It is certainly a step in the right direction. I HATE numerical sequel titles! So unoriginal. I have long espoused the James Bond method of titling. 'From Russia With Love' wasn't titled James Bond 2, thank GOD! I wish sequels didn't even have the hero's name in it. Dan Poole's fan film "The Green Goblin's Last Stand' is a great example. They didn't title Rooster Cogburn True Grit II. I think Rocky II started this whole thing. I'd love for Marvel to just call Cap 2 The Winter Solider.
But then only comic book fans would know it was a Captain America movie...
I kind of agree with this. Iconic characters will sell with just their names. I think a subtitle would do a disservice to an Avengers sequel, for example. The subtitle definitely makes sense for Cap since they'll probably just be calling it "The Winter Soldier" in Russia, South Korea, and the Ukraine again, but I thought the Thor sequel would be called Thor 2. Maybe they were avoiding the possibility of having a Thor Four. Hehe.Something like Iron Man doesn't need it. Because its like Spider-Man or Batman at this point, the name alone sells you.
Cap and Thor, while doing great, are not at the level of Bats, Spidey or Iron Man, so you could probably just do Cap II or Thor 2, but adding a subtitle helps.
I never understood why the X-Men had subtitles, it just felt ... added on for no reason.
Godfather II is the first one I can think of...a few years before Rocky, much less Rocky II...
Yeah, The Godfather Part II (1974) was the first sequel to adopt a numbering sequence in the title. Before that, every sequel had a unique name.
Right, but it wasn't called "Thor: The Mighty Avenger."i thought Thor was The Mighty Avenger?
Iron Man 12 would be too ostentatious.. and not very creative.
It seems like Marvel is switching to subtitles instead of being numerical for their frachise characters. Do you guys approve? Now I'm thinking what Iron Man 2 should've been called instead.