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Showing posts with label March to Infinity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label March to Infinity. Show all posts
"I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque."
Summer is here and after the events of Endgame it looks like the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is looking for a little bit of R&R. But sadly no matter what universe it is Peter Parker needs to suffer, c'est la vie. This suffering comes in the form of Nick Fury highjacking his class' European trip to have him help a new hero called Mysterio (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) who is totally a survivor from another universe hunting down four elemental monsters to prevent the destruction that his world suffered from occurring in Peters. Of course Peter doesn't want any part of this, but after the events of Endgame the world is looking for the next Iron Man, and since Peter is technically Tony's apprentice and the only active Superhero he's basically guilt tripped into helping Mysterio. So will Peter be able to live up to Tony's expectations or will the four elementals have their way with this Earth?
Short version of this movie, it's really good, better than Homecoming, and a decent sorbet course to wrap up Phase 3 of the MCU. But it does also help to explain how the world of the MCU adjusted to the people who were snapped out by Thanos returning like nothing had ever happened and having a little fun with it with a pretty funny gag at the start. In the case of education; the kids who "blipped" as they called it (I see what you did there, and I'm still bitter) just had to repeat the year that they were in from the start while their friends and family who weren't blipped moved on with their lives without them. Like for example your younger brother who was three years younger then you is now two years older. The only way your family tree could be even more insane was if you were from the planet Jurai or your last name was Joestar/Kujo.
But the biggest gaps to fill is the lack of Superheroes, sure there's Dr Strange but he's dealing with cosmic threats. Falcon, Bucky and Wanda are most likely on the run thanks to the Sokovia accords and T'Challa has a kingdom to run. No idea where Bruce Banner is, Thor is in space with the Guardians, Carol is protecting the Skrull and the rest of the cosmos, Cap took the long way home and is in no shape to do anything like he used to, and as for the guys like the Defenders, Inhumans and any other groups from the T.V series? They're more akin to local protectors than facing threats head on unless they're right in their neighborhoods (literally in the Defender's case.) So everyone looking to Spider-Man to fill Iron Man's boots makes sense, but on the other hand Peter's a Teenager who skipped 5 years and is dealing with the fact that his mentor/father figure is literally plastered all over the place as if in constant judgement of him for not living up to his example.
But at least since Aunt May, Ned and pretty much everyone important in his life knows he's Spider-Man anyway he at least doesn't have to worry too much about the secret identity thing. That's something I do give the MCU Spidey credit for, throughout the life of 616 Peter Parker his secret identity issues has given him absolutely nothing but grief and plot contrivances, thankfully the writers recognized that and at least took measures so that MCU Peter doesn't have to worry about his loved ones. I do want to talk about Mysterio, butter those who've never heard of him before I'll keep my trap shut. All I'll say is that Jake Gyllenhaal's performance makes this character, this really is Mysterio. As for the ending, all I'll say is that I was desperately waiting for a certain character to say this line when he showed up.
But now that Phase 3 has ended, it's time. As before when Phase 1 and 2 ended its time for me to go down the list of them and list the best to the not as good. Though make no mistake Phase 3 had no movies as bad as Iron Man 2 or Thor the Dark World, at worst they were just fun and with the main MCU Achilles heel holding them back (the boring antagonist).
#1 Infinity War (The big show stopper and finally worth it to see Thanos get his big purple ass off that chair and wreck all of the ass, just to take in that sunrise on that farm.)
#2 Captain America Civil War (This was the movie that Age of Ultron should have been.)
#3 Avengers Endgame (This really needs to be seen back to back with Infinity War to get the full effect, also never just insert Time travel, ever!)
#4 Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 (Another great Guardians movies and thank Yandu's beautiful blue mug that James Gunn is back on track for Volume 3.)
#5 Black Panther (Poignant social commentary with one of the best villains of the MCU despite said villain overshadowing most of the cast.)
#6 Thor Ragnarok (Definitely what Thor needed after the Ragnarok that was Thor the Dark World.)
#7 Spider-Man Far From Home (For better than Homecoming and helps establish the new status quo after the Snap.)
#8 Captain Marvel (Cool 90's throwback, a great female lead; though not as good as Wonder Woman but that's a high bar to reach so, fair's fair.)
#9 Doctor Strange (A good Phase 1 movie and amazing visuals but the villains sucked. Yes, an MCU bad guy was lame color me shocked too.)
#10 Spider-Man Homecoming (The plot was just there and mostly inconsequential. Though it did introduce some of Spider-Man's rogues gallery that never got decent live action incarnations before and Michael Keaton killed it as the Vulture.)
#11 Ant-Man and the Wasp (Most of the same complaints as Homecoming but with a weaker villain with Ghost. But at least she had Lawrence Fishburne backing her up so she's at least better than Kamen Rider Ghost.)
With that list done we move on to Phase 4. Maybe later on I'll do an overall list of MCU movies from top to bottom, we'll see. But this movie does raise a rather important question that needs to be answered. Now that the founding members of the Avengers are gone (Except for Thor but he's in space so whatever.) Who will rise up tot take their place as Earth's Mightiest Heroes?
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11 years, that’s how long the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been going on. 22, that’s how many of the main movies there are. All this time, all this preparation, all of this calculated planing, gambling and downright prayer and has been leading up to this movie. And after a brief detour in how the strongest being in the MCU made her debut in the 90's we come back to the present day where her old pal Fury is quite literally dust in the wind and she wants to know whose ass she's gotta kick to the edge of the universe. Yes as Dr Strange said, we're at the endgame; at the end of the day we must ask the question, does it live up to the hype? In someways hell to the yeah, others however I felt were better handled in Infinity War. But I can’t help but think it was by design, Infinity War being the set up for Thanos and Endgame being the big popcorn blowout finale. Now I will be doing my duty and avoiding spoilers for the major plot points of endgame. (Even ignoring that we already know that Spider-Man: Far from home is only a few months away taking away some of the gut punch that was the end of Infinity War.) I'll just say that this like Kingdom Hearts 3 and MGS4 Guns of the Patriots in that this is a sequel in every sense of the word with call backs, follow ups on previous movies and just general fun for thosethat have been paying attention tot he previous installments in the franchise. But I know that this review needs some meat to it so I'll merely recap the events that lead up to this movie (ignoring the continuity stuff from the T.v series and Netflix shows.) For years now Thanos the mad titan has been working behind the scenes to uncover the 6 Infinity stones, 6 objects born from the creation of the universe that each contain incredible powers.
