The Superhero Cinematic Civil War

[Kahran Ramsus]

No, I mean what medium? Movies, comics, etc. Cause that is going to change my answer. My guess is we are assuming comic book. If so, Doctor Doom, Magneto, Lex Luthor, and Galactus for me.

Yes, it definitely matters. Thanos would be probably the best example. He's nowhere near tops for me in the comics, but given what he meant with his build and exposure, I don't see how one can keep him off a films only list.

 

[flickchick85]

Thanos is goddamn terrible in the comics.

 

[Snow Queen]

Thanos is goddamn terrible in the comics.

So the movie version is accurate then.

 

[flickchick85]

So the movie version is accurate then.

No, just worse. At least in the comics he's goofy.

 

[Sithborg]

So the movie version is accurate then.

No Thanos copter, 0/10 adaptation.

 

[Lily Adler]

Thanos is goddamn terrible in the comics.

Dude wanted the V, don't judge.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

No Thanos copter, 0/10 adaptation.

It at least showed up in Loki.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

Never forget what they took from you (Hellboy 3)

 

[Lily Adler]

Never forget what they took from you (Hellboy 3)

Didn't Perlman hate the make up. Sure there's CGI now, but it wouldn't look right.

 

[Drizzle]

Thanos is goddamn terrible in the comics.

Terrible? This?!

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Spider-Fan]

Can't be with yall on comic Thanos being crap. Thanos is great in the comics, but the movie version definitely is going to go down as the iconic one

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Can't be with yall on comic Thanos being crap. Thanos is great in the comics, but the movie version definitely is going to go down as the iconic one

I still love how in the comics he does all that to impress Death, and she's just like...


Dude couldn't read the room.

 

[Sithborg]

The DCEU being this chaotic even as it was in its death throes is so funny. We really need the behind the scenes documentary someday.

This article, while focused on Johnson, has a nice little section on Hiram Garcia, which, oh my dear ****ing god, did DC miss a bullet. A Whedon sized, Astonishing X-men sized bullet.

‘Red One’ Down: How Dwayne Johnson's Tardiness Led to a $250 Million Runaway Production | Exclusive

The inside story of how Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's "Red One" completely went off the rails in a Wrap special investigation.

www.thewrap.com

 

[Venom 1988]

This article, while focused on Johnson, has a nice little section on Hiram Garcia, which, oh my dear ****ing god, did DC miss a bullet. A Whedon sized, Astonishing X-men sized bullet.

‘Red One’ Down: How Dwayne Johnson's Tardiness Led to a $250 Million Runaway Production | Exclusive

The inside story of how Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's "Red One" completely went off the rails in a Wrap special investigation.

www.thewrap.com

There's a lot of drama in this article but this one sticks out to me

“On set, away from his trailer, if he needs to pee, he doesn’t go to the public bathroom,” one insider who knows the movie star well said. “He pees in a Voss water bottle and his team or a PA has to dispose of it.”

Um...what lol?

 

[Lily Adler]

There's a lot of drama in this article but this one sticks out to me

“On set, away from his trailer, if he needs to pee, he doesn’t go to the public bathroom,” one insider who knows the movie star well said. “He pees in a Voss water bottle and his team or a PA has to dispose of it.”

Um...what lol?

Why a Voss water bottle? Who's the poor soul that has to wash it? 😞

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

This article, while focused on Johnson, has a nice little section on Hiram Garcia, which, oh my dear ****ing god, did DC miss a bullet. A Whedon sized, Astonishing X-men sized bullet.

‘Red One’ Down: How Dwayne Johnson's Tardiness Led to a $250 Million Runaway Production | Exclusive

The inside story of how Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's "Red One" completely went off the rails in a Wrap special investigation.

www.thewrap.com

That would've been the dumpster fire of all dumpster fires if Garcia got to run DC.

But this article just tells me The Rock learned all of his little tricks from his mentor Vinnie Mac. He's not as shrewd or bright as he wants people to believe that he is, but we always knew that.

There's a lot of drama in this article but this one sticks out to me

“On set, away from his trailer, if he needs to pee, he doesn’t go to the public bathroom,” one insider who knows the movie star well said. “He pees in a Voss water bottle and his team or a PA has to dispose of it.”

Um...what lol?

Many, many moons ago when I was an overachieving production assistant, I had to handle the talent's freshly pumped breastmilk. That'll be a chapter in my tell all one day.

They don't pay PAs enough for the pee filled Voss bottle BS.

 

[chamber-music]

I still love how in the comics he does all that to impress Death, and she's just like...
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Dude couldn't read the room.

Yep. The stuff with Thanos being a sociopath mass murderer simping for Death in comics is actually pretty entertaining

 

[chamber-music]

There probably was a lot cut from AOU involving Thor. I know Loki was originally supposed to make an appearance but that may have been as part of a vision similar to Heimdall's cameo.

As for Endgame, I think they went a little overboard with the humor around Thor but there were some aspects of his arc in that movie that I liked, such as getting closure with Frigga and his determination to snap everyone back into existence as a way of redeeming himself for not getting to Thanos in time. Either way it was a step down from what he was given through Ragnarok and Infinity War.

They really went overboard with the humor in Love and Thunder. I'm not too surprised Hemsworth is now saying he felt like he was playing a parody of Thor and got a little too into the improve stuff

 

[Bayne]

Comics: Magneto, Norman Osborn, Kingpin, Humanity

Movies: Thanos, Joker, Magneto, Kingpin

 

[Iceman]

They missed out Thanos’ fetishes which are as crucial to the character as Doom’s extreme pettiness and obsessions. These are also the best things about them. Hopefully Victor gets justice, not too late for him. I want him aggressively blaming Reed and throwing a huge tantrum & wrecking his dining table when the milk and custard dessert he’s made for his solo lunch explodes in his face.

 

[Babillygunn]

I keep seeing these takes on Twitter, so I ask, Who’s on your comic book supervillain Mount Rushmore?

For me it’s Magneto, Lex, Joker and Dark Phoenix.

Joker, Lex, Kingpin, and Superboy Prime

There. I said it.

 

[Drizzle]

I still love how in the comics he does all that to impress Death, and she's just like...
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Dude couldn't read the room.

Death being so apathetic to Thanos causing a catastrophic amount of destruction in the universe cracked me up when I read The Infinity Gauntlet.

I'm sure that Whedon was trying to plant that seed with the line "To challenge them is to court death" at the end of the first Avengers but I know I don't speak only for myself by saying that I'm glad they went with a different direction for Thanos in the MCU. I don't dislike the idea of Thanos being obsessed with the embodiment of Death but cinematically I think his crusade to wipe out half of all life in the universe made for a more interesting storyline.

 

[Zarex]

No Thanos copter, 0/10 adaptation.

At least we got the rotor.


After Cate Blanchett was cast I would have bet any amount of money that her Hela was going to be a Lady Death substitute in Avengers 3 & 4.