RW652 - Heroes Rewatch - All EU Part 6

 

In this weeks episode of The Heroes Rewatch, Cory and Tom discuss the graphic novels series From the Files of Primatech Parts 1-8, and the web series Dark Matters Parts 1-6.

From the Files of Primatech:

From the Files of Primatech Part 1

The original founders of The Company have come together in Greenwich Village for a folk concert—but they're not there for the music.

From the Files of Primatech Part 2

The Company's co-founders find trouble at a coffeehouse concert.

From the Files of Primatech Part 3

What has summoned Hiro to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant?

From the Files of Primatech Part 4

What's happened at Three Mile Island—and why are The Company's founders freaking out?

From the Files of Primatech Part 5

Hiro time travels to Berlin circa 1988 as Claude and Thompson make a shocking discovery.

From the Files of Primatech Part 6

When a KGB agent goes big, Claude's clearly overmatched.

From the Files of Primatech Part 7

In 1991, Bob Bishop began a sick series of experiments on his daughter Elle.

From the Files of Primatech Part 8

In 1991, Bob Bishop began a sick series of experiments on his daughter Elle.

Dark Matters:

Written by: Zach Craley

Directed by: Tanner Kling

Episode Title: Where Are the Heroes?

Release date: July 9, 2015

HeroTruther interrupts a Renautas ad to warn people that there is a battle being waged against the newly revealed Evos, forcing them back into hiding. Two years ago, Phoebe Frady, after watching HeroTruther's broadcast, shows her brother Quentin her ability to manipulate shadows.

Episode Title: Phoebe

Release date: July 22, 2015

Quentin encourages Phoebe to continue documenting her story when she begins college, where she becomes fast friends with her roommate Aly. As Phoebe's power grows, she learns how to channel darkness, but Quentin worries about the nightmares she's had since her mother's death.

Episode Title: Registered

Release date: July 22, 2015

One year ago, a pro-Evo demonstration at the college gets out of hand, and Phoebe momentarily stops the other Evos' powers; she is arrested and forced to register in a national database. At an internship fair, Phoebe is approached by Harris with a job offer at Renautas. Phoebe talks about going to the Odessa Summit, but Quentin is against it.

Episode Title: June 13th

Release date: July 22, 2015

Phoebe has gone missing, and Quentin approaches Aly. When Quentin receives a mysterious phone call from Phoebe in Texas, he and Aly go to the Summit. They recognize Phoebe's shadows, and see her listed as an accomplice of Mohinder Suresh in the bombing.

Episode Title: Renautas

Release date: July 22, 2015

Nine months ago, Quentin is skeptical of Mohinder's role in the bombing, but Aly is ready to move on. Quentin asks HeroTruther for help, and HeroTruther gets him a job at Renautas under an assumed name. He finds out that Primatech wasn't destroyed in the bombing, it became part of Renautas, and the files are being digitized. 6 weeks ago, HeroTruther asks Quentin to steal the files.

Episode Title: Where the Truth Lies

Release date: July 22, 2015

Three weeks ago, Quentin brings the evidence connecting Renautas and Primatech to HeroTruther, who reveals himself to be Micah, accompanied by a small crew of Evos. Micah shows Quentin that Phoebe is alive, but Harris attacks, having followed Quentin. Micah tells Quentin to find Noah Bennet.

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RW651 - MCU Rewatch - The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

 

In this episode of The Marvel Cinematic Universe Rewatch, Cory and Eoghan open their pressies early as they discuss The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.

Trailer:

Our Favourite Trivia:

Shot during the production of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). The special has been described by Gunn as the epilogue of Phase Four of the MCU.

The Holiday Special was the first piece of content Marvel Studios planned to create for Disney+, and was originally conceived by Gunn during the production of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017); at that time, it was being developed for ABC following Vol. 2's release. Gunn stated that the special would be live-action and canon to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), and noted that he had been a fan of the Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) and animated Christmas specials such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) as a child.

For the flashback scenes they used old school rotoscoping animation in the style of the Ralph Bakshi films that James Gunn watched growing up and to give the 1970s and '80s nostalgic Christmas special feel. They filmed actors Luke Klein, Michael Rooker and Sean Gunn and then traced the footage frame by frame. Luke's features were altered to more closely resemble young Peter, Rooker's fin was added, and Sean was reduced in size to his younger self. The rotoscoping effects were done by Stoopid Buddy Studios.

