Sure, it's the inevitable list movie tie-ins but it's good to know that the disappointing Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 won't be my only opportunity to crack heads with Mjolnir. As part of a wider release relating to animation and movies Marvel has detailed their game release plans.
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Iron Man 2 / Sega Scheduled for April 2010 release
Thor / Sega Scheduled for May 2011 release
Captain America / Sega Scheduled for July 2011 release
Man... I hate marvel sometimes. I'm as big a nerd as anyone, but it seems like sometime marvel is compeltely blind to the properties they own that are completely lame and WILL not play to the masses. They keep trying to to trot out their super nerdy characters like Silver Surfer and they are NEVER accepted because they're just too far out and stupid to exist anywhere but in the comics. Thor is utterly ridiculous. Namor is ridiculous. Silver Surfer is ridiculous...
Just stop already and focus on the characters that are relatable, believable, and bankable. Captain America, for goodness sake. Iron Fist. Powerman. Heck, even Nova...
Man... I hate marvel sometimes. I'm as big a nerd as anyone, but it seems like sometime marvel is compeltely blind to the properties they own that are completely lame and WILL not play to the masses. They keep trying to to trot out their super nerdy characters like Silver Surfer and they are NEVER accepted because they're just too far out and stupid to exist anywhere but in the comics. Thor is utterly ridiculous. Namor is ridiculous. Silver Surfer is ridiculous...
Just stop already and focus on the characters that are relatable, believable, and bankable. Captain America, for goodness sake. Iron Fist. Powerman. Heck, even Nova...
Whoa, hey now, Silver Surfer isn't ridiculous... well, okay, he rides a surfboard in space, sure. That's ridiculous. But, once past the character design everything about him is beyond awesome. He's actually one of the most powerful superherous ever to exist, and very nearly became god during the Infinite Crisis ;P (as shown in the What If series when Silver Surfer does in fact become god). Beyond that, he's one of the primary foes of my favorite comic bad-guy whom gets far, far too little play.
You think Joker is a badass? He's nothin'. You think Bane was strong? You think Lex Luther was a dastardly genius? He's stupid by comparison. You think superman powerful, or the Phoenix nigh ungodly? Wusses, both of them. Well, the Phoenix is fairly powerful, but she's never been tested to my knowledge against Thanos.
Thanos is the badass of the universe. Thanos became even more powerful after he died. He was so devoted to killing that Death herself made him her lieutenant in death. It was his own genius which realized the true nature of the Infinity Gems which precipitated the infinity crisis. It was his brilliance and power which then ripped the infinity gems from their owners, one by one until he had them all, as easily as taking candy from a baby. It is Thanos that worships death herself, and made her his bride. So powerful is he, with a single thought he wiped out half of all life in the universe, as a tribute to lady Death.
And, well, I won't ruin the rest of the infinity crisis for anyone who's interested, but the end is great. Seldom are stories conceived where the fate of the entire universe is in the hands of one being, with literally every power in the universe arrayed against that person, including fate, and time, and space itself. Seldom is a story conceived where the powers of a god are played with and possessed. Epic scale, check.
Also..not sure why people bother arguing with teecakes... I sincerely believe now that he is a bot built by Sony and unleashed on small community sites.
Whoa, hey now, Silver Surfer isn't ridiculous... well, okay, he rides a surfboard in space, sure. That's ridiculous. But, once past the character design everything about him is beyond awesome. He's actually one of the most powerful superherous ever to exist, and very nearly became god during the Infinite Crisis ;P (as shown in the What If series when Silver Surfer does in fact become god). Beyond that, he's one of the primary foes of my favorite comic bad-guy whom gets far, far too little play.
You think Joker is a badass? He's nothin'. You think Bane was strong? You think Lex Luther was a dastardly genius? He's stupid by comparison. You think superman powerful, or the Phoenix nigh ungodly? Wusses, both of them. Well, the Phoenix is fairly powerful, but she's never been tested to my knowledge against Thanos.
Thanos is the badass of the universe. Thanos became even more powerful after he died. He was so devoted to killing that Death herself made him her lieutenant in death. It was his own genius which realized the true nature of the Infinity Gems which precipitated the infinity crisis. It was his brilliance and power which then ripped the infinity gems from their owners, one by one until he had them all, as easily as taking candy from a baby. It is Thanos that worships death herself, and made her his bride. So powerful is he, with a single thought he wiped out half of all life in the universe, as a tribute to lady Death.
