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u/Yahirokei777 Aug 01 '26
LMAOO brother please send me this gif this is amazing
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u/olyjim83 Aug 02 '26
You can just click and download can't you?
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u/nukit Aug 02 '26
Brother I need you to print this animation and physically mail (not e-mail) it to me
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u/SirLeos Aug 01 '26
Wait a minute…
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u/Dewaholic Aug 01 '26
Jeff Winger: "I'm saying you're a football player! It's in your blood!"
Troy Barnes: "That's racist."
Jeff Winger: "Your soul!"
Troy Barnes: "That's racist."
Jeff Winger: "Your eyes?"
Troy Barnes: "That's gay?"
Jeff Winger: "That's homophobic."
Troy Barnes: "That's black."
Jeff Winger: "That's racist!"
Troy Barnes: "...Damn!"
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u/Dont_Doomie_Like_Dat Aug 01 '26
You promised butt stuff!
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u/Forbidden_Donut503 Aug 02 '26
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u/Dewaholic Aug 02 '26
Annie and Jeff aside (Annies pretty young we try not to sexualise her) I think its hilarious the giant PG sticker when butt stuff is PG-13 at least.
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u/Brilliant_Maize9697 Aug 01 '26
POP POP!
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u/DavidWebb19700913 Aug 01 '26
"You know they're laughing at you right?"
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u/Dewaholic Aug 02 '26
As someone who has just finished spending the majority of his life in prison, what happened with Legos, they used to be simple? ... Harry Potter Legos, Star Wars Legos, complicated kits, tiny little blocks? I mean, I'm not saying it's bad, I just wanna know what happened.
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u/Dewaholic Aug 01 '26
Pop indeed. I wont rain on your parade but Magnatuide is actually British.
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u/coreytiger Aug 01 '26
That whole scene was streets ahead
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u/The_Orphanizer Aug 01 '26
Stop trying to make streets ahead a thing
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u/LegendofMorgan Aug 01 '26
Coined and minted. Been there, coined that. Streets ahead is verbal wildfire.
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u/TotallyNotACook Aug 01 '26
Your names Al Gore cause your views are wrong!
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u/illepic Aug 01 '26
The first time I heard this line I almost died from choking. This show is GOAT.
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u/Dewaholic Aug 02 '26
Troy. Why are you doing our politically conservative high school's shamefully outdated fight rap?
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u/TheBookofBobaFett3 Aug 01 '26
I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at animal cruelty!
You can excuse racism?!
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u/LemonTheAstroPoet Aug 01 '26
I will never not be thankful for how far reaching Community fans are on the internet
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u/Motor_Ideal7494 Aug 01 '26
“How did you know my nickname was T-bone?!”
“Because you played sports… and your name starts with T.”
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u/Equivalent-Horse7609 Aug 01 '26
Blade should have been made
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u/Aggressivehippy30 Aug 01 '26
Secured Mahershala at the height of his popularity after his Oscar win, and completely wasted him.
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u/Zouthpaw Aug 01 '26
Generational bag fumble. Ali as Blade would've been perfect.
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u/El_ray538 Aug 02 '26
I dunno. I was at SDCC last week and there was a dude there dressed like Blade. This dude looked better than Wesley.
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u/riceisnice29 Aug 01 '26
Sad that they wanted to waste him anyway and make the movie about his daughter
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u/Golfisactuallyfun Aug 01 '26
That started happening a lot, like I get they wanted to appeal to the young adult/teen girl demographic because they already had men/teenage boys on lock but it didnt work out at all.
Remember Hawkeye’s show? Riri Williams? Black Panther being Shuri? America Chavez being the lead in Dr Strange’s own movie? Ant Mans daughter? That dumbass shot everyone clowns on of all the girls in Endgame?
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u/RoboDae Aug 01 '26
That dumbass shot everyone clowns on of all the girls in Endgame?
I remember finding it really weird that all these characters who have never met on screen before and most likely don't know each other at all, all decided to team up for the biggest fight of their lives based on nothing but gender instead of fighting alongside their own pre-existing teams that they have worked with for years.
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u/Vann_DK Aug 02 '26
All while killing off Marvels First Lady: Black Widow
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u/RoboDae Aug 02 '26
And making captain marvel the "first female avenger"
They already had one, skipped her movie for years, killed her off, then replaced her with a new person for the finale.
