How Marvel Wasted Their Best Cosmic Stories!
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So do you think they could do your idea for Captain Marvel as a prequel?
You don’t consider Infinity Wars and End Game Galactic? They were really universal, weren’t they?
Thank you for changing the main image.
Or just don't drink alcohol haha. Smoke weed instead. Much better for you if you need to get lit.
Alcohol is the devil! Haha
I’ve been religiously watching this channel for a few years now. WHY isn’t Ryan an official writer at Marvel!?! You would be amazing!
Hindsight is always 20/20
I agree that the story ideas here are often much better than what Disney puts out.
Though we don't usually know exactly how much of it is Ryan and how much is the writers behind the scenes at ScreenCrush. There's a lot of credit to go around.
Fact is Ryan would just be another great writer in a room. He'd have no power no sway and no influence and would be beholden to the decisions of the executives far removed from the fandom or the creative process.
Ryan Reynolds??
You could say the same about the comics explained guy also
The funny thing about secret invasion is that, if you remove it entirely, Fury has a consistent character arc. Fury’s lightheartedness in the post credit scene of Far From Home is matched in The Marvels.
*Far From Home
@@coreyburns4168Ya know what, you’re right. And honestly, it’s probably better if you take Secret Invasion out of the storyline. Him losing faith in the Avengers makes NO sense, now that Rian mentions it. The only reason why that’d be important is that means the next Avengers lineup could be arranged by someone like Doom instead!
Imagine in the next saga, Doom leads the next Avengers against the new X-Men in the next saga. A war instigated from the shadows by Mr. Sinister! The main hero is Kamala Khan, who has to find the common ground with both teams to unite them. I just can’t decide if the main villain should be Doom or Sinister.
I just don't get why Secret Invasion didn' happen after The Marvels. There needed to be a catalyst for why the Skrulls try to take over, a straw that breaks the camels back. The last Skrull colony being destroyed and the sudden influx of refugees to Earth could have been that, especially since they would blame Earth heroes for the destruction. That would just make more sense and one story would be leading to another.
Wasn't James Gunn announced to be in charge of the cosmic side before they fired him? Maybe he had a plan laid out but Marvel couldn't use it anymore after he left.
I thought so too as I was watching this
Same here, cosmic saga died the moment they fired James Gunn. All that came after it, is damage control.
Yes he was supposed to be the kevin feigi of the mcu cosmic side but disney shoot themselves in the foot when they fired him
I'm pretty sure they hold the rights to whatever plan he would've left when they fired him so they could've used it if they wanted (or could finish based on notes). They probably didn't think they should use it because of why they fired him so they hastily started rewrites (a la Star Wars).
The Secret Invasion story for the most part makes more sense if it takes place after The Marvels, which was probably the original intent. The increased tensions of the Skrulls not having a home make more sense in the wake of their colony’s destruction. But then scheduling chaos pushed SI to air before the movie, which meant the colony existing afterwards would negate the show’s storyline. So they added a hastily filmed line about the colony existing to try to handwave over the obvious plot hole, and in the process created another one because no one was minding the store.
Indeed. And this has been brought up multiple times in the comments of these videos, but Screen Crush continues to choose to ignore it.
I think Secret Invasion was supposed to come out after the Marvels
They messed up taskmaster the most. He's such a cool character and would be really cool to see in the MCU. That still makes me mad everytime I think about ut.
Maybe they will fix him in the thunderbolts movie
Me too man. Me too. 🫤
I dont mind it being Drakov's daughter or gender swap, they just were like "oh Taskmaster is here, anddd they done. "
Comic Taskmaster is a mutant, and they haven't brought those out yet. Plus, there's the whole, "girl hero can only fight girl villains" trope.
I personally love taskmaster as an ongoing mercenary villain who kinds just pops up and fights anyone. It's too bad that won't be adapted into the MCU...
For many years, Hollywood writers and producers have treated movie goers like idiots that don't understand anything that they can't see in their real lives. This leads to The Silver Surfer serving a smoke monster Galactus since they felt normal giant person was too hard to grasp. They are still doing this.
Best comment I've seen so far.
13:44 so basically the stuff that happened in the background was more interesting then what we got right now.
the Eternals movie looked drab compared to the Jack Kirby comic book , and they changed the Eternals from being organic beings to robots and the deviants from being colored humanoids like Thanos, to grey dinosaur dogs
Are the comics worth reading? Until the film I had no idea about any of them (Sersi aside).
