COMICS: Marvel Is Making Plans to Kill More Characters

COMICS: Marvel Is Making Plans to Kill More Characters

It seems like Marvel is planning to kill major characters in the name of sales.

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By Hawksblueyes - Feb 12, 2011 08:02 AM EST
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Source: Bleeding Cool



Due to the success they had in killing off The Human Torch in Fantastic Four, Senior Vice President of sales at Marvel Comics David Gabriel announced that Marvel is planning to kill a major character every quarter. He also added "this is not a joke."

From Bleeding Cool...

Gabriel did however specify that these storylines are NOT about killing characters. What’s key is what comes AFTER the deaths. For example, after the Human Torch death, Spidey joined the team and the concept of “FF” got an entirely new focus as Future Foundation.


Hawksblueyes:If this is truly Marvels plan, I really have no idea what to even begin to say about it. I hope this is either untrue or never happens.
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Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 2/12/2011, 8:38 AM
What the Hell?
LucasMend
LucasMend - 2/12/2011, 8:40 AM
lol? Doesnt Marvel gets tired of killing people?
Jesus.
Nice find Hawks!
Dumegg
Dumegg - 2/12/2011, 8:52 AM
marvel characters never STAY dead. wait a few months, some how they always
come back to life.
Spideyshawn
Spideyshawn - 2/12/2011, 8:52 AM
Lolz @ the this is not a joke like its a hostage situation.
Im a marvel fan but ill gladly keep my collection of comics and stop reading new ones if your gonna kill the history on page.
Morningstar
Morningstar - 2/12/2011, 8:53 AM
don't see them doing this even if the characters do come back fairly rapidly, they will only get a short term boost in team books and they will lose out on all of the caharacters solo books, so i would say if they have a well selling or more than one solo book they're safe. Hell whens the last time johnny storm was in a comic other than FF? easy character to get rid of for a while
MassExecutions
MassExecutions - 2/12/2011, 8:54 AM
Nothing like cheapening an already cheapened event type. As if comic book deaths weren't already meaningless.
PaulRom
PaulRom - 2/12/2011, 8:54 AM
Lolwut?
If they kill off Spidey, Iron Man, Wolverine and/or the Hulk, I'll shoot the president of Marvel.
THIS IS ALL DISNEY'S FAULT.
Exiles
Exiles - 2/12/2011, 8:56 AM
well DC started all this high profile "death" with superman.

@PaulRom and how exactly is it disneys fault
daveB
daveB - 2/12/2011, 8:58 AM
When are they going to kill off Donald Duck?
rbfn04
rbfn04 - 2/12/2011, 9:01 AM
Did I fail to see something or it looks like Johnny is more lost than dead? We never saw him die, just be trapped in the negative zone.
Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 2/12/2011, 9:03 AM
Even though Gabriel announced this and it's being reported as news, I find it difficult to believe that Marvel would not be aware of all the downsides to following this course with their characters.
StuckInPanels
StuckInPanels - 2/12/2011, 9:07 AM
well this is an interesting development......who should die? Now Hopefully they don't die for the sake of dying to sell comics. If they upped the ante with a new death from a recent character, like in Avengers Academy, one of the students die...that would be interesting
Xandera
Xandera - 2/12/2011, 9:28 AM
I'm shocked... ;^P
supertrackmonkey
supertrackmonkey - 2/12/2011, 9:33 AM
Watch Marvel do their own version of Blackest Night now.

I have to say though, I'm getting really tired of MARVEL continuously saying that what follows the event is going to forever change the MARVEL universe to its core.

On a brighter note, I just read the first volume of Hickman's run on Fantastic Four and it was a great read. I just ordered Volumes 2 & 3, and I'm looking forward to volume 4 and the death of story line coming in May.
tazmaniak
tazmaniak - 2/12/2011, 9:39 AM
They've already killed a lot of people in the last 2 years, though I think one or two have returned.

