Avengers: Infinity War dead pool
Mar 17, 2018 1:50:38 GMT -5
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Post by oppy all along on Mar 17, 2018 1:50:38 GMT -5
"A dead pool, also known as a death pool, is a game of prediction which involves guessing when someone will die. Sometimes it is a bet where money is involved. A typical modern dead pool might have players pick out celebrities who they think will die within the year." - Wikipedia
So, a fuckload of characters are appearing in the two-part season finale to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There is a lot of speculation as to who if any character will be getting killed off. So here's how this forum game goes. You pick two characters who you think will die in Avengers: Infinity War. Your choices are locked in on the release date of Avengers: Infinity War. After Infinity War, you will be able to change your picks to pick who you think dies in Avengers 4. Characters have to appear on screen to count as having died in Infinity War. I've provided a list of MCU characters who might be appearing in Infinity War. It is not a complete list of characters who will appear in Infinity War, and them appearing on this list does not guarantee that they will appear in the movie. Best of luck!
Regarding death, if an artificial entity like Vision is rendered nonfunctional and does not return by the end of the movie, it counts. If a character dies and is brought back to life, only counts if they're dead at the end of the movie. If you pick a character who dies in Infinity War, is brought back to life in between movies, and you pick them again for Infinity War 2 and they die again, it counts as two points.
Avengers
Iron Man (Tony Stark)
The absentee father of the MCU who's seemed like he's on the edge in every film appearance since Iron Man 2
Captain America (Steve Rogers)
The caring, attentive step-father of the MCU who like Tony has already had his trilogy.
Thor
The fun uncle of the MCU who finally has a great movie in his trilogy.
Hulk (Bruce Banner)
The drunk uncle of the MCU who has blackouts and is stretching how far I can take this structure.
Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff)
The smurfette who might be getting her own movie after the Infinity Wars by process of elimination.
Hawkeye (Clint Barton)
He shoots stuff. With a bow and arrow. Look, I care about Hawkeye okay?
War Machine (James 'Rhodey' Rhodes)
Iron Man's quippy black best friend. Changing actors again does not count as a character death.
Falcon (Sam Wilson)
Captain America's quippy black best friend. Hawkeye's a guy with a bow and arrow but I don't see anyone judging Falcon for being a guy with a wing machine.
Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)
The chick from Age of Ultron who makes vague handwavey gestures to do vague handwavey magic.
Vision
The Christmas tree robot from Age of Ultron. An AI powered by an Infinity Stone in a movie where the central plot is 'terrifyingly powerful bad guy coming for Infinity Stones'.
Guardians of the Galaxy
Star-Lord (Peter Quill)
The American white man leading the diverse alien team. Scrappy and quippy.
Gamora
The green chick who likes swords. The adoptive daughter of Thanos here to provide exposition.
Drax the Destroyer
The big guy and best member of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Rocket
The talking trash panda with a jetpack and cartoonishly large weaponry.
Groot
A teenage tree. James Gunn confirmed that this Groot is a separate being from the original Groot who is dead. So if you didn't know now is the time to start the mourning process.
Nebula
The blue cyborg chick and other adoptive daughter of Thanos.
Mantis
The insect empath who spent the last movie getting slammed by Drax. Verbally, I mean.
Irani Rael
The Glenn Close from Guardians of the Galaxy. This one is a stretch, but she's the leader of the Nova Corps and the Guardians left one of the Infinity Stones with the Nova Corps at the end of Guardians of the Galaxy.
Rhomann Dey
The John C. Reilly from Guardians of the Galaxy. See above.
The Revengers
Thor
See: Avengers
Hulk
See: Avengers
Loki
The best thing in Thor and the only good thing in Thor: The Dark World. Implied to have taken an Infinity Stone in Thor: Ragnarok and Thanos already has beef with him from The Avengers.
Valkyrie
The slightly more drunk than Thor chick. Needs own movie.
Heimdall
Idris Elba as Jesus. May or may not be appearing depending on how busy Idris Elba was during filming.
Korg
The rock monster with a hilariously New Zealand accent from Thor: Ragnarok. Please don't kill Taika Waititi off.
Miek
Korg's bug friend. Please don't kill Taika Waititi's friend off.
Wakanda
Black Panther (T'Challa)
King of Wakanda after Captain America: Civil War, King of the MCU after Black Panther, he's so cool Kendrick Lamar signed on to do an album about him. Probably safe.
Nakia
An incredibly cool badarse who does all the cool things and is going by the name Nakia in the MCU. Lupita Nyong'o may have been too busy to do this film.
Okoye
Badarse bald chick. Runs the 'badarse bald chick' Wakandan force played by Michonne from Walking Dead.
Ayo
Badarse bald chick, works for Okoye, Black Panther's bodyguard who made a cameo in Captain America: Civil War.