@@itsamoggymoggworld they are like watching a movie of the tv show, Ancient Aliens with Giorgio I can't spell his last name
They are if you're reading that Avengers versus X-Men versus eternals comics. That way you understand a lot about them in a very short period of time even learn that they can't really die.
Never forget that Eternals was only made because DC announced it was making a New Gods film... which didn't get made anyway!!
Also, with the Eternals, rather than starting after _Endgame_ so they're indirectly responsible for countless atrocities by inaction (the canon version), why not establish at the beginning of the film that it's in an alternate universe, really take advantage of the multiverse angle? Maybe have the Watcher, Doctor Strange, or Strange Supreme be looking in on a universe which never had Avengers. After all, the film's greatest strength was the theme of moral legislation, which goes down the toilet if Captain America morally legislated how superhumans should use their powers in the 1940s.
Just posted this on another thread the most recent phases were poorly executed but the ideas were there. The execution and plan didn't exist
Screen crush is killing it…Marvel should be using you all as consultants
12:26 People keep saying this, but it’s not true. Wandavision ended with Wanda playing with the all-corrupting book of evil magic. That’s what happened, she was corrupted by the evil book.
They didn't do a very good job of explaining how reading the book would corrupt the soul. Just like turning to the Dark Side of the Force or being possessed by a demon makes you a different person.
They humped the bunk between Secret Invasion & The Marvels. They name drop the Skrull Emperor in Secret Invasion, let alone give no hint as to what Carol did to the Cree, & then the first time we meet the Emperor, he’s getting evicted by the Cree baddie & being taken in by Valkyrie? I’m so confused 🧐🥶
That’s what I’ve hated about some of the recent Marvel stuff, is that it isn’t TRASH per se, it’s just there’s this huge wealth of potential and you think they are gonna DO THE THING, right? and then they just ……..don’t at all.
Secret Invasion can still be redone post Secret Wars because it’s a soft reboot, other cosmic stories, Annihilation, Empyre, Galactus Trilogy, Korvac Saga, Infinity Wars, Infinity Crusade, Dark Phoenix Saga, Magnus Saga, War Of Kings, real Planet Hulk, or orginal Infinity War storyline
Imagine if Korvac was the villain of a Captain Marvel movie! That would be epic.
My understanding is that the first cycle had Joss Whedon doing some type of planning. I remember hearing that he was keeping things in line to make everything in the first 2 Avengers movies somewhat coherent. When he was broken by A2, they stayed on the rails until the end of Infinity War. And then…
Whedon left because he didn't have control and Marvel kept telling him what to do. Notice how his movies keep undoing the plots of the side characters and he ignored their development completely?
Thank you! Someone said it! I always appreciate seeing something about Captain Marvel.
Carols NEEDS a character driven story about failure and loss, that's what made her first outing a billion dollar film. If we had gotten your prorosed CM2, Carol would have been the glue that stuck the cosmic story lines together. Also, seeing her fail to stop a war she accidentally made into a near genocide would have been powerful to see and her redemption from it would have been even more so. I think I literally commented some of this on your previous video recently involving Carol so I'm glad to see we're on a similar wavelength in terms of our hope of a framework/meaning for the cosmic side, where the lore could have been strengthened, and how stellar and important these characters are and could be to the cosmic story's weave.
Exactly! I think her character has not been served well at all by Marvel at all.
She has moments, but that is it.
Ryan is correct that she could have (should have) been at the heart of epic story lines. Especially with incredible story lines of the Kree and the Skrulls.
Her character is now tied to Ms Marvel (who I like) but not with much ability to really lead a team.
Also, as an aside, I think the misogynist hatred of Bree Larson did play a role here. Disgusting but true.
My biggest disappointment with the space mcu stuff is we still dont have Nova
I heard he is getting a movie
After Endgame, you get the impression that they are just grinding out content as fast as possible. It's not following a plan or setting anything up. It's just "glad to hear you liked the Infinity Saga! now, how about some bonus Marvel stuff?" There's no multiverse saga. Who is the villain? What are they planning? Why are they so badass? Noting.
Wanda was corrupted by the dark hold in the post credit scene in wandaVision. She turned bad there.