The last stone, the Soul stone was enshrined on the planet of Vormir, according to its enslaved keeper the previously mentioned Johann Schmidt, the stone could only be claimed by someone who sacrifices a loved one by tossing them off the cliff where the stone was sealed, a soul for a soul. But eventually they would all be recovered by Thanos and used to achieve his ultimate goal, kill half of all sentient life in the universe in a painless way. However the survivors were kind of pissed off at this psychopath's genocide so now they're dead set on finding him, killing him and hopefully reclaim the Infinity Gauntlet to restore his victims to life. So to recap, their plan is to track down the big purple alien who has the power of a god who previously kicked all of their asses even without the full god powers, steal the source of his powers and restore half of all life in the entire universe withoutbeing destroyed by said power.
But that's as much plot as I feel safe to disclose. As for the technical and production aspects I feel this once again the MCU at it's best. The CGI is still spectacular, the fights are well choreographed and what happens to the characters after Infinity War is in some parts interesting while others are hard to watch and not for the reasons you're thinking of. It's not like "oh god why did they think this was a good idea" it's more like "oh wow, how the mighty have fallen". Also definitely keep an ear out for certain references that those who even know a little bit about the comic book source material will definitely get a chuckle out of.
Special thanks to my Patreon backer Jesse for his support. Avengers Endgame is owned by Walt Disney Studios motion Pictures and Marvel Studios Based off the original comics Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Ghostbusters (1984) is owned by Ivan Reitman, Coulumbia-Delphi Productions, Black Rhino and Columbia Pictures.
It's gotten to the point where it just doesn't feel like the year has started till the latest MCU movie is out in theaters hasn't it? It's definitely is going to feel like something's gone once this whole franchise finally comes to an end in like the next 10 years or something but in the meantime we have one of the prequels of the MCU. As of this article Linkara hasn't made a Secret Origin video describing the original first appearance of Carol and I will not be reminding anyone of Avengers #200 so when it comes out I'll edit this article to fill in the details. But for now we have the MCU incarnation to cover.
Our story starts in 1995 with an amnesiac woman named Vers (played by Brie Larson) on the planet of Hala, the capital of the Kree empire where she under the tutelage of Yon-Rogg (played by Jude Law) serves the Kree leader, the A.I known as the Supreme Intelligence as a member of the Starforce. Her current mission has her working to exterminate the Skrull, a race of shapeshifters who have been at war with the Kree for centuries. However she gets captured on her latest mission and has her memories probed by the local Skrull commander Talos (played by Ben Mendelsohn) which, aside from being a massive invasion of personal privacy, triggers her memories of a certain planet that holds the rest of the pieces of her long forgotten past. If you guessed that that planet was earth, then you get a gold star.
After she lands in a Blockbuster Video she runs across a young S.H.I.E.L.D agent by the name of Nicholas Joseph Fury (played by a masterfully de-aged Samuel L Jackson) who after getting attacked by Talos and his men agrees to help Vers discover what the Skrulls are up to on Earth and what Earth may hold about her past. Now there's nothing but spoilers afterwords so I'll stop right there. Ignoring the spoilers I thought this was another good entry for the MCU. I honestly wasn't expecting this to be a throwback to 90's Buddy cop movies with Superheros but hey, I've seen wielder things happen. Speaking of our duo I think they're both really good.
Starting off with our title character, I like Brie Larson's Vers, at the beginning we can see that her real persona is breaking through the amnesia but that tends to get her in trouble among her fellow Kree subjects. But when she gets on earth she seems to fit in much better despite the primitive technology and galactic awareness. And as she wanders with Nick and arrives at certain locations she's overcome by something, she can't quite put her finger on it, and then the word comes to her "nostalgia". Aside from just the 90's California aesthetics that is, which there is quite a bit of in this movie as if the Blockbuster Video scene wasn't enough of a nostalgia bomb. Seriously It's been how long since Blockbuster closed down their stores?
As for Nick, I have to agree with everyone, the de-aging effects on Samuel L Jackson are amazing. Keep in mind the guy is about 70 years old yet he looks just like he did around when they filmed Pulp Fiction, it's amazing. Other then that we see a younger Nick Fury who hasn't become so much of the cynical contingency planer that we see in the other movies. These two working together makes for funny back and forth, a short yet powerful friendship and helps show Fury that Earth has more than just their local superpower wack-jobs to worry about and why he went straight for that pager at the end of Infinity War. He knows that she's the most powerful being on Earth aside from Thor and that she is the last resort since she had her own agenda all this time protecting her people from the end of this movie.
But as for how I would personally grade it. I don't think this is the absolute worst of anything, especially Brie Larson's acting. Listen people, I know what wooden acting is and this performance was not it. Go watch something like Birdemic or "The Time Machine (I found at a Yard-sale)", Twilight or anything made by David Cage. I dare you to tell me that her acting is bad after you've seen Wooden Rod, 50's Mc Cheerios and Dead Pan Mcgee.
No, in this movie we see that while she has had extensive training as a Solder she has plenty of one-liners, attitude, empathy and is, shock and gasp, an actual human being with a wide range of emotions! Sorry, sick and tired of the current discourse surrounding this movie and I had to get that off my chest. Back on track, the villains, are at least better than standard Phase 1 fare. We have personal conflict and a legit reason to hate them. Avoiding spoilers but when we see Vers take on the Captain Marvel codename and fights the big bad all I wanted to say was "this is for the science guy!"
Though the sequel set up was a bit obvious we do want to see where this goes for the Captain and how she's going to deal with this overcoming threat and how it shapes up the Kree for how we see them in Guardians of the Galaxy 1. Speaking of, yes we do get some cameos from Ronan and his #2 guy, but they're pretty much window dressing right now. The comedy is on par with the MCU as well, well written, perfect tension breakers and help to give dimensions to the characters. The action is cool, diverse, well choreographed and the final set piece where Captain Marvel unlocks her full potential is a sight to behold, as well as a good reason why she was kept out of the movies for so long. She's basically the MCU Superman, if she showed up the conflicts would have been over and down with before Tony Stark finished even one one-liner.
