Rejected Marvel Designs and Show Pitches

[RoyalRubble]

Minor but I thought this was kind of cool - a look at an early draft for the script of the X-Men TAS premiere. It's not really something that was rejected although of note, Morph was still called Changeling in the script.

 

[dmxx116]

Here’s Beetle’s Design from Spider-Man Animated Series:

 

[Frontier]

Here’s Beetle’s Design from Spider-Man Animated Series:

I wonder if this would've been the same Beetle that showed up in the Armor Wars arc of the 90's Iron Man cartoon...

 

[Rick Jones]

I wonder if this would've been the same Beetle that showed up in the Armor Wars arc of the 90's Iron Man cartoon...

The Ringo voice really made it memorable for me.

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[TFormersMarvel]

Back in 2012-13, for Marvel's 75th anniversary in 2014, Powerhouse Animation (Castlevania, Seis Manos) approached Marvel with an anthology series, known as Marvel Era. In a 10-part thread by Powerhouse's CEO, he details how each short would have covered various eras of Marvel history, with sample animation to show. Some stories covered Captain America, the X-Men,The Punisher, Deadpool, and Heroes for Hire.

However, as Brad Graber rationalized, this was at a time when the studio wasn't as notable. The project never really got off the ground at Marvel.

 

[Frontier]

Back in 2012-13, for Marvel's 75th anniversary in 2014, Powerhouse Animation (Castlevania, Seis Manos) approached Marvel with an anthology series, known as Marvel Era. In a 10-part thread by Powerhouse's CEO, he details how each short would have covered various eras of Marvel history, with sample animation to show. Some stories covered Captain America, the X-Men,The Punisher, Deadpool, and Heroes for Hire.

However, as Brad Graber rationalized, this was at a time when the studio wasn't as notable. The project never really got off the ground at Marvel.

Oh wow, this looks amazing! Feels like it could've been a Marvel equivalent to DC Showcase .

 

[bigdaddy313]

Back in 2012-13, for Marvel's 75th anniversary in 2014, Powerhouse Animation (Castlevania, Seis Manos) approached Marvel with an anthology series, known as Marvel Era. In a 10-part thread by Powerhouse's CEO, he details how each short would have covered various eras of Marvel history, with sample animation to show. Some stories covered Captain America, the X-Men,The Punisher, Deadpool, and Heroes for Hire.

However, as Brad Graber rationalized, this was at a time when the studio wasn't as notable. The project never really got off the ground at Marvel.

Are you serious, that would have being deadly. Thank God Marvel Entertainment is done.

 

[Frontier]

Are you serious, that would have being deadly. Thank God Marvel Entertainment is done.

Granted, unless it was set in the MCU, I wouldn't expect this kind of thing from Marvel Studios either.

 

[RoyalRubble]

A Fleischer-style Captain America toon and a Silver Age X-Men story would have been pretty awesome.

 

[Rick Jones]

Back in 2012-13, for Marvel's 75th anniversary in 2014, Powerhouse Animation (Castlevania, Seis Manos) approached Marvel with an anthology series, known as Marvel Era. In a 10-part thread by Powerhouse's CEO, he details how each short would have covered various eras of Marvel history, with sample animation to show. Some stories covered Captain America, the X-Men,The Punisher, Deadpool, and Heroes for Hire.

However, as Brad Graber rationalized, this was at a time when the studio wasn't as notable. The project never really got off the ground at Marvel.

After WB did the anniversary shorts for Superman and Batman and then Marvel was celebrating their 75th anniversary, I really hope they would have done something like this so it's interesting to see that it was actually on the table. A real shame that they let stuff like that pass by.

I was personally rooting for Titmouse to do it at the time after they did that really awesome opening cinematic for the Marvel Heroes game, that highlighted the major origin stories of the Marvel Universe.

As I look at this now, I had seen the little snippet of the X-Men before but didn't know where it came from.

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[M.O.D.O.K.]

According to this small Twitter thread, Spectacular Spider-Man Peter made a cameo in the second Spider-Verse event in Ultimate Spider-Man, and co-showrunner Chris "Doc" Wyatt chimes in to say they wanted to dedicate an entire segment to him, but due to rights issues, only did the cameo.

 

[colomb]

A better Spectacular tribute would've simply been letting Josh voice a Spider (any version e.g. Scarlet Spider).

 

[Frontier]

According to this small Twitter thread, Spectacular Spider-Man Peter made a cameo in the second Spider-Verse event in Ultimate Spider-Man, and co-showrunner Chris "Doc" Wyatt chimes in to say they wanted to dedicate an entire segment to him, but due to rights issues, only did the cameo.

How are we only just noticing this ?

A better Spectacular tribute would've simply been letting Josh voice a Spider (any version e.g. Scarlet Spider).

To be honest I think a big missed opportunity for the animated Spider-Verse was not bringing back all the cartoon versions of Spider-Man's or at least their VA's. The closest we got was Christopher Daniel Barnes but he was already in the show as Electro.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Back in 2012-13, for Marvel's 75th anniversary in 2014, Powerhouse Animation (Castlevania, Seis Manos) approached Marvel with an anthology series, known as Marvel Era. In a 10-part thread by Powerhouse's CEO, he details how each short would have covered various eras of Marvel history, with sample animation to show. Some stories covered Captain America, the X-Men, The Punisher, Deadpool, and Heroes for Hire.

However, as Brad Graber rationalized, this was at a time when the studio wasn't as notable. The project never really got off the ground at Marvel.

Marvel made a mistake for not going forward with this.

 

[the greenman]

Marvel made a mistake for not going forward with this.

Big mistake imho. The studio is a lackluster in terms of Marvel content. They only push MCU tethered content (except the few things not like MODOK and Hit Monkey are just . . . meh.)

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[Frontier]

Big mistake imho. The studio is a lackluster in terms of Marvel content. They only push MCU tethered content (except the few things not like MODOK and Hit Monkey are just . . . meh.)

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Hit-Monkey was surprisingly good and MODOK left off on a pretty major cliffhanger...I at least appreciated that they were trying something different.

 

[Pattern_Maker]

According to this small Twitter thread, Spectacular Spider-Man Peter made a cameo in the second Spider-Verse event in Ultimate Spider-Man, and co-showrunner Chris "Doc" Wyatt chimes in to say they wanted to dedicate an entire segment to him, but due to rights issues, only did the cameo.

Was he on the web of life or the scene where the spiders were going back to their worlds?

 

[M.O.D.O.K.]

Was he on the web of life or the scene where the spiders were going back to their worlds?

The original poster's account is gone (I should've saved the image), but the screenshot was from one of the Spider-Men in the web of life. To be honest, it didn't look distinctly like the Spectacular version of Spider-Man, so I was surprised Wyatt actually confirmed it.

 

[Rick Jones]

The original poster's account is gone (I should've saved the image), but the screenshot was from one of the Spider-Men in the web of life. To be honest, it didn't look distinctly like the Spectacular version of Spider-Man, so I was surprised Wyatt actually confirmed it.

I think this might be the suspect.

 

[Pattern_Maker]

I think this might be the suspect.

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Yeah, that doesn't look like the Spider-Man from Spectacular. Maybe the plan was to have Josh Keaton reprise him and the art would still be in Ultimate Spider-Man's style.