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Kamis, 08 Desember 2016

â€˜Marvelâ€™s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.â€™ Midseason Finale Recap: Ashes to Ashes

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Henry Simmons as Alphonso "Mack" MacKenzie and Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Yo-Yo Rodriguez.

Henry Simmons as Alphonso â€œMackâ€ MacKenzie and Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Yo-Yo Rodriguez. Jennifer Clasen/ABC

Even though this is the second episode after a month-long break, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is having a midseason finale because momentum isnâ€™t something they care about apparently. Last week was about getting the agents back from the ghost dimension so they can take on Eli Morrow and this week we finally get to the climax they have been building to.

So whatâ€™s Eli doing? Well, heâ€™s making a big, weird, glowing chamber but turns out his hired help hasnâ€™t actually seen any money and the cops and S.H.I.E.L.D. are outside and they are starting to have some doubts in leadership. Eli quickly puts those fears to rest by paying the men by creating diamonds inside the lungs of one of the complaining members and tells the other men to cut him open if they want more. Pretty dope power move.

News crews are outside of the building where Eli is executing his master plan and Director Mace is trying his best to keep the situation under control. Coulson suggests using Daisy, Yo-Yo and Robbie to stop Eli but Mace is less than enthusiastic about the idea of using a still-wanted terrorist and a demon serial killer. Coulson reminds Mace that Robbie is unstoppable and is on their side and that they need all the help that they can get. No matter how many episodes we go through, people just canâ€™t remember that Robbie is the only one that has managed to stop any of the Darkhold-related stuff. Coulson also believes that Aida can be of some assistance prompting him to reveal that she is an android. Despite Maceâ€™s shock that people havenâ€™t seemed to learn anything since Ultron (as well as revealing a slight attraction to her), Mace agrees to let Aida join the mission as long as sheâ€™s dismantled after.

With the go ahead from the director, Daisy, Yo-Yo, and Robbie are ready to storm the building. Yo-Yo runs in to do some reconnaissance only to trigger an explosion and gets hit from the blast. It turns out Eli created Caesium (which is apparently the most active metal on Earth according to Google) and Fitz realizes heâ€™s testing the limits of his powers. Fortunately fire doesnâ€™t scare Robbie at all and he heads on into the building. He takes out a few goons and finds the chamber Eli has created. Itâ€™s a quantum battery, similar to the one that was in the lab that first gave Eli his powers but this is on a bigger scale. Fitz has seen the set up before and realizes itâ€™s called the Demon Core (because of course it is) and that itâ€™s basically a fail-safe. If something messes with it, it activates the plutonium within (which Eli made from scratch) and everything goes boom. But before Robbie can do anything about it, he confronts his uncle and blames him for everything only to get stabbed by some carbon spikes preventing him from transforming. He is also facing radiation from the quantum energy in the chamber and Eli realizes the prison rumors of Ghost Rider were true and realizes itâ€™s been his nephew this whole time.

Elizabeth Henstridge as Jenna Simmons and Iain de Caestecker as Leo Fitz.

Elizabeth Henstridge as Jenna Simmons and Iain de Caestecker as Leo Fitz. Jennifer Clasen/ABC

The agents still donâ€™t have much of a plan. Yo-Yo is patched up from the blast and Mace wants her back in the fight as soon as possible only to get in an argument with a very heated Mack. Yo-To and Mack are still having their little lovers quarrel. Daisy has been feeling an increasing amount of seismic activity that Fitz is looking into and the lack of trust towards Mace finally reaches a tipping point as both Coulson and Daisy confront Mace about his dealings with Senator Nadeer. Turns out itâ€™s all pretty simple, he gave Nadder Jemma to examine the Inhuman just so Nadeer wouldnâ€™t release the photos of Daisy and Robbie during the prison incident â€" Nothing too sinister. Mace does however show a glimpse of uncertainty, which is something we donâ€™t see often from his confident demeanor. He doesnâ€™t believe they are a team, but Coulson is determined to prove just how great of a team they can be.

