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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

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#102301: May 11th 2019 at 10:41:48 AM

[up]In the US the Wife generally takes the last name of the husband. Exceptions are rare, though not unheard of.

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Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#102302: May 11th 2019 at 10:47:20 AM

[up] If it's possible you can just assume that this is the case. I know a few cases in which the husband took the name of the wife (including one example in my own family). Granted, in one of those cases it was because the husband had been settled with the surname "Göbbels" and he was just glad about an opportunity to change it. If that is possible in the US too, the Parker name could come from the female line.

Edited by Swanpride on May 11th 2019 at 10:48:05 AM

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#102303: May 11th 2019 at 10:49:38 AM

Also, if May took Ben's last name when they married, then unless she changed it back after he died - which is rare - her last name would still be Parker.

Edited by KnownUnknown on May 11th 2019 at 10:49:48 AM

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#102304: May 11th 2019 at 10:52:44 AM

[up] Sure, but then Peter's surname wouldn't be Parker, unless they changed it when they took him in. Or his mother married a Parker too.

alliterator Since: Jan, 2001
#102305: May 11th 2019 at 11:04:15 AM

...wait, what you guys talking about?

Peter's last name is Parker because his parents were named Richard and Mary Parker. Richard's brother was Benjamin Parker, hence "Uncle Ben." May's name was May Reilly and then she married Ben and became May Parker. She didn't lose her last name when Ben died.

Also, Uncle Ben was generally considered as Peter's father figure before he died, so...yeah, the comics have included plenty of that for years.

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#102306: May 11th 2019 at 11:05:19 AM

they're talking about how aunte may is a relation and a writer called her May Parker by mistake

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#102307: May 11th 2019 at 12:02:40 PM

`Because she is May Parker. IIRC, May is Peter's aunt by marriage. His dad is Ben's blood nephew.

The rest is covered by what [up][up] said. There isn't any inconsistency there.

And this isn't a new thing the MCU did. May's always been May Parker in the comics, with her maiden name being Reilly.

Edited by KnownUnknown on May 11th 2019 at 12:08:22 PM

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#102308: May 11th 2019 at 12:04:16 PM

I think it's just because the MCU wanted to deemphasise the things the older Spider-Man movies focused on, one of which was Aunt May and Peter's relationship. I'm sure it will get a bit more focus in the first act of Far From Home.

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#102309: May 11th 2019 at 12:14:41 PM

> May is Peter's aunt by marriage.

I thought she was like his Grandmother or something

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#102310: May 11th 2019 at 1:01:23 PM

To be precise, she's his great aunt.

alliterator Since: Jan, 2001
#102311: May 11th 2019 at 1:25:38 PM

No, she isn't. She's his regular aunt by marriage — she's his father's brother's wife.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#102312: May 11th 2019 at 1:27:47 PM

Ben is his father's uncle, not his father's brother.

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#102313: May 11th 2019 at 1:47:32 PM

No, Ben has always been the older brother of Richard Parker. It's been that way in the comics, the shows, the films. I don't know of single piece of media where Uncle Ben is the uncle of Peter's father.

Unless it was some early stuff that got retconned out. I'm going to need a citation on where that family dynamic's from.

alliterator Since: Jan, 2001
#102314: May 11th 2019 at 2:04:25 PM

Ben is his father's uncle, not his father's brother.
"When Ben's younger brother Richard Parker and his wife Mary were killed in a plane crash, Ben and May took in their orphaned son Peter and raised him as their own." Ben is Richard Parker's older brother, hence Uncle Ben. May is his wife, hence Aunt May.

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#102315: May 11th 2019 at 7:13:00 PM

[up] Was it actually ever mentioned in the Lee/Ditko run? I got the sense that it was pretty abmiguous.

On the subject of the potential introduction of the Multiverse to the MCU, I’m pretty sure that it’s been confirmed to be Earth-199999 in the Marvel Multiverse, at least on the comics side.

The nice thing about the Multiverse it that it’s a meta-justification to the readers about how all these alternate continuities and what-ifs can exist alongside each other, but is only important if you want it to be for the sake of your story. (So crossovers and events or the like)

Edited by megaeliz on May 12th 2019 at 10:19:05 AM

RavenWilder Since: Apr, 2009
#102316: May 11th 2019 at 11:13:01 PM

Though an interesting wrinkle in that is that the villain Mojo, and his home dimension of Mojoworld, apparently have no duplicates anywhere in the Marvel multiverse. So if you see him turn up in any story, regardless of continuity, it's supposed to be the same guy.

HallowHawk Since: Feb, 2013
#102317: May 11th 2019 at 11:26:26 PM

[up] Speaking of Mojo, here's how I thing he ought to be used: Make it that Sakaar became Mojoworld. I doubt the scavengers who had the Grandmaster under their mercy would have wanted to make Sakaar a better place, which would make it easy for the Jabba The Hutt-esque alien to take ovwer Sakaar so that he can treat as a movie studio.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#102318: May 12th 2019 at 4:21:19 AM

By the way those with Amazon Prime,Ghost Rider is on there now!

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Aleistar Since: Feb, 2018 Relationship Status: Hugging my pillow
#102319: May 12th 2019 at 6:32:34 AM

Random question: if Marvel Studios were to make 1 non-MCU live action film, what property would you want them to adapt? I would probably go with Strikeforce: Moriturinote  or D.P. 7note , going full on 80s Period Piece with the latter.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#102320: May 12th 2019 at 7:19:22 AM

Transformers! (they helped write the lore after all)

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TargetmasterJoe from Velocitron Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
#102321: May 12th 2019 at 7:42:15 AM

One of Spider-Man's frenemies (recurring headaches?) is making the jump to the MCU in Far From Home.

It's everyone's favorite Spider-obsessed reporter, J. Jonah Jameson! Though he may turn out different than we've seen before...

Tuckerscreator (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#102322: May 12th 2019 at 10:20:03 AM

While there were no confirmations made by Carroll, audiences could be seeing Jameson radically differently. If the goal is to modernize the Daily Bugle to fit in with the rest of the new Spider-Man movies, viewers could end up seeing Jameson being played as a new age social media influencer à la Kylie Jenner or PewDiePie.

Edited by Tuckerscreator on May 12th 2019 at 10:20:35 AM

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#102323: May 12th 2019 at 10:21:42 AM

Turning him into a version of Fox news would make more sense....

Nightwire Since: Feb, 2010
#102324: May 12th 2019 at 10:25:26 AM

Nah, I don't want Jonah to be a right-wing nutjob. The thing about JJJ is, aside from his irrational hatred of Spider-Man, he's actually a good and decent person who fights against injustice.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#102325: May 12th 2019 at 10:28:16 AM

the injustice of Spiderman!

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