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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
#53926: Mar 27th 2016 at 10:24:32 AM

Is it MCU or based on the comics?

comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#53928: Mar 27th 2016 at 10:43:05 AM

She's the SNK Boss.

edited 27th Mar '16 10:56:06 AM by comicwriter

SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Love is Love is Love
#53930: Mar 27th 2016 at 10:49:02 AM

She's in the Cooking Mama licensed equivalent.

My various fanfics.
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#53931: Mar 27th 2016 at 11:56:25 AM

Well y'see, to reach Wanda, you must achieve six perfects and...

Whowho Since: May, 2012
#53932: Mar 27th 2016 at 12:55:32 PM

The game has been out twenty years and we still can't agree if Spider-Man is in it.

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#53933: Mar 27th 2016 at 2:35:03 PM

I heard to unlock Spider-Man you have to beat the arcade ladder eight times on Hard Mode as Ant-Man without ever blocking, then defeat Wanda without taking any damage.

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
LordofLore Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#53934: Mar 27th 2016 at 2:52:59 PM

I hear that if you hold Down and press Start on the Battle Of London stage when Stan Lee pops his head out you'll be transported to a new stage and face a bonus boss who looks like a giant robot Spider-Man. My best friend said she fought him and that his name's Leopardon.

TheMageofFire Since: May, 2012
Whowho Since: May, 2012
#53936: Mar 27th 2016 at 2:56:35 PM

I heard Marvel paid people to say Spider-Man isn't in the game. It's all a cover up because his theme music was taken from recordings of a prisoner of war camp.

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#53937: Mar 27th 2016 at 6:47:46 PM

[up] Wait what is that a reference to?

Whowho Since: May, 2012
#53938: Mar 27th 2016 at 8:10:44 PM

Pokemon Red and Blue was rumoured to have Prisoner of War images lost in its code somewhere.

This was of course, thanks to a hoax of people apparently data mining them.

edited 27th Mar '16 8:11:56 PM by Whowho

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#53939: Mar 27th 2016 at 9:24:26 PM

Is it just me, or are a handful of the guys in this game way more powerful than the others? Whatever happened to character balance?

Plus Cable's not in it. How could they replace him with Vision?!

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
LDragon2 Since: Dec, 2011
#53941: Mar 27th 2016 at 10:56:17 PM

Based on that exchange between Hawkeye and Black Widow in the International Trailer, I wonder if the film's fight scenes and dramatic moments will end up having a lot of mood-killing quips in them.

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.
#53942: Mar 27th 2016 at 11:07:54 PM

I love the quips and snark; it makes the characters feel like real people with senses of humor, making them more relatable, causing me to care about them more.

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#53943: Mar 27th 2016 at 11:20:29 PM

[up]maybe but it get the point where it kills the moment if main chararters are making joke in a serious moment, it was bad in Ao U and I like superman vs batman for just having a good epic battle without the damn quiping

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#53944: Mar 27th 2016 at 11:23:13 PM

I think the marvel movies are mostly good about not undercutting the drama too much with humor.

No one cracked a joke when Quicksilver died, for example. No jokes in the scene where Scarlet Witch took revenge by ripping out Ultron's heart.

In the end, its a matter of taste, of course.

edited 27th Mar '16 11:23:29 PM by Bocaj

Forever liveblogging the Avengers
Wackd Since: May, 2009
#53945: Mar 27th 2016 at 11:30:37 PM

Making an MCU appearance list is kinda pointless when you have folks who are appearing in 45 minutes of new content a week for half a year, and other folks who get an hour and a half total for an entire year. Maybe if they separated movie and TV characters it's work better; as is, I find it hilarious Marvel's main moneymaker doesn't even crack the top 10.

Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#53946: Mar 27th 2016 at 11:32:06 PM

[up][up]Except when moment before Ultron is mumbling a song and even before with the "in retrospective" which pretty much ruin any threating aura he have at all....which isn much considering he was barely there in the fight.

edited 27th Mar '16 11:32:36 PM by unknowing

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#53947: Mar 27th 2016 at 11:36:12 PM

And Iiiiiii disagree.

Because matter of taste.

Forever liveblogging the Avengers
unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#53948: Mar 27th 2016 at 11:37:49 PM

[up]It also depend of the movie, Antman final fight is pretty much comedy gold and work for the better, but Age of Ultron....yeah.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#53949: Mar 27th 2016 at 11:42:28 PM

I think the main problem with some of the humor in the Whedon films was that it felt like scenes were written with the joke first, and the characterization derailed for the sake of it. Like "he's adopted" or Widow who's usually the eloquent snarker herself suddenly dropping in IQ for the sake of the "that's not a party" line.

In Ant-Man even if the jokes ran freely they usually made sense in context and didn't break the tension. Of course you have gags like the giant ant-dog but those were unintrusive and were presented in a way to avoid Mood Whiplash.

edited 27th Mar '16 11:46:39 PM by AlleyOop

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#53950: Mar 27th 2016 at 11:46:49 PM

[up]With antman it comes that it isnt a serious movie, not even for the lax standar of Marvel, is probably the most chararter drive of all and it come from someone with a very silly concept, so they just ramp up the humor and as I said, for the better

But with Ao U I think the jokes aren the problem but the lack of menance with the villian, Ultron is barely there in the conflict and his minion are as good as any Star wars droids(that means, not at all) with Thor 2 I cant barely remenber anything about Malekith and Thor fight that it isnt a damn joke.

So it depend much of the movie I guess.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"

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