I just love when retcons or plot developments blatantly happens for the sake of "brand synergy".
>That time Peter turned into a giant spider and gave birth to himself so he could shoot webs without shooters like in the Raimi films.
>Black Adam Black Adam-ing everyone in Dark Crisis and having his face morphed into Dwayne Johnson because of the latter's ego
>Barbara remaining as Batgirl at the expense of her successors for a movie that will never be released for tax purposes.
>Amanda Waller and Deadshot being killed off in Arrow for the Suicide Squad Movie. Deathstroke would also later be banned from appearing in spite of being made an integral part of the shows plot.
>Wonder Woman and Batman's rogues (outside Greek Gods) not being able to be used in Justice League Unlimited because of the Nolan movies and a Wonder Woman movie that never got made
>The Batman cartoon being banned from using Two Face, Rhas Al Ghul, Scarecrow, and initially Joker because of the Nolan films
>Aquaman and his villains being downgraded in the Justice League Cartoon because of a Smallville spinoff that never got made
>Everything about the Inhumans replacing mutants
Be a good boy, share more examples, and let's laugh and cry at executive mandate stupidity
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How am I only noticing this now?
Take a drink every time a capeshit character says something that ISN'T exposition of something from a previous issue. I guarantee you will be cured of alcoholism after a single 4-issue arc.
What's with DC character embargos? That's so stupid
Same reason Wonder Woman couldn't show up in The Batman or the lack of adult heroes in Teen Titans IIRC
because the people who run DC are stupid and can't fathom the general public understanding that the same character can appear in two different unrelated things in different mediums
>can't fathom the general public understanding that the same character can appear in two different unrelated things
>but expects people to follow that many of their movies are disconnected and that they're rebooting shit
Absolute moronation and incompetence
Yep. It's peak moronation that's caused various DC media to suffer. They legit don't want Batman to appear in TV shows because they think it dilutes his brand, but are perfectly okay with there being 2 different fricking batmen in the movies.
People like to blame Snyder for the way the DCEU turned out, but I seriously think there's more proof that the execs are to blame than Snyder.
The execs are to blame either way, they're the morons that hired Snyder to begin with.
>because the people who run WB are stupid
fixed
The people who run DC are not even a jot better.
Don't care, it's a WB problem across the board
It's a Warner Bros problem; they treat each of their properties as though they were completely separate companies not tied under the same umbrella.
Like, the guy who made OK KO said that he had to ask for PERMISSION to use Hanna Barbera sound-effects in the show. Never mind that Cartoon Network Studios is literally the successor company to Hanna Barbera; they're two wholly separate entities as far as WB is concerned.
This is ALSO why Cartoon Network fricking hates airing anything made by Warner Bros Animation Studios, and tries to kill it by wrecking its airing schedule. Because Warner Bros as a whole considers Cartoon Network and Warner Bros Animation Studios to be separate entities, and Cartoon Network, as a result, has to pay a fee to air anything from WB Animation Studios.
This, despite them both merely being subdivisions of a single company.
Pic related, this is why Cartoon Network worked so hard to kill DC Super Hero Girls, because it was a WB Animation Studios production.
warner bros has been rumored to have that bizarre policy regarding all it's various studios and department for decades. They're like an abusive mother that likes manipulating her kids to compete with and be at each other throats so that they won't ever gang up on her.
I can remember when some new bigshit came in and promptly stopped anymore DC and Hanna Barbera/loony toons crossovers for some asspull reason or another despite the crossovers being popular.
Think the 2nd volume of hb stuff didn't even get a collected edition
I think the real Loki has been dead since 2011 and the current one is his evil clone who also isn't evil.
It's more complicated and more moronic
Just bring back creepy old eunuch Loki
Or Kid Loki he was great too
Why does everyone love Kid Loki? It's just pocket loki verdion.
They're pedophiles.
Threadly reminder that not all synergy is bad. Sometimes a good idea can originate from an adaptation. But yeah embargoes are fricking moronic most of the time, however they can encourage creativity under the right circumstances
I wish they'd retcon Star-Lord's dad into being Ego like in the movies instead of some shitty boring and irrelevant Bendis OC
A few more on top of my head
>Deathstroke was the villain in the cancelled Batfleck movie. As a result, he was set up as a Batman villain in merch and showed up as Batman's main villain in beware the Batman (and by proxy DC Super Hero Girls).
>Star-Lord
>The show Lois & Clark had the two tie the knot. The comics did the same.
>Kamala Khan being a mutant in her TV show made comic Kamala into a half-mutant.
>Clark Kent was a newsanchor by the time his movie came out. He returned to his old job later on.
>Star-Lord
What about him ?
Maybe he means that time they made Star Lord bi in the comics just to frick with openly christian Chris Pratt. Or maybe just the general transition of comic Starlord from jaded cynical war veteran to emotionally stunted manchild to fit with the GotG movies.
>they made Star Lord bi in the comics just to frick with openly christian Chris Pratt
When will comics writers learn that movie people don't give a frick about the comics
There was the 2019 Guardians of the Galaxy run that was just a direct copy of the ovie. They retconned Groot to be tiny, Quill to be a hippie that loved 70s music, Drax was just movie Drax, it was horrible.
Before that you had the 2012 run whose creative team were hoping to get their stuff into the movie.
