San Diego Comic-Con 2024: 10 Winners and 5 Losers From This Year’s Event

San Diego Comic-Con 2024 was astir arsenic adjacent to the Comic-Con of aged arsenic it could perchance be. Last year, the writers’ and actors’ strikes enactment a spot of a damper on immoderate of the event’s prestige, but that was backmost and much successful 2024. Huge drone shows, large movie premieres, monolithic celebrities, and big-time quality were each backmost connected the menu—and that was conscionable from Marvel Studios.

Below, work astir the properties, people, experiences, and much that truly popped retired of Comic-Con 2024—and a fewer that missed the mark.

Kevin Feige astatine the Marvel sheet – Disney

Winners

Kevin Feige

It’s ever a bully play to beryllium Kevin Feige but this play was particularly good. His archetypal R-rated film, Deadpool & Wolverine, became the sixth biggest opener ever, helium got a prima connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and helium pulled disconnected the coup of the period getting not conscionable the Russo Brothers, but Robert Downey Jr. himself, to travel backmost to the MCU. Not atrocious for 3 days.

DC Universe

Going into Comic-Con, determination was immoderate disappointment that James Gunn wasn’t bringing Superman and his different upcoming DC projects to the convention. Only, that wasn’t precisely right. Instead of 1 big, cardinal event, Gunn softly revealed the studio’s caller logo, its archetypal trailer moving guardant (for Creature Commandos), and past got immoderate truly beardown buzz for the Batman spinoff show, The Penguin, thanks to a trailer and in-person activations. The normal ended with a existent consciousness of DC having patience and purpose.

Fallout

The Prime Video amusement is betwixt seasons now, truthful determination wasn’t a sheet oregon anything, but you couldn’t determination done the streets oregon normal halfway without seeing idiosyncratic cosplaying arsenic a Vault dweller. They were everywhere. There were adjacent immoderate radical successful afloat Power Armor. The amusement intelligibly had an interaction and fans loved it.

Interview With the Vampire

Interview whitethorn person lone conscionable wrapped up its 2nd season, but that didn’t halt AMC from offering a slayer caller tease for the large leap the amusement is taking for play three. Framed astir a less-than-glamorous interrogation with Lestat, present a glam stone euphony star, it gave fans Sam Reid successful fine, haunting form, and was a large mode to amusement however the vibe is changing successful the upcoming season.

Fans successful Person

After a fewer unusual years for SDCC, betwixt the covid-19 pandemic and past year’s Hollywood strikes, 2024 felt similar the archetypal clip successful awhile the con was genuinely back. And thankfully, it was: the acquisition connected the amusement level this twelvemonth was large for attendees in-person, not conscionable successful presumption of plentifulness of exclusive sneak peeks and footage from the large panels that was specifically for radical astatine the show, but large in-panel moments arsenic well, from Marvel’s Hall H Deadpool choir to Alien: Romulus’ “live” facehugger attack.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

After play 1 ended with a spot of a “that was it?” thud, Amazon’s Lord of the Rings prequel had a batch to beryllium coming into its splashy Hall H panel. It talked a large speech of gathering connected the lessons learned from play one, and present it had to amusement it: and amusement it Prime Video did, with what was arguably 1 of the champion trailers of each SDCC, and a great, amusive sheet that got fans successful the temper for play 2 adjacent month.

Lionsgate

Lionsgate came to Comic-Con this twelvemonth to beforehand 2 large upcoming movies: Borderlands and The Crow. But neither movie had a sheet oregon immoderate large beingness connected the floor. Instead, actors promoting some were scattered each astir the normal halfway area, interacting with fans and handing retired swag—and, due to the fact that everyone has to participate oregon exit the event, it made some films arguably much disposable than if they’d a beingness successful the normal itself. Much of that was besides extracurricular a larger, Borderlands activation which had a enactment each azygous day. It proved determination are ways to bash Comic-Con without really doing Comic-Con.

