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Reaper195

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TheSapphireKnight said:
I'm pretty sure they hinted at him surviving in the Avenger. His Captain America cards being in his locker and not on him and if I recall correctly a line along the lines of "needing motivation." I don't see why this is so surprising.
That wasn't a hint at him living. That was a blatant lie from Fury, using Colson's death as motivation. Because he died.
 

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Clones. It is always clones.

[sub][sub]More like an unintentional continuity issue but whatever.[/sub][/sub]
 

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It'll be interesting to see how they play this, but I hope it's something more then 'ROBOTS LOL'.
 

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Reaper195 said:
TheSapphireKnight said:
I'm pretty sure they hinted at him surviving in the Avenger. His Captain America cards being in his locker and not on him and if I recall correctly a line along the lines of "needing motivation." I don't see why this is so surprising.
That wasn't a hint at him living. That was a blatant lie from Fury, using Colson's death as motivation. Because he died.
I got two problems with that.

1. That makes Coulson and Nick Fury look like two giant assholes.
2. That nixes any chance of any of the Avengers, or any of the supporting cast from any Avengers film, ever showing up in the TV show as a cameo. And without the Avengers, a SHIELD television series is going to be hella boring. I mean, there's some cool stuff you can do with it that I'd like to see, but people are going to watch it because it's connected to that awesome Avengers film they saw.
 

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'You have reached the Life Model Decoy of Tony Stark. Please leave a message.'

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bastardofmelbourne said:
Reaper195 said:
TheSapphireKnight said:
I'm pretty sure they hinted at him surviving in the Avenger. His Captain America cards being in his locker and not on him and if I recall correctly a line along the lines of "needing motivation." I don't see why this is so surprising.
That wasn't a hint at him living. That was a blatant lie from Fury, using Colson's death as motivation. Because he died.
I got two problems with that.

1. That makes Coulson and Nick Fury look like two giant assholes.
2. That nixes any chance of any of the Avengers, or any of the supporting cast from any Avengers film, ever showing up in the TV show as a cameo. And without the Avengers, a SHIELD television series is going to be hella boring. I mean, there's some cool stuff you can do with it that I'd like to see, but people are going to watch it because it's connected to that awesome Avengers film they saw.
1. How does that make Coulson look like an asshole? He was killed by Loki. "Fuckin' Coulson, being killed and all." Said no one. Ever. AS for Fury...yes. He is a bit of a dick. Hence why Robin from How I Met Your Mother is all "But those weren't on Coulson when he died." with the tone of "Dude...you bein' a dick, brah."
2. Wha.....what? How? Whether Coulson is a main character or a cameo in the first episode in some kind of flashback, that doesn't stop any of the Avengers from being in the series in any shape or form. Coulson wasn't a major character in the film series, nor was he integral to the Avengers film, aside from being funny and whatnot. I don't see how you came to this conclusion.
 

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"They are already here, they called it"
- If i remember correctly that is what Nick Fury said... BEFORE the Medics arrived (You could hear them off-screen)

I wondered why everybody assumed Coulson was dead. We didn't see anything like that - we have Fury's word for it. (Masterspy... Lier of Liers and such)

After that he constructed his "Motivation-Scheme"

I have no problem with Coulson living; He just took a edged spear through the lungs *g* - Easy-peasy for comic-characters.
 

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Summerstorm said:
"They are already here, they called it"
- If i remember correctly that is what Nick Fury said... BEFORE the Medics arrived (You could hear them off-screen)

I wondered why everybody assumed Coulson was dead. We didn't see anything like that - we have Fury's word for it. (Masterspy... Lier of Liers and such)

After that he constructed his "Motivation-Scheme"

I have no problem with Coulson living; He just took a edged spear through the lungs *g* - Easy-peasy for comic-characters.
The conversation where he said that took place after the paramedics arrived.

OT: Frankly, I don't know how interested i can get in this, even if it does get turned into a series. Considering that it won't have any actual Avengers as main characters, it seems like it could be a bit boring.
 

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Baron von Blitztank said:
I think in a world with Norse Gods, government created super-soldiers, men turning into giant green rage-monsters, a man building his own super-robot-suit and Samuel L Jackson, I'm fairly certain reality has been thoroughly told to go fuck itself.
In this, the most badass of posts, contains all that needs to be said on the subject.

bastardofmelbourne said:
We should really all be blaming Joss Whedon for killing him off. It wasn't even a very good long-term ploy! Everybody loved him, he could have carried the SHIELD series, and then Whedon has to stab him because no-one is allowed to be happy!