Shuri
The tech chick and Black Panther's sister. Like Tony Stark but cooler and smarter.
Romanda
The Angela Bassett playing Black Panther's mum.
M'Baku
The super cool gorilla man who leads a tribe of vegetarians and saves everyone in Black Panther and is the best. If you pick him you're banned.
Other Heroes
Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange)
If Hugh Laurie from House learned magic. Has an underrated solo movie and an Infinity Stone.
Wong
Badarse librarian. His counterpart in the comics is super offensive.
Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
What's the better movie, Spider-Man 2 or Spider-Man: Homecoming? Regardless Tom Holland is miles ahead of Tobey Maguire.
Ant-Man (Scott Lang)
Paul Rudd as the guy who was tiny in Ant-Man and giant in Captain America: Civil War. Has a movie coming out later this year so maybe not pick this guy yet.
Winter Soldier (Bucky Barnes)
Captain America's amnesiac friend. Finally washed his hair by the end of Black Panther.
Maria Hill
The former SHIELD agent played by Robin from How I Met Your Mother. Has been showing up since Avengers.
Thanos-affiliated bad guys
Thanos
The mysterious giant who's been looming ominously in the background movies for a really long time. Appears to be ready to wreck shit.
Cull Obsidian
Wikipedia says this is one of Thanos's minions in the movie.
Corvus Glaive
Wikipedia says this is one of Thanos's minions in the movie.
Prixima Midnight
Wikipedia says this is one of Thanos's minions in the movie.
Ebony Maw
Wikipedia says this is one of Thanos's minions in the movie.
Misc
The Collector (Taneleer Tivan)
Okay, so this Benecio Del Toro character with funny makeup first appeared in the post-credits of Thor: The Dark World where two of Thor's boring friends give him one of the Infinity Stones to keep safe. He tries to pay Gamora to bring him another Infinity Stone in Guardians of the Galaxy, but that goes wrong. And now he's back.
Pepper Potts
Played by Gwyneth Paltrow, Tony Stark's love interest.
Ned Leeds
Spider-Man's best friend and guy behind the desk from Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Sally Avril
One of Spider-Man's schoolmates. Random said to include them no matter how meaningless and obscure they are. And hey, maybe their schoolbus gets nuked by Thanos. That would be sad.
Cindy Moon
See above
Tiny McKeever
See above
Charles Murphy
See above
Stan Lee
Since you know he'll be appearing in this movie.
Jack Rollins
Random HYDRA guy from Captain America: Winter Soldier who IMDB says is in this one.
So, a fuckload of characters are appearing in the two-part season finale to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There is a lot of speculation as to who if any character will be getting killed off. So here's how this forum game goes. You pick two characters who you think will die in Avengers: Infinity War. Your choices are locked in on the release date of Avengers: Infinity War. After Infinity War, you will be able to change your picks to pick who you think dies in Avengers 4. Characters have to appear on screen to count as having died in Infinity War. I've provided a list of MCU characters who might be appearing in Infinity War. It is not a complete list of characters who will appear in Infinity War, and them appearing on this list does not guarantee that they will appear in the movie. Best of luck!
Regarding death, if an artificial entity like Vision is rendered nonfunctional and does not return by the end of the movie, it counts. If a character dies and is brought back to life, only counts if they're dead at the end of the movie. If you pick a character who dies in Infinity War, is brought back to life in between movies, and you pick them again for Infinity War 2 and they die again, it counts as two points.
Avengers
Iron Man (Tony Stark)
The absentee father of the MCU who's seemed like he's on the edge in every film appearance since Iron Man 2
Captain America (Steve Rogers)
The caring, attentive step-father of the MCU who like Tony has already had his trilogy.
Thor
The fun uncle of the MCU who finally has a great movie in his trilogy.
Hulk (Bruce Banner)
The drunk uncle of the MCU who has blackouts and is stretching how far I can take this structure.
Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff)
The smurfette who might be getting her own movie after the Infinity Wars by process of elimination.
Hawkeye (Clint Barton)
He shoots stuff. With a bow and arrow. Look, I care about Hawkeye okay?
War Machine (James 'Rhodey' Rhodes)
Iron Man's quippy black best friend. Changing actors again does not count as a character death.
Falcon (Sam Wilson)
Captain America's quippy black best friend. Hawkeye's a guy with a bow and arrow but I don't see anyone judging Falcon for being a guy with a wing machine.
Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)
The chick from Age of Ultron who makes vague handwavey gestures to do vague handwavey magic.
Vision
The Christmas tree robot from Age of Ultron. An AI powered by an Infinity Stone in a movie where the central plot is 'terrifyingly powerful bad guy coming for Infinity Stones'.
