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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

Unsung it's a living from a tenement of clay Since: Jun, 2016
it's a living
#89026: Sep 11th 2018 at 2:34:05 PM

She was definitely still old, but I thought she was a little less... babushka-ish. Though I guess maybe old people did still kind of dress like that at the time.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#89027: Sep 11th 2018 at 2:44:10 PM

Raimi was clearly inspired by the animated show from the 1990s. The characters looked mostly like they had been plugged directly from the screen there.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#89028: Sep 11th 2018 at 3:16:12 PM

And to complete the chain, 90’s animated May was basically plucked wholesale from the 60’s and 70’s.

I really liked what the comics did with May in the years before OMD, establishing her a where Peter got his headstrong traits, and I like that some of that the comics retained that to an extent (eventually) after the cosmic retcon and that it's also (though not all: R.I.P. the surprising adorableness that was May / Jarvis) coming into adaptations of her as well.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Sep 11th 2018 at 8:09:41 AM

Tuckerscreator (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#89031: Sep 11th 2018 at 9:05:44 PM

Ah the good thing about Tom Holland looking & being young, he can play Spidey for a looooooong time.

They can easily chronicle his life starting from high-school, college, young-adult, & even end with his marriage to MJ.

We can even get a film torch-passing to his daughter.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#89032: Sep 11th 2018 at 9:09:38 PM

Don't forget selling his marriage to Mephisto.

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#89033: Sep 11th 2018 at 9:39:04 PM

That's one of the things we do want to forget.

One Strip! One Strip!
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#89034: Sep 12th 2018 at 12:33:31 AM

Hopefully they will. I want to see Tom Holland in the MCU for a long, long time. He is easily the best actor of the second wave leads.

ArthurEld Since: May, 2014
#89035: Sep 12th 2018 at 6:46:20 AM

It depends on how long he wants to keep doing it, really.

By the end of next year, he'll have been in five Marvel films in the span of four years. Marvel is definitely trying to get as much out of him as they can.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#89036: Sep 12th 2018 at 7:00:01 AM

And how long Sony holds to the deal.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#89038: Sep 12th 2018 at 3:42:03 PM

> And how long Sony holds to the deal.

Prey they do not alter it futher

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Tuckerscreator (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#89039: Sep 12th 2018 at 4:34:32 PM

Looks like they’re bringing in Cap’s comic suit “scale mail” look.

comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#89041: Sep 12th 2018 at 7:09:46 PM

They're really playing up their evil, aren't they?

TheAirman Brightness from The vicinity of an area adjacent to a location Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Historians will say we were good friends.
Brightness
#89042: Sep 12th 2018 at 7:26:31 PM

[up]I'm sorry did you just imply that Thanos did something wrong?

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LordVatek Not really a lord of anything Since: Sep, 2014
Not really a lord of anything
#89043: Sep 12th 2018 at 7:47:01 PM

Infinity War ruined the perfectly good act of disintegration.

This song needs more love.
Tuckerscreator (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#89044: Sep 12th 2018 at 11:41:04 PM

I found this and I’m afraid to watch it all.

SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Love is Love is Love
#89045: Sep 12th 2018 at 11:55:29 PM

Eh, hit and miss. Mostly miss.

My various fanfics.
KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#89046: Sep 13th 2018 at 1:33:22 AM

I'm sorry did you just imply that Thanos did something wrong?

I still think the whole "balancing the universe" thing was just a cover. The real story is, Thanos has controlling stock in several intergalactic vacuum companies, and the whole thing was just a brilliant means of cornering the market.

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#89047: Sep 13th 2018 at 10:43:36 AM

I'm still curious about the logistics of what does and doesn't turn to dust.

When we see Bucky disintegrate, his bionic arm disintegrates with him yet his gun stays intact. However, other people, such as the Wakandan soldiers and Star-Lord, have their weapons disappear with them. Everybody's clothes disappear as well, even super-suits like the Black Panther and Iron Spider suits. Groot disappears but Stormbreaker's handle remains. Nick Fury's pager does not disappear. Does the Snappening have to manually decide for each individual what goes away with them?

If Iron Man had been dusted, would only the metal components still wrapped around his body disappear while the scraps scattered around Titan remain, just because they have the arbitrary distinction of not being part of his suit at the moment?

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
Blueace Surrounded by weirdoes from The End Of the World Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Surrounded by weirdoes
#89048: Sep 13th 2018 at 12:18:11 PM

So, would you read A Cheap Trick and a Cheesy One-Liner, Tony Stark's biography?

Wake me up at your own risk.
GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#89049: Sep 13th 2018 at 3:56:18 PM

If it is educational and well written, I will skim through it.

"Mai waifu."
Tuckerscreator (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#89050: Sep 13th 2018 at 4:01:25 PM

If it comes packaged with Pepper’s autobiography No, Tony, No, Get Back Here, Stop.


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