Scarlet Witch - Alicia Bellamy

I do some cosplayers on here from time to time and when I ran across these pictures of Alicia Bellamy as the Scarlet Witch.....I had to share them.
Alicia Bellamy is an artist and Associate Artist at Fireforge Games, Costume Maker and Cosplayer
And she currently lives in Orange County, CA.

Now I understand why they went with the look that they did for the Scarlet Witch in Age of Ultron.
But if they ever change their mind and decide to go with a more traditional look...they need to look up Alicia.
Because she has it down pat.

You can keep up with Alicia at her Deviant Art page:
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The Avengers vs Ultron

Old school version of "Avengers:Age Of Ultron" way before the film was even thought about by John Byrne.
I remember when him and George Perez were drawing almost everything.

Tigra - Marvel Comics

Tigra.

She's furry, she's hot and she's funny.
Along with She-Hulk, she's one of the few Marvel females that have managed to keep something of a sense of humor about them despite all they go through.
She's been in no less than four different Avengers groups, plus the Lady Liberators and the New Warriors.
And EVERY fight she is in is a catfight.....

The Tigra is the defender of the "Cat People", not people that like cats but people that are actually descendants of a race of cats created by sorcery during the Dark Ages. They have lived in the shadows ans always had a Tigra to protect them. Sort of combine that horrible Halle Berry "Catwoman" movie and the movie "The Cat People" and you are close.

Anyway HYDRA (Hail HYDRA!) goes after the Cat People for some weapon tech they have, Greer as the Cat is mortally injured trying to help them and to save her life the Cat People use science, magic and psychic powers to turn her into The Tigra.

Tigra looks like a humanoid tiger. She has sharp retractable claws and enlarged canine teeth that can puncture steel and your standard superhero skill-set, superhuman strength, speed, senses and agility. Because of her transformation, she is said to have limited mystical abilities, but these have never been explored extensively. She also has some degree of resistance to psychic attacks.

And she is the patron saint of Furry/Comic fans everywhere.

So far Tigra has only appeared in one Marvel cartoon, the absolutely horrible "The Avengers: United They Stand" (1999) where she was voiced by Lenore Zann (Rogue).

 

   Tigra and Ms. Marvel have a real catfight

Scarlet Witch - Marvel Comics

One of my all time favorite Marvel superheroines, the Scarlet Witch.
She didn't look like this in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but I got used to the "new" look.

I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Wanda Maximoff aka the Scarlet Witch.
One, she had a "stand and point" power.
Two, her brother Quicksilver was a world class jerk.
Three, her daddy Magneto was one of the biggest, baddest super villains in the world. Normally not so bad, but when you are trying to be a hero, it can be a drawback.
But Marvel rectified all that years later and had Wanda, originally a pretty weak character, almost destroy the world.
Things change right?

Scarlet Witch was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and first appeared not in the Avengers, but in X-Men #4 back in 1964.
You see, Wanda and her brother Quicksilver are both mutants and were part of her father's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
Interestingly, Wanda's outfit was green on the cover of X-Men #4.

Anyway, after a brief run she and Pietro (Quicksilver) went to the Avengers because the Avengers had a habit of allowing ex-criminals to join...and because Iron Man asked them to.
At that time the Avengers were Cap and three ex-supervillains, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.
So the Avengers had the first supervillain work release program ever.

Wanda became a mainstay in the Avengers.
She married the android Avenger the Vision, was trained in the mystic arts by both Agatha Harkness and Doctor Strange, and was the leader of the Avengers West Coast team.

As far as powers go, generally her abilities are the power to alter probability (Hex Spheres) and work magic.
Her probability alteration has gone up to God-like points now and then as when she resurrected Wonder Man or when she wiped 90% of the mutants off the Earth by saying, "No More Mutants."
Besides all that, she's a pretty good hand to hand fighter, being trained by both Captain America and Hawkeye (who has had a crush on her since the 60s).

Upcoming Marvel Movies - Thor

I can't really single one out, but out of all the upcoming Marvel movies, I may be looking forward to Thor the most.
Don't get me wrong, I want The Avengers movie and the Captain America: The First Avenger movies both to be awesome, but Thor, I think will be trickier to pull off.
I got to see the Thor trailer online before it got yanked, and I thought it was really good.

It looks like they are going with the Jack Kirby and Walt Simonson vision with the huge cathedrals and almost a sci fi / fantasy look.
Which I think is great.

And they are going with helmets!
I know that seems like a minor point, but Thor really needs to wear the helmet at least a few times.
It's like Cap without his shield.

I think the cast looks amazing....

Chris Hemsworth looks like he dove into his role as Thor, beefing up and adopting a "Mike Tyson" like fighting style for the Son of Odin.
Great!
I really didn’t want to see Thor fighting like Bruce Lee.

The more I look at Tom Hiddleston as Loki, the more I like him.
He has that "I look like a nice guy, but you can see the evil behind my eyes" look that Loki needs.
And Tom has said in interviews that he has adopted a ballet like fighting style, which is a perfect counter-point to Thor's "smash-mouth" style.

Natalie Portman as Jane Foster...well…I hate to sound bad, but Jane Foster was the least of my worries about this film.
Changing her from a nurse to a scientist is okay I guess.

Anthony Hopkins as Odin, looking at it, who else could you have gotten?
Well maybe Brian Blessed, who I think was actually considered at one point.

Jaimie Alexander as Sif, see, this is the female character that worried me.
Maybe because in the Walt Simonson run, she played such an important part.
Jamie was one of few girls on her Colleyville, Texas, high-school wrestling team, so we have the combat training halfway done already!

Then we have The Warriors Three with Joshua Dallas as Fandral, Tadanobu Asano as Hogun and Ray Stevenson as Volstagg.
Good choices all, but I really can't wait to see what Stevenson does with Volstagg.

Idris Elba as Heimdall has caused some Internet controversy.
A Norse deity being played by a black actor?
I really won’t know how I feel till I see what he does with the role.
If he's a great Heimdall, more power to him.

Rene Russo as The wife of Odin, Frigga.
I don’t recall too much about her in the comics, so I'm open to seeing what she can do.

Kat Dennings as Darcy.
She's supposed to be a co-worker of Jane Foster, I guess created just for the movie.
I know my first response was "Why?"

Of course, our hero Clark Gregg will be in it as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson.
It wouldn’t be the same without "The Glue of the Marvel Cinematic Universe" there.

American-Canadian stage, film and television actor, Colm Feore will be playing Ymir.
I'm interested in seeing how that plays out.

Looks like they hit all the high points...but where's Balder?

Upcoming Comic Book Movies, Part 1

Since the hype over Wolverine has died down, I wonder how the mediocre performance of it and Watchmen will affect upcoming comic book movies?
Here is the current list of upcoming movies that are coming out.

First up, Marvel.....

Iron Man II (2010)
Expect more of the same as far as ticket sales go. I can't really see the second film flopping with all the hype the first one got.

Spider-Man 4 (2011)
Scares me.
After Spiderman 3, I'm afraid this film will have an uphill battle.

The First Avenger: Captain America (2011)
Can Marvel sustain two comic book movies in one year?
Hey, it IS Cap.

Thor (2011)
Okay, how about 3 movies in one year?
Will the public be "comic booked out"?

The Avengers (2012)
Okay, Marvel waits a year. Depending on how 2011 goes, this could be THE movie, or a big loss.

Deadpool (????)
It looks like the "Merc with a Mouth" is headed for the big screen.
As it stands right now, Ryan Reynolds is attached to the project.

Of course this isnt taking into account the alledged reboots of Daredevil, Fantastic Four and Blade.