IMO that post credit scene was out of place. The person that Wanda was at the end of Wanda Vision wouldn't become the person in Doctor Strange. She would need a complete second season to become that version of the character.
I think Marvel and Disney need to state that The Marvels should take place before Secret Invasion…
That cosmic synopsis was amazing
The original Phoenix (just Jean - no possession) is still the best. Fingers crossed for no "it was a duplicate" retcon edition
The secret invasion story line in the comics was spread across multiple books over a few years. I agree that it was wasted presenting it in a mini series. They could have gotten a few films with cliffhangers out of it.
for Captain Marvel 2, i wanted it to be called Captain Marvel 2: Secret Invasion or something like that, i did like the Marvels movie, but i think we missed a movie in between Captain Marvel 1 and the Marvels, they showed us in a tiny flashback what happened when she took on the Supreme Intelligencor, i wanted that to be the big bad of Captain Marvel 2, which we should have gotten before the Marvels movie
Agreed! I would have also liked a more in-depth story for Rambeau featured...
“AVENGERS! assemble”
Gives me chills to this day
The last few years have really soured me on Nick Fury. Here's a character who could charm his way into anything he asks and has a failsafe, now he's a dottering old man with no direction or plan, and being picked on for admittedly lying to millions of Skrulls and i feel nothing but anger. He should feel bad and we should wan to see him get back, and by the end it's just like he never left or grown.
The worst decision Marvel has ever made.
This isn't just an issue for cosmic Marvel, it's an issue with everything after Endgame.
Carol Danvers' hero to villain arc sounds awesome, a real missed opportunity!
The whole annihilator storyline was probably the plan before they shoehorned in Ms. Marvel and Rambeau. Would have been a much better movie
The Snap-Blip era. How have we not gotten more material for that period?
i didn't like that they changed the Mandarin, he was a Chinese Archaeologist that found an ancient alien spaceship and a robot dragon that had ten rings on it's claws and they fit on his fingers, and each one had a different alien symbol on them, and each one had a different power , like lightning blast, or freeze ray , or black hole, that would have made for an awesome Iron Man 3
I honestly believe that the reason why Marvel doesn't seem to have a concrete plan regarding their cosmic stories is because of how James Gunn wrote and directed the Guardians. The MCU's first real step into the cosmic was with the Guardians but because Gunn put so many creative liberties into each film that the screen iterations of the Guardians have almost nothing in common with their comic counterparts, it just would've been difficult to reform some of the cosmic arcs from the comics because of the Guardians. Whatever cosmic stories that the screenwriters would've pulled from the comics would've had to have been tweaked in some capacity due to Guardians.
It's safe to ignore Secret Invasion, the MCU certainly does.
That was SABER in space. Monica Rambea work for SWORD in WandaVision.
What's tragic is how the writing team behind Capt Marvel seems to leave their most interesting stories in flashbacks. We could've had Marvel's shortened version of Smallville with the Carol Danvers child flashbacks (which seemed to ONLY be made so the trailers could bait the radfem audience). Not sure why THIS wasn't the first half of the movie that we got...
Now we find out that the sequel that got canned for the team-up movie was the double-down of "topple the society that keeps you down!" and they didn't want to run it with the Marvels?? So we once again get just another movie with better stakes and a consistent throughline in a flashback, "The better movie 2, flashbacks strike back". Marvel definitely isn't run by the same people who took the risk with Iron man as their opening movie, either that or someone somewhere thought "nah, capt marvel is the female power fantasy, she can't be seen *losing*" and scrapped a compelling character arc (where she was actually good but not doing it the way that's best for her). Instead we just see that without her powers she was nothing, because she's a blunt instrument who doesn't show any knowledge of finesse or adaptation. I say this having never seen The Marvels.
If the comics have different runs with different writers then the MCU should follow that kind of story sharing between directors/writers.
That's what i thought a whole time. Thanos attack xandar, cap.marvel destroying supreme intelligence etc
10:08 i had always said Gravik and the Skrulls motivation made no sense. he found them a home, and we seen him actively helping them off-world.
yeah, the story was very sloppy.
