re: Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer

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Anyone hoping at some point we will get some Nova action?

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Seeing as Nova, Rich Rider not he new one, is one of Marvel's most awesome characters that no one really knows of...Yes, yes i do.

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1. Here are our characters
2. Here are some extreme examples of the tone we are taking

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The tone was just not what I was expecting. I thought Thanos had something to do with these characters, though I could be way off on that. So I expected a more serious, epic tone akin to Man of Steel, by far my favorite comic book movie. I don't mind some humor sprinkled in, but this was nothing but barely funny jokes. It just feels like a comedy set in space, which is not what I was expecting or wanting. Hopefully a far more serious trailer will come out.

I'm not sure you can get a serious movie out of a property with a talking raccoon and a guy whose name consists of two dick jokes.

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I believe Black Panther

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Although I could not find a definitive answer, it appears that not only does Marvel have his rights, but there is some development for a Black Panther film.

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Although I could not find a definitive answer, it appears that not only does Marvel have his rights, but there is some development for a Black Panther film.

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So many rumors floating around right now (some recently debunked for Winter Soldier), so I am skeptical, but this would make me giddy as hell. That's probably the next film I would want to see (and I'd rather it over Ant Man).

With Vibranium already in play, and a political tone of Captain America, it makes more than a ton of sense.

Oh and just go ahead and cast Eijofor now.

Is the tv channel Spike owned by Fox?

If not, that's more evidence that BP is owned by Marvel as his shortlived animated series aired there and not on Fox or FX.

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Not aimed at anyone specifically, but all superhero movies cannot be all things to all people. Man of Steel was too dour for my tastes, Avengers was a little too jokey. I'll still see the sequels for both because there were parts that I liked (and I'm hoping for a more serious Avengers and a less dark Superman).

This Firefly version of Guardians of the Galaxy is going to be way too silly for some and will hit all of the right notes for others.

I'm looking forward to it based on the cast (which is one of the most likable ensembles I've ever seen). If the writing holds up, we should be in business.

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As good an assessment as any. I think DC misses more often than not, just given some of their choices. And the dour notes don't mesh well with the source material. I think they are finding their feet, but it's going to take another couple of films. It worked for Nolan's world because it was so far removed from the comic book. I don't think it worked in MoS, but it was a good film if you can look past the problems of tone.

I just don't want EVERYTHING to go down that path at all, the dour one. I think if the Avengers would have not been so successful, maybe more moderately successful, everyone would have started to copy Nolan and that would have been absolutely awful and all the "death of the genre" talk would have been well deserved.

We need some lighter fair. Maybe Avengers was a little too light, I can see that, but I doubt they keep that tone for AoU. It can't be because Ultron is a beast. An angry, truly villainous beast bent on pure destruction.

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Could Black Panther be a shared character, like Pietro and Wanda? (Since he was a Fantastic Four character that became an Avenger).

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I flexed my expert googling skills for a few minutes and all signs point to Marvel owns it.

It makes sense. I would say BP's ratio of Avengers/Fantastic Four activity is much more lopsided in the Avengers favor moreso than the Scarlet Witch/Quicksilver situation.

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I don't think the issue was ever difference of time spent, but Origin point, which is FF.

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I think SW/QS being mutants and children of Magneto is more of what creates the sharing of rights issue more than them first appearing in Xmen #4 or whatever.

Panther first appeared in FF but hell, he's been a decent part of every film corner of the Marvel Universe since with being married to Storm and his Avengers activity.

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2. They've already admitted to changing the character significantly. She may even be Kryptonian, so:

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What the frick?

The more I hear about what Warner/DC is up to the worse it sounds.

Holy shite is it really that hard for them to comprehend anything past Batman and Superman?

Did they not see Thor and how a fantastical realm can be pulled off w/o being very confusing?