Back in the building, Eli is creating water now; elemental compounds that he says are the first step to being able to create life. Coulson appears at gunpoint with some of the thugs and delivers a beautiful line that Eli should â€œget a girlfriend first.â€ He might be held prisoner but he did bring a chain (!) so fingers crossed Ghost Rider will be able to use it. Underneath them however, the rest of the agents are putting their plan into action. Now it was tough for me to keep up with this logic here. I had to rewind five times just to see if I understood the plan. See, Fitz believes Eli isnâ€™t creating matter from nothing. According to the law of conservation of energy, energy can neither be created nor destroyed. And even though Eli is power hungry, he doesnâ€™t realize the matter is coming from the quantum energy from the other planes of existence. As he steals more energy, the tremors get worse. To stop Eli, Aida is going to rebuild the gateway to try and get rid of the potentially explosive quantum chamber. The process requires Daisy to control the building tremors and to keep Eli and his goons from killing all of them. There are some small moments where Aida is watching the agents in almost a studious way and I feel like itâ€™s important to point it out and remember for later.

Eli reveals the Darkhold told him he can create life after death and Coulson realizes the chamber isnâ€™t a failsafe but an actual bomb Eli intends to use. Acting fast, the agents move in with May and Mack taking out some of Eliâ€™s gang and Yo-Yo doing a super cool slow motion run through the room. Even Mace is suited up in an armor suit of sorts and is tossing people around. Downstairs the agents are dealing with their own firefight as a gang member shoots Aida. Coulson tosses the chain to Robbie who turns into Ghost Rider and tries to pull himself away from the spikes sticking through him but instead lets go of the chain and chooses to burn up Eli instead. And in that moment the fail-safe goes off and the explosion happens only for the chamber to disappear thanks to the gateway.

Ming-Na Wen as Melinda May.

Ming-Na Wen as Melinda May. Jennifer Clasen/ABC

Although Aida is bleeding out on the floor, she reveals she was programmed to react to pain just like a human would to better help her fit in as an actual target on missions. Sheâ€™ll be fine, but that doesnâ€™t mean she enjoys the process. Daisy is struggling after absorbing all the quakes and has to step outside quickly. She runs out and blasts herself into the sky and ends up landing right in the center of all of the news teams who quickly identify her as Quake. Mace steps in right on time to say she was the one that saved everyone and even calls her Agent Johnson.

Later, she mentions to Coulson how Robbieâ€™s car should go to Gabe but Coulson doesnâ€™t believe she should lose hope yet. He even mentions that the last Ghost Rider came back which could be a reference to the Johnny Blaze version we possibly saw in the flashback episode. It also could mean S.H.I.E.L.D. knew about Ghost Rider way before Robbie. All he says is itâ€™s a long story, which means we might never get an answer.

Daisy is asked if she wants to be an agent again and she says there are definitely parts she misses and is also happy the new face of S.H.I.E.L.D. is an Inhuman. Turns out, Coulson actually wanted her to be the new face but Daisy only says, â€œmaybe in the comic book version.â€ Beautiful. Also Mack and Yo-Yo kiss, so, yay. They can stop fighting, Daisy can stop whining, and everything should be good right? WRONG! Mace approves Radcliffe to work on the LMD program at S.H.I.E.L.D. and that means bringing his research over here. Agent Nathanson is the lucky guy that gets to go do that. And you donâ€™t have to remember that name because as he is packing all of Radcliffeâ€™s things up, he stumbles upon something shocking in a closet. So shocking that Aida shows up and snaps his neck after seeing it! What is it? Turns out itâ€™s an unconscious May covered in blood. Wait? But if May is there, who is having a drink with Coulson at the end of the episode?! Is this May a robot? Is that why Aida is so keen on watching people? Is she learning from them so she can make copies of the agents? If you canâ€™t wait for 2018 for the second season of Westworld, I would suggest coming back to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in January for all of your robotic nightmares. Until 2017, True Believers!

