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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I think their trial runs for "let's just go for a deep cut" were Ant-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy. Ant-Man has a hallowed history in the comics so he's more of one of those "big in the comics, not good on the mainstream" tytpes, but the Guardians of the Galaxy were legitimately a bit obscure even in the comics. The mind-blowing success of GOTG was the point where Marvel learned they had the audience hooked and could run with any batshit concept they wanted because the MCU brand by itself was strong enough to carry anything.
Eternals and Shang-Chi are just the logical outcomes of this.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."....Y'know there's nothing so far suggesting Hit-Monkey can't be MCU canon, awkward introduction of Lady Bullseye aside. Just saying. ;)
Also yeah, Hit-Monkey at least had meme status which was better than the Eternals overall but certain individual Eternals were significantly bigger than Hit-Monkey ever could be. Even for somewhat second-stringers like Gilgamesh - Hit-Monkey's only really truly bigger than absolute no-one-gave-a-shits like Kingo.
Agreed and it's why I'm so hype for the rest of this upcoming phase. The MCU finished Endgame and declared that now the weird shit was gonna happen, and we're already getting it with all the multiverse stuff. Really want to see what gets blown open with Eternals, NWH, and MoM, and I can't wait for everything else to finally release to (which is why the delay news is kinda agonizing
).
Edited by Watchtower on Oct 18th 2021 at 3:56:17 PM
It certainly is frustrating for Multiverse of Madness specifically given just how much of the 2021 slate involves the multiverse: WandaVision had an admitted fakeout through Fietro, Loki re-kickstarted the multiversal war, What If...? saw alternate realities and had the Watcher even pull together main characters from some of these timelines to stop Infinity Ultron, and No Way Home is bringing in Sam Raimi's Doctor Octopus and Green Goblin as well as Marc Webb's Electro.
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And given that Multiverse of Madness involves several of those multiversal threads from various movies/shows being woven into Strange's story, it's a little frustrating we gotta wait just a little bit longer. Oh well.
I'm at least happy that Hawkeye hasn't been delayed. It would be pretty awkward to be advertising An Ass-Kicking Christmas show in the middle of February...
Edited by MatthewWayne on Oct 18th 2021 at 2:44:03 AM
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."Just saw Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and absolutely loved it! I loved how they put it up ambiguously about how it fits into the MCU. I haven't seen Black Widow yet. Was there something from that film that ties into Shang Chi?
One of the Black Widows was seen early on in the Fight Club, fighting an unnamed opponent.
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Edited by The10thGeek on Oct 18th 2021 at 10:52:46 AM
That was in fact the original plan.
What the MCU really needs is a return of Sam Raimi's Darkman.
Well I mean...he's technically an alien. And Kumail Nanjiani is Pakistani-American.
Kingo is our first Indian-passing (he is specifically a Bollywood actor according to promo materials after all) Human Alien, to be specific

I recall seeing Hit Monkey in Bad Days but never saw the Eternals in anything.