The Silliest "Avengers" Rumor (That I Kinda Hope Is True But Almost-Certainly Isn't) Yet!

WARNING: I'm running this because the circumstances of it's silliness are kind of hillarious, BUT if any of it does turn out to somehow be somewhat true it would constitute damn near the biggest "Avengers"-spoiler since the announcement that they were MAKING "Avengers" in the first place. So if you're committed to 100% non-spoilage, you should not only NOT read the rest of this but also avoid clicking the links or even hovering over them as the headline itself would even qualify.

Don't say I didn't warn you.


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ComicBookMovie.com will pretty much run any story, even high-unlikely or obviously-fake. On the up side, that means they actually average out a genuine scoop once in a blue moon. I don't think this is one of those times, but there ya go.

Short version: A "scooper" for CBM got hold of a shooting-schedule that described scenes wherein The Avengers do battle with something called "Leviathan." Now, that in and of itself would be potentially cool movie-gossip - "Leviathan" is the name of the Beast of The Sea in The Bible, and is frequently used as a shorthand for "Sea Monster" and/or "Giant Monster" in general, and the prospect of a Kaiju of some kind showing up to make "The Avengers" just that much geekier would be pretty awesome on it's own.

In any case, CBM's guess is that "Leviathan" is actually going to be a less-silly-named version of Giganto, a perennial Marvel Universe sea monster. Why didn't just jump to Fin Fang Foom, Marvel's most famous monster (and associate of Iron Man foe The Mandarin as a bonus) instead? Well, because he ALSO thinks this plus a bunch of background details in "Iron Man 2" equals the answer to what is either the source of Loki's yet-unidentified army OR a surprise secondary Big Bad...

...Namor. The Sub-Mariner.

Now, to be fair, the circumstantial evidence that Marvel has Namor on it's "to-do" list has been solid for awhile - mostly notably, Nick Fury's big map of "hot sites" glimpsed in "Iron Man 2" had a spot circled in the middle of the ocean. Plus, he's also pretty popular in his own right, and it'd be fun to "punk" Warners/DC out of the chance to make "Aquaman" first. CBM, however, thinks the have another piece of the puzzle: The Stark Expo in IM2 included multiple references to "Oracle," the name of a company that Namor ran during his "I'm also a Turner-esque activist CEO" phase. Whoa. How did we all miss that?

Well, probably because the "Oracle" stuff in IM2 was actually the real-life Oracle Software, who had a tie-in product-placement deal with the film. Oops.

So... a giant monster in "The Avengers?" Maybe, would be awesome. Loki and Namor leading an Atlantean army in "The Avengers?" also awesome, but probably not going to happen - and definitely not because a real-life software company has the same name as a made-up company at one point related to a character that Marvel Studios may not currently own the movie-rights to.

Sure would be something, though...