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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Spider-Man had the minor disadvantage of spider fatigue working against it initially as well.
It's funny. I was listening to an old episode of Hannibal Buress' podcast yesterday, and when he mentions he has a role in Homecoming as one of Peter's teachers, his friendly immediately asks something along the lines of "How many fucking Spider-Man movies are they gonna make?!"
...Iiiinteresting.
I don't care much for the X-Men franchise, and they probably aren't gonna suddenly start releasing MCU-branded X-Men films, but it'll be nice if they can at least pick and choose whatever characters they want from it for future films without any rights issues.
Fantastic Four, meanwhile, is good news, if only so we can have villains like Dr. Doom and Galactus show up.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Holy shit. Huh. So, here's what I want, if this actually happens:
Put the Fantastic Four characters into the MCU.
Have a big interdimensional crossover event between the MCU and the X-Men universe, establishing that both of them exist in the same multiverse, just in separate universes. Have Deadpool constantly talk about the Fox and Disney deal, with no-one else having any clue what he's talking about. Maybe merge the universes into one, maybe not.
RE: Disney maybe buying Fox:
...Didn't The Simpsons make a gag about this years ago?
In any case, this is a very surprising turn of events.
If they actually go through this, does it mean Disney will call dibs on Fox shows like The Simpsons, Futurama, and even (gasp!) Family Guy? (Pretty sure FG alone has made some really tasteless jokes towards Disney...)
edited 6th Nov '17 11:30:44 AM by TargetmasterJoe
The biggest difference between Batman and Spider-Man I'd say is that there isn't as much space between reboots with Spider-Man as there was with Batman.
edited 6th Nov '17 11:46:20 AM by LordVatek
This song needs more love.Yeah Amazing Spider-Man 2 was only 3 years before Homecoming. And the Amazing Spider-Man franchise was already seen by some as a too soon since it came out only five years after Spider-Man 3.
Batman has been rebooted but for the most part it hasn't been in as short a time span as the Spider-Man franchise has.
It pains me to do this, but...
False alarm, everyone, it's not happening.
Dang it...
edited 6th Nov '17 12:01:23 PM by TargetmasterJoe

I'm surprised. I didn't expect it to beat Spider-Man of all people.