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Sure while the Solder himself wasn’t the big mastermind in his own movie he was still the major threat and provided a great personal conflict between him and Cap. Normally while I’m against characters that have little to no agency in their own story in this case it’s an exception since any self agency he had was striped away by Hydra. Steve’s one time best friend turned into a cold, emotionless killing machine, striped of his memories and free will and replaced with every form of killing known to man made for a fantastic conflict for Cap, trying to save thousands of lives while trying to free the man trapped inside the monster. If his internal conflict wasn’t enough to captivate you his relentless and deadly fighting prowess will certainly do the job. Thankfully Bucky was saved eventually, only for Infinity War to happen, but still whether he’s Bucky Barns, The White Wolf or the Winter Solder he’s a man you don’t want to find his cold Robot hand on your throat.
Ok now why is this guy so high up on the list when when you break it down he's just another asshole in a suit like he rest of the Iron Man villains. Well aside from the awesome costume I feel that there's more of a personal antagonistic connection between Darren Cross and Scott Lang compared to the previous examples. While Scott was personally trained and earned the trust of Hank Pym Cross on the other hand may have been taught by the man he was basically seen as the failed son due to a combination of Hanks ego and the lost of his wife Janet causing him endless grief. The result was a man who had absolutely no scruples in selling this dangerous technology to the highest bidder, in this case being remnants of Hydra. I kind of see the relationship between Cross and Lang in a similar vain of Gene and Big Boss in Portable Ops, both were in someway shaped and influenced by The Boss but where one has actually earned the respect of their mentor all the other inherited was a hollow shell of a legacy.
On paper this guy is a genuine threat. An AI granted sentience and consciousness via the Mind Stone having the persona of Tony Stark, full access to all information on the internet and able to transfer his consciousness to any Wi-Fi signal on the planet, all wrapped up in a super powerful metal body with a God Complex, odd daddy issues and a pretentious comeback to any argument you can label against him. That's not even taking the fact that he's also a one man army and an army of one since he can control multiple bodies simultaneously and even transfer his consciousness into them when his main body is too damaged. This guy nearly managed to destroy the entire earth and even though he ultimately failed he set the stage for the events that would tear the Avengers apart. Now if that doesn't make an interesting villain I don't know what to tell you.
Now aside from the aesthetics and design of the Vulture suit; which are still awesome there's some things about this incarnation of Adrian Tombs that I really do like. For one thing this isn't just some asshole billionare with delusions of grandure or a powerful alien with a god complex and a magic stone, he and his crew were just a bunch of blue-collar Joes trying to put food on the table whose operation just kept getting more and more out of control. Trying to make a living is one thing, but reverse engineering alien technology and selling these weapons to criminals, yeah a few sparks is all it takes to set the whole forest ablaze. This coupled with the charismatically threatening performance of Micheal Keaton makes this version of the Vulture one of the highlights of an otherwise ok Marvel movie. I doubt that this is the end of the Vulture however considering the ending and loose plot threads of Spider-Man Homecoming maybe he'll be back for an actual Sinister Six movie.
First of all I was honestly surprised that Marvel even could use the this guy in GOTG Vol 2 in the first place considering the then rights issues between Marvel and Fox who owned the Fantastic Four movie rights which Ego fell under at the time. But what they came up with when all those issues were cleared up was worth the headaches in the end. Diverging from his comic book counter part this Ego is the father of Starlord and planed to terraform several planets into versions of himself to satiate his loneliness and the key to all of this is with the power of another being like himself, thus he tried to create many children but they were incompatible with his power, all except for Peter Quill. I mean that alone would make him a sizable threat, a monster who was this close to destroying most of the galaxy but what really places him here was that he was the one who gave Peter's mom the Cancer that killed her. I believe that Peter's real daddy said it best about him, "That guy was a jackass!"
"An empire toppled by its enemies can rise again, but one that crumbles from within, that's dead, forever." This one sentence sums up the impact, motivations and menace that drives this former Sokovian solder. After Ultron launched his attack on Sokovia he thought that his family would be safe, at least until he found their bodies, and where were the Avengers? He knew he could never out power Earth's mightiest heroes, so he waited until the time was right, acquired all the pieces he would need, set up Cap's best friend Bucky for the murder of King T'Chaka and just sat back and watched them tear each other to pieces. Zemo might not have been the most powerful or the most cunning villain, but he did what no other villain could do, he broke the Avengers.
#3 Loki from.. just Loki
What else is there to say about Loki? He was the break out villain of the MCU and Tom Hiddleston brought this petulant, mad trickster god to life. From his first appearance in Thor where he was the well meaning but misguided prince of Asgard to the would be despot of the first Avengers movie Loki was the one who drew those butts to those seats. Much like the God Dan Kuroto Loki started off as pretty standard bad guy and while he can come off as scheming and mad he mostly became the focus of really good comedy. Though considering what happened in Infinity War I doubt he'll be making any more mischief for the Avengers; for for the trickster god that made the MCU we have one thing to say.
If you haven't noticed with this list most of the top ones are characters that I can empathize with or detest the most. The former were misguided but you could see how their circumstances lead them to become the antagonists that made our heroes lives that much worse while the later is often too big of a threat to just ignore. These two views can't be intersected more than with Erik Stevens Aka Killmonger. Born the son of Wakandan Prince N'Jobu Erik having lost both of his parents; plans to continue his father's plan by taking over Wakanda to conquer the world by giving their advanced weapons technology to oppressed Black people all over the world, leading to his own brand of conquest, violent revolution and vengeance. While his grievances against both Wakanda and the western world is more than justified; he plans to just continue the cycle of death and madness just with a different hand on the trigger.
