Marvel Universe stuff
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Royal
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It's not happening anytime soon. Which will make some writers/bloggers happy as they will be able to lazy out plenty of clickbait articles about maybe's and rumors for the foreseeable future.
The franchise has to all but tank before Fox would be humbled enough to ask Marvel for help with it. If you want to see that happen, you can do your part by not going to the theaters to watch them when they're released. Until that starts happening to a significant degree, the X's are going nowhere.
The franchise has to all but tank before Fox would be humbled enough to ask Marvel for help with it. If you want to see that happen, you can do your part by not going to the theaters to watch them when they're released. Until that starts happening to a significant degree, the X's are going nowhere.
Gavinmad
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It's just great that you don't know what the word opinion means, but please stop spreading your ignorance around.
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radditsu
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I seriously doubt they will ever do a reboot of the MCU (well I mean in our lifetime anyway, anything is possible given enough time) because they have built so much history it makes no sense to abandon it all. They will just move on to new heroes. I don't think any of us really could have predicted all the characters that have had success so far, and there are literally hundreds of other potential stars they can choose from, so there is no reason to reboot existing ones. And with obvious transitions like Falcon/Winter Soldier perhaps taking over for Cap, that's even less reason to reboot.
And if they did happen to get something like the X-Men, they'd either use an Infinity War type event to fold them in, or they'd just act like they had been there all along, like Spider-Man.
And if they did happen to get something like the X-Men, they'd either use an Infinity War type event to fold them in, or they'd just act like they had been there all along, like Spider-Man.
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Movie / TV format would also be a good way to handle the whole passing of the mantle thing that comics, to me, get caught up in. Having Peter Parker or anyone else be basically the same age and character for 60 years then rebooting the origins of the same guy or girl again and again. It would almost be Who'vian in how they progress and how a new Iron Man could be different than Tony Stark. Continuity would be hilarious 50 years out trying to juggle all the different versions and who or what The Third IM did to the Second Wolverine while The Fourth Doctor Doom was being evil. Ugh, maybe this is a bad idea. Hah.
meStevo
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It was said at one point that they'd treat the marquee heroes like Bond, and just swap in a new actor at some point when the current actor is done.
Fox I think will go w/ X-23 for a bit before recasting a new Wolverine, if they do it anytime soon.
Kind of expecting them to refocus on Deadpool / Cable / X-Force and slow down the more expensive X-Men movies for a bit, but that's not based on anything I've read.
Fox I think will go w/ X-23 for a bit before recasting a new Wolverine, if they do it anytime soon.
Kind of expecting them to refocus on Deadpool / Cable / X-Force and slow down the more expensive X-Men movies for a bit, but that's not based on anything I've read.
Shonuff
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radditsu
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Well they can pull a 1995 Tony stark and make him a RADICAL TEENAGER DUDE!
Abefroman
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15-Year-Old Black Girl Replaces Tony Stark as Iron Man - GameSpot
Ok then. Gonna need a bigger helmet.
Ok then. Gonna need a bigger helmet.
Seananigans
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I'm sure glad their MCU crew is separate from this comics crew, cause these idiots have caught themselves in a shark-jumping loop or something. And it seems like the shark is a gender-queer trans-catfish.
Shonuff
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I'm Black, and I don't agree with turning these characters into minorities. Marvel and DC were racist for so long, they flat out did their best to limit minority superheroes. I remember reading the Editor's Box for X-Men 30 years ago, where they tried to say that Storm wasn't Black, because her pupils turned white. No, I'm not kidding, she got so popular and they freaked out.
How about we create new characters instead? I've always thought the last guy they'd make a minority/female would be Iron Man.
Abefroman
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I would love them to hire black writers and have them create new characters instead of this hamfisted diversity bullshit. You telling me there isn't room for new characters?
Also, I am bad for laughing at this.
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That's why I've never gotten how these sorts of things are lauded as being big, progressive moves. I get that minorities have a long history of being underrepresented in comic books, but this seems like the laziest way possible of addressing that. They're not really creating new characters. They're just pasting them over heroes who have decades of established history. They're just version 2.0. They don't get their own powers; they just get what their predecessors have. And, so much of their backstory revolves around the (often convoluted) way they ended up becoming a replacement. I mean, this new character is supposed to be as smart or smarter than Tony Stark, but apparently not smart enough to create her own identity?
I also realize it's extremely difficult establishing a new character and have it be successful, but this just takes a lot of the legwork that's necessary to make them as popular as the characters they are filling in for. Not to mention, part of me can't help but wonder if the reason they keep doing this is because it creates controversy which, in turn, gives them free publicity and attention.