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Off YOUR Mind: What Comic Book Arc Should Be Made Into an Animated Movie?

We all have opinions, now is the time to share yours.

This week we saw the release of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1. If you had a chance to watch it or read our review, you know it did a great job adapting the (first half) of the story. Yesterday we found out Marvel is planning an Iron Man/Hulk team up movie. When it comes to classic comic book stories like this, they need to be handled properly if an attempt is going to be made in bringing them to the small screen.

With the decades of comic book stories already published, there are many arcs that have been successful and earned a place among our favorite stories.

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This week's question is, what comic book arc or event should be made into an animated movie? There has been rumors of Flashpoint happening and many of use would love to see Civil War, Old Man Logan or The Killing Joke adapted.

The points to consider are the length of the story (could it be made into a movie under 90 minutes?), the prior continuity involved, the popularity of the character among other things. Let us know what you think would make a good animated movie. Add in any parts that could be cut out or condensed to make it work.

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@sora_thekey said:

CIVIL WAR! (and House of M)

Maybe make it a series of movies: 1) Avengers: Disassembled. 2) House of M. 3) Civil War. 4) Secret Invasion. 5) Dark Reign. 6) Siege. Skip Fear Itself... 7) AVX.

I think you just listed all my least favorite Marvel arcs of all time. Civil War being the only exception.

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DC Comics are the only animated movies I like and I think books Batman and the Court of Owls would be great to see adapted to animated feature.

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I think Hush would be an excellent choice, and is pretty self contained. Other than that, Long Halloween or Dark Victory. I also think Spider-Man: Blue would be a superb one for Marvel to do, but Marvel's animated movies are never the same quality as DC.

For Superman: My all time favorite Birthright would be my choice, but this has already been superseded by Secret Origin.

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I would really like to see Marvel create an animated universe that was connected, but didn't require seeing each animated movie to understand what was happening.

With that in mind you could create a Civil War movie that just focused on the main series. Civil War has a good premise that would not need a lot of exposition to explain: super hero battle leads to death of many children therefor super heroes should be regulated.

House of M would also be a great story and adaptable to the time constrictions, but I wonder if it would be too confusing to the general populace. Also, the end of House of M ends with a change so significant that it would almost need to be dealt with in any movies following.

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Kingdom Come Old Man Logan Daredevil: Born Again The Black Mirror

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Nick Fury: Peacemaker

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I think a Messiah War / Second Coming movie would be great.

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@Aspirus: Well the Skrull Invasion was already sort of adapted in the Avengers: EMH animated series. 
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@Agent_Prince said:

@sora_thekey said:

CIVIL WAR! (and House of M)

Maybe make it a series of movies: 1) Avengers: Disassembled. 2) House of M. 3) Civil War. 4) Secret Invasion. 5) Dark Reign. 6) Siege. Skip Fear Itself... 7) AVX.

I think you just listed all my least favorite Marvel arcs of all time. Civil War being the only exception.

Teh beauty of being able to adapt them in animated movie form... is that you can make them better. You should watch the Secret Invasion arc in Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. It's really good! (Although they should leave Disassembled and HoM alone, those were good as is. There's a lot that could be "fixed" on Civil War and AVX)

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The Long Halloween and Kingdom Come would be great although the big roster of characters and events might be too much for a straight to DVD budget.

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I loved the Incredibles..it made me think how cool a animated Fantastic Four film could be. Or how about a Young Heroes in Love ? loved that title too.

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AVx wouldnt be bad but I've always say it

World War Hulk would be amazing. I totally loved Planet Hulk and i would freaking love to see hulk vs sentry animated!

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X-Men: Age of Apocalypse, Messiah Complex

Valiant Unity Saga

Avengers: Operation Galactic Storm

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The three crisis' (Crisis on Infinite Earth, Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis), Civil War, Avengers VS X-Men, Kingdom Come & Flashpoint. Don't judge me for liking Final Crisis.

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Most of the best story arcs would probably need to be trilogy films (and each film being longer than just 90 minutes).

That said, if it can be done so, I'd love to see a film adaptation of DMZ.

The only superhero comic books I enjoy reading are Batman, but I can see plenty of great films based on story arcs and even one shots.

Most modern horror films are crap and uninspired. That said, Batman: Gothic would be a chilling tale. The Killing Joke would too. The Long Halloween would work if only it was not meant to follow Nolans films.

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I think Superman:Red Son would be a interesting animation.

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Dark angel saga, NOTO, 52- (would be a briliant HBO series with a huge budget)

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The answer is "Maus".

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House of M, with real world house of m world flashbacks.

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Well, they shouldn't make an Animated Movie about any Comic Book Arc because they'll only ruin it.

