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Hello, Marvel Comics Database, this is Concernedalien11780. My history with the Marvel brand is peculiar, but overall unremarkable compared to probably a lot of other Marvel fans' histories with it. My dad was always more of a Marvel fan than a DC fan, and cites Iron Man, Thor, and the Vision as his favorite superheroes in the Silver Age and early Bronze Age, which was the age he was when he regularly read comics. His younger brother, my uncle, is still an adamant comic collector, at the ripe age of fifty, in spite of his avoidance of the more mainstream and/or colorful comics and disillusionment with modern trends. His reason for avoiding comics and media in general with female protagonists is simply because you wouldn't like the fact that he doesn't like to consume media with female protagonists. My dad's initial preference for Marvel made me prefer Marvel as well for a little while, though I eventually decided that both DC and Marvel have their strengths and weaknesses. DC may tell the more "intelligent" stories by and large, whatever "intelligent" means in the context of comic books, but Marvel knows how to tell more fun stories by and large. Yes, DC has its fun stories as well, and Marvel has its smart stories as well. By and large does not mean all. I'm not sure who's more guilty of the over-politicization of the comic book genre and comic book culture (it's a problem both ways, because unfortunately, even when progress has good intentions, if a comic writer tries too hard to prove that minority races, girls, and LGBTETCs can do all of the superheroics that whites, guys, straights, and cisgenders can, it often takes away from the story's entertainment value, and makes the anti-progressive fans try to get more clever in spreading less-than-admirable viewpoints and try to claim victim status and say that social justice warriors oppress them), but that doesn't matter. I hope that more writers can write stories involving would-be-progressive archetype characters in major superhero and supervillain roles in which their race, gender, and sexual orientation are among their least important character traits, because real progress comes from, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, not judging people by the color of their skin or anything that can be compared to it, but by the content of their character. Maybe he's not the perfect person to cite a quote from when talking about tolerance of ALL people, but then again, nobody's perfect. When it comes to Marvel's film adaptations, they have changed the game. Initially, they were willing to settle for just making movies about their characters, but then Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk came along in 2008, setting up the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In Phase 1, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was awesome, even in spite of Iron Man 2's nonsensical plot. After The Avengers, the fabric of the MCU began to unravel. Phase 2 was three-for-three in good to not-so-good movies, with Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians Of The Galaxy, and Ant-Man being the good ones and Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, and Avengers: Age Of Ultron being the not-so-good ones. The leftover licensing deals with Fox and Sony that Marvel had with X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man from before Disney bought the brand were proving to be not for the best. Fox tried working with film producer Simon Kinberg to craft its own X-Men/Fantastic Four cinematic universe, which fell apart at the seams thanks to director issues in the cases of both Bryan Singer and Josh Trank, a total disregard for previous continuity, Hugh Jackman and Jennifer Lawrence preparing to drop out, and confusion about who makes these movies seems to be a sign that they'll all be worked into the Marvel Cinematic Universe officially by the early 2020s. At least the Deadpool movie looks promising. I saw the 2015 Fantastic Four in theaters with my dad and some family friends that were big superhero fans just to see if it was really as bad as people were saying (it wasn't, but it was still pretty bad), and everyone stayed until the end of the credits because they thought that, as a Marvel movie, it was going to have a post-credits scene. I stayed because I thought it might due to the new studio trend of post-credit scenes to tease sequels and cinematic universes, but it was still a sign of the fact that no one can tell the difference between MCU Marvel movies and non-MCU Marvel movies anymore. The attempt at making a Spider-Man cinematic universe was a failure by design, because Sony was really grasping at straws to find characters that could support their own movies in Spider-Man's subset of Marvel. The attempt to beat all of the other studios making superheroine movies by releasing EITHER a Spider-Woman, Black Cat, or Silver Sable movie by 2017 is a sign that people are making female superhero movies for the wrong reasons. The attempt to make a supervillain team-up movie because of the lack of supporting Spider-Man superheroes not owned by Disney and Marvel is somewhat disconcerting. And the fact