Gunn decided to focus on the Drax and Mantis relationship in the special because he felt those characters had been "sidelined" in their appearances outside of the Guardians of the Galaxy films between Vol. 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). 

Gunn noted there were parts of the special that would help set up material in Vol. 3, calling the Holiday Special a "Trojan Horse" that allowed him to introduce important elements to Vol. 3 that he then would not need to explain at the beginning of that film. Some of this material includes filling in the Guardians recent history, such as how they now operate out of Knowhere, have a new ship called the Bowie, Cosmo the Spacedog is now a member of the Guardians, and "a couple of bigger pieces of spoiler-y lore".

In the comics, Cosmo the Spacedog is male but in the special is female, voiced by Maria Bakalova. This harkens back to the actual Soviet space dog program where many of the canines were female, including Laika, the very first Earth-born creature in space, which Cosmo is based on.

Kevin Bacon had previously starred as a mutant villain, Sebastian Shaw, in the Marvel film X-Men: First Class (2011).

The house used as Kevin Bacon's in the film actually belongs to music artist David Crowder. It was remodeled by his wife, Toni, who is an architect.

While Kevin Bacon is at home he is watching Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) in which Santa is kidnapped and taken to outer space, which is exactly what happens to himself a few minutes later.

The band on Knowhere, that eventually backs up Kevin Bacon, is played by James Gunn's favorite band Old 97's. Gunn wrote the lyrics to the opening song, "I Don't Know What Christmas Is (But Christmastime Is Here)". "Here It Is Christmastime" is an existing Old 97's song rerecorded with Bacon for the end of the special.

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RW650 - Heroes Rewatch S04E18 - Brave New World

 

In this weeks episode of The Heroes Rewatch, Cory and Tom have a lot of unanswered questions as they discuss season 4 episodes 18, Brave New World.

Chapter Eighteen 'Brave New World':

Volume: Five 

Written by: Tim Kring

Directed by: Adam Kane

Original airdate: February 8, 2010

Synopsis: 

As Bennet and Claire try to escape their buried underground camper, they realize they are too far down to be heard. Bennet realizes that Claire will survive due to her regeneration abilities, but that he will soon die due to lack of oxygen. He believes Samuel’s plan was to make Claire watch her father die. He tells her to please stay hidden, knowing how the world will work if they find out about people with powers, but she just wants to live out in the open. He begs her to stay hidden as his dying wish but she refuses, desperately trying to dig them out when suddenly water rushes into the small trailer, revealing Tracy has arrived. She manages to get them out, telling Bennet he owes her. Bennet goes to find Samuel while Claire goes to try and convince the family to leave. Bennet unfortunately finds himself captured by Edgar who holds him with a knife at his throat. Luckily, Bennet is able to convince him he is there to stop Samuel, and Edgar relents, revealing he is there for the same reason. 

Peter and Sylar awaken from their nightmare trap, ready to go save Emma, but upstairs, Matt is facing off against Eli, unable to push his thoughts into any of them as only one of him has any real thoughts to affect. They quickly over power him as another duplicate faces off Peter and Sylar. While the Elis manage to pin Matt to the counter and grab knives so they can all stab him together, Peter and Sylar make it upstairs, having easily subdued their own batch of Elis. Peter wants Matt to use his powers to find out what Samuel is doing by reading Eli’s mind, but he refuses. Peter uses his copied power to do so and learns of the plan. They go to leave but Matt won’t let them, not trusting Sylar, not understanding how many years they spent in his nightmare trap. Sylar invites him to view his mind and he does, seeing that Sylar thinks he has changed, but still not believing it fully. Sylar asks for the chance to prove he has changed. Matt allows them to go on Peter’s insistence, and then plants a thought into Eli’s mind.

Back at the carnival, Samuel is speechifying as he is wont to do, when Emma approaches him and he tells her about how it’s time for her solo. She realizes that what Peter said was correct, and Doyle shows up to force Emma to do Samuel’s bidding and have her play a new cello, telling her to summon everyone to the carnival. People come to the carnival as Emma continues to play her fingers bleeding from Doyle’s control on the cello.

Peter and Sylar show up, splitting up with Sylar going to find Emma and telling her he’s there to save her. Unfortunately, Doyle takes control of him and holds Sylar at bay while forcing Emma to keep playing. Eventually, Syalr is able to keep Doyle distracted as Emma uses another aspect of her powers to attack Doyle with sound, knocking him down, allowing Sylar to take over and hold him prisoner. 