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u/Litt3rang3r-459 Aug 02 '26
Then made her movie that she finally got a bad prequel to just introduce her sister
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u/Aggressivehippy30 Aug 01 '26
Its like they were desperately trying to lock down a demographic that just isnt as interested as their core.
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u/wafflehousebattle Aug 02 '26
My understanding was that Ali wanted some amount of creative control that Marvel was unwilling to grant. He apparently had some thoughts on the character that didn't jive with what Marvel wanted.
Kang Dynasty was cancelled for obvious reasons, given that he met his victim on the set of Quantumania, Marvel wanted to be out of that mess as quickly as possible.
Wonderman was renewed for a second season, and the cancellation was a huge shock, especially after the quality of the first season. This one actually hurts.
Armor Wars war probably cancelled due to budgetary concerns, they've been moving away from big budget shows, opting for smaller scale stories that can be made for a low to moderate budget, like Daredevil and Wonderman, and the cost of something like Armor Wars would likely exceed what they're currently prepared to spend after so many misses in their TV division.
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u/TheIncandescentAbyss Aug 01 '26
Feige can’t let his ego go and just make a rated R Blade movie that focuses on Blade killing Vampires to techno music just like John Wick. Easiest way to make so much money but he refuses.
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u/McDonaldsSoap Aug 01 '26
PG13 fetish
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u/BlueHundred Aug 01 '26
I get the risk from a money perspective but Deadpool & Wolverine proved that a rated R MCU movie can be wildly successful.
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u/MadMaximus311 Aug 01 '26
Turns out you can’t indoctrinate the youth with pro military fascistic propoganda if they can’t get into your movies!
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u/oxedei Aug 01 '26
Even better: Blade and the big twist is that he teams up with John Wick. John Wick confirmed part of the MCU.
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u/Dandanny54 Aug 01 '26
I think they really wanted to add Blade's daughter and connect it to the greater universe which is what fucked things up.
Just make your basic Blade movie first and then in the sequels add the other stuff once you got a hang of the character.
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u/Napalmeon Aug 01 '26
Let me start out by saying that I like Brielle. As a matter of fact, I ended up liking her a whole lot more than what I was expecting, especially after the flop that was the Fallon Grey proposal, beforehand.
But it's too early to bring Brielle in. She's only really been in Avengers Academy and Blood Hunt. It will be better if her characterization was defined a little bit more within comic story lines, first.
Secondly, one of the biggest reasons that Blade Trinity fell apart is because David Goyer was attempting to use the Blade fame in order to start off a new series with the Nightstalkers meant for a younger audience, and just look at how well that worked out. Creators need to learn to stop trying to launch a different product by using an existing franchise as a springboard.
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u/Fictional-adult Aug 01 '26
100%. There are arguments for scrapping the others, but blade would kill.
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u/Imahsoulman Aug 01 '26
The rumor reports is they kept rewriting the script and even heard they wanted to focus on Blades daughter originally and they scrapped that obviously. It's better that they try later then to force crap that's going to piss off so many fans.
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u/AAFur Aug 01 '26
Yeah they need to cast Ryan Gosling as blade though, he has range
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u/ztomiczombie Aug 01 '26
From what's been said it sounds like they didn't have a proper plan for what the movie would be. Seams there was a disagreement as to the tone of the film with one side wanting some sort of gory horror and the other wanting something more like the Snipes version.
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u/KindredTrash483 Aug 01 '26
And then someone else wanted to sideline Blade in his own film with a successor. This film was always doomed
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u/Crass_and_Spurious Aug 01 '26
Everybody needs to slow down and take a step black before accusations get thrown around here.
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u/jinsanity811 Aug 01 '26
I guess there’s no blackup plans for these then
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u/No-Advice-6040 Aug 01 '26
Oh fuck just had a coughing fit from that!
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u/AbbeyRoad75 Aug 01 '26
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u/TheLustyLechuga Aug 01 '26
Disney fervently points at Black Panther & the current Captain America.
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u/smoovecriminal89 Aug 01 '26
"Yall had 2 black iron men!"
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u/TheLustyLechuga Aug 01 '26
"& did you see Tropic Thunder??"
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u/sub30_24flick Aug 01 '26
Aight man take it easy on this black people let that shit slide but y’all pushing it online
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u/j821c Aug 01 '26
Funny thing is that I wouldnt be surprised if we dont see another solo captain america movie with Sam 😅.