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Jumat, 09 Desember 2016

Hasbroâ€™s GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 Marvel Legends Hit Stores This Spring (Exclusive Reveal)

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>Guardians of the Galaxy toys are set to be a little easier to find this time around.

It may seem hard to recall now, but there was a time when people werenâ€™t so certain the first Guardians would be awesome. The film was aÂ big leap for Marvel Studios, taking the journey away from the MCUâ€™s Earth-based stories with characters the public werenâ€™t familiar with, and all by way of directorÂ James Gunn, who at the time was more known for slightly twisted comedies like Slither and Tromeo and Juliet. As a result, retailers ordered conservatively, renderingÂ it none tooÂ easy for fans to collect toys of the team.

Now that we all know and love the Guardians, stores feel a little better about loading up on the merch.Â For toy collectors, the first big wave of it kicks off in Spring with a release ofÂ Hasbro Marvel Legends that combines movie and comic-based characters. From Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,Â we get updated versions of Star-Lord (in a shorter coat and with an alternate helmeted head) and Drax the Destroyer (in rage mode). Donâ€™t sweat that they havenâ€™t revealed the whole team just yet. While Hasbro isnâ€™t announcing anything else at this time, I think we all understand the marketing potential of Baby Groot.

Perhaps most excitingly, this batchÂ includesÂ movie Yondu, and they went whole hog by giving him two different, distinctly Michael Rooker facial expressions. Rooker has been rendered in plastic before as The Walking Deadâ€˜s Merle Dixon, but itâ€™s about time he was a Legend.

If youâ€™re a fan of Guardians of the Galaxy comics, the rest of the wave is pretty cool. The Marvel superhero Angela, who first appeared in toy form way back in series two of McFarlane Toysâ€™ Spawn line, gets her first toy since moving to the Marvel universe. Major Victory (billed on the package by his real name, Vance Astro) is ready to psychically toss around Captain Americaâ€™s shield, android armor-wearing Darkhawk can hash things out with the nearest Venom figure, comic-style Nova gets a re-do, and when you collect the whole wave you can build the former Supernova and weapon-armed space tiger-guy Titus.

Check out the galaxy below for our exclusive first-looks at all eight figures. Who do you want to see made next? Let Hasbro and the world know your choices in comments below.

Images: Hasbro

Everything you may have missed in the latestÂ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2Â trailer

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Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite Wants to Be Approachable Yet Complex

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How the fighter is trying to appeal to newcomers and the hardcore through elegant design choices.

By Daniel Krupa

Back in 2011, I bought a copy of Marvel vs. Capcom 3, with the aspiration of mastering its systems. Unfortunately as someone who has no real fighting game experience and is inherently lazy, I found it a pretty intimidating experience. In fact, I can still see it on my shelf now as I write this, quietly judging me. So when Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite says it wants to be accessible, I appreciate the olive branch.

I also realise that, for some, a word like â€˜accessibilityâ€™ has other strong connotations when applied to a genre like fighting games. To the hardcore it might imply a lack of depth, but as Bill Rosemann â€" Creative Director at Marvel Games â€" tells me, thatâ€™s necessarily true and itâ€™s something Marvel has a lot of experience with.

â€œA very key thing to Marvel in everything we create is accessible,â€ says Rosemann. â€œWhether you start reading the comics, or you start watching a TV show, or youâ€™re seeing a film â€" we always say this may be their first comic, TV show, or film. It may be Doctor Strange or it may be Captain America: Civil War.

"So we start all of our stories very accessible, but we reward long term fans â€" so the more you read, the more you watch, you begin to make all of these connections. You watch a film, and you see Nick Fury approach another one of these characters and make these connections. The more you read, the more you watch, the more you see that it is very complex and interesting, and we reward you with your time. The game is the same way: very accessible, the more you play, the more you experiment... weâ€™re going to reward all that time youâ€™re putting into it.â€

What weâ€™re trying to do is make the game more elegant and simplified but still as complex and hardcore as itâ€™s ever been.

