Need some recommendations for movies and shows and characters to get into marvel more.

I've been playing midnight suns lately and it has shown a side of marvel I click with, and it has gotten me watching movies and YouTube videos about certain characters. I've watched many marvel movies throughout the yearsike we all do, but never cared much beyond the few hours of entertainment. I've liked spiderman cause those are just always good. But didn't care about avengers (few hours of entertainment), I don't really like the typical super hero thing like captain america, iron man, doctor strange. I'm not Into the whole superman saves the day type thing. But I do like the mutants or people with powers who aren't heroes, the characters that would not consider themselves lucky to have their powers, they are forced into that life but just have to deal with it and consider it more of a curse. I like blade, magik, nightcrawler and similar characters. I've watched some videos about bullseye, moon Knight, sabertooth, and characters who are on the bad side but have arcs on the good side to. These characters are much more interesting. And that's what I'm looking for help from the community about, please give me some recommendations on who to look into, movies or shows. At some point I would like to get into the graphic novels that actually tell the proper stories about these characters but that is for later.

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Notoriously_So2026-01-02 09:04

X-Men 1-3, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Logan and the Deadpool movies.

marvelcomics222026-01-02 10:16

Runaways has Nico Minoru, I think it's really good, a lot of people like it. It had three seasons and 27 total episodes. It's pretty standalone but has some ties to other things in the MCU (Cloak & Dagger). Cloak & Dagger also has a similar thing to what you're talking about, an Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. to an extent.

formerdalek2026-01-02 10:20

If the movies don't do it for you why not try reading some of the well liked comic runs? Don't get me wrong I think Marvel's comics haven't been consistently good since the early to mid 2000s, but there has still been good stuff since then and there's over 50 years of history with plenty of good storylines.

Bigbigbigrock2026-01-02 10:23

Comics would be my recommendation as well.

formerdalek2026-01-02 10:26

It's kind of funny that I recommended this since I kind of went from being a fan of the comics to being more of an MCU fan over the course of the 2010s.

Bigbigbigrock2026-01-02 10:28

Reverse for me, didn't start reading comics til a little while ago. The comics ironically made me a bigger MCU fan as I liked stuff like Young Avengers by Heinberg and Cheung, and so got more excited for newer heroes popping up.

formerdalek2026-01-02 10:38

For me the problem is with a few exceptions (eg Immortal Hulk, Ms Marvel) Marvel's comics have kind of been crap since around 2006. So in the 2010s the MCU provided me with an alternative that was at least consistently decent and largely lacked a lot of the things that frustrated me about the way the comic side of things went.

Bigbigbigrock2026-01-02 10:41

I admit I haven't delved too much into newer comics, having mostly read YA and Ant-Man related stuff, beyond fun things like It's Jeff. I just started Astonishing X-Men recently and it's been very good, so I'm excited to keep reading. But yeah I heard Marvel kinda missed a step and hasn't really recovered since. There's been some new stuff I heard was good. New Ultimates is incredible from what I've read and seen, I hear Wiccan's new solo is also pretty good.

formerdalek2026-01-02 11:53

I think part or the problem is that the mid 2000s where a lot of Marvels stuff starts to turn edgy in a way that the writers think is a lot more mature than it actually is. Not helping that it also became the point where they just go into overdrive with status qou shifting events to the point where you get no chance to really settle into how thing have changed before the next big change happens and your preferred characters books can barely go on with their own stories before, getting interrupted by event comic tie ins.

Jenkes_of_Wolverton2026-01-02 12:55

Have you watched the ABC and Netflix shows? Jessica Jones and Luke Cage aren't heroes, they are just normal people with super powers they didn't ask for, who prefer to be left alone. The Gifted is a series about mutants trying to survive after the X-Men aren't around to protect them from the normies.

Strokeforce2026-01-02 19:50

The gifted sounds intriguing

Southern_Stage_76632026-01-02 13:19

I Love Iron Man

CaptHayfever2026-01-02 14:36

Film suggestions:

* Blade 1-2
* X-Men 1-2
* The Wolverine
* Logan
* Deadpool 1-3
* New Mutants
* Ghost Rider 1-2

Show suggestions:

* Daredevil
* Jessica Jones
* Luke Cage
* Cloak & Dagger
* Agents of SHIELD
* Moon Knight
* Werewolf By Night
* Legion
* The Gifted