SAN DIEGO — The Sony panel in Hall H on Friday (July 19) ran the gamut of your typical Comic-Con genres. It started with animation before moving to YA adaptation, a sci-fi action flick, and a superhero movie. Check out the highlights!

"The Amazing Spider-Man 2"
Photos of Spider-Man and Electro have covered San Diego for the past few days, amping up buzz around the sequel, and once the cast took the stage, the excitement was nearly electric. But there were a few people missing: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, and Jamie Foxx were nowhere to be found.

As a stand-in for Garfield, the crowd was treated to a very special consolation prize: Spider-Man himself. The wall-crawler snuck into the hall at the last minute and sounded surprisingly like Garfield. Spider-Man then took a seat at the head table and awaited the others. Emma Stone couldn't make it due to her filming schedule, which has her out of country, but she sent a video message. "She's hot," Spider-Man said.

Jamie Foxx then walked out to Kanye West's "Power," and Spider-Man was slightly star struck. "I love

An extended sizzle reel gave the fans a first look at mostly unfinished footage, including a look at the origin of Electro, who falls into a vat of electric eels. The reboot's humor was once again present with a lot of focus still on the relationship between Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy. The crowd also got its first look at a sickly Norman Osborn, as played by Chris Cooper, as well as Paul Giamatti as a comical ...

Jim Carrey may have publicly pulled his support of "Kick-Ass 2" in the wake of recent gun-violence tragedies, but that doesn't mean his co-stars have discounted the importance of his performance in the comic-book sequel.

"I was excited to work with Jim Carrey," Christopher Mintz-Plasse told MTV News during the San Diego Comic-Con live stream on Friday (July 19), after expressing similar excitement about playing a villain for the first time.

"His comedies in the '90s were the comedies that shaped my comedy," he continued, a short while after the "Kick-Ass 2" Hall H panel where fans shouted "McLovin'!" as soon as he emerged. " 'Dumb and Dumber.' 'The Truman Show...'"

Kick-Ass himself, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, spoke about what Carrey added to the flick, likening his intensity and commitment to what Nicolas Cage was doing as Hit-Girl's father in the original movie.

"That element that Nic brought in the first one is exactly what Jim brings to this one," he gushed, noting how much the new film needed that element. "These are really talented actors who create characters. Jim, he's done his look from the comic book. He brought all the prosthetics and everything. He loved the first one, that's why he came onboard."

Neither actor has had any communication with Carrey since the Tweets heard 'round the world where he said he would not be promoting the movie. "I sent 'J.C.' a little text," Mintz-Plasse joked. "I have no communication with him."

"It's sad he's not here," Taylor-Johnson said, as his co-star nodded his agreement. "He's so full of passion. He brings that energy ...

"It's going to get insane very quickly."

That's the head's up from showrunner Scott M. Gimple when it comes to the new season of And you might want to take "head's up" literally: AMC's zombie series is never afraid to let the blood flow, as illustrated by the new trailer debuted at Comic-Con.

During Friday's "Walking Dead" panel, the cast and crew unveiled a new trailer featuring a mix of familiar faces and new ones. Last season's newbies Tyreese (Chad L. Coleman) and his little sister Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) are now full-fledged members of the prison-dwelling group, fighting zombies alongside Norman Reedus' Daryl Dixon and Steven Yeun's Glenn through a shopping center. Indeed, the prison is healthily populated and organized -- at least until some mysterious party attacks floods a cellblock with walkers, killing many in the process: "twelve of our own," according to Hershel (Scott Wilson).

"Step outside, you risk your life. Take a drink of water, you risk your life," Hershel tells his fellow survivors at one point in the trailer, in between action shots of Tyreese hammering zombies and even turning his fists against Rick at one point. "You don't have a choice: the only thing you can choose is what you're risking it for."

The trailer concludes with Daryl, Tyreese, Michonne (Danai Gurira) and new character Bob Stookey (played by "The Wire" alum Lawrence Gillard) riding in a car together, shocked as a voice comes over the radio promising sanctuary.

"Those who arrive, survive," the voice promises.

Indeed, despite a peaceful beginning, it looks like season four will quickly ...

San Diego Comic-Con was dark and full of terrors on Friday afternoon, thanks to the "Game of Thrones" panel. Death was very much on the mind for Hall H attendees, as the panel began with an in memoriam video set to Boyz II Men's "Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" -- an appropriate way to lead in to a conversation about season three's controversial Red Wedding episode.

