i got bored and made my own Cinematic Universe 

Alright, I'm doing it! Kickstart The Cinematic Universe Here: bit.ly/GOATLAS

"We are the D.O.M.A.I.N. In service of the public, we fight and prevail!". Then every time somebody tries to explain what D.O.M.A.I.N stands for it gets interrupted by some unexpected event. This is a running gag in the franchise and by the end, the heroes themselves don't even know anymore.

The post credit scene for Atlas should just be a workout video

They should be called "The Public Defenders" as a play on words because they defend the public, are public domain and you got them because you couldn't afford to pay for the rights to use a currently active franchise

"Imagine a gorilla, but with guns" STOP DRILLING YOU'VE STRUCK OIL!

I'd watch the hell out of that Cowboy Gorilla movie.

Honestly making a cinematic universe like this that isn’t meant to be taken all that seriously would be sick

"Imagine a gorilla, with Guns!" I instantly thought of a gorilla with machine guns instead of hands. "Gun-rilla"

so atlas is a guy who became the strongest man alive by working out. so when a superhero does it, it fails. but when an anime does it, it's one of the best of all time. really shows how the same concept can turn out differently.

The only way CatMan / ManCat could be even funnier is if they were voiced by the same guy (sorta like Mike Meyers as Austin Powers and Dr Evil)

I had some thoughts: What if we never see Cat-Man's backstory. Instead, he just explains it to people, and it's so ridiculous, no one believes him. The point out plot holes, like how is he able to speak English. How does just living with tigers give him night vision? The movie leaves it ambiguous whether his backstory is actually true or whether he's just crazy. Atlas is constantly promoting his workout routine to the other characters who don't care at all and find him super annoying. He takes every possible opportunity to admire his own muscles. Spider-Queen is constantly annoyed because another superhero "borrowed" one of her web shooters and has a similar sounding name, yet he's much more famous and popular. She's constantly insisting that she did the whole spider thing first, and she gets mad every time the knockoff saves someone or gets on TV.

Spider-Queen: “You seriously expect us to take on Landor?” Six-Gun-Gorilla: “Ook. Ook Ook. *sharp exhale* Ook.” Catman: “Sixgun is right. I appreciate that you think so highly of us, Hood, but we aren’t anywhere near capable of fighting monsters like this. You’d need top of the line heroes for this sort of thing.” Red Riding Hood: “ You’re right, we do need top of the line heroes. And I made sure to get them.” Blue Bolt: “Don’t patronize us, Red-“ RRH: “I’m not. Sure, none of you guys were my first pick, but I know a hero when I see one, and I know you guys can handle this. Just because something is on clearance, doesn’t mean it doesn’t work- it just means it hasn’t found the right home yet. And that’s what you guys are. Sure, you’re bargain bin heroes. But you’re still heroes. And that’s good enough for the here and now.” - there is a pregnant pause as the team considers Red’s words. After a moment, Six-Gun Gorilla stands up. - 6GG: “Ook ook, ook ook *grunt*” - CM nods thoughtfully, then stands up himself. Slowly, the rest of the Bargain Buddies each stand up in turn, wordlessly accepting the challenge. Once everyone has stood up, Red Riding Hood and Atlas look to each other, crack wry smiles, and nod - Atlas: Well then… let’s show these monsters what it means to get more than you bargained for. (Reposted from a reply in another comment. I felt it stood well enough on its own)

Man-Cat should definitely be a Lex Luther type evil CEO, but is literally a bipedal cat in a suit.

honestly, this seems like the type of franchise that would start out as a joke, but by the 5th movie in, the actual characters themselves (personality not powers) get so good, they actively keep you invested because of the narratives they tell alone.

Also, the idea of Red Riding Hood being a doctor strange/final fantasy wizard style character feels like such an interesting and new take on the fairy tale

The fact that six gun gorilla is unironically the most interesting character of them is the best part

actually giving the VILLAIN his own seperate movie is not only a brilliant dea but stunningly one neither marvel nor DC have actually tried yet

I think it’d be hilarious if, in the crossover movie, it was either never acknowledged whether Cat Man or Man Cat won the fight or if they gave conflicting accounts about who won in their solo movie.

