Fake Gunmen Hired for Iron Man 3 Premiere

[Andara Bledin]

But therein lays the problem. Why even have nameless support characters?

Because it's a cosplay group, not a cosplay couple. You end up with "extras" because everybody wants to play along, but most people don't have what it takes to gear up to be one of the top names.

Plus, it appears that the cosplay group does SHIELD cosplay, not Iron Man cosplay, as noted by the lack of Pepper in the group, but the inclusion of someone who appears to be dressed as Agent Maria Hill.

[Gravekeeper]

Because it's a cosplay group, not a cosplay couple. You end up with "extras" because everybody wants to play along, but most people don't have what it takes to gear up to be one of the top names.

Common sense has to enter into this somewhere though.

But judging from the fury over his half assed apology on Facebook there's a few levels of fail going on here. Lot of people are saying that the theatre did not know what costumes the group was going to show up with. Meaning its the group's stupid idea to walk into a theatre with tactical gear on. But the manager is even more of a fucktard for defending it when he could have just said "Sorry, we didn't know what sort of costumes they'd be wearing".

Plus, it appears that the cosplay group does SHIELD cosplay, not Iron Man cosplay, as noted by the lack of Pepper in the group, but the inclusion of someone who appears to be dressed as Agent Maria Hill.

Ugh, you're right she is too. Bad cosplay is bad. She's got the ear piece and the hair, and that's about it. Hill wore the same SHIELD jumpsuit uniform as everyone else did ( which doesn't really show any skin either ). Which is the same uniform that should be under the tactical gear. -.-

A SHIELD agent should be one of the easier/cheaper cosplays as it basically requires an appropriately coloured jump suit / flight suit / hell even track suit + some belts and an arm badge + a hip holster. Failing that, a straight up suit and tie for a go between agent.

The whole point of cosplay is to be recognizable as a character.

Also, is the one on the far left suppose to be Pepper?

[Andara Bledin]

Also, is the one on the far left suppose to be Pepper?

Well, the case she's holding is the one that has the Cosmic Cube inside, so it's got to be related to either Thor or Avengers. I don't think Potts ever went near it, and her look would be even less recognizable than the one playing Hill.

[Gravekeeper]

Well, the case she's holding is the one that has the Cosmic Cube inside, so it's got to be related to either Thor or Avengers. I don't think Potts ever went near it, and her look would be even less recognizable than the one playing Hill.

Hrmmm, yeah. I don't recall it being carried by any female at any point. Also, the group has two Tessarects in that picture. Gotta keep a spare galactic super cube around just in case.

[Panacea]

Why don't you understand why having a bunch of apparent gunmen walk into a theatre would be a bad thing after Sandy Hook? -.-

Or hell, Aurora.

If they had just sent in Ironman and Nick Fury this wouldn't have been a problem at all. This is just some wankers in military gear from a surplus store that they randomly taped a SHIELD logo too. They don't look like SHIELD Operatives. You don't even see many SHIELD Operatives in any sort of tactical gear in the movie.

Pretty clownish. We had better costumes at Free Comic Book Day, and even the bad ones were better than these guys.

If you're going to have nameless support characters, the only real choice is as SHIELD operatives, because you're not going to show up as part of Iron Man's entourage as enemy troops.

I disagree. There's Pepper Potts, Happy Hogun, War Machine/Col "Rhoadie" Rhoades. They could have had someone there as the Mandarin.

So long as you have sailor moon and overweight middle aged men ...

'Nuff said.

[Ginger Tea]

In April was in my local comic book shop to get their storage boxes and a minute after I arrived 4 guys in Ghostbuster gear showed up, good looking proton packs too, the outfit is easy I guess, brown boiler suits, but the proton packs sold it as effort.

No idea if there was a Ghostbuster's significance in April or if it was just something done purely for shits and giggles, the staff were not expecting a cosplay troupe to arrive and they also did not stay too long and were just in to have a look at the new releases, I took no photos of them allowing the whole event to fade into insignificance till now.

[Andara Bledin]

I disagree. There's Pepper Potts, Happy Hogun, War Machine/Col "Rhoadie" Rhoades. They could have had someone there as the Mandarin.

How are any of those people anything other than the exact opposite of "nameless support characters?"

Other than the dancers in the opening of the second movie, does Iron Man have any group of people around him that are recognizable enough to be cosplayed that aren't SHIELD agents?

[Gravekeeper]

Other than the dancers in the opening of the second movie, does Iron Man have any group of people around him that are recognizable enough to be cosplayed that aren't SHIELD agents?

There's no group around him at all.

But there's Black Widow, Rhodey / War Machine, Happy Hogan, heck, Phil. Yes, Phil's a SHIELD agent, but not in a standard uniform. SHIELD barely appears at all in the Iron Man films with the exception of Fury, Black Widow and Phil. Thus the problem.

