#comment-577285 Now we can look forward to YouTube video clips of some poor slob dressed as Wolverine getting kicked in the nuts by kids at Disneyworld. Everybody sing: "S-P-I ... D-E-Y ... OMFG!" Now we can look forward to YouTube video clips of some poor slob dressed as Wolverine getting kicked in the nuts by kids at Disneyworld.

They will not hesitate to compromise Marvel’s intellectual properties if it means better margins. They’ll idiotize many of the properties in order to create a greater mass appeal.

Marvel would never allow the dumbing down of its brand give them credit.

You realize that after the deal, Marvel properties are no longer Marvel’s, do you?

Marvel clearly knows what they are doing when it comes to story and their IP within the context of comics, movies and animation.

Marvel studios, as a film making company, is self financing their films- but all on the back of some huge loans. They don’t have a big margin for error. Having Disney as a backer for production costs and a built-in distribution parent is a HUGE boon to the film making division.

And, say what you will about Disney’s lack of modern story telling ability (abysmal). They are masters of merchandising and marketing- neither of which are Marvel’s strong suits. Marvel has tended to over market their IPs on garbage, low quality stuff like the Spiderman Eu De Toilet mentioned earlier. They stand to make far better and more profitable deals for their IP through the Disney machinery.

I have no fear that Disney will change the direction at all of the comic division unless it flies off the rails. This merger is all about the IP and how it can be used for profit outside of the print comic realm.

I’d actually go see Iron Man and the Seven Dwarfs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_Girl

This Disney/Marvel merger is pure “Monopoly”. A Monopoly is not 100% share of the market, it is as low as 17%, it is the level where you can force your will outside of the “Laws of Supply and Demand”.

And then Disney is rabid at defending it’s “Copyrights” and is a large part of the grotesque copyright abuse of today, including the laws the RIAA built it’s lawsuit machine on. Not to mention that only a handful of its characters are “Originals”, most are from “Public Domain” works, or rather they wouldn’t be in the public domain if Disney’s laws had been around back then. Marvel and DC are of course protective of their interests, but they look liberal compared to Disney.

One notable story of interest is Disney sending armed guards with black paint to a daycare center. They’d painted a few Disney characters on the walls and Disney sent people to “Paint it black”. Yes, a place of business, but really look at the “Free Advertising”… Warner Bros scored a propaganda victory by sending it’s own artists to re-paint, free of charge, their characters…

So I’d hate to see classic “Marvel” characters under Disney. They’d file off all the “Rough Edges” and set lawyers on fans like rabid wolves for fanfiction and blogging complaints on having the Punisher going back to “Mercy Bullets” and such.

They are two seperate visions. Disney has worked itself to be “Family Friendly” to be “American Culture” and it’s had an influence, most notably that we don’t have an animation industry anything like Japans. Kids stuff, “Family Movies” or the once or twice a decade “Underground” thing.

Marvel, on the other end, has been defying culture for decades. I don’t mean “Anti American”, but quite the opposite, championing free speech and new ideas. Stan Lee is a legend to those into the comic book field for he “Cracked the Code” by publishing a “Drug” story without code approval. As soon as he cracked the code, he put out comics that had been forbidden for years, Marvel’s “Horror” line of characters. And Marvel even now with 40+ years of plots they have to account for or re-hash still manages to make entertaining stuff.

As I understand it, Disney bought Pixar.

That’s the way the story goes, but where the rubber hits the road it’s just Disney’s marketing and distribution helping Pixar’s production. That is, Disney’s role in Pixar’s world is decidedly non-Disney, and Pixar has assumed the role of a creative force that previously was the domain only of Disney itself. That aspect has been completely marginalized in their relationship with Pixar.