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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I'll say that Claremont's blatant fetishes still aren't bad as the ones you see in Classic Golden Age Sci-Fi tm
Those guys really love the idea of mind control sex.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersAnd nothing of value was lost when they got rid of it.
To get back on topic: I'm not sure if the X-movies should go the fantasy route much. Or at all really. Yes I know it's a shared universe but you also want to make the movies feel distinct from each other. The plot of X of Sword, just to use an example, might make sense for Dr Strange or Thor, but just doesn't jive with the main themes of X-Men.
I used to have an issue with how little ground the X-men have gained with the discrimination route, but reality has reminded me that I'm horrifically naive and that maybe the comics have been too tame on that matter.
Their current direction in the comics is something new, even if it required them to 100% give up on protecting both humanity and mutants, because the narrative has demanded that protecting humans be a complete waste of time and their lives again and again.
I'm curious as to how the MCU will play things though.
One Strip! One Strip!The comics aren’t nuanced enough if anything
Discrimination in marvel is always giant killer robots and angry murder mobs
Forever liveblogging the AvengersOh yeah. That's it.
It's so....one dimensional.
Then again....maybe real life isn't so different either.
One Strip! One Strip!Something that I think would work well is to have fewer characters who want to get rid of mutants and more who want to exploit mutants, to treat them and their powers as commodities to be used and sold for their own benefit. It'd distinguish them from what the Fox-Men were doing, and would honestly allow a lot more variety. The constant anti-mutant vs. human/mutant co-existence vs. mutant supremacist stuff got old, but there's an almost endless variety of ways that unscrupulous people could use mutants to further their supervillain schemes.
I really wonder how grounded to reality the following Marvel movies will be. We are far from the Phase 1 and the techno-thriller feel of the first Iron Man movies or the war/spy movie feel of the first Captain America ones. The latest movies all had very fantastical or nonsensical elements (be they aliens invasions, giant ants, or drones masquerading as giant elementals) and I'm not sure how easy it will be for the next movies to go back to stories about kids getting bullied because they can shoot lasers out of their eyes.
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.Black Widow seems like the one that'd be the most grounded of the upcoming stuff...Ms. Marvel as well if they stick to the tone of the comic series (IE, focusing on local heroics with occasional tema-ups rather than Save the World plots the Avengers usually deal with). Shang-Chi might as well, but with the Mandarin as the villain and rumors of Fin Fang Foom being involved, it sounds like there's a good chance the movie at least delves into alien stuff.
I do wonder how much of the Black Widow movie plot will draw from when the movie was supposed to be part of Phase 1 or 2.
Ms Marvel is something I'm looking really forward to, however in any case, if they follow the comic, it will at some point involve Carol, aka one of the most powerful characters alive in the current MCU.
Edited by C105 on Oct 31st 2020 at 7:12:40 PM
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.It's Marvel. There are things that leak out in advance but there are plenty of things they managed to keep under wraps for quite a long time (I don't think Isaac was on anyone's radar for MK casting). So no, we would not necessarily know by now if Blade is appearing in Moon Knight if he were.
Edited by comicwriter on Oct 31st 2020 at 12:32:54 PM
Moon Knight is a character who tends to be part of the supernatural side of Marvel. They've hardly teamed-up in comics, but they're generally considered as being part of the "supernatural family", especially in recent times.
Ad to that the rumor from a few months ago that apparently Dracula was going to appear in MK. Could there be a easter egg or mention to Blade in MK? Maybe?
Funnily enough, MK was originally going to make his first live-action appearance in Blade: The Series, him being a "werewolf expert", but the show was cancelled before it.

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