Doctor Strange Teaser Trailer Review and Breakdown.

It's a good time to be a Marvel fan. 

So the Doctor Strange first teaser trailer has just been released, you can watch it here:

http://youtu.be/Lt-U_t2pUHI

And here is my review and breakdown. 

The trailer starts with what looks to be the accident Stephen Strange was in that damage many bones, breaking most and doing permanent damage to his hands. Whilst this is happening we can hear a voice telling Dr. Strange to forget everything he knows. 

We get constant flashes from his life before the accident, to during his accident and then to after his the accident. Whilst finding out that this reality is simply one of many. 

The word reality gets thrown around a lot so it looks like we could be seeing the next infinity stone in the Reality Gem. Right before Stephan Strange gets karate chopped right out of his body by the Ancient One. Literally. He is hovering over his frozen body. Which has to be one of my favourite moments of the teaser. 

But then we have my actual favourite moment of the trailer where we can see someone walking down a corridor, bending reality around them.

"There are other ways to save lives"

And here we have my favourite line with who looks to be someone like The Ancient One showing Strange that he may be a doctor, but he can save lives in completely different ways in becoming Doctor Strange. 

We then have an INSANE look of New York as multiple versions of itself all bend into one another with a body falling from the centre of it all. (Probably Doctor Strange). 

As a body falls through a roof (Not sure if it's the same scene). Dr Strange sits back up and pleads "teach me." Before cutting to black and the logo is revealed. 

The last thing we see is Strange walking up some stairs, in costume, before once again cutting to black and revealing the release date to be in Novemever 2016.  

I love this teaser so much. It's been much anticipated and in my eyes, it's living up to the wait and was so worth it. It looks amazing and something completely new to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. All I can say now is, roll on Novemever. 

Doctor Strange - Character History

Origin

Doctor Stephen Strange appears first in Strange Tales issue #110 #111 and #14 and we finally receive his backstory in issue #15. 

Dr Strange approaches the Ancient one so he can have the power to use his hands again so he can become a doctor. This is how we find out a little about his past, in that Stephen Strange was stuck up and selfish and didn't do much foe charity or care about much at all other than his well being. 

However just like most super heroes, he was involved in a car accident that broke most of his bones. As a result of this, he can't practice medicine like he wanted to because of the state his hands are now in. The Ancient one refuses to help Dr Strange because of how his past has been portrayed. When Strange is leaving he comes across Baron Mordo who is conjuring Dormanmu (the most dangerous for who Strange ever faces). When Mordo realises Strange is spying on him, Mordo casts a spell on him so he can't speak about this to anyone. Then when Mordo and Strange go back to the Ancient one, Strange tries to tell him what Mordo is summoning, but simply can't. Then when Mordo leaves, the Ancient one releases the curses and tells Strange, that he has passed the test, the even in possible death, Strange still tried to tell the Ancient one what was happening. 

Because of this, Stephen Strange then becomes a pupil of the Ancient one and starts to train with sorcerery and physical combat. 

The Sorcerer Supreme

In issue #10 a demon that had been previously brandished from our dimension, is trying to force his way back into our dimension by passing through the mind of the Ancient one. To destroy the demon, Dr Strange must kill the Ancient one, therefore making Dr Strange the sorcerer supreme of the Marvel universe. 

Powers

Doctor Strange gains his powers in multiple different ways, he's got them from beings such as the Ancient one, from books and through demons as well. However, he can still loose his powers and they can be taken away. 

He has been described by Eternity as one of the most power characters. Even when his powers have been decreased he has still gone against many demons and gods and sorcerers. 

Some of his powers include:

Teleportation 

Reading Minds 

Lift Objects 

Telekinesis

Project energy blasts 

Manipulate energy 

Time travel

Look into both the future and the past

See energy in other dimensions 

Pull people into dimensions 

And there's many many more. 

He is one of the most dangerous Heroes and should be feared by many as he is ranked as high as characters such as Galactus. 

Doctor Strange will be portrayed by Benedict Cummberbatch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie in November 2016.

Watch the trailer here: http://youtu.be/Lt-U_t2pUHI

Daredevil Season 2 Review

Daredevil Season 2 Review

So after sitting down for 13 hours straight, I spent my Easter watching season 2 of one of my favourite Netflix shows, Daredevil!

Unfamiliar with the Devil of Hells Kitchen?

For newcomers to the show and to the super hero Daredevil, Daredevil is a masked vigilante who roams the streets of Hells Kitchen, New York fighting crime and making his city a better place. By day, Matt Murdock is a lawyer, by night he is Daredevil.There's just one thing, Daredevil is blind. He lost his eyesight as a child and hasn't been able to see ever since.

He was trained by a man who was also blind named stick to use his now developed hearing sense as a power, to hear much more than any human or animal can and to use it to fight for justice.

