Fun The Marvel Animated Universe

Doctor Omega

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Your thoughts and views on the Marvel Animated Universe through the decades.....


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Doctor Omega

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The 1967 Spidey cartoon is the only Marvel Animated Show that I remembered seeing growing up, but I now know that there were others.
 

chainsaw_metal1

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Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends was a big part of my childhood (along with Super Friends). I then watched both the X-Men and Spider-Man animated shows on Fox in the 90s (I remember watching the other 90s cartoons now and then, but they never seemed to be as good as the other two). I have all five seasons of the X-Men animated show on DVD, and it still holds up. Then in the late 90s, they did X-Men: Evolution, which was pretty good. It had the distinction of introducing X-23 to the Marvel universe, who quickly became a very cool character, and introduced into the comics.
 

Doctor Omega

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Bang up to date now - and Stan Lee has recently branched into anime, with THE REFLECTION, in which lots of thinly disguised Marvel heroes (such as Iron Man now becoming "I-GUY") having lots of fights with villains and arguments with one another.

Every episode ends with a voiceover from Stan saying "Next time on The Reflection! (Whatever the next title is) and "Excelsior!"



 
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Doctor Omega

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“Spawn” Getting Another Animated Series


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One of the most iconic and yet underrated of 1990s animated series was that of HBO’s “Spawn”. Launched the same year as the critically slammed live-action film, the Emmy-winning series got everything right about the property that the film failed to pull off.

Incredibly dark, violent, adult and atmospheric, the show’s first season in particular remains a hallmark for the genre and starred the great Keith David in the titular role. Now, twenty years on and with another live-action film on the way, it looks like a new animated “Spawn” is also incoming.

During his appearance at New York Comic Con this past weekend, “Spawn” creator Todd McFarlane revealed to ScreenGeek that there are plans for the character’s return to television:

“I’m going to get the [Spawn] movie out and then we still have the rights for TV and animation and we’ll just figure it out. I’ve also got to figure out how to get Keith David in my movie, too. Just for one line.”

Production on the long-anticipated live-action reboot is slated to kick off in February, no word on when an animated series might begin production let alone air at this point. The original HBO series is available on HBO Now.



 

chainsaw_metal1

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Todd McFarlane is so full of shit. He's been blabbertating since the early 00s about how he's going to reboot Spawn, since the sequel fell through. I'll believe it when it's actually released and I'm sitting in the theatre waiting for it to start.

He's also an asshole, but that's another thread altogether.
 

Doctor Omega

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“Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors” Announced


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Marvel Entertainment has unveiled “Marvel Rising,” a new, multi-platform animation franchise starring the next generation of Marvel heroes which will launch in 2018.

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The program will begin with six, four-minute digital shorts that spotlight Spider-Gwen with her new secret moniker, Ghost-Spider, and introduce audiences to the world of Marvel Rising with heroes like Ms. Marvel, Squirrel Girl, Quake, Patriot, America Chavez, and Inferno. Following the shorts, a feature-length animated film, “Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors,” will premiere later that year.

Distribution partners for the content will be announced at a later date. Voice talent includes Dove Cameron, Tyler Posey, BooBoo Stewart, Kathreen Khavari, Milana Vayntrub, Cierra Ramirez, Kamil McFadden, Skai Jackson, Kim Raver, Ming-Na Wen, Steven Weber, and Dee Bradley Baker among others with Chloe Bennet reprising her role of Daisy Johnson from “Agents of SHIELD”.

Future stories and content are also being developed across Marvel’s digital and publishing platforms and will be announced at a later date.



 

Doctor Omega

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90s Marvel Cartoons: The Original MCU?


With the Marvel Cinematic Universe reaching its climatic conclusion to 10 years of serialised storytelling, Josh from Panels to Pixels takes a look at the Marvel Animated Series of the 90s; its history and how its legacy can still be felt in pop culture today. From 1992 - 2000, eight shows across 253 episodes made up the Marvel Animated Universe, introducing a whole generation to the characters that would go on to dominate box offices worldwide. They were: X-Men, Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Incredible Hulk, Silver Surfer, Spider-Man Unlimited and Avengers United They Stand. So dust off your video tapes, grab a bowl of breakfast cereal and get stuck in to this video essay/documentary/love letter to the cartoons of our childhood.



 

chainsaw_metal1

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It certainly was an interesting universe. I always loved when the shows would crossover, or you would have obscure characters appear on the shows. I remember seeing both Blade and Punisher on Spider-Man, and get all excited.
 

Doctor Omega

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Oswalt Explains His “M.O.D.O.K.” Character


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The other week came the announcement that Marvel and Hulu are set to team up for a quartet of animated series based on lesser-known Marvel characters like Howard the Duck and Hit-Monkey.


One of the characters is the giant headed villain M.O.D.O.K. with comedian Patton Oswalt voicing the character who fights to keep control of his organization and his needy family.

Oswalt, who is also writing and producing the series, appeared on “Late Night with Seth Myers” the other night to discuss his supervillain role and said:

“I’m gonna be voicing him. He is a supervillain, he has superintelligence, he has a forehead beam, he has all this technology. But, he is not on the A-level of Doctor Doom and the Red Skull. So, not only does he hate all the heroes, he hates all the other villains because he’s so resentful. Getting to play that is going to be really fun.”

Jordan Blum and Jeph Loeb will also be executive producing the series. Oswalt has a recurring role(s) on ABC’s “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” and voiced several characters in the recent “Spider-Man” animated series.
 

Doctor Omega

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Marvel Plans A “What If?” Series For Disney+


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Marvel Studios is reportedly set to produce a new animated anthology TV series, based on its popular “What If” comic book series, which will air on the upcoming Disney+ streaming service.


Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios will oversee the series which will NOT be canon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Instead, the stories will explore how the Marvel Cinematic Universe might have unfolded if key moments in its history had not occurred as they did in recognized canon.

One of the episodes, for example, will explore the idea of ‘What if Loki had found the hammer of Thor?’. Each episode will follow a whole new scenario twisting up the MCU canon (and NOT the comic canon).

The possibility also allows some of the main actors from the live-action Marvel Cinematic Universe movies to reprise their roles if they so wish and play with the alternate possibilities in a part requiring only a tiny fraction of the time commitment of their regular film roles.
 
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