The MCU thread

 

Nah, that's why neither of them appeared in Infinity War.

They were too busy engaging in a contest of arms on Sakaar, to settle who is the ultimate warrior woman in the MCU?

(Woe betide any spectator who thinks catcalling or yelling "Fight, Fight! Kiss, kiss!" is a smart idea)

RIP another hero of the MCU:

?

From Ragnarok:

I'd take with a gran o salt, considering the source being Reddit.

Nothing suggests that that is actually Bill, as opposed to any random Korbinite. Like how Korg was originally the Kronan that Thor battles in The Dark World, but oh wait no Korg is in Ragnarok instead and that other Kronan is just some other random Kronan who happens to look exactly like Korg.

If MCU Thanos is even half as powerful as mainstream continuity Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet, the cosmics aren’t a match for him either, except for the Living Tribunal and The One Above All (who is just the in-universe personification of the writer and not a “real” character). Maybe The Beyonder, before the retcons that made him vastly weaker. Pre-retcon Beyonder was hands-down the single most powerful Marvel character in the canon, and might actually still be, disregarding TOAA. I mean, Thanos did already defeat Eternity, who is the out-and-out living embodiment of the universe itself, and outclasses every non-Living Tribunal cosmic.

Actually now that I think about it, Marvel’s cosmics kind of suck. The Celestials (for the most part), Beyonder, Death, the Living Tribunal, and Galactus (when super fed to 100%) are all pretty stronk, but a lot of the figures that you’d expect to be ultra powerful like Eternity or Lord Chaos are kind of pushovers and have been overpowered by mortals more than once. Hela becoming Lady Death would be an astronomical leap in power, like going from a hand grenade to an atomic bomb. Hela is, for all intents and purposes, an extremely powerful alien, who, while powerful, is still “mortal” in the sense that she can be killed. Lady Death is the very abstract concept of “death” itself, who spans the universe and is one of a very small handful of entities in all of existence who cannot ever be destroyed no matter how hard you try.

Ultimate Mjolnir seems to have the same powers as the original except:

It has the ability to teleport people (I guess like the Bifrost)

There is no "worthiness" enchantment on it.

But I'm not really an expert on Thor.

Now that I think about it, since Planet Hulk has already been raped into Thor: Ragnarok, they won't be able to do an adaptation of World War Hulk (straight up one of the best Marvel stories ever for my money) without totally bastardizing the buildup. Hulk becomes the king of Sakaar after deposing the Red King (not the Grandmaster, why the movie replaced the Red King with the Grandmaster, I will never know, that change was entirely pointless) and takes a wife and has a kid with her, becoming beloved by the people of Sakaar. A massive planet-busting explosion goes off and kills a massive amount of people on Sakaar, including Hulk's wife and (assumed) his son, causing him to fly into an even-stronger-than-usual rage, take the Warbound and the survivors of Sakaar, and bring them to Earth to take revenge on the Illuminati (in the Marvel continuity being Reed Richards, Tony Stark, Doctor Strange, Namor the Submariner, Black Bolt, and Charles Xavier, and the ones who sent him to Sakaar in the first place), believing them to be the ones who caused the explosion. Hulk and co. land in NYC and announce to everyone that they have 24 hours to evacuate and for Tony, Strange, Black Bolt, and Reed to show up so that Hulk can fight them. Hulk beats the everliving shit out of all of them one by one and powers up to possibly his strongest form, Worldbreaker Hulk, but refuses to kill any of them, instead choosing to tarnish their reputation by broadcasting the message that they left for him when they shot him into space, which actually manages to turn a good portion of the human population against them.

They wouldn't even need to make it a Hulk solo titled film, it can be something more akin to Captain America: Civil War, where it's more like an Avengers movie just with a single character's name in the title. Make it an Iron Man movie and make Tony the figurehead for the Illuminati (since he is in the comics anyway). Of course, Namor would need to be introduced at some point before this, but that wouldn't be a problem since Marvel and Disney do own the movie rights for him. They could have replaced Xavier and Reed with Black Panther (who worked with the Illuminati but never officially joined them in the comics) and did some mild re-writing to make the Hulk's motivation fit better into the movie continuity. The twist at the end of the story would probably need to be re-worked since it wouldn't really fit into the MCU continuity. The Sentry is an important figure in the book too, but since the Sentry will most likely never appear in the MCU, I wouldn't really be surprised if he got cut.

I guess while I'm on the topic of Marvel stories that I wish would have been adapted, I'll also add in Secret Wars (big crossover and the origin of the Venom symbiote), Maximum Carnage (but Venom would be needed since he's a major player there), Demon in a Bottle (wouldn't be a big summer action movie, but it's still a quintessential Iron Man story), and Death of Captain America (the OTHER only good thing to come out of the Civil War comic, but would need some re-writing since Red Skull and Crossbones are big players in the book but are either dead or out of commission in the MCU). Death of Captain America in particular would be an excellent developmental period for Bucky and can be a passing-of-the-torch moment for the Cap mantle, like it was in the book since Bucky actually does take on the role of Captain America for a time following this story.

I completely forgot about Iron Man 2.

But in my defense, so did everyone else.