Season 1 Summary 

Okay, so to sum up season 1, it was really really good. Its downside was how long you had to wait to see the antagonist. In fact, you had to wait 6 episodes to even catch a glimpse of him. But when he showed up. He really did give hell to Hells Kitchen and made life impossible for the Devil.
He controls everything going from the press to the police. From banks to entire drug lords. The Kingpin owned everything and was more than just a challenge for Matt Murdock and his best friend and lawyer partner Foggy Nelson, with assistant Karen Page. Another downside to season 1, was that we had to wait until the very last episode for him to finally put on the red Daredevil suit, which sometimes did make me feel like I wasn't watching Daredevil and more guy in black costume doesn't like bad-ass bad guys.

There is a nice balance between action and story telling going from a hard day in the office to freaking ninjas! And then back to the pub to wash it all down, so long as no one is bleeding to death, that is.

Season 1 is a solid 8/10 for me, but you didn't come here for season 1, you came here for season 2.

Season 2 Summary

If you watched this season as well, then I hope I wasn't the only one that screamed at the end of episode 8? Because I did, and I'm pretty sure it had already gone past midnight at this point.

Season 2 was everything great from season 1 and more. We had shocking returns that made us go "OMG!" (And scream like how I did) as well as a few other surprise appearances. We had fights and action and story telling done to almost perfection. The key word there, was almost. Towards the end of the season it really did get to the point where if you blinked, you'd miss something. And I feel like I must of blinked more than once...

But a part from that little blip, I still loved every second of this season and I can't wait for next year so we can see the results of that pretty major cliff hanger. The Punisher, played by Jon Bernthal, was everything I love about The Punisher and more. We saw his development from a psycho path in episode one to almost a hero, a hero that uses guns, in episode 13. We saw Elektra, played by Elodie Yung, go from a psychopath to a hero that uses Okinawan sai (which are kind of like little daggers with three blades, I guess). And we see Daredevil, played by Charlie Cox, continue being a hero to becoming a much more bad-ass hero that uses nunchucks... Wait a minute, I'm starting to see a little pattern here. Yes, that's right, in some way or another, all our main characters develop into some form of hero.

I love season 2 so much more than season 1, so this season gets a 9/10 from me.
The improvement for me would simply be take your time with what's going on towards the end of the season, it felt almost rushed at some places.

Season 2 SPOILERS (Only read on if you want to know)!

• Kingpin at the end of episode 8 was the best thing in the show for me, his scenes with The Punisher stole the show for me and there on screen time was deeply loved by me.
• Elektra's death was a tiny bit predictable simply because The Defenders has been announced and if two good guys get soppy, you know one of them is going to die.
• But then the big cliff hanger, why was her body dug up and moved into the ninja coffin? Is this going to lead on into Season 3, or better yet, The Defenders? I bloody hope so.

And that's my full review of Daredevil Season 2: 9/10

Can't wait for Season 3!

Negan First Look (Walking Dead 6x16 Preview)

Holy F***ing Sh!t!

So if you didn't know, the preview for The Walking Dead Season Finale has been leaked online with our first look at Negan.

Hi I'm Negan.
So if you don't know who Negan is then you're clearly a fan of The Walking Dead show and you're unfamiliar with the comics. Negan, to put it lightly, is worse than The Governor. Negan rules simply with fear and is the leader of well over 50 survivors in a group known as The Saviors. He is introduced in Issue #100 'Something to Fear' and has been fighting Rick and the group ever since. He is looked upon as a king. Anyone who disobeys him or isn't an alley with him gets to meet Lucille. Lucille is a baseball bat... Wrapped in barbed wire, which has taken the lives of many survivors and has stopped even more 'walkers' (zombies) with it.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan
If you don't know who Jeffrey Dean Morgan is, then you're about to! And you're probably going to hate him if you're a fan of Rick and the group as Jeffrey Dean Morgan will portray Negan, making his first appearance in Season 6, Episode 16 of The Walking Dead in a 90 minute episode called 'Last Day on Earth.' And as a friendly piece of advice, all I will say is from now on, don't get too attached to the good guys, because Negan is coming, and when he gets here, he is here to stay.

CIVIL WAR II UPDATE

So after publishing my previous post on Civil War II. I then found these covers that tie in to Civil War.






So here we have some of the greatest covers I've seen from Marvel in a while. And the marvel covers have been phenomenal recently, so thats saying a lot. But then we have this next one. And this Ultimates 8 almost broke me as a Marvel fan. And you can understand why!

                      

Civil War II stars in June 2016. 

CIVIL WAR II

Protect the future

Change the future

Are you ready to pick a side?

Because Marvel have announced Civil War II

And its going to be a big one!

With Captain America: Civil War just around the corner, Marvel have decided to give the fans even more fantastic Civil War related news in that later this year, Marvel will release the next Civil War series, Civil War II.

CIVIL WAR I

For those that don't know, the first Civil War was between Captain America V Iron Man in a battle against the super hero registration act. Iron Man felt it was necessary for all super heroes to sign up after an incident happened where 600 people died. Which meant they either had to give up their secret identities or give up being a super hero and go and find a real job. Everyone's favourite friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man was one of the many heroes that joined Team Iron Man and gave up his secret identity to fight along side Iron Man.

Captain America on the other hand, hated the idea. He didn't feel it was right to give up his secret identity and he wasn't the only one. Heroes such as DareDevil and Luke Cage both sided with Cap as well as many more heroes and then became The Secret Avengers.