At the hospital, Hiro has awakened, completely healed and in full control of his power. He receives an origami crane and a note telling him to come to another room. He goes and finds an old woman, Charlie, who explains she found herself in the past in 1944 and ended up living her life out there. Hiro wants to go back and save her from 1944 and return her to her proper time at the Burnt Toast Diner but Ando asks him if he is doing it for her or for him. As Hiro talks to Charlie, her granddaughter comes in to say hello. After she goes to get her parents, Emma’s children, she tells Hiro that she led a good life, and is happy with it, especially given her family that came out of it. Hiro understands and decides that she has found her happy ending and leaves with Ando to go to the carnival to help Bennet with Samuel. 

Claire tries to convince the family to leave Samuel, explaining what his plans are, but they don’t believe her, choosing to listen to Samuel as he arrives and manipulating them into believing him. She plays her final card, telling them he killed his brother, which gives them pause, but again, Samuel starts to manipulate them until Edgar shows up and confirms what Claire said, followed by Bennet, and Eli, powered byMatt’s control, who confirms that he indeed was the one who shot Lydia.  With that, the people start following Claire out and Samuel begs them to stay, yelling at them. 

Samuel runs out to the gathered crowd and asks them if they want a show, beginning to bring the earth up all around them as carnival rides and tents start to fall and people begin panicking and running away. Peter shows up, copying Samuel’s power and the two face off against each other, raising the ground up against each other again and again, comparing their differences in how their brothers treated them, with Samuel’s Joseph keeping him down and Peter’s Nathan building him up. Hiro shows up and Claire begs him to teleport all of the family away. Hiro is nervous to try with so many people, but Ando supercharges him and gets everyone away safely. Instantly, Samuel’s powers disappear and he’s left defenseless as Peter punches him to his knees. Sylar and Peter then share a moment where Sylar reveals he felt good being the hero. 

Lauren calls in favors to get the incident seen as just a gas main rupture and the illusions of a brilliant showman and Samuel is taken into custody. The news people are asking everyone for their eyewitness accounts but Bennet says No Comment, with Claire following in kind. Claire changes her mind though, wanting to live out in the open and tells them to watch her as she climbs a high carnival ride and jumps to the ground, a fall that would have killed anyone. She, of course, rises up, and relocates her out of joint shoulder as they stare in awe, capturing it all for the world to see.

Back-issues:

K Callan played old Charlie. We, of course, know her from Quantum Leap where she played the mother in “The Americanization of Machiko Mackenzie,” and Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman where she played Martha Kent. She continues to work to this day, recently being seen in Poker Face, NCIS, and Knives Out.

Heroes EU:

Consequences

Angela tries to make sense of what Samuel has wrought on her family.

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RW649 - MCU Rewatch - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

 

In this episode of The Marvel Cinematic Universe Rewatch, Cory and Eoghan rise to solemn power as they discuss Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Trailer:

Our Favourite Trivia:

Director Ryan Coogler revealed that the sequel's original story was going to focus on T'Challa after the events from Avengers: Endgame (2019) with Chadwick Boseman reprising his role and stating that Namor was always the film's antagonist.

Ryan Coogler nearly stepped back from this movie and filmmaking as a whole after Chadwick Boseman's death, due to how emotionally painful it was losing his friend/hero. However, after taking his final conversations with the man into consideration, Coogler decided that it was best to keep moving forward with the project. He has stated that making this film without Boseman is the hardest thing he's ever done.

Rihanna immediately wanted to get involved with Wakanda Forever from the moment she saw the first trailer, and recorded the song "Lift Me Up" as a personal tribute to Chadwick Boseman.

Namor the Sub-Mariner was Marvel's very first superhero alongside the Angel and the original Human Torch. Writer/artist Bill Everett (later co-created Daredevil) was a fan of anything nautical and sea-related, and he created Namor as the water-based opposite to the Torch. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was an influence on the character, and the name "Namor" was conceived by writing "Roman" backwards. He first appeared in the unpublished Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 (Apr. 1939) before making his official debut in Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939), the first publication by Marvel's predecessor Timely Comics.

