Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33690333-20171119230642/@comment-33690333-20171121032628

Blizzard1289 wrote: We could do all the weird magic stuff in Avengers 2 and have them out and about again by the time HFH 2 roles around. Unless you think the movie is too dense with The Masters of Evil already, in which case we can think of something different and more easily to integrate with the Shades-Punisher story. I think I have an idea:

In the X-Men comics there's this artifact known as the Siege Perilous, which can be used as a doorway to other dimensions. What if we took that idea, and had, at the beginning of HFH 2, Luke Cage and Iron Fist being called to K'un-Lun to stop some thieves (maybe we can hint at them being assassins from The Hand) from stealing the Siege Perilous, which is held in some ancient temple in the magic city. In the ensuing battle, Luke decides to use the Siege Perilous to trap the thieves in another dimension, but it goes wrong and they're unable to close the portal. Luke and Iron Fist are trapped in it as well, and then the portal closes afterwards. In modern day, Hernan Alvarez AKA Shades (who I'd like to depict as a reformed family man just trying to provide for his wife and kid, kind of like the Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming) is forced to return to his life of crime after losing his job, and so he becomes an enforcer for Silvermane (who seems like the big bad at first but is then killed by the Punisher), and is sent to rob some museum or something, where he finds the Siege Perilous, which is described in the exhibit as simply a piece of art from ancient China, since they wouldn't know what it really is. Shades accidentally opens the Siege Perilous, freeing the Heroes for Hire and the assassins, who all don't appear to have aged a day. Luke and Iron Fist defeat the assassins, but Shades gets away with the Siege Perilous. While Luke and Danny adjust to modern day, Shades' son Victor discovers his mutant power of super strength (we'll just say he's a mutant since it's simpler than his comic origin) and decides to become a hero for hire over Craigslist, inspired by Luke Cage and Iron Fist, who are of course well-remembered heroes. While that's going on, Shades takes over Silvermane's empire and realizes he can use the Siege Perilous for evil. Maybe we have a scene of him toying around with it and he figures out how to send things into it and then summon them back out. Anyway, he uses that to climb the ranks in the New York criminal underground, as the Punisher is hot on his trail. Eventually, all these plot threads come together and... well... there's your movie.