Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24467536-20140525114248

The reported plan for the second Avengers movie is go darker in its storyline. While there has been much speculation as to what that means, there is one route I find a little troubling. In a Marvel's Ultimate series involving the Avengers, Tony Stark and Natasha Romanoff hooked up at Stark Mansion in NY and Tony was taping the whole thing. (Quelle surprise.)  Ultron gained access to Tony's system and uploaded the encounter on the Internet. News networks were covering it as well. I'm wondering if Marvel Studios will up the ante and go there for the sequel, changing names (Tony and insert conquest here) and situations. It's not the first time Marvel would consider adult subject matter:  for Iron Man 3 a planned subplot was Killian taking advantage of an Extremis-injected Pepper Potts because Killian was giving off a phrenome that made him "irresistible" to her. I think they scraped it because Extremis came off as a super-serumed roofie in that scenario. But in the Marvel one-shot "All Hail the King" it's implied that Iron Man 2 villian Justin Hammer got a cellmate that became a bedmate. The second season of "Agents of Shield" will air at 9:00 pm EST - a time slot that allows more mature themes to be aired. With the direction Marvel/Disney is going, will the studio go up to the line of an "R" rating with a heavier plot in AoU; or will it back off completely so not to alienate adults who take the under-13's to the movies? At the end of the day it's about money: too dark of a plot means some parents may not let their kids go see the movie, and that equals loss box office revenue. 