It’s unclear how far Surprise Man will go into overt shenanigans, and the solid and crew give us little path. Surprise Man comes from Destin Daniel Cretton, who directed Shang-Chi and was slated to helm Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars till the current shake-up introduced Robert Downey Jr. and the Russo Brothers again into the fold. Becoming a member of Cretton as co-creator is Andrew Visitor, who labored on sitcoms corresponding to Neighborhood (naturally), Brooklyn 9-9, and Suburgatory earlier than producing Hawkeye.
The present’s Hollywood setting, nonetheless, does level to one of many extra lighthearted runs in Surprise Man’s historical past. Written by the very, very canceled Gerard Jones and penciled by Jeff Johnson, the Surprise Man solo sequence from 1991 adopted Simon’s misadventures in Tinsletown, first as a stunt man after which as a lead actor.
Enjoyable as that sequence was, it did characterize one thing of a break from the same old Surprise Man fare. After dying in his first look, Simon’s brainwaves (no matter meaning) have been saved in a pc and later reused with the villainous android Ultron created Imaginative and prescient. Thus, Imaginative and prescient was usually handled as Simon’s brother/clone, a plot that solely made sense when the duo obtained caught in a love triangle with Scarlet Witch or when Simon’s precise brother Eric aka Grim Reaper got here to city.
The teaser for Surprise Man reveals Williams making an attempt out for an element as Surprise Man, which signifies that the title precedes him. We is likely to be seeing a variation of Williams’s preliminary origin, by which he was “duped” by Zemo into getting ionic powers (no matter meaning) and turning into a villain.
Within the comics, Williams was first an industrialist whose envy of Tony Stark drove him into Zemo’s palms. A disaster of conscience led to his sacrifice, and paved the way in which him to return as a hero fabricated from pure ionic power (no matter tha- You get it). Through the years, Surprise Man turn into each a continuing within the Avengers, integral to the lives of huge hitters like Imaginative and prescient and Iron Man, and a perpetual loser, unable attain the A-list in Avengers Tower or within the Hollywood Hills.
All of which makes glorious fodder for a tv sequence, which signifies that Surprise Man’s MCU debut may very well, lastly make him latest, most dynamic character from the world-famous home of concepts.
