Didn't know if this was the appropriate place to put this, but I figured since it was about the future of Marvel Movies I'd thought I'd take it here.
I was chatting with a friend of mine the other day and he was crushed to learn that Janet van Dyne (aka. The Wasp) wasn't going to be featured in Ant-Man as a prominent character. For being one of the founding members of the Avengers who was 'this' close to actually being in the first Avengers movie (She was storyboarded in the ensemble shot), I thought the same thing. And since it's looking like Janet died before the events of Ant-Man ever took place, how do we bring Wasp in that has the same level of involvement with the Avengers?
Well, nothing in these movies has to be 100% in line with the comics. Ultron for example was originally created by Hank Pym but switched to Tony Stark, so maybe a different character could take on the role? Than he suggested "Maria Hill", and that got me thinking. Here is a character who was involved with the Avengers since their beginnings, was one of the few people that Nick Fury trusted 100% and has a personality that isn't as cold or manipulative as Natasha. Plus the image of Cobie Smulders buzzing around in the battle field about 1/30th her size would just be all kinds of awesome! Unless everyone is satisfied with her role being the exposition dumper and receiver who fights with pistols (A trait already held by Black Widow), where else can she go? She can't be head of SHIELD since Nick Fury is still there and pretty much gave the title of director to Coulson (Boo!). Maria Hill is kind of stuck.
So we kill two birds with one stone. We get to have Wasp and Cobie Smulders/Maria Hill in on the action as an Avenger. What do you guys think? Appropriate direction or over-reaching?
