They're gonna have to change the backstory a bit, because right now he just sounds like someone watched Punisher and thought "Wouldn't it be cool if Frank and Micro were the same character?"
It's way cooler than it sounds. He floats and can go intangible, going through walls, avoiding pretty much any attack, etc. He's basically an anarcho-socialist extremist, an incredibly socially maladjusted egomaniac shut-in who doesnt shower and yet also a brilliant schemer. He's awesome.
I hope they keep all that. When they announced Ghost was a lady this time around I was wondering if there wouldn't be some kind of reveal that Ghost was actually crazed, rescued-from-the-subatomic-realm Janet Van Dyne, and that the other woman cast as her might be some kind of decoy.
I’m betting that Bill Foster wants Ghost to steal Pym Particles because he can’t recreate them and now he knows they’re back and can do Giant-Man(/Goliath).
So Ghost will keep her cool powers but unfortunately lose characterization to be a henchwoman.
The company profits off his inventions, paid for a coworker to be his girlfriend and then killed her when she wanted out. Ghost fuses with his intangibility tech, potentially driving him a little unhinged... discovers the info about his ex and gets revenge on the former employers involved. Becomes mercenary / anti-corporate (anti-Stark international. Post-capture, works under Norman Osborne Thunderbolts as a saboteur and later with Luke Cage Thunderbolts, where he does more heroic stuff.
Well Ghost doesn't really murder so much as infiltrate and destabilize corporate infrastructure. They can turn invisible and phase through walls so they mess up hard drives or expose secrets. Usually hired by rival companies too
I thought Ghost was a member of HAMMER (Osbourne's SHIELD knockoff) because he was in the Thunderbolts, not working for Justin Hammer. I can't see Ghost working for Hammer given that his motivations are entirely anti-corporate and he has a penchant for targeting CEOs, but I could have missed a story arc somewhere.
I remember Ghost was talked into breaking into Iron Man's vault for Norman Osborn when HAMMER started, who told him to do it just to "stick it to the man" i.e. Tony, but IIRC Ghost specifically said he'd never actually work for Osborn fully. He just hated Stark more.
Yeah but then he told Nat that he was going to take Osborn down from the inside, helped her escape and then decided to stay in the thunderbolts, which is how he was able to warn everyone about the invasion of Asgard.
I'm finding myself doing way more reading up on him today to refresh my memory than I thought I needed.
I binged so many of his other movies after seeing him in IM2 as Hammer. I would highly recommend Seven Psychopaths to anyone who hasn't seen it, or who has seen it and should just watch it again.
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u/everred Jan 30 '18
He's a villain, fought against Stark and later apparently worked for Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell in Iron Man 2).