transemacabre | Baron von Strucker in Avengers 2

Merry Christmas, y'all!

So it seems its confirmed that Baron von Strucker will be sharing big bad duty in the second Avengers flick with Ultron. I am assuming he will have commandeered HYDRA after the Red Skull's apparent demise in the first Captain America. He's a little bit of an odd choice -- I would've thought Strucker would be saved for a Cap movie -- but then I remembered Wanda and Pietro are gonna be introduced in this movie and a terrible suspicion came upon me.

A terrible, vile suspicion.

A terrible, vile, horrifying suspicion.

So in the comics Wanda and Pietro's pop is Magneto, and it's kind of a big deal, if you know anything about their characters. Thing is, dear old dad is the property of Fox, which will continue churning out X-Men movies until the heat death of the universe, so there's no way Marvel Studios is getting its hands on Magneto any time soon. So instead Whedon picks out this megalomaniacal European nobleman villain with a set of mutant boy/girl twins of his own to be co-antagonist of the next Avengers movie...

I think Whedon is going to merge Wanda and Pietro with the Fenris twins and substitute Baron von Strucker for their father in place of Magneto. You heard it here first kids.