MCU Omissions From Comic Stories

The Comic Inspiration: House of M

What Is the Same: After bad events, Wanda Maximoff fights her grief. She makes a new reality where her fantasy becomes real. Other people get caught in her illusion.

What's Way Different: In House of M, the Scarlet Witch warps reality. Heroes like the Avengers and X-Men try to stop her. One extreme idea is to kill her. Family members Magneto and Quicksilver save her. She sends the Marvel Universe into a daze, changing everyone's lives. Later, these events happened, and the Scarlet Witch caused the mutant population's collapse.

The Comic Inspiration: Civil War

What Is the Same: An accident with super-powered people worries politicians. They demand a registration law for all super-powered individuals. Captain America opposes this; Iron Man supports it. This splits Marvel's heroes as they pick sides.

What's Way Different: The comic book event involves more heroes like the X-Men and the Punisher. Peter Parker unmasks as Spider-Man and shows his true identity. Two comic and movie differences exist. Iron Man builds prison 42 in the Negative Zone for super-powered people without a fair trial. Captain America stops fighting Iron Man but gets assassinated by a brainwashed Sharon Carter. These comic events are not permanent.

The Comic Inspiration: The Infinity Gauntlet and The Infinity War

What Is the Same: Thanos wants magical stones, not stamps. He seeks these stones to hold infinite power over the universe. Heroes see this is wrong and try to stop him.

What's Way Different: Thanos gets all six Infinity Gems to cause chaos. Nebula steals the Gauntlet from him later. The Mad Titan teams up with heroes and villains to get it back. Adam Warlock uses the Gauntlet to reverse Thanos's damage. Warlock's evil future self, Magus, tries to dirty the Gauntlet. Heroes and villains stop him; Doctor Doom tries to claim it. They stop disaster this time.

The Comic Inspiration: Spider-Man: One More Day

What Is the Same:When facing a hard choice, Spider-Man seeks magic to alter past events and secure a better future for his loved ones. He also meets Spider-Men from other universes.

What's Way Different: In the comics, Aunt May dies, and Peter Parker tries anything to bring her back. Peter's first magic attempt, using a spell against Doctor Strange's wishes, fails and only harms Peter. Later, a little girl reveals herself as Mephisto, offering Peter a chance to save May. Peter makes a deal with the devil, sacrificing his happiness—his marriage to Mary Jane. MJ also deals with Mephisto, asking for the world to forget who Spider-Man really is after the events of Civil War.

The Comic Inspiration: Captain America: The Winter Soldier

What Is the Same: Captain America finds his best friend, Bucky Barnes, alive. Bucky is now the Winter Soldier, an assassin for bad guys who puts bullets in people's heads. Cap must try to reach him before it's too late.

What's Way Different: In the comics, Bucky works for the evil Soviet general and main villain, Aleksander Lukin, who orders the Winter Soldier to assassinate the Red SkullRed Skull transfers his consciousness to the Cosmic Cube and takes over Lukin's body, like in an episode of Days of Our Lives. In the end, Cap uses the mystical Cube to break Bucky's brainwashing, restoring his memory of who he is—just by appealing to him with a “Martha… Why did you say that name?” moment.

The Comic Inspiration: Age of Ultron

What Is the Same: The artificial being Ultron plans to take over the world. Earth's Mightiest Heroes might have a response.

What's Way Different: This is the one time the comic and movie premise match, but the events differ completely. In the comic, Ultron succeeds and crushes the world. However, the comic includes multiple earths and Ultron acting from the future, requiring others to go there to stop him. This is typical comic book complexity; everything is tangled, and a map is needed to plot the plot and its details. Plus, Tony Stark did not create Ultron in the comics.

The Comic Inspiration: Thor: God of Thunder

What Is the Same: Before becoming the God Butcher, Gorr lives on a barren planet. He sees the gods fail his people, even when they need them most. After watching his loved ones suffer, he vows to kill all gods. Getting the magical and powerful Necrosword makes his task easier.

