Marvel Versus Marvel

To celebrate Halloween we dive into all the blood and gore of Blade 2, and examine the crazy history of Marvel’s vampires! In this episode Rob and Will take an extended look at the making of Blade 1 and 2, the rocky road to bringing the character to life on the screen, and how there’d be no MCU without it! We’ll explore the pop culture phenomenon that was vampire in the 1990s, and the movies and T...

To celebrate the release of Venom: The Last Dance, we’ve compiled this supershow featuring our biggest Venom episodes to bring the full secret history of the character! We’ll explore Secret Wars and how Marvel created a brand new black-and-white costume for Spider-Man! We’ll uncover the fan who designed the new costume and sold the idea to Marvel! We’ll dive into the original plans for Venom, how...

This week we head into the archives to explore the creation of What If? and the history of the Marvel Multiverse! Rob and Will examine the history of alternate timelines in comic books, and how DC Comics once shunted all their classic characters like Superman, Batman, Green Lantern and the Flash into a parallel universe! Then we take a look at how Marvel Comics used Kang The Conqueror to introduce...

With Venom The Last Dance in cinemas, MVM heads back to 1994 and Spider-Man The Animated Series, to take a Deep Dive into “The Alien Costume Saga” - the very first time Venom was adapted for the screen! Before the movies, THIS was the world’s first introduction to Eddie Brock and the symbiote! We’ll explore a time when Venom was more popular than Spider-Man and why he was VITAL to this cartoon ser...

With Venom The Last Dance in cinemas, MVM heads back to 1994 and Spider-Man The Animated Series, to take a Deep Dive into “The Alien Costume Saga” - the very first time Venom was adapted for the screen! Before the movies, THIS was the world’s first introduction to Eddie Brock and the symbiote! We’ll explore a time when Venom was more popular than Spider-Man and why he was VITAL to this cartoon ser...

This week we head into the archives to bring you the history of Adam Warlock - the most powerful character in the Marvel Universe! At one point in time Adam Warlock was THE most important character Marvel had, and the only person capable of beating Thanos! We’ll track his history from strange sci-fi experiment, to being Marvel’s answer to Jesus, to becoming part of the Guardians Of The Galaxy. Thi...

Join Rob and Will for a deep-dive into what might be the best X-Men movie ever made - Days Of Future Past! We’ll take you behind the scenes on the making of DOFP, explore the movie that was SUPPOSED to happen, and why major characters like Storm and Rogue were reduced to short cameos!  We’ll take you behind the page on the history of the groundbreaking comic book story that inspired this movie and...

Join Rob and Will for a deep-dive into what might be the best X-Men movie ever made - Days Of Future Past! We’ll take you behind the scenes on the making of DOFP, explore the movie that was SUPPOSED to happen, and why major characters like Storm and Rogue were reduced to short cameos!  We’ll take you behind the page on the history of the groundbreaking comic book story that inspired this movie and...

The new trailer for next year’s Thunderbolts movie has got everyone talking! Rob and Will weigh in on how good the trailer looks and whether this movie means that the MCU is back! We discuss Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan and David Harbour fronting a Marvel movie, how excited we are for the return of characters like Yelena Belova, Bucky, and John Walker. We pull apart the Easter Eggs in the trailer...

This week we take a special look at the Ultimate Marvel Universe, the reboot that inspired the MCU! In the year 2000 Marvel Comics gave gritty, modern reboots to Spider-Man, X-Men and The Avengers, creating brand new versions of the characters in a brand new universe. Ultimate Marvel was a huge hit, and laid the blueprint for how to modernise the characters for the cinema screen and inspired the M...

Join Rob & Will as they examine the world’s first superhero, The Shadow! We travel back to a world before Superman, before Batman and before the Marvel Universe, to explore the world’s first costumed vigilante hero! We’ll take you behind the page to a time before comic books, we’ll look at the history of Pulp Fiction, and how The Shadow inspired virtually every superhero that came later (espec...

Join Rob & Will as they examine the world’s first superhero, The Shadow! We travel back to a world before Superman, before Batman and before the Marvel Universe, to explore the world’s first costumed vigilante hero! We’ll take you behind the page to a time before comic books, we’ll look at the history of Pulp Fiction, and how The Shadow inspired virtually every superhero that came later (espec...

This week we take you behind the scenes on the making of Venom: Let There Be Carnage! We dive into the huge popularity of Venom and Carnage and how they spawned the MAXIMUM CARNAGE video game in the 90s! We’ll explore the ORIGINAL plans for Carnage in the Venom franchise and why they changed, the movie’s connections to Spider-Man and the MCU, the delays that kept knocking the film back, plus we’ll...

