Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9062114-20151002003310/@comment-25692211-20151002060936

Even if the MCU is for "kids", there have still been plenty of kids films that get more serious without alienating the audience eg. The Lion King, How to Train your Dragon 2, Hunchback of Notre Dame, even Aladdin and the King of Thieves was pretty dark for a direct to video sequel. And I think Kevin Feige meant that the MCU will never be DC-type dark. Because there have been many occasions when Marvel gets darker than expected eg. main character deaths(the permanent ones), many attempts of genocide on the villain's part. But in the future, since Marvel apparently owns films like Ghost Rider and Blade now, these two source materials would probably work better as darker, more gothic films than say, Ant Man or Guardians.