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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
If that gives us more of Shuri as the new MCU tech wizard, I'm all for it.
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.I’m personally hoping not to see wolverine for a while purple claws or no
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Logan is as inevitable as Thanos.
That being said, they can take their time getting to him...or maybe they can just skip him.
I mean, we had Logan for years right? I'm indifferent either way.
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I'd be tired of Fantastic Four if there had been any Fantastic Four movie released during the last decade.
Edited by C105 on Jun 18th 2020 at 4:18:04 PM
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.I agree. Much as I liked Xavier and Magneto (they always got good actors I believe), and even though I think Logan has had some great stories, we haven't really seen the Xmen. Just the Wolverine, Professor X and Magneto show (though that last one is only later on), featuring other mutants.
We need a proper Cyclops...and Angel for that matter. Lets See Colossus as part of the team proper, though he's had a good run in Deadpool.
Lets make Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver mutants again.
Lets have some actual progress in mutant rights.
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I disagree.
Since 2012 the Avengers have been the dominant force in the comics.
But yeah Wolverine, Magneto and Xavier are overused among the X-Men. Cyclops, Storm and Nightcrawler need more attention.
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianNot that I was comparing them to the Avengers, but most of the Avengers aren't returning in featured roles in the near future. I want to see more of the latest crop of new characters. Consider how many films we've seen various Marvel characters in feature roles in since since the first Blade film, which started Marvel films in 1998:
- Iron Man: 9 (dead before Far From Home, which isn't counted, though it's still about him)
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker): 8, (not counting Spider-Verse)
- Professor Xavier: 8
- Black Widow: 7 (8 once her movie comes out)
- Magneto: 7
- Wolverine: 7
- Mystique: 7
- Captain America (Steve Rogers): 7
- Thor: 7
- Hulk: 6
- War Machine/Rhodey: 6
- Jean Grey: 5
- Phil Coulson: 4 (plus Agents of Shield)
- Nick Fury: 4 (not counting cameos)
- Loki: 4 (not counting Infinity War)
- Cyclops: 4
- Hawkeye: 4
- Ant-Man: 4
- Bucky: 4
- Rocket, Nebula, Gamora: 4
- Heimdall: 3 (Not counting Infinity War)
- Quicksilver: 3 (or 4 if his role was featured in Dark Phoenix, I didn't watch it)
- Scarlet Witch, Vision: 3
- Drax, Groot, Quill: 3
- Falcon: 3
- Black Panther: 3
- Fantastic Four: 3
- Doctor Doom: 3
- Deadpool: 3
- Blade: 3
- Punisher: 2 (and 2 Netflix seasons)
- Doctor Strange: 2
- Captain Marvel: 2
- Wong: 2
- The Cloak of Levitation: 2
- Elektra: 2 (plus 2 Netflix seasons)
- Daredevil: 1 (plus 4 Netflix seasons)
Special notes:
- Movies not yet released are not counted
- Snapped characters are not counted for Endgame, but Gamora is.
- How did Tony and Nat get so many so fast?
- 4 Avengers films
- Cap 3
- Iron Man 2
- Plus:
- Tony: Iron Man 1, 3, Spidey-Homecoming
- Nat: Cap 2 (her own film isn't out yet to be counted)
- And then you have weird stuff like:
- Storm (and other X-Men shunted to the side) could be between 1 and 5
- Okoye could be between 1 and 3 (Infinity War, Endgame)
- Mantis could be 1 or 2 (Infinity War)
Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Jun 18th 2020 at 11:02:58 AM
Spider-Man and the X-Men have gotten the lion's share of focus and development in Marvel for at least three decades. Even now, how many X-men books do we have compared to the Avengers? Even before the film rights reverted back to Marvel, the X-Men had at least three books being published at a time. The Avengers weren't the dominant force, they just got a bit more of the spotlight Spider-Man and the X-Men had for a long time.
Yeah, last I checked, the 90's in particular was primarily dominated by Spider-Man and the X-Men, probably because of their cartoons.
While Iron Man and Hulk had cartoons too, the Avengers in general weren't really as big for some reason.
Geez, the wait for MCU Mutants is exasperating...
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Jun 18th 2020 at 12:48:21 PM

That meaningful nod between Steven and T'Challa clinched to me something I'd been suspecting for the past few years: that the MCU is going to treating T'Challa as a Face / central point for the franchise in the future in the same way Tony and Steve were in the prior phases.