Why am I so intrigued by the idea of the six gun gorilla? I'm just imagining his solo movies being spaghetti westerns where he's the only gorilla and the story is deep and complex, but no one ever questions why he's a gorilla. They only really question why he's such a great shot

Landor totally could have made Man-Cat and send him out as a test run monster.

This would unironically make a good kids show. They become a team and fight of Landor's monster of the week until the big finale

Atlas is great. Imagine being such a wimp that the god of strength himself comes down from the heavens to tell you he's had enough of your boneless attitude and to get your gains on. Now that's some motivation!

If we’re sticking with the public domain theme, all the music has to be either royalty free stuff from Kevin MacLeod or someone like that, really obscure music from before the 60’s, or classical music from centuries ago. Actually, a really good name for it might be “Forgotten Stories”, because all of this is based on characters lost in the annals of comic history.

9:27 OHHH! I just got an INSANE idea why! Both his friends just died, right?! This may be dark, but what if he WANTED to get struck and die!? Maybe, in a fit of rage, the sizzling of scorching bodies still vivid in his mind, Fred ran to his plane and took to flying. Perhaps prior in the story he was well established as an adrenaline junkie (hence the plane that is just _there._ Likely also his father is super rich and he grew up SUPER spoiled.) ANyways! The rotors of his plane whizzed and clanked. Rain thick as sheets pelted Fred's windscreen, making it impossible for him to see, but he didn't CARE! He faced his plane up towards the sky. Towards the flashing light -- the only thing he _could_ see! As the thunder roared and his heart raced, the soaking Fred shouted to the sky with a face of pure anguish and _hatred_ for life. As he flew higher and higher, this feeling only grew, angry that the lightning hadn't struck him already. Oddly, though it got really close, the bolts only dodged past him the first few times. He shouted, "COME GET ME!!.. YOU STUPID B*STARD!" With tears running down his face, "Clearly you don't care about nobody!" (he is now Southern) "SO WHY STOP WITH THEM?!?" And then... the sky finally answered his plea. A flash of white seemed to freeze time... As Fred realized what had happened, feeling.. even SEEING the lightning burning marks across his skin...he still couldn't believe it. His plane lost altitude. It fell. Fell. Fell... Fell. Catching the steering wheel, feeling already half his life drained from him, Fred cursed under his breath, in an instant completely going back on his previous decision. He didn't want _death,_ he just wanted the _pain_ to go away! As Fred saw that no matter what he did, his plane simply wasn't working, he at least tried to steer his way to a somewhat smooth landing over the trees. As he steered himself, he knew this wouldn't do anything... REAL sobs broke out this time as Fred thought about all the things he COULD have done if he weren't so selfish... He could have helped his younger brother ask that girl out he always liked... He could have agreed to help his mom bake that sweet apple pie for his grandpa's birthday... He could have thanked his dad for the one-on-one flying lessons... You know...the small things. But he didn't do those things. And now he had nothing but regret. Feeling hopeless and shameful, watching the treeline slowly reach him, Fred closed his eyes. . . . . When he opened them again...he was in _just_ the right position to go back and right those wrongs. One act at a time...

Ok, here we go. Atlas: Man of Might. Same broad outline, but more explicitly supernatural. Atlas, who in this version falls somewhat but not fully in the eldritch/inscrutable camp of dieties, teaches him 'forbidden' techniques, involving a combination of extreme training and secret alchemic formulas, to gain his strength. His main villain is somone who tried to copy the techniques, not knowing that Atlas the god tailored them to Atlas the Hero specifically, and would have... *unpleasant* side effects on anyone else. Blue Bolt: Keep the same backstory, but keep the Green Sorceress as his main nemesis. His getting his powers from a mad science experiment, while hers are more explicitly supernatural, could be a good contrast. Maker of Monsters: He and his constructs should be as aesthetically close to Bloodborne as you can get without risking a lawsuit. Little red riding hood: Go full epic fantasy with this one. The Wolf is one of the last surviving Werewolves, his kin having been hunted near to extinction. Grandmother, though retired and slowly succumbing to dementia, was one of the greatest warriors and Hunters her age. Werewolf follows Red in hopes of getting revenge on Grandmother, but over the course of their journey slowly becomes more attached to her. He also begins to suspect from her smell that she is a dormant werewolf. Another Hunter catches on Wolf, and begins to pursue the pair. They arrive, and Wolf preparis to kill Grandmother, but decides not to. Grandmother realizes that Wolf is a werewolf, and recognizes him as a pup that she had spared during one of her purges. The Hunter catches up, and in the ensuing fight, Grandmother is killed. Wolf awakens Red's powers, and she is revelaed to be not simply a werewolf, but a reincarnation of the Queen of Beasts, a goddess who created Werewolves and the other therianthropes and teratomorphs millennia ago. The Hunter uses a magical artifact to juice up his powers, but after a long fight, Wolf and Red win. In a post creddits scene, centuries later, a young Landor stumbles across Red's tomb, containing, among other things, sealed phials of her blood, which were the root of his monster-making science.

