12 Mistakes Marvel Needs To Avoid For Phase Three

7. Not Staying Faithful To The Comics

The Mistake: While it's absolutely reasonable that the MCU is never going to be able to adapt everything 100% faithfully (and sometimes it's not appropriate or possible to do so anyway), there's a fair expectation from comic book fans that they won't intentionally deviate too far from iconic moments and characters. Take the whole Mandarin controversy from Iron Man 3: it wasn't at all necessary to turn the character into both a joke and a bait-and-switch twist, and understandably a lot of comic book fans excited to see the character on-screen were disappointed by the manipulation. Why It Could Ruin Phase Three: Hopefully Marvel have learned their lesson with the Mandarin not to take iconic characters and change crucial details about them, because if they dare do this to the likes of Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Thanos or Spider-Man in particular, they're going to face severe backlash from the comic book community.
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