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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Yep Per legend Terrance was the highest paid actor in Iron Man due to RDJ's bad rep at the time, once the film was a hit and RDJ was now a bonefide A-Lister again, they told Terrance they couldn't budget and justify the crazy high salary in his contract for IM 2 for him. Asked him to take a cut or remain at the same level for IM 2, Terrance said no, and either he walked or Marvel fired him. They recast the role and Terrance's career took a bit of a nose dive after that.
I mean, I'm actually glad they changed actors, since Howard was later accused of domestic abuse and also he doesn't believe in math.
I believe that when Perlmutter took over Marvel he didn't actually believe that it was in such dire straits. And then he took over and found out that things were actually worse than rumored.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI've also heard Perlmutter would carry a loaded gun to his workplace and once told a secretary that he, "Had a bullet with her name on it." This wouldn't be too inconsistent with people at Marvel saying that he would tear posters off the walls and throw memorabilia of then Fox properties before banning them like some dictator.
Of course, he also ran the VA for Trump for a while, but that's a different conversation.
Sci-fi debris' video series Rise and Fall of a Comic Empire is really interesting and horrifying for the kind of fuckery that was going on behind the scenes before and around Marvel's bankruptcy.
I think one of the asshole corporate raiders that took over Marvel a) thought he had bought DC and b) sold the toy rights in perpetuity to another company he had a stake in.
And B was a big sticking point in the nonsense that followed and between the toy rights and the movie rights a big part of why Marvel had to declare bankruptcy, to dislodge some of these deals.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThis took two years. By the end, Perlmutter had to have known how much in debt Marvel was.
Edited by alliterator on Jul 22nd 2019 at 12:20:13 PM
Proxima Midnight but she's not got a lot going on.
Oh and the Sovereign leader.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThis doesn’t help the movie any of course but there was a recent Black Order comic that fleshed them out with each one receiving some interesting focus
Like how Corvus Glaive frets that nobody thinks he’s the funny one
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYeah, the Black Order getting Adaptational Wimp treatment was inevitable. When your villains have spears that cut the space between atoms and create light-based poisons, the only place to go is down.
Glaive also once made Wolverine his bitch. Like seriously old Wolvie charged at him & Glaive stabbed him like the little punk that he is breaking no sweats.
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I guess, it was prolly him or Maw.
At the end of Endgame as they all get dusted, you could see Proxima holding Glaive in her lap. It was pretty sweet.
Edited by slimcoder on Jul 22nd 2019 at 12:42:52 PM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."And Minn-Erva, though she’s much less a big deal in the MCU than in the comics.
Part of the problem is that most of these characters’ iconic Rogues Galleries incubated in the Silver Age, which wasn’t great with giving it’s predominantly male heroes A or even B-list female villains.
Hell, he fact that two of Thor’s biggest enemies are women is kind of exceptional. Spider-Man still doesn’t really have any truly lasting, major female rogues besides Black Cat (whose villain status is tenuous). And often, the villainesses you did get suffered from Most Writers Are Male issues conceptually (like Enchantress being the Femme Fatale whose motivation is “I want you to love me”) that result in them needing to be reworked nowadays.
There’s also a few cases of villainesses being turned into heroes (or at least less evil) in the MCU. Nakia, Hope, Maya, etc.
Amusingly, Marvel actually has a villain group (the Femizons) that’s really just “every female villain in the Marvel Universe together,” which makes for a handy list of villainesses they could adapt if they wanted to.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jul 22nd 2019 at 12:59:16 PM
It was a five issue limited series
sort of spinning out of Avengers No Surrender

And then when the Avengers became a success, Fox was willing to negotiate a crossover with the MCU. Remember, Fox's rights with the X-Men and FF mean they couldn't do crossovers between the two franchises, only gags like Franklin's name on Stryker's computer. This would me we could've had the X-Men and FF in the MCU earlier like a Sony deal.
Perlmutter lowballed them and caused the deal to fall through.
Edited by Dr.XXX on Jul 22nd 2019 at 3:03:46 PM