So all week long El Mayimbe over at Latino Review has been dropping clues about his inside scoop about the future of the Marvel universe and what the plans are for Marvel Phase 2 and Phase 3. Honestly, I didn’t expect the news he dropped and was convinced that Vision would somehow factor into Captain America: The Winter Soldier….. Boy was I wrong! I will advise that anything that you read past this point SHOULD BE CONSIDERED THE BIGGEST SPOILER/RUMOR NEWS REGARDING MARVEL AND ITS FUTURE FOR THE NEXT 5+ YEARS.
So where exactly does Marvel plan on taking this Universe at the End of Phase 2? Why to Planet Hulk of course!. Like I said, El Mayimbe has been doing some spy work for quite awhile now on this information and he stands behind it 110% Marvel is planning on sending The Hulk off into space at the end of The Avengers 2. So how exactly did we get here and what exactly does this mean? Well take my hand and I’ll walk you through on what to expect in the upcoming years.
Planet Hulk is one of my all time favorite comics that Marvel has put out and if you have never read or heard about it, you should watch the animated film on Netflix or go purchase the books/film.In a very broad nutshell, The Hulk has caused too much destruction to Earth and has become on controllable. The “Illuminati” (Tony Stark, Nam0r, Reed Richards, Professor X, Black Bolt and Doctor Strange) vote to send Hulk into space, unbeknown to them that his ship will hit a wormhole and will land on an alien planet, where he will become a slave/gladiator.While on this planet, The Hulk becomes king and ruler of the planet and eventually seeks vengeance on those who betrayed him and sets a course back to Earth.
So how does this all factor into the Marvel Universe? Well according to the report, at the end of The Avengers 2, the Illuminati will send the Hulk off to space and this will signify the start of Phase 3 for Marvel. With this, the plan is to develop a Planet Hulk stand alone film with The Avengers 3 ultimately being World War Hulk. Marvel fanboys have probably just soiled themselves, so I’ll let them regain their composure.
Now let’s break this down a little bit and see what all has to happen. First of all there are some MAJOR characters that need to be associated with some of the Phase 2 films and eventually the Phase 3 films. Looking at the Illuminati themselves, only one character has actually been introduced into the Marvel Universe (Tony Stark) and two of the main characters are owned by Fox (Professor X and Reed Richards). We know that a Doctor Strange Film is planned for Phase 3 of the Marvel Universe, however there still needs to be a way to include Namor and Black Bolt. Granted you could forgo both of these characters and create your own version of the group. Not to mention there are a TON of characters you would need to introduce in order for World War Hulk and Planet Hulk to work!
How will Marvel do this and how do they plan on incorporating everything into such a short amount of time? That will be the multi million dollar question! I trust the information the guys over at Latino Review drop and I’m sure Kevin Feige and Marvel will come out denying this claim, however I remain a skeptic. I would love for a live action Planet Hulk and I know many others fell the same way, however i’m just worried that this is going too far too quickly for Marvel. I would understand this happening during Phase 3 as oppose to the end of Phase 2, but who am I too tell Feige and Joss Whedon that their idea is crazy! Not to mention World War Hulk will need the Marvel Civil War to happen in order to become a reality, and that is a whole other mess that I don’t want to get into.
It will be a very interesting couple of years for Marvel and hopefully we will start piecing together the story once Iron Man 3 hits this May. With that being said, Marvel is going to have to do some damage control really early Monday morning, because their world just got HULK SMASHED!
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