Deadpool

Marvel made its accepted Comic-Con splash, but 1 quality dominated truthful overmuch of the play that helium deserves his ain spot successful the winner’s circle. Deadpool & Wolverine had a star-studded Hall H screening the nighttime earlier the movie’s record-setting opening, and instrumentality excitement for the Merc With a Mouth’s latest escapade was precise intelligibly telegraphed by the sheer magnitude of cosplay. Deadpools, Deadpools, Deadpools, everyplace you looked!

Animated TV shows

The excitement for small-screen animation dispersed crossed antithetic networks and streamers, with Prime Video shows (Invincible, The Legend of Vox Machina, Hazbin Hotel, and Sausage Party: Footopia) announcing renewals and updates astatine a sheet shared by their creators; long-running bid similar Futurama (Hulu) and Bob’s Burgers (Fox) hosting packed panels that showed their vigor is inactive sky-high; and Hulu’s Solar Opposites announcing a renewal and a caller Halloween special. Even with nary Rick and Morty panel, determination was inactive a palpable Rick and Morty presence, acknowledgment to the upcoming anime spin-off and Adult Swim’s “Pirate Parrrty” carnival located conscionable extracurricular the normal center.

What We Do successful the Shadows

Though it was bittersweet, since FX’s beloved vampire drama is heading into its sixth and last season, the What We Do successful the Shadows Hall H sheet was axenic delight. With aggregate cosplayers successful the location (heavy connected the Nadjas), fans got to spot the play six premiere, arsenic good arsenic a sheet featuring a hilarious, seemingly spontaneous spot successful which formed subordinate Kayvan Novak joined the treatment via Zoom successful quality arsenic Nandor—fangs included.

Losers

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Dr. Doom

Inside Hall H, the uncover of Robert Downey Jr.’s instrumentality to the Marvel Cinematic Universe arsenic Doctor Doom was 1 of the astir exhilarating moments successful Marvel Comic-Con history. And determination are been a lot. But erstwhile that daze and excitement wore off, you could archer everyone was confused. How was Downey back? Which quality is helium playing? Is Marvel truly doing Doctor Doom similar this? Why not conscionable recast Kang? The determination created much questions and interest than genuine anticipation. But, hopefully, that flips successful the coming years.

Silo

After our archetypal excitement implicit Silo having a sheet astatine Comic-Con, that it ended with quality of its merchandise day (November 15) and not a trailer for everyone to bask was a existent bummer. The play is done filming. Why the wait? It felt similar a driblet of the ball.

Strange New Worlds

Strange New Worlds has traditionally been a large deed astatine SDCC, bringing tons of amusive announcements and surprises. Given that play 3 lone conscionable started filming, fans weren’t definite conscionable what the amusement could bring this year, but nary 1 could’ve expected specified a weird extended clip. An unusual country that saw Spock go the contiguous butt of jokes and harassment aft Pike, Uhura, La’an, and Chapel needed to beryllium genetically transformed into Vulcans themselves for a mission, it played Vulcan’s culturally racist presumption of bi-racial beings arsenic bizarrely familial trait, starring to an awkward, overplayed gag. Out of discourse it was not a large archetypal showing for the caller season.

The Doctor Who/Star Trek Crossover Panel

There was a batch of buzz going into the Star Trek and Doctor Who “Intergalactic Friendship Panel,” due to the fact that wherefore would determination beryllium an authoritative crossover sheet if determination wasn’t going to beryllium immoderate quality attached? Turns out, determination wasn’t. The sheet was large successful getting to spot showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Russell T Davies geek retired together, but gathering up truthful overmuch anticipation successful beforehand (the sheet had an accompanying activation with Trek and Who props) to motion shoulders and connection a mobile crippled lawsuit successful instrumentality was bizarre.

Sony’s Spider-Man Universe

San Diego Comic-Con is simply a solemnisation of comic books and the popular civilization that they inspire. And portion determination were a fewer whispers of Madame Web connected the upwind (Isabela Merced couldn’t flight astatine slightest 1 instrumentality question astir it astatine the Alien: Romulus panel), determination was perfectly zero beingness for Kraven the Hunter or Venom: The Last Dance, some of which are releasing earlier the extremity of 2024.

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