Well, my point is that they changed too much in the MCU unnecessarily. For instance, the only reason that Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne were omitted from the Avengers is because of Edgar Wright, who wrote his Ant-Man script back in 2004 and intended to make it a stand-alone film. Marvel and Disney automatically got the rights to his script when they bought back all their characters and they decided to shoehorn Edgar's script into the MCU, but it didn't work. Edgar quit the production because he didn't want to make an MCU movie, and Marvel didn't want to make an Edgar Wright movie. If the story of the MCU is about the Avengers, then you use Hank and Janet, not Scott Lang and that Hope character who doesn't even exist in the comics.
That was an unnecessary change. They eliminated Hank and Janet's entire storyline from the comics, including the Ultron storyline.
Another unnecessary change was omitting Mar-Vell from the Captain Marvel storyline as Carol Danvers' lover and the one who passes the mantle on to her.
Or omitting Adam Warlock from the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Thanos storyline. How can you do the Infinity Gauntlet storyline without Adam Warlock? He's the one who defeats Thanos, not Iron Man. If they'd done the story right the movies would be a lot tighter, more economically paced, more faithful to the source material, and make a lot more sense.
I agree with you about Thor as well.
I also agree with you about catering to snowflakes.
Look, I don't think cinema should be progressive at all, because they only end up being very dated and forgettable. The classics that stand the test of time were never progressive or politically correct. Go look at The Godfather, or Star Wars, or Pulp Fiction.
Thanks for calling them Infinity Gems.
I cannot stand how illiterate Marvel Studios was for calling them "stones."
I'm glad you're making good use of them in your Dark Phoenix story.
Looks like you're putting Gambit through the wringer.
Thanks!
I'm glad you like my six volume structure. Oh, I made a mistake with Volume VI.
It's supposed to be The Infinity Gauntlet, not Infinity War. My bad. Also, Volume V was going to be titled Secret Wars and divided into two parts, the Kree-Skrull War and the Korvac Saga. I just wanted to be more specific so you'd know what storylines I was using.
The entire structure of the Avengers cinematic miniseries is designed to fit together perfectly like a jigsaw puzzle. Now, I didn't include Spider-Man, but there's room for him if necessary. My Spider-Man trilogy would not have him as a teenager because that's old.
He's be in his 20s, just like in the comics, living in Manhattan, working at the Daily Bugle as a photographer while studying at NYU for his doctorate, and dating Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat.
Basically, the overreaching theme and narrative is that the Infinity Gems were created at the dawn of the universe when the creator force ended up in the form of crystallized gems. The Celestials were born a millisecond later and became shepherds of evolution and intellect in the universe. They came to Earth and experimented on early humans, creating the Eternals and the Deviants, and gave the remaining primitive humans latent DNA that would later create superhumans in the far future.
The Avengers would be the main storyline, of course, but it would also involve the High Evolutionary as the Jor-El figure, always watching from the sidelines and giving help and advice when necessary, and he'd also be Adam Warlock's benefactor in his battle against Thanos as well as a father figure, since I made Warlock his creation. Oh, and there's an awesome scene where the High Evolutionary battles Galactus to save the Earth.
The Elders of the Universe would also be involved, along with the Kree, Skrulls, Xandarians, the Eternals and Deviants on Titan, and the cyborg villain Michael Korvac, who would become a cosmic powered being after stealing some of the Power Cosmic from Galactus. There's another plot point about how the High Evolutionary was contacted by the Elders, who wanted him to join their ranks. This was during the Cold War, when nuclear war and the extinction of the human race seemed imminent, which would make the High Evolutionary the last surviving member of the human race and qualify him for inclusion among the Elders. The Evolutionary turned them down, of course. But not before The Collector told him about a cryptic prophecy, that he foresaw the coming of three who would one day challenge the power of the Elders themselves. The first was Korvac, the second was Thanos… and the third was Adam Warlock himself.