This year’s San Diego Comic Con was filled with many exciting reveals, trailers and news.
But, like any other major pop culture convention, it had some moments that were a tad surprising,
if not controversial.
Some of these moments are shocking in the best way possible, while others are downright
scandalous.
So with that in mind, let’s jump into our list of our Top 10 Shocking Moments from San
Diego Comic Con 2018.
The Bumblebee movie was one of the most anticipated trailers to come out of comic con, and the
panel screened some new scenes for fans to take a look at.
The most shocking of these featured a clip of Optimus Prime in the film as a hologram,
who was donning a very G1 aesthetic.
The panel also confirmed a few other exciting pieces of news; we’ll be seeing Cybertron
in the film, and rather than Starscream appearing in the movie, it’s Blitzwing.
The other two decepticons set to appear in the movie are Shatter and Dropkick, both of
which are triple changers.
People we shocked by Venom’s reveal at the Sony Pictures panel, but in a good way!
Debuting a new comic con exclusive trailer, fans got to see a full body glimpse of Tom
Hardy’s Eddie Brock as Venom, and much to their relief, he looks exactly like he does
in the comics, specifically during Todd McFarlane’s run with the character.
While that footage hasn’t been made available online yet, you can get a breakdown of it
by checking out the Venom video on our channel.
In addition to that, it was announced that the Riot symbiote will be in the film, but
we didn’t get a confirmation on whether or not Carnage will be making an appearance.
Tom King, one of DC’s highest profile talents at the moment, made headlines by having a
body guard at the convention.
King, who was behind Batman issue 50 with the now infamous Catwoman leaving Batman at
the alter on their wedding day, was receiving death threats over the issue.
On the first day of the convention he tweeted out an image of him and his body guard with
the caption, “Because of the Batman 50 death threats, they got me a bodyguard for the Con.
This is David.
He is presumably already very bored with endless looking for toys.
For my uh kids.”
When interviewed about it, King revealed that it was his con agent who assigned him the
body guard, not anyone at DC, after controversy emerged about why other DC employees had not
been given a body guard in the past when they had received death threats.
The trailer reveals from Warner Brothers for Aquaman and Shazam were really promising this
year.
Considering the success of the first Wonder Woman film and the hype surrounding the second,
Wonder woman 1984, it now looks like DC is on the right track to fixing some of the previous
damage it’s endured with its DC Extended Universe.
And that’s probably why they’ve announced that they’re rebranding (oh, good ol DC,
can’t resist a rebranding or reboot, can you?)
Instead of being the DCEU, they announced at comic con that they’ll be changing the
name of its cinematic universe to the Worlds of DC, and didn’t provide much reasoning
behind the decision at the panel.
The Godzilla King of the Monsters trailer is yet another example of positive shock on
our list.
Starring Milliw Bobby Brown and Vera Farmiga, the sequel film shocked audiences by revealing
multiple monsters in its trailer, including Mothra, Rodan and King Ghidorah.
People pretty much lost their s*** over it.
The film, which comes out on March 31st of next year, will feature a major clash of titans
as all of these monsters are awakened and vie for supremacy, which is said to leaving
humanity’s very existence hanging in the balance.
We all knew that Andrew Lincoln who plays Rick Grimes on the Walking Dead would be leaving
after the 9th season of the show, but the actor himself confirmed it at their panel.
The AMC zombie series also debuted a trailer for the season, which hinted to what Rick’s
fate may entail; multiple survivor settlements have been established, but there looks to
be some conflict brewing, even between him and other fan favourite Daryl.
The trailer also hinted at the introduction to one of the storylines in the comics; the
Whisperers, a group of antagonists who wear zombie’s skins in order to hide themselves.
Their leader is reportedly to be played by Samantha Morton.
Despite first airing over 21 years ago, Buffy the Vampire Slayer still has a very avid fan
base who loves it dearly.
Yours included.
So it’s no surprise that when Joss Whedon announced at comic con this year that Buffy
was getting a reboot, a lot of people were outraged.
Most of the criticism pertained to why Whedon would allow for a reboot rather than just
continuing the story and introducing a new slayer instead of bringing in all new cast
members to portray Buffy and the rest of the Scoobies.
Whedon will be acting as an executive producer on the show, and the creator of Midnight Texas
will be acting as the showrunner.
The long awaited trailer for Teen Titans live action series Titans debuted at SDCC, and
it had everyone baffled over one particular line; F*** Batman.
Yup, that’s right, Dick Grayson drops an F bomb concerning his mentor, and it got a
lot of mixed reactions.
The overall trailer to many felt as if it were trying real hard to appear edgy and dark,
and Grayson’s cursing just further perpetuated that.
According to Geoff Johns, the show is an exploration of all of these ‘lost’ characters coming
together, each having their own traumatic past to deal with, and Robin is clearly got
a lot on his chest concerning Bruce Wayne.
Titans will be premiering on DC’s new subscription based streaming service, DC Universe.
While the Fantastic Beasts The Crimes of Grindelwald portion of the Warner Brothers panel was all
in good fun and provided us with a brand new trailer, the latter part of the panel had
some people a little upset.
Johnny Depp appeared, and addressed the audience in character as Grindelwald by giving a speech.
Which would’ve been awesome, if it weren’t for the fact that Johnny Depp is definitely
not the most liked actor these days.
For starters, Disney has been criticized for continuing their professional relationship
with him after allegations of assault emerged.
And second, the woman who accused him of said assault appeared on stage almost directly
afterwards; amber Heard.
Heard, who plays Mera in the upcoming Aquaman film, was there alongside her cast mates,
and many felt that Depp’s presence at the same panel was not in good taste.
The firing of Guardians of the Galaxy director James Cunn may not have happened at the convention,
but it managed to cause quite the stir there, taking over many of the top entertainment
headlines.
Disney announced that they were ending their working relationship with the director writer
due to a series of tweets that he published between the years of 2008 and 2011.
These tweets were inappropriate jokes concerning controversial topics like rape and pedophilia.
Gunn took to twitter to apologize; something he’s no stranger to.
A few years back he also apologized about a blog post he had written where he discussed
the top superheroes you’d want to have sex with, making remarks like Iron Man could ‘turn’
Batwoman straight, that Gambit was a Cajiun fruit, and that Batgirl was easy.
In addition to that, the outrage of social media attacked Disney for firing Gunn for
old tweets while continuing to work with Johnny Depp after allegations from ex-partner Amber
Heard.
Disney has gotten a lot of heat for keeping him on as Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts,
as well as continuing their work relationship with him on the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
Meanwhile, others have stepped up for Gunn, including Dave Bautista who plays Drax in
the Guardians of the Galaxy, speaking out that what had been done was wrong.
Alright, there we have it!
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