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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

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#52651: Mar 7th 2016 at 6:37:07 PM

I liked the suggestion someone had earlier with Jane Lynch.

higherbrainpattern Since: Apr, 2012
#52652: Mar 7th 2016 at 6:38:25 PM

Zendaya cast in the new Spiderman movie? NICE.

I hope she's someone important.

wehrmacht belongs to the hurricane from the garden of everything Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
belongs to the hurricane
#52653: Mar 7th 2016 at 6:38:58 PM

She IS important, apparently.

Eagal Since: Apr, 2012
Wackd Since: May, 2009
#52655: Mar 7th 2016 at 6:47:34 PM

I feel like most people don't realize Agents of SHIELD makes, like, fifty thousand story decisions in the time it takes a film to make a fraction of that.

Like, if the movies try to tie into the TV shows, you'd get a lot of situations where the thing they're acknowledging wouldn't be true three weeks later and they'd have to upend the entire script.

Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#52656: Mar 7th 2016 at 6:49:17 PM

I just hope nothing gets retconned out. I'll be really mad if Marvel decides to make it all non-canon.

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higherbrainpattern Since: Apr, 2012
#52657: Mar 7th 2016 at 6:59:00 PM

[up][up][up] We already know who Aunt May is. It's Marisa Tomei.

comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#52658: Mar 7th 2016 at 7:39:49 PM

[up][up]Relax, nobody said Marvel is retconning Agents of SHIELD.

So with them confirming Zemo lives past this movie and will be used elsewhere I wonder if that means the Masters of Evil will indeed show up in Infinity War.

Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#52659: Mar 7th 2016 at 8:02:50 PM

Since JK Simmons is out of the picture, my ideal Jameson for the reboot is Hugh Laurie.

Gaon Smoking Snake from Grim Up North Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#52660: Mar 7th 2016 at 8:03:56 PM

"Everybody lies. Chief of all, this journal, now get out Parker, you're fired."

"All you Fascists bound to lose."
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#52661: Mar 7th 2016 at 8:17:15 PM

It's been brought up before, but Jane Jonah Jameson is a possibility.

stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#52662: Mar 7th 2016 at 8:20:46 PM

Just as possible as a Danny Rand that's not a white guy.

higherbrainpattern Since: Apr, 2012
#52663: Mar 7th 2016 at 8:48:47 PM

[up][up] When has it been brought up before??? I certainly don't remember it.

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#52664: Mar 7th 2016 at 8:49:41 PM

They did say they were looking for a largely nonwhite cast to surround Spidey when normally his cast is pretty vanilla so who knows anymore.

higherbrainpattern Since: Apr, 2012
#52665: Mar 7th 2016 at 8:53:31 PM

Oooh. I wonder if this means that Kong will make his first appearance in a live action movie.

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#52666: Mar 7th 2016 at 8:53:34 PM

Literally at the top of this page.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#52667: Mar 7th 2016 at 9:45:56 PM

Spectacular Spider-Man did a good job of having Peter's group of friends be both racially and gender diverse. As an added bonus, they only had to Race Lift one person (well, two people, but they were related), because they actually used several nonwhite characters that were there already as apposed to ignoring them.

edited 7th Mar '16 9:46:15 PM by KnownUnknown

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#52668: Mar 7th 2016 at 9:53:29 PM

There is actually next to no danger that the movies will contradict the TV show. Since no TV characters are turning up, it can hardly rewrite their history. In addition, the movies have become very careful. They are barely mentioning any dates, not even on the props, anymore. (Really, while it was for the Iron Man movies still usual to find a date stuck somewhere in the background, all newspapers and screens are suddenly "date free" in Age of Ultron and Ant-man). In a way, the only continuity the movies have is that they are now set one after the other, while Ao S scrambles to put some connection in-between.

It is pretty neat that they even got president Ellis on the show now.

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#52669: Mar 8th 2016 at 2:08:22 AM

Noticed the Collider article mentions Wanda's no longer bitter towards Tony for her family's death. I'm surprised and maybe a little disappointed at how easily she seems to have gotten over it.

edited 8th Mar '16 2:10:24 AM by AlleyOop

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#52670: Mar 8th 2016 at 2:24:42 AM

Considering that she helped Ultron to get the basic material he needed to destroy her home country and nearly the whole word on top of it, I think she has a developed a better understanding for unintentional collateral damage.

edited 8th Mar '16 2:25:48 AM by Swanpride

edvedd Darling. from At the boutique, dear. Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Darling.
#52671: Mar 8th 2016 at 2:32:22 AM

True dat. Considering how apparently important it was for them to make sure everyone gets an arc, I'm sure it'll come up.

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AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#52672: Mar 8th 2016 at 2:38:51 AM

I guess, although the way the article worded it implies it's a development that happened offscreen.

LordofLore Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#52674: Mar 8th 2016 at 3:28:56 AM

I should be worried about the movie being so long...but then, I felt that Age of Ultron was too short. With so many characters, it kind of makes sense. And we have seen, what 10 minutes so far? Most of them apparently from the first half of the movie?

Can't wait....

Whowho Since: May, 2012
#52675: Mar 8th 2016 at 3:38:03 AM

Yeah I felt like A of U was too short too. But I have a personal preference for three hour films.


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