'Avengers 2' must use the term 'enhanced powers' instead of mutants

[JEDI]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/24/avengers-age-of-ultron-set-photos_n_5023208.html

mutants = x-men, which 20th century fox owns the rights to
avengers is not a 20th Century Fox film.


but WTF?!
I can understand if DC comics cant use the term mutants since it was coined by Marvel.

but when did Marvel give exclusive rights on the term Mutant to X-men?


and holy Christ what a horrible Quicksilver:

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Don't worry about Quicksilver - they'll CGI the hell out of him.

 

[mmntech]

If we shot half the lawyers, there'd way still be too many.

 

[techs]

If we shot half the lawyers, there'd way still be too many.

I thought Ultron was a lawyer?

 

[Chocu1a]

Looks better than the crappy Quicksilver in Days of Future Past.

 

[Ichinisan]

I just glad it wasn't about some political correctness thing.

That was my first thought since Marvel = Disney now.

 

[Childs]

I dont get why they would have Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver in Avengers 2, and not Ant Man and Wasp, since the Ultron story revolves around Ant Man. Its too bad Disney doesnt have all the Marvel rights. I would like to see Spider-man in the Avengers, and a good Fantastic Four/Silver Surfer/Galactus movie.

 

[bearxor]

and holy Christ what a horrible Quicksilver:

Worse than this one?

 

[bearxor]

I dont get why they would have Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver in Avengers 2, and not Ant Man and Wasp, since the Ultron story revolves around Ant Man.

The Ultron story revolves around Stark and JARVIS in the MCU.

 

[Childs]

The Ultron story revolves around Stark and JARVIS in the MCU.

I still dont get it though...they are even releasing an Ant Man movie later that year. It would have made more sense to release Ant Man earlier in the year and then have him in Avengers 2 with the Ultron story.

 

[bearxor]

You just can't correlate 1:1 the comics with the MCU anymore. The timing of the Ant-Man movie wasn't working out so something had to be done.

 

[JEDI]

Thought the reason avebgers defeated ultron was that the wasp flew into its mouth and fired her stinger shot at blank range?

 

[Aikouka]

I still dont get it though...they are even releasing an Ant Man movie later that year. It would have made more sense to release Ant Man earlier in the year and then have him in Avengers 2 with the Ultron story.

It sounded like they just weren't ready to do Ant-Man yet, which meant they couldn't fit it in before Avengers 2. It's also interesting that Ant-Man won't even be about Hank Pym... well, to a degree.

 

[BoomerD]

How the fuck can the term "Mutant" be limited to one studio?

 

[norseamd]

How the fuck can the term "Mutant" be limited to one studio?

has boomerd gone to the dark side?

 

[ImpulsE69]

How the fuck can the term "Mutant" be limited to one studio?

Lawyers be powerful creatures...oh and the government is for "we the corporations".

 

[momeNt]

There would be literally no creativity if creativity was not protected by government copyright and patent law. Enjoy not being in the dark ages? Shut the fuck up about mutants and enjoy your light bulbs, TV's, modern medicine.

Assholes.

 

[ImpulsE69]

There would be literally no creativity if creativity was not protected by government copyright and patent law. Enjoy not being in the dark ages? Shut the fuck up about mutants and enjoy your light bulbs, TV's, modern medicine.

Signed an Asshole that is defending "mutant" being copyrighted.

ftfy

LMAO @ anyone who defends that draconian one sided biased POS that is copyright. Creativity flourishes regardless where do you get the impression it would just suddenly die? It was fine long before government and lawyers stepped in. While the initial reason for any of that was good in the beginning, it has been bastardized and abused. Comparing today's stupid sue happy world to the age before lightbulbs is just laughable. I'd like to know on average how many IP's and different patents just sit in a vault somewhere simply so someone else can't create anything like it compared to what actually gets released/made. The whole thing is extremely distasteful. In my usual spiel what could be good, is ruined by greed.

Much like the superbowl, you have to admit...there are some pretty stupid ones in place. This is just one more.


...and no..I don't really care about "this" thread per se. It's the overall idea.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

You just can't correlate 1:1 the comics with the MCU anymore. The timing of the Ant-Man movie wasn't working out so something had to be done.

Especially after the Mandarin thing.

However, they are reconciling that....

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/02/25/marvel-one-shot-all-hail-the-king-review

 

[norseamd]

There would be literally no creativity if creativity was not protected by government copyright and patent law. Enjoy not being in the dark ages? Shut the fuck up about mutants and enjoy your light bulbs, TV's, modern medicine.

Assholes.

love those who do not defend the law as it is written and only as it is manipulated

 

[KeithTalent]

I just glad it wasn't about some political correctness thing.

That was my first thought since Marvel = Disney now.

Exactly my thought as well. I thought the offended mutant lobby had gotten through.

This, while still dumb and annoying, is less dumb and annoying.

KT

 

[TerryMathews]

And this isn't copyright so much as contractual obligation.

Marvel sold the rights to Fox. For movies. Which is why you still get the crossovers in comics, animated movies, and game set in the comic universe like Marvel Heroes.

Don't get me wrong I wish we could get the cool crossovers in the movies but OTOH a deal is a deal.

 

[smackababy]

Especially after the Mandarin thing.

However, they are reconciling that....

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/02/25/marvel-one-shot-all-hail-the-king-review

I loved what they did with the Mandarin. It was a brilliant move. Make Stark's arch nemesis not really his arch nemesis! The rest of the movie was meh, but that was great.

 

[CPA]

You sure that's not just a stand-in or a stunt double?

 

[preslove]

Jesus christ, this thread is full of stupid.

Marvel never owned the rights to the word "mutant" and certainly didn't sell these rights to Fox. They sold all of the x-men characters/villains to Fox. The problem, though, is there are a bunch of mutants from the x-men books that were also in the Avengers, like quicksilver and the scarlet witch. Marvel wanted to use those two, but so did Fox! The compromise that the two companies came up with was that these characters could be included in the Avengers movies, but not referred to as mutants.

This has nothing to do with copyrighting or trademarking the word mutant.