What “genre” hasn’t been done in the MCU yet, and how would you like to see it done?
One that I’d love to see, and actually think is possible, is a true Western. With a cowboy character like Kid Colt or Two-Gun Kid.
Another genre I love is financial crisis dramas (not sure if that’s the best description?). So films like *The Big Short* and *Margin Call*. It could be special feature spinoff, centered around the global panic total collapse of the global financial system, because people learned about the incursions and thought earth was about to end. The “too big to fail” corporation is Stark Enterprises. In the end, the government buys them for pennies on the dollar. It marks a new era of a police state using Stark’s tech. I know this type of movie would never happen but it’s still a good thought exercise lol.
Another genre I love is financial crisis dramas (not sure if that’s the best description?). So films like *The Big Short* and *Margin Call*. It could be special feature spinoff, centered around the global panic total collapse of the global financial system, because people learned about the incursions and thought earth was about to end. The “too big to fail” corporation is Stark Enterprises. In the end, the government buys them for pennies on the dollar. It marks a new era of a police state using Stark’s tech. I know this type of movie would never happen but it’s still a good thought exercise lol.
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If it has more superhero stuff it'd be a more serious She-Hulk which is a really cool idea.
We have She-Hulk at home
Adding CGI at the end doesn’t change the genre.
"I've been sleeping with...your broth-er!"
Either a Dazzler “comeback special” or some kind of adaptation of the limited series *Marvels*.
Found footage horror.
Some kids are making a horror movie in the swamp and stumble into a game of cat and mouse between Man-Thing and shady government agents—who aren’t exactly what they seem.
When I think "mockumentary", I think of something that's purposefully comedic - Spinal Tap, or What We Do In The Shadows.
But I feel like there's another genre that gets overshadowed and swallowed by the mockumentary category - "Fake Documentary".
A documentary that isn't real, but also isn't comedic. It's like there was a world where those events happened and someone made a serious documentary about them, then a wormhole opened up and dropped it into our world.
The closest I can think of is "found footage" films, like Cloverfield, but those are always edited differently from how a real doc would be.
- Rogers' Eleven
- Atomic Widow
- The Aviator: The Howard Stark Story
- The Fantastic Mr. Lang
- Peter Parker's Day Off
- The Gentlemen: The Zemo story
- Groundhog Wade
- Vision Dreams of Sushi
So... have you just not seen Avengers: ~~Endgame~~ Time Heist yet? 🤣
Unironically the Super Duper Cut of Deadpool 2 did have a montage of Wade killing himself after Vanessa died but can’t, which was kind of an homage to Groundhog Day.
DS2 was definitely changed after WandaVision, and I think that’s also what caused Derrickson to leave. From what I remember he originally wanted Nightmare and to make it the first official horror movie of the MCU. WandaVision goes the way it does, the rewrites happen, and now Scarlet Witch is the villain. At least that’s how I remember it anyway, I could be off on some of that.
Actual horror. Body horror, I think is an interesting one to consider. Or, a slasher where you have a team of depowered heroes or even civilians working to survive against a psychotic low-level villain that's hunting them down one by one.
WandaVision is a romance drama disguised as a comedy so I get it, but why Love & Thunder doesn't count? I think Taika explicitly called it a romcom so at least it was his intention.
Rom coms generally have a happenstance meeting, a budding romance, an unspoken character flaw or series of outside obstacles that keep them apart or from fully committing, and an eventual push beyond it into them finding their happily ever after.
because you need the "com" part of "romcom"
I actually came here to suggest a romcom but you beat me to it.
Since “”Civil War” ended with a breakout from the Raft, we’d need to find a new prison to use, and decide who they’d be breaking out.
The 40's and the 60's have been covered in superhero films but not the 50's. The 70's tend to get glossed over as well.
Arthurian history. Morgan Ley Faye is a pretty major villain in the comics.
And Captain Marvel 1 was technically a period piece.
Westernwith Howard the Duck and Cosmo
If you want to tell a story whose genre is not relevant to the Universe.. tell the original story. Marvel doesn’t have to be the only setting for every kind of film.
I have an idea for a show set a couple of years after ww2, and featuring the golden age Marvel/Timely characters like the Angel or the Blond Phantom.
I'd like a movie to be primarily whatever genre, but superhero characters in it.
Abbott has been everythinggg for 5 seasons straight - if Wonder Man can steal The Studio's nachos, we could get something to steal Abbott's
Let the title be "Young Money"
Just for fun make a sequel featuring middle aged billionaire supervillains: Osborn, Kingpin, Mr Negative and Doom who meet to do the opposite and call it "Old Money"
you asked for something that has never been done, there's one that will NEVER be done outside of deepfakes or AIslop
otherwise, some terms i haven't yet seen being bandied about:
* medical - nurse with invisibility bangs a sex god doctor in the closet who's secretly seeing another doctor in another hospital and all that nonsense
* sport - loser team gains superpowered member/s, climb the ranks, knocked down a peg by rival superpowered team, pep talk by tough love coach, the works
* tournament - actually being considered for shang-chi 2 is it not
* soap - wandavision is a trial run. now extend the soap parts for an unbroken 2-decade streak or something
* reality and subgenres - stick a mind reader, a telekinetic, an empath, a mind controller, kleptomaniac speedster, obnoxious superstrength gymrat, etc. inside a bigbrother house. there is no more house by next episode. same deal with survivor-type shows. bachelor/bachelorette: eugenics dogwhistlecore
The storyline where Beto Dacosta takes over AIM would be perfect for your financial crisis drama. It's basically a hostile takeover to secure AIM tech and keep it out of the hands of Roxxon or Hydra