The Darkhold appeared several times in the MCU And beyond and made a huge impact each time. The Darkhold is one of the most powerful artifacts in the MCU, containing mystical practices within its pages that strengthen the powers of the MCU’s magic users and grant access to sinister new abilities. For example, it was able to give Agatha Harkness the power to resist Wanda’s Westview hex and put her through her paces in a one-on-one fight and afford Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch the power to traverse the multiverse by dreamwalking. The Darkhold was destroyed by Wanda MaximoffWho deployed…
Author: Ollie Bradley
Some of these MCU’s most prominent characters are actually god-level thanks to one specific superpower. The MCU has adapted some of Marvel Comics’ most terrifying characters, with the likes of Thanos and Hela among them. While godlike power levels are typically reserved for MCU villains to maximize the stakes, the heroes most likely to put them through their paces aren’t always the most obvious. Although the more understated heroes of the MCU may have their victories strengthened as a result, some harbored powers that were always practically incomparable. Some of the most powerful displays of power in the MCU include…
Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for The Penguin Now this The penguin The first season has come to an end, attention must turn to the future of Colin Farrell’s iconic DC villain. So what do we know about the chances of a second season of the DC spin-off? The penguin is a DC Elseworlds series that focuses on the eponymous Batman villain’s rise to power in Gotham’s vast underworld. It was an exceptional expansion of Matt Reeves’ acclaimed Batman universe, and it’s inevitable that there will be a clamor for more. The penguin maintains the dark themes established in Batmanpresenting…
Agatha all the time featured an unusual ending that almost didn’t happen, but new commentary revealed how Marvel approved the controversial structure, and I’m glad it did. Agatha all the time ran for nine episodes between September 18 and October 30 and helped humanize the titular villain-turned-antihero throughout the series. A series of new MCU characters also debuted, one of the most important being the personification of Death himself. Death has become an all-encompassing motif in Agatha all the timeespecially with regard to its inevitability and necessity in the grand scheme of the universe. After several deaths inside Agatha all…
I know I’m not alone in hoping that Agatha Harkness returns to the MCU soon after her Agatha all the time success, but I just noticed a detail that makes it especially important. Agatha Harkness is a relatively minor character in Marvel Comics, debuting as the nanny of Franklin Richards, the son of Reed and Sue Richards in Marvel Comics. She goes on to train Wanda Maximoff with her magic, making her MCU characterization as her nemesis a stark departure from comic book precedent. This isn’t the only way the MCU has significantly changed Agatha Harkness. While Kathryn Hahn is…
Agatha all the time introduced two of the MCU’s best new characters only to have them killed off in a matter of weeks, and frankly, I think it’s tragic. Despite including a cast of lesser-known characters, these new additions to the MCU have ensured Agatha all the time as a fan favorite. Additionally, it introduced two new high-ranking players to the roster of the MCU’s most powerful characters, in the form of the chaos magic-wielding Wiccan and the personification of Death himself. The show also helped humanize the titular villain-turned-antihero, though Agatha still retains some of her trademark nefariousness in…
Scarlett Johansson returned to the MCU and made a name for herself Black Widow Theory seems practically inevitable. Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff, AKA Black Widow, was last seen in her self-titled prequel movie in 2021. The character, however, remains dead in the MCU after sacrificing herself to obtain the Soul Stone in Avengers: Endgame. The nature of the death means that her soul is presumably trapped in the Soul Stone’s pocket dimension and remains inaccessible now that Earth-616’s Infinity Stones have been destroyed. Still, with the multiverse saga showing that countless variants reside in other universes, Scarlett Johansson’s MCU return…
The power levels of Captain America in Marvel Comics compared to its MCU counterpart are not identical. Captain America may not be the most powerful character in Marvel Comics, but that hasn’t stopped him from becoming one of its most recognized faces. This is largely due to the fact that he is one of Marvel’s first heroes, created in 1940 during the height of World War II as a model of patriotism, before disappearing for a decade in the 1950s. Captain America would return in 1963 and become an iconic Marvel mainstay, whose openly virtuous characterization remains one of his…
James Gunn recently spoke about UDC canon and finally made me truly understand the upcoming franchise for the first time. Ever since Marvel Studios launched the most successful film franchise of all time, questions about how the comic book movies connected, if at all, have been rampant. DC only adhered to the cinematic universe formula five years later with the DCEU Man of Steel in 2013, but the established trope caused some audiences to question how and if Christian Bale’s Batman would be included in this universe, for example. The confusion has been exacerbated by the Elseworlds projects surrounding major…
THE UCM has hosted some particularly dark twists and turns over the past 16 years. This should come as no surprise considering the size of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with 34 films and 13 shows (and counting) in its repertoire. The darker events in these MCU films are also a testament to the franchise’s ability to provide grounded representations of some otherwise strange characters and stories. Meanwhile, Marvel Studios’ liberal use of creative license makes it impossible to predict certain twists as the MCU pivots from narratives established in Marvel Comics. These unexpected twists help make the MCU so compelling,…