Still, if they were gonna go with SHIELD, at least be recognizable. Otherwise yer just a military nut with a plastic gun.

[Andara Bledin]

There's no group around him at all.

Which was my point. They wanted to be nameless extras, so they had to drop back to SHIELD agents.

Still, if they were gonna go with SHIELD, at least be recognizable. Otherwise yer just a military nut with a plastic gun.

You'll get no argument from me on this. The whole lack of uniformity and much more than a vague attempt at accuracy with their costumes is a bit sad. If you're going to be a cosplay unit doing an event, you should at least look like you got your outfits from the same place.

[Ginger Tea]

I only know a few of those names, mind you I am not well versed in the marvel universe or the Avengers movie continuity, as are the predominant cinema going audience.

Without imdb etc
Happy Hogan? was he in the first two movies, cos he sounds more like a Hulk Hogan parody
Phil (was his name Coulson? cant remember if I read that a few posts back), isn't he the dead one who was in 2 and killed by Loki in Avengers, so unless I missed the he's not really dead part he wouldn't be in 3.

And if the movie is new (sounds daft I know, but apparently the States has not got Star trek yet and we've had it a week.) and not say a fortnight / month old then are any of the characters new to the movie, thus no one who has yet to see the movie would know who is who and cosplayers end up playing random comic book continuity character cos they have no idea who is in it to cosplay as etc.

If I a casual comic reader with only a bare minimum on the whole Iron Man saga outside of the first two movies has no idea who some of these guys are, chances are those that only know of superheroes via their movies probably recognise even less.
EG I only recognised Ki Adimundi (or whatever the cone head guy) from the Jedi Council cos he had a mini series a few years before his appearance in the prequels, to everyone not a full on Star Wars fan, he's just some background character who would only be named if/when he got his own toy.

[violiav]

So long as you have sailor moon and overweight middle aged men ...

/hijack/
Actually my daughter suggested that my bf and I go as Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask one year. Thing is neither of us are as, well, thin and young as we once were. We briefly considered it, for laughs. Picture a grease stained tuxedo mask with McDs wrappers falling off of him instead of roses. "Moon Prisim- where's my cheesy poofs!"
/you may now continue your regularly scheduled thread//

Yeah, the theater owners heart was in the right place (costumes are fun!!), but not so much with the planning.

[Ginger Tea]

Had to go back to the image again cos all I could remember from first time looking at it was nick fury and iron man some swat guys and a largish woman in a suit.

Did not notice the lunchbox, or the 2nd one, which I would have assumed to be his suit in a case if it weren't for the fact he was wearing it and someone else said "tesseract" or whatever the McGuffin was called.

Now I can add woman with clipboard, OMG the attention to detail, she looks nothing like Pepper nor Romanov before she ended her term as PA.

In the end it looks more like they are cosplaying as channel awesome cosplaying as Iron Man with Dr C Tease and Dr C Block at either ends of the image.

Wilkins told the Riverfront Times, adding the hired character had a "clear, plastic toy gun."

Can't see a clear gun in the image, is it meant to read as "Clearly a plastic toy gun"? cos even with the orange tip, we know and it might have, without rereading it, been brought up in this thread, that cops have shot for carrying innocuous objects thought to be weapons.

[Andara Bledin]

Now I can add woman with clipboard, OMG the attention to detail, she looks nothing like Pepper nor Romanov before she ended her term as PA.

The woman with the clipboard is supposed to be agent Hill, the woman who's Fury's right hand. She gets a lot of screen time in Avengers. She has the right basic look for the character, but the clothes are only vaguely close.

[Gravekeeper]

The woman with the clipboard is supposed to be agent Hill, the woman who's Fury's right hand. She gets a lot of screen time in Avengers. She has the right basic look for the character, but the clothes are only vaguely close.

You know, Agent Hill is not actually in any of the Iron Man movies, not even 3. So they're already pulling from the other movies....why not just cosplay anyone from any of the Avenger related movies?

[Ginger Tea]

In no rush to watch it again, that movie I could probably name drop a dozen characters and some of them would be the same person under both alias

But that woman, she, like a lot of other people I'm not expecting to be plot critical end up in the memory shredder by the time the credits roll.

The same could be said for the first GI Joe movie, as they avoided the individual character design for a more realistic military uniform, by using shock horror, military uniforms, most were just name drops possibly pulled out of a hat.
I only know cover girl was in it cos the blockbuster buster episode that mentions her death. Up until that point she was the un named PA that got killed and forgotten about.

edit:

You know, Agent Hill is not actually in any of the Iron Man movies, not even 3. So they're already pulling from the other movies....why not just cosplay anyone from any of the Avenger related movies?

Even though they don't appear in 3, it would have been more fun and less police involving if the guy in question was dressed as Thor, Hawkeye or Banner.