Actually, we have to play the Six-Gun Gorilla movie absolutely serious. Make it a legit western with actors playing it straight only with a guy dressed in a bad gorilla suit

This seems like a perfect vehicle to parody the hell out of cinematic universes.

16:38 you’ve sold me on this whole thing right there.

The cowboy gorilla is easily the best of them all, and is actually a character i would love to see.

Since we ALL know that you're clearly gonna do this whole Bargin Bin Cinematic Universe thing, here's the best name I can come up with! Austin McConnell's T.H.E.M.: The Heroes Everyone Missed. Thank me later in the credits ;)

I was on the fence for the crossover movie until Man-Cat came back. Such an iconic character.

The best part of this universe overview video was that it fit neatly into the time-frame that I needed to wash the dishes. Well done…and thanks!

I think the team should be named "Public Domain" it would be hilarious to reference where all of them come from plus kind of roles off the tong a bit

When you make the BBCU film adaptations, remember to cast someone nearsighted as Atlas, so they're squinting and struggling to see shit the entire time (y'know because strong people don't wear glasses)

I love how Jim's uncle just takes the glasses off of Jim and he thanks him for it. For Jim to be wearing glasses, he likely had vision problems, went to an eye doctor, received vision tests, and paid hundreds of dollars. All for this dude to just be like "lol you don't need these" and Jim be like "thanks bro you right".

So you basically did what every Gamemaster does regularly to entertain the gaming group? Kudos. You did so well.

Four years from now, Austin is going to post a 40 minute video titled “How I accidentally made the blockbuster hit of the decade” and the thumbnail will be a faded jpeg of the box office numbers with text over laid that says “it’s a long story”

The Atlas guy's workout segment felt like the One Punch Man "secret training regiment" gag done unironically without any of the self awareness

Somebody get this guy a production studio. I need to see that Red Riding Hood film

For the finale the 7th monster (which I assume is Landor)'s match-up should be Man-Cat providing a redemption arc and as he's an original character you can invent some backstory where he's actually one of Landor's monsters who went rogue making an emotional conclusion.

Blue Bolt actually sounds like something that Marvel could make a movie about.

I'm excited for Six-Gun Gorilla because there has to be some element of huge international potential. Everyone loves a western, and since O'Neill can't speak that paves the way for a cross-cultural non-linguistic appeal. You're a marketing genius, Austin.

Now I like that you said 7 monsters released on seven continents, because that implies that one monster will just be attacking research stations in Antarctica and we can get a fight scene there.

My pitch for a cinematic Universe would be a trilogy of 6 gun gorilla movies “The 6 gun gorilla”, “Sig gun gorilla in: Wild Love” and “Six Gun Gorilla: Changing Times”. My vision for these would be a mix of Tarzan, primal and Madagascar. Then a movie of crimebuster vs iron jaw (in the style of Fleischer Superman shorts), nervana a tragic tale from the northern side (Bruce timm style), the silver streak (based on turbo), and the final movie called the Alpha Protocol where they fight the The black Dragon society, Black Death and Mr crime

"Catman VS Mancat" was my favorite film of the BBCU back then in 2027. Not too serious, but not too cheesy either, it was the best movie I had seen since Bee Movie. The ending I saw in theathers was the one where Mancat won, which I feel somehow suited the tone better than the one where Catman won. Can't wait to see his next appearance!

