Korg in the comics is a minor character who was relevant for 5 minutes during Planet Hulk and World War Hulk and was retroactively stated to have been in Thor's first appearance in Journey into Mystery #83, but afterwards has only made a handful of appearances and never really veen relevant. Korg in the movies is Taika Waititi's self-insert so he's got tons of screen time and thus all MCU casuals know about him.
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Why did they choose to make him yellow so he literally looks like coneheaded Thing?
Because Jack Kirby drew the "Stone Men of Saturn" like that and a colorist back in the Silver Age colored them yellow just because, I doubt anyone back then cared about anyone in the future thinking some random aliens looked like a character from another comic. Although amusingly the colorist for the cover (who may or may not have been the same person) made them green instead.
Because he is supposed to look like he is made out of cork, as the name suggests.
MCU Korg is just generic le MCU funny quipster man
Peggy Carter is probably the biggest example of all. and ironically Sharon who is arguably more important got done dirty in the MCU.
Peggy's prominence in the MCU actually caused Marvel to bring her back to life (she'd died of old age a decade ago) as a younger woman, so expect Sharon Carter to become increasingly less relevant in the comics as well.
Gotta have that MCU synergy
Being played by a babe like Hayley Atwell will do that.
Everyone was baffled when Steppenwolf was announced to be the villain in the Justice League movie, because he was one of Darkseid's least relevant minions, Desaad, Granny Goodness, or Kalibak would have made more sense if they wanted a Fourth World villain that wasn't Darkseid.
Can you imagine how the normies would have reacted if the villain of the Justice League movie was an old lady called Granny Goodness?
DC coulda differentiated itself from the MCU if it unironically leaned into the sillier side of comics without mocking it.
I would have renamed her Grandmother Box as a reference to Rock of Ages.
Making Granny the power behind the threat and then having the Furies and Barda as the big bads would have been amazing. And then you could have the setup for the Barda face-turn in a hinted at sequel.
I don't get/like how they turned Nakia from T'Challa's delusional jailbait bodyguard turned femme fatale into his one true love and the mother of his child.
Because Nakia and Okoye were the first Dora Milaje to be introduced and thus the most iconic, and given Nakia's role in Priest's run it makes sense for her to be the love interest, especially since they couldn't use Storm and none of T'Challa's other love interests in the comics were ever that relevant.
Negasonic Teenage Warhead was a major character in both of the Deadpool movies when she was canon fodder in Morrison's in New X-Men run
To be fair they can hardly be considered the same character. The only reason she's in the Deadpool movies is because the writers through her name was cool, but her character, her look and her powerset are completely unrelated.
She's even got Cannonball's powerset
Same way that her girlfriend has Yukio's name, Surge's powers and an original design
Why didn’t they make the mutant Japanese girlfriend Surge? Yukio is human and was just used in The Wolverine movie.
Why they used Yukio as the female Japanese mutant girlfriend and not Surge?
Yukio is human and was just used in The Wolverine.
I wish. Then we’d have bisexual Surge in the comics by now.
>The only reason she's in the Deadpool movies is because the writers through her name was cool
So they're insane, then?
They're internet memelords which honestly makes them a perfect fit for nuPool.
> internet memelords
the worse kind of Deadpool writing/fans
I don't really follow most X-Men titles, but with the whole Krakoa resurrection thing I'd be surprised if they haven't brought her back just to make her more like the movie version yet.
She was actually resurrected before Krakoa
She was still a precog, but apparently she also became a reality warper who gives off nuclear radiation when she uses her powers. She was trying to live a normal life, under the radar, but then Deadpool and a team of mercs kidnapped her and sold her to some evil scientists.
But then he felt bad and rescued her after the scientists had shaved her head to make her look more like a movie counterpart
Wong got a big upgrade from being Doctor Strange asian butler to the goto magic guy in the MCU
The real reason is because his actor is cheaper to include in a bunch of projects than Benedict Cumberbatch, so having him be Sorcerer Supreme and take on the guest star role Strange usually plays in the comics makes sense.
Agatha Harkness went from a minor Scarlet Witch character from the 90s who trained her in her magic powers and hadn't been seen since the early 2000s, to having her own MCU show all due to Katherine Hahn's performance. She's currently had more appearances in the comics in the past 2 years than she had through the whole 90s and early 2000s. Now they've MCU Synergy'd her.
>minor Scarlet Witch character from the 90s
Hey now, she was created by Jack Freakin' Kirby in the pages of Fantastic Four in the 60s, and she actually trained Wanda in the 70s and 80s. And she'd actually made a few appearanced in the 2010s after she was brought back to life.
>she actually trained Wanda in the 70s
Back when Wanda could only cast 3 hexes at a time.
Silver Age Avengers ended up setting hard limits to what she could do so she wouldn't just instant-win every battle and let the other characters do something. It's kind of a similar situation to those earlier Kirby FF and X-Men comics where Stan's scripting undermined Jack's intent of letting Sue, Medusa and Jean do cool stuff, the general thought was that the readers were here to see the guys, not the girls.
When Steve Englehart took over writing Avengers in the 70s, he says they actually warned him not to make Wanda too powerful, but he ignored the advice and had her finally bloom as a character.
Reminds me of how Claremont wanted to establish that Phoenix was powerful by having her beat Thor or the Silver Surfer. But somebody at Marvel didn't want to have Surfer or Thor defeated by, gasp, a woman. So Claremont had Phoenix defeat Firelord instead, since as a Herald of Galactus he was as poweful as the Surfer and had fought Thor to a standstill.