In secret invasion they said skrulls are homeless in marvels the skrulls have a home until dar ben steals their atmosphere
The President of the US can’t declare anything on the part of “The World” so it makes sense that Norway has no interest in expelling the Asgardians/beloved tourist attractions
I love how the reimagining of the MCU cosmic saga doesn’t bother accounting for The Eternals
Another great video Screen Crush, I enjoy your "What If" or story fix style of videos
Having been a lifelong fan of cosmic marvel (I started reading comics with Silver Surfer 50 and the Infinity Gauntlet) it’s so frustrating seeing this video because you are 100% right.
The Abnett & Lanning cosmic run are my favourite comics ever and there is such a rich untapped vein of stories there that are just begging to be made into film.
Gunn did well worth the guardians but that should have launched so much more but I dunno, feels like they’ve been holding it back??
IMO the multiverse and secret wars stories are too soon… Can only think this is because they want to bring in the existing fox roster to interact with the existing characters before they get too old (the root cause is not wanting to recast like you’ve spoken about).
Imagine the stories playing out like you detailed and then when everything seems quiet, Ultron returns after a piece of him escaped the atmosphere and combines with the Phalanx!!
They could merge the Annihilation Conquest with the Xmens Phalanx Covenant story from the 90s 🤷🏻
Did not mean to write that much. If you read all that, nice one!! ✌🏻
I love all of your videos. Your an inspiration, keep up the amazing work
Thanos waited until Odin died to kickstart his plan
They just keep breaking the Golden Rule: Show Don't Tell
I would have also liked a more in-depth story for Rambeau featured before Marvels. Ryan is 100% on point with addressing the gaps in storytelling. We should give everyone a pass for content created and released 2019-2023, no?
They should get EVERY SURVIVING AUTHOR that wrote the greats to be consultants. Are Claremont or Jim Starlin alive? (R.I.P. John Byrne, M.Gruenwald, etc.) As a Marvel Zombie that read comics from 1975-2005, I am beyond words underwhelmed by the MCU's 20 year stretch. There's been story arcs that've won Eisner Awards (Oscars for comics) that they've consistently BLOWN as you've so eloquently detailed here. With few exceptions. They could literally pull 75% dialogue straight from the books & just turn paper into film. I think the #1 problem is too much creative license and complete DISRESPECT to the glory of rich canon history & the fans. The damn writers & producers could just do slight ad lib & take all the credit.
I have little hope that they can do anything other than a COMPLETE REBOOT, hopefully after getting Spidey licenses from Sony. Retire Kevin Feige & KK. Elon Musk buys Disney. Fix Star Wars Disney era & start Marvel from scratch. Do FF right. Do least 1 movie with original X-Men, Avengers & Guardians of Galaxy. Before introducing later, better known characters. There is no "superhero fatigue", only CRAP NON-CANON FATIGUE. Screw the Ultimate universe. Give us WW3 Nick Fury & Howling Commandos fighting alongside Logan, Cap & the Invaders. Do Earth right, including regular heroes & street level/heroes for hire types. And cosmic stuff right like Kree/Shiar/Skrull, Negative Zone, Galactus/Heralds/Quasar/(real)Mar-Vell.
Keep narcissists & fan-hating Liberal agendas OUT of good story telling. If it worked before 20-50 years ago, non fans will love it too. No excuses. It will even bring value back to old comics & cause quality to come back to the entire comics industry again. Meanwhile all we can do is cherish the great memories we have of the books, and of the maybe 5-8 DECENT movies that have been made such as Maguire Spidey 1, IronMan1, Japan Wolverine, Capt 1-2, Black Panther 1, Guardians 2(?) and Avengers up to Infinity War. Everything else has basically SUCKED. Couple shows were ok like Falcon/WS, Iron Fist s1 & Shield s1. Other than that, I don't think I would sit through anything else ever again.
Stan Lee talked about doing movies since the early 70s & died rich, but he was a freaking SELL OUT. He should've insisted in keeping canon. It's what separated Marvel from everyone else. It inspired trivia geekness where books had to refer all past history to the books they referred to with notes constantly. Consistency was king. It made it cool to be a geek, fan that knew the details. Most of everything now is watered down bubblegum used toilet paper versions of Marvel's previous glory. Like many other franchises. It's sad that almost nothing matters these days except a quick buck. Disney DESERVES the loss of every cent of the billions they're lost as retribution for spitting in the face of history, the Americana, the culture, and of both the creators & the fans. But at least Stan died filthy rich....
