Darcy Lewis, Vampire Slayer, Semi-Retired

If you saw the first Thor movie, a few years back, you knew it was pretty silly, but it was only meant to pass a summer waiting for Avengers, which turned out to be pretty good popcorn movie for a Saturday afternoon. Review of the plot-chasms reminds one that the sort of people who create comic book plots are the sort of people who draw big muscles and giant swinging boobs and belt pouches (Rob Leifeild, this means you!), which has something to do with why I never got into them.

Anyway, one of the amusing characters in Thor was Darcy the Intern. Darcy was a poli-sci major, working an internship because she needed the units. She ends up tasing Thor after hitting him with the van they're driving in the desert of New Mexico. Tasing the god of lightning and thunder. That's an image that stays with you, more than the rest of the film, though Eric Selvig getting hammered drunk with Thor in a bar should be been more celebrated than it was. While Thor was directed by noted Shakespearean actor Kenneth Brannagh (Much Ado About Nothing), Avengers was directed by Buffy director Joss Whedon, a man who took his obsession with comic books and turned it into a career directing comic book characters with a bit of humor and the best directed Scifi to date (Serenity). So Slayers, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, look harmless, and super-hero strong, and you never see them coming. Obviously, the intern who happens to be at the critical New Mexico town working for the Einstein Rosen Bridge researchers (ERB's are what a stargate creates), it would totally figure that she would be a Slayer, like Buffy and Faith. A fan spotted this potential and wrote a series of short stories about it. It is really a shame this isn't canon. It would work. And the potential jokes between Darcy and the Avengers at the right moment? Whedon would be able to play some hilarious moments of jaw dropping surprise. Nobody expects the Slayer. They just turn up. Its mystical.

I just watched Thor the Dark World, which is one of those standalone type stories to tide you over till the next Avengers movie, Ultron. Darcy gets a bunch of jokes in the course of the film, including dipping her own intern in a kiss. Something a slayer can do because they're so strong.

Slayers are also, usually, short. So is Darcy a slayer and just hiding it? Is Whedon implying this is canon after all? Is Darcy going to have a crowning moment of awesome at some point in the future?