Nightcrawler
Cable
Hercules
Ares
The Sentry
Gabe Jones
Loki
Leonard Samson
Doctor Voodoo
Zeus
Hera
Ariel
S'Yan
Black Bolt
Gabriel Summers
Drax The Destroyer
Phyla-Vell
Johnny Storm
Yukio
Janet Van Dyne
Phobos
Bullseye
Forge
G. W. Bridge
Madame Web
Nightmare
Silver Samurai
Mattie Franklin
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 2/12/2011, 9:52 AM
I wish FOX would kill the X-MEN FRANCHISE! : P


Sweet find @ Hawks buddy!
Jer3miah
Jer3miah - 2/12/2011, 10:08 AM
Marvel ran out of ideas since after Civil War. That was one of the best and probably last great story arc they've pushed out. Everything else since has either been mediocre or FAIL.
marvel72
marvel72 - 2/12/2011, 10:10 AM
killing off characters,then bringing them back could be a way to sort out some of the f*cked up shit at marvel i.e spider-man & mary jane crap.
MakeTheTransition
MakeTheTransition - 2/12/2011, 10:14 AM
Marvel has been notorious for doing things that are absolutely poor business decisions. If they kill of characters its not for the sake of telling a good story, but it will be to reduce the number of books being published. "Where's book "x"... oh wait they killed that character."
BIGBMH
BIGBMH - 2/12/2011, 10:17 AM
That's quite enough of this temporary killing business. I can go at least 5 years without having another major character killed off
Spidey1996
Spidey1996 - 2/12/2011, 10:18 AM
Why would Marvel want to kill off their own characters?
That's just stupid!
thunderforce
thunderforce - 2/12/2011, 10:21 AM
Damn thats stupid , I guess they can do a crossover at the end so the last Marvel character left can go after the dragonballs lol .
CoolioVids
CoolioVids - 2/12/2011, 10:23 AM
HA wow
"teens bet on whos gonna die next probably the red head shes screwed"

thumbs up to who ever gets that
Flashito
Flashito - 2/12/2011, 10:27 AM
Geeeezzz.....AND THIS IS WHY IM DC GUY!!!
croniccris
croniccris - 2/12/2011, 10:34 AM
Maaaaaaan this sux I really wish they would think of some better ideas
Gunslinger
Gunslinger - 2/12/2011, 10:39 AM
Are you serious? This is almost as bad as Grant Morrison anally raping Batman... Killing characters for the sake of sales? What's the point? We all know they all come back! Nothing's sacred anymore... Even Jason Todd and Bucky came back. Come back Quesada!!!!
Pony
Pony - 2/12/2011, 10:44 AM
In regard to killing the Human Torch...It seems like all that Marvel did was to give Fox who owns the movie rights to the X-Men, Spider-Man, and the FF-4 a very cheap way of retaining the (movie) rights. I could be wrong, but now, all that Fox has to do is put Spidey in a movie with the FF-4 every 5 years to keep the rights, so instead making a movie for each character all they have to is put them all in one and say they’re just trying to be true to the new comic story line. Correct?

Nice job Marvel…not!
SWonder916
SWonder916 - 2/12/2011, 10:46 AM
@ThunderForce LoL!Best idea ever.Haha
superotherside
superotherside - 2/12/2011, 10:51 AM
honestly they should just kill of ultimate, 616 universe totally make a new universe and don't put Brian Michael Bendis in charge of it! put Greg Weisman in charge! he did a great job on spectacular spiderman!
mcskunky
mcskunky - 2/12/2011, 10:56 AM
I heard they were killing off JRJR
sheebz
sheebz - 2/12/2011, 11:00 AM
wtf....well i say as long as the characters are insignificant..but then again there could be some people out there who are fully attacthed to that one hero...gah...idk..

marvel's startin to get pretty lame...I may fully switch teams to DC

according to facebook...1.2 mil people like marvel and a mere 200k like DC

kinda sad...
skullboy
skullboy - 2/12/2011, 11:12 AM
This shite is why I stopped buying Marvel. There's chances where certain characters don't come back for a number of years. They feel this is the only way to boost sales and people just fall for it I don't know why. I don't know why fans enjoy character deaths. You see, this just shows how Joe Quesada's departure as EIC won't change much seeing how Axel Alonso has been his lapdog for all these years.

Why don't Marvel kill useless characters like Speedball instead?
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