Greetings nerdy list afficionados we're back in the MCU cause you love it here.
So the MCU has made some pretty significant changes to the comicverse in order to facilitate
a cohesive MCU universe and tell the stories it wants to tell.
Fans have loved some changes and hated others.
So in no particular order we're going to take a look at some of the most interesting and
if you like it we'll do it again there's been a lot of changes.
I'm Sasha and let's get started.
These are the top 10 times Marvel Changed the MCU
Number 10 - Starlord's father.
When guardians of the galaxy was released in 2014 it surprised the world with how well
it did as it focused on a group of heroes that not many people were all that familiar
with and reignited interest in the group.
For people who were in the know they well knew that Peter Quill's father was J'son of
Spartax who crashed on Earth fell for Meredith Quill and ultimately left without ever knowing
she was pregnant.
The king of Spartax has come into conflict with his son trying to both capture and destroy
him only to be halted by Captain Marvel.
So it was well known in canon that J'son was just a bit of a jerk so sending Ravagers to
kidnap is son didn't seem too out of left field.
However in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Starlord's father was revealed to be Ego the living planet
who made himself manifest seducing women to try and create another celestial so that he
could conquer and terraform the Galaxy.
This is one of those changes that for many fell into the okk but why tho category.
Especially as actually as the MArvel universe has continued to expand more interesting stories
could potentially have been told with the King OF Spartax.
Still at least Guardians 2 gave us some trippy space warp and later hellraiser reconstruction
visuals.
Number 9 - Magneto's Twins.
So this was a change made out of necessity due to a lack of access to the writes to certain
words and terms necessary to complete the twins backstory.
The Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver have existed in an intriguing legal realm for decades though
that time may be coming to an end.
Wherein they were Magneto's children a regning X-Men villain and hence mutants but were also
both on the Avengers roster which fell under a different jurisdiction adaptation wise.
The solution to still have the twins have them join the Avengers but make no mention
of their mutant parentage and in fact change their backstory to having been the victims
of Hydra's experiments modified and changed through though means.
Also they fridged Quicksilver quick remember all those he's still alive headcanons they're
still going by the way.
So this way we get the twins but not their full backstory which in a way makes them feel
more fully entrenched in the MCU.
Number 8 - Tony Stark builds Ultron, so this was a pretty big change that stems from the
lack of Hank Pym on the Avengers as well as the MCU's need to continually have Tony play
out the his genius and good intentions exceed his foresight plot.
So in the comics Hank Pym creates Ultron with a full body however Ultron proved to be unstable
partially as a result of Pym's own instability as Ultron's brain patterns were modelled after
his, He continually felt the need to upgrade himself creating newer more advanced bodies
driven by a need to prove himself and best Hank Pym Ultron becomes more and more dangerous
as he insidiously tries to tear the Avengers apart.
So it's pretty similar minus the shift in creator which people credit to fitting Tony's
arc and also the fact that Pym hadn't been introduced yet and when he was it was as an
older second tier mentor figure and I swear it's because of this panel.
So few poeple know the context but it comes up again and again.
Sometimes it just takes one panel to ensure your character will never ne properly adapted.
(slap panel)
Number 7 - Agent Coulson, so people love Clark Gregg as Coulson he has been around since
the birth of the MCU all the way back in 2008 with Iron Man but did you know that there
is no Coulson in the comic verse.
There is not he is a purely film based creation and a welcome addition too he was even utilized
as the catalyst to bring the team together in 2012 his presence managed to give Agents
of Shield a huge leg up cause you guessed it he got better.
This is one addition people are pretty happy with.
Number 6 - The Mandarin Oh Iron Man 3 do you ever notice how rarely people talk about this
one.
So from the start the adaptation one of Iron Man's iconic villains proved to be a problem
people were complaining that it would be racist to depict him as asian but then to not would
be white washing that to change the character would remove too much of his motivation and
ultimately all of this lead to one of the most hated adaptations of the character ever.
At first it looked as if the fears people had had been for naught as Ben Kingsley was
portraying a credible Madarin however midway through the film he is revealed to be an actor
hired by the true Mandarin of the film a generic and lackluster villain played by Guy Pearce
play my favourite clip of all time I am the Mandarin.
Essentially this was a very dissapointing display from one of Iron Man's most iconic
villains who constantly forced him into a battle of science versus magic and the MCU
had magic even if it wasn't Doctor Strange levels of overt.
