Marvel's Netflix deal.

Following the disastrous 2003 Daredevil film Fox decided not to make another film allowing the rights to the character revert back to Marvel. In 2013 Marvel decided instead of making another Daredevil film they'd make a mini-series available for streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon prime but Netflix bought the rights to stream the show. Marvel was excited for the show because it allowed them to explore the darker aspects of the Marvel universe. Daredevil was an instant hit on Netflix causing Marvel and Netflix to order 4 more series, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and the Defenders. 

 

My predictions for the MCU

Seeing has to how Marvel isn't anywhere near done with Marvel phase 3 of their movies I've got some super early predictions about phase 4.

1. Iron man will die.
Okay so Robert Downey Jr's contract will expire after Avengers infinity war part 2 and I am convinced that several characters will die and honestly I can't see anyone being able to take the reins of a character that Downey has made an icon.

2. Wolverine will return to Marvel studios. 
Hugh Jackman is already confirmed to be wrapping up his final movie as Wolverine next year he's been playing the character for 17 years and Fox as pretty much exhausted him at this point. If Wolverine is going to stay popular a return to Marvel Studios is probably the best move for the character.

3. Daredevil will finally make an appearance in the marvel movies. 
He is already dominating Netflix and everyone wanted him in Civil War but unfortunately Marvel couldn't fit him in the movie. All of the actors in the Netflix's shows have already spoken about their desire to appear in one of the upcoming movies so the ball is in Marvel's court.

Captain Marvel

In this post I'll be covering a pretty cool character who isn't widely known but she'll be playing a central role in the movies for the next few years. Carol Danvers was introduced in 1968 she was created by Roy Thomas and Gene Colan, when she first appeared she was just a regular civilian who no one thought much of. Later she was reintroduced as a shield agent who was in a accident that changed her DNA which gave her powers changing her into Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel's popularity never really took off as expected until around the later 2000's after the Civil War story line where she became leader of the Avengers for a brief time after Captain America died, since then her status has decreased back to a relative unknown among Marvel superheroes. She has the powers of super strength, speed, and flight.

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The infinity stones

In the Marvel cinematic universe the infinity stones have played a significant role over the past couple of movies yet they've never really been explained. 6 infinity stones exist the mind, soul, power, time, reality, and space gem. Not much has been explained about the gems only that they each represent a part of the universe. Only 3 have been revealed so far the first was the Tesseract(The mind gem) which Loki used in the Avengers to control Hawkeye and control his army. In Thor the dark world the Aether(The reality gem) was used to try to bring Malekith's army to earth but he was stopped by Thor, Afterwards the gem was taken to the Collector and wasn't seen again until Guardians of the Galaxy. The last was just called the Orb(The power gem) which was used by Ronan the Accuser to fight against the Guardians of the Galaxy but he was beaten.

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Marvel: Civil War comic vs movie

Civil War
The comic version of civil war has a way larger scale than in the movie, while some elements are similar they are very different stories mainly because of the end result of the story.

Comic vs Movie
The comic story line starts in Stamford, Connecticut where a group of young superhero's are filming a reality TV series where they capture super villains. In a confrontation with said villains they accidentally blow up a city killing hundreds of people. The incident causes the government to intervene proposing the super hero registration act. Iron Man is the first to sign and is made the enforcer of the act, while Captain America opposes the act feeling as if the act will undermine what being a hero actually stands for. Several battles take place throughout the story resulting in the death of several characters and affecting the status quo of major characters. Spider man in the comic is a much older established version of Spider man while the movie version is just getting started. Spider man in the comic is a major part of the story, to show his support of Iron Man he reveals his identity to the world on live TV. Spider man later comes to regret his decision and joins Captain America's side. In the final battle of Civil War nearly every hero in the marvel universe participates in the battle
causing huge damage to the surrounding area causing Captain America to forfeit the battle. A few days later Captain America is brought to Washington to stand trial but is fatally shot in the chest several times killing him thus bringing a true end  to the war.

The comic version of the story is a much darker version of the story that truly made an impact for Marvel comics. Civil war was released nearly 10 years ago and even in the story lines today the impact is felt.

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How Marvel Comics happened.

In the marvel comic universe there are hundreds of universe that exist but only a few of them are actually well known. For this blog I'm only gonna focus on the marvel comics universe known as Earth-616 which is the mainstream marvel universe. Most of the movie version's of the characters most closely relate to this universe than the other ones. It's a common misconception that Stan Lee created Marvel comics but it was actually a man named Martin Goodman but Marvel Comics was then known as Timely Publications. It started in 1939 when Marvel Comics #1 released

During the war comics were booming then in the post war era the sells dropped dramatically. Comics books then lacked any real diversity and no real message that people could relate to. In the 1950's Stan Lee then known as Stanley Lieber became interim editor it was then he teamed with Jack Kirby and together they developed the Fantastic Four. The Fantastic Four became a huge success becoming Marvel's "first family," After the success of the Fantastic Four, marvel took a more humanistic approach to there comic books by creating characters like Spider man who suffered from bullying, or the X-men who were portrayed as outcast allowing people to relate to the characters. Marvel continues to use this strategy even today tackling themes such as loss, revenge, courage, and even race.

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How the Marvel Cinematic Universe happened.

Back in the mid to late 80's before Marvel Studios existed (The branch of marvel that makes the movies) Most studios in Hollywood wanted nothing to do with superhero movies including Marvel, so they attempted successfully sold the rights several of their characters including arguably their most important superhero, Spiderman. Marvel sold Spiderman to Sony pictures for around 7 million dollars and they went on to make a successful franchise off the character to the point where they broke several box office records. The success of Spiderman helped Sony pictures establish themselves in Hollywood and helped Marvel who was going through financial troubles at the time fund more comic books and start Marvel studios.

 In 1993 Marvel partnered with the company ToyBiz and named Avi Arad the president and CEO of Marvel films which would later become Marvel Studios. In 2005 under Arad's leadership Marvel Studios began seriously making movies and he was tasked with the making of Iron Man. Iron man over the years had shifted from studio to studio for almost 15 years and had been stuck in development hell. Filming for the movie was difficult partially because very few writers wanted to work on the movie because of the character being an unknown, to combat this notion Arad started focus groups to get rid of the notion that Iron man was a man in a suit rather than just a robot. After the groups proved successful in educating the public more writers were willing to work on the film therefore starting the first Marvel cinematic universe film.

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Hi everyone! My name is Isaiah, and if you've found myself on my blog you're either forced to be here or you actually want to know about some key differences between the Marvel cinematic universe and the Marvel comics universe. Growing up the only things I was ever reading were comic books so over the years I've noticed a lot of key differences in the movies. Throughout the course of my blog posts I'll go over heroes, villains, history, and key plot differences.

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