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Avengers 4 title is a spoiler for Infinity War, the phases concept might be ending.

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Not really spoiler when they spent so many movies building up to the Infinity War.

It's like saying Return of the King is spoiler.
 
These are the two best guesses, I'm thinking.

And if it is Ultimatum, how much you wanna bet the next series builds to "The Ultimates"

(obviously in-name-only, like most Marvel Studios adaptations)

The only Ultimates I need on the silver screen:

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Make it happen Marvel.
 
I mean, people hated Age of Ultron and Civil War in the comics but they still named them after those. The funnt part is when they would say in interviews, "No, this has nothing to do with the actual comic" to calm people down.

Age of Ultron and Civil War are events that received a fairly mixed reception, but they weren't events that almost the entire comic book fandom has actively come to revile on mass.
 
Why on earth would Marvel Studios entitle the one film that is supposed to serve as the culmination of what their entire cinematic universe has been building to since its inception after one of the most universally reviled comic book events of all time?

Because otherwise it wouldn't have a title?

(also because they already did it once with Civil War)

(also because what happened in the comics carries almost zero weight with the larger audience)
 
Looooooool as if Monica or Adam are ever getting in the movies

Why is that?

edit: first time I heard of either was in this comic, and they are both fucking awesome. It would be a shame if there were some specific rights fuckery going on with them.
 
Because otherwise it wouldn't have a title?

(also because they already did it once with Civil War)

My point is I don't see why they would give it that specific title that predominately has such negative associations in the minds of comic book readers.

I feel Civil War was a different kettle of fish, receiving a much more mixed reception when it first came out, unlike Ultimatium which was reviled by both fans and critics alike.
 
My point is I don't see why they would give it that specific title that predominately has such negative associations in the minds of comic book readers.

I feel Civil War was a different kettle of fish, receiving a much more mixed reception when it first came out, unlike Ultimatium which was reviled by both fans and critics alike.
Comic book readers feelings are largely irrelevant.
 
Not sure how "Ultimatum" would constitute any kind of spoiler, unless we're taking it literally in that the movie will spoil the rest of the Marvel line as its comic counterpart did.

Everyone hated Civil War in the comics too.

Civil War was an event that was actually known publicly and had some mainstream media attention. The only people who know what Ultimatum was are the poor souls who read that piece of shit.
 
Didn't Kevin Feige mention in an interview that Avengers 4 was going to be far more than just an Avengers movie anyway, and probably wouldn't include the "Avengers" title considering the story will involve the entire Marvel universe as a whole? Did I imagine that?
 
You'd think Dr. Strange literally casting a completely different Night Nurse would have put these posts to bed.

That isn't what happened. Claire is not the Night Nurse in the Netflix shows, despite her character's roll in them.

They had planned for her to literally be Night Nurse but Marvel said they had plans for her in the movies so the Netflix shows couldn't use it.

They didn't ignore the Netflix shows as you're saying. The Netflix producers knew Night Nurse was in the movies when they filmed the first season of Daredevil.
 
I love them a lot, but they're pretty d-lidt

Keep in mind will already have a Black Panther and Mrs Marvel movie out. Having a second teamup sub-franchise might be a big enough reason to do it.

Also, audiences went and saw an Ant Man movie, I think it's safe to say Marvel Marketing can make anything look good, even with unknowns.
 
My point is I don't see why they would give it that specific title that predominately has such negative associations in the minds of comic book readers.

Because comic book readers don't matter here.

not after a decade and so many billions later. Nobody's withholding cool titles used on shitty comic books because 15,000 people will have question marks over their heads at their usage.
 
My question still stands, Sir.

Probably because Kevin Feige is a big nerd like us and likes using those titles, but they ultimately do not matter in the long run.

The concepts in the events (particularly Civil War) certainly do matter even if the stories play out completely differently. So it makes sense to use them but they're not really doing so as a specific nod towards fans of the books.
 
That the phase concept is ending might be the bigger news here.

With the Iron Man, Captain America and presumably Thor franchises ending, the formula of having each phase build up to an Avengers movie that serves as the culmination of that phase doesn't make sense anymore. They could continue with Strange, BP, CM, Spider-Man and so on, under a new name like New Avengers. They probably will. But at any rate I think their approach of the Avengers movies being event movies will change. I can see them doing a movie just called Secret Wars, instead of Avengers: Secret Wars, and have it be more of a one and done affair. We'll see.
 
Avengers vs. X-Men

If you're going to cut a deal with Fox now is the time to do it. Thanos can snap his fingers and make the story work.
 
Probably because Kevin Feige is a big nerd like us and likes using those titles, but they ultimately do not matter in the long run.

The concepts in the events (particularly Civil War) certainly do matter even if the stories play out completely differently. So it makes sense to use them but they're not really doing so as a specific nod towards fans of the books.

Pretty much this.

Civil War is one of the most popular and well known events in comic history. It made national headlines a couple times during that year.

Age of Ultron isn't but it was simply looked at a disappointing/poor event. Ultimatum is only known in comic circles and is literally known for being one of the worst comic events that has ever been printed.

Marvel will never use "Ultimatum" as a title for a movie.
 
I will never, ever understand why people want Disney to buy the X-Men rights from Fox instead of the FF/Doom/Annihilus/Galactus rights.
 
My question still stands, Sir.

I don't have an answer. I don't think Marvel Studios really gives that much of a fuck whether or not their titles come from good comics or not. They don't give that much of a fuck about adapting their contents anywhere near faithfully, either.

They care about taking the characters, and making good movies with them.

If they make a good movie with a good story that borrows a title from a shitty comic book, does it really matter if the comic is shitty?

Nobody's going to read it anyway.
 
I get why the want to reboot and find some new actors, but I hope to God they still find a way to work in the Black Widow movie.
 
I will never, ever understand why people want Disney to buy the X-Men rights from Fox instead of the FF/Doom/Annihilus/Galactus rights.

Personally, I hear people ask for FF more these days, especially because of Doom and Galactus. Probably because Fox turned around the X-Men movies and are more realistic that of there being no chance that it returns to Marvel thanks to Deadpool of all things.

(That being said, I wouldn't be upset at phase 5 opening up with Astonishing X-Men, written and directed by Joss Whedon.)
 
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