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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Yeah Sony's deal says at least one other MCU hero has to be there. Hence why Tony and Nick were big parts of the last films.
Edited by Bullman on Aug 23rd 2021 at 9:38:46 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadIf Marvel really wants to get around Sony’s obligatory cameo mandate (unlikely), they could always have Spidey team up with Drax.
Okay, so all this is really cool and everything, but... am I the only one still wondering what happened to that Scorpion tease from Homecoming? Like, they've not done anything with it for two movies now, it's weird.
Edited by lbssb on Aug 23rd 2021 at 7:49:14 AM
Disney100 Marathon | DreamWorks MarathonFor me my qualification of a setting being casually super is the acknowledgement that stuff happens in between each movie. The hero actually faces other villains and builds up a history and its not just the only time they face villainy is during each movie which means that they only faced a handful of bad guys their entire career.
A good example of a not casually super setting is Wonder Woman 1984. Takes place nearly 70 years after the first movie but apparently Wonder Woman has not fought a single supervillain since her confrontation with Ares in 1918. Her confrontation with Maxwell Lord and Cheetah are the first majpr threats she's faced since then which makes it look like Diana has effectively sat on her ass for the better part of a century.
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I guess he'll appear when they bring Vulture back.
Edited by slimcoder on Aug 23rd 2021 at 7:55:11 AM
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If it's anything like those leaked studio plans... then it's kind of insane.
The Raimi films? I don't think I'd say so. They're very traditional superhero films, and it generally came off that "super" things were rare. They're really good examples of films where it feels like exceptional things only happened in the characters' lives when the cameras were rolling, and anything out of the ordinary always got a lot of explanation.
I tend them to use them as an opposite example for casually super. Like, that the Spider-Man films and their take on villains and heroes and superpowers are what traditional films' approach to being "super" is like, and what casually super stories try to avoid.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Aug 23rd 2021 at 8:02:37 AM
Here’s my qualifications for a “Casually Super” setting.
1. The Fantasy Kitchen Sink and the Sci-Fi Kitchen Sink are unambiguously at play.
2. Superheroes beyond the protagonist are shown to exist.
3. Doing In the Wizard is uncommon, it can exist, but it’s well counterbalanced by the sheer fantasy of the setting.
4. The main character is not the first Superhero, many have come before them.
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You know, it just hit me that the MCU Spidey villains have low onscreen body counts.
Like, Mysterio had to have killed some people during his various global attacks, but that's just because of the scope. We never see him kill anybody. Likewise Vulture, who was explicitly a thief, not a murderer, and whose only onscreen kill was an accidental offing of a minion the movie made extremely clear was an Asshole Victim.
Come to think, it was like that with the Raimi films too. Goblin turning a bunch of characters we've met before into skeletons right before our eyes is unique even among that series' villains. I wonder if Raimi just couldn't resist terrifying the audience a little on his first foray into superhero films.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Aug 23rd 2021 at 8:08:26 AM
The Oscorp board were asshole victims too really
Edited by Bocaj on Aug 23rd 2021 at 11:08:25 AM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersJust saw the trailer and it was fantastic! It seems like this film is going to set up a darker tone from the first two Spider-Man movies and I'm interested in seeing how Peter will deal with everything in this movie.
I'm really interested in the time traveling aspect of this movie. I wonder how they will approach the idea about Peter's friends and family forgetting about him being Spider-Man and how the time traveling plot will affect the MCU as a whole. Also, it was great seeing Doc Ock come back again! Hope we get to see Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield make an appearance in the next trailer!
I love animation, TV, movies, YOU NAME IT!The official teaser trailer has already confirmed what people like us already knew:
- Doctor Octopus, Electro and Green Goblin will team up take down Spider-Man and his alternate counterparts. Same with the Lizard and Sandman too.
- There is a lawyer present with Spider-Man who may or may not be Daredevil since his face is kept obscured in the teaser.
- Alternate universes will play a big part in the film's story and it will set up Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Edited by Chrononaut70 on Aug 23rd 2021 at 8:48:50 AM

Do the original Spider-Man movies count as casually super? They're a lot campier than the usual grounded superhero movies of the time.
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