Made for movies Heroes and Villains in the MCU

[smallville fan]

If Feige and TPTB managing the MCU wanted to, could they create more new heroes or villains for the big screen and could later if they wanted to get their own comic?

It could compensate for the characters they don't have the rights to? Like they could create their own cosmic entities that could substitute for Galactus or something?

Before I hear people say that the other studios have only a small fraction of the Marvel Universe and Feige has a real huge wealth of characters at his disposal that could compensate anyway, there is Agent Coulson.

Not to mention, the Guardians of the Galaxy are so much of a niche minority known group that to the known casual audience public, they may as well have been original characters.

So could the MCU introduce original characters that join or fight The Avengers?

 

[BatsDC]

Yeah, they could... But with such an expansive library of characters, I'm not sure they'd want to.

I think newly invented heroes / villains are best suited to Agents of SHIELD, Jessica Jones etc.

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

They already did. Coulson, May, FitzSimmons. All of them are comic characters now. But right now it is unlikely that major Superheroes will be invented/introduced that way.

There will come a day however, when the MCU will want to expand further and there aren't that many heroes left popular or developed enough to warrant solo movies. Then Marvel will have three choices: Develop existing comic book characters to the point where an adaptation is realistic, by giving them a good supporting cast and a couple of great stories filmmakers can be inspired by is one of them (and one I would prefer for some of the female characters they have right now. Great solo runs for characters like Tigra, Monica Rambeau are books I really want to read). The other two option is creating new characters either in the comic books or in the movies. Khamala Khan is an example to do this right, Miles Morales is another relativley new character written well enough that a movie is thinkable. Harley Quinn from the Distinguished Competition is an example for a great character developed in another medium and I see no reason why Marvel couldn't do this on a greater scale.

 

[Rich Santoro]

I know the perfect villain that is just tailor made for the big screen... The Mandarin... :0

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

I know the perfect villain that is just tailor made for the big screen... The Mandarin... :0

which we already got in 3 different versions to suit a lot of different tastes

 

[ralphuniverse]

G'day,

So far none of those characters are really "super" . However they are about 50% there with Melinda May. She has a comic book name, "the Calvary" , a costume ( admittedly its only her bland SHIELD uniform) and when she had the Berserker Staff , super powers. The staff has been lost so at the moment she's just an action girl but it wouldn't be too hard to turbocharge her, maybe Lady Sif could give her a better tuned staff or something, and she would easily be the MCU first unique superhero.

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Ralph

They already did. Coulson, May, FitzSimmons. All of them are comic characters now. But right now it is unlikely that major Superheroes will be invented/introduced that way.

There will come a day however, when the MCU will want to expand further and there aren't that many heroes left popular or developed enough to warrant solo movies. Then Marvel will have three choices: Develop existing comic book characters to the point where an adaptation is realistic, by giving them a good supporting cast and a couple of great stories filmmakers can be inspired by is one of them (and one I would prefer for some of the female characters they have right now. Great solo runs for characters like Tigra, Monica Rambeau are books I really want to read). The other two option is creating new characters either in the comic books or in the movies. Khamala Khan is an example to do this right, Miles Morales is another relativley new character written well enough that a movie is thinkable. Harley Quinn from the Distinguished Competition is an example for a great character developed in another medium and I see no reason why Marvel couldn't do this on a greater scale.

 

[metaphysician]

If Natasha can be a hero without powers, so can Melinda.

 

[100]

If Feige and TPTB managing the MCU wanted to, could they create more new heroes or villains for the big screen and could later if they wanted to get their own comic?

It could compensate for the characters they don't have the rights to? Like they could create their own cosmic entities that could substitute for Galactus or something?

Before I hear people say that the other studios have only a small fraction of the Marvel Universe and Feige has a real huge wealth of characters at his disposal that could compensate anyway, there is Agent Coulson.

Not to mention, the Guardians of the Galaxy are so much of a niche minority known group that to the known casual audience public, they may as well have been original characters.

So could the MCU introduce original characters that join or fight The Avengers?

Much more challenging, time consuming to create new villains than use current ones.

 

[smallville fan]

Much more challenging, time consuming to create new villains than use current ones.

People create original villains all the time for film. The folk over at Marvel are all obviously fans of the comics and if they wanted to, could create their own characters of their own imagination that could play off of The Avengers, especially if there's a really good actor behind the character.

