Marvel Superheroes 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[NXS7]

7 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

I really hope the Bugle has some new characters, I hope for Kingpin and Bullseye but I doubt it, It'll just be Miles,Gwen,Spidey,Venom, Green Goblin, Spider-Woman

With low expectations about new characters, I wouldn't mind an updated Scorpion. He would make sense with his history with JJJ

[JeanGreyForever]

14 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

That wouldn't surprise me. Kids certainly shouldn't be watching it, even for adults it's incredibly dour compared to most marvel stuff, even the netflix show (that's what you get for no Foggy), and for Daredevil fans it's nothing like his netflix interpretation. It's accurate to a specific run of the comics, but one I think a lot of people consider one of daredevil's worst. (I think it was around 2003? The Devil's Reign arc hasn't really happened in the show yet and Muse had like two minutes of screen time). 

Yeah, exactly. Though apparently the game's pretty gender-neutral in that regard too. (I don't really go for that kind of skin either way, I normally run around as moon knight or trenchcoat Thing but even when I play Sue I use the Bloodstorm ranked reward and not... the more popular skins for that character.)

I've heard that too, but I still don't like it. I know people have talked about wanting more, but however you do it, I think Steve's journey ended in endgame. 

Johnny was a standout in the movie. The actor said something about "modernizing" the character which had me worried, but he's the same Johnny- like you say, he's arguably closer to classic versions. Thing's voice was a bit offputting at first, I still don't like it but I got used to it, and the actor does a good job overall. Sue was probably the standout for the movie. Reed was the one that really hit for me, I think Pedro Pascal just doesn't fit his demeanor. I can sort of see what he was going for with trying to appear cold at times, but he always looks like he's holding back an emotional moment. Silver Surfer here was fine for what they did as an alt-universe one and for what they wanted to do with Johnny, but it definitely wasn't Norrin and therefore not great. Galactus looked good but had no substance.

Oh they wouldn't be retired, it's just like the first two avengers movies where they all split up at the end. They'd be back- it was just setting up solo films for those characters in the case of Magik and GR, or in Elsa's case the post-credits of her bringing WBN and Man-thing onto the team. I also should clarify by new-to-the-universe I mean we're introducing the characters, but this is their home universe. Sort of like how Black Widow and Hawkeye don't get origin stories onscreen when they're introduced, we're just meant to assume they've been around. In this case, young heroes Strange has been keeping an eye on. No multiverse stuff- this also why I didn't include Doom (Plus, poor Wanda's been through enough, I don't want to make her deal with Doom trying to marry her.) With the characters, the roster size is definitely fairly large, and why I kept Blade out of this one (partly because I think it's hilarious to have him be late one last time before being properly introduced in his own movie, and partly because he's a bit high-caliber and experienced for how sort of haphazard this team would be in my movie). But it's pretty similar to AoU, aside from not killing quicksilver- AoU had the OG 6, SW, Quicksilver, and in the final act Vision. The sons have a slightly smaller number with the 3 knights (MK/DD/Punisher), 3 supernatural/magic hunters (Magik/GR/Elsa), and then Strange as the leader, plus Wanda in the third act. I do like the idea of doom being involved in a battle with mephisto, that could be a fun element for the sequel, then maybe Blood Hunt/Eternal Night Falls for the third, with Dormammu backing it for some reason to up the stakes. I will have to find a way to incorporate Leto's Morbius in some small cameo/joke capacity

I would like to get some more information on the january wave soon, I'm pretty happy with at least half the set choices, but the figures could really make or break some of them. GR's bike is an instant win even with just him, but including a new Spidey or any villain would take it from excellent to perfect. The Sandman set will primarily be about how good the Sandman is and whether or not it can differentiate itself from the MCU one, but a new spidey suit/variant and a sandman with an actual good face and hair instead of "angry clone+ generic hair" would probably shift a lot of opinions. The Bugle will entirely come down to the figures for a lot of people, especially those who have the modular.

I always assumed Daredevil: BA was based on the Born Again comic storyline but I guess the Netflix show more or less adapted that already with S3. I guess if they're using subpar comic material as a starting point, it makes sense that an already bad story is probably just going to get even worse with Disney at the helm.

That makes sense. That also reminds me that people were actually trying to say that FF would be a gigantic hit at the box office because of Marvel Rivals lol.

I think Marvel will try to preserve that ending for Steve by essentially looping him back to the Endgame ending after these next two Avengers movies are over. 

There was a lot of controversy over Johnny not being a playboy flirt anymore, but he was still pretty flirtatious. I think the actor for Ben was fine but the characterization was really off. Ben barely had any screentime in the movie and I didn't like how they made him ashamed of his "clobberin' time" line. Then the scene with Johnny forcing him to say it was so off-putting. I thought we had moved past those meta jokes making fun of comic book tropes. Actually I thought most of Johnny's jokes fell flat in the movie, except the last gag with Reed, Johnny and Ben struggling with the car seat. Chris Evans' Johnny was always funny at least. I felt they tried to hard too push Sue in the center stage, at the expense of the other team members (and I say this as someone who had Sue as their favorite character before Jean Grey) while also defining her solely as being a mother. Which goes back to my earlier statement that they tried to recreate Wanda's success by replicating her with Sue but Wanda was a lot more multifaceted than just being a mother. And Vanessa Kirby's character came off a little too cold for me at times, which wasn't an issue with Jessica Alba or the comic Sue. Reed in the comics is very patriarchal and a product of his times. They softened him up too much, probably to make him likable and because I don't think Pedro Pascal would endorse a more old school Reed. This Reed really doesn't feel in charge at all and almost limp, like he's going along for the ride. Surfer was horrendous for me and just culture wars at its worst. If the gender swap had resulted in a good performance, then at least there could have been a redeeming factor, but I just got a very one-note performance that lacked gravitas. Surfer in the 2007 movie really felt like some divine harbinger of death, someone cold and alien with a powerful voice who gradually connects to humanity. The female Surfer we got felt like someone playing dress up in an acting class with no voice modulation. Also erasing Alicia Masters, Ben Grimm's classic love interest, was not a particular good choice either. I won't get started on Mole Man because I think that was the worst acting I've ever seen in a Marvel movie and felt like something that belonged in a SNL skit.

Oh I get it now, makes sense to leave them aside temporarily so they can be launched in their own solo films. And I understand now that you mean all the characters are from the same universe since I originally read it as some of these characters were coming from the multiverse, hence my Morbius reference. I'm not a fan of the multiverse shenanigans so I agree with your concept. That makes me curious if there's a 616 Doom or if that's supposed to just be Tony in the actual MCU. I guess we'll find out in a year. Yeah, I guess it is possible to balance out a team of that size especially when several of the characters have already been previously introduced. Also smart to leave Doom for a sequel, and I think Dormammu is set for a comeback. He left too strong an impression in the first Doctor Strange to be completely ignored since then.

I just hope we can get a more accurate hairpiece for Sandman. It's long overdue. 

5 hours ago, NXS7 said:

With low expectations about new characters, I wouldn't mind an updated Scorpion. He would make sense with his history with JJJ

Agreed. He's overdue for a new minifig. I'd like to see JJJ's son as a civilian character too since we know the set will probably include some.

Edited 3 minutes ago by JeanGreyForever