Considering the fact that it is called the 'Bargain Bin Cinematic Universe', I would recommend calling the team 'The Binmen'.

this is a really cool video lol. in late 2017, i randomly drew a character and made up some silly story in my head surrounding him. now in 2022, i’ve made an entire universe of stories, characters and timelines surrounding that one idea i had. hopefully someday i’ll be able to do something with it!

7:19 BARSSSSS🔥🔥🔥🔥

From the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen using public domain in comic books to this using public domain from comics for movies. What a journey. I know it’s not grammatically sensical, but could the team be called, “The Domain”? The title doesn’t need to be anything but catchy, does it?

Okay, but hear me out - the gorilla one could actually be turned into a really interesting, surprisingly emotional movie that could be remembered for decades if pulled off by the right director. I think going at it from the comedic approach actually hinders it - embrace it as weird, but also acknowledge the more human aspects of the gorilla and create this oddly heartbreaking story with incredible cinematography, color grading, and a great soundtrack. Easier said than done, but I'd pay to see it done artfully.

WE DID IT!!! Austin's doing it!!!! (X'D Congrats, Austin!!! Let's keep this crazy passion blazin', ya'll!!! #HeroesSAVINGHeroes #ReleaseTheAustinCut #BBCU

I am blown away you brought up SIX GUN GORILLA!!!! In 2016 I was heavily reading new comics regularly, and 6GG was one that was rebooted from the original, and holy shit is it awesome. Seriously. I screamed when you said the name! Plot is fucking crazy also! “ Welcome to “the Blister” -- a bizarre other-world colonized by humans sometime in the 22nd century, which quickly became a hotly-contested source of fertile land and natural resources long ago exhausted on Earth. In this new frontier, a rogue gunslinger and his companion wander across a wilderness in the grips of a civil war, encountering lawlessness, natives, and perversions of civilization in a world at the crossroads between the past and the future. The fact that said gunslinger is a bio-surgically modified silverback gorilla toting a pair of enormous revolvers is neither here nor there.”

The team should be called the Bargain Buddies, teaming up in the once in a lifetime cinematic event, The Bargain Bin Buddies Blockbuster Bash

My proposed movie name is "Justice Six: The Abandoned domain". * Includes the idea of open domain in the title of the movie * Sounds exactly like a different property (but distinctive enough to avoid a lawsuit) * Very short-sighted (the team's name will make little to no sense when the roster changes and there are longer 6 members) Sounds perfect for something like this.

Thank you so much for making this video. It helped me with a problem I was having. I am working on an original superhero and was accidentally using DC or Marvel character names. Thanks to you I can now fill in my super-powered world more safely. You're awesome!

The funny thing is, even if you made these without any real aim (cheap homemade costumes, filmed with your friends on an Iphone at the weekend), making the character arcs and the plotlines interesting would probably make these a massive hit! maybe that could even be what the characters do - Cat-Man trying to return to the human world after a wild childhood, Atlas wondering where to go after reinventing himself, Six-Gun Gorilla and Spider Queen's quests for vengeance - and without meaning to they end up on the path to becoming heroes.

With the Catman/Mancat endings, when it gets released to DVD, each DVD has a random ending. Not both, just one. Make no reference to the ends on the back of the box or in any commentary.

He’s already made a movie in two days. Auction off each of the nine movies to different teams of fan volunteers with each “studio” adding their own flair while Austin simply oversees the projects and contributes mildly to the scripts. Minimal effort for maximum campiness.

I like the two endings thing but you have to make three endings. 2 for the theaters and one for video release. This way, the theater people can argue over which is right, but when they watch the movie when it's released afterwards, it's a completely different ending.

little red riding hood should be both the alice (in wonderland) and the Nick fury of the bargain bin cinematic universe, my thought is she ends up fighting a cosmic wolf (big bad) and after she beats him she takes his hyde and that allows her to control portals through time and space. I also vote for the Daring Heroes as the teams name, feels like a generical enough name for our bargain bin friends So I just thought about this more, and what if Little red Riding hood starts off their team up movie facing Landor alone, and then when she realizes he has the six monsters to fight she then uses her ability to go through space and time to pick up heroes from the past and present right before they died to bring them around to help fight Landor's creature. Six gun Gorilla could have been ambushed by a posse that would have killed him, Spider Queen could have been doing an experiment that would have made her able to talk to spiders but driven her mad, Blue bolt could've been on the run for gambling debts because he seems shady, Cat-man could have been trapped in a burning building trying to save people from the claws of man cat (the first of Landor's monsters?) and Hood offers him a way to get revenge, and then she found Atlas bringing together the final member of their team. This would make Hood the most modern of the heroes along with probably spider queen.

