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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I do think that DC ought to push its other heroes more.
Last semester, I was taking a graphic novel class, and at one point our professor had us pick out what sort of superpower we would like to have, just as a sort of exercise to get into the mindset of the genre. One guy picked superspeed - he said that the CW Flash series had really shown him just how cool such a power can be.
I think there's room for cultural impact, here - they just need to better exploit it.
Oh God! Natural light!they've kinda dropped the ball more than a few times.
i thought man of steel was ok and didn't mind the film's tone or color schemes, but with all of its miscellaneous issues taken into account, it wasn't the movie that DC needed it to be. and the GL movie before that was shit.
there are only 3 MCU films that i can say i genuinely really like (iron man 1, winter soldier, and guardians of the galaxy), but even with that, it's hard to deny that marvel's been doing more than a few things right.
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That's a power that's open to gaming harder than most Touhou characters can.
edited 17th Jan '16 6:54:27 PM by ultimatepheer
We Are With You Zack Snyder
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Didn't Marvel reboot the same year DC rebooted last with the start of the New 52? The latest event from DC wasn't a reboot it just made everything pre Flashpoint including pre Crisis On Infinite Earths canon again.
As for if I could have any super power I would pick control of the weather. I don't like most types of weather and would mainly make it sunny outside. I know we need precipitation so that would only happen when I'm sleeping.
edited 17th Jan '16 7:29:57 PM by Halberdier17
Batman Ninja more like Batman's Bizarre Adventure![]()
They just gave all their series new #1s and promoted it as a jumping on point for new readers.
DC gave all their books new #1s but effectively said almost every book published before that wasn't canon anymore.
Nope. Not sure what you're thinking of but Marvel has never done a line-wide reboot.
edited 17th Jan '16 7:23:29 PM by comicwriter
Marvel tends to take a Broad Strokes approach. They don't start the universe over but as time goes on they retcon certain things in and out of continuity.
edited 17th Jan '16 7:38:48 PM by Kostya
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They could be referenced again since those Multiverses still have existed in the DC Universe they are using a Superman story from pre New 52 when he and Lois got married and had a child.
Oh sorry. I probably should've asked which you meant first.
edited 17th Jan '16 7:38:51 PM by Halberdier17
Batman Ninja more like Batman's Bizarre AdventureI really just think that rebooting causes more problems than it's worth, at least when it comes to large shared universes such as Marvel or DC. By this point, DC has rebooted enough times and added enough different companies into its' line-up that if feels less like one coherent universe and more like a loose association of characters and ideas. If you pick up two different issues from even the same series at a given point in time, there's no guarantee that they'll relate to one another in any meaningful way, because DC has rewritten and altered its continuity so much that you practically have to keep a scoreboard to make sense of it all. So much of it just feels disconnected from one another that there doesn't always seem much point in calling it a 'DC Universe'. Maybe a 'DC Conglomerate?'
Meanwhile, the Marvel Universe, for all of its own retcons and inconsistencies, at least feels like an actual universe. There is a clear path from point A to point B, and stuff from decades ago can still have some sort of impact on the present, nor has the MU absorbed 6 different comic universes into itself. (Or at least it hasn't tried to integrate them into 616.) Compared to DC, the MU feels relatively coherent, which is quite the feat considering stuff like Avengers Disassembled still leaves Continuity Snarls from time to time. That's the part of reason why I've read more Marvel than DC, because the formers' world just seems so much larger and richer than the latter, which sort of makes sense. The MU was designed to be a universe from the get-go, whereas DC only made an active effort to fit everything together once Marvel started creating some serious competition. Before that, it had three freaking different versions of Atlantis which it later had to somehow fuse together to make any sense. (And kudos to Peter David for that.)
Bottomline, continuing to use the same continuity can only serve to enrich a given universe and open up story possibilities so long as the present stories aren't too dependent on it, whereas trying to streamline things can instead needlessly limit yourself as well as seriously damage your fanbase if done poorly, which is the situation DC seems to be in right now.
edited 17th Jan '16 8:15:11 PM by kkhohoho
It has been the difference in their approaches from the beginning.
DC gave every hero their own city. And when they acquired other companies, their own universe.
Marvel put everyone in New York so you could have people popping into each other's titles like it wasn't a thing.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers
On the bright side, if there is a supervillain attack or the like, someone will be on it in fairly short order.
Of course nowadays you're more likely to have the different heroes fight each other in the Marvel universe than work together. We're getting a second Civil War
◊ which says pretty much everything about the superhero community. Hopefully they won't flatten part of the city again while "debating" and/or completely miss the war for the survival of the universe
◊ that they're the only planet that doesn't help with(which in-universe ruins their PR and makes no other planet trust humanity for years).
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edited 17th Jan '16 9:00:43 PM by LordofLore

i don't know if they're a reliable indicator, but the sales for the direct-to-dvd films always had lower sales if they weren't batman and superman, which seems to indicate that this is a cyclical issue. it isn't even that the other movies are bad; Green Lantern First Flight was basically everything that the live-action GL movie wishes it could have been.
edited 17th Jan '16 6:38:03 PM by wehrmacht