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Since Thor and now Captain America came out this year, I wanted to get what Tropers thought of the concept and execution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general. Personally I love the idea and wonder why this idea hasn't been seriously tried before. It sorta seems to me like the DCAU in movie form (And well, ummm, with Marvel), and really 'gets' the comic book feel of a shared universe while not being completely alienating.

Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#27777: Feb 26th 2015 at 9:11:06 AM

I'd go with a more continuity nod thing.

"Where's Spider-Man?"
"He's having some personal problems, I think. He ran off proclaiming 'Parker is dead, there is only the Spider.'"
"... Huh."

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LordofLore Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#27780: Feb 26th 2015 at 9:15:35 AM

HULK CRUSH PUNY ROBOT IN ARMPIT

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#27781: Feb 26th 2015 at 9:20:53 AM

That icon in the bottom left corner kind of makes it look like a news report.

AVENGERS BREAKING NEWS: Hulk shakes fist at sky, blames sun for headache. Body count still pending.

edited 26th Feb '15 9:21:18 AM by KnownUnknown

comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#27782: Feb 26th 2015 at 9:22:54 AM

[up]The poor cameraman that got that shot.

TrashJack Confirmed Doomer from beyond the Despair Event Horizon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Confirmed Doomer
#27783: Feb 26th 2015 at 9:29:53 AM

[up][up] Or, on a slow news day . . .

Green Man Yells At Cloud

"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary
wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#27784: Feb 26th 2015 at 9:30:23 AM

Does it seem that these are going to be another "collect all 8" posters?

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#27785: Feb 26th 2015 at 9:30:51 AM

I'm reminded that Banner once hulked out because of a rainbow.

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NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#27787: Feb 26th 2015 at 10:27:06 AM

So Hulk is a homophobe? For shame.

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#27788: Feb 26th 2015 at 10:27:55 AM

He was nearly raped in a shower once.

wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Role Model
#27789: Feb 26th 2015 at 10:30:46 AM

Thunderbolt Ross just won't leave him alone.

Whowho Since: May, 2012
#27790: Feb 26th 2015 at 10:37:37 AM

@Poster being collect all eight

I was actually hoping for collect all twelve; with additional Vision, Ultron, Baron Von Strucker and Nick Fury. (Heck make it fifteen and put War Machine, Falcon and Ulysses Klaw in there too, I love these posters.)

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#27791: Feb 26th 2015 at 10:42:52 AM

He had a bad experience with rainbows once.

Batman's fond of the concept, however.

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comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#27792: Feb 26th 2015 at 10:46:32 AM

I can't wait to see what the surprise is.

comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#27793: Feb 26th 2015 at 11:45:34 AM

Some plot details on the climax for Age of Ultron. In particular Whedon says the ending has something big that really shakes up the status quo.

"The whole movie [‘Age of Ultron’] is a process of changing everything and keeping everything the same. You want to hit all the things that made people love the first movie, but you also want to make something new or why are you here," Whedon teases. "I don’t want to make The Avengers again - I did that one time. With the ending it was important for me that we felt a progression. We didn’t just feel, ‘well, no problem, we cleaned that up!’ because that’s an episode of television. That’s not a film. This film, there’s more at stake and we take that seriously."

And then some stuff on Daredevil's continuity ties. The show will be more or less self-contained (they made a point of saying it's not in the same vein of SHIELD) but Hell's Kitchen is being rebuilt after getting wrecked during the Chitauri invasion, and that there will be references to other MCU heroes and characters.

The actor playing Daredevil says he would be up for appearing in Civil War but that the show is a little more grounded and treats the appearance of a costumed hero like Daredevil as something that isn't yet a regular thing.

edited 26th Feb '15 11:45:55 AM by comicwriter

Whowho Since: May, 2012
#27794: Feb 26th 2015 at 12:27:11 PM

[up] Which is true. As of yet there have been no neighbourhood heroes in the MCU.

Wackd Since: May, 2009
#27795: Feb 26th 2015 at 12:41:41 PM

but Hell's Kitchen is being rebuilt after getting wrecked during the Chitauri invasion
That was Hell's Kitchen in the movie? Huh.

Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#27796: Feb 26th 2015 at 12:41:49 PM

We didn’t just feel, ‘well, no problem, we cleaned that up!’ because that’s an episode of television. That’s not a film. This film, there’s more at stake and we take that seriously."

Something weird to say from a man who never was afraid of shaking the status quo up in a TV show.

Wackd Since: May, 2009
#27797: Feb 26th 2015 at 12:44:18 PM

[up]I mean, there are just as many episodes of Buffy that introduce a massive, world-ending threat that's disposed of that episode and never mentioned again as there are episodes focusing on the massive, world-ending threat we're supposed to spend great swaths of time worrying about.

Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
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#27798: Feb 26th 2015 at 12:48:25 PM

There are enough of those that they can lampshade them frequently. The Zeppo features one happening in the background solely to take the piss out of their own melodramatic tendencies for comedic value, multiple characters inquire about the plural of apocalypse - "It's 'apocalypses,' by the way," Riley kindly informs us - and Giles and Buffy actually take a quiet, dramatic moment in season five's finale to count them.

By Angel's fifth season, Angel and Spike have a dick-measuring contest over who's averted the end of the world more.

edited 26th Feb '15 12:49:36 PM by TobiasDrake

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comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#27799: Feb 26th 2015 at 12:57:11 PM

And here's a cool motion poster.

Matt Murdock channeling his best David Caruso.


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