Although some superheroes manage to live up to their non-homicidal ideals, and can sleep well at night with a completely clean conscience, most caped crusaders have caused at least a few people to die at some point while trying to save the world.
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Make no mistake about it, Marvelites — Captain Marvel may be the first Marvel film led by a female superhero, but it's sticking to franchise traditions by including not one but two post-credits scenes. The movie is said to feature pre-credits scenes as well.
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It's true: When Carol Danvers enters the scene, she takes things higher, further, and faster, baby. Marvel Studios has just lifted the social media embargo on Captain Marvel, and critics have shared their reactions to the Brie Larson-led superhero solo movie. Response has been incredibly positive.
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Captain Marvel is set to go higher, further, faster when her solo flick soars into cinemas on March 8 — but a swarm of internet trolls are bent on bringing her down before her big debut. Dozens of registered users on Rotten Tomatoes have begun flooding Captain Marvel with negative reviews.
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Superhero movies have dominated the box office, but it's rare for them to be honored with nominations in the major Academy Awards categories — let alone the biggest one of all. With that in mind, here's a look at how Black Panther made history, and how this marks a turning point for the Oscars.
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You may not be able to add "a sci-fi word to a car word and hope it means something," but you can add a Rick and Morty writer to a Marvel project and hope it turns out wonderfully. Marvel Studios has tapped Michael Waldron as the showrunner of the forthcoming series centered around Loki.
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Now that we've got shows about the Titans, the Doom Patrol, random X-Men, the Gotham City Police Department, and a team of C-list DC heroes who are so weird that their season finale actually involved a demon from hell fighting a 12-foot tall Care Bear, there's no limits on what might happen next.
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Batfleck has officially sent his cape and cowl to the cleaners, hung it up neatly in his closet, and flown out of Wayne Manor. Speaking during a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Ben Affleck finally came forward and explained in no uncertain terms why he is no longer playing Batman.
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Rumor has it that Warner Bros. is eyeing Robert Pattinson to become the new Batman, making his first appearance in Matt Reeves' The Batman. The internet is loving the idea of Pattinson as Batman, so much so that fans have started creating art imagining what the actor would look like in the Bat-suit.
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Fire up the Mighty Marvel Money Machine. Captain Marvel has landed on the radar of industry analysts, who are predicting that the 21st installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is on course for an opening weekend in the neighborhood of $100 million dollars.
Read MoreJust call them... complex. Streamer DC Universe has released an extended trailer for Doom Patrol, its second live-action superhero series, in advance of the first episode's premiere tomorrow. The four and a half-minute spot dropped this morning on DC's YouTube Channel.
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If Warner Bros. was the Wicked Witch of the West, it just snatched up the Joker and his little girlfriend, too. A report published by Forbes claims that the studio may have completely done away with the Jared Leto-starring Joker movie and the Joker and Harley Quinn team-up film.
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From Harry Potter to arguably the hairiest member of the X-Men team. Piggy-backing off the chatter that Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe might take over for Hugh Jackman as the next Wolverine, digital artist BossLogic created stunning artwork imagining what he could look like as the famous mutant.
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When Ben Affleck confirmed he wouldn't lead Matt Reeves' The Batman, the grapevine bloomed with dozens of names believed to be contenders to replace Affleck. The latest star the rumor mill has churned out as a potential candidate to become the new Batman is a surprising one.
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In the iconic words of one Juno MacGuff, "Whoa, dream big!" With the knowledge that Ben Affleck won't reprise his role as the Caped Crusader for director Matt Reeves' The Batman, an actor from Man of Steel has tossed his name into the running for the superhero gig.
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Director Matt Reeves' The Batman may not have Ben Affleck front and center rocking the cape and cowl, but what it does apparently have are two main villains plucked straight from the Batman comics canon — the second of which may have just been revealed.
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Fans have been dreaming up ideas for crossovers and storylines that could take place when the X-Men join the MCU — and so has Jeph Loeb, the executive vice president of Marvel Television. Loeb has opened up about the future of the X-Men franchise on television following Disney's acquisition of Fox.
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Shazam and Superman are, as stated by several sources in the cinema world, set to sit side by side on the silver screen this spring. But before any DC fans start jumping for joy, know this: the actor who is meant to pop up in Shazam! isn't the Superman star most are familiar with.
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Before he became the glue that holds together the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Nick Fury went through decades of evolution in some of the most thrilling, complex, and downright weird comics ever published.
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Studio 20th Century Fox will soon relinquish control over its X-Men properties, handing the reins to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige once Disney's acquisition of Fox is complete. And when he steps behind the helm to oversee the mutant-filled films, Feige will apparently make some big decisions.
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The last man on Earth is finally getting his due. FX announced that it has ordered Y, based on the beloved DC/Vertigo comic Y: The Last Man from writer Brian K. Vaughn and artist Pia Guerra, to series. The adaptation is expected to hit the screen sometime in 2020.
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Before Mary Jane, before J. Jonah Jameson, and even before Aunt May and Uncle Ben, there was Eugene "Flash" Thompson. He's the single oldest supporting character in the Spider-Man saga, and as you might expect, that gives him a pretty complicated history, even by Spidey standards.
Read MoreShe's going to take you higher, further, faster. During Super Bowl LIII on Sunday, February 3, Marvel Studios dropped a hot new spot for the Brie Larson-led superhero flick Captain Marvel. The footage features the iconic line from the initial Captain Marvel comic run: Higher, further, faster.
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It's time for the world's greatest detective to ply his trade on the big screen. Director Matt Reeves has divulged a few juicy details on his upcoming film The Batman, notably the fact that he intends to have Bruce Wayne live up to his famous informal title in a way no previous Batman movie has.
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Despite his popularity — or maybe even because of it — a lot of the details about Wolverine are shrouded in mystery and misdirection. Multiple origin stories, conflicting retcons, and 120 years of an eventful fictional lifespan have provided plenty of opportunities for misunderstandings.
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While Odin's son may sport a smile a majority of the time and even laugh more often than most, the truth is, Marvel seems to have a bit of a vendetta against the newly minted King of Asgard — and as proof, here's a look at all the different ways the studio has managed to torture Thor thus far.
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Kid sidekicks are tied to the concept of superheroes just as tightly as capes. So why don't most heroes have them anymore?
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