Marvel Studios

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Name: Marvel Studios
Marvel Films
Date(s): 1993 - present
Profit/Nonprofit: Profit
Country based in: United States
Focus: media and entertainment
External Links: Marvel Studios at Wikipedia
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Marvel Studios is the current name of a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment. From 1993-1996 it was known as Marvel Films and in both incarnations, it is a production company known for creating and producing live-action and animated versions of Marvel Comics and their characters.

Since 2008, it is mostly known for creating the successful Marvel Cinematic Universe, however it is also responsible for the plethora of animated and live-action television and movie releases known to fans of the franchise, including X-Men: The Animated Series, which introduced young people to the comics and was responsible for the surge in the fandom in the 1990s and 2000s.

Canon

Items marked with * are considered part of the MCU.

Animation

Films

(For a full list of animated films based on Marvel properties, see Wikipedia)

  • Marvel Features
    • Ultimate Avengers: The Movie (2006)
    • Ultimate Avengers 2: The Rise of the Panther (2006)
    • The Invincible Iron Man (2007)
    • Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme (2007)
    • Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow (2008)
    • Hulk vs. (2009)
      • Hulk vs Thor; Hulk vs Wolverine
    • Planet Hulk (2010)
    • Thor: Tales of Asgard (2011)
  • Marvel Rising
    • MR: Secret Warriors (2018)
    • MR: Chasing Ghosts (2019)
    • MR: Heart of Iron (2019)
    • MR: Battle of the Bands (2019)
    • MR: Operation Shuri (2019)
    • MR: Playing with Fire (2019)

Series

(For a full list of animated series based on Marvel properties, see Wikipedia)

Live-Action Television

Live-Action Film

Co-Productions

Many of the earlier films were co-productions with other studios, due to the sale of the rights to various companies:

Universal Pictures

  • Howard the Duck (1986)
  • Hulk (2003)

New Line Cinema

Lions Gate Entertainment

20th Century Fox

Columbia Pictures

Marvel Cinematic Universe

The Marvel Studios productions mainly are mainly part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which were at first distributed by Paramount Pictures and later Walt Disney.


Fandom

For further details on the individual fandoms, go to their individual pages, listed above.

Due to the miscellaneous licencing agreements Marvel Comics made in the 1990s, there are as many fandoms as there are properties and so making global statements about the Marvel Studios fandom is difficult. However, with the advent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2008, Marvel Studios had become a broad identifier - or target - for fan commentary.

Interaction with Fans

Criticism

Fanworks

See individual fandoms for fanworks that focus on one universe. See also Marvel Ladies for more fanworks.

Vids

References

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