The future doesn't lie in my hands, but...

If you haven't seen the Avengers movie yet, I suggest you seriously consider becoming a kamikaze warrior. The writing was spot on, the music brilliant, the characterization amazing, the acting spectacular, the special effects superb, and OH MY HEAVENS JUST GO AND WATCH IT ALREADY.

As a comic reader and a gigonormous Joss Whedon fan, I have a few things I would like to see come up in future Avengers movies, either in group movies or the character's solo films. 

#1 (and probably the most important one): MORE FEMALE CHARACTERS

I'm not saying any of the female characters in Avengers were bad, because they were freaking awesome. I just want to continue seeing more of this awesomeness. Joss Whedon is a master at creating strong female characters (Buffy Summers, River Tam, or Echo anyone?), and I want to see even more of that from him. Of course, Joss is limited by copyright (Fox owns both the X-men and the FF rights, while Columbia owns Spiderman), but there are still many female characters available to him, my personal favorites including Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, Elektra, Valkyrie, and Sharon Carter.

#2:  Tony Strak's alcoholism

Tony Stark's battle with alcoholism is one of my favorite stories in the Marvel universe. Suddenly, the witty "billionaire genius playboy philanthropist" who we all know and love finds himself crippled by this disease, as it slowly begins to destroy his life. I won't give too much away, but as his life shatters, Tony is forced to admit that he made a mistake. Tony really grows up through this, becoming less of a comic book character and more of a real person. I think that the movies have set up the right environment for this message to be presented, and would be an interesting twist, watching Tony Stark battle alcoholism while battling bad guys.

#3: SKRULL INVASION!!

Those of you who haven't read the comic books will have no idea what I am talking about, and that's okay. Because it's still awesome. Skrulls are shape-shifting aliens that have strong desires to take over the Earth, because everyone wants to do that. Realizing that the Avengers pose a major problem to their plans, the Skrulls infiltrate the Avengers. Posing as various members of the Avengers, many Skrulls remained undiscovered for quite some time. I believe that Skrulls are a very typical Joss Whedon plot twist. You are just happily enjoying your movie, watching the heroes defeat the bad guys, and all of the sudden at the last minute, it is revealed that certain key character has actually been a Skrull! Leaving you bewildered and confused until the next movie. Knowing Joss, whoever the Skrull was impersonating is probably dead. Just because you liked them.  

#4: Hawkeye's Story

I'm not going to lie to you right now; I am totally biased when it comes to Hawkeye. He is absolutely one of my very favorite heroes. Having him introduced in Thor was amazing. I almost died. Although Hawkeye was Awesome with a capital A in the Avengers movie, he didn't get much story time.  (Spoiler: He spends the first half of the movie being possessed by a bad guy, the second half being angry and shooting stuff.) He doesn't need to have his own movie, but I would love it if we could learn about his brother and Trickshot and Trick Shot and Baron Zemo. And his blindness. And also Crossfire, can't forget him. And also Mockingjay. Okay, maybe he needs his own movies. A WHOLE SERIES OF THEM!!!

And finally...

#5: NO ZOMBIE STORYLINES!!!!!!

NONONONONONONONO

AND

#6: MORE JOSS WHEDON!!!!!!!

This man, this genius who gave us both the writing and direction for the first movie, has not yet been confirmed for the Avengers sequel. Marvel is fairly notorious for firing their directors (neither of the directors from Thor or Captain America: The First Avenger will be return, despite the success of their films), but we can hope they will have the sense to keep Mr.Whedon. 

The real question is, will Mr. Whedon keep them? Joss has expressed his dislike of writing characters that are not his own, and has also spoken of being interested in making another television series. (But really Joss, we all know that Fox is going to cancel your series, no matter how good it is.)

What would you like to see in future Avengers movies? You don't have to have read the comic books; I jsut want to hear what other people thought of the movies, and where the series should go.

Allons-y!

COMING SOON: A look at my dream casting for future Marvel Characters.