In the Marvel Comics, Namor is ruler of the underwater realm of Atlantis. The filmmakers changed the name to avoid connections/comparisons with other versions of Atlantis (notably DC Comics' version and its own superhero king Aquaman (2018)), and so in the film the realm is named Talokan, after the Aztec underwater realm of Tlalocan, despite the characters clearly being of Mayan descent.

Live-action debut of Namor the Sub-Mariner. There had been numerous attempts to adapt the character to film and television, all of which ultimately stalled. Marvel Comics founder Martin Goodman began developing a live-action Namor TV series in the 1950s with Richard Egan eyed to star, but nothing came of it. Another Namor series was planned in the 1970s, but it was dropped due to similarities with Man from Atlantis (1977), which, ironically, was inspired by Namor. A Namor film was first announced in 1997 and spent the next two decades in development hell, with numerous writers and directors attached over the years. Universal has owned Namor's film rights since 2002, which means, like the Hulk, he can only appear as a supporting character in Marvel Studios projects, not in a standalone film or series.

Michael Waldron said there were plans to include Namor in the Illuminati in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), since he was a founding member of the group in the comics, but these plans were dropped.

Before being cast as Ironheart, Dominique Thorne initially auditioned to play Shuri back in Black Panther (2018). She was Ryan Coogler's second choice, so he was thrilled to be able to bring her on for the sequel.

In Avengers: Endgame (2019), one of the things that the remaining team detects is sonic disturbances underwater. At the time, Okoye told Natasha Romanoff that it's "just an underwater earthquake."

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RW648 - Heroes Rewatch S04E16-17 - The Art Wall

 

In this weeks episode of The Heroes Rewatch, Cory and Tom get angry all over again and block any escape as they discuss season 4 episodes 16 & 17, The Art of Deception and The Wall.

Chapter Sixteen 'The Art of Deception':

Volume: Five 

Written by: Mark Verheiden & Misha Green

Directed by: SJ Clarkson

Original airdate: January 25, 2010

Synopsis:

Samuel sees that his people don’t trust him anymore, with Lydia telling him they all saw what he did to the town. He tells her that the people are looking to her to be their voice and that he will win their trust back because he needs and loves them and will do whatever he has to prove his worth.

Peter continues to experience visions of Emma at the carnival and Sylar arriving to save her. He tries to find Emma to no avail, finally getting a phone call from Angela. He goes to see her and she is trying to decide what to put on Nathan’s headstone. Peter tells her that it seems as if Sylar was trying to help Emma, but Angela says one act of goodness doesn’t make Sylar a savior. Peter asks her to help him find Sylar, but she asks him to not try to find him. 

Matt arrives home to see Sylar and is worried he is back inside his head but Sylar makes it clear he’s over that and is there for another reason. Janice comes out and explains how Gabriel has been telling her stories about when he and Matt were partners on the force together. She sets up lunch for them with Sylar telling him they need to catch up. After lunch, Matt takes Sylar down to his workshop where he asks Matt how he manages to live with his power and still be a husband and father. Sylar tells Matt he wants him to remove his knowledge of how to use his powers. Matt balks at the idea but Sylar threatens Janice and his son if he doesn’t try. He attempts to use his powers on Sylar but he can’t manage to do it, with Sylar getting impatient. Janice, who left the apartment 30 seconds ago, comes back into the apartment so Sylar can hold her captive, prompting Matt to try again. Matt tells Sylar to accept that they are more than their abilities, and he decides to let Janice loose and Matt tells Janice what is happening. She tells him that they need to bury him so he can’t hurt anyone else. Matt then uses his powers to trap Sylar in his own mind, where there is no one else with him, leaving him all alone. While trapped in there, Matt begins to sell him up inside the walls of his workroom. Peter arrives, shaking Matt’s hand and copying his power, reading Matt’s mind, knowing that Sylar is there. He tells Matt he needs Sylar to save someone and goes to restore Sylar’s mind while Matt watches helplessly, unable to use his power to stop Peter, or to use his physical force to pull Peter away because… reasons. Peter finds himself in Sylar’s mind in a vast empty city.

