Should Conan be part of the Marvel universe?

[superduperman]

Now that Marvel has re-aquired the rights to Conan franchise, should they make him part of their universe? Or should he be in his own universe?

[Intothevoid]

Honestly he feels out of place running with all the other heroes in Secret Avengers, he should be part of the Marvel Multiverse and have his own universe but not really interact with the rest of the 616 Marvel, IMO.

[scribbleMind]

I don't like him in the present. I've considered what would happen if they through him in Weirdworld, and it still doesn't really work for me. What they COULD do is simply make Conan a part of Marvel's past and...you know...keep him there, but allude to other things in the present. For instance, Conan vs Khonshu worshippers and one of Khonshu's old avatars could really work. Conan interacting with old Atlantis could work, so on and so forth.

[Riv86672]

In my own personal head canon he’s always been a part of the MU.
The Hyborean Age was woven into Marvel’s history in the early seventies; my two favorite What Ifs are V1 #13 What if Conan The Barbarian Walked The Earth Today, and V1 #43 What if Conan The Barbarian Were Stranded in The Twentieth Century. One of my favorite Marvel Team Up issues was V1 #79 where Spidey teamed up w. Red Sonja (who’d possessed Mary Jane’s body) to fight Kulan Gath.

Seeing Conan in Savage Avengers has been a hoot. From fighting Wolverine to eating dinner w. Doom to watching lucha libre matches and teaming up w. Venom to fight alien invaders, the guy takes everything in stride, nothing phases him.
That’s Conan in a nutshell.

[Doombot]

He should be part of the MU as it's history. You can tell endless tales there, in his own time. Conan running around with Wolverine and Captain America etc, is ridiculous to me, even for comics.

[Riv86672]

No more ridiculous than a Norse God running around w. the aforementioned Captain America, a WWII super soldier revived after being in suspended animation for 70+ years and both of them hang out w. a billionaire industrialist who made an advanced suit of armor in a cave, w. a box of scraps.

[Doombot]

No more ridiculous than a Norse God running around w. the aforementioned Captain America, a WWII super soldier revived after being in suspended animation for 70+ years and both of them hang out w. a billionaire industrialist who made an advanced suit of armor in a cave, w. a box of scraps.

It's more ridiculous in that Conan has never really been seen anywhere but in ancient barbarian times, fighting other people who also have swords and animals skins. Thor has always been a character that is, one, a god, and two, seen traveling to all kinds of crazy worlds and dimensions. Ka-Zar is similar, as he never seems to be anything but out of place when he leaves the Savage Land.

[PCN24454]

He's not a part of the Marvel Universe until he's teamed with Spider-Man.

(Unless he has and I don't remember.)

[phantom1592]

Ehhhh... In the past is the best way to do it, but my real opinion is 'If they can KEEP the rights'. Marvel has had a lot of trouble in the past with having fun and interesting characters crossover and team up... only to lose the rights later and be forbidden from mentioning, reprinting those issues. GI JOE, Transformers, ROM, Godzilla... For a company so focused on tpbs, it's REALLY dangerous to make a character they MAY not have the rights to in 5 years an integral part fo the story...

[JudicatorPrime]

I'm not saying that anachronisms can't work, but just not Conan. If the Savage Land is still around, maybe he can go there? Or maybe he can be sent to one of the many dimensional realms, or godly realm that better suit him? I would even be fine with Marvel creating a new realm just for Conan. The Microverse is still an option, isn't it? Must be a bazillion lost worlds there that Conan can inhibit.

[Riv86672]

It's more ridiculous in that Conan has never really been seen anywhere but in ancient barbarian times, fighting other people who also have swords and animals skins. Thor has always been a character that is, one, a god, and two, seen traveling to all kinds of crazy worlds and dimensions. Ka-Zar is similar, as he never seems to be anything but out of place when he leaves the Savage Land.

^^^agree to disagree.
I don’t see where anything you’re describing in any more or less ridiculous than anything else. This is comics. Part of the fun is that anything can happen.

I'm not saying that anachronisms can't work, but just not Conan. If the Savage Land is still around, maybe he can go there? Or maybe he can be sent to one of the many dimensional realms, or godly realm that better suit him? I would even be fine with Marvel creating a new realm just for Conan. The Microverse is still an option, isn't it? Must be a bazillion lost worlds there that Conan can inhibit.

^^^he's already been to the Savage Land.
I mean, at least give the new stuff a look before dismissing it.

[Darthfury78]

Honestly he feels out of place running with all the other heroes in Secret Avengers, he should be part of the Marvel Multiverse and have his own universe but not really interact with the rest of the 616 Marvel, IMO.

The same with Spider-Gwen and Miles Morales, both of whom would be better served in the Ultimate Universe instead of Marvel-616...

[Jabare]

I'll probably never fully acknowledge him as part of it.

I think he stood out more in his own world, he seems far less special/unique in the Marvel universe, but then again I don't really consider Angela part of the Marvel Universe either but fans seem to have welcomed her

[JudicatorPrime]

^^^he's already been to the Savage Land.
I mean, at least give the new stuff a look before dismissing it.

I'm anxiously awaiting the Conan and Blue Marvel team-up.

Seriously, any writer worth his salt can make Conan in the modern age work. I just prefer my high fantasy sword and sorcery in an environment where hybrid vehicles aren't extant. The age and environment (flora and fauna) is one the best characters in Conan's classic stories.

But since we're bringing Conan to 2020, can we also bring back Bêlit and make her one of the first -- and the next -- Phoenix host?

[PCN24454]

The same with Spider-Gwen and Miles Morales, both of whom would be better served in the Ultimate Universe instead of Marvel-616...

Again, the issue with that is that alternate universes are expendable by nature.

They would only put him there if they planned on getting rid of him.