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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
This is more or less the norm in animation. Filmmaking by committee is more or less the only way an animated movie can work, otherwise you get an incoherent mess. Neither it is unusual that ideas get discarded early on. The famous Spaghetti scene in Lady and the Tramp nearly never happened because Disney thought that the notion was stupid. But the animator in question was so convinced of his vision that he animated the whole thing on his own in his free time.
However it works within the Marvel studios, you can bet that it is done in the way it was done before it was part of the Disney company. Disney isn't really prone to meddling - and I actually think that it was Marvel itself who meddled in the work of Marvel studios so much in the past, that Disney decided to pull the studio away from their influence so that the creative people there can life in peace, without having to worry about toy sales and other nonsense.
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None of those say "The Spectacular Spider-Man".
RE: MCU!Mindless Ones?: When I first saw the eye makeup on Mads Mikkelsen last night, I was like "oh god, that looks creepy and gross and decompose-y" and then someone pointed out the Mindless Ones and I was like "holy cow, that's right! It does remind me of the Mindless Ones."
edited 5th Apr '16 6:40:14 AM by TargetmasterJoe
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Dormammu and his whole family/people who work for him? Fire is pretty much their theme.
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These guys.
◊ They usually serve Dormammu or his sister Umar(who had a...interesting
◊... encounter with Hulk once and who's also the mother of Strange's wife/love interest Clea).
edited 5th Apr '16 12:44:24 PM by LordofLore
A full account of the Visit in the Comic book store:
http://jhucomicbooks.blogspot.de/2016/04/our-strange-encounter-with-benedict.html
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Normally, the Mindless Ones are these humongoloid monsters who are summoned by magic to do the bidding of others (because the Mindless Ones are literally just that. Mindless.).
Oddly enough, these guys appeared in Marvel's recent cartoons, namely Ultimate Spider-Man, Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., and Avengers Assemble.
But maybe we're gonna see a different take on them in the MCU?
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edited 5th Apr '16 7:28:00 AM by TargetmasterJoe
The line is there, they just don't say Hank Pym. In the original he explicitly says his friend who got hassled by SHIELD was Hank but for some reason Marvel made him change it.
Some very cool concept art for Civil War
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edited 5th Apr '16 8:17:52 AM by comicwriter
Nope. As far as we know it's just called the Mark 46. The fact that it looks extremely similar to the Bleeding Edge is probably just a Mythology Gag or Whole Costume Reference.
edited 5th Apr '16 8:42:41 AM by comicwriter
Well now, a designated fight between the two black best friend characters, how unexpected.
Giant Man and Death's Head trademarked.
We already knew about GM in CW so the other is more interesting.
edited 5th Apr '16 9:46:55 AM by LordofLore

You know, looking at the documentary for Zootopia, I wonder if Marvel Studios does something similar for their movies when it comes to fleshing out the stories (see 15:17-20:01 for what I'm referring to)?
It would say something about why several directors like Edgar Wright have had problems when it comes to working with Marvel, and why they left.