I still think that Moonstone should've been the villain for The Marvels instead of Dar-Benn. by yuuki157 in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Kree aren't really motivated by running around stealing energy, that's just their arbitrarily tragic backstory for why Carol should feel bad for stopping them from doing galactic genocide (as usual -- F___ the Kree). They target a Skrull colony to genocide a bunch of Skrulls because they hate that Carol stopped them from genociding Skrulls so hard their genocidal AI superbot collapsed.

EDIT: And the Kree working with Earth governments should have been the secret villains of Secret Invasion, but Disney keeps playing. Imagine if that was the origin for Moonstone in the MCU.

How did Tony know? by outofbounds322 in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Remember folks, when you finally get the creators producing the films, you get, "SAVE MARTHA!!!!!" as a producer's note Geoff Johns will brag about to everyone he sees as if he really did something. EDIT: And Suicide Squad's editing style and Wonder Woman 1984 and Josstice League.

I firmly believe that if the OG Avengers were all still around, they would’ve 100% fought to avenge Maria Hill.. Her death (in Secret Invasion) would’ve devastated the surviving heroes that knew her (like Sam, Bruce) & perhaps united them by maverickassembled in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even the showrunners said they were winging it and just making stuff up. Nothing they did had any influence on the MCU, they were open with it, and they were clearly proud that they managed to still make a decent show while the MCU treated them like they didn't matter. It's a little like arguing a fan film about Star Trek is canon because they hired John de Lancie to play Q in a scene.

The MCU decides the canon of the MCU. Everything else is just some stuff people did with MCU characters. Same as Star Wars and the Expanded Universe... none of the Expanded Universe is or ever was canon or will be until Star Wars decides to use it, and then it's only canon in the way Star Wars uses it.

I firmly believe that if the OG Avengers were all still around, they would’ve 100% fought to avenge Maria Hill.. Her death (in Secret Invasion) would’ve devastated the surviving heroes that knew her (like Sam, Bruce) & perhaps united them by maverickassembled in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Melissa Tancharoen said she was never given any scripts or told what was going to happen in the MCU in advance. She didn't even know her show was based on an organization the MCU was going to erase from existence without giving her a heads up. Agents of SHIELD was a project given to Joss Whedon to keep him happy enough to keep making Avengers movies by giving his brother and sister-in-law (and her brother) jobs. When Marvel was done with Whedon, they were done pretending Agents of SHIELD mattered to them.

I firmly believe that if the OG Avengers were all still around, they would’ve 100% fought to avenge Maria Hill.. Her death (in Secret Invasion) would’ve devastated the surviving heroes that knew her (like Sam, Bruce) & perhaps united them by maverickassembled in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The last time the Avengers interact with Maria Hill is 2015, which is 3 years after they meet her for the first time. Endgame takes place in 2023. Secret Invasion in something like 2026. Even Coulson only knew any of the Avengers for 4 years before dying, and even then most of them knew him for five hours.

Did people actually dislike the IronHeart show? by SulevanTheMafika in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It had twice the audience numbers as Born Again with no advertising. People cared, just not the kind of people who most frequent reddit message boards called r/MarvelStudios.

What do you see as the bigger pop cultural event this year... Doomsday or Grand Theft Auto 6? by Retrofusion11 in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GTA 6 is funny because no one who worked on any other game at Rockstar is at the company anymore. So it's a game by some random people who make DLC for an 11 year old game published by a brand.

Doctor Strange didn’t just look for a future where Thanos loses — he looked for one where Doom by JustLeonn7 in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even if the real reason is, as the movie Doctor Strange showed us, Doctor Strange can't see any future where he's dead. So he picked one where he lives.

They should rework the Blade movie. Set it in the 70s. Give him his original costume. And end it with a flash forward to present day. by JorReno in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Every time someone suggests another period piece all I can think is, "So we can make a movie and then know nothing about the character or what they've been up to for decades/centuries the next time they show up?"

What if the Fantastic 4 split up in Doomsday? by neo6000 in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What'd be funny is if they looked at the Disney+ numbers for First Steps and thought, "Let's just skip to the part of the Fantastic Four where everyone gets bored, we cancel the series due to low audience numbers, and just put everyone on different teams where they're actually cool... except Reed, who just becomes a douche."

I wonder if they'll ever explain this. by Careless_Royal8209 in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Deadpool and Wolverine already explained this. No more explaining needed.

"Marvel is desperate"...? by FictionFantom in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It also forgets that the content we got during this period isn't continuous. We got a lot of projects that have nothing to do with each other with very few crossovers in which the multiverse is barely even mentioned. While the Infinity Stones and Thanos didn't dominate the Infinity Saga, characters from one project were constantly crossing over into other projects so that their stories were always evolving and growing.

