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Marvel Studios has made the origin report of many champion and villains from Marvel Comics well when adapting them for theMarvel Cinematic Universe . Since 2008 , Marvel Studios has brought tons of characters from Marvel Comics into live - natural process , but there are some huge difference between some of these graphic symbol ' story on the varlet and on screen . For many MCU characters , castrate their origin stories has made them more believable , relatable , complex , and entertaining , with more fleshed - out backstories than their Marvel Comics counterparts .

Many role , such asTony Stark ’s Iron Man , Steve Rogers ' Captain America , and T’Challa ’s Black Panther , have the same , or remarkably similar , origin floor to their Marvel Comics counterparts . This certainly is n’t the case for everyone , however , butmany origin stories have been done better in the bouncy - action MCU than the comic ever did . The likes of Adam Warlock , the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver , and even Peter Parker ’s Spider - Man have had very differentorigin stories in the MCU , but this has made them much more interesting heroes .

The Marvel Cinematic Universe made some significant changes to the backstories of some of their most famed characters , from Iron Man to The Hulk .

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10Sam Wilson’s Falcon & Captain America

Sam Wilson’s Backstory Is More Meaningful In The MCU

Anthony Mackie debut asSam Wilson inCaptain America : The Winter Soldier , and quickly became a fan - favourite character in the MCU.His fast friendship with Steve Rogers was beef up because of the pair ’s shared account as members of the United States military , in which Wilson had lock as a Pararescueman using a paradigm backstage - suit that would later allow him to become the Falcon . After leaving the armed services , Wilson became a trauma counsellor helping other veteran before meeting Rogers , which is a much more elaborated backstory than his origin in Marvel Comics .

In the comic , Sam Wilson was a societal worker who discover himself on Exile Island fighting the Red Skull with Captain America - haphazardly . He forms a potent bond with a falcon , Redwing , and is convinced by Captain America to become the costumed superhero Falcon . His wing - lawsuit was create by the Black Panther , which was adapted for Wilson ’s late advancement to the part ofCaptain America in the MCU . Sam Wilson ’s parentage story in the MCU is more excited , meaningful , and connects more closely to Steve Rogers ' own backstory .

Sam Wilson ’s evolution into the MCU ’s young Captain America was also well - thought - out , and explore his identity as a Black human being much more prominently .

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9The Eternals

The Eternals’ New Origin Connects Them To The MCU’s Cosmic Stories

The decision to change theEternals ' Marvel Comics backstorywhen bringing them into the MCU was a controversial one , but their alive - military action origins really make more sensory faculty . In Marvel Comics , the Eternals were create during Celestial experiments on former humans . One Celestial created the Eternals , superior humanity , another make the Deviants , monstrous wight , and another create a dormant factor that would run to the emergence of sport . Aside from being connected to the Celestials and Deviants , this inception was wholly changed in the MCU .

2021’sEternalsrevealed that the titular beingness were , in fact , semisynthetic creations of the Celestials , rather than being naturally acquire from humans . Created in the World Forge , the Eternals were sent to world to uproot Deviants - the Celestials ' late creations - so that the aboriginal universe could farm and the Celestial ejaculate inside would develop . Changing the Eternals ' origin story in the MCU make much more sense , associate the new hero sandwich to the MCU ’s ever - flesh out cosmic stories , and even bring home the bacon anorigin for the Celestials , which makes it much in force than their Marvel Comics ancestor .

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8Adam Warlock

Adam Warlock’s Origin Story Is Much More Believable In The MCU

Adam Warlock ’s backstory in Marvel Comics is improbably complicated and Byzantine , which meant that simplifying this lineage write up work perfectly forGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 3 . In fact , Adam was first tease in one ofGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2’spost - credit scene , as he was revealed to have been created in a cocoon by the Sovereign High Priestess Ayesha . This was similar , but different , to his Marvel Comics roots , which saw Adam - then cognize as " Him " - create by a group of human scientist call off themselves the Enclave .

Adam Warlock ’s connexion to the High Evolutionary persists in both write up . In the funnies , the High Evolutionary gifts Adam the Soul Gem in return for his assistant lay aside Counter - Earth , while in the MCU , the High Evolutionary was reveal to be the creator of the Sovereign , and Adam Warlock , by extension . Adam Warlock ’s rootage story in the MCUmakes him a truly cosmic character , disunite from his Earthly beginning in the comics , but also makes him , funnily enough , more human , as he will grow and train as a normal being , rather than being created as an highly - gifted god - alike hero .