Gone from the show but not from fandom, actors Richard Madden and Michelle Fairley were on hand to eulogize their "Game of Thrones" characters' deaths. And even with winter coming, Madden received quite the warm welcome, walking out to chants of "The King in the North! The King in the North!" Indeed, it was revealed that "The North Remembers" is a key phrase going into season four, premiering sometime in 2014.

"It was a rough day on set," co-showrunner David Benioff told the audience about killing Robb and Catelyn Stark (and countless others) in the penultimate episode of season three. "That was the last day we would work with them."

But it was even rougher on Madden, who cried on set and on his plane ride home over Robb's death. He acknowledged the "Game of Thrones"-sized hole that's currently in his life, making it clear that he very much misses the show.

Fairley, meanwhile, praised the "Rains of Castamere" theme, the musical cue that signals the beginning of the Red Wedding. "It was like someone walked over your grave," she said. Benioff added, "It's just one of those haunting things that's playing in my head right ...

A lot of voices have been heard this week in the wake of the Trayvon Martin case, including that of U.S. President Barack Obama, who made an unscheduled appearance in the White House briefing room Friday (July 19) to address the much-contested verdict.

Speaking about the verdict, which declared George Zimmerman last Saturday night of second-degree murder and manslaughter, Obama dove headfirst into some of the most personal thoughts on race he's offered up in all his years as president. Obama provided his explanation for why there has been so much turmoil within the African-American community over the case.

"You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son," Obama said. "Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago."

He then launched into a discussion of what it means to be African-American in this country and the racism that he himself has experienced in the past. "There are very few African-Americans who haven't had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off," he said, a strikingly similar example to an anecdote Roots band leader Questlove offered up in a New York magazine story this week.

"And, you know ... I don't want to exaggerate this, but those sets of experiences inform how the African-American community interprets what happened one night in Florida," Obama said, adding that he thinks the country is improving when it comes to ...

SAN DIEGO— With Marvel turning almost every available superhero into a big screen action star, it's only a matter of time before we hear concrete plans for DC Comics to follow suit.

The comics company has successfully reestablished its two main heroes, Batman in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Trilogy" and Superman in Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel," but for a "Justice League" movie — possibly modeled off the "Avengers" formula — to work, more crime fighters from the pages of DC Comics will have to make their way to theaters.

During MTV's Comic-Con Live, host Steven Smith sat down with the Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics, Geoff Johns, to see what he thought about the big screen potential of a number of unused heroes. One in particular, Aquaman—who got the fictional movie treatment on the television show "Entourage"—is among the superheroes that Johns would love to see come alive.

"I'd love to see an Aquaman movie. I think he's a terrific character. People know him. The world is amazing," Johns said."Working with Ivan Reis on 'Aquaman' and later Paul Pelletier, the visuals are exciting. The characters are exciting. There are creatures. Ninety percent of the oceans have never been seen by human eyes. Most of our threats come from space, but I also think that having threats come from the deep sea would be great to see."

The success of "Man of Steel" almost guarantees a bigger cinematic universe from DC Comics, but as we saw with the failure of "Green Lantern," nothing is a sure bet.

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Universal's "Kick-Ass 2" and "Comic-Con peeps assembled in Hall H, but thanks to one sly audience member's turn at the microphone, a bit of Marvel movie news was unleashed.

Marvel Universe fanatics have been abuzz ever since Vin Diesel tweeted about his clandestine meeting with the House of Ideas. He posted a tantalizing picture of him standing in front of a poster featuring 1963's "Avengers" #2 comic. Was that an "Avengers 2" hint? Was the "Fast & Furious" star directing folks to the image of Giant-Man? Or was the clue buried in the text of the tweet itself? "I get tunnel vision with my work... and after that meeting today... wow!"

Moderator Drew McWeeny from Hitfix was wrapping up the "Riddick" panel when Diesel insisted they take one more question from an audience member. A super fit looking young man in a skintight Iron Man shirt stepped to the mic and pointed out how Diesel is always the "face" of a franchise. "So, what is your 'Vision' for the Marvel movies?"

The crowd, naturally, roared their approval of the question. Diesel smiled widely and fidgeted in his chair. "Why did I have to say 'one last question'?" he wondered aloud. "And he asked the one question I'm not supposed to talk about."