NUFF SAID
(wow, my Aunt Petunia. I really didn't wanna waste that much time & passion or think it was clobberin time. What a revoltin development!)
they can make a sequel to Dark Phoenix, they showed her flying into outer space at the end as the Phoenix, the Shi'Ar can attack Earth in the next movie, and say that the Phoenix must be destroyed because it blew up a star near their world
You should do a video of how you would plan the DCU cosmic universe since it hasnt started yet, that would be a banger video!
7:18 Out of ALL the MCU movies, Thor Ragnarok is your favorite movie? Wow. There really is no accounting for taste.
Add in the mess with The Eternals. I like your ideas about Captain Marvel. She was too over- powered for the underdog story they kept trying to tell.
A big problem with the cosmic side of Marvel is that it lacks a sense of scale. The Kree rule over an entire dwarf galaxy. Their war with the Skrulls spanned over hundreds of planets. It should have been portrayed like the Clone Wars or the Dominion War from Star Trek with battles between fleets of ships.
Why didn't they straight up adapt Annihilation? That would have been epic.
Here's a fun idea; Marvel could still do that story for a third Captain Marvel movie unifying the cosmic stuff. They've already done at least one interquel with Black Widow, filling the gap between Civil War and Infinity War.
They've used scenes in Black Widow and the Ant-man movies to hint at a "lost era" set of stories during the '70s and '80s. The first Captain Marvel was also a gap filling movie, since it was set in 1989 and 1995.
I love that they're good at adjusting things down the line and often succeed.
This channel is just actually the best!!!
Wow, I just got super depressed while watching this video picturing an alternate ending of secret Invasion where a revitalized Nick Fury who has his faith back in super heroes clicks an Avengers icon on his phone and gets a little grin and the Avengers theme plays and-oh man I gotta lay down
I don't see Disney/Marvel correcting their downward spiral. I think Deadpool 3 will be fun though I see Marvel shoved their TVA nonsense into Deadpool 3 for no real reason other than to maybe kill off key characters with no repercussions. James Gunn totally ruined Warlock. He made him an idiot and didn't really show his power at all. In the comics Warlock went toe to to with Thanos. Also Gunn made Drax the Destroyer an idiot as well. In the comic Drax is basically indestructible. He is practically cursed. He can't really destroy Thanos but Thanos can't actually finish off Drax. Anyway, there's no sign Marvel will turn their films or tv around at all.
This is un related but here's how to fix kang and make him a better big bad than thanos
#1 Make Kang more like Thanos and the High evolutionary
#2 Show Kang winning every battle like Thanos in infinty war not only did thanos able to defeat the hulk but also was able to take on all of the guardians of galaxy along with ironman , spiderman and dr strange so make kang win more fights
#3 Show kang win in avengers Kang dyasnty and becomes God of the mutliverse and creates battleworld instead of the beyonder then have Kang be killed by dr doom becoming God emperor doom
The way you explain it its shocking the inconsistencies haven’t been more egregious!
3:16 A lot of BLANK spaces in CAPTAIN MARVEL's career in space. Why didn't we get a full update on what happened to her between 1990 to [her return to Earth with Stark in] 2015-or so???
Captain Marvel should of been introduced earlier in the infinity saga... maybe in phase 2. And Phase 3 could of had an ACTUAL Captain Marvel 2 movie focusing on her being "The Annihilator" I would LOVE to see a follow up right after Cap. Marvel 1 when she destroys the supreme intelligence and plunge the glaxy into a civil war. Make her into a villain/morally gray character in that story, then give her a good redemption arc. I want to see that regret, guilt etc Cap Marvel goes through. I just feel between the Cap Marvel and The Marvels movie, there is a HUGE story/event gap that should of been done.
It seems to be the train in Hollywood to waste great stories. I have not seen a movie in recent times. It has not done that very thing. It’s like they’re afraid to actually do a good job.
Mainly because today's writers are not creative, passionate and/or nerdy about the source material.
Many writers and directors are commission by Disney/Kevin Fiege to make MCU movies for D+ and to churn out content they lack the experience to the reference of the comics.
Kevin Fiege probably didn't saw Secret Invasion before it premiere because he must see the movies! Secret Invasion should have been in Battleword so that the Skrulls will be from another universe where they took over Earth and defeated the Kree!
