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Agents of
S.H.I.E.L.D. entered its winter hiatus following the winter finale,
“Maveth” (3x10). There are going to be
five total weeks without any new Marvel TV—Agent Carter will begin on
January 19—so I am going to post a new discussion thread every week with a
different concept for us to explore and debate.
First, here are the previous discussions:Pitch a new hero for the MCU Mostly MCU Reviews Reddit
Background for this
week’s discussion prompt: You are
watching The Flash on the CW and it ends with a portal opening and
sucking a DCTVU character into it just before the final credits roll. You then switch channels to ABC to watch Agents
of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the episode begins with a portal opening.
“That’s odd,” you
think. You stare for a moment before it
hits you: this is exactly the same
special effect you just saw on The Flash. An MCU TV character then gets sucked into the
portal, and you realize that the DCTVU and MCU are crossing over on the
small-screen.
Here’s the
prompt: Pitch a confrontation on neutral
ground between 1 or more characters from these two universes which will occur
on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The
characters can be heroes, villains, or a mix.
They can be from any show set in this time period (not Agent Carter…
though I suppose you could cross AC with Legends of Tomorrow), or
even characters who haven’t been announced but fit into one of those shows
(theme-wise and budget-wise). Also note
that The Flash is only relevant insofar as it airs immediately before Agents
of S.H.I.E.L.D. You don’t need to
offer a plot for the fight. The special
effects must remain consistent with a TV budget, though it can be on the higher
end; this would be a major cro$$over after all!
For my pitch, I guess
I went with the low-hanging fruit, as I recall seeing this brought up somewhere
early in the season, but here it goes.
The two character I am
choosing are Kara Zor-El/Supergirl (to the best of my knowledge there’s no
reason yet that Supergirl on CBS can’t be considered part of the DCTVU,
especially now that they’ve made NBC’s Constantine part of it!) and
Daisy Johnson/Quake. I think this would
be an interesting confrontation to see—and if you don’t think this would be a
fair fight, I just have one comic for you:
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If she could take down
Wolverine, I think she can at least give an largely-untrained and inexperienced
Supergirl a run for her money!
This fight begins with
both heroes disoriented upon finding themselves in unfamiliar surroundings on
separate hills surrounded by a mountain range.
As Daisy is trying to regain her bearings, Kara spots her and
immediately assumes that Daisy brought her there somehow. Kara shoots into the air and attacks Daisy
with her heat vision, but Daisy just barely manages to dive out of the way,
sending a shockwave through the air in her direction that knocks Kara out of
the sky. Kara gets to her feet, pulls up
a sapling by the roots, and throws it at Daisy like a missile, but Daisy vibrates
the tree apart into kindling, with all the debris flying back into Kara’s
face. Kara incinerates the wood with her
heat vision and launches herself into the air again, covering the 50 feet
between them in a matter of seconds.
Daisy moves out of the way and causes an earthquake to open up beneath
Kara just as she lands, and Kara’s feet get trapped in the earth as Daisy
vibrates the seam back together. While
Kara works to free herself, Daisy retreats about another 50 feet and draws her
handgun. Kara finally frees herself and
charges Daisy, who lets off two rounds at her, which just deflect off her
chest. Daisy then turns her powers on
her and pushes Kara back while retreating.
Kara struggles through the pulses and slowly reaches Daisy. The two engage in a hand-to-hand struggle,
with Daisy dodging Kara’s punches and landing a few of her own. Eventually, however, Kara gets her hands on
Daisy and throws her to the ground on her back.
Kara pounces on her and is just about to blast Daisy in the face with
her heat vision when she feels her heart pounding and realizes that Daisy’s
hand is on her chest directly over her heart.
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“You’re tough,” Daisy
pants, “but I think you realize what I can do to your heart.”
“So what? Did you draw me here just so you could kill
me?” Kara demands.
“What are you talking
about? I was sucked into a portal-thing
that opened up in the middle of the base.
I find myself in this—wherever this is—and you attack me.”
“I was sucked into a
portal, too. You were the only person I
saw; I assumed you were responsible for this.”
Kara stands up and holds a hand out to help Daisy to her feet.
Daisy takes the hand
and pulls herself up. “So if you
didn’t do this and I didn’t do this, who did? And how do we get home?”
Kara looks up at the
mountain range. “There’s a tunnel system
in that far mountain. It looks
manmade. Maybe that’s what brought us
here.”
“Can you give me a
lift?”
Kara picks up Daisy
under the arms and flies the two of them to the indicated mountain, where Daisy
blasts an entrance into the tunnel system.
They fly in and run to the large cavern which Kara locates deep inside
the mountain. When they reach the cavern
they find a large number of goons to fight along with a bunch of scientific
equipment. There’s a head scientist in
the lab who tells them that he brought them from separate universes to become
the first members of his super-powered army (eh, why not?). He then shoots each of them with a mind-control
implant, but while they’re in midair Kara melts hers and Daisy resonates hers
apart. The scientist panics and Daisy
knocks him backward into a rocky outcropping, knocking him out cold.
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Kara and Daisy look
around at the equipment and Kara “persuades” one of the scientists to explain
how the portal machine works: it
modulates lasers to a specific frequency and projects them into the device
which opens the portal. However, it is
damaged so that it cannot be turned on.
Daisy positions the input fibers on the two portal devices and tells
Kara to blast them with her heat vision.
Daisy then modulates the two lasers to the correct frequency, opening
the portals. The two shake hands and
jump into their respective portals.
As you can see, most
of the plot for this crossover is not very well thought out; the most
thought-out part is definitely the fight between Quake and Supergirl. For your pitch you don’t need to go into a
ton of detail, just enough to see how the fight would progress—and to show that
either character would viably have a chance to win.
Put your best pitch
idea in the comments!
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