Marvel Misfits

Not quite MCU. Not quite forgotten. Definitely weird.

Now Playing Podcast gathers the outcasts for Marvel Misfits—a look at the Marvel movies that technically count, but don’t quite fit. We’re talking Howard the Duck, the swampy obscurity of Man-Thing, and the hyper-violent vigilante swagger of Kick-Ass.

These are the adaptations that slipped through the cracks before the cinematic universe machine locked everything down. Some were ahead of their time. Some barely arrived at all. All of them feel like alternate-universe Marvel, where the rules are looser and the results are unpredictable.

The Now Playing Podcast hosts dig into these oddball entries to see whether they’re hidden gems, misguided experiments, or exactly the kind of chaos that makes comic book cinema interesting.