The crowd wasn't letting him off the hook that easily. They kept cheering.

"What I will say," he began, as anticipation mounted, "there is some very big news coming at the end of this month."

After that, McWeeny wrapped it up for real. "Poor Marvel, poor, poor, Marvel," Diesel said, laughing.

Diesel ...

"Cancer books suck," declares the 16-year-old protagonist of John Green's affecting work "The Fault in Our Stars." But, alas, Hazel Grace Lancaster has never read the tear-jerking novel, which took the literary world by storm in 2012, earning a spot as Time magazine's #1 book of the year.

The story follows cancer patient Hazel Grace as she meets and falls in love with a fellow support group member, Augustus Waters. A big-screen adaptation is currently in the works with two YA-fluent actors already in place: "Divergent" co-stars Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort (they play siblings in the 2014 dystopian drama).

When Elgort stopped by MTV's Comic-Con live stream to talk all things "Divergent," we couldn't help but wonder if his experience on set with Woodley aided the "TFiOS" audition process.

"I'm sure it helped," Elgort said with a grin. "We were already becoming best friends on this film, and then I tested in L.A. with her for that, and the chemistry was perfect. We're both so excited to do it."

The process of bringing these beloved characters to life will be a heady one — one from all accounts Elgort is ready for.

"We're going to visit some cancer hospitals and talk with kids and patients who've had the same things our characters have had," he said of prepping for the upcoming shoot. "We're going to probably go and meet with John Green in Indiana and see the Funky Bones and the other different places in the book. It's really exciting. The process is going to be great. We're really ...

While opinions vary, the majority of hip-hop artists who have voiced their opinions on George Zimmerman's not guilty verdict in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin disagree with the jury's decision. Webbie doesn't say that he thinks Zimmerman is innocent, but he doesn't wish jail upon him either.

"I can't see me saying, 'Man y'all should put him in jail'... No I'm gonna leave that to God's hands," the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, rapper told MTV News on Thursday. "God blessed him. God watched him and God didn't want to put him in there with the animals in the jungle."

Webbie often refers to and gives thanks to a higher power, even if his series of Savage Life albums don't exactly qualify as gospel music. His Trill Entertainment labelmate and close friend Lil Boosie was indicted on a first-degree murder charge in 2010 and is currently serving time, so Webbie is quite sympathetic to prisoners behind bars. "A lot of people should be able to come home from jail and get another chance," he argued. "A lot of people, a lot of people, and I'm not just talkin' about my brother, I'm talkin' about a lot of people man."

On Wednesday, host Sway Calloway gathered Wyclef Jean, Prodigy, political activist Kevin Powell and defense attorney Stacey Richman for a very special episode of MTV News' weekly hip-hop show. They all urged the youth to get involved with their local government to force change in the judicial system. "What should young people do? We should challenge ALEC (American Legislative Exchange ...

SAN DIEGO— All throughout MTV Comic-Con Live, we've been bringing you exclusive interviews and footage from many of your favorite movies, TV shows, and video games, including some great clips from animated series.

On our all-day Comic-Con livestream, we debuted exclusives from "Legend of Korra," "Ultimate Spider-Man," "Plants Vs. Zombies 2," and Rooster Teeth's "RWBY," all of which you can check out in our roundup below.

"The Legend of Korra" We showed a sizzle reel from the wildly popular series that took a look at the first book of "The Legend of Korra." Watch and relive the first group of episodes from the hit Nickelodeon series, and try not to get too emotional.

"Ultimate Spider-Man" The wall-crawler has always been one of Marvel's more gregarious superheroes. He tends to make friends pretty quickly, and in this clip, we see that he's made a whole bunch of new buddies. Spider-Man is joined here by the Guardians of the Galaxy, the stars of Marvel's upcoming sci-fi epic.

"Plants Vs. Zombies 2" The mobile hit from Popcap games is returning later this month with "Plants Vs. Zombies 2." In the newest trailer for the game, Jay and Silent Bob get cartoon-ized and have to face a terrifying horde of zombies.

Rooster Teeth's "RWBY" The folks behind "Red vs. Blue" are back with another series, "RWBY," a hybrid of computer animation and anime styles. The clip shows off one of the main characters, Ruby Red, a girl who packs more of a punch than her enemies would presume.