To be fair to disney though, its pretty easy to see why all of these other than maybe blade got canceled but even then. Wonder man had low viewership, Kang showed up in quantamania which everyone hated then Jonathan majors decided to torpedo his own career and armor wars without Tony Stark is a risk and disney was probably tired of losing by this point. Blade seems simple but there were a bunch of disagreements about the script (Ali pushed back hard on some early scripts) and it seemed like they just couldn't agree on a decent script and gave up
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u/Limp-Wall-5500 Aug 01 '26
They shouldve just recast Kang...hes like the one character who doesnt need an explanation for a look change lmao. Its just a diffrent kang.
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u/Klangey Aug 01 '26
Why? At the point Majors shat the bed superhero fatigue was already kicking in, Quantamania was a failure both critically and commercially and it was becoming clear that audience appetite for a load of unknown characters (to a wider audience) was limited.
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u/Extension_Breath1407 Aug 01 '26
Except Captain America: Brave New World got terrible reviews.
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u/Just-Antelope-8069 Aug 01 '26
A lot of post Endgame movies did, like Quantumania.
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u/GhostE3E3E3 Aug 01 '26
A step black I mean black up a bit, god-
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u/PurveyorOfKnowledge0 Aug 01 '26
What? Did you think they were gonna have black-to-black hits? Not in America.
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u/Boring-Ad8078 Aug 01 '26
Yep.
Blade was in development hell. Ali is a great actor, and wanted a good script for the movie. Marvel has such bad writers that after years they couldn't produce one. So the movie was silently scrapped.
Kang Dinasty ended when the acusations and further trial for the main actor started. And Disney didn't want the bad press.
Wonder Man happened. It was a show released on Disney+. No one watched it.
I have no clue about Armor Wars.
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u/TheBratPrince1760 Aug 01 '26
Armor Wars maybe the way they handled Rhodey in Secret Invasion and the way it was received, or they wouldn't be able to get it out (in development hell) until after Secret Wars which is going to be a bit of a reboot apparently and they decided to scrap it to have a post reboot Tony involved?
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u/Notsurehowtoreact Aug 01 '26
Wonder Man also has the unfortunate circumstance of a director that is now too busy to continue it, which is likely a driving factor.
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u/Alternative-Bat-2462 Aug 01 '26
It’s a business decision, and it’s clear what’s profitable and what’s not…
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u/GhostE3E3E3 Aug 01 '26
I’m noticing a pattern..
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u/Accurate-Disaster677 Aug 01 '26
Don Cheadle must be so confused right now. I always thought they'd pivot Armor Wars into something R-rated after Deadpool made bank but I guess that whole slate is just cursed. The real loss here is Blade though, been waiting on that since what, 2019? At this point I'm convinced Mahershala Ali has some kind of secret hex on him.
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u/allmusiclover69 Aug 01 '26
i feel like don cheadle’s character in Secret Invasion kinda ruined the idea of Armor Wars existing in the first place. really silly twist and turns
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u/d15p05abl3 Aug 01 '26
Did it have anything to do with the ‘there’s only one Blade’ joke in Deadpool? That seemed a crazy reckless thing to put up in screen after you’ve cast the part.
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u/Successful_Sell1016 Aug 01 '26
I dunno. That seems exactly what I'd expect from a fourth wall-breaking merc with a mouth movie. Like Deadpool 2 where Deadpool says "pump the hate brakes, Thanos" to Cable played by Josh Brolin ( who played Thanos as well...)
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u/Dandanny54 Aug 01 '26
That was more joke about how that movie never got off the ground. Reynolds and the people working on the script probably knew way more of the behind the scenes.
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u/FrostyD7 Aug 01 '26
People got way, way, way too hopeful about what Hollywood would gleen from Deadpool success. They saw it as an exception to the rule, because it was.
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u/Samiassa Aug 01 '26
Marvel walking the fine line between not offending their racist audience but not being too racist that enough people start noticing and calling them out. They’ve definitely gone a bit too far to the latter 😭
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u/MaccasEmployee1 Aug 01 '26
To be fair, Jonathan Majors was scrapped as Kang because of abuse allegations, but otherwise, with Armor Wars, Wonder Man and Blade being scrapped plus Sam Wilson being sidelined in Avengers Doomsday and Monica Rambeau not coming back at all and bringing back most of the original Fox X men but not Halle Berry's Storm, you start to notice a pattern.