James Gunn has provided more information about Adam Warlock , who will debut in the MCU ’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol . 3 , portrayed by Will Poulter .

7Erik “Killmonger” Stevens

Killmonger’s Connection To T’Challa Makes His MCU Origin More Powerful

Michael B. Jordan ’s Killmonger was struggle to save a shoes he ’d never been .

There are many monolithic differences between Killmonger in the MCU and in Marvel Comics , most notably the fact that Killmonger in the comics is not related to T’Challa . Making this connectedness in the MCU , having T’Challa and Killmonger be cousins , allowedBlack Pantherto explore transmitted paper , which was reduced to a simple and meaningless vendetta in Marvel Comics . AlthoughKillmonger ’s origin story in the MCUis very unlike , there are also similarity , such as his mentor selling Wakanda ’s secrets , his parents being kill , and his time studying and fighting in America .

Killmonger income tax return to Wakanda and briefly override T’Challa in both Marvel Comics and the MCU . However , in the MCU , his journey to Wakanda inBlack Panthermarked the first time he ever went home , while he was raised there in Marvel Comics before being taken around the human race by his nefarious mentor , M’Demwe . This worked a lot better in the MCU , asMichael B. Jordan ’s Killmongerwas fight to save a place he ’d never been , proving his ego , but also solidify the fact that his motivation was in reality just .

6Baron Helmut Zemo

Baron Zemo’s Vendetta Against The Avengers Makes More Sense In The MCU

change made toBaron Helmut Zemo in the MCUconnected him to one of the Avengers ' previous storylines , make his blood feud against the world ’s superheroes make much more sense than it ever did in Marvel Comics . Daniel Brühl ’s Zemo was a Sokovian nobleman , Armed Forces Colonel , and member of EKO Scorpion , an elite group of soldiers . Making Zemo Sokovian mean that his actions inCaptain America : Civil Warcould be in reaction to Ultron and the Avengers put down his nation and kill his phratry .

In Marvel Comics , the German Baron Helmut Zemo comply in his father ’s footsteps to become a villain for little reason . He lay out out to capture and kill Captain America following the death of his male parent , Heinrich Zemo , but went on to become associated with a bang-up many other villains in an effort to bring Captain America down . Zemo ’s vendetta in the MCUis much more muscular , andthis has also allowed him to become something of an antihero , which would be interesting to search in the MCU ’s future , which was tantalise by Brühl in conversation withScreen Rant .

It ’s o.k. for me , I can wait . [ Laughs ] I ’m a very patient human being . No , I ’m not , but it ’s funny , because in the interim , I just wrap on a show that ’s called The Franchise , where it ’s actually a satire about the superhero universe , so it was fun to switch sides , so to say . But knowing Marvel , they have a bunch of sense of humour , so they will probably find it as shady as I did . And who knows , I think of , I ’m still not beat , I ’m very confident that I ’ll be back .

5Peter Parker’s Spider-Man

Tom Holland’s Peter Parker Has A Very Dark Spider-Man Origin Story

SincePeter Parker ’s origin story as Spider - Manhad already been see in 2002’sSpider - Manand 2012’sThe Amazing Spider - Man , Marvel Studios drop to detail this chronicle once more for Tom Holland ’s introduction as the rampart - wiggler in the MCU . rather , Holland ’s Peter Parker was inaugurate months after becoming Spider - Man , allowing him to leap out right into the action . While it ’s unbelievable spectator will see Parker being bitten in the MCU , Marvel Studios simply elongate his entire source story so that it cross his first solo trilogy .

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4Doctor Stephen Strange

Doctor Strange’s Accident Was His Own Fault In The MCU

Much ofDoctor Strange ’s origin storyis almost exactly the same in Marvel Comics and in the MCU , but there is one all-important modification that relieve oneself the MCU ’s adaptation much more effective . In Marvel Comics , the egotistical and arrogant sawbones is arrest in a car chance event , leaving his hands incompetent of execute surgery , so he turns to the Mystic Arts and the Ancient One for guidance . This sounds familiar , but in the MCU , Strange ’s car accident is actually his own fault , which is n’t the casing in Marvel Comics .