What's Way Different: Thor and Gorr the God ButcherThor and Gorr fight for ages as bitter enemies in the comics. Gorr loses his arm during one fight. Later, Gorr kills his wife for calling Thor her god. Thor eventually defeats the God Butcher using two Mjolnirs. Gorr wears a thong in the comics; Christian Bale did not show this in the MCU.

The Comic Inspiration: Planet Hulk

What Is the Same: The Hulk's spacecraft lands on planet Sakaar. There, he becomes a champion gladiator, defeating anyone who enters the arena.

What's Way Different: Hulk joins a rebellion where fighters try to free Sakaar from the Red King's rule. The gamma monster defeats the Red King, becomes the new ruler, marries Caiera, and gets pregnant. Thor does not appear to see his colleague.

The Comic Inspiration: The Ultimates

What Is the Same: S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Nick Fury starts a superhero group to protect Earth from deadly threats. Their first job is keeping Earth safe from the alien race, the Chitauri.

What's Way Different: The comic version's heroes are much rougher than the film's. The Hulk is probably not a hero. Bruce Banner is vegan; co-workers' snide remarks make him turn into the monster and eat them like worms. The Chitauri's history with Earth is more complex, going back decades. They helped the Nazis in World War II as part of their plan to conquer Earth.

The Comic Inspiration: Annihilation: Conquest

What Is the Same: A group of unlikely heroes unites to save the galaxy. They may not get along initially, but they must work together to beat the odds.

What's Way Different:Ultron takes the lead in the comics. The supervillain directs the cybernetic Phalanx in a quest to conquer the galaxy and cause trouble. Heroes like Star-Lord, Drax the Destroyer, Gamora, Phyla-Vell, Rocket, Groot, Mantis, and a certain Adam WarlockThese characters join to stop ol' buckethead from making the Marvel Universe Judgment Day.

The Comic Inspiration: Iron Man: Extremis

What Is the Same: Aldrich Killian unleashes the Extremis serum on the world. Maya Hansen gets Tony Stark's help to stop Extremis and Killian. However, the two work together; this was part of their evil plan.

What's Way Different: In Iron Man: ExtremisKillian ends his life. He never becomes the Mandarin or the main villain. Instead, Hansen becomes a key player. She thinks Extremis is out, like the Atomic Bomb. She does not die like her movie counterpart; she only gets arrested for her actions.

The Comic Inspiration: Ultimate Spider-Man

What Is the Same: This is a modern take on the classic Spidey story. Peter Parker is a teenager. He deals with high school life while running a secret superhero life. Tom Holland admitted to IGNhe took major influence from Ultimate Spider-Man for his character.

What's Way Different: Friendship is a core part of the story in Ultimate Spider-Man, Peter's friends differ. Harry Osborn is his best friend, just like in the comics. Gwen Stacy is also important to Peter. Liz Allen is not the Vulture's daughter.

The Comic Inspiration: Strange Tales

What Is the Same: Neurosurgeon Stephen Strange hurts his hands in a car crash. He starts a new career: becoming the Sorcerer Supreme. He studies under the Ancient One. He learns about the Mystic Arts. At the same time, Baron Mordo, the Ancient One's other student, grows doubtful about what he learns.

What's Way Different: In the comics, Strange finds out Mordo and Dormammu are close friends with evil plans for the Ancient One. Strange stops their plan. He gains two new villains for future stories.

The Comic Inspiration: Moon Knight: Lunatic

What Is the Same:Marc Spector is the host for the Egyptian moon god Khonshu as Moon Knight. He also experiences dissociative identity disorder. His identities have alter egos. Steven Grant becomes Mr. Knight.

What's Way Different: In the comics, the villain is less a person. It is Marc accepting his different parts. At first, he thinks he fights Khonshu to get his identity back. It is only his mind's view of the Egyptian god. Eventually, Marc accepts all these personalities are just a part of him and necessary.