I also have a good rule for villains, any standard villain can easily oppose the values of the protagonist but a great villain is also one that the hero can learn from. If not as a cautionary tale but by acknowledging that while their cause is justified their actions or motivations are just as abominable as the ones they're trying to oppose. T'Challa by fighting and learning of the plight of Killmonger knows that Wakanda can do real good for all the people of the world, not just for those of African descent. Of course this would be for nothing without the excellent acting of Michael B. Jordon, this coupled with the upcoming Creed 2 means that yes, we can let him off the hook for Fant4stic. I could go on but if I did I'd just be plagiarizing Wisecrack so I'll just cut out the middle man and point you to their video on why Killmonger is the best villain since Heath Ledger's Joker.
Here we are at last, the absolute best villain of the MCU, Thanos the Mad Titan. Now while Killmonger is the most empathetic and understandable Thanos not only has the same empathy and understanding behind his actions, he also has the power to not only make things hard on earth but the entire universe. Now like everyone I got more than annoyed when for all of his talk Thanos just did little over the course of the MCU past Avengers. Sure he may have backed Ronan and Loki but other then that he really didn't have that much of a direct presence. But as soon as he got his big purple ass off of that chair and we saw him hovering over the Asgardian escape vessel that was when we knew that he was here to play, and he came to win!
Just like Killmonger Thanos' actions while abominable are actually understandable and most horrifyingly, logical. Having seen his home planet of Titan destroyed by overpopulation Thanos made it his goal to insure that no planet had to suffer that same fate, by wiping out half of the populations of the planets he conquered to save them from themselves. However he eventually realized that going planet by planet wasn't enough so he sought the Infinity Stones to wipe out half of the sentient life in the universe. The worst thing about this is that he succeeded, but not without cost, for him to get the final Infinity Stone he had to kill the one person he truly cared about, Gamora.
Now I know that eventually this outcome will be undone because how could Spider-Man have a sequel if he's a pile of dust; but when we were watching this movie and we saw Thanos snap those fingers all we could think about was "Mr Stark, I don't feel so good." What really sold me on this version of Thanos aside from the scene were he acquired the Soul Stone was the last scene where Thanos sat down on that porch on that farm and had that look on his face that said "I did it". To be honest only one other movie has made me feel this way and hit me that hard watching a villain take this somber victory was when Homura was taunting Sayaka at the end of Madoka Magica Rebellion. Both Thanos and Homura overcame terrible hardships, made unconscionable decisions, gave up everything that they cherished all to achieve their goals, for Thanos to save the Universe, for Homura, to give the one person she loved a chance to be happy, the price was the uprooting and destruction of everything.
Thankfully they changed his motivations from his original comic book incarnation. Where there he was a nihilist who literally wanted to court Death only to fail and be upstaged by a murderous Canadian tumor. Here, he's fully aware of how monstrous his actions are but feels that it's his duty to cary out this horrible task, even if he's only remembered as a demon. That kind of conviction coupled with his goals actually being based on something that happened to him and not just some hypothesis or theoretical outcome not only justifies his crusade but actually gives him a sympathetic perspective as he genuinely hates himself for killing Gamora to acquire the Soul Stone. Of course he's nothing without the acting of Josh Brolin, his acting coupled with the brilliant script makes a giant purple emo into a powerful, terrifying and nuanced character, in a word, Fantastic.
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Avengers Age of Ultron is owned by Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and is written by Joss Weadon. Based off the Characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Spider-Man: Homecoming is owned by Sony Pictures Releasing, Marvel Studios, Pascal Pictures and Colombia Pictures Guardians of the Galaxy is owned by Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Motion picture studios based off "Guardians of the Galaxy" created by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Captain America Civil War is owned by The Walt Disney Company, Marvel Studios and is based on the Comic "Civil War" Written by Mark Millar Marvel's The Avengers is owned by Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Joss Whedon and Kevin Feige. Based off the comic by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
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All of these bad guys, yet we all know that the only ones everyone talks about is Thanos and Loki.
Alright ghosts and ghouls, time for another installment of my 10th anniversary coverage of the MCU. To wrap up my coverage of the MCU for this year I've decided to take a look at the villains that Earths Mightiest Heroes have fought. Now there will be some stipulations here as always. First, only one spot on this list per movie meaning that a villain can only have one spot if they've made multiple appearances so Loki won't be counted twice because he was the main villain in both Thor and Avengers. Second, main villains only, the big bad, the mastermind the final fight of the movie only, so if a movie has multiple villains it only goes to the big boss.
Third I'm strictly looking at the movies only so no Kingpin (sadly), no Cottonmouth, no Kilgrave, no Hand (thankfully) and nobody from Agents of S.H.I.L.E.D, Inhumans, Agent Carter you get the drill. So enough stalling here's what I consider the biggest bad of the MCU starting off with what I consider the worst of the bunch.
Now who was surprised to see this pointy eared plank of wood on the list so early? Nobody that's who and speaking of surprises the lowest ranked villain on my list came from the lowest reviewed and received movie in the franchise, now who could have seen that coming? We've seen guys like Malekith 1000 times before, the ancient nihilistic monster who sees life as a blight on the universe and wishes to restore the universe to it's dull, empty lifeless splendor and oh my god I'm getting bored just remembering this crap. Now that's not to say this type of villain can't work, I mean it can with the right kind of menace and personality behind it, the Anti-Spiral from Gurren Lagann and the Black Lanterns immediately come to mind. They had the shear scope, drive and overwhelming odds to back up those claims, this dollar store Legolas has just a ship full of dudes, satanic Kool-Aid and a personality so bland and lifeless even Ben Stein is telling him to stop being so boring.
You'd think that an interdiminsional demon with powers beyond human comprehension would make for a compelling final fight. But Disney already has that with Bill Cypher so they had to make due with this thing. Throughout the movie we've heard from his worshipers how badass and powerful he is and how does Steve put this demon down? By coming back every time he crushes him like a grape until he gets so annoyed he agrees to leave. Admittingly it's a very clever way of dealing with a threat like this which is why he's still better then #19 up there but for all the build up to just be a wet fart, come on. Unless he comes back in a sequel or a future Avengers movie we have this big bad demon that was a whole lot of nothing, also looking like Paralax from that god awful Green Lantern movie isn't doing anyone any favors.
That however did us all a lot of favors, thanks Wade.
