Sentences with phrase «superhero characters in»

With a constellation of stars returning to their familiar superhero characters in the cross-referencing Marvel universe, breathlessly working to save the world from a Marvel - certified menace, Age of Ultron delivers what its audience wants.

The Avengers is a team of fictional superhero characters in comic books published by Marvel Comics.

It was critically embraced, commercially successful ($ 333 million in box - office receipts) and a high - water mark for an obscure superhero character in from an obscure comic book horror series.

Not exact matches

But like many superheroes of color in the Marvel (and DC) universes, Black Panther was relegated to the periphery of the pantheon of superheroes — most of whom were white male characters created by white men.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

May 1 - Toy maker Hasbro Inc has agreed to acquire children's entertainment and merchandising franchises, including the characters of the superhero TV show Power Rangers, from Saban Properties LLC in a deal valued at $ 522 million in cash and stock, the companies announced Tuesday.

In the same vein as Nintendo's «Super Smash Bros.» series and Warner Brothers» «Injustice» franchise, «Marvel vs Capcom» pits Marvel superheroes and villains (Iron Man, MODOK, and many more) against Capcom's most famous faces (Mega Man, various Street Fighter characters, and many more).

We talk about things like the «pink aisle» and the «action figure aisle» and «character clothes» - my kids don't have barbies or princesses or superheros or spongebob shirts... because who wants to play with an already dressed princess in a ready - made molded plastic castle when you can build a castle or design your own dress and who wants to wear spongebob on their shirt when he's a grumpy guy and the tye - dye shirt you make yourself is much cooler?

And with the popularity of superhero movies, we expect Mera (MEE - ra)- a character in DC's Justice League, and wife to Aquaman - to rise in the charts.

The comic book character Batman, is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics # 27 in May 1939.

Okorafor said she was buoyed by the global success of the summer box office hit «Wonder Woman» — the first superhero movie to star a woman since 2005 — with the character hailed as a new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in Hollywood.

A battle of City Council super-egos has stymied legislation that would allow corporate giants like Disney, Marvel and DC Comics to battle the phony superheroes and characters in Times Square,...

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Atom Eve (real name: Samantha Eve Wilkins) is a fictional character, a superhero in the Image Comics Universe who appears primarily in the comic book A famous and popular core Cockney Rhyming Slang expression, Adam and Eve has been around since before C20th.

On its surface, the story being told in The Lego Movie is an unassumingly delightful little cross-genre tale that entertains the kiddos with an oddly diverse blend of Transformers action, superhero characters, and Pixar visuals.

This seems like a natural idea now, but back in July 1966, when Stan Lee and Jack Kirby birthed the character in Fantastic Four No. 52, he was the first African superhero to appear in American comics.

DC Universe Online is a title in its own way unique, not only because it is now one of the few MMORPGs available on consoles, but also because it is perhaps the only exponent of the superhero genre to have discrete character.

One of the central characters is introduced from the waist down and to say that the film climaxes in violent, sexual oddity would be like saying «The Avengers» features a few superheroes.

The main storyline involves a nefarious crime lord, played by Marvin «Krondon» Jones III, whose gang, The 100, is terrifying the city, but it's Black Lightning's journey into social issues — the character quotes Martin Luther King Jr. at one point in the premiere — that separates him from the rest of the superhero pack.

With solid actors, good writing, vibrant costume work, a terrific score from Coogler - regular Ludwig Goransson (Central Intelligence, Stretch), humor that's delivered with refreshing subtlety, and Coogler's taut pacing that also takes the time to build up its scenarios, Black Panther succeeds at delivering an unlikely solo effort in the superhero genre, and leaves skeptics and those completely unaware of the characters within the comic books hungry for more.

It is one of the rare times that our main character engages in any traditional superhero activity, and even then it seems less triggered by a desire to save the kidnapped girls he will eventually rescue than to join Nakia (Lupita Nyong» o) and inform her of his father's passing.

These inconsistencies of story, tone, and character have solidified in this sequel, and it's enough to make one wonder if Deadpool, the masked smart - ass with pistols and swords, is even suited for the current climate of superhero movies.

As Jamil Smith writes for Time, the character of the Black Panther — the first black comic - book superhero — was created in 1966 during the civil - rights movement and very much represented «a vision of black grandeur and, indeed, power in a trying time.»

The first «Deadpool,» based on a Marvel character introduced in the early 1990s (his real name is Wade Wilson), presented itself as an antidote to superhero fatigue, but it was really just another gateway drug.

Suicide Squad simply shouldn't be a movie about saving the world like every other superhero movie; the characters are far too interesting and entertaining to be stuck in something so cliché

The Jack Kirby and Stan Lee superhero creation first appeared in the pages of Fantastic Four, fully formed along with the character's advanced African «Techno Organic Jungle.»

