User blog comment:HombreHormiga/Avengers-Phase 3/@comment-1895174-20130209052705/@comment-1895174-20130210202541


 * 1) Well, why wouldn't a crime boss masquerading as a legit businessman fit into the MCU? I'll say it again - because crime bosses have not been utilized as villains in the MCU.  The villains we've been fighting - and will fight at least through Avengers 2 have all been people with more ambitious goals.  Any film in the MCU where the villain is a simple crime boss would stick out like a sore thumb.
 * 2) Sometimes it's nice to focus on the little guy for a change Hence why I would like a different MCU to come after Avengers 3 that focuses on such characters.
 * 3)  I'm not saying Toy Story would fit in the MCU, but do you get what I'm saying?  No, because the comparison isn't really valid because Toy Story would not fit in the MCU.  Audiences would expect not expect the same thing from a Toy Story movie and a superhero movie.  So while a character like Lotso works for Toy Story 3, he wouldn't work in the MCU.
 * 4) Look at it this way - compare Jack Nicholson's Joker to Heath Ledger's.  Both great interpretations of the same character that work well in their respective Batman franchises.  Yet, they wouldn't work in the other's franchise.  Jack Nicholson's joker would be as bad a fit in the Nolanverse as Kingpin would be in the MCU.
 * 5) Just because there are no secret identities in the MCU yet, it doesn't mean that they don't fit. A character with a secret identity such as Daredevil or Spider-Man would stick out like a sore thumb.
 * 6) And I haven't seen Die Hard...  Log off, get on Netflix, and do that.  NOW.
 * 7) So you're saying that smaller, less powerful guys aren't important to the story, because there are bigger things out there? Coulson? As far as I'm aware, Coulson does not have his own movie.
 * 8) You might have 3 Iron Man movies and maybe 3 Thor movies, but phase 4 means 4 Avengers movies.
 * 9) If you're reading this, you haven't followed my instructions to watch Die Hard.
 * 10) The Incredible Hulk did not finish with over $150 million, and Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger didn't do all that much better.  I'm talking about domestic gross, by the way.
 * 11) The graph only takes into account DC and Marvel superheroes, and not ones from other publishers or original superheroes for the screen.  Neither does it take into account how well those films do, comparative to other films released that year.  Despite there being 4 superhero films released in 2011, that year was one of the worst for the genre.
 * 12) How about instead of eggs, you use "passengers".  Or instead of a train, it's a "basket"  One of those.  But even if Disney isn't putting all their eggs in Marvel's basket (you can thank Lucasfilm for that), Marvel's putting all their passengers on the MCU's train.  The MCU is a cool idea, but is it really necessary for every character they have to be a part of it, particularly when they don't really add anything?