Marvel Cinematic Universe general stuff

I don't think it was an accident that they tied

Like always, them opening a door like that gives them freedom when it comes to the age of the X-men while still being able to keep some of the original storylines if they want to go that direction (e.g., Magneto and Prof X).

Slight tangent note but if I ever get the lottery advertising exec who licenced ELO Mr Blue Sky for their ads and then over used it to death alone in a room then heaven help them. GOTG2 used to be one of my go to - feel better movies and the opening credits with Groot dancing to the music a great set up but now that song just annoys me so much.

All about the Multiverse really. God they must love the potential. Anything you want? Multiverse.

I'm thinking of the Simpsons episode with Lucy Lawless. Every inconsistency: A Wizard did it.

• Prof-X isn't Patrick Stewart/James McEvoy: Multiverse
• Wolverine is supposed to be younger than in Logan but looks older: Multiverse
• 2 seconds ago that background guy had a different T-shirt on: Bugger.... Uh.... Multiverse??????

Marvel choose?? The MCU we followed up until Endgame was one universe and I don't them moving away from that aside from one off situations, like What If and maybe Deadpool. Leveraging the former X-men and Spiderman universes is just easy storytelling rather than having to give full backstories to certain characters (obviously nostalgia sells too). Why introduce two random actors as Peter Parkers from other universes and having to explain their histories/loss etc when they can just use Garfield and Maguire.

Not sure I see it getting stale for the audience to see crossovers with characters from other universes that we know. People love seeing earned crossovers as can be seen by how well most crossover MCU movies or even comics do compared to most single character ones. The audience want to see characters they loved from the past interact with the current characters they love.

I was very anti the use of the multiverse for the death issue and many other reasons but so far they've done a decent job at avoiding those pitfalls.

Any characters that returns via the multiverse aren't those we knew in the main MCU timeline. I'd be surprised if this isnt repeated again and again during GotG 3 with Gamora to set expectations for the audiences for later multiverse crossovers.

Having said that no matter how many times they hit audiences over the head with it when they eventually have Stark or Rogers in Secret Wars, there will still be a sizeable portion of people who will say they 'brought them back to life' when they're going to be completely different characters having lived different lives beforehand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3V5KDHRQvk

Of course Marvel choose, but isn't whatever story they choose a bit moot as technically it's cancelled out multiple times somewhere else or maybe I'm over thinking it.

Are there spoilers for the GOTG holiday special in that trailer 😅

It isn't moot as in the MCU we're following one group of characters in their specific universe so for them there are real stakes.

The concept of the multiverse is a real thing so the same logic as to why we care about what happens to us in our lives applies to the characters. It isnt much comfort for us if a loved one dies knowing that there are potentially other universes out there where they didnt. They touch on that with Wanda in MoM where even if you could get to a loved one in another universe they aren't your loved one.

Now I could see more of your argument when it comes to DC given how often they reboot characters in new universes - you can still feel for characters in more self-contained stories but the stakes are much lower when they are likely to reboot them in a few years

Haven't watched it yet, but after Guardians 2, my grà for them has waned...

I loved GOTG2 (although see earlier about how the Lottery have made the opening scene unbearable).

She was rumoured to be Elektra two months ago and the hate she got on social media made her come out and say she never spoke with Marvel and she just signed up to other projects

I wouldn't take it as shade being thrown. No context given. Like was he asked if he wanted to be the next Rock? But I would read his reply like he just wants to concentrate on being an actor instead of worrying about being the next Rock. He's probably fed up with the comparisons because of the similar backgrounds.

WandaVision is important to Dr Strange Multiverse of Madness.