 

Gretchen drives Claire to her dad’s apartment so that she can tell him what happened with Sylar but Claire is hesitant. Gretchen finally convinces her to do so but when she goes to him, Lauren answers, explaining that Bennet is out for a moment and Claire notices from the surroundings that her dad is still involved with catching “specials.” Lauren shows her what Samuel did and how dangerous he has become due to the powered people he’s collected at the carnival. Claire leaves and later talks with Gretchen but she tells Claire to be the normal person she wanted to be and just go to class, to forget about the carnival and the problems associated with it and Samuel. Claire is upset that Gretchen isn’t supporting her and leaves. Bennet, with Lauren, decides that if Samuel is upping his attacks, they need to act now and head off to find him. Claire arrives at the carnival and warns Lydia that her dad is coming, which Samuel overhears. He begins his manipulation, trying to convince them that he is sorry for what happened and feels as if he is losing his way. Claire convinces him to give himself up, calling her dad to tell him Samuel is surrendering to protect his family. Lauren goes to walk Samuel out while Bennet remains behind to keep his gun trained on him.

Samuel gives his people a speech about how he feels bad for what he has done and wishes them to be safe so he will leave. Suddenly, shots ring out and carnival people start falling. Lauren gets shot as well, calling Tracy Strauss for help, while Bennet looks around to see that it is Eli and his multiple clones who have been shooting, all part of Samuel’s plan to frame Bennet. Eli knocks Bennet out and drags him down to Samuel where he, Claire and Lydia, among others, have been shot. Claire heals easily, and Samuel’s wound isn’t life threatening, but Lydia’s wound unfortunately is. Samuel holds her and she realizes that Samuel set them all up. Before Lydia can tell anyone, she unfortunately dies because there is no one around with healing blood that could have saved her. Bennet tells Claire it wasn’t him that fired but the carnival people begin blaming Claire for bringing him here and start to use their powers on her. Samuel tells them to stop and be better than that, winning them over with another speech and ordering Claire locked in his trailer. Emma finds her way to the carnival and begins helping the injured people, with Samuel telling them they were attacked by people who don’t understand them. Edgar returns to mourn Lydia, while Samuel gives yet another speech to his people, repeating again that he was wrong for what he did but just wanted to protect them, rallying them to his cause, his status restored, and telling them that it’s time to show the world what they really are.

Chapter Seventeen 'The Wall':

Volume: Five

Written by: Adam Armus & Kay Foster

Directed by: Allan Arkush

Original airdate: February 1, 2010

 

Synopsis:

Sylar finds himself in his old watch shop, repairing watches, when he hears something and runs outside to find Peter, banging the ground with a metal pipe. Peter explains he is there to get him out of there but Sylar is under the impression that everyone is dead and he is all alone in this world and has been for years and runs away from Peter, thinking he isn’t real. Peter finds him and explains what happened to him with Parkman and how he needs Sylar’s help to save Emma. Sylar challenges him to try getting them out but when Peter does, he finds that he can’t. For Peter and Sylar, a month passes, with Peter still trying to find a way out and Sylar not believing him. They debate about the situation until Sylar finally gives in and agrees to try and help him get out. Suddenly they see a wall appear in front of them, a wall that looks just like the one in Matt’s basement that he was trying to bury Sylar behind. Peter picks up a sledgehammer and begins hammering away at the wall, trying to break through as Sylar watches. Later, after many more months, Sylar still recalls memories of Nathan and Peter resents him for bringing them up, with Sylar eventually expressing remorse for killing his brother. They yell at each other, both angry for different reasons, and Sylar decides to take the anger out by grabbing a hammer and hammering at the wall with Peter. After years in this dream state, Peter eventually gets Sylar a copy of a book he had been reading and wore out, with Peter telling Sylar that he can’t forgive him, that he feels he might lose his brother forever if he lets go of his anger. Sylar tells him that he has repented and isn't the same person anymore, and Peter finally admits that he understands that, picking up the hammer again and this time actually causing some bricks to break. Together they hammer away until a hole appears, and a bright light envelops them. They awaken with Peter outside of Matt’s wall and Sylar inside, quickly using his powers to break out. Together they start to head to the carnival to help save Emma, but are interrupted by Eli and his copies. 