>team uniforms got replaced with Mass Effect suits because they were deemed outdated
>Star-Lord gets a new helmet that shows his face because the artist wanted his face to be emotive at all times
>team is pared down to the movie's roster
Are there any more examples of "reverse-synergy" where something happens in the comics hoping to be adapted in other media?
a lot of super heroine costumes were realistic-ized or desexed in the comics for the expressed purpose of making them more "cosplay friendly"
And probably one the biggest examples of shit done in comics just for the hope of it being used in a movie was Ultimate Nick Fury
Worst part is 616 black Fury is a b***h homie compared to Movie Fury and especially Ult Fury who was almost as based as the original
I think the trend of costumes being stylized to be cosplayable or realistic or taticool or whatever you wanna call it is a separate thing from Bendis taking over Guardians and hoping the movie would take stuff from his run.
>hoping the movie would take stuff from his run.
Damn Bendis really thinks he's all that
Funny how it's always female costumes that need to be cosplayable, really makes you think
IIRC that was Bendis mostly.
Ultimate Nick Fury was a weird example because Sam Jackson let them use his likeness literally on the stipulation that they let him play the role in a movie if it ever came up, it just so happened that 5 or so years later they were making Iron Man and he was able to call their bluff. and now he's made enough money to buy his own island or something. Pretty smart, honestly.
Always gets me
Also for Guardians the newest run re-synergizing them after they just got two runs trying to de-synergize them
>previous team is just wiped and forgotten, replaced with movie team
>also now in movie-adjacent outfits
>they're also outlaws or something now even though they've never really been that
Not to mention whatever fricking shit they pulled to make Nebula like the movie version and then also a Guardian
Fury Jr. was always so stupid to me because they literally could have done something like "SHIELD desperately needs Fury for something, but one of his many contingency plans just summons Ultimate Fury to take his place."
Man just let one guy in comics who isn't from the ghetto clap chocolate cheeks anon. It's rare enough as it is.
I'm just saying that, if they actually wanted Sam Jackson Fury in the 616, there were far dumber ways to do it than "White man somehow father's the blackest man alive".
Blame Marvel when they made Ultimate in first place and were desperate for him to be Fury, since Ultimate was literally their Cinematic Universe.
The Ultimate line came out way before they started production on Iron Man, and do NOT believe that they've had the MCU roadmapped since then. Nick Fury showing up at the end of Iron Man was literally just a funny easter egg sort of thing.
>some of the dialogue isn't even edited
>Quake
Didn't they "Agents of Shit" her?
>Doc Ock's tentacles had red lenses on them for a bit
Probably one of the more mild changes.
Yeah for me it's shit like
>Everything about the Inhumans replacing mutants
and the F4 getting downplayed/not used just to spite Fox. Like just giving the fans a huge "frick you" because of the most petty shit between Marvel and Fox.
Yeah that shit was insane
not a retcon but all the stuff with no mutants in MVC:I was also absolutely bonkers
>that quote about not putting magneto in because players would be bored of him and hey could just put the moveset on like iron man or something and that's what gamers really care about
fricking disney
>Amanda Waller and Deadshot being killed off in Arrow for the Suicide Squad Movie. Deathstroke would also later be banned from appearing in spite of being made an integral part of the shows plot.
We also go stuck with a "discount Ironman" version of Ray Palmer for multiple seasons because the writers were setting up adding Ted Kord to the show only to be told at the last second Blue Beetle was off limits due to some potential project another studio was shopping around.
On the plus side, that same sort of management saved us from the show's writers later attempt to turn Arrow's unlikable super hacker girlfriend into Oracle.
Oh, remember when they tried to bring CW Felicity into comics?
Or better still, remember when they brought the CW's black Batwoman into comics before the show even came out, treated her like she's a big deal confident they have a 100% hit on their hands, and then the show is a flop ratings-wise and dies after three (technically two, since the black Batwoman didn't exist until season 2) seasons so she was never heard from again?
>Be a good boy
Frick you, you're not my mom
They introduced a new Whiplash whose name is identical to the original Crimson Dynamo because Iron Man 2's Whiplash drew influence from him
God he was such a lame villain. He was so fricking smug, got beat early in the movie, then accomplished nothing.
>>That time Peter turned into a giant spider and gave birth to himself so he could shoot webs without shooters like in the Raimi films.
What?
Yeah and it was a tie in for avengers disassembled for some fricking reason despite having nothing to do with that story
Long Story Short
>Peter got fricked hard by Morlun
>Lost his eye, fingers, health and so on
>Morlun tries to kill him and even breaks mary jane's arm, to a point she almost loses said arm.
>Peter wakes up and morphs into ole Spider Monster, and kills morlun.
>Aunt May and Mary Jane watches peter leave for he is pretty much dying.
>Before he dies, he builds a cocoon where he will rest beneath Brooklyn bridge
>Turns out peter died that day, and he was reborn as a perfect fusion of a human and Spider, thus becoming the perfect spider man.
>Spider totem was also the reason of that since he was always the chosen one, until SLOBB retconned him out of spite and put silk as the real perfect spider being.
Wonder Woman's tiara turning upside down in comics, video games, and cartoons, because of that dumb israelite b***h in live-action form.
Wasn't that troony hero from the Suicide Squad originate in a TV show?
Who?
Anon was referring to Dreamer from the latest SS run. She did originate from the Supergirl show.
The New 52 in general. DC removed any embargo they had for synergy.
I was about to say "Which one?" but mistakingly read Suicide Squad as Doom Patrol.
?
I hate synergy since 2011.
Didn't they give Mjolnir the shattered/repaired look in the comics for a bit with no explanation?
I think because Jane-Thor was buried with the original or something?
I'm so happy I skip these type of comics.
Infinity Gems becoming the Infinity Stones and all the colors changed to line up with the MCU.