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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
According to Box Office Mojo, the MCU has made over $8 billion (domestic-only) in inflation-adjusted dollars. That’s more than any other franchise. For comparison, every James Bond movie ever made (again, inflation-adjusted) adds up to around $6 billion. Star Wars is close to $7 billion.
So yes, this is immense.
Edited by Galadriel on Apr 28th 2019 at 3:40:50 PM
Also, one thing I'm kinda conflicted about is having to find a new main villain for the next Captain Marvel movie. I mean, the good thing about part 1 was that Carol was still discovering her powers. But now? Without the Power Stone, Thanos was utterly incapable of slightly hurting her.
Who are they gonna take, Galactus?^^
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There's a couple different routes to go down, but ultimately the best routes all involve awknowaging that almost nothing can match Carol in terms of raw power and have a foe that challenges her in some other way.
This can be done through mystical means that don't play by the rules Carol does. Through technological means where someone constructs a mechanism for the specific purpise of manipulating Space-stone energy to protect against or otherwise nullify her powers. Or through raw intellect where the villain constructs a scheme that simply can't be stopped by obliterating it with Tesseract energynote .
Edited by Falrinn on Apr 28th 2019 at 3:56:27 PM
Remember also that Carol was the result of a freak accident with an experimental power source. This is a superhero universe. There's always opportunity for freak accidents with experimental technology.
I've been expecting the next Captain Marvel villain to be the result of someone trying to replicate the experiment that made her, Gone Horribly Right.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Apr 28th 2019 at 1:00:40 AM
As for Captain Marvel villains, you have foes she can't outpunch because they're cerebral and foes she can't outpunch because of other reasons. For example, if you stick with the popular idea of Captain Marvel II being set during the Skrull-Kree war and being about how Carol caused the treaty, it makes perfect sense to have a her opponents just be "Skrull and Kree national war machines". She's a humongous One-Man Army but she can't A) end a complex, decades-long political conflict by just punching everybody B) fight the entirety of two intergalactic war machines by herself without a challenge.
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Pretty much this. A BAD writer tries to challenge Superman physically and Superman wins every time. A good writer knows that the most compelling villain will challenge Superman in other ways, either through social and political means or by manipulating some aspect of his character.
Carol WILL win every fight she's in. But she needs a foe that she just cannot straight up punch to death. So, in theory, she could be put up against an ideal or a concept. A larger group where just destroying them causes more harm than good. And a character like that can really get into some complicated and nuanced writing. If she wins everything she fights, she's going to straight up deal damage if she fights the wrong people.
If they bring in X-men and Fantastic 4 characters, there's always someone like Gladiator to fight Carol. Or the Silver Surfer
Also the Sentry, too.
And World Breaker Hulk.
Thing about Thanos, is that he's actually always curbstomped Carol in Base, even when she herself is in Binary.
The MCU is the exception in that regard.
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I wouldn't depower her, though in all seriousness I do think there is a place for a villain who has some sort of mechanism to nullify her powers.
Carol's powers are based on Tesseract energy, and manipulating Tesseract energy through technological means is a well-established concept in the MCU. It's not unbelievable that someone could go down that road, especially if they have reason to believe that Carol might try to rain on their parade in the near future.
Like for example someone might work out how to build a capacitor that can absorb Tesseract energy, so Carol trying to attack them directly just makes them more powerful.
I wouldn't mind a movie that does both: a cerebral mastermind villain, and a incredibly powerful dragon.
Like, if they go with Mystique and Rogue, they could do it that way: Mystique as the cerebral villain, and Rogue as her sympathetic right hand woman with great power that spends the movie as Mystique's leverage and crutch, but breaks free in the final act to facilitate her mother's defeat.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Apr 28th 2019 at 3:10:29 AM
Speaking of which, when Marvel Studios finally start using the X-Men and Fantastic Four in their movies, I wonder how they'll make them distinct from the previous cinematic incarnations.
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I know we like to keep track of what the idiots are saying for our own perverse amusement but I'm not sure I care any more. Given how much the audience cheered Carol, I think they can stew in their little cesspool for all eternity.
Edited by Fighteer on Apr 28th 2019 at 3:25:28 PM
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