Iron Man 3 had it's strengths and weakenesses but the Mandarin ended up being something
that really stopped the film from properly coalescing of course mileage varies some absolutely
love it, but on the whole people hope that they will get a different Mandarin or one
that was hinted at in the future.
Number 5 - Why Thanos Snaps pun intended fully, so the Inifnity War arc made some significant
changes to the comics some due to lack of characters and others to fit in with the already
established lore in the MCU.
So in the Infinity War arc the Infinity Gauntlet Thanos is in love with Death he has been for
awhile and it's actually part of his long standing hatred and rivalry with Deadpool.
It is his desire to impress Death and be worthy of her that causes him to seek out the Infinity
Stones which he gets with not too mcuh difficulty in all honestly and intially sets out to follow
her orders to destroy half the universes population however getting the gauntlet made Thanos madder
than he already was as the mad titan and he was further enranged when his newfound power
still did not draw his love death to him and instead made her bow to him but not love him.
It's all quite melodramatic and would not have had much connection to the MCU.
So the change of seeking balance and being driven by a what he believes is a solid purpose
Thanos was more accesible and rounded out to a modern audience and it led to some pretty
funny fan activity.
A subreddit deleting half it's members at random, sexy thicc Thanos it's been a good
time.
Number 4 - Tony's not an alcoholic so there's a lot going on with Tony in the MCU he's largely
been the focal point and his arc has been one of the most defined and that has all managed
to occur while skipping one of his iconic comic storylines the demon in a bottle story
arc wherein Tony ended up battling with self esteem issues and Alcoholism and it became
one of the big Iron Arcs.
The MCU removed that and instead went with a ptsd plot.
Also for ratings purposes it's interesting what pushes ratings up and what doesn't.
Number 3 - Hawekeye's secret family.
So once again we're back in Avengers 2 age of Ultron after what appeared to be a very
clintashaey avengers movie that seemed like it could be setting up a black widow and hawkeye
romance the world was instead graced with Clint's secret family.
Now in the comics like many a super hero Clint gets around partially as a character trait
and partially due to comics aversion to stable relationships due to an inability to write
them and the idea that they are narratively boring.
Well the MCU felt that a secret family gave Clint a great motivation and grounded him.
It also was a way to give the Avengers a secret safe haven to flee to.
To this day this remains a divicise change.
Number 2 - The Scope of Civil War the third Captain America film also jokingly reffered
to as Avengers 2.5 loosely adapted the 2006 mega storyline of the same name Civil war.
Now in the comics this was quite the event and there was no way they were going to get
all of it onscreen or all the heroes either.
For the film adaptation the concept of registration or non registration is fused a bit with the
UN Charter idea which the Avengers did do for a bit in the 90s and the lines are drawn
somewhat ideologically but mostly because Steve loves Bucky.
It made the conflict more personal and kept the whole team cap or team iron man for some
it really worked for others ir felt too rushed and they would have liked to see some of the
big moments.
However they worked in what they could and it did bring in Spider-MAn now in a mentee
Robin esque though a bit more independant role to Iron Man.
Also Zemo was there cause...
Also Steve straight up tried to kill Iron Man if his arc reactor had been there he would
be dead.
Civil War set up a lot of emotional threads that didn't fully come to fruition because
again to quote the russos there was no time.
Still it wreaked as much lasting devestation as the first civil war so accurate.
Number 1 - You can touch the Infinity Stones, these stones of seemingly infinite cosmic
power are a big deal in both universes.
But being able to physically touch them seems to be a bigger deal in the MCU.
For example it took Starlord's mixed parentage and the power of friendship to allow him to
hold the power stone.
However in the comics for a period each member of the illuminatti had a stone.
So Doctor Strange, Iron man, Professor X, Namor, Black Bolt, Reed Richards all stoned.
Reed trying to destroy them but couldn't.
Another roster had it too featuring Steve Rogers who got to wirld the gauntlet it went
badly.
The illuminatti is just the worst.
Still looks like that won't be as much of an issue here since you need to be really
extra powered to be able to even touch one, unless they retcon that yay retcons.
So those were 10 times that Marvel changed the MCU there are many many more leave your
favourite or least favourite moments down below.
I'm Sasha thanks so much for watching Top 10 Nerd ...sign off.