Marvel has the mindset that any issue could be a personâ€™s first, and that approach is informing Infinite. But as with previous games, it can still lead to a feeling, especially among die-hard fans, that their game is being taken away or diluted. I remember a similar conversation hovering around Dark Souls 2, yet that game turned out to be just as demanding as its predecessor. It does, however, make some of its systems easier to understand, which is no bad thing. Dark Souls doesnâ€™t suffer noobs gladly.

â€œWhat weâ€™re trying to do is make the game more elegant and simplified but still as complex and hardcore as itâ€™s ever been,â€ says Mike Jones, Executive Producer at Marvel Games. â€œBut we do want it to be approachable.â€ Jones stressed this was a new phase in the series â€" hence no â€˜4â€™ in the title â€" and part of that goal is to attract a wider audience but not at the expense of alienating long-time fans.

â€œSay if you just love these characters and you want to hear a great story and see some great actions â€" itâ€™s completely approachable in terms of how the systems work and in terms of how the controls work, but that depth is there if you want to find.â€

Infinity Stones: Elegant Complexity

Even though the team wouldnâ€™t be drawn into specifics, Peter Rosas - aka Combofiend - a former pro-player and an associate producer on the project teased where that complexity is to be found.

â€œThereâ€™s a very heavy technical aspect required to play the old ones,â€ says Rosas. â€œMvC2 is very unforgiving if youâ€™re not very technical. But with this one [...] because itâ€™s 2 vs. 2. Itâ€™s instantly that much more accessible. What you have is players who can just jump in, pick two of their favourite heroes; they donâ€™t have to worry about assists. Theyâ€™re not bogged down with all these decisions. Character, character, and your stone.â€

Ryu activates the Power Stone.

The Infinity Stones â€" a recurring plot device in the Marvel Universe and soon to be a huge element in the MCU â€" unlock Infiniteâ€™s complexity and depth.

â€œWe understand that three characters has been a staple for the last 16 years or so,â€ says Rosas. â€œTo that effect we looking at the stones, and we were looking at a third character, and when you think about how teams were in the older games: what you had were two characters and then a third character who was a function, whether it be some type of pick-up or just for their assist â€" they werenâ€™t picked because they were necessarily liked. They were picked for their functionality.

â€œSo then taking that into account we thought what if we used the stones as functionality. What if we applied the stones to the team and then you modify the team entirely. So now you have the stone acting as a third character but also more than as the third character. The stone modifies the team in a way that really lets a player to create their own identity.

â€œSay I play a team of Ryu and Captain Marvel, and he plays the same, and he plays the same. But I play the time stone, and he plays with the power stone, and he plays with the mind stone. Suddenly, our tactics are very different. Our strategies are very different, and now weâ€™re having a discussion which team is the best? What is the best way to customise the team? Whatâ€™s the best strategy? It begins this discussion now. Thereâ€™s much more customisation. Thereâ€™s much more depth.â€

While the specifics werenâ€™t forthcoming, each stones seemingly applies a team-wide buff, which can be used to either compensate for a fighterâ€™s weakness, amplify one of their strengths, or add an element they lack entirely.

â€œSo you see with Ryu [in the trailer] he uses the power stone to knock Captain Marvel against the wall,â€ explains Rosas. â€œSo suddenly characters who didnâ€™t have that ability have a way to extend combos or knock the opponent back. There are multiple uses for them. In addition to that, thereâ€™s a final effect weâ€™re looking into.â€

The Infinity Stones unlock thousands of different permutations to play around with. Or as Rosas describes it: itâ€™s â€œfor guys who want to sit in the lab and discover things through endless possibilities.â€

Captain Marvel uses the Time Stone.