In this special studio show, Rob and Will reflect back on the Infinity Saga, from Iron Man to Endgame, and discuss how Marvel impacted and changed the entertainment industry. A discussion that looks at how the Infinity Saga changed the MCU, Marvel Comics, and Hollywood itself. We also explore Justice League and the DCEU, Fast And The Furious, the Universal Pictures Dark Universe, Dr Who, and all t...

With the Infinity Saga put to bed on MVM, we head back into the archives to uncover the true history of Marvel Comics. From the Great Depression of the 1930’s through the Second World War and into the Swinging Sixties! How was the company founded? What was in the very first issue of Marvel Comics? Who were the first Marvel characters? How did they find success? From Timely Comics in the 1940’s wit...

After four and a half years MVM has finally arrived at Avengers: Endgame! Rob and Will explore this seminal movie in great detail, taking you behind-the-scenes on the making of the film, how it closed out the Infinity Saga, the end of Iron Man and Captain America and how Robert Downey Jr. is now returning to the MCU as Iron Man! We’ll explore the original versions of the script and how BIG changes...

After four and a half years MVM has finally arrived at Avengers: Endgame! Rob and Will explore this seminal movie in great detail, taking you behind-the-scenes on the making of the film, how it closed out the Infinity Saga, the end of Iron Man and Captain America and how Robert Downey Jr. is now returning to the MCU as Iron Man! We’ll explore the original versions of the script and how BIG changes...

After four and a half years MVM has finally arrived at Avengers: Endgame! Rob and Will explore this seminal movie in great detail, taking you behind-the-scenes on the making of the film, how it closed out the Infinity Saga, the end of Iron Man and Captain America and how Robert Downey Jr. is now returning to the MCU as Iron Man! We’ll explore the original versions of the script and how BIG changes...

As we gear up for our massive Endgame episode next week, we take a trip into the archives and go behind the scenes on the the making of Avengers: Infinity War! We’ll explore how plans for Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet came together, the vital role that James Gunn played, the insane writing process, how the Russo brothers liaised with all the other directors in Phase 3 of the MCU, the planned in...

In a shocking revelation at the San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that Robert Downey Jr will return to the MCU in a new role as Doctor Doom! Marvel announced RDJ will replace Jonthan Majors’ Kang and play the MCU’s big new villain in upcoming films The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Avengers: Doomsday, and Avengers: Secret Wars. We’ve had tons of requests to deal with this huge news ASAP, so we’...

With the release of Deadpool & Wolverine and its farewell to the Fox Marvel Movies, we head back to 2005 to examine Elektra - the very WORST the Fox movies gave us! Is it worse than X-Men Last Stand, Ghost Rider, or Fantastic Four? Rob and Will are gonna find out! We take you behind-the-scenes on how and why this movie is so bad, including which star was FORCED to make the film! We’ll also tak...

With the release of Deadpool & Wolverine and its farewell to the Fox Marvel Movies, we head back to 2005 to examine Elektra - the very WORST the Fox movies gave us! Is it worse than X-Men Last Stand, Ghost Rider, or Fantastic Four? Rob and Will are gonna find out! We take you behind-the-scenes on how and why this movie is so bad, including which star was FORCED to make the film! We’ll also tak...

We head back to 1992 to learn how the popularity of Venom and Image Comics resulted in Marvel creating the most violent Spider-Man villain of all-time, CARNAGE! From comic books to toys to video games and even a theme park ride at Universal Studios - Carnage goes down in history as one of Marvel’s most popular villains!   This clip is taken from our massive episode on Venom: Let There Be Carnage h...

With the release of Marvel’s new movie Deadpool & Wolverine, we’re re-releasing our early episodes on both Deadpool & Wolverine! In this episode we’ll take you behind-the-scenes on the making of the 2016 Deadpool movie, and the incredible marketing campaign that helped make it a smash-hit! We’ll explore the origins and history of Wade Wilson from X-Men to X-Force to Wolverine and beyond! W...

With the release of Marvel’s new movie Deadpool & Wolverine, we’re re-releasing our early episodes on both Deadpool & Wolverine! In this episode we’ll take you behind-the-scenes on the making of the 2009 movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine, what went wrong, how this movie ended up being so badly received, and WHY it involves a terrible version of Deadpool! Then we’ll take you behind-the-page to...