So, Disney buys DC Comics...
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It was amusing that they renamed him to align the title and the character name. But that's like having to change your name to "GPN-489" because it's the only way to get a personalized license plate.
No to DC/Marvel? Or no to Captain Marvel?
Nobody's thinking big enough.
JLA vs AVENGERS!! RDJ wisecracks while Chris Hemsworth knocks Henry Cavill through a bunch of trees, Chris Evans and BatFleck beat each other senseless, Scarjo makes a fool out of Skinny Fast and Furious Wonder Woman, and everybody kicks the shit outta Ryan Reynolds for helping to wreck Green Lantern.
X-Men Vs Doom Patrol! Battle of the hated misfit teams!
Power-Girl/Ms. Marvel team up! Starring Kate Upton as PG and Jennifer Lawrence as MM.
I like this idea!!!
JLA vs AVENGERS!! RDJ wisecracks while Chris Hemsworth knocks Henry Cavill through a bunch of trees, Chris Evans and BatFleck beat each other senseless, Scarjo makes a fool out of Skinny Fast and Furious Wonder Woman, and everybody kicks the shit outta Ryan Reynolds for helping to wreck Green Lantern.
X-Men Vs Doom Patrol! Battle of the hated misfit teams!
Power-Girl/Ms. Marvel team up! Starring Kate Upton as PG and Jennifer Lawrence as MM.
I like this idea!!!
The logical thing for Disney to do would be to dissolve DC and fold it into Marvel, why would they want to own two subsidiaries who are doing exactly the same thing?
They would probably keep DC as a Marvel imprint and I wouldn't want them to combine the universes, the DC and Marvel universes are already too crowded as they are, let them stay seperate.
Good question! We've certainly had enough Supermen and Kal-Els in the past.
Comedy movie in an animated universe: Tony Stark, Bruce Wayne and David Xanatos meet for drinks.
DC / Marvel
Well, it was a long time before someone registered Superman (and a few other similar names as well).
THIS. But with a lot more foul language, and something about Superman wearing his damned underwear the wrong way now.
Wouldn't Disney owning both Marvel and DC be some kind of anti-trust violation? If not, than it would still feel like the apocalypse will be upon us if that happens.
He is not a Star Trek character.
I would agree that Marvel currently is more of a mess right now. The sloppy editorial work and conflicts between creators and editors is really starting to show. It's just they have the fan press on their side as well as the fan bandwagon that nobody questions the problems going on at Marvel.
Of course after the DC move to Burbank expect the situation to be reversed.
Some interesting anecdotes from Jim Shooter about the time that Marvel almost did "buy" DC.
In the comments, Shooter mentions there were some antitrust concerns raised that ultimately scuttled the deal [but that he doesn't think it was going to end up being a problem if the two companies really wanted to pursue, especially in the modern era].
There's also an interesting story in the comments from Bruce Timm about the time that WB almost bought Marvel!
The G-man said:
Of course, if that happened they'd have to change the titles. A company that has books named The AMAZING Spider-Man and The UNCANNY X-Men has to add some superlatives:
The Astounding SUPERMAN!
The Mysterious BATMAN!
The Courageous WONDER WOMAN!
And so on...
The Redundant Captain Marvel!
I think that name applied to the Kree guy from the very beginning.
It already is upon us.
It could work, but I think it would devolve into a pissing match about who is better and there would be more fighting than cooperating, even under a corporate master.
Allegedly, the reason there have not been any DC/Marvel crossovers in over a decade is because of Marvel's EIC Joe Quesada. He said he wouldn't allow them while he's EIC. But he would allow Spider-Man to make a deal with the devil to annul his marriage with Mary Jane. He also signed on to Ant-Man divorcing his wife. I think the guy just has a thing against marriages.
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