>I do like Spider-man the Avenger. There's a great sense of "Me? Are you sure?" about it :D
As far as I'm concerned no iteration of the Avengers is complete without spidey. Plus, I like how it harks back to very early canon in which he was offered a spot with the Avengers but then flubbed it by screwing up his first assignment for them! He's great (as very many people have observed) because he was the first real effort to write a 'real-life' superhero who still had to worry about the everyday banalities that affect the rest of us (I would have liked to see a bit more of that here - Peter seems a little under-utilised in this fic, particularly in his role of everyman).
>That, and we all know what happened. One of the things that differentiates a really great AU from ones that are bad or "merely" good is that great AUs never need to quote long swathes of the original story. Everyone KNOWS what happened, so you just need to reference it.
No argument. I've been reading a lot of HP and Naruto fic in the last year and both fandoms are severely afflicted with this issue.
>I think Hill canonically, in the film, would probably be for locking them up -- until she actually saw it happen. There's a wide gap between theory and reality for her, and in the film the Chitauri battle establishes which side she needs to come down on by showing her the reality, so much messier than the theory. I think the same thing would happen if she actually saw Steve spiralling into depression or Thor screaming for his brother.
Eh. The missing scenes I'm talking about actually show her character condemning the Avengers initiative *after* the battle of Manhattan. I'll grant that if she had to personally deal with the reality of a small number of empathetic people being locked up on a day-to-day basis she might have a different reaction. Especially if we suppose that MCU Hill is as different from her comics progenitor as the other major characters are.
Also - love that it's May who wrote the book and love the dialogue between Natasha and Loki after their rescue wants a photo with them.
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As far as I'm concerned no iteration of the Avengers is complete without spidey. Plus, I like how it harks back to very early canon in which he was offered a spot with the Avengers but then flubbed it by screwing up his first assignment for them! He's great (as very many people have observed) because he was the first real effort to write a 'real-life' superhero who still had to worry about the everyday banalities that affect the rest of us (I would have liked to see a bit more of that here - Peter seems a little under-utilised in this fic, particularly in his role of everyman).
>That, and we all know what happened. One of the things that differentiates a really great AU from ones that are bad or "merely" good is that great AUs never need to quote long swathes of the original story. Everyone KNOWS what happened, so you just need to reference it.
No argument. I've been reading a lot of HP and Naruto fic in the last year and both fandoms are severely afflicted with this issue.
>I think Hill canonically, in the film, would probably be for locking them up -- until she actually saw it happen. There's a wide gap between theory and reality for her, and in the film the Chitauri battle establishes which side she needs to come down on by showing her the reality, so much messier than the theory. I think the same thing would happen if she actually saw Steve spiralling into depression or Thor screaming for his brother.
Eh. The missing scenes I'm talking about actually show her character condemning the Avengers initiative *after* the battle of Manhattan. I'll grant that if she had to personally deal with the reality of a small number of empathetic people being locked up on a day-to-day basis she might have a different reaction. Especially if we suppose that MCU Hill is as different from her comics progenitor as the other major characters are.
Also - love that it's May who wrote the book and love the dialogue between Natasha and Loki after their rescue wants a photo with them.