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My Spidey Sense Is Tingling

The Avengers To Team Up With Phineas and Ferb

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 2:01 pm, July 24th, 2012


After fighting off hordes of Chitauri and nearly destroying the entirety of New York City, you’d think The Avengers might sneak in a little downtime notwithstanding their post-battle shawarma run.  But as you’d probably guess, Disney wouldn’t dream of temporarily putting this $1 billion cash cow out to pasture — so, in a new crossover announced at Comic-Con, our favorite Marvel heroes will come swinging, smashing, and hammer-flying into the universe of Phineas and Ferb in the summer of 2013.

The crossover episode, entitled “Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel,” will have Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor and Hulk robbed of their powers and dropped into Danville as part of a plot orchestrated by the evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz. Additionally, the heroes will have to battle four iconic super-villains — the Red Skull, Whiplash, Venom and M.O.D.O.K. — who are in cahoots with Dr. Doofenshmirtz. It’s too bad this episode will turn out to be such a boy’s only club — where’s Black Widow?

As The LA Times points out, Disney never does anything accidental with their properties. Spider-Man, Iron Man,  and Thor all have major movies slated for 2013 and 2014, ABC is planning a live-action Hulk TV series, and Whiplash, Venom and Red Skull have all been featured in films. Say, do we know who the villain is for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, yet? This isn’t the first time M.O.D.O.K. has been mentioned as a potential villain for the Captain America sequel — even Christopher Markus, one of the The First Avenger’s screenwriters, mentioned back in August 2011 that he’d love to see the super-smart floating creep to make an appearance in the on-screen Captain America world: “I love M.O.D.O.K and I think you could make a terrifying movie with M.O.D.O.K but nobody seems to be on my side at the momentum,” Markus said. “I will win you over to Peter Dinklage as M.O.D.O.K,” he says. “If he came around the corner and you saw him floating there you would be terrified. It would be amazing.” Indeed.

Granted, M.O.D.O.K is so silly-looking that the chances of this ever happening are slim to none, but I’ll just say it now: I whole-heartedly endorse Game of Thrones favorite Peter Dinklage playing M.O.D.O.K and I think it would be a nice change from the typical super-villains that we see in movies. And hey, since Marvel seems to be going down the unusual character path with the inclusion of Rocket Raccoon in their upcoming Guardians of The Galaxy film, this theory might not be entirely off-base, right?

(via The LA Times.)

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  • Anonymous

    More important than the Marvel heroes – the spectacular return of The Beak and Dangiraffe!

  • Anonymous

    Phineas and Ferb is a freaking boys club. There are three girl characters, and each one is a played out trope. :I I do not get the love for this show.

  • John Wao

    …and thus the prophecy is fulfilled, that the acquisition of Marvel by Disney would lead to Spider-man in mouse ears….

  • Anonymous

    How many episodes have you watched?

    It’s a show about the sheer creativity of childhood.  Like Codename Kids Next Door, all the way back to The Little Rascals, these are the creations we all wish we could have done.

    It espouses the single most glorious message ever shared about the Summer – “don’t just SIT there, DO something!”

    And it’s far from only three girl characters – The Fireside Girls, and Doctor DoofenSchmirtz’s daughter Vanessa are regulars as well.

    Over and above that, they deliver an original, staggeringly catchy song in each episode. 

    Plus, Richard O’Brien as P&F’s dad.  This alone should get Dan and Swampy into Heaven.

    Truly, I think you may have a digestive disorder. Your body may not be able to process awesome. 

  • Anonymous

    I have said it many times already but yeah Dinkladge would own as Modok.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R7GVNIKWG3S2UTHEQOMSZXT4M4 Anna B

    Thank you.  I have no quarrel with SuperLayne, but I think I died a little when I read her post.

  • Layne Magic

    Whoa, I didn’t think I would upset anyone! D: I will admit, my viewing isn’t exhaustive. I can get behind the message, yea, but I don’t think it does nearly as good a job as KND and other shows. I get so sick of the focus all being on special, smart little boys who can do no wrong. From what I have seen, the sister is a boy-crazed brother-terorizer, and the little girl with the bow is Panini, Tooty, and any other over-qualified, tottally ignored crushing girl. Maybe I haven’t seen enough, but like a lot of what Disney does, there is still that “Weird is wrong” overtone.

    They hit the mark with Gravity Falls, though.

  • J Funderburg

    Candace Gertrude Flynn is the Queen of Mars. Your Argument is Invalid.

  • http://twitter.com/Totz_the_Plaid Totz_the_Plaid

    Phineas and Ferb = awesome.
    The current Spider-Man cartoon = crappy.
    Making this canon = pit in my stomach.

    I’d rather see a Perry the Platypus/Pet Avengers crossover, or have both properties show up in a Kingdom Hearts game. If this were a non-canon crossover with the sadly cancelled “Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes”, I’d be all over it, but mixing a brilliant property with a terrible one is just a bad idea.

  • http://twitter.com/Totz_the_Plaid Totz_the_Plaid

     Only three? It’s true that Candace, Stacy and Isabella are the only female regulars, but there are over a dozen named Fireside Girls, and each and every one of them is a pre-pubescent badass!

  • http://twitter.com/storm25 Katie

    Yes Iron Man loses his powers. …..wait what. His suit then? Is he dead now?

    Also I assume they mean Bruce Banner is with them as the Hulk kinda is his powers. Also how can something that takes away Spider-Man’s powers take away the power of a god? /sigh. I’m thinking about this too much. 

  • http://twitter.com/notcrunchy Dux K-S

    I am so excited for this! I love Phineas and Ferb, and Avengers! I agree with Totz about how much better it would be if it was a crossover with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, but alas. 

    Also, I don’t know how anyone can dislike a show that has an episode called “Remains of the Platypus” where Perry gets brainwashed into being a butler. (Seriously, who makes a reference to a classic literary work few people have read on a kid’s show? I love it!)

  • http://twitter.com/Mia_says_what Mia R.

    This sounds like the best thing of all time. 

  • http://twitter.com/IAmSteamgirl Steamgirl

    I admit, I’ve been waiting for this ever since Disney bought Marvel.

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