Samuel takes Claire to see her father, along with Damian, who unlocks Bennet’s past memories and presents them to Claire. She learns how Bennet was married once before in his past and had a pregnant wife, but they were attacked by a special who ended up killing the young woman during a home burglary. The event started Bennet on a quest for revenge against the man, leading him to learn about people with abilities and accidentally killing another special by accident. Claire’s “unflappable support” of her father wavers as she understands that he went there with a gun, with the intention to use it. Memories flash by and she sees the moment Thompson recruits Bennet to the company, and how later, after Bennet and his special partner had a number of incidents where people died, Thompson tells Bennet to take a wife and start a family to calm him down and put his life in balance so that more incidents don’t occur. Claire is aghast that his marriage was arranged by the Company but Bennet defends his marriage and love for Sandra. Unfortunately, Claire sees Bennet’s more recent memories as well, in which he approached Gretchen for her help in finding Claire when she ran away to the carnival, even threatening her with The Haitian’s mind wiping ability. Claire runs off, hurt and angry.

Lauren goes into the carnival to find medical supplies and is discovered by Emma. She tries to explain to her about Samuel’s true intentions but she doesn’t believe her, telling Samuel about Lauren’s presence when he comes calling. He talks with Lauren who tries to get him to turn himself in so his family won't get hurt but he counters her argument with a proper X-Men Magneto speech about revealing themselves to the world and showing the non-powered world their great power and strength. Eli shows up and reports about Claire running away. Samuel leaves to take care of that situation, while he orders Eli to take care of Lauren but she manages to get away. Samuel sympathizes with Claire for what she learned about her father but Claire turns it around on him, revealing that she still trusts her father and wouldn’t turn on him. Samuel tells Claire they are headed to New York City, but he sends Claire to be buried alive under the ground inside one of the carnival’s trailers, their calls for help unheard by anyone above ground.

Back Issues:

The plot of Peter and Sylar spending years together in the mind was ahead of the curve, as Christopher Nolan's film Inception would hit cinemas for another 6 months.

Heroes EU:

Reaching Out Part 1

Lauren knows Tracy's the only hope for thwarting Samuel.

Reaching Out Part 2

Despite attacks from Eli and Becky, Tracy finds her way to the Carnival.

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RW647 - MCU Rewatch - Werewolf By Night

 

In this episode of The Marvel Cinematic Universe Rewatch, Cory and Eoghan have a monstrously good time as they discuss Werewolf By Night.

Trailer:

Our Favourite Trivia:

This is the TV special directorial debut of Academy Award-winning composer Michael Giacchino. Giacchino had previously written the scores for Doctor Strange (2016) and the Jon Watts-directed Spider-Man trilogy for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and was a co-composer on Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). 

In the comic books, Werewolf by Night and Man-Thing were members of the original Legion of Monsters, along with Morbius and Ghost Rider.

While this is the first on-screen appearance of Ted Sallis/Man-Thing in the MCU, a sculpture of his face was carved into the Grandmaster's palace as seen in Thor: Ragnarok (2017).

Heather Quinn and Peter Cameron co-wrote the screenplay, from a story by Quinn. Quinn previously wrote for the Marvel Studios Disney+ series Hawkeye (2021) and Cameron wrote for WandaVision (2021) and Moon Knight (2022). Quinn was asked to pitch for the special while she was working on the set of Hawkeye in early 2021. She worked closely with Giacchino to craft the story of the special.

This is the first Marvel Studios project to be given an MA15+ classification in Australia.

Man-Thing debuted in Savage Tales #1 (May 1971), two months before DC's very similar character Swamp Thing in House of Secrets #92 (Jul. 1971). Man-Thing co-creator Roy Thomas recalled, "Gerry [Conway, co-creator of Man-Thing] and I thought that, unconsciously, the origin in Swamp Thing #1 was a bit too similar to the origin of Man-Thing a year-and-a-half earlier. There was vague talk at the time around Marvel of legal action, but it was never really pursued. I don't know if any letters even changed hands between Marvel and DC. [...] We weren't happy with the situation over the Swamp Thing #1 origin, but we figured it was an accident. Gerry was rooming with Len [Wein, co-creator of Swamp Thing] at the time and tried to talk him into changing the Swamp Thing's origin. Len didn't see the similarities, so he went ahead with what he was going to do. The two characters [di]verged off after that origin, so it didn't make much difference, anyway." Both characters were reminiscent of the Heap, another swamp monster character that debuted decades prior, in Air Fighters #3 (Dec. 1942), published by Hillman Periodicals.

Kirk R. Thatcher (Jovan) previously appeared in the MCU as Punk on Street in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). This was a reference to his role as Punk on Bus in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), a character he later reprised in Watcher (2022).

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Resources:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15318872/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_werewolf%2520by%2520n

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf_by_Night_(TV_special)