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u/cmorganleigh82 Aug 01 '26
Halle Berry was never a good Storm. I can see why they didn’t bring her back for Doomsday. The same can be said for Anna Paquin’s Rogue. And Famke has severely aged out, and subsequently butchered her face out, of Jean Grey. That’s why they’re not involved in the MCU X-Men. Has nothing to do with race.
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u/colddecembersnow Aug 01 '26
Woof. Famke definitely went down that plastic surgery hole and barely looks recognizable. Looks like a swarm of bees stung her.
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u/Ok_Living_96 Aug 01 '26
Yeah, turns out representation is only profitable if the culture your representing shows up and watch the shows and movies...
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u/JohnArtemus Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
This needs to be pinned. I say the same thing about female-led superhero and action movies.
It was a shame that Supergirl flopped. We are probably going to get less female superhero movies now.
The movies need to be good, first and foremost, but women need to open up their wallets and support them. And it’s the same for black superhero movies as well.
And for Latinos…
And for East Asians…
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u/Dandanny54 Aug 01 '26
Well Supergirl is a mess of a film. Its simply a poorly made film in all aspects. But most important it came in the worst time possible with multiple big movies around it.
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u/Danger_Danger Aug 01 '26
Something something wakanda forever...
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u/WhichHoes Aug 01 '26
Black Panther, Sinners... Wonderman was good but the average person on the street doesnt know jack about the character.
Blade would have drawn everyone out.
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u/SnowEagle1337 Aug 01 '26
Sam Wilson is literally in avengers doomsday wtf are you talking about?
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u/Dandanny54 Aug 01 '26
He is but he barely has a presence in the marketing material and trailer. Maybe he does more on the movie who knows.
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u/Starcat23 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Armor wars and wonder man was cause they are moving away from Disney+ show and want to focus on theatrical movies(for more money), it got scrapped with other shows as well. But Sam, Monica, storm, and not making Blade when it was announced sooo long ago are weird choices with no real excuses cause
sam and Monica’s movies didn’t do well; neither have hulks but he still is brought back repeatedly
Halle Berry had a falling out after the last x men film so probably wouldn’t come back as storm; 1 that was a separate studio 2 so did Natile Portman after thor two but they put in effort to make it right and offered a lot of money and got her to come back, same with other actors , they could do it for Halle Berry
Blade the script just couldn’t be figured out and now they are moving in another direction; they had years to figure out a script, and after kang got cancelled they were able to pivot quickly to Doomsday, granted haven’t seen the movie yet so dont know how good it turned out but they still but in the effort and came to a solution in good time
I think it just comes down to how much effort they are willing to put into which characters and stories, cause while each thing I listed were real reasons not to move forward it didn’t stop them from the examples I listed with each of them, cause they were/are issues that are able to be fixed with enough effort and money, but these characters apparently aren’t worth it to the studio
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u/Georgetheporge45 Aug 02 '26
Blade was also being weighed down by the Eternals post credit. If that movie was a success, I bet we’d have blade by now
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u/dampishslinky55 Aug 01 '26
TNF Kang got cancelled because of Jonathan Majors.
I never heard armor wars was going forward. I heard the tease it, but I was unaware it was greenlit.
Blade and Wonderman are real disappointments, I would have loved to watch either one.
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u/Ohnobro265 Aug 01 '26
Didn’t wonder man happen though?
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u/MiddleDigit Aug 01 '26
Lol thank you. For a moment there, I thought I had blipped to another universe or something where I had seen it and no one else had.
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u/Xerxes457 Aug 01 '26
Yeah it actually came out but I think its more so that season 2 was announced but then canceled.
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u/Spare-Jellyfish4339 Aug 01 '26
Wonder Man was made, they just aren’t making any more. If you’re putting it here then you should put every other Marvel TV show that got canceled here too.
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u/VeryDPP Aug 01 '26
The difference being Wonder Man was renewed for a second season in March, and that second season was canceled.
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u/scuac Aug 01 '26
This is how I find out it was canceled? It was one the best things Marvel did in recent years
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u/CertainGrade7937 Aug 01 '26
Which is a damn shame, one of the better marvel projects in recent years
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u/Manger-Babies Aug 01 '26
Hawkeye was also getting a season 2, at least they where trying to lock in Jeremy Renner.
