Was that from official source?
If so, I would be surprised because I don't see the big deal, they could have called the symbiote sowrd from Gorr something else or just change slightly, like they have changed Captain America's shield from adamantium to vibranium, because adamantium was a X-men thing with Wolverine and all that,
Unless Marvel really wants to do a King In black MCU take. I haven't read that even, because I have no clue what the fuck is going on in the marvel comics but I took a look at people's reaction to it, and it wasn't good. Marvel keeps trying these events, and it is just no landing.
yeah the issue is a combo of Covid fuckery with the industry and people being a little unsatisfied with the execution of King in Black. The concept was good, the writer was fine, it's just that they didn't go "all the way" with it like they used to in events like Civil War or even Spider-Island imo.
You had the Sentry get taken out like Worf, then you had everything go from 0 to 100 in KIB. An issue was not being able to explore the interaction between the heroes and the "venomized" heroes outside of a little Fantastic Four stuff.
Knull's a decent pick for a grand saga tier villain if they wanted to try him. He's got the potential to be as iconic as Kang or Apocalypse or Thanos if they really tried.
It's speculation on my part, so what I meant to say that it is "likely a concession by Marvel Studios".
They're already forcing elements from Marvel NOW! and All New All Different into the MCU with Jane Foster as Thor and Riri Williams as Ironheart which also weren't well received when trying them in the comics so I don't think it's a stretch for Knull to be introduced.
Jane Foster as Thor has the potential to work in the MCU and wasn't that horribly received in comics. I will grant you that anyone outside of Jason Aaron did not know how to write her properly, but that's probably because no one else knew what he had planned for her. Probably helped that she was an established character too. I'd say she's probably the most well recepted of the Marvel Now! girl heroes push.
(Everyone hates Ironheart, Spider-Gwen is 100% a ticking time bomb villain or major event character death, Kamala Khan's a lukewarmly regarded character at best, modern Squirrel Girl is a bit nonsensical and boring, Gwenpool doesn't sell books, Nadia Pym is an afterthought, and the only reason people care about Viv Vision is that she's Vision's daughter and came out of that really critically acclaimed Tom King
Vision comic. America Chavez is probably the worst offender of all because they 100% took a blank slate niche character from a niche miniseries that they could have done anything with and turned her into a character with a personality defined by SJW buzzwords. That and Marvel keeps trying to push her solo series when the books just don't sell. At least the aforementioned characters are mostly legacies that can pop up in associated books.)
Here's a really rushed TLDR on Jane Foster's Thor. It wasn't well-received bc other writers kept going for the "strong woman" stereotype.
The plot's a bit long to explain but the TLDR is that Thor lost the ability to use his hammer due to Nick Fury telling him Gorr was right. Jane had terminal cancer and while it was getting treated by all sorts of things (including Asgardian magic), her use of Mjolnir would undo any and all progress in the cancer treatments. As she was aware that Thor couldn't lift Mjolnir, she wound up using it, again and again, to save the world because great power, great responsibility, do the right thing, etc. It was revealed that Odin did nothing to give the hammer back to Thor because, iirc, he didn't want his son to die fighting the Midgard serpent in Ragnarok.
Jane FosThor dies during the War of the Realms ending and comes back as a Valkyrie.
To be fair. Knull is cool as a large-scale antagonist. So he can work under different circumstances.
Since when KIB wasn't well-received?! I heard nothing but good things about that story in particular. It is no TDKR but it is good for what it is. That's quite surprising to hear.
But I doubt they will do it as the dedication to built up to that story would take something close to Thanos. Which I am certain Bob has no patience for with his disdain toward Venom.
the whole Absolute Carnage and King in Black stuff was pretty alright, I just think it could have been extended more to the rest of the books with more character studies and less spectacle bc it felt like a synopsis of grand events rather than a full and satisfying payoff.
Then again, Donny Cates is a pretty competent writer and had been building up to those events and one could say that KIB got fucked bc of the general covid retardation (Hey, at least they got an alright story out of it, unlike Empyre. That event got royally fucked and it's a damn shame).
Bob's going to blow his brains out when the next Black Panther movie comes out and it's just a movie with Shuri acting like an autocratic monarch who calls african-americans "niggers" and "monkeys".