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Welcome to the main discussion thread for the Marvel Cinematic Universe! This pinned post is here to establish some basic guidelines. All of the Media Forum rules still apply.

  • This thread is for talking about the live-action films, TV shows, animated works, and related content that use the Marvel brand, currently owned by Disney.
  • While mild digressions are okay, discussion of the comic books should go in this thread. Extended digressions may be thumped as off-topic.
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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

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#100601: Apr 15th 2019 at 10:42:11 PM

Damn, nigh-on two weeks ahead of dodging spoilers. Uuuuuugh.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#100602: Apr 15th 2019 at 10:45:33 PM

Yeah, I am pretty sure that if they battle Thanos, it will happen early on anyway. Or do you really thing that they decided to get the gauntlet back and then spend the next three hours looking for Thanos?

The footage is most likely from whatever Disney send out to cut together the trailer. Meaning it is from the start of the movie, not the end.

At least I hope so.

Regarding the animals on Asgard: I kind of assumed that whatever animals they had were imported from the nine realms anyway. So hopefully no species died out. Other than the "giant wolf" species that is….

[up] Two weeks? Exactly eight days over here...

Edited by Swanpride on Apr 15th 2019 at 10:48:53 AM

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#100603: Apr 15th 2019 at 10:49:57 PM

I'm seeing it a few days after release, unfortunately. More spoiler dodging for me...

LordVatek Not really a lord of anything Since: Sep, 2014
Not really a lord of anything
#100604: Apr 15th 2019 at 10:52:48 PM

The footage is definitely from towards the end of the movie. I am absolutely certain. I won't say anything more than that.

Edited by LordVatek on Apr 15th 2019 at 1:54:11 PM

This song needs more love.
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#100605: Apr 15th 2019 at 10:57:30 PM

Yeah, don't, I really don't want to know. And I am pretty sure Disney does its best to purge as many copies as possible from the internet.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#100607: Apr 16th 2019 at 2:16:51 AM

So, I stumbled over this twitter post, which does an excellent job to summon up the thematic arc in Captain Marvel, and why the "she doesn't have an arc" complains are so tone deaf:

https://twitter.com/GeneticJen/status/1113715734746750976

There is also a tweet by an abuse survivor taking apart her feelings regarding the movie.

https://twitter.com/bookbeaut/status/1108217679490367489

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#100608: Apr 16th 2019 at 2:45:19 AM

[up]Is it weird that one of the things I took from that thread besides the actual point of it was the insult "spunktrumpet"?

Because that's a surprisingly amusing and effective insult.

The only downside is that it combines the words "spunk" and "trump", leading to all kinds of uncomfortable mental images.

Edited by M84 on Apr 16th 2019 at 5:45:30 PM

Disgusted, but not surprised
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#100609: Apr 16th 2019 at 3:02:06 AM

….I really didn't need that mental image….

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#100610: Apr 16th 2019 at 3:03:16 AM

As for that second tweet...damn, so that's what it feels like to be gaslit by your own damn family.

Edited by M84 on Apr 16th 2019 at 6:04:57 PM

Disgusted, but not surprised
AyyItsMidnight Look, just be decent to one another ok? Since: Oct, 2018
Look, just be decent to one another ok?
#100611: Apr 16th 2019 at 3:03:39 AM

As a survivor of an abusive household myself (even if it wasn't quite as bad as Becca had it), I adored that 2nd thread. [up]Yep. No one should have to go through that shit.

Edited by AyyItsMidnight on Apr 16th 2019 at 3:05:04 AM

Self-serious autistic trans gal who loves rock/metal and animation with all her heart. (she/her)
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#100612: Apr 16th 2019 at 3:05:01 AM

Did anyone else find the way Carol is being gaslit throughout the movie by Yonn-Rogg to be the creepiest thing about it in hindsight? Once you realize what's going on and what he's been doing, those scenes seem so much worse in retrospect.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#100613: Apr 16th 2019 at 3:14:15 AM

Retrospect? I was onto him from the get go.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#100614: Apr 16th 2019 at 3:40:03 AM

Being familiar with what comics Kree and Yonn Rogg in particular are like, I was also kind of suspicious too.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#100615: Apr 16th 2019 at 4:09:56 AM

Nah, I was absolutely confused because I was working under the assumption that he was either Mar-Vell or some sort of composite character (since I wasn't familiar with Yon-Rogg at all). So I was really thrown off that he was acting the way he did.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#100616: Apr 16th 2019 at 5:54:49 AM

i PEEKED at he spoilers

oh my glob

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
Theokal3 Since: Jan, 2012
#100618: Apr 16th 2019 at 6:21:23 AM

Avoiding that spoiler at all cost. I am seeing the movie next week (my brother is going with me and he wants to see as soon as possible due to how quick tickets are leaving), and I am not spoiling the surprise.

HailMuffins Since: May, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#100619: Apr 16th 2019 at 6:25:27 AM

[up][up][up]Is it good or bad?

Edited by HailMuffins on Apr 16th 2019 at 10:28:10 AM

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#100620: Apr 16th 2019 at 6:31:10 AM

[up] No!!! I don't want to know! I don't want to know anything!!!

Please, it's only a week (well, eight days) now….

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#100621: Apr 16th 2019 at 6:40:47 AM

Yeah, I have to agree with the consensus to keep that massive spoiler OUT of this thread. COMPLETELY. If it really is the final battle, DON'T even bring it up until at least THREE WEEKS AFTER Endgame comes out in theaters.

Put that shit in the Endgame spoiler thread and don't even think of bringing it here. We managed not to spoil Infinity War, we can do Endgame, too.

HailMuffins Since: May, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#100622: Apr 16th 2019 at 7:01:05 AM

I didn't ask for details, just if the spoiler reflects well for the quality of the movie.

I don't want to know what is in it, either.

But, fair enough, I'll ask over the PM next time.

Edited by HailMuffins on Apr 16th 2019 at 11:01:36 AM

wisewillow She/her Since: May, 2011
She/her
#100623: Apr 16th 2019 at 7:22:46 AM

Tony and Steve get together and resurrect Bucky, then all three of them have a polyamorous marriage with Pepper and Rhodey. tongue

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#100624: Apr 16th 2019 at 7:26:09 AM

I can support that polygon

Forever liveblogging the Avengers
wisewillow She/her Since: May, 2011
She/her
#100625: Apr 16th 2019 at 7:31:19 AM

Oh god I forgot Sam. Sam is also part of the marriage. So you’ve got the Steve group (Steve, Sam, Bucky) and the Tony group (Tony, Pepper, Rhodey), but then all six of them are married.

Nat refuses to marry Tony Stark because hell no but it’s mean to marry the other five and not him, so she’s unofficially sorta part of the group. Pepper and Sam are her faves.

The leaked footage is their wedding. It was leaked by shippers too hyped up to care about being murdered by Disney tongue

Edited by wisewillow on Apr 16th 2019 at 7:33:17 AM


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