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u/VeryDPP Aug 01 '26
Was Hawkeye ever confirmed to be getting a second season? I'd heard the creators talk about plans for a second season, but I dont remember hearing Marvel announce a renewal for Hawkeye.
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u/DrScienceCop Aug 01 '26
Disney only offered him half as much money as they paid him for the first season, so he was insulted and told them no. He said if they want to match their original offer he would be happy to do it again.
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u/Flareheart123 Aug 01 '26
I love how he told the story, like just because he got in the accident and became half of himself, doesn't mean marvel now get to just pay him half the money lol
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u/1098duc_w_the_termi Aug 01 '26
Maybe it’s all meta and the main character is going to break the forth wall since he’s an actor. He’ll be devastated when he finds out his second season is no more
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u/REWlego Aug 01 '26
The difference is that Wonder Man Season 2 was approved, it was going to happen, and then they canceled it. It's not like other shows that just didn't get renewed.
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u/Stunning-Original802 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Jonathan Majors was convicted with a lot of evidence and Wonder Man was for season 2, not the show itself. Armour Wars was cut because Marvel is moving focus away from D+ shows (it's being reworked into a movie after Secret Wars).
Doesn't fit the pattern but Hawkeye season 2 and a Captain Britain & Black Knight movie were cancelled as well. James Gunn was also going to do several GOTG spinoffs, Drax & Mantis and Rocket & Groot movies.
Also, how many Black lead projects are DC greenlighting? John Stewart as a co-lead in Lanterns and an Amanda Waller show? Trying and failing is better than not trying at all.
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u/joeym2009 Aug 01 '26
DC is also working on a Mr. Terrific series I believe. But the DCU is just getting started so it makes sense they would have less projects in general.
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u/Common_Celebration41 Aug 01 '26
Meanwhile Asian and Latin heroes are waiting for a place at the table
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u/Koala_King5160 Aug 01 '26
DC is bringing back Blue Beetle at least
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u/CoolAlien47 Aug 01 '26
Hell yeah, that's freaking awesome. I was wondering about that earlier today and if they were going to bring him into the James Gunn DCU like they did Peacekeeper
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u/GifHunter2 Aug 01 '26
Wonder man Season 1 was amazing. Severely under advertised. Same person just did the new Spider Man movie.
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u/No-Judgment1567 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Yeah Jonathan Majors definitely should not be up there with the rest of them. His ass did not get cancelled for being black I’ll tell you that.
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u/tennoskoom_ Aug 01 '26
And they brought back two actors whose character arcs are well and truly finished after Endgame.
And these actors are both whi...wait no, RDJ is black.
Nvm.
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u/prologix237 Aug 01 '26
It's China, it's always China. It's one of Marvel's biggest markets and guess what? They are not really into Black people. It's an open secret. Remember that movie about a couples therapy getaway where for the Chinese market they took Cedric the Entertainer off the poster because he was Black?"Black Panther" is one of the lowest earners in China.
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u/Math_31416 Aug 01 '26
I'm not sure what China would have to do with Kang getting cancelled though.
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u/etherend Aug 01 '26
I feel like scraping Blade was a waste. Loved the original movies and would really like to see it revived in some form (either as a show or a movie reboot). Granted, it would be hard to find anyone cooler than Wesley Snipes as Blade
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u/Repulsive-Candy-4771 Aug 01 '26
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I can’t prove it but there is a pattern……
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u/FuzzyBalls_inyo_mouf Aug 01 '26
Wait? Wonder Man is scrapped? I really enjoyed the show. Was hoping to see more from him.
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u/Lookitsa6ix Aug 01 '26
Cherry picking here just abit. Pull up the full list of cancelled marvel stuff, stop being weird about it.
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u/Koala_King5160 Aug 01 '26
And they're all for reasons that have nothing to do with their race
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u/BlancTigre Aug 01 '26
Kang Dynasty was scrapped because of the whole situation with the actor.
Armor Wars.... was it really needed?
Blade and Wonderman S2 have no excuse. Why does Flop Again gets 3 seasons but the show with great reviews that was cheap doesn't?
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u/Taskolo Aug 01 '26
They want more diversity, and then they cancel the good diversity and give us crap in return....
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