NAILED IT PERFECTLY! - the MCU needs at two cinematic "editor-in-chief's - one exclusively for Earth-based stories - one for cosmic stories - and nothing get's approved or released without their review and approvals - it used to be Kevin, but it's obviously not the current case any longer
I’m so glad I discovered your channel
I love the mcu and marvel and I know they are not doing good now I’m Davy watching the marvels with my mom on Disney plus she had no idea what was going on and we watched everything
So somethings wrong with the movies and I love how nog only you show what’s up but you offer solutions fun what if scenarios and other things so your not just saying this is wrong o really love your videos and they inspire me to do mcu what ifs of my own
So thank you
Captain Marvel:Secret Invasion should have been a secret to captain marvel,but instead we got a half ass adaptation of secret invasion on Disney+ with a rushed finale and we ended up with the marvels.
Secret Invasion should have been an Avengers movie
Bro, your reviews are AWESOME.
Unfortunately, Chadwick Boseman died. I suspect Black Panther and Wakanda were originally intended as the anchor for Phase IV / V. In the comics, T'chala / Wakanda had links with Namor, Doom, FF, magic, Captain Marvel, Xmen, and even its own space empire -- more than enough material to move MCU forward. Black Panther aside, Chadwick had the gravitas to replace RDJ as the new centre. After Chadwick died, life had to go on but the MCU didn't have a ready character / actor to step in and be that anchor. Hence, we got the string of meh movies / TV series. MCU then tried to anchor on Kang -- but. no go either. It's likely the next phases will be anchored by Reed - Doom feud, then Krakoa, then who knows.
At the end of the day marvel NEEDS and I mean needs better writing
As always Ryan and team have amazing and intriguing ideas, of which Marvel should take note, but probably won't.
12:34 Nia wasn’t even in the same room as the movie she was directing.
They should’ve waited to do a proper secret invasion after the reported soft reboot. Would’ve been great as the first major build up for the new mcu. Secret invasion could’ve been the first avengers movie of the new shit.
Hearing you explain how to connect the cosmic stories sounds way better than marvel’s rendition
The cosmic MCU has been so disappointing. It had such a great start with Guardians, but outside of maybe the Avenger's films they just never did much with it.
You've only got ONE customer. You'd think you'd show him some love and get him in some merch
I’ve never seen him buy anything… I’m starting to think he’s just lonely and likes getting advice
Besides the X- Men, the one thing I'm dying to see in the MCU is the Annihilation Wave.
I'd like that, too. I would like to see Nova (Richard Rider) show up in the MCU, but I'd want the storyline to be more coherent than many of these Marvel movies and shows have been lately.
I badly want a proper space battle in the MCU
I’m really hoping cap 4 has some sort of pay off for secret invasion and the marvels. The marvels was super fun but secret invasion was done just horribly, but I still think marvel is gonna start paying off on some things. But also yes, we NEED hulkling, I was really disappointed he wasn’t introduced in the marvels, maybe Cap 4 but I just don’t know.
Wow. I was just wondering if I should skip Secret Invasion. Now I got my answer.
The disappointing thing is that I remember them talking about James Gunn basically being the over arching person for the cosmic side of the MCU before he was fired, so it would’ve been interesting had they followed through with that to see if he could have created a better narrative to connect all of the cosmic stories together.
I finally watched the Marvels. It was better than I expected. Dar-Ben was pretty boring and forgetful. The reveal of annihilator moniker and Dar Ben being there could have been shown better. They didn’t make her an interesting villain, her boring costume, odd teeth situation and lack of captivating dialogue made her forgettable.
“Great director like Nia DaCosta” where was this great director during The Marvels?
WandaVision happened after Wanda lost her parents her twin brother and because of number 14, 000,605 lost the man she loved twice once by her own hand. Redemption arc or not how were people expecting her to just let him die a third time and and her own children to the list?
Anyone who saw her reading the Darkhold in the end credit scene would say she's desperately trying to bring them back.
Which explains how she was so easily corrupted to evil the next time we saw her.
Honestly if it was just a youtube ad i wouldn't have believed it but i think that ryan has morals and would not endorse a product he doesn't believe in, it sounds too good to be true i guess i will just have to find out for myself
so long as captain kev is in 'control' o' mapping out the MCU for the next 50+ years, you all at SC will be gainfully employed......and they all rejoiced
Someone get Ryan into Feige’s DMs! This man deserves a creative director job or better at Marvel.
