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Why Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Cut Out Rocket's Origin Story

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In recent years, Marvel has proactively taken bigger steps to adapt its various IPs into quality blockbuster level games; not just the lackluster mobile games they've been known for. Some of these projects blossom into critical hits like Insomniac Games'  Spider-Man , while others devolve into disappointing messes like Square Enix's  Avengers.  Another one of its recent games, and one of the best from a critical standpoint, is  Guardians of the Galaxy . The announcement for the game came out of left field last year. As surprising as the reveal itself was, even more shocking was how quickly it was released afterward. Many projects get announced years before they ever see the light of day, but in this case, it was only months. ADVERTISEMENT The game saw Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Groot trying to take down the Universal Church of Truth, which had begun successfully brainwashing a good majority of the galaxy. The story included many sur...

Loki Season 2's Unexpected Story Teased By Marvel Directors

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While the Multiverse is a concept about which Doctor Strange and the audience still know frighteningly little, fans would be completely in the dark about this Phase 4 focus if it wasn't for Loki on Disney+. The Tom Hiddleston-led Marvel series not only focused on the God of Mischief as he confronted himself and the Time Variance Authority (TVA), but also educated audiences on timelines, Variants, a Multiversal War, and He Who Remains.  In the final episode of the show's first season, Sylvie - a female Loki Variant and Loki's love interest - kills He Who Remains, seemingly freeing the Multiverse and its branching timelines. Meanwhile, Loki is trapped in a TVA from an alternate timeline, attempting to warn those who no longer know him about the coming of Kang the Conqueror. ADVERTISEMENT While Marvel revisited the Multiverse again in both What If...? and Spider-Man: No Way Home , whether the events of Loki are responsible for those stories i...

Marvel Producer Hopeful That Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man 4 Story Gets Made

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Ever since Spider-Man swung into theaters in 2002, there has seldom been much of a break between wall-crawler solo films. After the grand success of Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire's first two solo films, Sony was eager to up the ante for the third entry by bringing three villains into the mix, creating an overcrowding problem that plagued the movie. The director's troubles with the studio led to his refusal to return for the planned fourth installment and Andrew Garfield's  The Amazing Spider-Man  reboot just a few years later. Despite this, after several publicly released storyboards and tidbits of plot, fans can now get a solid idea of what Raimi had planned for  Spider-Man 4 . ADVERTISEMENT Having made cameo appearances in the first trilogy, Raimi planned to introduce Bruce Campbell as Mysterio in  Spider-Man 4 , with storyboards revealing Peter would have arrested and unmasked him early on. Sony Vulture was set to be the main villain of the...

MCU Writers Explain How Spider-Man's Origin Story Is 'Born In the Blood' of Aunt May

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Spider-Man: No Way Home served as the culmination of Peter Parker's origin story in the MCU, which is a unique approach since it happened throughout three movies. Tom Holland's Peter Parker made his debut during Captain America: Civil War , with the young hero already suited up as Spider-Man. Since then, the character's solo movies, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home , dove deep into the hero's dynamic with MCU mainstays such as Tony Stark and Nick Fury (Talos) while still developing the web crawler's heroic transition.  Far From Home 's ending created a massive shift in Peter's life as his secret identity was revealed to the rest of the world by Mysterio. As a result,  No Way Home completely changed the game as it introduced Peter to the biggest mission of his superhero life.  ADVERTISEMENT From unveiling the Multiverse to the film becoming a celebration of all things Spider-Man, No Way Home still managed...