Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Thoughts on Ms. Marvel or: Another idea for the Fox-Marvel content sharing plan

If you're not up to speed on how Marvel and Fox (who currently have film rights to the X-Men and the FF, at least) want to sort-of half-way play nice together, go back and read my post involving the Scarlet Witch. This post is another idea of how something like that could happen.

Let's talk for a moment about why Ms. Marvel should be brought into the films.
1) She's a strong female superhero. Not just strong physically, but strong as in she could carry her own in a film.
2) She can expand the Avengers universe with more heroes. Hey, a simple reason, but valid.
3) She's a part of the USAF. Which could have fun interactions with War Machine (also in the USAF) in various films. Iron Man sequel? War Machine spinoff that brings Ms Marvel in? A separate movie bringing them together? Lots of possibilities, just pick one!
4) She's a Kree. Which means that she could help set up the entire plot line of the Kree-Skrull war. Which could totally help build up the cosmic side of Marvel that they're obviously interested in doing with the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy film. That could help develop Thanos, it could be integrated into a Thor film, or another Guardians story, or her own thing. But there's a ton of potential there.
5) Rogue absorbed her powers. This is where the interaction with FOX comes in. In the original X-Men trilogy, Rogue is nothing but a whiny sissy who can't do anything helpful and never meets her potential. That's such a waste of a great character! Another strong female character wasted! In the comics, Rogue had an encounter with Ms Marvel that led to her permanently having her powers (including flight, strength, invulnerability, you know). So somehow if Marvel could build up Ms Marvel, she could have a brief cameo in a later X-Men film (if, say, Days of Future Past [The X-Men First Class sequel] introduces Rogue briefly), or Rogue could cameo in a Marvel Studios film, and they could have that encounter, then separate back into their own movies. This would provide a small bridge between the two franchises to suggest/show they're in the same universe, without going all out cooperative (because who could do that?)
6) More heroes means more teams. With the Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, and Dr. Strange on the way, Marvel Studios is well on its way to forming a new team, whether that be a replacement team (likely due to other actors getting older/stale) or a separate team like the West Coast Avengers or Great Lakes Avengers. But as long as they keep developing and keep getting new material, this series can last for a very long time. Which would make me very happy.
7) She can fit in anywhere. I mentioned most of these separately above, but putting them together makes a point of its own. She could be brought into an Iron Man/War Machine film following the USAF relationship. Or a Guardians of the Galaxy or Thor film due to the fact that she's an alien. Or an X-Men film because of her necessity to Rogue's story. Or her own film like Ant-Man and Dr. Strange are getting. Or, if a film is made about a new team of heroes, using newer heroes already introduced, she could be one of even more new heroes introduced in that film.

There are so many possibilities of getting her in the mix, and so many reasons to do it.

 

1 comment:

  1. LOVE her outfit!

    (So sad this isn't facebook and I can't "like" everything ;-) )

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