Fantastic Four Reboot

Unless you're in the Marvel vs Capcom setting and have two friends.

Galactus is very obliging to video game mechanics.

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So was Onslaught. But we just pretend that never happened. For the Professor's sake.

Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great

Hah!

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Or unless you're a zombie. Not even Galactus can stand up to zombies.

I seem to recall that he also has a weakness for twinkie snack cakes.

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Who doesn't?

Hostess went bankrupt that one time so apparently a lot of people.

ZING!

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I love the bit in Marvel Adventures where it turns out he only eats inhabited planets because he never thought to actually try uninhabited ones. Turns out barren wastelands are delicious. Who knew?

That issue also has Hank Pym breaking baseball.

edited 11th Aug '14 4:01:01 PM by KnownUnknown

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

Hence, baked alaska.

edited 11th Aug '14 4:04:28 PM by Bocaj

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That sounds very funny, but canonically, doesn't he live off life energies? That kinda can't be obtained from a dead world (which is why Galactus spared Apokolips in his crossover against Darkseid. Darky has left the surface of Apokolips so burned down and spent Galactus couldn't consume the planet. Which doesn't make that much sense because Apokolips still had enough to substain thousands of opressed slaves and minions, so it'd be worth at least a snack, but eeeehhhh...)

Marvel Adventures tends to be humor first, adherence to 616 continuity second.

Also, that Galactus/Darkseid crossover is one of my favorite crossovers ever for exactly that reason. It shows a lot about who both Galactus and Darkseid are.

edited 11th Aug '14 4:07:35 PM by KnownUnknown

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

I think something something celestial eggs? Lavos?

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A theoretically far out, but hopeful timeline prediction of mine.

• Fantastic Four is released in theaters, bombs, and is met with mediocre to negative reviews for a unfocused narrative, bad plot and a rushed script.
• Fox's revenue goes down, and they panic. They go ahead and order the sequel to F4.
• Simon Kinberg drops out due to a disagreement with the studio and their pressure on him.
• The clock is ticking. Fox can't find a replacement writer willing enough to write a sequel for a "bomb", and offer Simon a crap load of money to return. Simon declines.
• The production deadline isn't met. Under contract, Fox is forced to revert the rights back to Marvel.
• The year is 2020, and the X-Men franchise isn't doing so well and production is slowing down gradually over the next few years. Fox becomes incredibly desperate and BEGS Marvel to renew their contract. They obviously refuse.
• There's this big shuffle over rights, but Marvel unofficially gets the rights to the X-Men.
• Fox completely freaks out and sues Marvel as a last ditch effort to get the rights back.
• The case is easily settled, Marvel keeps the rights, and Fox publicly makes a fool of itself.

edited 11th Aug '14 4:13:20 PM by TheLemsterPju

Considering DOFP, the X-Men part of this timeline seems wistful.

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Yeah I was about to say "what?"

Eventually, fads begin to wear out. Unlike Marvel themselves, the X-Men films are now more limited to the stories and characters (aka not Wolverine) they can use without going into obscure territory. Marvel has Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Guardians of the Galaxy,

Fox got lucky with DOFP because they promoted as an X-Men movie with Wolverine and his not-as-recognizable buddies and flashy trailers to suck the audience into the theater. Although, if Marvel had of given the movies a toyline or tie-in video games, DOFP would have likely made it to a billion.

When they eventually get to Deadpool or a Cyclops movie, Marvel is hardly going to give these characters any attention by the time the movies are released, not in comics or cartoons. Since Marvel is killing off Wolverine, people may forget about him too. Fox will have to take a leap of faith and slap "X-Men" on the title to pull the people in. But when they don't have Wolverine as a major character or a super hero team (with Wolverine), the audience will lose interest.

Then the movies may gradually do poorly by the 2020s, and the rest will be history.

Just a theory.

edited 11th Aug '14 4:50:24 PM by TheLemsterPju

You're vastly overestimating how much influence comic books actually have any more.

It at least pays a factor. The lack of animated appearances, toylines, or anything Fox has no control over will all add up eventually.

Be honest. Am I being too open minded?

edited 11th Aug '14 5:05:09 PM by TheLemsterPju

Eh, I can't really see the X-Men movies fully failing. Especially when you consider that Fox can maintain a fairly light schedule and still keep the rights until statutory reversion. I'm pretty sure they could keep interest ( especially with the newer, younger versions of the cast ), at worst dropping to a "once per three years" rate.

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And unlike X-Men, they've yet to make a Fantastic Four movie that people really like all that much. They've made two movies thus far that have a couple things that people liked about them, but then the franchise kind of stalled and from the looks of things they may wind up doing even worse with their attempts reboot. Fox has yet to show that they know what they're doing with the franchise.

The X-Men movies, on the other hand, they've already shown that they can be trusted to do a good job, even if they make some mistakes here and there. The first two movies people really liked, and while they stumbled with X3 and the first Wolverine movie, they've done a good enough job with the I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-A-Reboot that people have more or less been willing to overlook their past mistakes.

There's also the argument to be made that Marvel themselves might not be as eager to get the rights for X-Men back... not just because the films are doing well, but because integrating the X-Men into the MCU would be much harder than the Fantastic Four or Spider-Man.

Even ignoring the fact that they've gone to great lengths to create a setting where "mutants" don't exist (because it would honestly be fairly easy to rectify by having a sudden boom of them), they've crafted a universe where superheroes seem to be very popular with the common people in the aftermath of the Avengers. Since the X-Men's whole schtick is protecting a world that hates and fears them, it would be difficult to pull off convincingly.

But I thought First Class did pretty well both financially and critically.

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A Kitty Pryde film would probably sell pretty well too at the moment. It's not that it has to be Wolverine, it just has to be a big one that the public knows about or has a big-name starring actor.

They could always show true bravery, and make an X-Men film series where the plot *doesn't* revolve around Hated And Feared.

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Provided they could find an appropriate challenge to offset his Story-Breaker Power, I could see them putting together a good Quicksilver spinoff, too.