Then again, to be fair, Whiplash is really NOT a villain who translates well onto a movie screen, because in terms of a) powers and b) what moviegoers expect to take at least SLIGHTLY seriously, a guy whose weaponry revolves around whips is arguably right around the same level at Stilt-Man.
HEY NOW. He used bolas, too! I'm just trying to picture what gleamy, high tech enhancements that Favreau could do for Whiplash, and frankly? CapeFear!DeNiro!Whiplash is NOT what I had in mind, you dig?
I can only think of ONE cool scene that Favreau could get out of a character like Whiplash, and that's when he hits Tony with the supercharged whips and makes Tony's armour go BOOM CRASH. Otherwise? Nothing.
Whiplash is one of those villains like Captain Boomerang, that encourages writers to devote a lot of time to exploring his psyche and trying to find some personality "hook" to him (and in the case of Boomerang, at least on the Suicide Squad, succeeding quite well), simply because the gimmick that's the source of the character's "powers" is such shit. Problem is, Whiplash never got the benefit of any such decent character-building writing - even Kurt Busiek couldn't think of anything better to do with the character than put him in gimp-wear and turn his whips into flexible lightsabers, and Kurt Busiek can improve ANY character.
It's sad when I'm thinking that even a Yellow Peril racist stereotype like the MANDARIN would have been a better choice.
Madame Masque. She would have been AWESOME in this, running around and cleverly outwitting Tony. Smart, capable, relentless, a master strategist, a team player when she needs to be, etc.
If only.
Also, I just had to do a spam challenge to post a comment on my OWN JOURNAL, and the recaptcha text? "Amazon Stan."
WHICH Crimson Dynamo? Dude, there's, like, TWELVE of them! Literally. I don't really see the need to hybridize them, either. This gets filed under the "heeeeyy, I got an idea, let's sew Deadpool's mouth shut!" school of Rampantly Bad Ideas. The Crimson Dynamo alone is enough of a foil for Tony, although in the FIRST Iron Man film we had a tech-based villain, so really, it's redundant to have a techy-armoured villain in the second film. Tony's got other people in his arsenal of villains - what about Madame Masque? THAT'S who should be in this film.
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Then again, to be fair, Whiplash is really NOT a villain who translates well onto a movie screen, because in terms of a) powers and b) what moviegoers expect to take at least SLIGHTLY seriously, a guy whose weaponry revolves around whips is arguably right around the same level at Stilt-Man.
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I can only think of ONE cool scene that Favreau could get out of a character like Whiplash, and that's when he hits Tony with the supercharged whips and makes Tony's armour go BOOM CRASH. Otherwise? Nothing.
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It's sad when I'm thinking that even a Yellow Peril racist stereotype like the MANDARIN would have been a better choice.
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If only.
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Out of ALL of Tony's C- and D-list villains, WHY MARK SCARLOTTI? WHY?
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Dude, WHAT is with the prison tats, though? I guess they're RUSSIAN prison tats.
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