Josh Brolin plays Cable in Deadpool 2, so that should be accepted as an answer. Same goes for Michael B Jordan who played Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four.
Both Fantastic Four and Deadpool 2 are produced by Marvel studios and are based on Marvel characters. What else would qualify them as MCU movies? I'm curious
The MCU is the Marvel Cinematic Universe and is the interconnected universe of films envisioned by Kevin Feige and Avi Arad, beginning in 2008 with Iron Man and most recently culminating in 2018's Avengers: Infinity War. The MCU films are produced in house by Marvel Studios and were distributed by Paramount Pictures originally, but since Marvel became a Disney subsidiary they are now effectively Disney films.
Prior to 2008 there was a period of time when Marvel Comics was going through hard financial times and they sold off the movie rights to most of their most popular characters. The X-Men and Fantastic Four went to Fox. Spider-Man went to Sony. The Incredible Hulk, Blade, Ghost Rider, and the Punisher were sold off, as well. After the success of Fox's X-Men and Sony's Spider-Man movies, Marvel decided to try and produce their own movies, with the problem being they had sold off the rights to most of them.
Fiege, then 2nd at Marvel Comics, realized that Marvel still owned the rights to almost all of the members of the original Avengers team and came up with the idea to try an interconnected universe: start with several different films about Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, etc, leading up to a cross-over event film The Avengers. They only needed to work out a deal with Universal who owned the film rights to the Hulk.
Feige's plan succeeded brilliantly and since then many other studios have tried (and mostly failed) to copy it. But with one exception all of those popular Marvel characters I listed above still have their film rights owned by other studios. Marvel Studios might work on the films, or they may simply have the Marvel logo at the beginning, but they are not set in the MCU.
The one exception is Spider-Man. Sony cut a deal with Marvel so that Spidey could be in the MCU, and that's why Spider-Man appears in the MCU films Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man Homecoming (Homecoming being a nod to the fact that Spidey had come home to Marvel), and Avengers: Infinity War.
The Sony Spider-Man films Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, The Amazing Spider-Man, and TASM2 do NOT take place in the MCU... they are in their own alternate reality. Different universe/timeline and Marvel Studios had nothing to do with them.
It may get more confusing in the future as Sony is still producing their own Spider-verse films. The first one to come out since the deal with Marvel will be Venom. It's unclear if this will be considered part of the MCU or not.
Further in to the future, Disney is in the process of acquiring Fox, and once that deal goes through, since Disney owns Marvel, it's likely that the X-Men and Fantastic Four will also appear in the MCU.
That was quite a good summary! And for all the reasons Kal pointed out, Spider-Man can appear on this quiz, but not Tobey Maguire or Andrew Garfield (or all the villains but Vulture).
One thing to add that I've recently learned: even though Feige was the president of Marvel Studios who saw the MCU come to life in 2008 through the present, apparently it wasn't his brainchild. That credit seems to be deserved by David Maisel, who in 2003 pitched the idea of Marvel self-financing and producing its own films in an interconnected universe to Avi Arad. Maisel was hired on as president of Marvel Studios, and later became CEO of Marvel Entertainment and the Marvel Studios' Chairman. So he was Feige's boss.
One more update: Disney purchased Fox outright, so now they have the rights to use the X-Men, Wolverine, Deadpool and Fantastic Four in the MCU as much as they please. The rights to Blade, the Punisher, and Ghost Rider have all reverted back to Marvel now (from New Line, Lions Gate, and Columbia, respectively). Sony still has the rights to Spider-Man. And Universal owns the distribution rights to any solo Hulk films (but can't actually produce the films themselves)... which is why Marvel won't make any more solo Hulk films. Namor is apparently in the same boat as Hulk with joint ownership between Marvel and Universal (Marvel can produce the films but Universal gets to distribute them, taking away a large chunk of Marvel's potential profits). And the characters who are traditionally thought of as Spider-Man or Hulk characters (like Venom or She-Hulk) follow the same rules as the title characters. But I think those are the only remaining hold-outs.
