I agree totally. I don’t mind similar powers at all (and it can be fun to see characters with similar powers team up) as long as there is a small differentiator in there somewhere.I liked her in this movie. I had come in expecting (based on my brief read thru of her Marvel Comics Wiki Page): teen girl from another dimension who has two mothers, and travels through portals. One of my biggest pet peeves of the MCU is too many people with the same powers without any differences either aesthetically or an additional power that makes them different than the original.
I liked the fact that her portals were star shaped, which was different than the regular circle portals we see from Strange and Wong. It's that aesthetic difference to me that make me not mind her power set being similar to Strange and Wong.
I also don't mind Strange and Wong having the same powers because Strange wears a cape and Wong doesn't. Likewise, I didn't mind Bucky and Steve being super soldiers because Bucky has a bionic arm as well (and for a while long hair) making him different than Steve without making significant changes. I am not one of those who demands wholesale changes to characters with the same powers, just small subtle changes. With Abomination, he's grey and has spikes so that makes him different than the Hulk in terms of aesthetics. That I don't mind. This only applies to those who are enhanced not everybody in the MCU. Like I didn't mind Clint Barton and Kate Bishop having the same abilities. That I am fine with. There are people in real life with similar abilities.
I agree totally. I don’t mind similar powers at all (and it can be fun to see characters with similar powers team up) as long as there is a small differentiator in there somewhere.
to be fairopening portals to travel within your own world/universe{only with the use of a sling ring} is different then being able to opening inter-dimensional rift as a natural ability/power... but I get what your saying strictly from a visual POV, that they at least made it look different enough
I can see a Disney+ Original America Chavez. Perhaps a prequel series.
I bought her as a scared teen who has yet to learn to control her powers (she'd fit right in with the X-Men that way), but I found the moment when she does get them under control to be kinda, "Huh?"
All it took was a pep talk from Strange and suddenly everything lines up for her? Like...oooooook?
Same. Liked her character and personality. But the pep talk didn’t feel earned.
How would you guys have done it differently?
I feel like action movie climaxes always run into the same basic problem. You either have to break up the action to have the hero escape and go train or prepare a crazy plan or whatever, or you use a variation of the heroic sprit trope.
Yep, any small difference can be enough. But not having it takes away all the variety. The flag smashers were absolutely boring drones and even their leader was a boring drone.The only time I will accept people with the exact same powers without any small differences: if they are variants of the same character, such as the case with Loki. I didn't mind Hiddleston playing many versions of the same character at the same time. Likewise, if I see four different Jonathan Majors with the same set of powers, I know it's basically versions of Kang. That I don't mind. I didn't mind them introducing different versions of Loki played by different actors either. It was the main issue I had with Falcon and the Winter Soldier. None of the super soldiers introduced had anything that stood out from Steve Rogers, except Isaiah Bradley because Isaiah is an old man and the Steve Rogers we're used to seeing is a young man.
That is also one of my biggest fears with She Hulk. From what I have read about Titania: she is another super soldier. I have also read that She Hulk will introduceWrecking Crew and eventually Skaar. Now I read that Skaar does carry a big sword with him and if the MCU version of the character does as well, I am cool with that because it makes him different than original Hulk.
Although, Strange, Mordo, America, Wanda and Wong all have similar powers, they are also different as well. As I said, Strange wears a cape and Wong doesn't. Wanda has psoinic powers like telepathy and mental manipulation, which Strange and Wong cannot do, at least not to the extent that Wanda can do. Mordo (at least the MCU version) can absorb magic. And of courseNow with WandaVision, I didn't mind Wanda and Agatha having the same powers, as I looked at the color of their magic as Wanda is red and Agatha is purple.America's star shape portals, compared to Strange and Wong's portals, which are round