How I Met Your Assistant SHIELD Director
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?After a weekend of rumors, How I Met Your Mother star Cobie Smulders has been confirmed to play Maria Hill in the Avengers movie. Smulders has fantastic comic timing on HIMYM — but I know the comic Maria Hill is pretty dour and humorless, so I’m hoping that the movie Maria Hill will be a little more fun. Basically, I like Cobie Smulders significantly more than Maria Hill, so I hope the role actually makes use of her talents as opposed to just giving her a paycheck. Since director Joss Whedon apparently had her in mind for his Wonder Woman movie, I’m guessing she’ll end up all right. Of course, this may be a bitter blow to all of you who were hoping for a strict on-screen interpretation of Maria Hill, but… whatever. It’s Maria Hill. Are you really going to lose sleep if she’s less bitchy in the Avengers movie than in the Marvel comics? (Via Variety)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.