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Loki Is a Fascinatingly Funny Take on Marvel’s Greatest Anti-Hero

Tom Hiddleston's return to the Marvel universe is a slick, funny, and introspective adventure, with a time-travel twist.

Television James Whitbrook

Marvel’s Eternals Trailer Breakdown: Who’s Who and WTF Is That?

The first full teaser trailer for Chloé Zhao’s Eternals doesn’t really have much to tell us about why now is the time for Marvel’s mighty immortal race to emerge out of the shadows to bring their eons-spanning fight to the forefront. But it does give us our first solid look at just which of Jack…

Movies James Whitbrook

Here’s How the ESPN+ NBA Marvel Game Should Go

In a truly confounding mash-up of what I previously understood to be two completely unrelated things, ESPN has announced its “first-ever Marvel-inspired alternate NBA telecast.” Wait, what? ESPN described the event as a “Marvel-inspired alternate presentation” for an upcoming Golden State Warriors versus New Orleans Pelicans game slated for May 3 at 7:30 p.m. ET.…

Internet Catie Keck

Dame Diana Rigg, the Avenger Who Became the Queen of Thorns, Has Died at 82

To look at actress Dame Diana Rigg’s filmography is to look back at a lifetime of performances defined by a person’s singular panache and talent for slipping so deeply into a wide bevvy of roles, that each time she stepped onto screen, you could scarcely believe that the same person had inhabited so many different…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

2 Months of Un-Hulk-Like Calm Went Into Making This Incredible Avengers Flipbook

Remember how proud you were of the stickman riding a skateboard flipbook you made in your high school chemistry textbook? Had you continued improving your skills, this is where you’d be now: creating flipbooks of famous movie scenes, including Bruce Banner hulking out during the climactic final battle in The Avengers. According to the artist…

Movies Andrew Liszewski

Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney

The Best Marvel Studios Moments in Comic-Con History

This year could have been special. A year after Marvel Studios announced the bulk of the Phase 4 slate in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, odds were high that a 2020 panel would have been even bigger. We might have seen footage from Eternals and trailers for the Disney+ shows, and gotten some juicy…

io9 Germain Lussier

Our 25 Favorite Summer Blockbusters of the 2010s

For the first time in most of our lifetimes, your local movie theater won’t have a summer blockbuster season. The covid-19 pandemic took care of that, pushing most of the big-budget popcorn films scheduled for this year’s summer months into fall, spring, or even next summer. Since we can’t enjoy summer blockbusters in theaters this…

io9 Germain Lussier

America’s Ass Leads the Way in the Most Patriotic Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s round-up of the latest in plastic goodness hitting the internet lately. This week, Captain America faces his past in a return to the Figuarts line, you can now grow your own Baby Yoda, and Hot Toys gets into a dangerously retro game with a “brand new” Boba Fett. Check…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski & James Whitbrook

Baby Yoda Is Extremely Happy to Be Among the Best Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of the very pretty plastic things tempting our bank accounts on the internet lately. This week: the Final Fantasy VII lovefest continues with a One Winged Angel, while Hasbro drops a little basket of Baby Groot goodness—but it still can’t compare to the happiest little lad in…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski & James Whitbrook

Image: Elena Scotti (Photos: Disney, Warner Bros., Sony, Codeblack Films, Fox, Lionsgate)

The 10 Best Superhero Films of the Past Decade

Over the past decade, one genre of popular film has risen to prominence like a bird, plane, and Superman all rolled into one. We’re talking, of course, about the superhero film. Though the train truly left the station in 2008 with the releases of Iron Man and The Dark Knight, 2010-2019 saw the genre explode…

io9 Germain Lussier

Get Your First Look at The Avengers, Earth’s Mightiest New Video Game

Announced years ago by Square-Enix and Crystal Dynamics as part of a new concerted effort by Marvel to return to AAA-gaming, we’ve finally just gotten a decent look at what exactly The Avengers is going to be—and it seems pretty damn great looking so far. Revealed at Square-Enix’s E3 press conference this evening, The Avengers…

Games James Whitbrook

Our 15 Favorite Moments From the Marvel Cinematic Universe Films (Before Avengers: Endgame)

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has taken us all on quite a ride. From assembling the Avengers to going cosmic with the Guardians, or visiting Wakanda with Black Panther, these past 11 years and 21 movies have produced a lot of incredible moments. But what are your favorites? The moments that have stuck with you years…

Movies io9 Staff

Tracing the MCU Timeline of That Important Captain Marvel Artifact

Aside from the fact that it stars Carol Danvers, a hero we know will team up with the Avengers in Endgame next month, Captain Marvel’s wider connections to the Marvel Cinematic Universe don’t really become clear until quite a bit into the movie. If you’ve got questions about it, we’re here to help. As you’ve…