Benedict Cumberbatch ’s Doctor Strange was speaking on the phone , looking for his next affected role , and not watching the road . Making this one minor modification underlined Strange ’s downfall utterly , as he was the cause of his own misfortune . This made his transformation into one of the world ’s great superheroes even more striking and consuming . Interestingly , this give another law of similarity betweenDoctor Strange ’s backstory and that of Tony Stark ’s Iron Man , as Stark was injure during the detonation of a Stark Industries projectile in 2008’sIron Man- causing his own fall .

Doctor Strange had a fundamental part of Stephen ’s family history cut , but Doctor Strange 2 has finally managed to play it into the MCU , albeit briefly .

3Thor

Removing Thor’s Mortal Forms Makes His MCU Origin Much More Coherent

Thor ’s former sprightliness in the opening of 2011’sThoris take away straight from Marvel Comics , all the way up to his Coventry by Odin . This is where his story vary , as , in Marvel Comics , Thor was sent to Earth with no memory of his Asgardian roots , and was yield a mortal name , Dr. Donald Blake . Blake finds a walk stick that , when held , metamorphose into Mjolnir and gifts him thepowers of Thor . Odin finally restored Thor as an Asgardian , and while he then could n’t become Blake , Odin bond him to another mortal , Eric Masterson , to make unnecessary Masterson ’s life .

Donald Blake was the name of Jane Foster ’s ex - boyfriend in 2011’sThor , offer a merriment Easter egg for die - severe Marvel lover .

Ridding Thor of his mortal forms for his origin story in the MCU meant that he could constantly be seen as a godly , otherworldly form , which he ought to be . Yes , Thor ascertain more human qualities during his clip on Earth , but this evolution was only meaningful because he remembered where he ’d descend from and who he had been . Chris Hemsworth ’s Thorhas go from strength to persuasiveness since first traveling to Earth , and tying him to Donald Blake or Eric Masterson would have slowed this outgrowth massively .

2Wanda Maximoff’s Scarlet Witch & Pietro Maximoff’s Quicksilver

The Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver’s Origins Connected Them Better To The MCU

Wanda and Pietro Maximoff only have one source tale in the MCU , which already construct it less complicated , more apprehensible , and more toothsome than their various retconned backstories in Marvel Comics . In the MCU , Wanda and Pietro lost their parents during a war in Sokovia , but Wanda ’s innate abilities as a untried witch allow her to bar a bomb from going off and kill them . The twins ' abilities were then enhanced when they volunteered for a HYDRA experiment , as exposure to the Mind Stone transform theminto theScarlet Witch and Quicksilver .

Marvel Comics ' Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver were primitively portray as mutant , and villainous members of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants . Until 2015 , Wanda and Pietro were depicted as thechildren of iconic X - Men baddie Magneto , but this was retconned to make them genetically - engineered products of the High Evolutionary instead , and not mutant at all . This knotty stemma tarradiddle , and its many alterations , mean that the simplified reading in the MCU is much clear and makes more sentiency , though there are still hopes that Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor - Johnson ’s heroes will be unwrap to be mutants .

The MCU ’s Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver could be connected to the X - Men if one major villain theory turns out to be true in Marvel Studios ' future .

1Thanos

Marvel Studios Made Thanos A Hero In His Own Right

Despite his abhorrent methods , Thanos was a much more relatable , human - like character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe .

There is still a mass of unrevealed information regardingThanos ' backstory in the MCU , especially after the introduction of his Eternal brother in Phase 4 . However , what is know of his origin write up makes him something of an antihero in the MCU . In Marvel Comics , Thanos was a penis of the Eternals metal money , but behave the Deviant gene . Bullied as a child , Thanos became obsess with nihilism and information , and eventually augment his physical speciality . Thanos then fix out on his rampage across the cosmos in an effort to romance the forcible incarnation of Death .

This was wildly dissimilar in the MCU . Thanos wanted to save his homeworld of Titan , and propose the random genocide of half the population to squelch overpopulation . He was considered mad and exiled , but carried out this end on other worlds , and finally the entire cosmos after acquiring the Infinity Stones . This transformed Thanos into an almost - selfless hero , as he wanted to save the macrocosm . Despite his repugnant methods , Thanos was a much more relatable , human - like part in theMarvel Cinematic Universe , which made him even more terrific .

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Upcoming MCU Movies

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Deadpool & Wolverine

July 26 , 2024

Captain America : Brave New World

February 14 , 2025

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May 5 , 2025

The Fantastic Four

July 25 , 2025

Blade

November 7 , 2025

Avengers 5

May 1 , 2026

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May 7 , 2027