The first big bad in the MCU and it shows. While it is awesome to see the Dude running around in a giant mech fighting an actually realized live action Iron Man it was still kind of weak. We know that the Iron Monarch suit is just a reversed engineered MK 1 suit and it just reinforces the old adage of "bigger isn't always better" so how did you expect a upgraded hunk of junk would hold up against a suit made by Tony with his full resources at his disposal? I honestly feel kind of bad putting this so low on the list since it was the first big bad of these movies so they didn't even know if there was going to be anymore movies if this didn't do well. But I guess that just goes to show how much better these guys got after this so, yeah fair is fair and if you think I'm wrong then here's the Iron Monger himself to speak on my behalf.
Well it's a Hulk movie so they probably figured that if the hero was a big muscle monster then his perfect match would be another big muscle monster. I mean arguably I could have put General Ross in this spot then this thing but again, rule of the final encounter and all that. But aside from this guy being as developed as putting a block on top of another block we did at least get ourselves a climactic fight scene at the end. Considering the lack of one in the Ang Lee version (which was still fresh on everybody mind when this first came out mind you) we at least got a big lug that the Hulk can check into the smackdown hotel.
At least this ghost doesn't have to repeat her back story every time she shows up, unlike another Ghost themed character I could mention, right Takeru?! Though much like the Abomination I should probably also put Ghost and Bill Foster on this list together since they really were partners in all of this. But Bill tried to stop her when she went too far so no. As for Ghost herself she was another victim of Hank Pym being Hank, when he inadvertently turned her life upside down leading her to be made into a weapon for S.H.I.E.L.D and wanting revenge. Though she was cured of her condition and she and Bill will go and live happily ever after, or at least as close as they can get considering all the horrible stuff they did, also Thanos killing half the universe and all that.
Yes, Whiplash was the true villain in Iron Man 2. What did you want me to put the little tool in the suit on here instead of the cold badass Mickey Rourke with a genius intellect, an army of robot suits and electric whips, what are you stupid?! Though this does break away from the trend of all of Tony's villains in the movies mostly being just assholes in suits it's not going to get much higher on the list. Besides he was the bad guy in the movie where Tony wasn't exactly on his A game so yeah. But a genius intellect, a serious axe to grind with the Stark name for basicly leaving his father to die, this guy could have been a major threat to Tony, if only he wasn't taken down like a chump.
Oh goody another douchebag in a suit, he might be the best from the Iron Man movies but still just another douche in a $200 bag. Though don't get me wrong Killian did make for an interesting twist villain, though his motivation was weak getting snubbed by Tony for a pitch at a New Years party when he could have just scheduled an appointment. This dude was not only the mastermind behind the Mandarin (which I still think is a great way to solve the problem with adapting the Mandarin in the first place) but was also creating super solders to compete with the rising Superhero population, he even became a test subject himself. Which not only cured his paralysis but also gave him enhanced strength and heat powers. It would have been far cooler if the Mandarin really was the real deal MCU Osama Bin Ladin and not just this tool pulling his strings but for what we have it's not that bad.
Our second teasing of the scope of the threat that Thanos and the Infinity Gems represented and he made a fairly decent case. A religious fanatic of the Kree empire; Ronan joined forces with Thanos to destroy the planet of Xandar. But once he found what he was tasked to retrieve Ronan welched on the deal and decided to destroy Xandar himself. So we have a deranged religious fanatic with the power of a god ready to destroy a planet with holy hellfire, that would normally make anyone shit their pants, but if only the guy had an actual personality to go along with the threat he posed. He served his purpose well and we will be seeing him again in Captain Marvel but in his lead villain role he wasn't too bad.
From a guy with the powers of a god to a literal god with a love of blood and death. Hela was the first daughter of Odin and was his second in command in his conquest of the 9 realms. But once he decided that he wanted some image changing he figured his war crazed, conquerer daughter might be a bit of a PR no-no and had her sealed. Like I said in the review of the movie she was one of the prefect personifications of the evils of colonialism, the one who sees nothing more to a kingdom then the land itself, the people, it's culture, who gives a crap all she cared about was conquest and absolute power. More then scary enough on it's own but the fact that it literally took the end of the world to stop her makes her quite the threat to deal with and a worthy final villain for the solo Thor movies.
Yes this is the boarder of villains in the MCU, a literal Nazi is the half way point of compelling villainy on my list. Here we have Johann Schmidt a former high ranking Nazi who figured out that Hitler was chump change compared to his agenda and was basically relegated to a desk job due to being too smart and dangerous for the Nazis liking, so he created his own evil organization with blackjack and hookers. Let me reiterate; we have a guy that the Nazis thought was crazy! He managed to acquire one of the Infinity Gems in the form of the Tesseract and tried to start his own world conquest schemes with his new organization Hydra; but thanks to Captain America we all know how well that turned out, being stuck on a barren planet in the cosmos babysitting another magic rock he can't use until a giant purple man and his green foster daughter showed up to get it leaving him free to do whatever he wants now. Not sure if we'll be seeing more of the Red Skull in any future MCU projects but that remains to be seen.
So here we have the first 9 of the top 19 MCU movie villains, and let me tell you, this was the hardest part of the list to compile. As we go on we have far more interesting villains to talk about which are more compelling then these guys for various reasons. But for the stock, evil for evils sake guys like the first 5 it was a slog just trying to say anything other then falling asleep at the keyboard. But next time like I said we finally get villains that I can really sink my teeth into. So next time I'll have my personal top 9 villains of the MCU movies.
