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Yet another Groot Drabble. Sorry, there are some ideas that just won't go away...

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Comments please before I post to archives.

The previous two are here:

...Nothing's As Good

Should I be worried that the new energy company I'm switching to is called Octopus Energy?

They seem to be OK, and I'll be saving a few pounds a month with no penalty if I switch to someone else, but I can't help wondering if I've just signed up with Hydra or Doc Oc...

If anyone else in the UK is interested, I get £15 for everyone who signs up via this link, so does the person signing:
https://share.octopus.energy/cute-owl-37

Requested by whswhs on Livejournal; fanfic commentary for the first part of my story Cat Chaser. The original is here. My comments etc. are in square brackets and bold [like this]



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All of the trailers in one vid - looks like fun and lots of baby Groot:

Season 2 of the Netflix Daredevil will feature The Punisher.

http://io9.com/jon-bernthal-will-play-the-punisher-in-daredevil-season-1710169763

Never been a huge fan of the Punisher, but until this year I wouldn't have said I was a huge fan of Daredevil, so fingers crossed.

It's always been obvious that Howard Stark was modelled on Howard Hughes - there's plenty of evidence for this in comics and the movies, e.g. clothing choices, general appearance, lifestyle, etc.

So should we assume that there was no Howard Hughes? In particular, if I want to write a story with Hughes aircraft, such as the Spruce Goose, should I say they were developed by Stark? Or that Stark designed them for Hughes who was the financial head of another company, not its engineering genius? That way there can still be Hughes aircraft around, such as Apache helicopters etc., with Stark doing some of the designing for them when they run into technical problems their own engineers can't handle.

Any thoughts?

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This is a sequel to London Calling, set several weeks later. You don't need to have read that first but it won't hurt. I have no idea how quickly I'll get this written, don't expect quick updates.

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Comments please before I post to archives.

...The Marvel universe has its own version of Clara Oswin, and his name is Stan Lee. He seems to turn up somewhere in the background of most historic events involving superheroes, and his apparent age varies wildly - the 1940s version looks OLDER than the one that appeared in the 1990s etc. He's either a time traveller or someone with a LOT of eerily similar dopplegangers, either would bear investigation by e.g. SHIELD.

Use it if you want it, a credit would be nice.

Marvel has announced dates for the next tranche of movies after Avengers 2 (LATER - And Ant Man, which I'd completely forgotten until it was mentioned in comments, which may be a big problem since it looks to be a common reaction). The source is here:

http://io9.com/marvel-debuts-their-new-phase-3-movies-including-capta-1651832265

Captain America 3: Civil War on May 6th, 2016
Doctor Strange on November 4th, 2016
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 on May 5th, 2017
Thor 3: Ragnarok on July 28th, 2017
Black Panther on November 3rd, 2017
Captain Marvel on July 6th, 2018
Inhumans on November 2nd, 2018
Avengers: Infinity War Part One in May 2018
Avengers: Infinity War Part Two in May 2019

Really don't see how the Civil War storyline works without mutants etc. (the X-men and Spiderman aren't part of the world for these movies) but they seem to be saying that there will be events in earlier movies that will make governments demand regulation. I presume that this means that Avengers: Age of Ultron will involve a LOT of property damage, and with SHIELD officially out of the picture and Hydra using a lot of power-crazed supers (in Agents of SHIELD etc.) there's a turf war over control.

Are we told Sam Wilson's rank in Captain America: The Winter Soldier?

We're told he's a specially trained USAF Pararescue veteran - looking at the Wikipedia article on this organisation, most of the notable people it mentions (e.g. the medal winners etc.) seem to be sergeants. Does it seem reasonable to give him that rank if it isn't mentioned in the film? Do we ever see him in uniform?

Comics are unfortunately no help because he has a completely different background there.

Thanks!