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For Your Convenience, a Captain Marvel Spoiler Discussion Zone

Captain Marvel, the last stop on the journey to Avengers: Endgame, is finally here. That means it’s time to talk spoilers. There are a lot of them—so, below, you’ll find a place to safely chat about them with the entire io9 community. Be careful though. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, avoid everything below…

Movies Germain Lussier Mar 8

Marvel Finally Learned What GMG Has Known All Along: Ginger Cats Are Great

With the release of Captain Marvel, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to get a brand new star. No, not just the kick-ass superhero of the title, but a cat named Goose. Captain Marvel’s Goose (aka Reggie) has been at the forefront of marketing for the film, from posters to merchandise and more. Which, frankly,…

Movies Germain Lussier Mar 8

Samuel L. Jackson’s Been Trolling Us All About Captain Marvel’s Powers

In the months leading up to Carol Danvers’ impending arrival into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, both the studio and Captain Marvel’s stars have made a point of letting us know just how powerful the movie’s titular is. She stronk. She fly. Photon blasts? She’s got those in spades. But up until recently, we’d been led…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 7

Captain Marvel Stands Tall in Her Nostalgic Cinematic Debut

After 10 years and 20 films, Marvel Studios finally—let me repeat, finally—has its first female superhero standalone film. And Carol Danvers is every bit as awesome as you had hoped. Captain Marvel marks the 21st addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and is an origin story unlike any other. It’s chock full of ‘90s nostalgia,…

Movies Yolanda Machado Mar 5

Samuel L. Jackson on Working With Captain Marvel‘s Goose: ‘I Am Not a Cat Person’

It’s perfectly normal, though morally questionable, not to be a cat person, but being such a person becomes uniquely difficult when one’s job requires you to interact with cats. Take, for example, Captain Marvel’s Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson, who spend a bit of time in the movie sharing scenes with the feline actors…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 4

Into the Spider-Verse Has the Most Improbable, Serendipitous Connection to Legion

Creating an animated film like Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is an intensely collaborative, painstaking process that requires the collective energies and hundreds of hours of work from huge teams of talented people. One does not simply “change” a scene in a movie like this at the drop of a hat, and yet, as any…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 4

The Marvel Cinematic Universe Looks Very Silly Without Special Effects

One thing I really love about movie magic is how absurd it is. Like, when you get right down to it, it’s all just people in costumes posing on sets, all make believe and special effects, particularly where something like a superhero story is concerned. What’s fun about this video, a supercut of behind-the-scenes Marvel…

Movies Julie Muncy Mar 2

Why Dark Phoenix Is the Climax of the X-Men Franchise and Will Have No Problem Killing Characters

That thing you thought you saw in the new Dark Phoenix trailer earlier this week? Yeah, that happened. In the latest X-Men franchise trailer, Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) seems to literally blow away Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence)—and while the editing is slightly ambiguous about whether Mystique survives that encounter, writer/director Simon Kinberg is not. “Mystique is…

Movies Germain Lussier Mar 1

Your Guide to the Kree-Skrull War, the Cosmic Conflict That Captain Marvel Could Bring Into the Spotlight

Pretty much since the original Avengers movie, Marvel movie fans have speculated that the cinematic universe could slowly build toward the most infamous interstellar skirmish of Marvel’s comic history: the Kree-Skrull War. It’s taken awhile, but Captain Marvel looks like it could finally be the film to do it—so here’s what you need to know.…

Movies James Whitbrook Mar 1

In Another ’90s Throwback, Captain Marvel Returns Magic Eye to the Public Consciousness

My name is Charles, and I can’t Magic Eye. Despite what the elderly might tell you, the ‘90s were a particularly odd (read: often bad) time for optical illusions masquerading as entertainment. Take, for example, Magic Eye, the books popularized by N.E. Thing Enterprises that convinced people they were having a good time staring at…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 1

Watch Peter Parker Explain His Amazing Spider-Life in the First 9 Minutes of Into the Spider-Verse

Let’s start from the beginning, one last time. To celebrate this week’s digital home release of the Oscar-award-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in the U.S., Sony has uploaded the opening nine minutes of the film to its YouTube channel, for your viewing pleasure (and also to shove in the faces of anyone who’s yet to…

Movies James Whitbrook Mar 1

From a Certain Angle, It Looks Like the Dark Phoenix Trailer Takes a Subtle Jab at the Marvel Cinematic Universe

A new Dark Phoenix trailer dropped in the dead of night this week and gave us another look at how Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey will transform into her darkest, most cosmically-empowered self on the big screen for the second time in the character’s cinematic history. But a fan also spotted something peculiar… The trailer features…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 28

Marvel Is Bringing Its Superheroes to the World of Serialized Fiction with 4 New Series