In the Marvel Universe, the Infinity Stones are among the most powerful objects, and in a neat move Infinite is applying that story logic to the fighting genre.

â€œThey allow you to break the rules of the universe,â€ says Jones. â€œSo thinking about it through a fighting game lens: what rules of fighting games would the Infinity stones allow you to break? So weâ€™re looking at attack, mobility, vitality, space control â€" all those things where weâ€™re adding tool to a characterâ€™s toolset that they might not have otherwise.â€

â€œSo with Captain Marvel [in the trailer],â€ says Rosas. â€œYou saw she activated the time stone. All her attacks were extremely fast. She broke the law of time.â€

And Jones expects this Infinity Stone system to drive the gameâ€™s meta in the long-run:

â€œYou look at the history of fighting games [...] people have their favourites, but ultimately what happens is only five or six [characters] who have the tools surface to the top and are worth playing if you want to be competitive. What the [Infinity stones] allow you to augment the entire roster, and make up for weaknesses or double-down on strengths to create strategies and, hopefully, the metagame discussion we end up hearing is Ryu with the mind stone is OP, or Captain with the time zone is the best thing you could possibly do, but if you do X and use this set-up itâ€™s way better to use the reality stone... or whatever it is. Thatâ€™s sort of the lab experimentation, hardcore fighting game that we hope emerge.â€

Read on for how Infinite is taking cues from Civil War and who we can expect to appear in the character roster.

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Kamis, 08 Desember 2016

Marvel pulls no punches in 2017 with new Iron Fist comic

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Donâ€™t let your guard down next year, because thereâ€™s a brand new hard-hitting solo series coming for Danny Rand, also known as the immortal Iron Fist. As announced this morning by The Hollywood Reporter, the new series â€" simply titled Iron FistÂ â€" will be helmed by Ed Brisson, writer of The Violent and the upcoming Bullseye, and veteran artist Mike Perkins, best known recently for his work on Captain America and The Stand.

The first issue will drop in March, and will take heavy inspiration from 2006â€™s Immortal Iron Fist and from the characterâ€™s most recent series Iron Fist: The Living Weapon, which left Danny and the mystical city of Kâ€™un Lun in veryÂ tenuous positions. Writer Ed Brisson talked to THR about where readers will find them as the new series begins:

â€œAs for where Kâ€™un-Lun is and how that affects Danny â€¦ Thatâ€™s going to be a large part of what this first arc is about. Kâ€™un-Lun is the source of his powers and now that the city lays in ruins, Dannyâ€™s connection is severed. This affects his ability to actually be Iron Fist. His whole identity seems to be slipping away from him and he doesnâ€™t know how to hold onto it.â€

This will run concurrently with the current Power Man and Iron Fist buddy book, and is obviously meant to pick up readers that come into shops after their interest is piqued by Marvel and Netflixâ€™s live action Iron Fist series, which is set to release on March 17. But this announcement left many fans wondering what this news meant for Iron Fists,Â a seriesÂ by Kaare Andrews and Afu Chan announced back in July. The series was to feature Danny training the next Iron Fist, a young girl named Pei, but there has been no news since. Luckily, Andrews confirmed on Twitter this morning that the series is still coming.

Iâ€™m a huge Iron Fist fan, so I will take all the Danny Rand Marvel wants to dish out, and Iron Fist has a top-notch creative team that looks set to build upon the wonderful mythology that has already been established for the character. Does the new series have you ready to punch a dragon in the heart? Check out the awesome first issue cover by Jeff Dekal, thenÂ let us know in the comments below.

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Marvel pulls no punches in 2017 with new Iron Fist comic

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The first issue will drop in March, and will take heavy inspiration from 2006â€™s Immortal Iron Fist and from the characterâ€™s most recent series,Â Iron Fist: The Living Weapon, which left Danny and the mystical city of Kâ€™un Lun in veryÂ tenuous positions. Writer Ed Brisson talked to THR about where readers will find them as the new series begins:

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