What would have fixed the cosmic stories is Agents of SHIELD/Inhumans.
The Kree created the Inhumans to fight the Skrulls.
Keeping Kamala an Inhuman means she would have had more of a connection to Carol & her story with the Kree than just having light based powers.
How would the Eternals and Celestials all figure into all of this?
3:42 LOTR would have been a very different story if Gandalf dosed up Bilbo with Zbiotics 😂 Maybe it could have turned the Nazgûl back into humans.
Great video!!!!
0:43 made me double take. I have cats named Artemews and Apawllo!
I thought you would mention something simpler: the Marvels movie completely wasted the potential of the "body switching" situation. In the movie, they gave a half-baked explanation about why that happened, and honestly, it didn't make much sense. In the comics, (the original) Captain Marvel is imprisoned in an alternate universe. Rick Jones, a young man from Earth (and an important comics character sinfully missing from the movies), finds the "Nega-bands", a pair of bracelets that, when struck together, make Marvel and Jones switch bodies for three hours.
Now, imagine the following in the MCU: the villain has a different weapon, the Antimatter Rod, which resembles a lightning rod and has the power to "attract" antimatter to be channelled against her enemies. She also has one of the Quantum Bands (like at the beginning of the movie) and finds out that Kamala has the other. She invades Earth to get the second band from Kamala. Ms. Marvel fights against the enemy minions but flees from her house to take the battle away from her family out of fear of them getting hurt. Even though she can stand her ground against the minions, the big villain with the rod and one band is too much for her, but Captain Marvel arrives in time to fight alongside Kamala and keep the villain from getting Kamala's band. Apparently, Marvel's "positive energy" powers can be used to cancel the antimatter emissions from the rod, so they use it to their advantage.
In the chaos of the battle, Kamala manages to snatch the second band from the villain and strikes them together to defend herself from a rod ray. But what nobody except maybe the villain knew is that this creates a rift between our universe and the Negative Zone, a parallel antimatter universe. The rift will allow antimatter attracted to the rod to leak into the positive universe. It would destroy Earth and maybe the galaxy, so Carol knows that she needs to close the rift, which can be done by reversing what was done to open it: having Kamala strike the bands together while Carol shoots a positive energy ray.
Carol also decides that the rod needs to be thrown into the Negative Zone before the rift is closed, for the rod is too much a dangerous weapon to be kept in the positive matter universe. She prepares to throw the rod into the rift, but the villain manages to grab Kamala as hostage and throws her into the rift. Marvel has only seconds to save Kamala; if Kamala stays too long in the Negative Zone, she will die. The villain blocks the rift from Carol, so she does not have an alternative except to tackle the villain into the rift and fly after Kamala into the negative zone. She lets go of the villain, grabs Kamala and throws her back into our universe, screaming to Kamala to strike the bands together on three (this could also be a throwback to the 1-2-3-go bit they did before in the movie). Kamala is thrown back into the positive universe and strikes the bands, while Carol's shot from within the rift hits them, and the rift is closed, with Carol getting stranded in the Negative Zone. The movie ends with Earth saved, but Kamala screams in despair, feeling guilty for Carol's sacrifice to save her.
This could be only the setup for the third movie, where lots of good stuff could happen. First of all, Carol is not dead. She is stranded and cannot open the rift again because the bands are in our universe. Kamala's powers or physiology could have changed from exposure to the Negative Zone, which could have made the Bands permanently attached to her body (or at least make the bands unusable by anyone else). Not sure if Captain Marvel is still alive, she seeks help from other Avengers and meets Nick Fury, who introduces her to Monica (I thought that cramping Monica and Kamala both into the second movie weakened both their parts, so the second movie could've been with interactions between Kamala and Carol, and the third one between Monica and Kamala). Monica is working at Saber, and her powers are being tested and studied by a certain team of Saber scientists: Dr. Reed Richards and Dr. Susan Storm, who research particle-to-energy conversion and positive and negative radiation (Monica's powers being in both of their research fields).