Team name: "The Outcasts" representative of their nature as forgotten about and nobody bothered to renew the copyright and the slogan should be: "no copyright infringement intended"

I have an idea: Atlas gets his powers from a Greek god, and Blue Bolt's origin story only happens because he gets shot down by a lightning bolt. Zues is also a Greek god who's known for his judicious use of lightning bolts. This sets up our cast behind the curtains, known simply as The Pantheon. They cannot communicate with the main cast save for cryptic hints, but they can pull strings to try and influence certain events. The problem is, they're not very good at predicting the future, and they *never* reach consensus on what they want to actually happen. The Pantheon serves as not only the connective tissue between the films, but also as a sidebar of commentators, bickering over everything from what they want to happen next to which hero is their favorite. All this begins to change in Little Red, because her relationship to The Pantheon is unique. If her powers sound familiar, that's because she's a second gen demigod descended from Zues (who is notorious for consorting with humans) and the grandmother, which is the big twist that takes the second half of her movie into completely fucking batshit territory. She can communicate freely with The Pantheon only in her dreams, which she thought was just her overactive imagination until she starts to see the effects of their haphazard meddling for herself, since they of course inadvertantly created Landor. The end goal is for the team to overthrow The Pantheon, accidentally plunging the world into chaos of their own making that they must bring order to, leading to them being hailed as kings, going mad with power, and becoming the future villains for the next generation of heroes to contend with Also can we please have a modern day version of Robin Hood in phase two? It would be a heist movie with the villain being a famous billionaire CEO that horrifically mistreats his workers while he lives in luxury and paints himself as the savior of the world. When you said public domain I was hoping for some more historical IPs

Dang this really does feel like a cinematic universe! The lightning powered guy is black now (I know that was stock footage, but also what is with black super heroes and having lightning powers?) and the woman's movie can't even be her own film she is used as a spring board for other characters! Truly a cinematic universe moment!

"I have an army!" "We have a gorilla."

Austin: “Catman? Does this guy look familiar to you?” Me: *sudden flashback to Fairly Oddparents*

I like how your primary reason for finding heroes from the public domain was because you “didn’t want top-shelf caped crusaders” and you wanted more of a “rag-tag” vibe as if the alternative of purchasing the rights to the most famous heroes in literary canon is even an option for you lol.

I was always fascinated with ideas of a superhero. between fashion, performance and back story. I can’t be passionate about superhero’s if it didn’t involve my own. It makes me want to create.

I actually did a similar thing in quarantine 2020, except I made a whole universe with original characters. (some liberties taken as some of them are a little bit like a "My twist on this character" bootleg of other characters but point is most are original) In fact, I made 4 separate groups of characters in this universe spanning different countries and time-periods and I gave them arcs and stories and it was a whole thing. I love how creativity can come from these moments where it's almost forced out of us and it's inspiring to see how many people all have different approaches to characters and content they love. Also I quite like the idea of Landor and Six gun gorilla and I am very tempted to steal them and give them a linking storyline...

Blew my mind when I found out that Catman was a real comic book character and not just a parody of batman that the fairly odd parents writers made up.

Crazy thing is, this could actually work. I firmly believe that while the concept may play a part in success, the execution is the vital part. Pick a character and tell his or her story well enough and you'll end up with something people will enjoy. _Refine the concept._ Change the costumes, the characterization, whatever. Even the successful superheroes have gone through considerable reboots and are no longer what they originally where. So, yeah, make a Catman or Spider Queen movie that's genuinely entertaining with a compelling story and I sure as hell will watch it.

i would watch all of these, no matter how bad. if you do end up making all of these please come back for a phase 2

I'd totally watch all of these.