I know kalbahamut covered the reasons why this should be so in his excellent summary of what constitutes the MCU, but Johnny Storm should be removed as an answer and Killmonger should be the sole acceptable response for Michael B. Jordan's clue. Not saying that Fantastic Four won't be part of the MCU in the future, but it will probably be recast (and if you're including Fantastic Four in this quiz, Johnny Storm should also be an acceptable answer for Chris Evans). Now that I'm thinking about it, though, why did you use Johnny Storm and not his superhero name? That would have been more consistent with the quiz.
^this is true. The last Fantastic Four movie was not set in the MCU, and neither is Deadpool 2 so you should remove "Cable" from the answer for Brolin.
Though knowing who played all of these roles will help you out if you take my quiz that I linked to above.
To the best of my knowledge the only actor to play multiple roles within the MCU is Benedict Cumberbatch, who portrayed both Doctor Strange and Dormammu, but I assume that was because the producers felt that nobody would recognize him as Dormammu.
You might want to add the yellow box feature, because even if you don't know the actors to characters, you can still just name the characters and get the quiz right. Adding the yellow box would ensure that, like this quiz intended, you are recognizing the actor and remembering who they play.
Her character code names have been Captain Marvel, Photon, Pulsar, and Spectrum. Since you accept Quicksilver, a name Pietro never uses in the MCU, you may as well accept any of Monica's comic book code names, as well.
Could you please accept the correct spelling for Monica Rambeau. It's how it's been spelled in the comics for about 40 years and how she's credited in all the movies and IMDB.
Cool Quiz! But could you add Iron Patriot for Don Cheadle too? As far as I know it's pretty much the same thing as War Machine? But I dunno, it's been a while since I watched the movies.
This was a fun quiz, but may I suggest the use of the yellow box next time? While it was fun filling in the characters of the MCU, it felt like I was just answering MCU characters to actors I didn't necessarily know. I just think it would be more fun next time to use the yellow box, pinpointing actors to specific characters.
This phenomenon has completely missed me. I saw Thor: Ragnarok (it was okay) and Guardians of the Galaxy (liked it a lot), but I don't think I've seen any others, and I don't feel inspired to. I'm sure they're very good, but their total saturation of the marketplace has turned me off to them. I do recall seeing one bit of (what I think was) an Avengers movie on a plane, and the characters were doing that insufferable "We're in the middle of stopping a global threat, but we're still engaging in witty banter among each other because this is so routine for us that we're not even breaking a sweat." I absolutely *hate* when action films do that. It's so cheesy and tired. Kinda turned me off the whole franchise. But I am obviously in a distinct minority, and I'm sure I'll get to Iron Man eventually. Can't say no to Robert Downey Jr.
That sounds more like the Joss Whedon (Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron) Avengers films than the Russo Brothers (Infinity War and Endgame) Avengers movies... maybe you'd like the latter two more... but... the enormous payoff of those two films will be largely lost on anyone who hasn't already seen the preceding 10 years worth of stories.
... it's odd to me, though, that you say you liked Guardians of the Galaxy so much and at the same time got turned off on the entire rest of the MCU because you saw some witty banter. Guardians probably has more goofing off during actions scenes than any other MCU film. so.. huh?
Anyway if you like RDJ... there's a full six hours of his character on screen if you watch all of these movies. Maybe they'll grow on you.
I'm not sure why I was thinking about this comment today, but I was.
Maybe jmellor doesn't dislike witty banter during action scene but just one very specific trope? that of the action heroes who are perfectly cool under pressure even while the world explodes around them? I can understand that.
But then I was reflecting on this and the larger progressive arc of the MCU. And in a way, though they probably weren't planning this from the beginning it almost seems like they were if you watch all of these movies in series, it actually works to enhance the tension and payoff in Infinity War and Endgame. In Avengers, and especially Age of Ultron, I would agree the Avengers seem to completely outclass the antagonists in the film. Loki confronts Hulk and is immediately flattened. Ultron at one point attempts to take on all the Avengers, gets nearly obliterated, tries to quip and is punched into the horizon. Hydra's best plan of attack is to surrender.
The one character who gives the team the most trouble is the Scarlet Witch who by the end of the movie has switched sides. They spend near a decade building up these characters as gods among men and, some, like Thor and Hulk, as basically unstoppable.