that they announced a desire to make an Agent Carter-style Aunt May prequel with pride and without the slightest bit of irony or April Fools'-iness shows that Sony has no business with superheroes. Disney and Marvel getting the film rights back at least partially to Spider-Man was basically a mercy kill for The Not-Really-That-Amazing Spider-Man series. DC's attempt to make a cinematic universe, or rather, an extended universe, might turn out OK in the end, if Zack Snyder gets fired and his extremely misguided beliefs on the point of superheroes in society can't get out on a Hollywood scale anymore at some point. Plenty of other movie studios are trying to make shared universes with their own non-superhero franchises, which might sound cool on paper, but most of us know will get very ridiculous very fast. Maybe Walt Disney Animation Studios should make more loose adaptations of obscure Marvel characters to help with superhero fatigue. In the TV department, eh, they could do worse. Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. comes and goes in phases, but was definitely at its best when dealing with the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s infrastructure. Daredevil was one of the best series of 2015, and a great reminder that many times, the roles of hero and villain are interchangeable. I haven't finished Jessica Jones, but I find it to be OK. I do enjoy David Tennant as Kilgrave, though I think it's annoying and borderline sexist to give nearly every central "strong" female protagonist in an adult-oriented feminist TV show a tragic past involving rape, allegorical or otherwise, and PTSD. And verbal mind control doesn't need rape subtext to play up its traumatic effect and creepiness. It contributes to a new kind of girl-show ghetto, not one defined by excessive girliness and boys having cooties within the shows, which nowadays, are entertaining to both men and women in an extremely ironic way, but one defined by straw feminism and men being little more than dead weight in the shows unless they're a stereotypical gay best friend. I don't expect it to, but I really hope that the Luke Cage show can avoid contributing to a new post-progressive-era black-show ghetto full of "reminders" of racial issues in society. I really don't like to use the term "ghetto" to describe it when it is about "black shows", but I don't make the rules on words used to mean "mental area of generalization created by ignorant people that only see a certain type of show one way", I just follow them. The decision to try set the Netflix shows in the MCU while also deliberately trying to not mention the characters by name seems hypocritical. If Jessica Jones can only refer to Hulk and Captain America as "the green guy and the flag-waver", why mention them at all? That may just be a character trait of hers because of her rude, against-the-current attitude, but if it's not, then it's something ABC, Marvel, and Netflix should really think about. As for animation, Marvel has made some pretty good shows and some pretty bad ones. Their straight-to-DVD animated movies haven't attracted the audience of DC's. And while I understand why some of the things done in Ultimate Spider-Man are done, I don't think that the writers should kid themselves that they're making a show that is just as much for adults as it is for kids. Marvel's history with video games is unremarkable. Some of the Spider-Man games of the mid-2000s, the Marvel Ultimate Alliance games, the Marvel vs. Capcom games, the Lego Marvel games, and the Marvel offshoots of Disney Infinity were the only ones to receive noteworthy praise. The upcoming Avengers game from Telltale Games seems promising. My favorite Marvel Comics characters are Wolverine, Iron Man, Thor, Star-Lord, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Magneto, Mystique, Thanos, Loki, The Vision, Ultron, Deadpool, Doctor Strange, Blade, Professor X, Daredevil, Kingpin, Bullseye, Nick Fury, Phil Coulson, Baymax, and Nightcrawler. My favorite Marvel Comics-based movies are Blade, the first two X-Men movies, the director's cut of the 2003 Daredevil film, Spider-Man 2, Ultimate Avengers, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Hulk Vs. Wolverine, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, The Wolverine, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Big Hero 6, and Ant-Man. My favorite Marvel Comics-based TV shows are The Spectacular Spider-Man, Wolverine And The X-Men, Avengers Assemble, certain episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Daredevil, and the Guardians Of The Galaxy animated series. My favorite Marvel Comics-based video games are Spider-Man 2: The Game, the Marvel: Ultimate Alliance games, X-Men Origins: Wolverine- Uncaged Edition, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Deadpool, Lego Marvel Super Heroes, and Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes. In spite of my tendency to say controversial things, I hope that I can still do good for this community. I disabled comments so as to prevent flame wars, so if you have something to say to me, please do so on the message wall on my userpage on this wiki. Thank you for reading, and see you on the wiki. Excelsior!