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Thor The Dark World is owned by Marvel Studios, produced by Keven Feige based off the comic by Larry Leiber, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Doctor Strange (2016) is owned by Marvel Studios, The Walt Disney Corporation and Scott Derrickson Iron Man is owned by Paramount Studios, Marvel Studios and Fairview Entertainment Based off the original comic by Stan Lee, Larry Leiber, Don Heck and Jack "The King" Kirby. The Big Lebowski is owned by Joel and Ethan Cohen and Working title films. The Incredible Hulk is owned by Paramount Pictures, Marvel Studios based on The Hulk created by Stan Lee and Jack "The King" Kirby Ant-Man and the Wasp is owned by Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures. Based off the comic book characters created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby. Iron Man 2 is owned by Paramount Studios, Marvel Studios and Fairview Entertainment Based off the original comic by Stan Lee, Larry Leiber, Don Heck and Jack "The King" Kirby. Iron Man 3 is owned by Marvel Studios, Written by Shane Black and based off the characters created by Stan Lee, Don Heck, Larry Leiber and Jack Kirby. Guardians of the Galaxy is owned by Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Motion picture studios based off "Guardians of the Galaxy" created by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Thor Ragnarök is owned by Marvel Studios, produced by Keven Feige based off the comic by Larry Leiber, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Captain America The First Avenger is owned by Marvel Studios, Paramount pictures and The Walt Disney Company. Based on the character created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Deadpool 2 is owned by 20th Century Fox, Marvel Entertainment and The Donners' Company Based on Characters created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Lefeld (Kinda sorta)
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So, an MCU movie post Infinity War, this is gonna be fun. Though yeah after the events of that mega movie we need something a little (heh) closer to home. Though since this is the MCU debut of Wasp I'll point you to the debut of her mother's comic book incarnation.
Obviously there's no Lovecraften monster from beyond the stars here to kill everyone with a space light-show, nor does it mention Hank's first wife who was supposedly killed because of Communism. Though the movie does showcase the consequences of Scott impulsively joining up with Cap's group during the events of Civil War. But he honestly got lucky considering what happened to everyone else who broke the Accords, just put under house arrest for two years. He even still has weekend custody of Cassie, has set up a private security firm with Luis and his two buds and also found the time to learn some slight of hand card tricks. Though ones fortune can become or is balanced out with someone else's misfortune.
The "someone" in this case is Hank and Hope since, because they were the ones who provided Scott with the Ant-man tech they're considered to be his accomplices thus have been on the run. Needless to say they're pretty pissed at Scott, but they need him back since durning the climax of the first Ant-man he returned from the quantum realm. The two need him to help recreate that seemingly impossible feat to hopefully find Hank's lost wife Janet (played by Michelle Pfeiffer) the original Wasp and all before Scott's house arrest is officially up and he canfinally get his life with Cassie back on track. Though like every other MCU movie Hank's past screw ups come back to bite him in the ass. This time in the form of a Quantum shifting former S.H.I.E.L.D assassin called Ghost (played by Hannah John-Kamen) and her surrogate father, one of Hanks bitter former colleagues Bill Foster (played by Lawrence Fishburne) who are trying to get their hands on Janet to cure Ghost of her reality phasing affliction before it kills her.
After such a massive punch to the gut that was the ending of Infinity War, something a bit more lighthearted and down to earth (considering the universe) was definitely needed. While the first movie was more of a heist movie with superpowers this is basically the same but with more fight scenes and some fun gags with the shrinking tech. Honestly the gags and sequences with the shrinking and growing tech are the best parts of the movie, not that the story is bad or anything far from it, it's just that a movie with more personal stakes is needed after the whole universal conflict of Infinity War. So we're allowed to focus on the gags with the shrinking and growing tech, cool sequences in the Quantum realm and we finally get to see Hope kick ass in the Wasp suit. Yes they totally should have had her in the suit in the first movie but hey they more then make up for it here.
No doubt we'll get some more time with Wasp in either this or Avengers 4, but Hope has definitely won through this time around. Now this isn't going to make my top 10 MCU movies but this is still a fun romp with a great cast, likable characters and just one of those times where just this once everybody wins. Well except for Sonny but who really cared about that guy? That is until we get to the post credits scene. I won't spoil it here but I believe that Bird Person can sum up mine and most audiences' reaction to it.
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Ant-Man and the Wasp is owned by Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures. Based off the comic book characters created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby. Rick and Morty is owned by Justin Rolland, Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland's Solo Vanity Card Productions, Harmonious Claptrap, Starburns Industries, and Williams Street
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Here we are at last, Avengers Infinity War. From where we began 10 years ago (holy shit) to now; we have the culmination of a decade of movie making right here, right now. Now if you were paying attention at all during these movies after the first Captain America that a major plot point is the Infinity Stones and Thanos the mad Titan. While this movie borrows ideas from the Infinity Gauntlet Storyline it actually borrows its name from its sequel Infinity War. So for those who are unaware of the original Infinity Gauntlet story, here ya go.
The most notable changes for the movie is that while Thanos is still collecting the stones, he isn't trying to get Death-Senpai to notice him and Adam Warlock hasn't been introduced officially in the MCU yet. As we left off with the remaining Asguardians we're pretty sure that they're the first on Thanos' body count due to Loki's little souvenir from Asgard. So on top of the Power Stone that he recovered from the Nova Corp he now has the Space stone that was stored in the Tesseract. Now all that's left is the unknown Soul Stone, the Time Stone that's in the Eye of Agamotto with Dr Strange, the Reality Stone from the Collector and the Mind Stone that's in Vision's head.
This is one of those movies where I won't be spoiling a damn thing about it. (At least until the end of the year for recap or another such article.) The star of this movie is undoubtably Josh Brolin as Thanos. All those years of build up, his appearances and plans within the previous Marvel movies all come to a climax with him and his goons finally taking charge and what was the result?
Yep Thanos was totally worth the wait. He commands your attention, his motivations for getting the stones is truly monstrous, terrible and perhaps the most scary of all, understandable. He's not just a genocidal maniac for the sake of being pure evil, no no, he thinks that what he's doing is honestly the right thing to do and that only he and he alone should be the one to do this crusade. Perhaps the best part that exemplifies this is how he gets the Soul Stone. Again, I won't say anything more about this scene except that I knew they would come back in some way when they interacted with the thing just not in the way I or perhaps Marvel originally intended.
