Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: The Avengers, Replaced By Their Canonical Genderswapped Counterpart Characters

by Susana Polo | 5:03 pm, May 3rd, 2012

Comics Alliance asked Chris Haley to draw this recast version of The Avengers, where every character is replaced by their canonical opposite gender counter part (from left to right: She-Hulk, Kate Bishop, Pepper Potts as Rescue, Maria Hill, American Dream, and Thor Girl) except Black Widow, who doesn’t have one.

Maggie Gyllenhaal‘s Hysteria is out in fifteen days, and she’s understandably being asked about vibrators a whole lot. (The Frisky)
Bethesda has announced a long rumored Elder Scrolls MMO is in development. You might as well start saving up vacation days now. (Massively)

Oh my god it’s the Jersey Shore Bat-family. From CBR’s always awesome The Line It Is Drawn.

The Discriminating Fangirl explains how Moviefone done goofed yesterday.
Why America needs more female engineers. (Washington Post)

Look at this. (TDW)

The Hairpin writes Dune fanfiction, and I think you guys are the audience most likely to appreciate it for all its aspects.
Joss Whedon describes his favorite scene of his rejected Batman movie pitch. (Blastr)

Emma Watson shows off her new duds from the set of The Bling Ring. (Twitter)

GeekMom is joining Wired! Congratulations, ladies!

Mondo has released its final Avengers poster design, and its a doosy.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=568605582 Corinne Marie M

Technically wouldn’t Widow’s genderswap be Bucky?
http://twitter.com/AbelUndercity Abel Undercity

Wait, wasn’t the Black Widow married to the Red Guardian, the Soviet Union’s answer to Captain America?
Anonymous

There are actually a few possible genderswaps for Black Widow— someone mentioned Winter Soldier, who is a similarly redeemed KGB superagent, but I think he’s a bit too much of a Captain America riff to count. Red Guardian aka Alexi Shostakov is actually a supporting character in Natasha’s mythology, her (sometimes) dead husband, who succumbed to the machinations of the Evil Russian Overlords while Natasha withstood them.

And there’s the Wolf Spider program, explained in universe as the male equivalent of the Black Widow project. The Wolf Spiders were never successful, though… and honestly, I always liked the fact that her codename is distinctly and specifically feminine, not easily flipped.
chelsea toner

I’ve got that couch that the cat with the war hammer is sitting on! It’s beautiful.
Terence Ng

I suppose they never made a “Black Widower”?
http://profile.yahoo.com/KGPKSBUXJSIFIGY4NHYRSG27DM Shania

Didn’t Bucky die in the Captain America movie?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=568605582 Corinne Marie M

Yes, but he ‘died ‘ in the comics too, and its not like this movie is actually being made :P
Frodo Baggins

As a guy in the audience, that fanfic was severely lacking. Less about cell phones and emails, more about having to stay inside the Reverend Mother’s box until she’s satisfied.
Anonymous

Black Widow was a female Spider Man analogue.

Though Dead Husband is the funniest thing I saw all day.