IIRC Claremont's intent with Phoenix was to give Marvel a heroine who was Thor-tier in power level. In retrospect instead of doing it in X-Men and upgrading Jean to be massively more powerful than the rest of the team, it would probably have been a better idea to make Phoenix a separate solo character.
>Stan's scripting undermined Jack's intent of letting Sue, Medusa and Jean do cool stuff,
That's odd considering how big of Medusagay Lee was.
Agatha has been there since the late 60's as Franklin Nanny, she aslo first strated training wanda in the 70's under Engleheart
M’Baku, Man-Ape, in Black Panther films
Totally down M’Baku if he becomes an anti-hero instead of a nothing villain
The comics actually introduced a completely new M'Baku in the whole Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda story who is similar to the MCU version, and kept the original Man-Ape dead.
Comic wise, can't that be said about all of Hulk's irrelevant warband followers? They were made to be as strong as the pre-PH Hulk which caused a hell of a lot of confusion back then.
I have very little hope for Doctor Doom's stocks whenever Disney gets around to him properly, he's too good as is in the comics already so that just screams Disney frick up all over him
You know what the MCU is like with superhero names and outfits
>"What's your name?"
>"Dr. Doom"
>"PFFFFTTHAHAHAHAHA no seriously, what is it?"
>"It is Victor Von Doom!"
>"PfffthahaHhaHHa
>"It is Dr. Victor von Doom"
FTFY
He didn't finish his degree. He left college after the explosion.
As head of state. he gave himself a doctorate.
Actually it could work if Doom is played completely straight in that scene
General Zod was a complete nobody before the Donner movies. He had a background character-tier design.
Yeah, Jax-Ur was considered to be the big Kryptonian villain in the Phantom Zone because he once blew up one of Krypton's moons, Zod was just one of his minions. I'm 99% convinced the only reason the movies used Zod was because the producers thought that the name "General Zod" sounded better than "Jax-Ur."
>because he once blew up one of Krypton's moons
INHABITED moons. Wegthor was home to over 500 colonists, all of which died when Jax-Ur blew it up with nuclear missile.
Zod's crime was pathetic in comparison. He tried to take over Krypton with imperfect duplicates of himself. He literally made an army of Bizarros.
>He literally made an army of Bizarros.
>Getting sent to prison for doing something awesome
Krypton you made a mistake
The Dora Milaje
Not really, the'd been relevant in the comics for a while before the movie.
Happy Hogan was irrelevant in the comics for decades and was killed off in Civil War and never brought back. In the movies he's somehow still around even after Tony's death.
Aldrich Killian was the surprise main villain of Iron Man 3. In the comics he appears in a few pages of one Iron Man issue and kills himself.
Kaecilius was a very minor villain who appeared in a tiny number of Doctor Strange issues, but was the villain of Strange's first movie.
The plot of the Doctor Strange movie required the villain to be an evil human wizard, but they didn't want to use Baron Mordo as a villain yet, and it turns out Strange doesn't really have any other big human villains, so they looked through the Ditko run to see if there was anyone they could use and settled on Kaecilius.
Wrong thread...?
Killmonger is based in the MCU a lamer in the comics
But Killmonger has always been relevant in the comics, he's Black Panther's archenemy.
Top Dollar was made the main antagonist in the movie adaptation of The Crow. In the original comics, he's the second guy Eric kills.
Similarly, the bad guy in Moon Knight who's name I already forgot was a really obscure bad guy from an old Moon Knight comic who actually had no real connection to Khonshu, so he was not only a minor character but an in-name only adaptation, he might as well have been an OC.
Harry Heck from the Thomas Jane Punisher movie. In the comics he only appears in a couple of pages, and doesn’t say a word.
fun fact he's played by a country muscian called mark collie. The guy also wrote the song that harry heck plays to frank castle.
It's not like they had much to work with. Let's face it, the only real villain the Punisher has is Jigsaw, unless you count the guest villains he isn't allowed to kill like Kingpin or Bullseye.
>the only real villain the Punisher has is Jigsaw
You gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn to the wick
Literally who character Infinaut from Ewing's Ultimates is now a top tier meta card in Marvel Snap.
I love how the Infinaut didn't have enough appearances in the comics that most of his card are original art
The art done of this character, on the cover and in the interiors, is the only worthwhile, non-shitty experience from Ewing's Ultimates.
What a dogshit comic, except for seeing this guy's design, likely inspired by a preschool play area.
You sound fun.
Yeah, Infinaut was the only character card in the game I actually had to look up.
I had to look up Sera.
If we're counting videogames, Blackheart, Spiral and Shuma-Gorath were pushing it, but Marrow really did not deserve to be in Marvel vs. Capcom.
Lucius Fox
All of the Life Foundation symbiotes except Scream are just fusion filler for Hybrid.
Beth Chapel and Yolanda Montez died back in the 90s after showing up in just Infinity Inc and the Millennium event and IIRC Beth was pretty much never mentioned again while Yolanda had her cousin try to avenge her at least in the 1999 JSA book
but they got chosen to be 2 of the protags on Stargirl so they both got crisesed back to life
Chapel and Montez got killed in Eclipso's solo comic because the writer wanted to show how powerful he was by having him kill a bunch of Z-list heroes.
Editorial was so cool with it they suggested he kill *more* minor forgotten characters like Major Victory and the Creeper.
It didn't work because Eclipso was and will always be a fricking loser compared to the Spectre.
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FRICK the MCU's Korg, frick Takiti Cohen and frick jannies.