TVTropes Now available in the app store!
Open

Follow TV Tropes

Following

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Go To

Welcome to the main discussion thread for the Marvel Cinematic Universe! This pinned post is here to establish some basic guidelines. All of the Media Forum rules still apply.

  • This thread is for talking about the live-action films, TV shows, animated works, and related content that use the Marvel brand, currently owned by Disney.
  • While mild digressions are okay, discussion of the comic books should go in this thread. Extended digressions may be thumped as off-topic.
  • Spoilers for new releases should not be discussed without spoiler tagging for at least two weeks. Rather, each title should have a dedicated thread where that sort of conversation is held. We can mention new releases in a general sense, but please be courteous to people who don't want to be spoiled.

If you're posting tagged spoilers, make sure that the film or series is clearly identified outside the spoiler tagging. People need to know what will be spoiled before they choose to read the post.

    Original post 
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

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#30276: Apr 6th 2015 at 10:29:35 AM

I guess Hawkeye upgraded his arsenel in between films.

Whowho Since: May, 2012
#30277: Apr 6th 2015 at 10:36:52 AM

"Hawkeye! Where were you when terrorists bombed Tony's house?"

"Trying to see if I could fire four arrows at once."

"And where were you when aliens invaded London?"

"Trying to see if I could fire six arrows at once."

"When cap was declared a fugitive?"

"Nine. Nine arrows at once. That's as many as three threes. And that's awesome."

edited 6th Apr '15 10:37:53 AM by Whowho

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#30278: Apr 6th 2015 at 10:41:22 AM

"And when Ronan the Accuser threatened the alien planet Xandar?"

"Now, see, that one I think I have a reasonable excuse for."

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#30279: Apr 6th 2015 at 10:41:28 AM

That is awesome.

Forever liveblogging the Avengers
TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#30281: Apr 6th 2015 at 11:03:00 AM

Going by the "you step out that door you're an Avenger" line I'm shopping that Hawkeye will take the mentor role to Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#30282: Apr 6th 2015 at 11:23:08 AM

[up] That does seem to be the case, based on what I've heard.

Oh God! Natural light!
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#30283: Apr 6th 2015 at 11:27:42 AM

But he is really in disadvantage with a bow against robots...though, really thinking about it, a shield is not that helpful either, unless Steve can throw it hard enough to behead the robots.

wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Role Model
#30284: Apr 6th 2015 at 11:28:56 AM

Well, we've already seen footage of the shield and arrows hacking or piercing robots, so...

spashthebandragon thebandragoness from USA Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
thebandragoness
#30285: Apr 6th 2015 at 11:30:56 AM

Maybe Ultron just made the robots out of super cheap material to save on production costs?

edited 6th Apr '15 11:37:16 AM by spashthebandragon

I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.
Tuckerscreator (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#30286: Apr 6th 2015 at 11:32:09 AM

We're still arguing about Hawkeye's effectiveness when we've seen him sink a Helicarrier, shoot a flying target without looking, and outsmart Loki and give him a bomb to the face.

edited 6th Apr '15 11:32:26 AM by Tuckerscreator

Nightwire Since: Feb, 2010
#30287: Apr 6th 2015 at 11:35:10 AM

[up][up]Greedy Ultron, hogging all the sweet vibranium for himself.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#30288: Apr 6th 2015 at 11:42:31 AM

[up][up]Oh I think Hawkeye is awesome. But his special skills are not exactly ideal for the situation.

wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Role Model
#30289: Apr 6th 2015 at 11:43:28 AM

Eh, he's more suited than, say, Black Widow.

Nightwire Since: Feb, 2010
#30290: Apr 6th 2015 at 11:45:49 AM

"Goddamn it Ultron, I told you not to make robots out of cardboard."

"What, you think I'm made of money?"

Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#30291: Apr 6th 2015 at 11:47:53 AM

I figured Ultron would want the possibly hackable remote controlled bodies to not be invincible like their own.

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
(•̀⤙•́)
#30292: Apr 6th 2015 at 11:48:24 AM

  • ULTRON: Behold, my NEW ADAMANTIUM BODY!
  • STARK: Question.
  • ULTRON: Huh? You interrupt my—
  • STARK: Why did you spend all that money on enough adamantium to create one shell, rather than spreading it around for more cost-effective alloys for your drones? Maybe a bit more business sense would have kept us from tearing through those things like tissue paper, rendering your new adamantium body entirely unnecessary.
  • ULTRON: Says the man in the million dollar suit.
  • STARK: That I made forty of.

edited 6th Apr '15 11:48:59 AM by TobiasDrake

My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.
SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Love is Love is Love
#30293: Apr 6th 2015 at 11:50:22 AM

Cap: Weren't all forty of those suits extremely shoddy and easily destroyed because they were made in a rush with questionable materials?

Tony: YOU'VE NEVER HAD PTSD.

Cap: ...Did you actually say that? To me? Are those actual words that came out of your mouth?

My various fanfics.
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#30294: Apr 6th 2015 at 11:50:22 AM

I thought that the point of Black Widows new sticks (which I still not sold on) are that they are somehow useful against those robots? Otherwise they are a real downgrade.

GaryCXJk Wants Captain N for SSBU Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Wants Captain N for SSBU
#30295: Apr 6th 2015 at 11:56:10 AM

Okay, here's an idea I had that should never happen. Like, not ever. Never.

In a future film, have a flashback show that the spider that bit Spidey not only bit a girl named Cindy, but also Gwen Stacey. Also, at Peter's high school / college, there's a new student who also secretly happens to be Hydra. Her name could be something, like, Jessica or something. Oh, and someone decided to clone Spider-Man, but instead ended up with a female clone of him.

Just have a movie called Spider-Women. Or, you know, not at all.

Signatures are for lamers.
Nightwire Since: Feb, 2010
#30296: Apr 6th 2015 at 12:16:31 PM

Ultron to Stark: "Bite my shiny Vibranium ass, dad."

comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#30297: Apr 6th 2015 at 12:45:50 PM

I figured Ultron would want the possibly hackable remote controlled bodies to not be invincible like their own.

It's also unlikely he has enough vibranium to make a whole army.

TenebrousGaze Dark Eye from A Shaded Face Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
Dark Eye
#30298: Apr 6th 2015 at 12:49:23 PM

[up][up][up][up]

I don't think that's the case in-universe but probably so.

Hawkeye probably just has insanely sharp arrows and maybe some more explosive ones.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#30299: Apr 6th 2015 at 1:44:59 PM

@Hawkeye's Trick Arrows:

Well, there was that time he beat Krona, threat to the entire cross-company multiverse, with a TNT-Arrow.

Granted, it was one of Green Arrow's arrows.

edited 6th Apr '15 1:46:02 PM by KnownUnknown


Total posts: 186,763
Top