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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Granted not all DC animated movie are also good, a lot of them are....meh at best.
Now, for me carol is kinda Marvel version of korra, she is powerfull but also a hothead, she should and can be trick....
Does carol have a rouge gallery or something?.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"Under the Red Hood, The Dark Night Returns duology, Year One, Crisis on Two Earths, All-Star Superman, Superman vs The Elite, Gods and Monsters, The Flashpoint Paradox, Return of the Caped Crusaders, The New Frontier, etc.
A lot of great movies, only the really recent batch in the New 52 inspired continuity are closer to meh.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."I mean, DC releases like three DTV animated films per year. Marvel's lucky if it bothers to release one. Of course DC's output is gonna vary a lot in quality, there's just way more material out there. They probably have just as many hits as they do misses.
And it's not as if Marvel doesn't release any animated films
, it's just that a lot of them are unremarkable. I think part of that was how Marvel entertainment was structured for the last decade or so, but you can tell DTV cartoons were not their top priority.
Edited by chasemaddigan on Aug 12th 2020 at 6:04:16 AM
Actually, Deadpool's first animated appearance was in the 90s X-Men cartoon.
Ukrainian Red CrossIron Man has one, but his Rogues Gallery is a little weird. Iron Man's Rogues are largely made to be Mooks with superpowers, in a way most Rogues Galleries aren't. He has a lot of guys who were just minions or low level bruisers that ended up with supertech, largely physical threats only really identifiable by their one unique power and made to be thrown against any hero in any situation without needing explanation for an easy fight scene.
But the number of predominantly Iron Man enemies that can carry an arc is pretty low.
Beyond those villains, Cap + Iron Man + The Avengers basically share a single Rogues Gallery.
Hulk has a consistent Rogues Gallery, it's just that restrictions have prevented most of them from being adapted in the MCU. Thor has one as well. Daredevil's got a chance to shine (a little bit) a bit ago.
But it's true: for the most part Marvel usually gives its heroes a small handful of villains of their own, but then largely has them pull for the massive pool of unaffiliated villains that fight everybody.
Thunderstrike's first nemesis was a guy who jacked cars but dressed really excessively to do so.
I don't think we can point at Iron Man and say 'YES THE WORST ROGUES GALLERY IT HAS A UNICORN'
Because: Whirlwind is Hank Pym's backup archnemesis and that's just sad. And he's slightly more interested in fruitlessly trying to score with the Wasp than he is in crime.
Edited by Bocaj on Aug 12th 2020 at 6:48:16 AM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYou’re going to make thunderstrike cry
He was Thor once
At that point it’s less an archnemesis and more a restraining order
Edited by Bocaj on Aug 12th 2020 at 6:52:23 AM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersDoctor Strange has a pretty good rogues gallery, with Baron Mordo, Dormmamu, Nightmare, Shuma-Gorath and occasional Mephisto being all pretty good. The weakest of them is actually Mordo. Ditto for Thor's rogues.
Iron Man and Cap have like one really strong main foe (Mandarin, Red Skull) and then a bunch of characters who are jobbers and/or more often than not loaned to other rogues galleries.
Black Panther's rogues gallery never really settled into a pace but the ones that stuck out (before the Killmonger reinvention) were M'baku and Achebe.
Captain Marvel's rogue gallery is pretty abysmal, though.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."She's gotten a new one recently that's decently good. Its a journalist named Ripley Ryan who blames Carol for the time that Carol punched a hole in her chest because Ripley was trying to kill either Carol or half of New York. Because she blamed Carol for getting her stuck in a dystopian hellscape created by Mahkizmo
She's powered by Reality Stone, which isn't an option in the MCU.
You have Mystique and Rogue who would present a good one two punch against Carol and are available now that the X-Men rights have been snagged.
You have Doctor Minerva. The only possible downside of that is that I think she exploded in the first movie.
There's Moonstone, who'd be a good choice since she has tricky powers and is smart enough to have Carol chasing her tail.
And of course, there's unfinished business with the Supreme Intelligence.
Some decent choices out there.
Edited by Bocaj on Aug 12th 2020 at 7:12:18 AM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIn the 90s cartoon, it was a very brief morph by Morph as a way of guilt-tripping Wolverine. Unlike his Hulk Vs. appearance, the real Deadpool never actually appeared as a fully-realized character. I would imagine that he would have leaned towards the "Deathstrole knock-off" side though.
Black Panther has the problem that few of his villains have much lasting impact. Most runs for BP create a ton of new villains for individual arcs that are forgotten fairly quickly, and at the end of the run only like one of them gets remembered by later writers.
A lot of Superhero characters have that problem, admittedly, but BP’s one of the most high profile characters who’s rogues gallery is like that.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Aug 12th 2020 at 4:41:44 AM

Besides Spider-Verse.
But when it comes to their DTV movies... the only one that really stands out in my mind is Hulk Vs., but that was over a decade ago.
Thor: Tales of Asgard is okay, if you want a cute-then-surprise-brutal adventure with young Thor and Loki, but it's still pretty darn forgettable.