Thanos comes along in Infinity War and in his first five minutes of screen time he has defeated Thor and in fact his entire race, killed the chief antagonist of the first Avengers film with his bare hands, and put the Hulk on his back. It's clear the stakes have been raised significantly, and you don't see any heroes in that movie acting as though this is a routine or insignificant threat. The events of the last two Avengers films would not have felt so big, nor the villain of those films as intimidating, if not for all the stories that came before building up to them. It was really masterfully done.
This is what ruined Infinity War for me, because it seems like a continuity problem. As you mention, Thanos never really seemed like that much of a problem for the heroes in the long list of movies before the final two, but for some reason that I must have missed, he quite easily becomes the lord of all universes in Infinity War's 2.5 hours. After watching 45+ hours of lead-up, Infinity War was the sloppiest and most disappointing film I've ever seen. They're fun watches but I can't get over how anticlimactic the Infinity Saga ended up being.
Almost got all of them right... If only Tom Cruise was cast in this cinematic universe. He did so great in the film Jerry Maguire. I would love to see that type of energy brought to the Marvel films.
Or even if he had a cameo where he says the iconic line "You complete me." from the Jerry Maguire film. I know I would be cracking up in the theater!
I saw a rumor that he was going to cameo in Multiverse of Madness as an alternate reality version of Iron Man. That would have been cool. Pity it wasn't true.
Got everything. Could you add John Walker, Sylvie Laufeydottir, The Watcher / Uatu, Classic Loki, Odin, Frigga, Sif, Hogun, Fandral, Volstagg, Shang-Chi, The Mandarin, Yelena Belova and Yondu Udonta / Mary Poppins
I feel like just "Agatha" should be acceptable, since that is how most people remember her (especially from the "Agatha All Along" song). Did they say her last name "Harkness" a lot on WandaVision?
I don't really get why characters that show up only in TV series are in here. It's tiresome enough trying to keep up with all the movies Disney is making, let alone the interminable string of side series they convince us we need to watch.
I tried "Thor", "Mighty Thor", and "Jane" for Natalie Portman. She's called Jane about a hundred times in the movies. Her last name is mentioned, what, twice?
Isn't it an ongoing joke that Thor and other Asgardians refer to Jane as "Jane Foster" like it's her first name?
Agree about Mighty Thor. That's what she introduces herself as in Love and Thunder. Right before she shouts "If you can't say Mighty Thor... Doctor Jane FOSTER!! (emphasis hers)
Can you accept Ms Marvel for Kamala Khan? Also Peter 2's actor is TobEy Maguire. And Don Lee is the actor who plays Gilgamesh. Ma Dong-seok does the Korean voiceover for that character.
This quiz is very ticky tack with spelling for the Eternals, and a lot of characters where you need last names even though they're commonly known by their first (i.e. Jane, Agatha, Yelena (who actually knows Yelena's last name..?)). Would be a fun quiz otherwise, but as a result is extremely frustrating.
There's a lot of Eternals cast here (despite that film being a bit of a throwaway, IMO).
There are some other great actors you could have highlighted, such as Karen Gillan, Kurt Russell, Sylvester Stallone, Glenn Close, Lee Pace, and Djimon Hounsou in the Guardians movies.
Same for Jeff Bridges, Mickey Rourke, and Guy Pearce as Iron Man villains, and Hugo Weaving, Tommy Lee Jones, and Stanley Tucci in Captain America.
There's a lack of consistency with the naming conventions. Honestly "Yelena" on its own should be acceptable, but you can't even type just her surname "Belova." You have to type the whole thing (Yelena Belova) in order for it to register.
Prior to 2008 there was a period of time when Marvel Comics was going through hard financial times and they sold off the movie rights to most of their most popular characters. The X-Men and Fantastic Four went to Fox. Spider-Man went to Sony. The Incredible Hulk, Blade, Ghost Rider, and the Punisher were sold off, as well. After the success of Fox's X-Men and Sony's Spider-Man movies, Marvel decided to try and produce their own movies, with the problem being they had sold off the rights to most of them.
