Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron is a worthy successor to the first Avengers movie. In fact, the film wastes no time with pleasantries and plops you right into the middle of the action as if it were a direct continuation of the previous film in… Read More »Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron – My Review
Marvel is finally starting to let us know what kind of Spider-Man they’ll be introducing into their Cinematic Universe. In an interview with Collider, Kevin Feige, the man overseeing everything in the MCU, confirmed that we will be seeing Peter Parker alongside the Avengers (as… Read More »Spider-Man Entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe
What could the inclusion of Spider-man mean for the Marvel Cinematic Universe? That’s the question that everyone seems to be trying to answer right now. I’ve seen headlines claiming everything from, “Spider-Man is taking his Civil War role back from Black Panther” to “The MCU… Read More »What could the including of Spider-Man mean for the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
It was a will-they, won’t-they story rivaling the best romantic comedy. Rumors from every where that Sony and Marvel were working together to bring Spider-Man to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I honestly had to remind myself that today is not April 1st when I read… Read More »Spider-man joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Excelsior!
Over the Christmas holidays, I had set out on a mission, to re-cut the Marvel movies into one coherent continuous film. I had originally came across the concept when my brother had shown me the timeline known as “Fury’s Big Week.” This is in reference… Read More »Geek out with the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe in one Mega-Cut
The winter finale of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was full of twists and revelations. The episode continues the build up from last week’s story. Both S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra are searching for the Temple in the Hidden City but now that Hydra has Reina they have the… Read More »Why the Agents of SHIELD Winter Finale was Huge for Marvel Cinematic Universe
Sherlock is getting stranger. Marvel has announced that Benedict Cumberbatch will enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe in as the star of “Doctor Strange.” Dr. Stephen Strange is one of Marvel’s more unique superheros. He’s a neurosurgeon who, after a horrific car accident, discovers the hidden… Read More »Benedict Cumberbatch to play Marvel’s Doctor Strange
In 2009, a lot of people were upset about Disney purchasing Marvel. They were afraid that their favorite characters were going to become watered down versions of themselves. Five years later, all of those naysayers are the same ones that helped make a movie about a talking raccoon and his best friend the walking tree the highest grossing film of the year.
So, with Big Hero 6 out in theaters (and doing well) and the Avengers Half-Marathon last weekend, I thought it would be interesting to look back and see what Disney has done with Marvel, specifically outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), in the past five years.
One of the first things they did was create a new Avengers cartoon for The Disney Channel. Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes lasted two seasons before being scrapped for a different Avengers cartoon: Avengers Assemble! Disney wanted to create its own animated version of the MCU with all of the Marvel cartoons interconnected like their movie counterparts. Unfortunately for EMH, it had already built its own animated Marvel universe (which was awesome) so they had to cancel it in order to start over.
Now they have Ultimate Spider-Man, Avengers Assemble! and Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. with a Guardians of the Galaxy cartoon on the way. To me, this is the closest that Disney has come to making those fans’ fears a reality. With the exception of EMH, these shows are all pretty dull and sacrifice compelling storytelling for a “lesson of the week.”
A notable exception to this is the Phineas and Ferb crossover episode that they did with The Avengers which was hilarious. This is also the second time that Disney has done a crossover with Marvel.
Prep & Landing: Mansion Impossible was the first Disney/Marvel crossover. A back up story in three of Marvel’s main titles, this story featured Wayne and Lanny, the main characters from the vastly underrated Prep & Landing Christmas specials, as they attempt the get the Avengers Mansion ready for a visit from “the Big Guy.” It wasn’t heavy on action or complex plot, but the you can imagine the fun of watching the two elves wander through the mansion.Read More »Marvel and Disney 5 years on