really liked the hammer jokes, there were so many hammer jobs in this episode.
Rspecially the little tiny hammer that Eddie McClintock was carrying around.
I don't think that he's part of the Accuser Corps but Kree do have weapons
and armor, the Accuser Corps, that's coded for them, like he said only he could operate it.
Ronan's hammer from Guarding of the Galaxy is a slightly different one,
it's like a little more powerful it's called the Universal Weapon.
But most of the Accuser Corps have hammers like that.
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So like, I said I put more links in description for my videos in the Kree,
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Thank you so much for watching so let's all do thing. I see you guys tonight.