Movies James Whitbrook

Marvel’s Official Website Adds an Interesting Wrinkle to Loki’s On-Screen Character Arc

Loveable, wonderful baby brother Loki. How bad a guy were you, really? Maybe not quite as bad as we thought, according to Marvel itself. Some eagle-eyed fans have spotted something interesting, on the official Marvel website: an interesting update to Loki’s on-screen bio that confirms a notable fan theory and, in the process, makes Loki…

Movies Julie Muncy

Celebrate 10 Years of Marvel Studios With These Brand New Mondo Posters

The Mondo Gallery in Austin, Texas just opened its doors and revealed Marvel Studios: The First Ten Years, a massive gallery show featuring brand new posters spanning the first decade of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The show consists of 11 new posters, along with six variants, for Iron Man, Thor, all three Captain America films, both…

Toys & Collectibles Germain Lussier

Hellboy, Waffle Makers, Overwatch Nerf Blasters, and More of the Most Collectible Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s weekly round up of all things fun, collectible, and frivolous. San Diego Comic-Con is but a distant memory at this point, but thankfully there’s still plenty of toy news to be had. Lego’s still pumping out new sets, Jell-O’s trying its hand at making edible toys, and we’ve got…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

Deadpool’s Looking for a New Crew in This Charming Musical Parody

I’m a sucker for musicals—put something into song and I’m sold. For instance, you can damn well bet I’m gonna see the Mamma Mia! sequel, even though I know it’ll be terrible. But in the meantime, here’s a musical sequel that actually is worth a watch: A Deadpool musical crossover extravaganza. Director Julian Higgins has…

Movies Beth Elderkin

Ten Years Later, Marvel Studios Still Feels Phase One Was Its Greatest Achievement

When Ant-Man and the Wasp hits theaters next week, it’ll be the 20th Marvel Cinematic Universe film released in the past 10 years. That’s a lot, and—especially after the unprecedented success of the last two films, Avengers: Infinity War and Black Panther—it’s easy to forget this was never a sure thing. In 2008, Iron Man…

io9 Germain Lussier

Kevin Feige Teases Why Certain Characters Survived Avengers: Infinity War

The instant fans walked out of Avengers: Infinity War, we all started speculating. How did that happen? Is that character really gone? Can these events be reversed? Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, of course, wasn’t answering those questions when he spoke to io9 this week. But he did offer an interesting tease about the people…

io9 Germain Lussier

Fight Hulks and Fix the Plumbing With This Brilliant Thor Mjolnir Hammer Toolbox

Up until Ragnorak, when it was destroyed by Hela, Thor’s Mjolnir was the perfect all-in-one-tool for everything from battling alien invaders, to flying, to even proving who in the world was truly worthy. But with this clever Mjolnir toolbox, the mighty hammer is now equally useful for small home repairs too. The $100 toolbox looks…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

Loki Is a Fascinatingly Funny Take on Marvel’s Greatest Anti-Hero

Marvel’s Eternals Trailer Breakdown: Who’s Who and WTF Is That?

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Dame Diana Rigg, the Avenger Who Became the Queen of Thorns, Has Died at 82

2 Months of Un-Hulk-Like Calm Went Into Making This Incredible Avengers Flipbook

The Best Marvel Studios Moments in Comic-Con History

Our 25 Favorite Summer Blockbusters of the 2010s

America’s Ass Leads the Way in the Most Patriotic Toys of the Week

Baby Yoda Is Extremely Happy to Be Among the Best Toys of the Week

The 10 Best Superhero Films of the Past Decade

Get Your First Look at The Avengers, Earth’s Mightiest New Video Game

Our 15 Favorite Moments From the Marvel Cinematic Universe Films (Before Avengers: Endgame)

Tracing the MCU Timeline of That Important Captain Marvel Artifact

Marvel’s Official Website Adds an Interesting Wrinkle to Loki’s On-Screen Character Arc

Celebrate 10 Years of Marvel Studios With These Brand New Mondo Posters

Hellboy, Waffle Makers, Overwatch Nerf Blasters, and More of the Most Collectible Toys of the Week

Deadpool’s Looking for a New Crew in This Charming Musical Parody

Ten Years Later, Marvel Studios Still Feels Phase One Was Its Greatest Achievement

Kevin Feige Teases Why Certain Characters Survived Avengers: Infinity War

Fight Hulks and Fix the Plumbing With This Brilliant Thor Mjolnir Hammer Toolbox

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