And, well, I won't ruin the rest of the infinity crisis for anyone who's interested, but the end is great. Seldom are stories conceived where the fate of the entire universe is in the hands of one being, with literally every power in the universe arrayed against that person, including fate, and time, and space itself. Seldom is a story conceived where the powers of a god are played with and possessed. Epic scale, check.
THis is exactly what I'm talking about, though. Everything you just said is of no interest to anyone outside a comic shop. Infinity Gems?
But I think you're thinking Black Racer and not Silver Surfer. The Silver Surfer is a Marvel Character. The Black Racer is essentially the same character in the DC univese and would have been a part of Infinite Crisis. That, or you're thinking Infinity War instead of Infinite Crisis.
But, yeah, Nova would is essentially a rip off of the Green Lantern and he has worked on the masses MANY times in the past with a movie coming out soon. He's a relatable HUMAN guy who enters a space war. That's not unlike TONS of movies that are already out. Iron Fist is just a super powered Kung Fu movie. Not unlike the Matrix.
The Silver Surfer however, is a completely unrelatable alien from an unrelatable planet who speaks in unrelatable english and visits unrelatable places. WHy would anyone want to watch that? They certainly didn't when they made the Silver Surfer cartoon in the late ninties...
I'm not up on Marvel vs DC to be honest, I could care less about that division. I just know characters, so you could be right, but I've never heard of Black Racer until now, and I have read the Infinity Crisis, but it coulda been the war. Whatever version had Thanos in it :P
I agree that as a movie the Silver Surfer was a poor choice, even I didn't watch it.
Also..not sure why people bother arguing with teecakes... I sincerely believe now that he is a bot built by Sony and unleashed on small community sites.
Man... I hate marvel sometimes. I'm as big a nerd as anyone, but it seems like sometime marvel is compeltely blind to the properties they own that are completely lame and WILL not play to the masses. They keep trying to to trot out their super nerdy characters like Silver Surfer and they are NEVER accepted because they're just too far out and stupid to exist anywhere but in the comics. Thor is utterly ridiculous. Namor is ridiculous. Silver Surfer is ridiculous...
Just stop already and focus on the characters that are relatable, believable, and bankable. Captain America, for goodness sake. Iron Fist. Powerman. Heck, even Nova...
Superman and Green Lantern are ridiculous but it's not stopping DC Comics making their movies.
Mmm, Superman's not ridiculous per se. Do you know the history behind his conception as a character? The inventors were jewish and wanted to depict a character that seemed to them like what the jewish messiah would be like. That's the short version I've been told anyway, and it makes good sense to me, even his real name 'Kal-el' has a hebrew interpretation.
Kal El means Son of God
Jor El means Father God.
El or Elohim (the plural) is Hebrew for God. I almost hesitate to write the name of God here in Hebrew as it may offend some people.
Anyway... if you want speculation, it has nothing to do with being anti-christ, unless you call all Jews anti-christ. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were the creators of the now famous Superman. There is a Messiah paradigm that was borrowed for the creation of Superman, but what most people don't realize is that it was not a christian messianic paradigm. Superman is much closer to a comic book adaptation of the Hebrew Messiah. Not solely based on the Hebrew Messiah, but inspired by the Hebrew Messiah. I don't want to be misquoted here, and I certainly don't want anyone taking what I'm saying out of context.
I'm a long time Superman Fan. Good stuff.
Green Lantern? Yeah, ridiculous :P
This is all devolving into exhibit A of why manga is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better than the american comic paradigm.
Sooo much better.
So much.
Much.
M.
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Also..not sure why people bother arguing with teecakes... I sincerely believe now that he is a bot built by Sony and unleashed on small community sites.
Superman and Green Lantern are ridiculous but it's not stopping DC Comics making their movies.
Not nearly as much. They have relatable human characters (or human-like characters) who have relatable human problems. The only thing their asking you to bite down on is one abstract concept at a time.
The problem with projects like The Silver Surfer or Thor is that their asking you bite down on a TON of silly concepts all at once.