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excalibur soul sword trilogy [83-85], the douglock chronicles [78-80], promethium exchange [37-39], girl school from heck [32-34],

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1.Hush

2. No Man's Land

3. Civil War

4. The Dark Phoenix Saga

5. Avengers Disassembled

6. Secret War

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Annihilation

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Here's my list in no particular order: Crisis on Infinite Earths For no reason other than to see every (then current) hero and villian in the DC universe.

Kang Dynasty The last time Avengers were cool.

Usagi Yojimbo's "Grasscutter I" and "Grasscutter II"

DC's The Nail and it's sequel

DC One Million

Age of Apocalypse

Amalgam

Reign of the Supermen

Sinestro Corps War

Sins ofYouth

Apocalypse: The Twelve

Green Lantern: Rebirth

Justice

Age of X

Terra Incognito

Assault on Olympus Most of my favorite Avengers were members during this period.

Great Darkness Saga

The Morgan Conquest I want to see George Perez's medievel designs of all Avengers members on my tv screen!!

There's lots more, but I think I made my point.

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UXF Dark Angel Saga

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Dark Angel Saga

Civil War

Batman - Court & Night of Owls

House of M

Avengers: the children's crusade (should be made as a sequel to House of M)

Messiah Complex

Oh and Invincible 's the Vitrumite War was awesome!

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@The Stegman said:

Knightfall

Have you not seen The Dark Knight Rises?

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@DominionX said:

6. Secret War

Yes. Just... Yes!

Latveria needs to be invaded NOW!

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The first Fables arc would be fantastic. Though, I think I'd almost prefer they did it live action.

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i would love to see green lantern rebirth to blackest night animated in a number of films.....

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Let see...Well, from DC, I'd like to see: 

  • Superman: Birthright or maybe Morrison's new origin from his run in Action Comics (Sure, there are already a bunch of DTVs featuring Superman, but I don't think they really did an animated origin story for Big Blue). Although, in either case, they should use Superman's New 52 costume.
  • Flash: Dastardly Death of the Rogues
  • It would be incredible if they could do Green Lantern: Secret Origin and Sinestro Corps War movies, which could then lead into a Blackest Night movie. Basically just convert all of Geoff Johns' run in Green Lantern into DTVs. They'd probably have to include some of the GLC stories in there too. Although, I would prefer to see live action movies made out of these to make up for the crappy movie we got.
  • Infinite Crisis
  • JLA: Obsidian Age
  • JLA: New World Order
  • Identity Crisis (although, that could get a little racy)
From Marvel: 
  •  Although I hated Fear Itself as a comic book arc, I think that it could have the potential to be a good animated movie. They'd just need to fix a few things that were wrong with the story. The first few issues were really solid.
  • Spider-Man: Ends of the Earth would be a good animated movie. We seriously need a Spider-Man animated.
  • Civil War
  • Morrison's Fantastic Four: 1234 or one of the stories from Hickman's run. Like Spider-Man, an FF animated movie would be appreciated.
I could probably think of a lot more, but I'll leave it at that
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I think Civil War would make the best movie :)

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One More Day could only work if at the end, Peter woke up in bed, turned to Gwen Stacy and said "you really should wear more sweaters."

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Any Geoff Johns run Green Lantern Movie.

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DC: Hush

Marvel: Civil War

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Identity Crisis

Blackest Night

Sinestro Corp War

Spider-Island

Secret Invasion

Flashpoint

World War Hulk

...... you know what I'd honestly be happy with anything besides Batman or Superman, since both of those have like 6 animated movies each

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Deadpool: MERC WITH A MOUTH would be and epic movie. Imagine all the TACOS

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Preacher! Holy jesus crapers an animated "rub rub" scene? A cartoon Arse Face? Knowing that some poor soul would have to draw Herr Star dick getting eating by a dog, and then replaced by a box wine spout? Give me this movie!

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None, to be frank, whoops animated ?

Not secret invasion kinda been done, old man Logan is to close to TDK

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Three part Legion story:

  • "The Lightning Saga"
  • "Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes"
  • Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds
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Secret war, wanna see Doom's bad Acid trip animated.

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also, anything from spawn

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i would love to see batman: year 100 made into an animated (or even live action) movie...

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I'd like to see Flashpoint, but I have a feeling it wont be all that.

They should also do Blackest Day, Brightest Night.... Those will be tough ones.

I'll just for Infinite Crisis though :D

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@Pokeysteve said:

I'm not really a Batman fan

I don't understand, that is logically impossible.

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Killing Joke

Hush

The Ultimates (more accurately)

Venom (1st arc)