 

[ralphuniverse]

G'day,

True, but so is Bobbie Morse- Mockingbird. Both Bobbie & Natasha are really action girls. They really need to do something else with Melinda. It would be a simple matter to supercharge her especially since they did it for a short while she was with the help of the Berserker Staff. Note, the other two ladies have never been enhanced (at least in the MCU) .

Ralph

If Natasha can be a hero without powers, so can Melinda.

 

[SirStrangefolk]

Of course they could, but why would they? There are thousands of comicbook characters to choose from, and even if there is not a suitable character, they'll probably take one that is closest to what they want and use a reimagining of that character. Even if they had an idea for an original character, it's highly likely that they'd introduce this character in the comics first and push it forward in the hopes that it becomes popular.

 

[ralphuniverse]

G'day,

Because TV & movies are not comic books. The likability of the actor and the characters they play are important. When did we first see Coulson ? Iron Man 1? Did anyone at that stage think he will have his own TV series? I doubt it. However the character grew on people and he ended up playing a major role in the MCU. Similar thing with Peggy Carter, if the character was played by a different actress we may have never had the TV show.

The MCU has reached a stage were characters can grow and develop organically. They don't need to rely on the comic books.

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Ralph

Of course they could, but why would they? There are thousands of comicbook characters to choose from, and even if there is not a suitable character, they'll probably take one that is closest to what they want and use a reimagining of that character. Even if they had an idea for an original character, it's highly likely that they'd introduce this character in the comics first and push it forward in the hopes that it becomes popular.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

There's no need to create too many new characters when as has been pointed out, they already have a library of characters, heroes and villains, that could be adapted. Will there be original characters that will grow and develop like Phil Coulson? Sure. Should they go out of their way to do that? Nah. Get to bringing way more characters that already are part of the MU on the page before we start creating eratz versions of characters they already have. I dare say that well done versions of SHIELD associated characters from the comics would have made for a better show than what we did get with AoS.

 

[smallville fan]

Of course they could, but why would they?

Like I said in my original post, to possibly compensate for characters they don't have the rights to like say an all new character to substitute for Galactus for example.

 

[SirStrangefolk]

The likability of the actor and the characters they play are important.

Yes, but they could also use some obscure comic-book character, make him/her likable and cast a likable actor. If a minor character made for the movies turns out to be very popular like Coulson, sure give them a bigger role. But I think making up an entirely new character to be a main villain/hero is a bit pointless. If you look at CW's Arrow, Oliver Queen has a personality that's a bit different from his comic-book counterpart, but people still like him. And if you want to use a character you don't have the rights to, just change the story instead of making a rip-off version of a character like Galactus.

 

[smallville fan]

Yes, but they could also use some obscure comic-book character, make him/her likable and cast a likable actor. If a minor character made for the movies turns out to be very popular like Coulson, sure give them a bigger role. But I think making up an entirely new character to be a main villain/hero is a bit pointless. If you look at CW's Arrow, Oliver Queen has a personality that's a bit different from his comic-book counterpart, but people still like him. And if you want to use a character you don't have the rights to, just change the story instead of making a rip-off version of a character like Galactus.

That is true that they could come across as rip-offs but wasn't Coulson ever compared to established characters.

 

[MbJ]

Yeah, they could... But with such an expansive library of characters, I'm not sure they'd want to.

Exactly. If they need an unstoppable cosmic force they have characters like the Celestials for that.

One thing I have seen suggested by a few outlets is the idea of Marvel trying to introduce some new Asian superheroes to appeal to the burgeoning Asian film audience, and that one SORTA makes sense to me since Marvel doesn't have a lot of Asian heroes who aren't complete stereotypes.

 

[MbJ]

Also on the subject, new characters work best when balanced out by others. A great many characters were created by fandom and turned out well liked, such as Harley Quinn, X-23, the new Aqualad, and of course Coulson himself.

Yet the first season of Agents of SHIELD was met with loud resistance from many fans over the lack of actual people from the comics. Coulson was fine. But an entire cast full of new characters who weren't from the comics? That was what annoyed people.

So I think people would be fine if say, you created a brand new, original character to join the Avengers or Guardians but you'd have a tougher time trying to make them a lead.

 

[queendarkness12]

I think original characters can be invented for Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, since both could benefit from this.

Agent Of Shield proves that with development and growth, then original characters can go over with the audience.

 

[3dman27]

Like I said in my original post, to possibly compensate for characters they don't have the rights to like say an all new character to substitute for Galactus for example.

that brings To mind a question who has the rights to 3D-man ?