Feige's plan succeeded brilliantly and since then many other studios have tried (and mostly failed) to copy it. But with one exception all of those popular Marvel characters I listed above still have their film rights owned by other studios. Marvel Studios might work on the films, or they may simply have the Marvel logo at the beginning, but they are not set in the MCU.
The Sony Spider-Man films Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, The Amazing Spider-Man, and TASM2 do NOT take place in the MCU... they are in their own alternate reality. Different universe/timeline and Marvel Studios had nothing to do with them.
It may get more confusing in the future as Sony is still producing their own Spider-verse films. The first one to come out since the deal with Marvel will be Venom. It's unclear if this will be considered part of the MCU or not.
Further in to the future, Disney is in the process of acquiring Fox, and once that deal goes through, since Disney owns Marvel, it's likely that the X-Men and Fantastic Four will also appear in the MCU.
Though knowing who played all of these roles will help you out if you take my quiz that I linked to above.
To the best of my knowledge the only actor to play multiple roles within the MCU is Benedict Cumberbatch, who portrayed both Doctor Strange and Dormammu, but I assume that was because the producers felt that nobody would recognize him as Dormammu.
Her character code names have been Captain Marvel, Photon, Pulsar, and Spectrum. Since you accept Quicksilver, a name Pietro never uses in the MCU, you may as well accept any of Monica's comic book code names, as well.
Also, it's starnge not to have "Woo" as a valid answer.
... it's odd to me, though, that you say you liked Guardians of the Galaxy so much and at the same time got turned off on the entire rest of the MCU because you saw some witty banter. Guardians probably has more goofing off during actions scenes than any other MCU film. so.. huh?
Anyway if you like RDJ... there's a full six hours of his character on screen if you watch all of these movies. Maybe they'll grow on you.
Maybe jmellor doesn't dislike witty banter during action scene but just one very specific trope? that of the action heroes who are perfectly cool under pressure even while the world explodes around them? I can understand that.
But then I was reflecting on this and the larger progressive arc of the MCU. And in a way, though they probably weren't planning this from the beginning it almost seems like they were if you watch all of these movies in series, it actually works to enhance the tension and payoff in Infinity War and Endgame. In Avengers, and especially Age of Ultron, I would agree the Avengers seem to completely outclass the antagonists in the film. Loki confronts Hulk and is immediately flattened. Ultron at one point attempts to take on all the Avengers, gets nearly obliterated, tries to quip and is punched into the horizon. Hydra's best plan of attack is to surrender.
Thanos comes along in Infinity War and in his first five minutes of screen time he has defeated Thor and in fact his entire race, killed the chief antagonist of the first Avengers film with his bare hands, and put the Hulk on his back. It's clear the stakes have been raised significantly, and you don't see any heroes in that movie acting as though this is a routine or insignificant threat. The events of the last two Avengers films would not have felt so big, nor the villain of those films as intimidating, if not for all the stories that came before building up to them. It was really masterfully done.
Or even if he had a cameo where he says the iconic line "You complete me." from the Jerry Maguire film. I know I would be cracking up in the theater!
However, this 4th stage sucks so much I don't care all.
and its tobey maguire not toby maguire
but otherwise good quiz
Agree about Mighty Thor. That's what she introduces herself as in Love and Thunder. Right before she shouts "If you can't say Mighty Thor... Doctor Jane FOSTER!! (emphasis hers)
There are some other great actors you could have highlighted, such as Karen Gillan, Kurt Russell, Sylvester Stallone, Glenn Close, Lee Pace, and Djimon Hounsou in the Guardians movies.
Same for Jeff Bridges, Mickey Rourke, and Guy Pearce as Iron Man villains, and Hugo Weaving, Tommy Lee Jones, and Stanley Tucci in Captain America.
I fr thought I was about to do well on this update before I realized it's got all the random stuff from the bad movies no one cares about. 43/60
Although if possible, please make Monica count for Teyonah Parris and Agatha for Kathryn Hahn.
Really messed me up and made me google the correct spelling for Monica's last name "Rambeau.
No clue if it also applies to Peggy Carter.
Either way those three characters should have the first name as a answer too :)