Fantasy Avengers Team!

Okay, following on from the last thread, but inspired by this blogpost here, I'm looking at who I think the best characters in a Fantasy Avengers Team would be. So, check below. I should point out that I don't own the images.

Vin (Mistborn)

Vin basically plays the role of Black Widow in my Fantasy Avengers team. Although I've only read The Final Empire, I've become a fan of her as a character (indeed, she's one of my favourite female characters in this genre), and she's pretty deadly and from the blurb that I've read of The Well of Ascension, it looks as though she's going to get even deadlier. 

King Arthur (Merlin)

Well, erm - I know he may already have been taken by Tor's Avengers list, but come on, he is a no-brainier really, even though I'm not a huge fan of the TV show Merlin from where this version of the iconic character originates from. He'd probably fill the role of Captain America in this team, mainly due to his leadership skills. 

Harry Dresden (The Dresden Files) 

One of the few non-epic fantasy characters on my list. Dresden would probably fulfil the role of Iron Man. He's humorous, and would provide some comic relief to the team. Plus, he's one of my favourite male fantasy characters, so he's in there straight away. Backup choices would be Hermione Granger (for the genius/magic side of things), or Gandalf for the same reason as Hermione. Dresden would also get into arguments with Arthur a lot, which would be quite amusing, particularly with Arthur's stance on anti-sorcery. (I haven't seen past 2 of Merlin, so I don't know if this changes or not). 

Robin Hood (Robin Hood BBC)

I initially had Legolas fulfil this role. However, there was one character, even more obvious than Legolas that I left out, and that character is none other than Robin Hood, the legendary archer of Sherwood Forest himself. The exchanges between Robin and Arthur would be interesting to watch, but all in all, Robin Hood as a character looks pretty interesting. I've used the version from the awesome BBC series that has unfortunately, finished, instead of the classics or the Russell Crowe version. Robin Hood is such an awesome character that I couldn't leave him out really, and the only reason why he was left out what because I forgot him briefly.

Arya Stark (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Come on, it's fantasy. How can you not have a GRRM character in the team? I know there are clearly many choices from A Song of Ice and Fire that would fit in this slot - Tyrion would be a contender, but I chose Arya for no other reason than she's my favourite female character in epic fantasy ever, outpacing even Vin. I don't really know what role she'd play in the Avengers team, but she has the advantage of displaying not only Great resourcefulness and cunning, but also an unflinching ability to accept hard necessity (yes, I did steal that from A Wiki of Ice and Fire). She's also a good horse rider, and she'd be underestimated by many of the villains that they'd face, and even her fellow team-mates with her young age, which would be an advantage. 

Ezio Auditore Da Firenze (Assassin's Creed)

Okay. Ezio could probably take out, in the right circumstances, everyone else in the team before they even knew he was there, particularly if it was in the middle of his home territory of either Firenze or Rome, and especially if the others were separated. He's a master assassin, would provide a wealth of tactical experience, and is another one of my favourite characters. Although he doesn't technically count as a fantasy/epic fantasy character I've decided to include him anyway, as I allowed Dresden in there. Another choice would probably be Kylar Stern (Night Angel Trilogy).

Okay, now that's out of the way, who would be a member of your fantasy Avengers team? Go and pick.

People that didn't quite make the cut:

Kylar Stern (Night Angel Trilogy)

Tyrion (A Song of Ice and Fire) 

Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)

Legolas (Lord of the Rings)

Sigmar Heldenhammer (Warhammer Fantasy)

Gandalf the White (Lord of the Rings)

So, that's all from me. On a side note, which team do you think would emerge on top?

Team 1: Vin, King Arthur, Harry Dresden, Robin Hood, Arya Stark, Ezio Auditore Da Firenze

OR 

Team 2: Kylar Stern, Tyrion, Hermione Granger, Legolas, Sigmar Heldenhammer and Gandalf the White. 

Zombie Apocalypse Team

Inspired by the Demotivational thread in the Black Library Bolthole Forums (Off Topic), I decided to have a go. However, I'm disregarding the reading part because otherwise I'd have no images to show you. So, here's what I got.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER

Captain America 

MASS EFFECT 2

(Male) Shepard (and other characters who I won't mention here) 

SHERLOCK SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 - A STUDY IN PINK

(From Left to Right), John Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes. 

DI Greg Lestrade 

So, what do you think? Would the combined forces of Captain America, Shepard, Mycroft & Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, and DI Lestrade be able to fight off a zombie apocalypse? 

Also, who did you get? 

2012 Superhero Movies

This blog does defiantly seem to be having a more superhero feel to it, lately, doesn't it? I mean, my last post was my look at the Top 5 Super-Hero movies that I'd seen. Now though, we're looking forward to what the rest of 2012 will bring us, and what 2012 has already brought us in terms of the superhero. First off, check out this trailer below:

So, as you're probably all aware by now, the New Dark Knight Rises trailer was released earlier today, and I must say that it looks EPIC, and it might just be one of the best films coming out this year. Avengers Assemble, which I saw on Saturday, was very, very good, and the bar has been set high for what to follow. But, as I've said elsewhere, if one film can beat  Avengers Assemble this year, it will most likely be either Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Rises or The Hobbit P1, which hits cinemas in December. Dark Knight Rises though, looks incredibly awesome - and waking up to see this trailer in the morning just made my day, I can't wait for it to come out in the cinema, and it's most likely one of the superhero films that I'll be going to see in the Cinema later this year. Well, you're probably going to wonder, what are the other ones coming out this year?

Firstly, I'm going to return to the awesomeness that is Avengers Assemble, which managed to not only be action-packed, but also entertaining, enjoyable, and had caused the audience to laugh in quite a lot of moments. It truly was a great film, and Marvel have, as mentioned above, set the bar very high for The Dark Knight Rises, and the other superhero films that come out later this year. Here's one of the many trailers for Avengers Assemble. Check it out below:

Like I said, isn't it just awesome?

Next up is the one that is probably going to be the dark horse of 2012's remaining big superhero movies. There may only be three really big ones, two which I've already touched on, but this third, well - this third is one that I'm rather on the fence about, and it's called The Amazing Spiderman, and is a remake of the first Spiderman trilogy, which I didn't like, and I'm wondering why they bothered to remake them in the first place, especially this soon. However, at first, I didn't think that The Amazing Spiderman would be any good, but the trailer is now starting to sway me over. Why don't you take a look for yourself?

So, what do you think? It does look pretty good, and it looks like it could be good in 3D. Then again, I thought that Avengers Assemble would be good in 3D, and it turned out that they didn't add anything at all. However, we'll see what The Amazing Spiderman can do for us, seeing as it's the next Superhero film that's coming out in the cinemas.