Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20161026191028/@comment-3048593-20180627205820

With removing "Marvel's" from the names, I assume that would include renaming Marvel's The Avengers (as just "The Avengers") and both Marvel's Spider-Man (animated series) and Marvel's Spider-Man (video game) (as just "Spider-Man (2018 animated/TV series) and "Spider-Man (2018 video game)")? There is also all of the tie-in comics and novels to the MCU that has "Marvel's" as part of their titles.

I don't know who decided it, if it even was, but main reason these live-action properties (or tie-ins to them) have Marvel's as part of their names, is to establish face value that they're MCU properties (or as I interpreted it at least). Although we don't do that with the movies, which in some promotion does have it as part of the name like in the listings on box sets ('The Avengers' being the only one where it was released and marketed as such, including on my Blu-ray copy of it). The only recent live-actions shows to not have it in their names, being the Fox shows ('Legion' and 'The Gifted') which are not in the MCU. I may be wrong in this comparison, but having "Marvel's" as part of names for those products, is like how we have the names of comic volumes based on their indicas, rather than what it says on their covers (or is promoted as). A recent example of that being Ant-Man and the Wasp Vol 1 being moved to have "&" instead of "and" because of the indica, even though it's been promoted with "and".

Kinda the same idea with some of the animated shows, but that didn't apply to 'Ultimate Spider-Man' or 'Hulk and the Agents of SMASH' (which are in the same universe as 'Avengers Assemble' and 'Guardians of the Galaxy'), but does with the recent Spider-Man cartoon (which we gave a separate reality from the ones I just mentioned).

With option 2, I think it's a bit overkill to include the network as part of the name. The only way I think it would be useful would be if there were 2 shows with the same name but from different channels coming out the same year, which so far hasn't happened, and won't really happen with how rarely new shows based on Marvel properties are made in general.