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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
That's what I've been hearing in this thread. The What If series, at the very least, will be.
And I have concerns with that because I've seen the move away from live-action ruin a series before. A creator doesn't have to worry about the effects and stunts anymore and suddenly shit goes crazy. It can really take a person out of the action, that moment of recognition where you're like, "This would never - NEVER - exist in the source material."
Buffy the Vampire Slayer had this problem with its comic book continuation. Suddenly Dawn's a giant and Buffy's flying around like Superman punching mountains in half and Spike's captain of a spaceship crewed by bug aliens and shit.
I vividly remember a Jurassic Park comic with a martial artist who uses his katana to swordfight velociraptors.
Shit gets weird when live-action works no longer need to pay for CGI on the fantastic elements they want to put onscreen. I don't want the showrunners to wind up going, "Alright, since none of this has to happen on a live screen, they're fighting M.O.D.O.K. And he has a million dudes all shooting pew-pew lasers at them, but Falcon's just backflipping through it all and dodging a million shots at once. THEN HE DEPLOYS HIS VOLTRON ROBOT."
The MCU isn't the most grounded setting in the universe, but an MCU cartoon should still try to be more "MCU" than "cartoon". If that makes sense.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Apr 12th 2019 at 8:26:57 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.“I vividly remember a Jurassic Park comic with a martial artist who uses his katana to swordfight velociraptors.”
Frankly that sounds amazing
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI'm not too worried, seeing as superhero tv very frequently falls to Coconut Superpowers so a bit of correction in the other direction wouldn't hurt.
It’s just equaling things out.
Unlike the books dinosaurs just up and tank all gunfire that isn’t an actual rocket launcher and can appear out of nowhere like a slasher villain
Some ludicrous feats on the other side just makes things fair so you don’t have to have dinosaurs suddenly fumbling against main characters when they’ve been slaughtering extras like popcorn
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIn Japan. And Dracula was also involved.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Yes, they did. And it was to the detriment of the storytelling.
Which is what I'd like to avoid here. Just because Falcon can fight a dozen Mechagodzillas by flying around unloading nuclear-powered guns that shoot swords at them, that doesn't mean it would be good for either the story or the franchise to do that.
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Agreed. It might sound COOL on paper, but that novelty wears off when you're actually watching/reading it. To quote Pip from Hellsing Ultimate Abridged:
- Pip: Damn it, that used to sound so cool! But then you say it so much and "Nazi Vampires" just sounds stupid!
Something being memetically awesome doesn't mean it'd actually be worth watching twenty episodes of.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Apr 12th 2019 at 11:50:57 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.You know who I want in the MCU? Sauron.
He was a kid who was bitten by pterodactyls from the Savage Land, and those pterodactyls gave him the ability to drain life energy from other beings. He then became a doctor and scientist, and when he drains someone's energy, he transforms into a horrible, evil, pterodactyl man who named himself Sauron after Sauron from Lord of the Rings.
He drains life energy, has fire breath, can hypnotize people, and is just the worst.
Honestly, I wouldn't want to share a symbol with the Kree.
They are like, the biggest assholes in space. Nothing would be worse than getting mistaken for them.
One Strip! One Strip!

I just hope the showrunners practice restraint during the move to animation. I've seen a lot of creators run wild with the revelation that they no longer need an effects budget for what they put onscreen.
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