Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26863084-20160702151917/@comment-5448995-20160713025433

AnnabellRice wrote: ADour wrote: While I agree that the feud in regards to comics is more of a construct than a real thing, it unfortunately does applt to the X-Men in other media, namely video games, with developers even stating Marvel prohibited them from using certain character related to the X-Men or Fantastic Four. Sure, but as TMAO said, that's the business side of things. FOX did not seek the merchandising rights to the characters, so why would Disney spend time and money to give them free advertising?

They should spend time advertising them because they own all of the other rights besides movies, they still have comics with those characters to sell. It seems the comics division is the most independent from Disney, and they are the ones who use the mutants most (still using half of the FF, Skrulls, SS, Galactus, etc), otherwise like ADour said, I've got answers from 3 gaming companies (Future Fight, Avengers Academy, Mighty Marvel heroes) saying they can't use the characters, Wolverine, Thing, and Deadpool used to appear in the current cartoon universe, and after the gaming ban, they also stopped appearing in the cartoons.

The most flagrant example is Avengers Alliance 2, it had plenty of characters from both of those books, and now they just disappeared, no explanation given(they didn't even answer my emails asking about it), but it's as expected they stopped adding characters from those books in the first game a while ago, and playdom is owned by Disney.

Another ridiculous examples was the usual Marvel Characters poster with all the Marvel Universe not having any of those characters either, because as the artist said, Marvel(or Disney) told him not to draw them, there was also an email going around prohibiting artists from drawing Fantastic Four characters at the time the movie came out.

There is a feud, it's undeniable for years, specially the last two, where both companies had a wave of movies coming out, and these bans started happening. The mouse has been really shady unfortunately.

I'm hoping we eventually get a deal between them like they did with Sony.

P.S. And I got caught in this debate again (can't stop myself) :(.