After being debriefed by Kamala on the events of the second film, Reed and Sue agree that Carol is probably alive in the negative zone. They work for several months to survey the negative zone and assemble a rescue team to explore it and bring Carol back. Their mission starts good but needs to be aborted because they are exposed to Negative Zone cosmic rays, and that makes their bodies get changed in bizarre ways: Reed's body becomes uncontrollably elastic (they build an exosuit with Stark tech to help him move); Sue's body gets permanently invisible; Ben Grimm, the pilot, is transformed into a stone "thing"'; and Sue's brother Johnny's body gets incandescent like a human torch and need some Wakandian tech to feed energy to his flames to keep him from being consumed from them. Or let the FF be the original ones; I always thought it very unfair that only Ben has uncontrollable powers, but whatever...
Before getting back to Earth, however, the team was able to pinpoint Carol's location in the negative zone. So they do some science into the Quantum Bands to tune them to Carol's powers, allowing Kamala to open the rift at Carol's position by striking the bands together. However, that goes wrong, and the only effect is that Carol switches bodies with Kamala, who goes to the Negative Zone. Carol is in a poor state after being stranded in the negative zone for such a long time: her powers allowed her to survive, but she got weaker, starving and traumatized (think Tom Hanks at the end of Castaway). The team is all shocked to see her in such a state; Monica, however, cries with joy to see her auntie back. But that lasts only a few seconds, for Kamala gets scared and strikes the bands again, replacing Carol at Saber.
After understanding what happened, the team suits Kamala with protective gear to withstand Negative Zone exposure for longer. They want to allow Carol to stay for three hours so she can be tended. Kamala strikes the bands and switches places with Carol. During the three-hour interval, Carol is patched up and comforted, knowing they are all working to get her back. She is given a protective suit and provisions to survive with a little comfort. They also discuss and agree on a schedule to have Carol back in the positive universe for three hours each day to rest and recover.
Before going back, Carol records a video message to Kamala, thanking her and telling her that she should not feel guilty for what happened, the villain in the previous movie is the only culprit here. She finishes the message by saying that Kamala was a true hero for standing up against the Kree bullies that threatened Earth, taking the fight away from Jersey, thinking about the safety of others, and agreeing to stay in the Negative Zone for those hours while Carol was rescued. The three-hour timer expires, Kamala strikes the Bangles again, and Carol is transported back to the Negative Zone, relieved that her ordeal will be much more bearable.
But the next day, when Kamala strikes the bands to switch, Carol tells the others that she's done some thinking: even though Kamala is equipped and protected, Captain Marvel does not feel right to have the kid undergo such a dangerous task for her behalf. She says she does not want Kamala to switch again until Reed finds a way to permanently rescue Carol. They try to argue but eventually agree with her. The timer goes off, and Carol prepares herself to be switched back to the Negative Zone, but nothing happens. Everyone panics from worrying about Kamala. Eventually, Carol finds a video Kamala herself recorded, answering Carol's previous video. In a stupid and inconsequential typical teenage way, she explains that Carol is a hero much more important to the universe than her. She tells Carol that she is not striking the bands again. She stashed some more provisions into her baggage, and she is going to stay in the Negative Zone until Reed and the others can rescue her. She says that she is happy with that because if some big, powerful cosmic villain menaces the universe, Carol will be there to save Kamala's family and everyone else, and she is also happy because now it's her turn to sacrifice herself for Carol. The group all feel dismayed because if Kamala does not strike the bands, there is no switching: she is calling the shots now. inadvertently
Funny how you mentioned that marvel could have a cosmic opera on par with Star Wars. Another franchise Disney squandered.
Maybe its just a bug but ya'll notice that Secret invasion isn't on D+ timeline anymore?
I don't even read the comics and I think they wasted this.
Maybe post Endgame, MCU should've had 2 sagas, 1 on Earth, the other in the cosmos. They don't meet until the main baddie threatens both.
Cause this multiverse stuff ain't working out.
Hot damn, that was an excellent Captain Marvel over the decades Ryan! How is a RUclipsr writing better stories across years and movie franchises better than a billion dollar studio??
Dear Disney,
Please give us 3 seasons of Gambit Origins. Season 1, Gambit growing up as prince of the Thieves Guild. Season 2, he falls in love. Finale is the obviously the wedding. Season 3, he meets Mr. Sinister and learns to control his powers and eventually leaves and joins the X-Men. I mean come on! It basically writes itself!
I think the pandemic really messed up a lot of plans for Marvel. It might only just be recovering.