Also how the hell did they survive and how do they know this stuff? Aside from the big purple star the rest of the movie is as expected; a grand slam. From minute one the action is intense, the drama has you glued to your seat seeing some of our favorite heroes going through such hardship and seeing such devastation unlikes the which no-one has ever born witness to in the MCU so far. We see old comrades meeting up after the events of Civil War and the signing of the Sokovia Accords, old characters encountering new characters like Dr Strange, Tony Stark and Peter Quill's egos colliding against each other to hilarious results, Thor encountering the Guardians of the Galaxy and of course the big trailer fight in Wakanda was epic as hell. Even the individual fights against Thanos' generals were awesome in their own ways
Though there is a few problems with the movie. It really wants us to care about two particular characters that the audience really don't seem to give a crap about. While I was concerned about one of the them for the sake of the overall plot the characters themselves weren't exactly on my favorites list. It was pretty much like when Agent Coulson died in Avengers 1, I honestly didn't care. Also, the ending while chilling and devastating to see kind of loses its drama when you remember all of the Phase 4 movies coming out in the next few years.
Speaking of the post credits scene if this dude has this person on speed dial this whole damn time why didn't they call this guy sooner? In universe I mean you'll see after the credits. Overall, yes this movie was totally worth the wait, a grand slam of a tenth anniversary and easily in my top 10 MCU movies, though I'll give my thoughts on the overall MCU movies when Phase 3 is over with Infinity War Part 2. Now make no mistake this is unbeatably a part 1 so ironically the March to Infinity will keep going on, at least until next year. But for now while the first part of the War is over we'll check in when we see two little guys that managed to avoid getting squashed by Thanos' big, blinged out Power Glove.
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Avengers: Infinity War is owned by Walt Disney Studios motion Pictures and Marvel Studios Based off the original comics Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Jontron is owned by Jon Jaffri and Normal Boots.
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So here we are, the last MCU movie that I have to cover before I see Avengers Infinity War. I really should have done this sooner but you know, life, ironically when I'm talking about a movie named after the end of the world. In terms of chronological release; right after a less then exceptional homecoming party for everyones favorite neighborhood Spider-Man we saw what is undoubtably the best Thor movie in the franchise. Also the closest we'll ever get to an adaptation of Planet Hulk though with a much more lighthearted execution and set up. Not to say that Planet Hulk isn't a good story (from what little I've heard it really is) but with what the MCU has set up they did a great job with what they had.
So as we open on Thor in a cage with a skeleton he exposits to his imaginary friend that after Age of Ultron he decided to travel the realms to learn more about the infinity stones before Thanos brings his big purple ass to our door step. But apparently that was unsuccessful so he also got the idea that while he was out and about he might as well stop Ragnarök. Thus he traveled to the realm of Surtur to kill him and stop the whole shebang at the source. During Surtur's whole 'evil plan monologue" he says that to destroy Asgard all he has to do is place his crown into the Eternal Flame in Odin's vault and BAM! Now normally Odin would have that on lockdown but according to Surtur Odin's not in Asgard anymore.
After kicking Surtur's ass, retrieving his crown and nearly becoming Smaug's chew toy Thor finally makes it back to Asgard. No thanks to Heimdal's non union replacement Skurge (played by Karl Urban) who only got the job because Heimdal fled Asgard before he could be sentenced by "Odin" for betraying the throne and was too busy showing off his Midgard swag to some ladyfriend company of his. Thor, finally catching up with everyone who saw the end of Dark World exposes Loki and demands to know where he stashed the All Father, which turned out to be in an old folks home! Or at least that was where Loki left him last. Thankfully someone knows where Odin is, Dr Stephen Strange, sorcerer supreme, keeper of the time stone and newest smug asshole of the MCU.
After some fun at the twos expense Dr Strange teleports the two to Norway where Odin is. They arrive just in time to hear his last words to the two before he dies, warning them that with his death, his daughter Hela (played by Cate Blanchett) will be freed from her imprisonment and that once she makes it to Asgard she will be unstoppable and conquer not just the nine realms but all of existence. Literally after Odin died Big Sis is loose and is not playing around, as demonstrated when she crushes Mjolnir literally single handedly!!!! Of course that was just an appetizer, once Loki opens the Bifrost Bridge to try and escape her, she serves the main course by knocking the two out of the beam leaving the two flying though the depths of space. Then for her next trick she goes to kill the Warriors three and most of Asgard warriors, save for Skurge who rather prefers keeping his head on his shoulders instead of bleeding on the floor. Hela's mood doesn't improve once she's seen what Odin's done with the palace. Back in her time she helped him conquer the nine realms, all but securing his rule. Then once she decided that nine realms were small potatoes Odin then decided to play the virtuous uniter and tried to banish her. Once Hela was out of the way he decided to cover Asgards bloody past with lies of unity and diplomacy (sound familiar?) Once that was all cleared up Hela found the eternal flame and used it to resurrect her army of Ancient Asgardian warriors and her giant wolf Fenris. At first she planed to then immediately get on with conquering but Heimdal stole the sword to the Bifrost and has gone into hiding with the resistance so now she has to deal with that. Thor eventually lands on a junk planet called Sakaar when he's captured by Scrapper 142 (played by Tessa Thompson) and sold as a "prisoner with a job" to the planets ruler, an eccentric nut job called the Grandmaster (played um by um um Jeff Jeff Goldblum). Thor isn't up for Grandblum's bullshit so now he has to compete in the Contest of Champions and defeat the Grandmaster's champion so he can earn his freedom and return to Asgard to stop Hela. No thanks to Loki who somehow landed on Sakaar a few weeks ago before Thor showed up which was only just a few minutes ago!
Oh and he's also got into the Grandmaster's good graces. But does he do anything to help Thor, nope he's too busy humoring someone who's even more nuts then he is, thanks bro you're a big help! But Thor's not alone, he's got a sentient pile of rocks named Korg and a bug with knives for hands named Meek, so he's all good. Especially once he makes it to the Champion himself, The Hulk! But he's been on Sakaar for two years as the Hulk so Bruce isn't in control and has been in permanent smash mode.
