Top 10 Marvel Comics Storylines That Will NEVER Be in the MCU

These stories are too complex or too weird to ever appear in movie form. For this list, we’ll be looking at plots and narratives across the vast history of Marvel comics that would never be adapted on screen, due to subject, context or production hangups. Our countdown includes “Civil War II”, “The Ultimates”, Spider-Man’s “The Other”, and more! What’s your favourite Marvel story that won’t be featured in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Any we missed? Let us know in the comments!

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[WatchMojo]

What’s your favourite Marvel story that won’t be featured in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Any we missed? Let us know in the comments!

[jrad]

I just hate we never got so see a true marvel universe with everyone in it. It’s always felt incomplete without X-men and FF

[andredguy]

I wish the MCU would do more animated stuff. With animation you have a lot more freedom to do things that’d be impossible to do in live action stuff.

[pimsutter]

Maybe some of the stories will be in the MCU, but with a lot of changes. They kinda did the same thing with other series form the MCU after all. So it won't be a surprise if they would try change an couple of things form one of the comic's storylines to fit with the MCU.

[danishsamir]

Watch Mojo : These Marvel stories are never gonna be featured in the MCU
Meanwhile Kevin Fiege and phase 9 : Hold My Beer

[MrZer]

My thoughts on how to do a JL/Avengers crossover: make three movies. One focusing on the JL, another on MCU, and the third is both. The first two movies will have parallel storylines wherein the teams are tasked with finding objects from the other universe stashed away in their own with each movie being done by their own regular studio. The team that fails to get them before the other does has their universe erased. The idea is to make a Prisoner’s Dilemma. Neither side wants either universe to be erased but they don’t know how the other team feels while also being worried about their own safety in case the other team completes their objective. Each movie ends with them just about to meet each other, which culminates in the third movie wherein they are made to fight each other but then strike a deal to work together to get rid of the cosmic beings that put them in this mess to begin with.


But this requires the DCEU to be further along in addition to the companies playing nice nice with each other in addition to actually bothering with making a trilogy of this. I just think one movie isn’t enough but three definitely complicates things, especially as the first two movies might wind up being boring if for no other reason than it’s all just a setup for what we all want and paid to see.

[sandmaker]

Civil War 2 was dumb to me. Most of the problems would've been solved by having a small group actually investigate the predictions.

[CharlesStubbs]

I never knew Marvel made another comic book character collaboration with a record company. The first was the mutant Dazzler which was a creative collaboration with Marvel and Casablanca Records.

[Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

I love that they used their asinine magic to undo Peter marrying the best wife any comic character has ever had from all of continuity so that they are just super serial boyfriend and girlfriend, but never once I did that time Peter’s college girlfriend made time with the actual Green Goblin…

[joermnyc]

Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe, which eventually leads to him breaking into the “real” world and killing everyone that works for Marvel Comics.

[flexivefowl]

Next do Top 10 DC comics storylines that will never be in the DCEU.

[dankusoonyt]

Elements of Spider-Man: The Other was partially adapted in Spider-Man: No Way Home, some elements to the Earth-1610 Ultimates was adapted in the Avengers films, an element from Secret Empire was partially adapted in Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness & elements of the Deadpool Killogy will be partially adapted in Deadpool 3.

[claytonmolloy]

Add "Spider-man versus Wolverine" to the list. There's zero chance, ZERO, that Disney would ever release a movie where Spider-man kills an innocent bystander.

[shrekwazowski]

All of these MCU comics looked so promising.

[MTTT]

A storyline I’d love to see is She-Hulk and Spider-Man suing J Jonah Jameson and the Daily Bugle for lies, slander and defamation of character.
But who knows. Maybe they could implement that story in the She-Hulk TV series?

[annafowdy]

If you made this list for characters, you'd probably include Lylla. James Gunn was pretty clear about why she wouldn't be in the MCU.

[awashington]

"God loves, Man kills". That's an X Men story that will NEVER make it into the MCU, despite how amazing it is. Not only that, we'll never see the comic book version of William Stryker in the MCU either 😩

[BigTymerz]

I would definitely love to see Spiderman The Other

[wallywest]

JL v Avengers would make a fantastic animated movie. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[juanmata]

1. Days of Future Past
2. Planet Hulk
3. World War Hulk
4. House of M
5. Avengers Disassembled
6. Nights of Wundargore
7. Secret Wars
8. Age of Apocalypse
9. Onslaught
10. Heart of The Monster
I will absolutely love these storylines come to the MCU