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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
There was a real Doing In the Wizard thing going on in Phases 1 and 2. But then Phase 3 was like, "Fuck it. If these people will swallow Rocket Goddamn Raccoon, then what am I doing trying to pretend all the magic is just super tech?"
One of the things that made the MCU great was, from the beginning, its willingness to be more comic booky than other superhero films being made by competing studios. But Phase 3 turned that dial up to 11, being much more comic booky than even most of its preceding MCU films.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Oct 4th 2021 at 2:43:52 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I think they settled on sufficiently advanced technology and sufficiently advanced magic and the Asgardians don’t always differentiate except when pointing at Loki and saying magic
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYou know, I kinda wonder if Phase 1 and 2's Doing In the Wizard was at least in part due to the whole Creative Committee, considering that the MCU and Marvel proper were separated during the development of Civil War, freeing up Phase 3 to go "Magic"
Attachments are not the problem, Indifference is. Keelah se'laiIf y'all are going to be talking about Venom, I'm gonna GTFO from this thread. I'm seeing the film on Tuesday, and I'm hearing crazy things about it.
Also, just realized that I've watched Shang-Chi and now am going to see Venom while actually living in San Francisco. Woot.
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."Ant-Man and Shang-Chi both live in San Fran.
Couple more people and they can make a West Coast type Avengers.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersOkay, this might be an unpopular opinion. But I didn't hate the black leather costumes from Foxmen. I did like that they were black, but had corresponding colors to other people, and did look relatively cool.
Of course, now the X-Men can probably wear something better nowadays, but I still don't hate the original Movie Superheroes Wear Black.
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."I think the black leather outfits made sense at the time. The first X-Men movie came out at a time when Superhero movies weren't in a good place overall, so they decided to go for a more serious look then what the colorful comics-accurate costumes would of allowed at the time.
And it paid off, as it laid the groundwork for what would eventually propel superhero movies into the cultural juggernaut they have become today.
Y'know what, I think I read the merc description and misremembered it. My bad.
Still, the fact that her deafness and super-speed are even tied like that is pretty neat. Very atypical bit of realism for the power-set.
You got that a little in the early MCU, mind. Just look at Hawkeye.
To adopt what Tobias said earlier, they didn't really commit to going all out with comic booky visuals and aesthetics until recently. And while they don't exactly count, the Netflix shows are full of the same kind of "psh, like we would really dress like that, amirite?" gags that the "would you rather yellow spandex?" hits.

Are there more similarities to justice league or is this just a coincidence
It could also be the whole "pantheon of gods" thing. If they're emphasizing the "the Eternals were the inspiration for certain - predominantly Greek - myths and legends" thing, those powers might be the whole "turn literal gods/demigods into superheroes" idea.
Marvel Comics' approach to gods can be... odd... due to Fantasy Kitchen Sink. The comics have both the Eternals, who are clearly conceived as "these characters inspired the legends of Greek mythology," with a Zeus analogue, a Hephaestus analogue, an Athena analogue, etc. But then the Greek gods also exist in that universe at the same time, side by side with them. It stinks of them being two ideas that were not initially conceived to be in the same universe.
So the MCU might just composite the two ideas for ease's sake. Hell, if we get Hercules he might just be a child of the Eternals rather than the son of literal Zeus.