While Man-Thing made his first MCU appearance in Werewolf By Night, he almost appeared in Kevin Smith's canceled Hulu crossover series.
Kevin Smith reveals that Man-Thing was supposed to appear in another planned television special before he appeared in Werewolf By Night. The Disney+ special presentation has garnered positive reviews from fans and critics and has once again secured another Marvel hero into the popular mainstream. Besides the titular werewolf, the swamp-based superhero Man-Thing has also achieved popularity due to his charming personality, mixed with his rather violent superpowers.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Man-Thing was created in 1971 by Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, and Gray Morrow, but despite having his own series was always seen as one of the lesser-known heroes in the Marvel Universe who was better teamed up with another character. A television film titled Man-Thing was released in 2005 on Sci-Fi Channel, where it was quickly forgotten almost as soon as it aired.
When Jeph [Loeb] was running Marvel Television... he reached out to me and he was like, 'I've got something that I think you'd be perfect for... he was like, 'Howard the Duck.' I was like, 'Of course, yes. What a no-brainer.' So we were doing four series -- the Patton Oswalt MODOK series, the Hit-Monkey series, Dazzler and Tigra, and Howard the Duck. So our crossover event, 'The Offenders,' was called 'The Offenders: Giant Sized Man Thing.
How Man-Thing's Introduction Would Have Been Different The former head of Marvel Television, Jeph Loeb, announced in 2019 that Hulu was developing four adult comedy animated television shows based on Marvel Comics characters, Howard the Duck, MODOK, Hit-Monkey, and Tigra & Dazzler. The plan was to create a separate shared universe with these characters and bring them together in a crossover titled The Offenders.
While it is unfortunate that Kevin Smith's take on the character of Man-Thing did not come to fruition, his appearance in Werewolf By Night made for a better introduction. Marvel Studios has always had a knack for taking many of their obscure characters and breathing new life into them for a wide audience. Smith and Hulu's Man-Thing would have been limited to an adult audience.
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