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Cast and crew delight fans at Comic-Con with new footage of Thor and Hulk in action.

Last year at Comic-Con, Marvel Studios officially announced Brie Larson as the star of Captain Marvel. They're still not even shooting yet, bu this year at Comic-Con, Marvel Studios dropped a few more juicy details. SEE ALSO: How to build a cinematic universe, according to Marvel mastermind Kevin Feige As has been rumored, Nick Fury will appear in Captain Marvel.

It's been a couple of years since Bruce Banner started turning into the Hulk in the MCU timeline, so it would stand to reason that his alter ego's vocabulary would be improving. Mark Ruffalo spilled details about the big fella during Marvel's Thor: Ragnarok panel on Saturday at Comic-Con, including that he won't be playing much Bruce Banner. SEE ALSO: Watch Gal Gadot's thunderous Hall H return at Comic-Con Hulk refuses to turn back into Banner on [the planet] Sakaar because he's a champion gladiator," Ruffalo said.

Marvel kicked off its San Diego Comic-Con panel with some typically awesome news — Michelle Pfeiffer has been tapped to play Janet van Dyne, the first Wasp and mother of Janet van Dyne. "She was our dream choice when making the first film," Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige admitted during the panel, expressing his disbelief that they actually managed to cast the former Catwoman. The news was announced via an adorable video hosted by Ant-Man stars Paul Rudd and Michael Peña, which recapped the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe up to this point — with plenty of snark from Rudd and Peña about their rivals (at one point, recapping The Avengers, they referred to Hawkeye as Alan Alda).  Read more

Images captured by an underwater robot showed massive deposits believed to be melted nuclear fuel covering the floor of a damaged reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.