Damn you, Wheeeedoooooooooon!
I read somewhere that his death was planned in the overarching story independent of Whedon. And I'd put money on the assumption that the directors, (Jon Favreau, Kenneth Branagh, Joe Johnson(?), the guy who directed Incredible Hulk, and Whedon) would have needed the go ahead from the producers, before killing off characters that could screw with what's planned for the universe.

And if you were being sarcastic ignore me completely. :)
 

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I'd already expected that Coulson would show up, since he was also in the Ultimate Spider-man cartoon as well.
Different continuity. According to the Marvel Wiki, they take place in different universes - the MCU all takes place in Earth/Universe-199999, which is solely for Cinematic Universe use. The animated series' and comics and all other incarnations of Marvel universes have different alternate realities. So a version of Coulson (also voiced by the film actor Clark Gregg) exists in the Ultimate Spiderman series, yes, but it's not the same Coulson as the MCU version.
Yes, but if they're going to put a character like that in a series, they might want to also include him in related series, to familiarize the audiences with him.
Even if that's not that case, the fact that he shows up in different series means he is popular enough that he might not be killed off for real.

Maybe the character that will return will not be him, but an LMD? It might be a mystery-thing, where he shows up, and the audience isn't told what happened, and he doesn't know either, but thinks he's the real one.

Then during the course of the series he will find out and have to deal with being a 'fake', and that he was lied to.
If done well, so that it addresses stuff like SHIELD deceicing and manipulating people, it could be great.

Have this main character who trusted them but was kept in the dark about something so important to him, and would have been happier if he never found out.
 

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Shocksplicer said:
Summerstorm said:
"They are already here, they called it"
- If i remember correctly that is what Nick Fury said... BEFORE the Medics arrived (You could hear them off-screen)

I wondered why everybody assumed Coulson was dead. We didn't see anything like that - we have Fury's word for it. (Masterspy... Lier of Liers and such)

After that he constructed his "Motivation-Scheme"

I have no problem with Coulson living; He just took a edged spear through the lungs *g* - Easy-peasy for comic-characters.
The conversation where he said that took place after the paramedics arrived.

OT: Frankly, I don't know how interested i can get in this, even if it does get turned into a series. Considering that it won't have any actual Avengers as main characters, it seems like it could be a bit boring.
Nah, i am sure it was like 10 seconds after Coulson "stopped moving". Fury slumped down, sat against a rail and Coulsen and the Medics were just offscreen right when he said it (Without the audience hearing "Yepp, he is dead" from the medics.)

Have to watch it again. But i totally assumed to see him at the end; in the hospital or so. I really was surprised when reading on the boards on the internet that most assumed he was dead. I didn't read that scene at all that way.
 

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Summerstorm said:
Shocksplicer said:
Summerstorm said:
"They are already here, they called it"
- If i remember correctly that is what Nick Fury said... BEFORE the Medics arrived (You could hear them off-screen)

I wondered why everybody assumed Coulson was dead. We didn't see anything like that - we have Fury's word for it. (Masterspy... Lier of Liers and such)

After that he constructed his "Motivation-Scheme"

I have no problem with Coulson living; He just took a edged spear through the lungs *g* - Easy-peasy for comic-characters.
The conversation where he said that took place after the paramedics arrived.

OT: Frankly, I don't know how interested i can get in this, even if it does get turned into a series. Considering that it won't have any actual Avengers as main characters, it seems like it could be a bit boring.
Nah, i am sure it was like 10 seconds after Coulson "stopped moving". Fury slumped down, sat against a rail and Coulsen and the Medics were just offscreen right when he said it (Without the audience hearing "Yepp, he is dead" from the medics.)

Have to watch it again. But i totally assumed to see him at the end; in the hospital or so. I really was surprised when reading on the boards on the internet that most assumed he was dead. I didn't read that scene at all that way.
There is at least one scene in between the part where Coulson stops moving and the radio call where Fury says that the medics pronounced him dead. It is unclear how much time passes, but there is absolutely plenty of time in which the medics could reasonably pronounced him dead offscreen.
 

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Zen Toombs said:
I think Coulson was just badly injured by Loki, and then Nick Fury did something monstrous - he lied.
It's a conspiracy!


[sub]I'm aware The Question is DC not Marvel, but he was the first character I thought of when conspiracies and comics collide.[/sub]​

Yeah I'm pretty sure that's what happened. Coulson is either in intensive care after coming down with a nasty case of murder-stabbed, or he did die and his mind is being put into a robot and thus Vision.
 

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MrByrne said:
I thought it was standard procedure in the world of comics to only believe that a death was permanent after being presented with a corpse, otherwise all bets are off.

This is infinitely more true of films and TV, especially Action like Die Hard and 24...