Waking up after the Jörmungandr sized beatdown he received from the Hulk Thor plans his escape via the discovered Quinjet and a vision from Heimdal. Though he knows that alone he'll get his ass kicked again so he asks Hulk and 142 for help but they're not interested for various reasons. Hulk's a famous gladiatorand hisstrength is loved on Sakaar as opposed to being hunted and feared on earth. As for 142, she was originally a Valkyrie, the only remaining Valkyrie after all of her comrades were slaughtered by Hela when they were sent by Odin to stop her. Thor's escape plans are slightly derailed when Hulk unintentionally destroyed the Quintet but a recording of Natashia's last transmission finally reverts Hulk back to Bruce Banner. That's when Valkyrie offers her assistance and gives them Loki to prove her sincerity. They then come up with a plan, to get back to Asgard they have to reach the largest wormhole on Sakaar called; I kid you not, the devil's anus. But to survive the trip they need the right ship and who has all of the Grandmaster's access codes, including all of his personal ships? Loki! After freeing Korg, Meek and the rest of the gladiators the revolution is on! Thor and his group eventually make it though the devil's anus and confront Hela. This time however they have a plan, while Thor, Valkyrie, and the rest get the Asgardians to safety on Korg and Meek's transport ship, Loki will sneak into the place, revive Surtur with the eternal flame, begin Ragnarök and get away while Hela stays behind trying to kill him thus two birds with one stone. Despite some hiccups and Thor losing his right eye the plan works and the Asgardians get away while Hela and Asgard are destroyed by Surtur, thus saving the day. Now that Thor is the new king he plans to move the Asgardians to earth. At least that was the plan but our movie ends with his ship being intercepted by Thanos. Why is he there, well Loki decided to bring along a souvenir from the vault, the Tesseract AKA the Space Stone.
So that was Thor Ragnarök, is it really a surprise that this is the best solo Thor movie? Where as the first two tried to take themselves too seriously (especially Dark World and Malekith) Ragnarök on the other hand embraces the ridiculousness of its source material and gets rid of most of the parts of MCU Thor's mythos that really just didn't work. The Warriors three, not relevant past the first movie, Asgard, cool looking place but not much else outside of the aesthetic, Jane Foster, apparently she and Thor broke up off screen. (Translation apparently Natalie Portman's contract wasn't renewed or something, though speaking of off screen where did Lady Sif go?) Now if you're doing your job right when you take away something you have to replace it with something else.
Well, taking out all the pointless Thor mythos and replacing it with a loose adaptation of Planet Hulk was definitely the right choice on Director Taika Waititi's part, not only giving Thor a unique setting to do his thing and bounce off of people but also giving not only resolution for Hulk after Age of Ultron giving us more things for him to do outside of just smash! Him being stuck in Hulk mode for two years really would have a direct effect on Hulk and Bruce's relationship and we see that happen. Hulk's been in the driver's seat so the usual tactics for calming him down don't work. Hell he doesn't really seem that angry, just more like a five year old with the power of a Tzar Bomba in both of his fists. He sounds dangerous yeah but you could placate him just as easily as you could piss him off.
Hela is also a decent villain for this type of story. (On top of being the first female main MCU movie villain.) Watching this movie again Hela seemed more like what I would think a rebooted Rita Repulsa would be like then what the 2017 Power Rangers movie did, she's funny but it's more derided from her conquest and slaughter of her enemies which really shows what Asgard was like back when she was a necessity for Odin's plans. She was understandably, insanely powerful, able to decimate armies of highly trained god solders and destroy Mjolnir with little effort. Her motivations are also understandable, she was Odin's second in command, helping him to conquer the nine realms, slaughtering countless people who opposed him to only just get rejected because he finallyfound his conscience and realized "oh dear, maybe slaughtering everyone who opposes me to establish my new kingdom isn't exactly the best way to go about this".
But she never came to that realization that Odin did, instead she's just that old blood thirsty war machine, never realizing that Asgard would not exist without its people, to her she sees only either subjects or victims. Which leads me to the big underlying theme of this movie, a biting commentary on the practice of colonialism and the legacy of nations built on them. Hela and her reaction to the fresco in the palace perfectly exemplify the inherent flaws in conquers and militarization, that underneath the golden idols and talks of peace there's just blood, death and many many corpses used as the foundation for this power-hungy despot's utopia. She is the dark past of Asgard that Odin tried desperately to bury and forget. While Hela is more direct with this interpretation we now look at Sakaar and the Grandmaster.
The Grandmaster may have established and built Sakaar without this bloodshed but he also established the policies that allow him and those he finds favor with to stay at the top while pacifying the populace with gladiatorial combat. While he's not as interested in conquest as Hela he's not doing much to improve the lives of the people of Sakaar, unless its those in his court. He instead choses to use his power to indulge and drown himself in riches and booze while trying to present it as a benevolent rule. Either way when you look at Sakaar you can only say one thing about the Gandmaster's rule.
Sakaar is basically Ancient Rome with spaceships, giant green men, "prisoners with jobs" and tentacle Hentai. So while one is a bloodthirsty dictator and the other is an eccentric, hedonistic weirdo with too much time on his hands we then come to Thor and his nomadic Asgardians. Both Hela and The Grandmaster exemplify the worst possible outcomes of colonialism where as Thor at the end of the movie comes to the same realization that Odin did all those years ago, that Asgard is never the realm but its people. So by letting Ragnarök occur taking both Asgard and Hela with it he and his new Asgard can create their own future, not forgetting the past but no longer letting it define them.
Whatever path he and his new Asgard decides to go with the message is clear, they knows the sins of Asgard's past and will endeavor to create a new legacy for Asgard, just not through the path of the conquerer. Well at last that probably was the plan until Thanos came knocking on his door and will most likely kill everyone on that ship to get his big purple hands on that stone. Which finally brings us to the main event, the ten year anniversary of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The March to Infinity is over, Thanos has finally gotten off of his chair and the war has begun. I just want to thank everyone who has been following me on this retrospective and supported me in this whole endeavor and those who will support me in the future. So next time is the main event, Thanos the movie guest starring the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Thor Ragnarök is owned by Marvel Studios, produced by Keven Feige based off the comic by Larry Leiber, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Mystery Science Theater 3000 is owned by Joel Hodgson, Best Brains, Syfy, Comedy Central and Shout Factory.
Dragon Ball, Dragonball Z and Dragonball GT is owned by Funnimation, Toei animation, Fuji TV and Akira Toriyama.
Dragon ball Z abridged is owned by Team Four Star. Jurassic Park is owned by Amblin Entertainment and Universal Studios based off the book written by Michael Crichton Star Wars The Last Jedi is owned by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Company and Lucas films based off the characters created by George Lucas.
