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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The trick with Namor is that he's a massive prick. That ought to be enough to keep people from thinking he's an Aquaman ripoff.
Oh God! Natural light!Aquaman edges ever so closer to Namor when people overcompensate on the perception that Aquaman is useless or silly
Forever liveblogging the AvengersLet's take a look at this article...
Wonder Women: Okay, the writer of the article is a giant dip shit. There was never a good reason why Wonder Woman shouldn't get her own movie. Hell, her movie managed to be successful even though it was saddled with the terrible reputation of the DCEU.
The Green Lantern Granted, the movie we got was terrible, but if Got G works, The Green Lantern could certainly be a great movie, too.
Arm-Fall-Off-Boy Who?????
Thor I wonder what this guy thinks now that Thor Ragnarok outgrossed Justice League......
She-Hulk Why not?
Dogwelder Okay, I admit, that one is a PETA protest waiting to happen....
The Legion of the Superpets That one actually sounds like fun.....perhaps WB should learn from big hero 6 and let Illumination do it....
Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man Ooookay........
Captain Boomerang As we learned by now, you can make every villain either really interesting or really dump, no matter how their status in the comics is.
The Red Bee Well, if you adjust his powers a little bit....
The ones that didn't make the cut… Honestly, I can imagine that there are a lot of really, really dumb comic book characters which should better stay forgotten. Let's look which one of those didn't stay forgotten....
The Absorbing Man: Turns into everything his touches, which must make going to the loo a nightmare.
And is one of my favourite recurring characters in Agents of Shield.
Green Arrow: He fires arrows…usually green ones. Reverse Flash: Same as the Flash, but bad.
Yeah, those two would never work...who would care about THEM aside from a whole chunk of the CW viewership, naturally.
Yep, this one is really amusing in hindsight.
It's weird to single out a single character from Legion of Superheroes when you'd assume any movie would an ensemble piece
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI demand a She-Hulk legal drama tv show.
And Trish Walker partners with her to set up a super temp agency.
edited 24th Nov '17 11:37:11 AM by Tuckerscreator
The best cracked article is 5 reasons superhero movies are a bubble about to burst
. From 2013, which framed Guardians of the Galaxy as the death knell of the superhero boom.
Oh how wrong were they..
"All you Fascists bound to lose."It's always weird when people put characters on these "MUST NOT GET A MOVIE" lists who are clearly meant to be jokes. Arm-Fall-Off Boy's entire reason for existing as a character was to be a stupid idiot with a dumbass power who is immediately rejected from joining a superteam. Nobody would even consider giving this character a film, because the shittiness of the character is literally the point.
Congratulations on being the first person in the entire universe to notice that parodic characters are goofy. Here's a tip: if you run into a character on Wikipedia and go, "Wow, that concept is so stupid nobody could possibly take it seriously," maybe check and see if anyone did before you start making cracks about it.
edited 24th Nov '17 2:21:40 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I don't think there even is a bubble to burst. The superhero "genre" effectively doesn't exist. It's part of its appeal: it can be anything. Heist movie, conspiracy thriller, high fantasy, psychological drama, straight-up drama, raunchy comedy and we're even going into the realms of [[horror.
It's a genre that thrives on reinveing itself. The worst that can happen is the MCU bubble bursting (as MCU movies often follow a similar stylistic pattern). Fox was early in the game (in a shocking turn of events) and realized they need to fresh things up, which is why Logan, Deadpool and the New Mutants happened, to be new and inventive and find new audiences.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Honestly, PETA's done such monstrous and backwards shit, that I wouldn't put it past them to endorse a Dogwelder movie.
Also, I would love a Superpets movie. Just as long as they don't talk, watching Ace and Krypto lead a film solely on the power of cute and badass animals could be great.
edited 24th Nov '17 5:29:35 PM by PushoverMediaCritic
The cinematic Super-Pets team can be Ace the Bat-Hound, Krypto the Super-Dog, Ch'p the Green Lantern, Streaky the Super-Cat, Wonder Woman's Amazonian kangaroo named Jumpa, Flash's pet turtle, and Aquaman's pet kraken named Topo. The antagonist of the movie can be the tragic villain Red Lantern cat Dex-Starr.
edited 24th Nov '17 6:04:07 PM by PushoverMediaCritic
Yeah the superhero “genre” has basically become a meta genre, you don’t get superhero movies so much as moves set in standard genres that feature superheroes.
Also Arm-Fall-Off-Boy or similar could totally work in a comedy bit in say the MCU.
“The Avengers records have been seized by the government, luckily I’d padded then with a number of fake heroes so they won’t know who is real and who isn’t.”
“let me see that. Arm-Fall-Off-Boy? Tony have you started drinking again?”
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

I disagreeeee
Also the difference between Aquaman and Namor is that one is king of Atlantis and the other of Abslantis
Also Namor keeps trying to seduce married women and he's awkward to invite to parties
edited 24th Nov '17 8:23:39 AM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the Avengers