Notice how there was no toys for X-Men First Class as Marvel owns the toy rights.
What toys were there to make of an origin film that primarily doesn't even have them in costumes? "Xavier in sportcoat, with chess playing action"?
Notice no X-Men tie-in comic books.
Word is that they're currently developing one, based off of the movie's team lineup.
Was there even a video game?
When was the last amazingly well sold movie tie-in game for
any character? It's a good thing, not a blight. Most movie games are freaking terrible.
Notice how there are less mutants in the comics (Liefeld said Marvel doesn't want to create new properties for FOX to exploit.) That's why "No More Mutants" happened.
No, No More Mutants happened because House of M never properly ended. This was literally years in the making because it was a big elephant in the room that they always seemed to struggle to address.
Over push of The Avengers is because Marvel OWNS that properties.
How is one trailer and a few posters an "over push"? What, because of the after credit scenes and all of that? It's to establish a continuity between films, not just to scream out "Avengers! Ahhhh!" like everyone on the internet seems to mistakenly believe.
Comic Book wise he mentioned how the X-Men are hardly involved in many of the major Marvel events anymore.
Because they have their own events. That's not really downsizing their prescence in the MU, that's actually giving them kind of a boost in comparison to the other properties.
He says Marvel treats the X-Men like a "Licensed property"
I'm sure that's why X-Men Destiny was just released.
Because of the, y'know. "Evil licensing".
Marvel focusing heavy on merchandise and not owning X-Men showed how the lack of promotion now makes sense.
Well, they didn't really need to. The movie still made a pretty good amount of money based off of Fox's promotion alone. It's generally a movie studio's job to promote their movie, not a practically unrelated subsidiary company that owns the property through another medium.
Heck it even makes sense how Daredevil, Fantastic Four & Elektra are actually NON-Factors in the Marvel Comics world.
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Uh... not the case at all.
Daredevil's currently one of the top selling books at Marvel. Fantastic Four has a critically acclaimed new series. Elektra was recently in an arc of Punishermax.
SONY and Marvel are on better terms, thus why they push alot of Spidey toys, games,etc.
No, they push alot of Spider-Man product because
Spider-Man sells. People have loved that character practically since his inception. It's the same damn thing with DC putting out more Batman shows or games or product, because it's proven to be what is popular with the general public. It's not some weird ass form of favoritism, it's just what the people want out of Marvel.
It has nothing to do with X-Men whatsoever.
Like Rob said Marvel & SONY have a good relationship. Notice how Marvel always drops a new Spider-Man video game every year. When was the last X-Men video game??
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THIS YEAR.
Marvel owns the X-men merchandise, so why help FOX, who they hate. Now that Marvel has the merchandise for Spider-Man they will make millions. (notice we haven't heard ANYTHING about Ghost Rider toys.)
Sony owns Ghost Rider, not Fox.
So your argument already just fell apart. Spectacularly.
House of M began in 2005 where Marvel stopped making new mutants,however since then there have been tons of Avengers related proprieties.
And tons of X-Men related properties aswell. Do you even know how many X-Men books are currently being published, or how many different teams there are? Or did you just choose to ignore all of that for the sake of argument?
Marvel brung Steve Rogers back to life when Avengers were green-lit. But isn't it weird that all the mutants in X-Men First Class most have NO presence in the current Marvel Universe.
Most of the mutants in X-Men First Class have never had a presence to begin with. That's why people were up-in-arms when it was announced that the mainstays, like Scott and Jean, weren't going to be on the team.
No not to be a conspiracy theories look at character NOT owned by Disney and their status in the Marvel Universe. Weird how after Luke Cage got back to Marvel he became a MAJOR part of the Marvel Universe.
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He's been on the New Avengers practically since there
was a New Avengers. His status hasn't changed whatsoever.
Daredevil a FOX property (has been replaced by Iron Fist & Black Panther in his own book.)
Wait, what the ****?
Did you even
read the arc where Iron Fist was posing as Daredevil? Or read the circumstances behind Black Panther protecting Hell's Kitchen? Matt was still heavily the focus of both. He even had his own miniseries devoted towards his return. And now he's back with his own title, and Black Panther's was literally just cancelled.
Whatever you're implying (or whatever Liefeld was implying) makes no sense.
And like Liefeld said there has been NO new X-Villains in YEARS. All there threats are REVIVED characters. Major mutants are killed for like forever and when they need new mutants they revive an old mutants.
Rarely are there any new characters that tend to stick in any comic, not just the X-Men. Why create Hush when you can bring in The Joker? Why create Anti-Venom when you've got Green Goblin? It's mostly up to a writer's mandate, not editorial.
Besides, weren't there new villains just introduced in Schism?
That, y'know. Big X-Men event?
I'm not even gonna get into the Wolverine family conspiracy.
If it's half as thought out as any of Liefeld's other theories, well... thank freaking christ.
