Yeah man, Secret Wars needs to be a big deal. The thing is that despite similar execution and plot details, the worlds built up are VERY different. Like sure you have Doctor Doom stealing cosmic power from an entity “unfit” to wield it and using it to rule over this world where peace can be established. But the status quo is much different. In the 1984 event, you have this entity tell this group of heroes and the group of villains to duke it out because they said so, only for Doom to take his powers and stop the fighting. In 2015, Doom took the powers at the very beginning and established his own world, planting fake memories in all the survivors. It delves heavy into kingdom politics and the seeds of resistance, and feels very Game of Thrones. But in the 2015, you have all of these variants of different characters, rather than of just a small hodgepodge of Spider-Man, Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, Cap, Reed, the X-Men, Magneto vs some Iconic villains. Like the 2015 event had the Thor Corp as Doom’s police force. So, will the MCU keep it small and have the Avengers, F4, Thunderbolts, and X-Men in it (similar to the 1984 event)? Or will it take full advantage of the Multiverse and bring in all the Marvel past heroes and be like the 2015 event? I feel like Deadpool and Wolverine was already a better version of Secret Wars 1984 and the movie embodied what made that event special. I think the 2015 event is more what should be pulled from but the directors have said the 1984 version is the one that got them into comics and holds a special place in their hearts. Who knows, man! But that movie needs to be flawless otherwise a lot of people who’ve been on the fence about the MCU are done!
Yeah man, Secret Wars needs to be a big deal. The thing is that despite similar execution and plot details, the worlds built up are VERY different. Like sure you have Doctor Doom stealing cosmic power from an entity “unfit” to wield it and using it to rule over this world where peace can be established. But the status quo is much different. In the 1984 event, you have this entity tell this group of heroes and the group of villains to duke it out because they said so, only for Doom to take his powers and stop the fighting. In 2015, Doom took the powers at the very beginning and established his own world, planting fake memories in all the survivors. It delves heavy into kingdom politics and the seeds of resistance, and feels very Game of Thrones. But in the 2015, you have all of these variants of different characters, rather than of just a small hodgepodge of Spider-Man, Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, Cap, Reed, the X-Men, Magneto vs some Iconic villains. Like the 2015 event had the Thor Corp as Doom’s police force.
So, will the MCU keep it small and have the Avengers, F4, Thunderbolts, and X-Men in it (similar to the 1984 event)? Or will it take full advantage of the Multiverse and bring in all the Marvel past heroes and be like the 2015 event? I feel like Deadpool and Wolverine was already a better version of Secret Wars 1984 and the movie embodied what made that event special. I think the 2015 event is more what should be pulled from but the directors have said the 1984 version is the one that got them into comics and holds a special place in their hearts. Who knows, man! But that movie needs to be flawless otherwise a lot of people who’ve been on the fence about the MCU are done!