Marvel Netflix shows

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Specifically with an eye towards cable and on-demand services, allegedly.

Any takes on who the shows will be? I'm thinking Agent Carter is a safe bet.

I'm worried they'll be oversaturating their product.

I hope these end up better than that Agents of SHIELD trash.

Is there anyone else from the films that they can pointlessly bring back to life? Hrrm...

They should totally have the warriors three come to Earth for an eight-episode pub crawl, and end up getting tangled up in some scheme involving the Kingpin or Stilt-man or something. Give them a talking dog.

Heroes for Hire could work well for a TV show adaption, after having thought on it.

Fingers crossed for Heroes for Hire, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and a Doctor Strange series.

Oh, get over it, will you. Like bringing characters back from the dead was never done before in comics.

WWII show sounds awesome, as long as they're willing to explore the characters that acted on that period.

She-Hulk or Daredevil show would be a hoot.

What about a Runaways show? Hm?

The character didn't even die anyway in the movie. We never saw a body and Whedon confirmed post movie that he lied. Plus you were truly expected to believe the word of Nick Fury, a master spy whose job is fundamentally to lie to people for the sake of achieving objectives?

edited 15th Oct '13 5:06:45 PM by Prime_of_Perfection

Forget confirming after the movie. The movie itself confirmed that Fury lied about Coulson's death in at least some ways. Avengers didn't make it absolute that Coulson survived, but it definitely went out of its way to make it possible.

See one of the things I like about the movies is that they managed to avoid most of the bullshit of the comics, and people coming back to life means that there is now exactly zero tension in any situation.

That's not my main problem with Agents of SHIELD, though. My main problem with that is the cast of utterly charmless characters constantly engaging in 'witty' 'banter' at every opportunity and generally acting with borderline-Torchwood levels of incompetence. It's like NCIS, but somehow worse.

Anyway they should make one show about one of the supervillain organisations. From the perspective of a low-level Hydra or AIM mook or something. The boss is a raving psychopath bent on world domination, all the SHIELD folks are on his back, the supersoldiers are acting like jerks (but that's OK, they tend not to last for long), and the protag is just trying to file his paperwork and get home.

You mean, like the Monarch scenes in The Venture Brothers?

Yeah, kind of. I'm thinking a little less... mean-spirited than Venture Bros. But that's definitely the kind of thing I'm aiming at.

If they did do a She-Hulk show, I'd kind of prefer if they were to first introduce her in a new Hulk movie and then give her her own spin-off show.

I really like the sound of the She-Hulk comic, with trials using issues of comic books as evidence and whatnot. Anyone got any recommendations of what issues to look for?

Bob Agent of Hydra?

Far as the She-Hulk comics, her own series are pretty good. If you want to see more of the lawyering start with the 2000s series

She-Hulk would definitely be a fun choice.

I remember a few years ago, there were a bunch of characters being considered for TV shows. Jessica Jones was going to have a show called AKA Jessica Jones. That would've been cool - a story about a private investigator who happens to have superpowers.

There was talk of a Mockingbird show, with her as a college student hired into SHIELD. I love me some Bobbi Morse, so that'd be cool.

Cloak and Dagger was another one, and that's a pair that would make an amazing TV show. They have an easy concept - drugs made them into freaks. One is full of light, one is made of shadows, They Fight Crime!. Simple. But they also have powers that are both visually interesting and, I would think, cheap to duplicate on screen. I mean, it's light and shadows. We're not talking about people flying or throwing cars or anything like that. That's a show I would absolutely love to see. Especially if it also led to another shot at a Cloak and Dagger comic series. Preferably drawn by Emma Rios, because she did an amazing job on the Spider-Island Cloak and Dagger mini.

One interesting option might be The Punisher. It would be a crime series. It wouldn't be about the Punisher himself; it would be about other people reacting to the Punisher. Cops trying to track him down. Criminals trying to keep under his radar. Mob bosses trying to get him killed. That sort of thing. Here's what I'm thinking: You get two main stories throughout the series. The first focuses on a cop tasked with bringing in the Punisher. We see him investigating places hit by the Punisher, and we see the stress it places on his home life. That story is basically a cop show. The second story focuses on a Mob boss. We see him running his criminal enterprise, and we see the stress the Punisher's activities place on him. That story is a crime show, like The Sopranos. Each episode also has a smaller story focusing on someone whose life is affected by the Punisher. Maybe one episode has us following around some thug as he goes about his crimes; we see his good and his bad, and we recognize that he's not a great person, but we still sympathize with him, and even like him. A guy we could probably follow for an entire series of his own. And then he gets killed by the Punisher. Maybe another episode has a couple get mugged, and the Punisher kills the mugger, and the guy starts to idolize the Punisher a bit, and try to train himself to become just like him. Maybe another episode has a waitress at a classy restaurant see the Punisher kill some Mob guy, and she spends the rest of the episode coping with it. If the show's successful enough to get multiple seasons, we could also see Rachel Cole-Alves' story.

So The Punisher one could be a bit like Golgo13 is? Actually like the sounds of that.

Doctor Strange would be like an American Doctor Who WITH MAGIC!. I'm up for it.

So it'll be Supernatural?

Solely based on what I saw of him in the 90's Spider-Man cartoon, and what Gaon said, I doubt a Dr. Strange show could be like Supernatural.

Yeah, Dr Who would be a much better analog. Dr Strange is *not* street level, not even close.

-A Jennifer Walters legal dramedy/superhero show.

-A revive of Blade The Series worked into the MCU.

-A domestic/workplace sitcom involving Trevor Slattery and the quirky staff of Avengers Tower clean up after superheros and Tony's shenanigans while getting into shenanigans of their own.

-An incredibly silver agey team show narrated by Stan Lee in which he refers to the audience as true believers and narrates the entrance of every superhero with some over the top and superfluous adjective.

My hopes for the line up.

edited 29th Oct '13 12:20:09 PM by Canid117

Perhaps they'll try Deadpool and do a bunch of satires with him.

Three out of the four shows will have Wolverine as a cast member.

edited 30th Oct '13 4:10:14 PM by TobiasDrake

Deadpool hosting a reality television series?