• Welcome! The TrekBBS is the number one place to chat about Star Trek with like-minded fans.
    If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Captain Marvel (2019)

Yeah, but Star-Lord's Alien Father thing has been an actual part of his character for decades. They just changed it from King J'Son of Spartax to Ego, one alien to another.

Which means exactly jack and squat to the majority of the audience that only watches the movies. It'll still look like basically the same premise twice in a row.
 
Yeah, but Star-Lord's Alien Father thing has been an actual part of his character for decades. They just changed it from King J'Son of Spartax to Ego, one alien to another.

Keyword: decades. The source material for Marvel movies is primarily from when comics as a medium were more...relevant.
 
The

The Captain Marvel Prelude comic came out today and it follows Fury and Hill from the end of Age of Ultron to the end of Infinity War. Unfortunately, there are ten pages covering stuff already seen in the movies, so there's only 10 pages of original material. We see Fury and Hill going into action trying to bring the team back together to face the threats that Fury knows are out there.
Fury: Otherworldly threats are one thing, but this rift between Stark and Rogers might be something that neither one can ever come back from. We can't afford that kind of infighting.

Hill... "You told me once that if we ever got into a situation like the New York Chiauri invasion again, the Avengers would come back.

Fury: I did.

Hill: You were sure of it. You said they'd come back because new needed them to. What's changed?

Fury: It's true that they're a remarkable group of people-- more than I could've hoped for in a team if I'm being realistic-- but for all of the good they've done, I still need them to be something more.

Hill: Maybe the "heroes to fight the battles we never could"? I've heard something else said about heroes.

Fury: Yeah?

Hill: Never to meet them. They'll only ever let you down.

Fury: Not all of them.

Hill: You got one you haven't called yet? Might be helpful to have a backup plan in case the worst should ever come.

Fury: Nah. If we do our job right, we'll never be in a position of having to call her.
(This panel conspicuously shows Fury packing the mysterious pager into his pack, and this is is the only mention of the character whose name graces the cover of the comic.)

However, Steve doesn't trust the current status quo to take care of the things that need taking care of...

Steve: Why are you here?

Fury: I think that you and I both know when it's time to say "enough". Hell, not that long ago, you gave me a lecture on it before we took down SHIELD. Can't we all agree that now is that time? How long can you and Stark keep up this silent treatment?

Steve: Is there something more pressing that you feel needs "Avenging"?

Fury: I'd like to keep my options open. It's only a matter of time before some bigger intergalactic problem needs solving. Doing case-by-case cleanup isn't what this team was meant for. We've got Damage Control for that.

Steve: Yeah, they're doing a bang-up job. Look, I gave Tony a way to reach me...

After establishing how little they trust each other, Hill's plea to Stark is similarly uneffective.

Hill: How long are you going to allow this to continue? The world needs the Avengers-- the full roster.

Stark: Well, not today.

Hill: Well, definitely tomorrow.

Stark: You're fired. Can you just be fired? I don't know, for insubordination, or whatever? Wait, do you even work for me anymore?

The comic ends as Infinity War ended, with Fury and Hill dusted, and the SOS to Captain Marvel sent.


Unlike other "Prelude" comics, this one doesn't really tell us anything that wasn't seen the movies or other Prelude comics. The comics uses vague timestamps such as "Some time later" or "Months later", rather than using the MCU's confusing timeline.
 
Last edited:
Ugh. Sounds like they played it way too safe in an attempt to not spoil anything. Would've been better to write something better and release it later but, I know, that defeats the purpose.
 
Ugh. Sounds like they played it way too safe in an attempt to not spoil anything. Would've been better to write something better and release it later but, I know, that defeats the purpose.
Yeah, it would seem that the days of Iron Man 2: Public Identity and Fury's Big Week are long behind us. Now, those two stories didn't really provide much along the lines of spoilers, but they did tell their own story and added cool little details and texture to the wider MCU. This one, however, just recaps stuff from the movies and essentially just repeats the same beats with Steve and Tony that were in the Infinity War prelude, just with the addition of Fury and the Hill to the mix.
 
Ugh. Sounds like they played it way too safe in an attempt to not spoil anything. Would've been better to write something better and release it later but, I know, that defeats the purpose.
More likely scenario: they don't actually know anything to spoil in the first place.
From what I gather these tie-in comics have little to nothing to do with Marvel Studios and are basically licenced merchandise made by the comics division and they have even less to do with the movie side of things than the TV people do. Fans can throw words like "canon" around all they want, but the reality is that the movie people don't care what the tie-in comics do and thus, they don't matter.
 
More likely scenario: they don't actually know anything to spoil in the first place.
From what I gather these tie-in comics have little to nothing to do with Marvel Studios and are basically licenced merchandise made by the comics division and they have even less to do with the movie side of things than the TV people do. Fans can throw words like "canon" around all they want, but the reality is that the movie people don't care what the tie-in comics do and thus, they don't matter.
The guy who writes all these "Prelude" books these days, Will Corona Pilgrim, is not a comic book writer first and foremost, but rather the Creative Research Director for Marvel Studios. These prelude books are the only comics he's ever written.
http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Will_Corona_Pilgrim

He even got to briefly consult with screenwriter Steven Mcfeely for the pitch to this comic.

https://www.marvel.com/articles/com...e-end-of-marvel-studios-avengers-infinity-war
 
Last edited:
The guy who writes all these "Prelude" books these days, Will Corona Pilgrim, is not a comic book writer first and foremost, but rather the Creative Research Director for Marvel Studios. These prelude books are the only comics he's ever written.
http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Will_Corona_Pilgrim

He even got to briefly consult with screenwriter Steven Mcfeely for the pitch to this comic.

https://www.marvel.com/articles/com...e-end-of-marvel-studios-avengers-infinity-war
That's surprising, especially given the lack of "new" content. I mean it doesn't sound like something that needed a person who's in the know to write it.
 
I actually like it. It has a certain 90s flair to it. :lol:
I like how the hair & make-up people decided to flatter him by giving him more hair than he actually had back in '95. :lol:

Side note: while looking for reference footage from around that time I came across this clip of Agent Coulson hanging out with Norman Osborn, Luke Cage's old man and that one guy from Doctor Strange. Though I think the biggest surprise here was that Raymond Cruz doesn't have a Marvel credit yet! ;)
 
Last edited:
Damn, I forgot Clark Gregg and Reg E. Cathey were in that movie!

And yeah, I'm also surprised Cruz hasn't shown up in the MCU yet.
 
If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Sign up / Register


Back
Top