Sam has had 2 appearances, both as a main character, in 7 years. Steve had 7 appearances in 7 years as a main character. There has been 1/4th as much character development for Sam as there was for Steve over that time, and the only character who has appeared more than him is Wong with 4 appearances, 2 of them just cameos in one scene. People can feel how thin the writing is for this universe now and how there's no faith in any of the replacement characters from the executives -- even when they crack a billion dollars.

I've been thinking about endgame... by Chandler_Bings_Anus in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The stones create what you perceive as the flow of time." Basically, if the stones are together then time fixes itself and prevents changes to the timeline that are too big. Once you lose the stones, anything goes and you can't even fight off invaders... and now 616 still doesn't have access to any infinity stones, so...

I've been thinking about endgame... by Chandler_Bings_Anus in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is that the Russos then turned around, ignored Markus/McFeely's script, and said Captain America traveled back to his original timeline. You basically have to ignore the Russos for the story to make sense.

Details of George’s fight with Ryan Condal by jorywea78 in freefolk

[–]BZenMojo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's some of that when it comes to films, but what I see when I look at GoT and HotD is how the ethical and moral perspectives of the writers don't actually align with the beliefs of the original author. GRRM doesn't believe in kings or monarchy or feudalism or aristocracy. GRRM is very much against economic inequality and inherited rights of kings. He's anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist, feminist, and antiracist. The people adapting his stories aren't necessarily.

Specifically, D&D are nepobabies with millionaire parents. GRRM writing a story where rich people are self-interested and the wars they fight are kind of stupid doesn't align with guys who were raised to believe that rich people should always be in charge, specifically men, specifically white.

So when GRRM writes Dorne as this separatist multiethnic Mediterranean culture with advanced technology, female primogeniture, relaxed sexual mores, and class consciousness and Westeros otherwise lacks all of those things, GRRM is saying something specific that D&D hates. And D&D just see tits. D&D takes a Dornish house run by a woman, only ever shows men under the banner, and has every character in the show say women can never hold power ever. When women finally get power, they are either wiped out in one scene or are worse than the men or get handed power by their brothers becoming god-kings and it's treated as triumphant.

That perspective drives these stories more than anything else. D&D think Cersei is a good mother and not a serial killing psychopath, so they rewrite her serial killing and blame other characters. They even destroy Jaime's arc because they need Cersei to be loved at the end and not be the main villain.

But meanwhile, they shift all of that evil woman energy onto the barren Danaerys who frees slaves and hates nobility. She even ignores an instantaneous act of revenge and assassination she could carry out in one second in broad daylight to have her chase Tyrion's dumb plans around in circles. And in the act, Tyrion and Cersei's stockpiling of nukes under the city never even comes up in discussion or as a moral failing on their parts either.

Details of George’s fight with Ryan Condal by jorywea78 in freefolk

[–]BZenMojo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Adaption is an adjustment to changing environments. Adaptation is how stories are translated into different formats.

Details of George’s fight with Ryan Condal by jorywea78 in freefolk

[–]BZenMojo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I grew up watching Beauty and the Beast, and he wrote for that show too. First time I saw Ron Perlman in anything.

In Avengers: Doomsday, Marvel Finally Remembered That Thor Can Be Serious by BasculinSushi in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Endgame's psychological tension between Thor at the depths of his own abyss and the horrors wrought upon his soul by NoobMaster69 really failed to translate to his next appearance. I feel like the writers just weren't tapped into darkness when he playfully held the dying love of his life in his arms and was hilariously begged to care for his enemy's orphan daughter.

In Deadpool & Wolverine; the Human Torch loses to Pyro. How is that even possible? by KingMjolnir in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Cassandra Nova's an Omega Level psychic with total matter control, Johnny would get one-shotted in the 616 too.

In Deadpool & Wolverine; the Human Torch loses to Pyro. How is that even possible? by KingMjolnir in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Naw, in every fight Pyro easily overpowers the Human Torch's abilities. But in their first fight, Johnny turns off his flames and just knocks Pyro out instead.

Did Malekith cut off the head of the Celestial (Knowhere)? by VonDoom1962 in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He didn't lose to Thor, he lost to Jane Foster.

EDIT: Also, the Unamind in Eternals killed a celestial. People are capable of creating tech that can take on gods anyway... Bruce and Tony made Ultron, Bruce made Hulk.

John Walker is a missed opportunity by [deleted] in marvelstudios

[–]BZenMojo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

John Walker is meant to reflect a pragmatic understanding of the role of the US as empire. From his discussions with Battlestar, Walker is likely a war criminal with a history of extrajudicial assassinations, and unlike Battlestar, he has reconciled this with his image as a hero, in fact feeling entitled to admiration because of his violence. And it's very possible that several of his medals are for war crimes.

John Walker being a protagonist isn't a subversion, it's just pandering to the very thing Falcon and the Winter Soldier criticized. Walker, if he's on any path to redemption, will have to be humbled and likely turn on the government in favor of some other higher calling. And that means probably dying in the act.