avenger : Age of Ultron launch Phase 3 of Marvel ’s moving picture universe . Which means even more interconnected stories , and brings us nearer to the inevitable fourth dimension when the universe is suppress under its own system of weights and has to restart from chicken feed . Here are the nine inviolable bad ways that Marvel could boot its movies .
And yes , this is inevitable . finally , a combination of aging stars and too much water under the bridge , tale - wise to , will run some exec ( in all probability after Kevin Feige is long hold out ) to decide to hit the reset button and ramp up a whole new Marvel movie - verse from the land story up . This will be hard to do the right way — but super easy to do damage . So we decide to hail up with some of the most obvious ways to do it wrong .
1) Spider-Man Spider-Man Spider-Man
Spider - Man is already join the Marvel movie universe , and it ’s look more probable that Marvel Studios will gain full originative control over the WWW - slinger at some point . And one logical start point , when building a new Marvel universe on CRT screen , would be to begin with Spidey , who ’s by far the troupe ’s most recognizeable character , and then build out from there . This would probably be a big fault — both because the picture Spidey has already been rebooted , himself , a few times , and because making the Marvel Universe more focused on Spidey could end up build it seem a lot minor and more like a fresh Spidey - poesy . Which bring us to …
2) Every character’s origin is connected
One easy manner to establish a hatful of fibre with weird powers and complicated origins is to make them all spring from the same source — the Amazing Spider - Man movies already test to do this , by receive OsCorp be responsible for creating Spidey as well as all his villains . And it ’s a common superhero movie gimmick for the hoagie and villain to have basically the same origin . The Marvel film - verse flirted with doing this early on , bear all the heroes ’ stock come back to super - soldier blood serum and/or Howard Stark , but then it outgrew that idea . So one wanton , but terrible , way to re - establish a long ton of Marvel characters would be to have their pedigree all link up up . And speaking of OsCorp …
3) Give them a corporate overlord
The organizing gimmick of the Marvel movies offend up being Nick Fury , a cryptic private detective who gather mass to join his Avengers Initiative . Eventually , the Avengers were privatized ( sort of ) with Tony Stark ’s money — but they started out work for a quasi - governmental agency . But mayhap in the reboot , they could work for a tummy ( that is of course secretly evil , as they always are ) ? This was the tack that the doomed reboots of both Knight Rider and Bionic Woman took on television , supplant spy agencies with corporations that want to finish trouble before it bulge . So the new Marvel movie universe of discourse could see Captain America and Thor punching in and deal with H.R. department drama .
4) Heroes Reborn
as luck would have it , we do n’t have to guess a dreadful Marvel reboot — because we ’ve already seen one . This mid-1990s funnies takeoff started with a weird storyline where Iron Man wrench out to have been on the Q.T. evil for decades and then gets replaced by his own teenage ego , and then it gets weird . There ’s a crossover where some of the Marvel heroes get banished to a pocket population by Mr. Fantastic ’s godlike Word , and their backstories are wholly rewritten . In this interpretation of reality , Captain America has ingested an integral sex hormone factory , and is also brainwashed by Evil Robot Nick Fury . Everything is angsty and people are constantly spitting with all 500 of their tooth exposed . If Marvel really want a terrible reboot , they could just shoot Heroes Reborn , or do some sort of similar “ pocket universe ” shenanigan . speak of which …
5) Dark and gritty heroes
When Warner Bros. need to boot Batman , they turned to Christopher Nolan , who took the character in a noir - but - grounded direction . And when they rebooted him a second time , they rifle with the even darker , more stylize Zack Snyder . So one obvious way to reboot the Marvel motion-picture show - verse would be to go much darker , and grimmer , and a smidge dirtier . Have more scowling . More slow - motion raindrop . Make everyone ’s origins darker — like , mayhap Howard Stark was an malevolent bastard who play a joke on Steve Rogers into taking an data-based treatment and then change by reversal his son Tony into a tormented monster ? incline up the alcoholism and ego - odium , add to the despicable weirdness . masses need to stare at their own empty masks right smart more often . Slow - move rain ! Etc . etc . ( And before anybody jumps down my throat , I mostly enjoyed the Nolan Bat - films , andliked Man of Steel for what it was . And this worked great for Daredevil . But this would be a terrible direction for the Marvel films as a whole . )
6) Invent a whole new mythos!
Every few year , the openhanded comedian newspaper publisher stir things up and give their population a brand new twisting — so there ’s actually tons of softheaded backstory to choose from . But why stop there ? Why not invent a whole raw backstory , involving Uatu the Watcher and Project : PEGASUS , and Obadiah Stane and the Savage Land and a ton of other stuff , in which all of the Marvel submarine were genetically pre - programmed 1,000 year ago ? And everything you knew was WRONG ? And instead of just reintroducing these lineament we already know , their origins are reinvented as part of a massive closed book plot line ?
7) Fairytales!
The superhero pic boom will eventually run out of steam — butfairytale moviesare just getting started . And nobody does fairy tale with more mainstream four - quarter-circle solicitation than Disney — which happens to own Marvel . So why not give the Marvel cosmos a faerie makeover and play up the subsist fantasy elements — with evil queens , curses , piece , fiend and vaguely limit personal lessons ? This would be one style of short - circuit the oft - heard complaint that every Marvel movie is the same ( which seems to boil down to “ They ’re all activeness film . ” ) Plus this manner , there could be more cute creatures and heroic destiny and just a tinge of campy archness .
8) Introducing new versions of every character at once
Why reintroduce all the hoagy slowly and painstakingly , in standalone solo movies , when you may ramble them all out in one or two big squad - up pic ? After all , shareholder value has to be maximized , and a property that ’s not being used is a vast permissive waste . So perhaps the very dense way to bring up the Marvel motion-picture show would be to present young versions of Captain America , Iron Man , Thor , Spider - Man and Hulk , with Modern backstories as well as newfangled actor , all in one moving picture . Just make it fit , somehow . Actually , that would be the dumb , except for …
9) Avengers High School!
Everybody loves untried - adult storytelling . And there ’s nothing good than getting to fuck your favorite characters when they were immature and idealistic — just ask Darth Vader . So how about rebooting the Marvel Movie - rhyme with Avengers High School ? Where adolescent nerds Tony Stark and Bruce Banner play pranks on each other and feud with that mean value athletic supporter , Thor Odinson ? Steve Rogers could be their gymnasium teacher , who remembers when kids used to have regard . There could be romance , and hijinks , and subplots about who ’s going to the Prom — and who ’s get going to help Tony turn the T - shirt cannon into a weapon in metre to stop the loss leader from put da Gamma - radiation therapy succus into the punch ? There could be a whole makeover collage sequence at the mall , set to an EDM cover of “ dress up You Up in My love life . ” The Marvel pic have n’t had a mall makeover montage yet , and it ’s really about time .
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