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There’s no way Marvel Studios will ever be able to adapt all of their stories to the big or small screen. There are still decades worth of stories waiting, and Marvel adds to them every week. Here are five stories that should take priority.
Future Imperfect
What if you time-traveled to the future and discovered that one day you would become literally the worst person in the world? That’s what happens to Bruce Banner in the 1992-3 miniseries “Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect”.
During the period that saw the creation of the so-called Professor or Smart Hulk, resistance fighters from the future convince Banner to return with them to the dystopian future. There, Banner learns almost every other superhero and villain is dead after a series of nuclear wars.
The future, white-haired version of himself – calling himself the Maestro – viciously rules over what little is left of humanity. To free the survivors, Hulk must defeat a version of himself who is not only evil and crazy, but – because of the increased radiation everywhere – much stronger.
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From the cover of the collected edition of “Spider-Verse”
From the cover of the collected edition of “Spider-Verse”
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Spider-Verse
Sure, there’s “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and its sequel but if you haven’t read the “Spider-Verse” comics, then you don’t know “Spider-Verse”.
The original “Spider-Verse” event is perhaps the most brutal Spidey story you can find. The comics not only introduce you to a lot more alternate versions of Spider-Man, but it kills a whole lot of them in increasingly unpleasant ways. The alternate Spideys are fighting energy vampires called The Inheritors who have it as their mission to consume the life forces of all the Spider heroes in the multiverse, and let’s just say the bad guys don’t go hungry.
Trying to adapt something like this in live-action would be insane, but could work well as an adult-oriented animated feature or series.
Krakoa
For years, the island nation of Krakoa informed everything about the X-Men and all the various mutant heroes and villains.
On the sentient, mutant island of Krakoa, almost all of the mutants of Marvel joined together to create a new nation. Unlike other earlier, similar attempts in Marvel to create mutant nations, Krakoa is different in that it doesn’t just have mutants living together; it has them creating their own language, new traditions, and an entirely new culture. They harness their powers to become world leaders and create new, impossible technologies.
Something like “The Age of Krakoa” might honestly work much better as a series than a single feature. All the different mutants need their chance to shine.
The Hulk’s Past
One thing that is sadly absent from the MCU is any mention of Bruce Banner’s troubled childhood. In the comics, Banner is physically abused by his father Brian who, among other things, murders Bruce’s mother in front of him.
Banner’s trauma is key to the creation of the Hulk as a separate persona and the fact that this hasn’t been mentioned at all in the MCU seems criminal. After all, we know he’s “always angry.” Shouldn’t we know why?
Avengers Forever
Because of all the different ways the MCU has diverged from the comics, a straight shot-for-shot adaptation of the 1998 maxi-series “Avengers Forever” would be impossible, but the premise is do-able and tempting to consider as a live-action movie or series.
In the comics, a team of Avengers is assembled from different corners of time. For example, there are two versions of Hank Pym, there’s a Captain America from a time when Steve Rogers was considering setting aside his superhero persona, and a Captain Marvel from the future.
It’s a premise that could allow for different talents to return if they wanted to. Imagine a team with Anthony Mackie and Chris Evans Captain Americas, with the Hulk before he becomes smart, Quicksilver before his death, Scarlet Witch after she went bad, and perhaps a few future versions of other heroes.
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