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Topic	A whole bunch of MCU stuff got announced at Comic-Con.
ParanoidObsessive 07/23/19 2:19:35 AM #32:	Blighboy posted... Eventually we're going to reach a point where the MCU is making up superheroes out of whole cloth and the fans are going to lose their collective shits That requires effort and thinking, and there are about 47 billion existing Marvel characters to use, from the major all the way down to that one guy who appeared in one comic back in 1974 but who's still listed in the Marvel wiki. Most of the movies seem to start from the point of finding a popular storyline from the comics and then jumping off from there anyway, so most of the movies already have their cast list provided for them in advance. You'll certainly get cases where a character is radically changed from their comic version (like Mordo in Doctor Strange, where they changed him from one-dimensional bad guy to legitimate good guy - and then eventually a more sympathetic and conflicted villain), and some things are never going to make it to the screen (ie, if they ever used someone like Brother Voodoo, he's going to be WAAAY different), and they might invent minor supporting characters here or there to help facilitate a plot or for comic relief (like Selvig and Darcy in Thor), but you likely won't get completely new characters. The closest we might get is cases like where they're going to retcon Kate Bishop as a character into Hawkeye's daughter (hence the archery training in Endgame), or if they ever use Tony's daughter Morgan as the basis for Ironheart (which they probably won't, because stupid people will scream about whitewashing the character - though I can definitely see them playing her as a gender-swapped teen Tony to some degree). My fear is more that, when they run out of the good characters that actually have stories worth telling, they're going to start dipping into the shittier ones, and we're going to get an avalanche of garbage characters. Basically, when people with childhood nostalgia for the worst excesses of the 90s or for the terrible stories of the 2010s start directing films. Blighboy posted... We're dangerously close to the point where they're using comics characters who were probably only created to become MCU heroes, like Jane Thor and Ironheart. They weren't created to become MCU heroes, they were created to pander to Tumblr. Which is much, much worse. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:925059785] in A whole bu... [t:77878283]...</cite> <quote><cite>Blighboy posted...</cite> <quote>Eventually we're going to reach a point where the MCU is making up superheroes out of whole cloth and the fans are going to lose their collective shits</quote> That requires effort and thinking, and there are about 47 billion existing Marvel characters to use, from the major all the way down to that one guy who appeared in one comic back in 1974 but who's still listed in the Marvel wiki. Most of the movies seem to start from the point of finding a popular storyline from the comics and then jumping off from there anyway, so most of the movies already have their cast list provided for them in advance. You'll certainly get cases where a character is radically changed from their comic version (like Mordo in Doctor Strange, where they changed him from one-dimensional bad guy to legitimate good guy - and then eventually a more sympathetic and conflicted villain), and some things are never going to make it to the screen (ie, if they ever used someone like Brother Voodoo, he's going to be WAAAY different), and they might invent minor supporting characters here or there to help facilitate a plot or for comic relief (like Selvig and Darcy in Thor), but you likely won't get completely new characters. The closest we might get is cases like where they're going to retcon Kate Bishop as a character into Hawkeye's daughter (hence the archery training in Endgame), or if they ever use Tony's daughter Morgan as the basis for Ironheart (which they probably won't, because stupid people will scream about whitewashing the character - though I can definitely see them playing her as a gender-swapped teen Tony to some degree). My fear is more that, when they run out of the good characters that actually have stories worth telling, they're going to start dipping into the shittier ones, and we're going to get an avalanche of garbage characters. Basically, when people with childhood nostalgia for the worst excesses of the 90s or for the terrible stories of the 2010s start directing films. <cite>Blighboy posted...</cite> <quote>We're dangerously close to the point where they're using comics characters who were probably only created to become MCU heroes, like Jane Thor and Ironheart.</quote> They weren't created to become MCU heroes, they were created to pander to Tumblr. Which is much, much worse. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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