Personally speaking, I'd say overall the Guardians are worse in the MCU. Peter Quill is an idiotic manchild, Drax exists only to be laughed at, Gamora whose supposed to be the deadliest woman in the galaxy is far from it. The only real improvement is Nebula. Rocket id say is pretty accurate, and Groot only says Groots so.
I actually really like both the incorporation of Captain Marvel's mythology with the nega-bangle and making her a mutant at same time pretty much confirms we are getting her powers eventually. Neither mutants or inhumans need something to channel their powers, I do think that very much like Namor is a mutant and atlantean, Kamala is equally mutant and inhuman. The nega-bangles was a flavor that I didn't know I'd like as much as I did, but I agree that I want her powers to finally be adapted in the big screen and tv shows. I think it's doable.
Yep, I've seen all the MCU stuff and never touched a marvel comic ever.
Makes sense. At least the MCU is honoring that now.
Officially they are Earth 616 and I'll be Kevin Feige dead staring Kamala y'all into a corner if you all don't get along with the program lol. Seriously though, Earth 616 as the MCU main universe is fine. There are multiple Earth 616 in the omniverse after all.
It's called Intellectual Property. They are not two different beasts. The movies cannot do whatever the hell they want without copyright holder approval.
Actually... they can do whatever the hell they want. They own the IP and Marvel Studios has proven time and time again that they know exactly what they are doing, and if it came to some old school nerds Feige would still be tied to a Marvel Comics council like he was until the first Avengers film. They clearly don't need that.
I don't think the big two comics rights holders have cared too much as long as the adaptation makes a lot of money. Even way back in the days of radio serials they were cool with people adding and changing stuff with characters as big as Superman.
The comics tend to defer to the successful movies though. Like Spider-Man switched to organic webbing for years, GotG took on more of the films tone, etc. the comics are the originals, but Marvel gets that things change and if people expect Star Lord to be a sitcom slob, he better be a sitcom slob.
I don't think anybody is saying that the creators have nothing to do with it. They're different universes to me. I didn't read Amazing Spider-Man and complain that it wasn't like Ultimate Spider-Man. As somebody who grew up on comics and finds time to read them still, I understand expecting MCU entities to follow comic stories to a T is like yelling into the void so I enjoy both separately.
....it's their IP. Marvel Comics and Marvel Studios are one in the same. Both owned by Disney overall.
Kevin Feige is now Chief Creative Officer of all of Marvel, including the comics division. He is free to do whatever he wants.
And he still uses the comic creators as executive producers. He is doing the right thing and the MCU is successful because of it.
I think one of the biggest examples of the comics being thrice retconned nonsense that doesn't even respect itself is America Chavez. Just a little over one year from her MCU debut in Multiverse of Madness the comics decided to completely retcon her classic origin for no apparent reason.
For years America had a really consistent origin, that she was a girl from a magical universe called the Utopian Parallel. And this is the one the MCU went with. But in 2021's series America Chavez: Made in the USA, they completely retconned this origin, and revealed that no, actually all of that was just made up and she was yet another character who was experimented on as a kid.
The comics don't even respect themselves.
