Marvel Versus Marvel

Sweet Christmas! This week we bring you a deep-dive Marvel’s first black star - Luke Cage! One of the most controversial characters in the history of Marvel Comics, we’ll take you behind-the-page to examine Shaft and the blaxploitation movies of the 1970’s that inspired Luke’s creation, his status as the black Marvel character to have their own series, as well as the controversial real-world medical experiments that influenced his powers and his backstory!

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With Yelena Belova back in cinemas in The Thunderbolts (AKA The New Avengers), we take a deep-dive into the 2021 Marvel movie, Black Widow! An underrated and overlooked MCU entry that truly deserves recognition! We explore all the controversy surrounding this movie’s release, the pay disputes between Scarlett Johansson and Disney, the legal battle over the movie’s box office, and how this movie changed Hollywood completely! We also take a deep-dive into Natasha’s life and history, the origins of Yelena Belova, the Red Room, Soviet Supersoldiers, and The Red Guardian!

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With Yelena Belova back in cinemas in The Thunderbolts (AKA The New Avengers), we take a deep-dive into the 2021 Marvel movie, Black Widow! An underrated and overlooked MCU entry that truly deserves recognition! We explore all the controversy surrounding this movie’s release, the pay disputes between Scarlett Johansson and Disney, the legal battle over the movie’s box office, and how this movie changed Hollywood completely! We also take a deep-dive into Natasha’s life and history, the origins of Yelena Belova, the Red Room, Soviet Super Soldiers, and The Red Guardian!

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With The Sentry AKA Bob making a splash in The Thunderbolts / New Avengers movie, we head back into the archive to bring you the Secret History Of The Sentry! An amazing story about how Marvel Comics discovered a forgotten superhero, one that Stan Lee created BEFORE the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man and every other Marvel character! Is The Sentry the original Marvel hero? Why did he not appear until the year 2000? And what secrets did Marvel try to keep about his mysterious creation? It’s all here in this week’s mini-show!

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As Yelena and The Thunderbolts explode into cinemas, MVM takes a look at the ORIGINAL Thunderbolts and what the team means in the Marvel Universe! In this episode we bring you the history of The Thunderbolts, one of the best Marvel Comics of the 90's, how it evolved over 20 years and led to the latest MCU movie! In this episode we explore a time when the Avengers and the Fantastic Four were DEAD and a new team of Marvel heroes had to step into their place! Packed with tons of history and trivia about The Thunderbolts, Baron Zemo, and The Masters Of Evil!

We explore the very first time The Thunderbolts appeared on screens, in 3 episodes of the 2016 “Avengers Assemble” animated series!

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As Yelena and The Thunderbolts explode into cinemas, MVM takes a look at the ORIGINAL Thunderbolts and what the team means in the Marvel Universe! In this episode we bring you the history of The Thunderbolts, one of the best Marvel Comics of the 90's, how it evolved over 20 years and led to the latest MCU movie! In this episode we explore a time when the Avengers and the Fantastic Four were DEAD and a new team of Marvel heroes had to step into their place! Packed with tons of history and trivia about The Thunderbolts, Baron Zemo, and The Masters Of Evil!

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To celebrate our 5th Anniversary we asked listeners to vote for the five best episodes we’ve done in the last five years, so throughout April we’re releasing The Year 5 Top 5! The runaway winner of our Year 5 Top 5 with more votes than any other episode on the list, is our episode looking at the 1978 Superman episode. From September 2021, this was the first time we ever looked at a DC character and it gave us a chance to explore the history of comic books from the 1930’s, and deep-dive into a truly perfect movie. In this episode we bring you not only the history of Superman, but the history of DC Comics, and the history of comic books themselves!

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We continue our Apocalypse Takeover month with a Special Release of one of our Bonus Episodes from 2022, featuring Cable And Apocalypse! We take a deep-dive into the twisted timeline of Cable, and the horrific future he comes from, where the Marvel Universe is ruled by Apocalypse! We explore the despotic leaders who serve Apocalypse, the rebels who fight against him, and we meet one of the most EVIL Marvel villains ever created - Stryfe! Cable’s timeline is anything but a straight line as he bounces between the X-Men’s present and their future, in a bid to stop Apocalypse once and for all!

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To celebrate our 5th Anniversary we asked listeners to vote for the five best episodes we’ve done in the last five years, so throughout April we’re releasing The Year 5 Top 5! Our deep-dive into the failed 90’s Captain America movie is the most recent episode to feature in the Year 5 Top 5, from February of 2025. Listener Graddlecakes said “the behind the scenes section is maybe the very best you’ve ever done”.

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To celebrate our 5th Anniversary we asked listeners to vote for the five best episodes we’ve done in the last five years, so throughout April we’re releasing The Year 5 Top 5! Our deep-dive into the failed 90’s Captain America movie is the most recent episode to feature in the Year 5 Top 5, from February of 2025. Listener Graddlecakes said “the behind the scenes section is maybe the very best you’ve ever done”.

How and why did this Marvel movie become a complete low budget disaster? We’ll take you behind-the-scenes on how Cannon Films got into the Marvel movie business, how JD Salinger’s son was cast as Steve Rogers, and how the whole production lost its entire six million dollar budget right before filming! It’s a crazy story of a film being re-written on the fly, cameras running out of film, and the studio hating the finished movie so much they re-edited the entire thing … and made it worse! We’ll also explore Captain America in the 1980’s to uncover perhaps the most interesting and political time in the history of the character. And we’ll deep-dive the movie scene-by-scene as only MVM can!

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