"The Guild of the Domain" sounds awesome, but can also be ironically cool sounding for such a bottom of the barrel team.

The “different endings in theaters” idea has actually happened! The movie Clue based off the board game had three different endings sent to theaters!! Idk maybe u were referencing that with the whole catman thing but i think it’s super cool!

Alternatively, you could reuse the characters in a comic book series where each issue Is a standalone "movie", reaching the climax in the last team-up issue.

I think I’m gonna attempt something like this, seems fun!

This actually sounds way more entertaining than other cinematic universes. Six-Gun Gorilla sounds really cool tbh. Can't wait for the sequel "Six-Gun Gorilla meets Furious George" Also Atlas is definitely played by John Cena. CGI his head on a scrawny guy when he's pathetic, just like they did for Captain America.

Ok hear me out: We need a combination of all the Austin McConnell videos. An AI written script, shoddy 3d animation, Austins long storied career of voice acting to bring it all together.

I remember creating two of my own comic book superheroes, The Mask and Beep-O, the Robot Kid. After seeing this video, I’m ready to make a cinematic universe of my own.

This has probably been said but he made the BBCU unironically, and I couldn't have been happier.

The origin for Atlas sounds strikingly similar to an anime character named One Punch Man's origin. Goes to show how there truly is no such thing as new ideas, just good derivatives

Honestly, a set of animated shorts or even full length movies in the visual style of the golden age might actually have some merit! We saw the great success of Spiderverse's modified comic art style, and I'm imagining some cool alchemy could be made between retro Scooby doo, golden age comic visuals, and our ability to actually animate scenes of cheap shows instead of having characters be stationary 80% of the time lol

This is unironically what actually got me back into my comic book that I had been writing for years before this, and I am now officially writing the first issue and nearly done with it, soon illustration and then All these steps beyond that and I'm on my way to be making up an entire straight up comic book universe that's entirely separate from the ones that have existed

Man inspired me to go grab some old superhero comics I made as a kid and make a cinematic universe

If I had a nickel every time Austin bought rights to a forgotten medium from the last century, I had two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.

"i made a franchise. it stunk. on purpose."

Just watched this video again after reading the Spider Queen novel. Definitely a more respectable and cohesive story. Such a good read. Worth the paperback purchase, if you’re thinking of reading it.

I do love the idea of cat man or man cat changing their names to cat guy so it is impossible to ever know who was who.

Mate I know this sounds like one of those standard ‘i am Spartacus’ moments. But I promise you; If there is any possibility you were going to make any of these movies - I would work for free and audition! I would relocate and sell organs to pay rent: you’re sitting on a friggin gold mine here!

And anytime someone mentions or asks about the discrepancy in the cat man “endings” we act like we have no idea what they’re talking about & look at them like they’re insane. This was one vid with so many great ideas & still endless possibilities, I like where this is going lol

Putting the golden age on the sliver screen. I love it

18:45 "seven monsters unleashed on seven continents" you do realize that one of those continents is Antarctica... right? That seventh monster is gonna be having a really bad day.

OK, so for the "Little Red Riding Hood" you need to go all "Blade" with it... Red Riding Hood is a werewolf ("there wolf!") hunting and slaying machine because her family has a generational curse to fight the werewolves. Just sayin'...

This whole video was worth it just for introducing me to the masterpiece that is Six-Gun Gorilla.

I love this already!

Do it. I'm excited about the possibilities.

If the budget is a little too tight, you could actually make this an "anthology" series (with little red riding hood being the narrator, without you knowing it is her until the finale or late into the series), and the season finale is the team up and revelation that this is actually a shared universe

"I should Make my own cinematic universe" was the collective thought of almost every major movie studio after avengers: infinity war hit. Anyone remember Universal's "dark universe"? Just like universal, pretty much every other universe failed missersbly as well.

Considering that from what I understand gems like The Cthulhu Mythos or Sherlock Holmes are in the public domain, I feel like calling it a “bargain bin” is kinda harsh due to the amount of potential these properties have (The Cthulhu Mythos is the biggest example).

I feel like actually doing 2D films wld be easier. Especially since you're able to retain that comic feel to it. As well as being able to create effects and all much easier than 3D films where you have to actually do more in turn to do smokes and stuff.