CIVIL WAR II

With Civil War II coming out later this year, Marvel have been teasing the audience with numerous posters of all the heroes and when I saw some of them, I actually screamed.

This first picture is to show the two team captains. Iron Man on one side and Captain Marvel on the other with Spider-Man in the middle split between the two.

Here we have Lady Thor with the text 'Protect the future. Save the future.'

Phoenix

Black Panther

Old Man Logan (Wolverine)

Medusa

Spider-Man

Deadpool

Hawkeye

She-Hulk

Now to get onto the more interesting ones. Here we have Ms. Marvel ripping a photo up of her preceptor, making it very clear that she is on team Iron Man.

This next one is the first piece of art where we have two of our favourite heroes fighting. Fan favourite Miles Morales (Spider-Man) taking on Falcon, now better known as Captain America.

                                             

This one is a personal favourite of mine. We have Rocket Raccoon taking on Star-Lord.

                                              

Here we have Team Iron Man.We now know that this is the team that wants to protect the future. The team consists of:

• Iron Man
• Deadpool
• Black Widow
• Hulk
• Falcon
• Hercules
• Luke Cage
• Black Panther
• Lady Thor
• Star Lord
• Ms America
• And DareDevil

And then we have Team Captain Marvel. And these are the guys that want to change the Future. But what are they wanting to change exactly? The team consists of:

• Captain Marvel
• Spectrum
• She-Hulk
• Ant-Man
• Hawkeye
• Blue Marvel
• Winter Solider 
• Captain America
• War Machine
• Spider-Man
• Vision 
• And Medusa

Does this mean that Miles Morales, Rocket Raccoon, Wolverine and Phoenix are all neutral? Or does it mean something else may happen to them before the events of Civil War II takes place? Well it is estimated that we will first see Issue 1 on shelves in early June. So we won't have too long to wait...

Kilgrave - Character History

Kilgrave

Part one: Origin​

Kilgrave was a Soviet spy working for Soviet bloc. Assigned to invade an American army and steal some nerve gas. When he was spotted by a military guard, a firefight occurred, which resulted in the guard missing and hitting the nerve gas. This changed his skin purple and he told the guards this was a mistake, they all stood down. Making Kilgrave realise his powers. Bending the will of others. ​
When he arrived in Hells Kitchen, He met a couple of ladies at a bar, there first response was for him to go away, but once he asked to join them, they changed their minds. The next thing, he said "You wish to marry me" and they got married that night. ​
Over time, The purple man began to fall in love with his wife, and let her go from his mind control. She came to the realisation of what the purple man had been doing. she fled from their home and later found out she was pregnant with Kilgrave's daughter. Her life was normal, until she became thirteen, and now Kara Kilgrave also had her fathers powers.

Part two: DareDevil​

In Hells Kitchen, Kilgrave had been arrested for robbery, and need a lawyer, or maybe, two layers. He calls for Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson as well as Karen Page, Murdock being the DareDevil.  ​
Once Murdock and Page arrive at the Purple Man's cell, Kilgrave states he doesn't need a lawyer and asks the guard to set him free, which he does. then Kilgrave tries to take Murdock and page hostage, however, Matts willpower was too strong and overcomes the Purple Man's mind control, so he can only take Karen. As Kilgrave and Karen leave the cell, Matt changes into DareDevil to pursue them both. Once he makes it outside, he finds The Purple Man has already cast his powers on all the officers who he makes try to kill DareDevil. The further away the officers were from the Purple man, the weaker his affect on them is. ​
When DareDevil catches up with Kilgrave and Karen, Kilgrave, uses his powers as a distraction to get away, asking Karen to Jump out of the window. ​
After this Kilgrave appeared in comics althroughout the Marvel Universe from time to time. From the occasional DareDevil comic, to Spider-Man or the X-Men. But when Brian Michael Bendis created the Alias series, That’s when the Purple Man became a fan favourite.

Part three: Jessica Jones​

One afternoon at a restaurant in Hells Kitchen. The Purple Man simple ordered everyone in the room to simply stop breathing, because he wanted to eat with no noise. Jessica Jones took the case and headed down to the restaurant. Once she arrives she meets the Purple Man and he instantly orders her to take off her clothes. However once the police arrive, he changes his mind and orders her to attack them. ​
Once they had all left, Jessica was still under his control, and he took her home, where he never engaged in sexual activity, but instead would make her watch him having sex with random college girls and he would make her beg to be apart of it. ​
Kilgrave picks up a newspaper that reads "DareDevil saves city." and due to his hatred to the DareDevil, he orders Jessica to find and kill him, and then never return. The further she got away from The Purple Man, the less of an impact his mind control had on her. However, once she spots Scarlet Witch, she attacks her, not meaning to, or being able to stop, mistaking her for DareDevil due to the amount of red on her. During the fight, her mind simply shuts down, and When she wakes up, she finds out X-Men's Jean Gray had placed mind blocks in her, to help her escape Kilgrave mind control. ​

Now in the Netflix TV show, David Tennant portrayed the role of Kilgrave in Jessica Jones.