You look at Warren Ellis's notes for NEXTWAVE and it's clear that he wanted to use characters that seemed to have been consigned to the trash heap Monica Rambeau had pretty much been thrown out as a cut-rate Captain Marvel, Machine Man was written out, Elsa's book flopped (1/?)
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To say nothing of the villains he used like Fin Fang Foom, the Mindless Ones, Forbush Man It was all these deep cuts that served to poke fun at the labyrinthine nature of Marvel and the sheer bottomlessness of its content I think the most prominent character was Tabitha
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Anyway if MCU ever does a Nextwave I kind of hope that it copies the _ethos_ of the team instead of the presentation Throws in failed or obscure shit like Deathlok, Helstrom, Crystal, Sif, maybe Liv Tyler as Red She-Hulk The proverbial Phillips CD-i of MCU characters
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Maybe you keep the Captain though since he's the single original generation character in Nextwave and you know who should absolutely play the Captain? Nicholas Brendon Unquestionably
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It'd be like one-upping the casting of Nathan Fillion as Arm-Fall-Off Boy in The Suicide Squad
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Fun fact: Arm-Fall-Off Boy is the only character in the trailer who seems to have had his name changed from the comics (his name is "TDK", possibly short for The Detachable Kid)
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This may be because Arm-Fall-Off Boy was created by Gerard Jones, who has been in prison since 2018 for possession of child pornography, and whom the production therefore wants to avoid officially paying royalties to if at all possible
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Given the nature of the scandal that led to James Gunn being fired from Marvel and hired to make this movie in the first place ...This whole sordid real life history of course only makes the character an even better fit for Suicide Squad
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