Blade
The film that proved a Marvel adaptation could work, two years before anyone else tried.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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The 1990s 1 title
The 2000s 12 titles
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Blade II
A truce with the things he hunts, against something that hunts them.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Daredevil
The first go at the blind lawyer, twelve years before the good one.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Hulk
Ang Lee's version, cut like a comic page and much stranger than its reputation.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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The Punisher
A man loses everything and works through a list. Sunnier than it sounds, which is the problem.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Blade: Trinity
The third one, with a team he did not ask for.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Elektra
A spin-off nobody asked for, out barely two years after the film it spun off.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Man-Thing
A swamp horror film that went straight to cable. Included for completeness, not enthusiasm.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Fantastic Four
The 2005 one. Bright, silly, and much less embarrassed about it than what came later.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Blade: The Series — Season 1
Twelve episodes on cable, then nothing. Very few people have seen it.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Ghost Rider
A stunt rider sells his soul and gets a flaming skull out of it.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
The sequel, and a chrome figure on a surfboard who is better than the film around him.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Punisher: War Zone
A reboot four years later, far nastier, and quietly the best of the three.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
The 2010s 2 titles
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
A sequel that gives up on being a normal film about twenty minutes in.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.
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Fantastic Four
The grim one. Famously troubled, and it shows in every frame.
A separate continuity with its own version of these characters. Listing them beside the MCU's would merge two people who share a name and nothing else.