Well, comics themselves are already a form of serialized storytelling, so while the format isn’t exactly new to these characters, this just-announced project is pretty intriguing. This morning Marvel revealed a new partnership with Serial Box to bring a line of weekly episodic stories in both digital book and audiobook formats to its service. So…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Feb 28

New Dark Phoenix Trailer Teases Jean Grey Becoming a God of Death and Rebirth

One of the big things that Simon Kinberg’s upcoming Dark Phoenix installment needs to get right in order to get out of X-Men: The Last Stand’s shadow is to make its take on Jean Grey’s turn to evil feel like a legitimately world-altering event. The story is, after all, one of the most important part…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 28

The Gifted‘s Season 2 Finale Was a Bloodbath With an Apocalyptic Twist

Fox has an odd habit of releasing X-Men projects (The Last Stand, Days of Future Past, and Apocalypse come to mind) with plots that don’t exactly live up to their epic-sounding subtitles. With its so-so season finale, The Gifted joined that exclusive club last night. But while the episode—and really, the season as a whole—left…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 27

Brie Larson Believes Carol and Maria Are the ‘Great Love’ of Captain Marvel

Carol Danvers being best friends with Maria Rambeau in Captain Marvel is an interesting spin on her comics counterpart. That version of Carol has a longstanding history with Monica Rambeau, the first woman to go by “Captain Marvel.” In the upcoming film, Monica is Maria’s young daughter, but it’s her mother who really has the…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 26

One More Excellent Detail Into the Spider-Verse Gets Right From Superhero Comics

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse gets a lot of things right. So right, it’s now Oscar-winning, or really, more importantly, the coveted io9 Best Movie of the Year 2018. But with the film now finally available digitally, rewatching it recently reminded me that it embraced another tried-and-tested comic book concept that most superhero movies tend to…

Movies James Whitbrook Feb 26

Jean Grey Gets Some Familiar Threads in the New Dark Phoenix Poster

Honestly, bit of a weird flex for Fox to want to remind people of X3 in any way in the run up to this movie. Fox has just dropped the new poster for Dark Phoenix, ahead of a trailer set to appear tomorrow night. But while the poster itself is pretty typical for the X-Men…

io9 James Whitbrook Feb 26

Rotten Tomatoes Is Changing Its Audience Rating System Because of Trolls

Even though the general public has not yet had the chance to see Captain Marvel, that didn’t stop trolls from preemptively trashing the film on Rotten Tomatoes in what can only be described as an sexism-fueled attempt at convincing people that a movie about a female superhero couldn’t possibly be good. Now, the ratings site…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 26

Yes, Marvel’s Disney+ Shows Will Be Part of the Cinematic Universe

Disney is making sure Marvel fans sign up for its upcoming streaming service by connecting the shows directly with the super popular movies. For the past few years, Marvel’s television output has been, well, weird. There’s a lot of it, first of all, from Agents of SHIELD and Inhumans on ABC, to all the Defenders…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier Feb 25

For Your Convenience, a Captain Marvel Spoiler Discussion Zone

Marvel Finally Learned What GMG Has Known All Along: Ginger Cats Are Great

Samuel L. Jackson’s Been Trolling Us All About Captain Marvel’s Powers

Captain Marvel Stands Tall in Her Nostalgic Cinematic Debut

Samuel L. Jackson on Working With Captain Marvel‘s Goose: ‘I Am Not a Cat Person’

Into the Spider-Verse Has the Most Improbable, Serendipitous Connection to Legion

The Marvel Cinematic Universe Looks Very Silly Without Special Effects

Why Dark Phoenix Is the Climax of the X-Men Franchise and Will Have No Problem Killing Characters

Your Guide to the Kree-Skrull War, the Cosmic Conflict That Captain Marvel Could Bring Into the Spotlight

In Another ’90s Throwback, Captain Marvel Returns Magic Eye to the Public Consciousness

Watch Peter Parker Explain His Amazing Spider-Life in the First 9 Minutes of Into the Spider-Verse

From a Certain Angle, It Looks Like the Dark Phoenix Trailer Takes a Subtle Jab at the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Marvel Is Bringing Its Superheroes to the World of Serialized Fiction with 4 New Series

New Dark Phoenix Trailer Teases Jean Grey Becoming a God of Death and Rebirth

The Gifted‘s Season 2 Finale Was a Bloodbath With an Apocalyptic Twist

Brie Larson Believes Carol and Maria Are the ‘Great Love’ of Captain Marvel

One More Excellent Detail Into the Spider-Verse Gets Right From Superhero Comics

Jean Grey Gets Some Familiar Threads in the New Dark Phoenix Poster

Rotten Tomatoes Is Changing Its Audience Rating System Because of Trolls

Yes, Marvel’s Disney+ Shows Will Be Part of the Cinematic Universe

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