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For what it's worth, when I was around 12 or 13, my first girlfriend was the one who got me into comics. Mostly, we were big fans of The X-Men. In fact, she gave me the Milestone Issue of X-Men #1, with Cyclops and Wolverine on the cover. I still have it. Back then, I was all about Marvel and The X-Men. Today, I prefer Dark Horse and Buffy.
@Squiggly-thanks. That is a good idea.
@Trey
*bashes head against wall*
Yeah, she's from the comics and the actress is on How I Met Your Mother. Frankly, I'm glad she survived, if only because she's one of two women in the entire film.
Fair point. If that was part of the reasoning, then I applaud the attempt to counteract the sausage-y nature of the source material.
Better still, they could have done something truly daring like maybe cast Halle Berry as Nick Fury, or make Hawkeye female. Which I would have also applauded, if only to see the fanboy apocalypse that would have resulted. 
Trey, I suggest you watch the deleted and extended scenes for The Avengers. In Whedon's first cut of the film, Agent Hill was actually the "in" for the audience, the character whose perspective we experience much of the story through (if I recall correctly, there's an early draft where it's Captain America but Joss has said he scrapped that because it was too difficult and "boring" to follow such a boy scout the whole time). Naturally, as the running time got trimmed and the story re-worked, Agent Hill's role got significantly reshaped and slimmed down but she still played a part in enough scenes where they couldn't just simply cut the character out of the film, entirely.
Yeah, apparently there were tons of different potential cuts, and different characters started the film each time. One of them started with a flash-forward to Agent Hill talking to the scary secret government television people about what happened during the battle, and then it flashed back. There's also a long montage of Captain America's life that was supposed to come at the beginning (that gave that random waitress character a better intro) but Whedon felt that there was starting to be too much of him in the film.
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