Mr. Bean Joins the MCU?! Or perhaps I’ve been tricked…
DISCLAIMER: My sole source of information for this entire article is my son’s friend, Creg, who tells me about cool stuff when I drop them off at soccer. I know I should diversify my sources, but Creg’s never led me astray in the past. (Except the one time he told me that beehive was empty. But that was an honest mistake! Turns out he was thinking of a different beehive with a similar silhouette).
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With the introduction of Mr. Bean into the beloved Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s reported that the studio’s president, Kevin Feige, wanted “to explore a different kind of villain” than the one fans are used to.
“With Loki, we explored Chaotic Evil and with Thanos, we explored Lawful Evil— so Mr. Bean was the logical next step.”
The teaser trailer revealed at Comic Con revealed a selfish, bumbling Mr. Bean stumbling upon the Entropy Stone (previously thought to be destroyed) in a museum’s lost & found box. When the aforementioned Bean tries to steal the precious stone as a souvenir, he accidentally swallows it in a matter of seconds. The result is an ungodly amount of power in the hands of a man with little to no self-control, empathy, or understanding for human social cues.
“We felt it was quite a timely story to be honest— what happens when one of the most powerful men in the world happens to be the biggest buffoon of all time?”
Feige pointed out that the bar for escapism in today’s world is far lower than it’s been in quite a long time.
In a reality that feels full of dystopian dictators and evildoers, living in the Beaniverse doesn’t sound half bad! Heck, I’ll take Chaotic Neutral over Chaotic Evil any day of the week!
Just don’t tell that to Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, who clashes with Mr. Bean in the second scene of the trailer:
“You’re standing on my shoe, bub.”
The audience roars with anticipation as Mr. Bean gurgles and backpedals sheepishly, accidentally stepping on Ant-Man in the process.
This incident, known in the comics as “the first step of war,” sets up the name of the upcoming film:
Don’t miss AVENGERS: BEAN WAR set to release this July.
If this movie is real, it’s going to be legendary.
And if my son’s friend, Creg, tricked me about all this, I’m telling his mom this time for sure.