Roaring through 160 minutes of action, humor, character development, epic evil and moving nobility, it is darker and edgier, yet lighter and more stirring than anything offered in another superhero franchise.

Also, to the movie's benefit, it introduces us to the titular character without feeling bogged down in the trappings of a superhero origin story.

The screenplay, by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost, gives each of the characters something worthwhile to do and something amusing to say, and when its various strands are tied together in time for the momentous finale, even the most superhero - wary viewers will have smiles on their faces.

Then, shortly after Batman Begins hit theaters in 2005, Warner Bros. started looking into ways to unite the character with other DC superheroes - and so began work on George Miller's unrealized team - up film, Justice League: Mortal.

When Ryan Coogler's Black Panther opens, a superhero (played by Chadwick Boseman) with unapologetic black swagger will finally have the cultural spotlight, 50 years after the character debuted in a Marvel comic.

The new Black Panther comic book series at Marvel, featuring Ta - Nehisi Coates as the writer and Brian Stelfreeze as the illustrator, will be the first time in a little while that a high - profile character will be penned by two creators of color — and it's Black Panther, one of the first black superhero characters ever.

It has been a brilliant strategy to refrain from using any images of Batman in the trade ads for this film, focusing on Bruce Wayne throughout, ushering the story through further as a character piece, not a superhero extravaganza.

Given the origin stories of most of these characters — rooted as they are in the deaths of loved ones, often through the heroes» inaction, real or imagined, it's not a far reach to say that superhero comics are trapped in a process of repetition automatism (or «repetition compulsion»).

Paul Rudd has been cast in the superhero film as the title character who possesses the ability to shrink down to insect size.

Logan takes the wildly popular character of Wolverine and places him into a dusty, violent, fatalistic neo-western that is unlike any X-Men film — and in fact any superhero movie of this current era.

Paul Rudd still stars as Ant - Man, Michael Douglas plays Henry Pym, the inventor of the shrinking formula in this version of the movie (and not the original superhero like he is in the comics) and Lily who recently revealed a few more details and said her character Hope Van Dyne «is the daughter of the founders of The Avengers, Ant - Man and the Wasp» which will no doubt lead to lots of confusion as we know from the MCU Ant - Man and The Wasp weren't in those original movies (she's referring to what happened in the comics).

As we all know, Marvel has had quite a flogging in the press about its treatment of its female characters: Not only is there no stand - alone female superhero film yet, but our daughters also have no female superhero action figures.

(In Italian with subtitles) Zebraman (Unrated) Superhero spoof about a failure of a father and teacher (Sho Aikawa) who gets a chance to prove his worth when he somehow morphs into his favorite TV character and takes on a horde of alien invaders intent on slaughtering schoolgirls.

In one of Comic Con's most awaited presentations, Marvel superheroes of all kinds from Iron Man to Ant - Man took over the fan convention recently as leading actors revealed surprises to films that will showcase the characters

Much like Christopher Nolan was able to do with resurrecting the ice - cold popularity of Batman in Batman Begins, Bryan Singer (X-Men, X2) brings a sense of respect and emphasis on character motivations to the forefront of the story, resulting in a complexity and maturity befitting the world's most popular and beloved superhero.

Batman v Superman might already sound like a decent number of superheroes for a single movie just in the title alone, but add in Wonder Woman and then all the other DC characters who are supposed to appear to set up Justice League, and you're going to run into some logistical issues.

A former superhero whose career has been defined by that one role isn't far from Keaton's own story, making Birdman a film that explores «truth» in the very way its characters wish to in their play.

With Lionsgate's big screen reboot of Saban's Power Rangers hitting cinemas this Friday, THR is reporting that the film is set to make history by being the first big - budget superhero movie to feature a LGBT protagonist in Becky G's Trini, a.k.a. the Yellow Ranger, with the character revealed to be having «girlfiend problems» in what director -LSB-...]

Redford is in talks to play a senior leadership role in S.H.I.E.L.D., the superhero collective run by Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury character.

Having the character state this observation outright is the most direct of the many tricks Deadpool attempts in order to convince us that this is not a normal superhero movie.

There are literally dozens of major characters (you pity whoever had to fit all of these A-list names onto the poster), in service to a story that's simultaneously every superhero movie ever and, for those who aren't obsessive readers of the comic books, a bit confusing.

Previous incarnations of the patriotic superhero were stunning in their crap - itude, and the mere presence of good character development and high production values make this one look like a winner.

Paul Rudd's bite - sized superhero becomes the latest Avenger - adjacent hero to get the sequel treatment in the film, which upgrades Evangeline Lilly's character from civilian to sidekick.

Writer - director Joss Whedon improves on the first Avengers movie with an exciting, fast - paced superhero adventure that serves its many characters while weighing the difficulties of doing the right thing in a complicated world.