Marvel Cinematic Universe

I don’t doubt they’ve been doing it for ALL their scattered IP. Look what they had to do to get X-Men and Fantastic Four. I’d really like to see them get Hulk, although it’s probably worked in their favour to use him as a supporting character, because he’s a hard one to make a good movie out of I think. But we’ll never see The Leader as a villain until they do. Just getting Fantastic Four gives them so much scope to use more villains. It would be great to see a proper take on Galactus and Doctor Doom someday, the previous versions have been very mediocre.

That third What If was such a step down from the first two. Felt like the prologue to what the actual story is going to be.

Marvel One Shot.

Man alive that was excellent !!!

Being a big fan of their home series that feels like a major event for me, moreso than Kang, but it’d be a bit out of the blue for the MCU to throw that in with no context

If only they had some method to de-age actors so they can continue to play roles to death, to death!

Yeah it’s less that they might have to de-age him and more that he’s 81 and unlikely to have another 10-20 years of acting in him.

But on the other hand, Sony left to their own devices can really fuck up a movie franchise which they've proved countless times.

Admittedly they’re my favourite superhero franchise (comicswise) but I think there’s real potential in the X-Men still even if they’ve been horribly served by Fox.

I suppose its the benefit of hindsight but Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix should have been tent pole stories not just chucked in with zero build. In MCU terms they’d have been Avengers team-up level stories rather than solo films if that makes sense.

I suspect the way to save them as a cinematic property is to do the opposite of what Fox ended up doing. Go back to basics, make it about the team and the mutant world like the first two films and First Class did. Instead of throwing big names at the wall and hoping they’d stick.

They probably need a rest now but something like the way Deadpool exists alongside the X-universe could be the way to reboot them into the multiverse. Maybe do a film like the first one where someone like Jubilee as a new mutant is inducted into the team again. Or do a proper X-Force or X-Factor movie first and have it reintroduce the main team that way. Its such a huge franchise and its stuck in a Xavier/Magneto/Wolverine rut that needs busting.

Mole Man!

I’ve got to be honest and say I wasn’t fussed about Fantastic Four until I read Josh Hickman’s run in the comics - and now I can’t wait to see what they do with it. And yeah, proper treatment of Dr Doom, Silver Surfer and Galactus on the big screen would be tremendous.

With XMen, I do wonder if Feige is leaving a long enough time for the last films to leave the collective consciousness before doing anything - but even then, Hugh Jackman had been Wolverine for 17 (?) years so it’s hard to think of anyone else in the role now.

The first Fantastic Four comics I bought (and among the first maybe 5 comics I ever bought) were the ones that introduced the Time Variance Authority, which I think might have been 250 and 251? From
Memory they were traveling in time to defeat a Dr Doom from the far future (who was very shiny) but they were actually jumping about through the pages of the comic itself, and you couldn’t read it in a linear order.

This fuckery got the attention of Möbius and he put them in time out in the following issue.

Anyway, it was pretty cool to see the TVA in Loki given it was part of my intro to comics over thirty years ago.

Is that one set before WW2 where it's the android Human Torch? I think I've got the old reprint of that issue.

Yeah, I vaguely recall that being the case. Younger me was confused that the Human Torch had existed before the FF. Wasn't there some talk of Namor appearing on TV first.

I like how they explain the entire plot in the trailer. That way they can focus on the CGI bits in the cinemaaahh.