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Why has Eternals been moved back? The story begins with everybody believing the recent Blip is still causing problems. Move that back a year and it's a very weird plot point

Various Touchstone films are depicting the sexual act of pegging? How have I not heard of these films 😐

Update: I've spent far longer than I would like, looking up which films do and do not feature pegging. As far as I can find, no film by Touchstone Pictures EVER featured a pegging scene.

@M.K.M.007 Also still haven't had an example of pegging in a Touchstone movie, which is the original point of this post.

K. Sure...

He can recount issue numbers correctly, showing knowledge of our world,

He knows things outside of his own frame of reference by reading other comics,

He can send somebody outside of the comic to change his knowledge and Marvel's reality itself,

He can move through the pages of his comic to change the story,

He can literally break his walls of reality to change them,

And, once again, he left the comics and directly addressed the real world writers in the same way as She-Hulk...

But sure, whatever. He doesn't break the fourth wall ever. The fact that none of this has any baring on the actual topic of this conversation is irrelevant, I guess.

OK.. not sure what your point actually is though. Deadpool breaks the fourth wall. The other characters believe he's (more) insane because he does it. You've changed from that initial point into trying to say he doesn't do it enough because She-Hulk does it more, but Captain America isn't as strong as Hulk and he is still considered super strong. Just because somebody does it more, doesn't mean everybody else doesn't do it lol

I mean, there's the story where he breaks out of his comic to kill the writers... so I'd say that's on par with She-Hulk talking to the writers.

He addresses the audience directly. That's breaking the forth wall.

Ok but to repeat the question asked by @Spider-Man 3 Dance above, which Touchstone movie featured pegging? It's a rather specific pastime to include in a movie, after all.

Yeah to clarrify, they decided that audiences wouldn't accept comic book costumes in a "real movie" so they decided to go for something more realistic. They consulted with Marvel and came up with alternate, more "battle suit" styled team costumes to try and get people more on board with the idea of the wild concept.

You need to remember that the first X-Men with 2000. The most recent big budget superhero film was Batman & Robin, which had been lambasted as a cartoony toy commercial and a joke. Fox were afraid that they would be seen as a joke and wouldn't attract the general audiences. When Hugh Jackman read the script with his wife, they thought it sounded like a joke.

The X-Men was a popular kids cartoon in the 90s but wasn't seen as an "all-audiences" property. There was a real risk, from a studio standpoint, that only the comic book audience would even turn out for it.

Thankfully, Sony wasn't as worried about that with Spider-Man, and the 1-2 punch of X-Men followed by Spider-Man the next year really turned audiences around on comic book movies pretty much immediately.

"you can do that on a drawing, but when you put it on people it's disturbing!" - Chris Claremont

@Atari Chris I think you may have won with this one. This is the first thing I haven't even heard of so far. Actually shocked I didn't know it existed

@Angel Gro I actually just saw this promo on Facebook and came here to talk about it! I actually swore out loud when I cut back to the kid in excitement lol if they're using the Netflix show to promote this one, they HAVE to be considering it canon, right?!

If they wanted to continue the cameos, the fun one would be Deadpool, because he doesn't need an actual reason to just appear. The logical choice would be The Watcher. Stan Lee's cameos were explained in-universe as a Watcher informant, basically a guy they had sent off to do busy work seemingly just as a novelty they quickly got tired of. With that in mind, now that he is gone, the Watchers themselves would be doing that job, so having them appear as an outline in the cosmos or something in each film would be the best way to continue the 'storyline'.

I think this actually suggests that all shows and specials are potentially going to get physically released in the future. Very strong set of first blu-rays to do

@IamDPorDerpy Well.. that's a different question entirely, but actually that's probably also a part of it.

Right now, Daredevil's continued existence is guaranteed, while the AoS characters are up in the air until they actually reappear in an MCU property again.

So people are likely more vocal about the one they miss and are worried for, rather than the one that they're getting more of

I wouldn't be surprised if its largely the nostalgia of a slightly younger audience.

Agents of Shield had a younger age rating, so a larger crowd was able to see it. On top of that, it was on a TV channel and was freely available, whereas Daredevil was on Netflix and the landscape favoured free tv over paid subscriptions at that time.

So now that we've seemingly hit the start of some small nostalgia wave for Marvel TV, it makes sense that more people have fond memories of the widely available and larger audience show.

That'd be my guess anyway. It's a trend that does tend to happen when you compare properties in that way.

Give him a really unknown superhero and I think he could do something interesting. His style is very fun and I can see how it could benefit a lesser know quantity in a Special Presentation format, but it'd need good oversight to ensure that the writing is brought in line with MCU as a whole because he's got a NEED to deconstruct genres and it could really fall apart if he doesn't do it right.

I'm personally of the opinion that ZSJL was a train wreck. It was just a spiteful, angry mess. None of the characters acted like themselves, even compared to Man of Steel and BvS. His ideas for the other two Justice League films he wanted to do sounded even worse.

Despite the real world drama, the theatrical cut was a far better (but still poor) film.

Spielberg could certainly make a Marvel film on the technical level. Whether he'd bring much to it is another question. I don't know how much the "Spielberg film" could translate to a Marvel production, but I'd be interested to see it from a curiosity POV.

And let's not forget. Rebel Moon was pitched as a Star Wars project. They asked him to change certain pieces to make it work for their canon and he refused, so they turned down the pitch. Because of that, he's taken it elsewhere to make it "his vision".

This is why he wouldn't work at Marvel. They want the films to follow a logical progression and he'd want it to be his baby. Fiege has no time for precious directors.