Madame Web was a box office dumpster fire, as many of the Sony superhero films that came before it. But it almost had the association of Marvel, along with a handful of MCU characters that could have tied in if the studio hadn’t distanced itself. It was originally reported that Tom Holland’s Peter Parker was going to appear in the beginning of Madame Web, but new photos that surfaced of unused promo merchandise that was sent to movie theaters feature popcorn buckets and soda cups that feature Marvel characters that would have appeared in the film. The unused promo art looks like Daily Bugle newspaper reports that mention Thanos, Tony Stark, Carol Danvers, Hulk, Doctor Strange, the God of Thunder, and more. There’s even an image of Drax (Dave Bautista) from Guardians of the Galaxy, who was working a side gig as a news anchor all these years.Sony obviously doesn’t have the rights to these characters, so they were obviously foreseeing, or at least hoping, that the studio would allow them to be mentioned in this sort of promotional material, but Marvel/Disney clearly didn’t want to give anyone the impression that Madame Web was an MCU movie, and can you blame them? Madame Web went on to bomb at the box office, putting the final nail in the Sony Spiderman Universe’s coffin. So Marvel probably made a good call.Check out the photos of the merch below, and let us know if you think any amount of Marvel intervention could have helped save this movie.via: CBM