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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

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#43352: Sep 24th 2015 at 6:21:52 AM

I've only heard of pogs in more recent years as some retro thing people used to be into since I was born in '92 so by the time I reached sapience they were long out of style.

I did have Power Rangers though which definitely contributed to my love and obsession with costumed vigilantes, and probably contributed to my disappointment that the Guardians of the Galaxy would no longer be in uniforms.

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#43353: Sep 24th 2015 at 7:19:23 AM

I've only vaguely heard of pogs. I guess that makes sense, since I was born two years after it was popular.

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#43354: Sep 24th 2015 at 7:26:27 AM

Did you guys (by which I mean those old enough to actually remember them) really love pogs so much? Because they are basically brought up every time nostalgia from that rough time period occurs.

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#43355: Sep 24th 2015 at 7:27:32 AM

Bitch, I was working a game store when somebody thought the CD-I was a good idea.

Nobody thought the CD-i was a good idea. It was an elaborate joke played on the future by people with too much money. They looked forward to the age of YouTube and wanted to create something that would confuse and horrify the masses, yet also capture their imaginations in shock and disgust. Like the Pyramids or Stonehenge, many theories would exist but none could ever truly explain how such a thing came into existence or what purpose it was meant to serve.

[up] Pogs were legalized gambling for children. They were to 90's America what pachinko is to modern Japan.

edited 24th Sep '15 7:29:26 AM by TobiasDrake

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nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#43356: Sep 24th 2015 at 7:56:54 AM

About MCU!Mangog concept art.

As someone who has no clue who he is in the comics, I think he looks pretty rad.

(dodges an incoming petrol bomb.)

Oy vey.

He's an even greater physical threat than Kurse, not to mention a living manifestation of an entire lost race's grudge against Asgard. He deserves to look far more intimidating than what that art portrays.

comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#43357: Sep 24th 2015 at 7:57:59 AM

I know of pogs because of that Simpsons episode.

alliterator Since: Jan, 2001
#43358: Sep 24th 2015 at 8:01:36 AM

Did you guys (by which I mean those old enough to actually remember them) really love pogs so much?

Yes, yes, I did. By which I mean, I went to an actual pogs store (yes, they existed) and bought tons of pogs.

lackofsense Since: Jan, 2013
#43359: Sep 24th 2015 at 8:02:04 AM

Pogs were a bad '90s version of marbles. Succeeded by Magic and Pokemon cards.

Also, people had a weird view of future games and software in the early 90s. Which included full motion video games and virtual museums.

I twas born in 1986 and the only reason I knew about pogs is because my cousin had some.

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#43360: Sep 24th 2015 at 9:06:55 AM

He's an even greater physical threat than Kurse, not to mention a living manifestation of an entire lost race's grudge against Asgard. He deserves to look far more intimidating than what that art portrays.

He probably deserves to look more intimidating than his comic art then.

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nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#43361: Sep 24th 2015 at 9:42:31 AM

[up]Well, he does look like an HR Pufnstuf take on Hellboy, but I still think a more visually faithful adaptation of him in MCU can be done with the right modifications to make him menacing to modern audiences.

edited 24th Sep '15 10:43:56 AM by nervmeister

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#43362: Sep 24th 2015 at 10:36:13 AM

Every time period has its weird thing, Beyblades were one for a time I'd say.

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#43363: Sep 24th 2015 at 7:26:46 PM

Does Asgard have oil?

Of course, Captain would never do that but it's an amusing idea. [lol]

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#43365: Sep 25th 2015 at 8:47:47 AM

It already did. It was called Ant-Man and it made $401 million, which is pretty embarrassing for an MCU title but still more than Harry Osborn could have hoped to bring in.

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Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#43366: Sep 25th 2015 at 8:56:02 AM

[up]What are you talking about? Ant-Man's box office result are well in the ballpark of what Captain America and Thor got for their first outing, and they were way better known than Ant-Man and have a less stupid name.

alliterator Since: Jan, 2001
#43367: Sep 25th 2015 at 8:59:23 AM

Also, Ant-Man wasn't Sinister Six. Ant-Man was basically an episode of Leverage with a superhero (which would be awesome).

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#43368: Sep 25th 2015 at 9:15:17 AM

[up][up][up] Huh? Ant-Man is doing quite well when you factor in the fact that it's Marvel's cheapest movie, that its success is due to word-of-mouth instead of Day One buzz, and that it just came out in East Asia and hasn't even reached China yet.

Or if your implication is that the characters of Ant-Man are villains then, uh. Even if that's what you personally think, the two premises aren't comparable.

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#43369: Sep 25th 2015 at 9:17:13 AM

My implication is that it's a heist movie which, my understanding is, is what Sinister Six was supposed to be.

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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#43371: Sep 25th 2015 at 9:33:14 AM

I don't remember any real plot details about Sinister Six coming out. Just that it featured a Redemption Quest.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#43372: Sep 25th 2015 at 9:41:29 AM

If they do a sequel for Ant-man, I hope they scoop up some of the Leverage writers and do another Heist movie. That's where the character works the best.

Theokal3 Since: Jan, 2012
#43373: Sep 25th 2015 at 10:24:52 AM

Honestly I wasn't particularly looking forward to the Sinister Six movie to begin with, because I am not convinced that could work; but who knows.

[up]I don't know, wouldn't it make it a bit repetitive? I agree Antman works the best as an infiltrator of some kind, but I am not convinced a new heist movie is the right way to go.

edited 25th Sep '15 10:25:51 AM by Theokal3

alliterator Since: Jan, 2001
#43374: Sep 25th 2015 at 10:37:41 AM

"Let's go steal us a Quinjet."

"Let's go steal us an Avenger."

"Let's go steal us a Thanos."

I mean, that would be totally fucking awesome, even if it was repetitive.

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#43375: Sep 25th 2015 at 10:38:49 AM

I don't see a problem with Ant-Man 2 having another heist as a plot. Just make the heist around a new plot. It's not really different than all of Iron Man's movies being in the same genre but having different plots.


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