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Rob is a Marvel Comic Book Fan of over 30 years - Will is a MCU Fan who has never read a Marvel Comic! Together they’re re-watching Marvel movies & TV shows and comparing the original comic books to the movies that become a global phenomenon! In this podcast you’ll got lots of fun, lots of laughs, and more Marvel trivia than you’ll know what to do with!
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9 hours ago
9 hours ago
To celebrate our 5th Anniversary we asked listeners to vote for the five best episodes we’ve done in the last five years, so throughout April we’re releasing The Year 5 Top 5! Our deep-dive into the failed 90’s Captain America movie is the most recent episode to feature in the Year 5 Top 5, from February of 2025. Listener Graddlecakes said “the behind the scenes section is maybe the very best you’ve ever done”.
How and why did this Marvel movie become a complete low budget disaster? We’ll take you behind-the-scenes on how Cannon Films got into the Marvel movie business, how JD Salinger’s son was cast as Steve Rogers, and how the whole production lost its entire six million dollar budget right before filming! It’s a crazy story of a film being re-written on the fly, cameras running out of film, and the studio hating the finished movie so much they re-edited the entire thing … and made it worse! We’ll also explore Captain America in the 1980’s to uncover perhaps the most interesting and political time in the history of the character. And we’ll deep-dive the movie scene-by-scene as only MVM can!
Support the show and get awesome bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel
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https://will-preston.co.uk

9 hours ago
9 hours ago
To celebrate our 5th Anniversary we asked listeners to vote for the five best episodes we’ve done in the last five years, so throughout April we’re releasing The Year 5 Top 5! Our deep-dive into the failed 90’s Captain America movie is the most recent episode to feature in the Year 5 Top 5, from February of 2025. Listener Graddlecakes said “the behind the scenes section is maybe the very best you’ve ever done”.
How and why did this Marvel movie become a complete low budget disaster? We’ll take you behind-the-scenes on how Cannon Films got into the Marvel movie business, how JD Salinger’s son was cast as Steve Rogers, and how the whole production lost its entire six million dollar budget right before filming! It’s a crazy story of a film being re-written on the fly, cameras running out of film, and the studio hating the finished movie so much they re-edited the entire thing … and made it worse! We’ll also explore Captain America in the 1980’s to uncover perhaps the most interesting and political time in the history of the character. And we’ll deep-dive the movie scene-by-scene as only MVM can!
Support the show and get awesome bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel
marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel
https://twitter.com/marvelversus
https://twitter.com/robhalden
https://robhalden.com
https://will-preston.co.uk

3 days ago
3 days ago
We continue our Apocalypse Takeover month with this fantastic companion piece to the X-Men: Apocalypse movie! So many people were excited for the 2016 movie because they were first exposed to the character in the brilliant X-Men Animated Series of the 90s! So join Rob and Will for a deep-dive into the 2 episodes that introduced the world to Apocalypse for the first time! We’ll bring you the full story of how Angel became Archangel, the history of the Four Horsemen, Apocalypse’s connection to Wolverine and the Hulk, the Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants, and we’ll answer the question “is the cartoon Apocalypse better than the movie Apocalypse?”
This episode covers the Season 1 episodes “The Cure” and “Come The Apocalypse”
Support the show and get awesome bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel
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https://robhalden.com
https://will-preston.co.uk

Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
The Year 5 Top 5: X-Men 97 - Part Four
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
To celebrate our 5th Anniversary we asked listeners to vote for the five best episodes we’ve done in the last five years, so throughout April we’re releasing The Year 5 Top 5! Rob and Will take a deep-dive into the smash-hit Marvel animated series X-Men 97 and ask the question - is this the greatest X-Men project of all time? Should the MCU learn lessons from this cartoon show?! We take you behind the scenes on the making of this series, how and why a revival of the classic X-Men cartoon from the 90’s was needed, and what this series does BETTER than the X-Men movies! We’ll explore the history and trivia behind Magneto leading the X-Men, the relationship between Rogue and Gambit, just how overlooked Cyclops has been as a character and leader, the Sinister story of Jean Grey and her clone The Goblin Queen, the origins of Morph, Storm, Forge, Mojo, Jubilee, Bastion, and so much more!
In part four we explore the episodes;
"Tolerance Is Extinction Part One”
"Tolerance Is Extinction Part Two”
"Tolerance Is Extinction Part Three”
Support the show and get awesome bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel
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https://twitter.com/robhalden
https://robhalden.com
https://will-preston.co.uk

Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
The Year 5 Top 5: X-Men 97 - Part Three
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
To celebrate our 5th Anniversary we asked listeners to vote for the five best episodes we’ve done in the last five years, so throughout April we’re releasing The Year 5 Top 5! Rob and Will take a deep-dive into the smash-hit Marvel animated series X-Men 97 and ask the question - is this the greatest X-Men project of all time? Should the MCU learn lessons from this cartoon show?! We take you behind the scenes on the making of this series, how and why a revival of the classic X-Men cartoon from the 90’s was needed, and what this series does BETTER than the X-Men movies! We’ll explore the history and trivia behind Magneto leading the X-Men, the relationship between Rogue and Gambit, just how overlooked Cyclops has been as a character and leader, the Sinister story of Jean Grey and her clone The Goblin Queen, the origins of Morph, Storm, Forge, Mojo, Jubilee, Bastion, and so much more!
In part three we explore the episodes;
"Remember It"
"Lifedeath – Part 2"
"Bright Eyes"
Support the show and get awesome bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel
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https://twitter.com/robhalden
https://robhalden.com
https://will-preston.co.uk

Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
The Year 5 Top 5: X-Men 97 - Part Two
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
To celebrate our 5th Anniversary we asked listeners to vote for the five best episodes we’ve done in the last five years, so throughout April we’re releasing The Year 5 Top 5! Rob and Will take a deep-dive into the smash-hit Marvel animated series X-Men 97 and ask the question - is this the greatest X-Men project of all time? Should the MCU learn lessons from this cartoon show?! We take you behind the scenes on the making of this series, how and why a revival of the classic X-Men cartoon from the 90’s was needed, and what this series does BETTER than the X-Men movies! We’ll explore the history and trivia behind Magneto leading the X-Men, the relationship between Rogue and Gambit, just how overlooked Cyclops has been as a character and leader, the Sinister story of Jean Grey and her clone The Goblin Queen, the origins of Morph, Storm, Forge, Mojo, Jubilee, Bastion, and so much more!
In part two we explore the episodes;
To Me, My X-Men
Mutant Liberation Begins
Fire Made Flesh
Motendo / Lifedeath – Part 1
Support the show and get awesome bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel
marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel
https://twitter.com/marvelversus
https://twitter.com/robhalden
https://robhalden.com
https://will-preston.co.uk

Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
The Year 5 Top 5: X-Men 97 - Part One
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
To celebrate our 5th Anniversary we asked listeners to vote for the five best episodes we’ve done in the last five years, so throughout April we’re releasing The Year 5 Top 5! Rob and Will take a deep-dive into the smash-hit Marvel animated series X-Men 97 and ask the question - is this the greatest X-Men project of all time? Should the MCU learn lessons from this cartoon show?! We take you behind the scenes on the making of this series, how and why a revival of the classic X-Men cartoon from the 90’s was needed, and what this series does BETTER than the X-Men movies! We’ll explore the history and trivia behind Magneto leading the X-Men, the relationship between Rogue and Gambit, just how overlooked Cyclops has been as a character and leader, the Sinister story of Jean Grey and her clone The Goblin Queen, the origins of Morph, Storm, Forge, Mojo, Jubilee, Bastion, and so much more!
In part one we explore the history of the original X-Men Animated Series from the 90’s, and the story behind how and why Marvel have returned to this animated universe so many years later!
Support the show and get awesome bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel
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https://robhalden.com
https://will-preston.co.uk

Monday Apr 14, 2025
Monday Apr 14, 2025
To celebrate our 5th anniversary we’re turning the whole month of April over to the X-Men’s greatest villain - Apocalypse! Apocalypse April continues with our MASSIVE scene-by-scene deep-dive into X-Men: Apocalypse - the most controversial X-Men movie of all time! We'll examine all the problems and faults with this movie, the time-jump and continuity issues that hold it back, as well as all the scenes it does really well. And we explore tons of Marvel history and trivia on the origins of Apocalypse and his powers, and his connection to other Marvel villains! We’ll find out just how powerful Apocalypse really is, dive into the twisted history of Psylocke, expose Marvel’s first mutants, the tragedy of Magneto, and bring you the secrets of THE PUNCH DIMENSION!
Support the show and get awesome bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel
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https://twitter.com/robhalden
https://robhalden.com
https://will-preston.co.uk

Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
The Year 5 Top 5: Avengers Endgame - Part Three
Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
To celebrate our 5th Anniversary we asked listeners to vote for the five best episodes we’ve done in the last five years, so throughout April we’re releasing The Year 5 Top 5! Our journey through the Infinity Saga started in 2020 and finally came to its conclusion in August 2024 with our 6 hour deep-dive into Avengers Endgame. The longest edition we’ve ever done, our first 3 parter, and in the words of listener Phoenix Phil “MVM simply operating several leagues beyond other podcasts.” Joins Rob and Will as they explore the production history, the comic book origins of Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet, and then our scene-by-scene deep-dive into the movie, packed with tons of Marvel history and trivia.
Support the show and get awesome bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel
marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel
https://twitter.com/marvelversus
https://twitter.com/robhalden
https://robhalden.com
https://will-preston.co.uk

Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
The Year 5 Top 5: Avengers Endgame - Part Two
Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
To celebrate our 5th Anniversary we asked listeners to vote for the five best episodes we’ve done in the last five years, so throughout April we’re releasing The Year 5 Top 5! Our journey through the Infinity Saga started in 2020 and finally came to its conclusion in August 2024 with our 6 hour deep-dive into Avengers Endgame. The longest edition we’ve ever done, our first 3 parter, and in the words of listener Phoenix Phil “MVM simply operating several leagues beyond other podcasts.” Joins Rob and Will as they explore the production history, the comic book origins of Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet, and then our scene-by-scene deep-dive into the movie, packed with tons of Marvel history and trivia.
Support the show and get awesome bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel
marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel
https://twitter.com/marvelversus
https://twitter.com/robhalden
https://robhalden.com
https://will-preston.co.uk