Guardians of the Galaxy
Star-Lord (Peter Quill)
The American white man leading the diverse alien team. Scrappy and quippy.
Gamora
The green chick who likes swords. The adoptive daughter of Thanos here to provide exposition.
Drax the Destroyer
The big guy and best member of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Rocket
The talking trash panda with a jetpack and cartoonishly large weaponry.
Groot
A teenage tree. James Gunn confirmed that this Groot is a separate being from the original Groot who is dead. So if you didn't know now is the time to start the mourning process.
Nebula
The blue cyborg chick and other adoptive daughter of Thanos.
Mantis
The insect empath who spent the last movie getting slammed by Drax. Verbally, I mean.
Irani Rael
The Glenn Close from Guardians of the Galaxy. This one is a stretch, but she's the leader of the Nova Corps and the Guardians left one of the Infinity Stones with the Nova Corps at the end of Guardians of the Galaxy.
Rhomann Dey
The John C. Reilly from Guardians of the Galaxy. See above.
The Revengers
Thor
See: Avengers
Hulk
See: Avengers
Loki
The best thing in Thor and the only good thing in Thor: The Dark World. Implied to have taken an Infinity Stone in Thor: Ragnarok and Thanos already has beef with him from The Avengers.
Valkyrie
The slightly more drunk than Thor chick. Needs own movie.
Heimdall
Idris Elba as Jesus. May or may not be appearing depending on how busy Idris Elba was during filming.
Korg
The rock monster with a hilariously New Zealand accent from Thor: Ragnarok. Please don't kill Taika Waititi off.
Miek
Korg's bug friend. Please don't kill Taika Waititi's friend off.
Wakanda
Black Panther (T'Challa)
King of Wakanda after Captain America: Civil War, King of the MCU after Black Panther, he's so cool Kendrick Lamar signed on to do an album about him. Probably safe.
Nakia
An incredibly cool badarse who does all the cool things and is going by the name Nakia in the MCU. Lupita Nyong'o may have been too busy to do this film.
Okoye
Badarse bald chick. Runs the 'badarse bald chick' Wakandan force played by Michonne from Walking Dead.
Ayo
Badarse bald chick, works for Okoye, Black Panther's bodyguard who made a cameo in Captain America: Civil War.
Shuri
The tech chick and Black Panther's sister. Like Tony Stark but cooler and smarter.
Romanda
The Angela Bassett playing Black Panther's mum.
M'Baku
The super cool gorilla man who leads a tribe of vegetarians and saves everyone in Black Panther and is the best. If you pick him you're banned.
Other Heroes
Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange)
If Hugh Laurie from House learned magic. Has an underrated solo movie and an Infinity Stone.
Wong
Badarse librarian. His counterpart in the comics is super offensive.
Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
What's the better movie, Spider-Man 2 or Spider-Man: Homecoming? Regardless Tom Holland is miles ahead of Tobey Maguire.
Ant-Man (Scott Lang)
Paul Rudd as the guy who was tiny in Ant-Man and giant in Captain America: Civil War. Has a movie coming out later this year so maybe not pick this guy yet.
Winter Soldier (Bucky Barnes)
Captain America's amnesiac friend. Finally washed his hair by the end of Black Panther.
Maria Hill
The former SHIELD agent played by Robin from How I Met Your Mother. Has been showing up since Avengers.
Thanos-affiliated bad guys
Thanos
The mysterious giant who's been looming ominously in the background movies for a really long time. Appears to be ready to wreck shit.
Cull Obsidian
Wikipedia says this is one of Thanos's minions in the movie.
Corvus Glaive
Wikipedia says this is one of Thanos's minions in the movie.
Prixima Midnight
Wikipedia says this is one of Thanos's minions in the movie.
Ebony Maw
Wikipedia says this is one of Thanos's minions in the movie.
Misc
The Collector (Taneleer Tivan)
Okay, so this Benecio Del Toro character with funny makeup first appeared in the post-credits of Thor: The Dark World where two of Thor's boring friends give him one of the Infinity Stones to keep safe. He tries to pay Gamora to bring him another Infinity Stone in Guardians of the Galaxy, but that goes wrong. And now he's back.
Pepper Potts
Played by Gwyneth Paltrow, Tony Stark's love interest.
Ned Leeds
Spider-Man's best friend and guy behind the desk from Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Sally Avril
One of Spider-Man's schoolmates. Random said to include them no matter how meaningless and obscure they are. And hey, maybe their schoolbus gets nuked by Thanos. That would be sad.
Cindy Moon
See above
Tiny McKeever
See above
Charles Murphy
See above
Stan Lee
Since you know he'll be appearing in this movie.
Jack Rollins
Random HYDRA guy from Captain America: Winter Soldier who IMDB says is in this one.