The norse God Thor is real. And he leaves Asgard to come to the city. Where he becomes a super hero. It's too much. ONE of those things would be fine, but all at once is out of the realm of believability for anyone who doesn't eat that stuff up already.
In the context of the Marvel universe it's only asking you to bite down on one thing... his being a god.. because the superheroes and parallel dimensions are already status quo. IN a movie, they are not.
I thought Marvel god is not really a god per say, but super powered inter dimensional beings that has super strength and can influence magnetic discrepancy in the atmosphere to generate lightning. Strong enough Mortals can best Marvel gods anytime.
Anyway all comic movies will introduce fantastic elements sooner or later. Iron Man is going to have Mandarin and his alien rings. Captain America is going to have Red Skull and his Cosmic Cube.
The selling point of a comic character is NOT that character's "power level", it's the connection that character makes with the masses.
Thor is a dumb, stupid-ass character, even in context of the Marvel universe. Why in the hell does Marvel have both a Norse and Greek pantheon of gods? The problem isn't with Norse mythology itself. I'm quite positive that a well done Norse film could be fairly profitable. The juxtaposition of a mythological figure into modern times is the problem. No one will take that shit seriously.
And the Silver Surfer is indeed freaking ridiculous. There's a billion characters that can straight up fly who aren't nearly at the power level of Surfer, why does that motherfucker have to ride around on a surfboard?
I thought Marvel god is not really a god per say, but super powered inter dimensional beings that has super strength and can influence magnetic discrepancy in the atmosphere to generate lightning. Strong enough Mortals can best Marvel gods anytime.
Anyway all comic movies will introduce fantastic elements sooner or later. Iron Man is going to have Mandarin and his alien rings. Captain America is going to have Red Skull and his Cosmic Cube.
Right, but at their core, Capt. and Iron Man are both quasi realistic figures. A genetically enhanced supersoldier and a mechanized infantry supersoldier aren't entirely outside the realm of near-future science. So long as those characters are your center, you can expand outward from there. I do think Marvel is making a mistake if they make direct translations of Mandarin and Red Skull from the comics to the films. They could easily keep the same concepts but make the origins less fantastical with a bit of effort.
The main problem here is goddamn Thor. If you start off with a character who's a freaking god, you can't really rationalize anything else in the film. You can't square that up with the Hulk and Iron Man films which have been centered around at least a pseudo-reality framework.
He was surfing when Galactus chose him to bear the power cosmic, and the board just kinda stuck? >_> Thank god he wasn't driving at the time, we coulda had a superhero driving through space instead, and that's not nearly as cool :P I think it's because so many superheros just plain fly that they picked a surfboard. The conception of the character really was silly, but nothing else about the series is.
Silver Surfer isn't a flip character. His origins are tragic, and his purpose is heroic, serving as the herald of Galactus the world eater, and steering Galactus away from planets with intelligent species. Silver Surfer saves more lives in an afternoon than an entire planet of superheroes do in a lifetime :P
Surfer even chose to become the the herald in exchange for his planet's survival. On top of all that, he serves his own worst enemy, constantly looking for a way to stop Galactus, but also deriving all his powers from Galactus.
And again, Thanos. The whole series is f'ing amazing simply because Thanos is quite often involved. Thanos is the greatest comic book villain ever
Also..not sure why people bother arguing with teecakes... I sincerely believe now that he is a bot built by Sony and unleashed on small community sites.
Right, but at their core, Capt. and Iron Man are both quasi realistic figures. A genetically enhanced supersoldier and a mechanized infantry supersoldier aren't entirely outside the realm of near-future science.
- It's always interesting to ask why Wolverine has the following he does. What is it about this character that resonates with sooo many people. Or spiderman, superman, batman? Why are these our enduring heroes, chosen from so very many. Ironman too. I freaking love Ironman, just a genius concept. Captn. America? Not so much, they keep stretching that one to make it relevant. Tossing a shield around is a bit silly. I don't quite get that one. Although, I actually met the man who created Cap. America. He actually drew a picture of cap for my older brother, and he hung it on his wall for many years.
Also..not sure why people bother arguing with teecakes... I sincerely believe now that he is a bot built by Sony and unleashed on small community sites.
