Who the fuck can they even use next in the MCU? Thanos is basically Marvel's biggest, most popular...

This.

And eventually when they bring the FF and X-Men in they all the sudden have a treasure trove of villains, so, there's that too.

Wish they'd gotten news too, the salt would have been grand.

Apocalypse

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Is this a real character? Just looks like Thanos fused with Darkseid.

Kang

X-Men villain

Oh, so X-Men Apocalypse is named after him? I never saw that one.

They wanted to, but it was something about one corporation owning two news stations. It's against the federal law since Disney already owns NBC news

An Alien invasion sounds pretty weak to the death of half the universe caused by a dude who’s practically God

You mean ABC. NBC is Comcast, who were also bidding to buy Fox but lost to Disney shortly afterwards.

Good, fuck Comcast. I'd take two Disneys over one Comcast.

You don't need events to be more over-the-top than the previous ones in order to tell a compelling story

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An avengers skrull movie will probably be more like alien infiltration than a typical alien invasion, they can create some twists and drama with not knowing who's a real person or who to trust

Dr. Doom
Galactus
Shuma Gorath
Dormomu
Blackheart

Is Doom really a bigger threat than Thanos?

He feels big because they've build him big within mcu. Could be any other villain with great masterplan

Well, in the recent Secret Wars he was at least.

This "every villain MUST be a larger threat than the previous one, power levels MUST escalate" mindset is mostly a dumb anime thing. In media that doesn't rely on weeaboos jerking it to steadily rising stats, it's well understood that "threat" is a relative term, and that as long as a story's antagonist is depicted as sufficiently threatening from the standpoint of the narrative itself, it will be entertaining. It's why people still find the Donner Superman movie entertaining, despite the overarching "threat" being essentially a real estate scam.

It's going to be Galactus, though, with possibly a larger looming threat of Celestials down the line.

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They already established the skrulls as innocent refugees, doubt they will change them.

>This "every villain MUST be a larger threat than the previous one, power levels MUST escalate" mindset is mostly a dumb anime thing.
They've brought in Captain Marvel. They have to find something that can threaten her. Maybe the biblical God himself.

True, but it's going to be hard to get audiences interested in a story that is such a big step down from Thanos in terms of stakes.

Or maybe it won't be. I have no idea how they're going to react, they seem to go see every Marvel movie no matter what. I'm probably full of shit.

Unlike Thanos, Doom even won once completely and became a God of multiverse.
Though he got tired and bored of omnipotence quickly and just turned tides of time back to good old times.

Galactus is a fucking bitch.

How many times has Galactus been stopped, defeated, or overpowered? In terms of the cosmic hierarchy he’s not even near the top of the most powerful beings anymore.

I would be fine with Galactus if he wasn’t been proven to not actually be a threat so many times in the comics.

It should be Galacta instead. That would be a good next villain.

Kang but people might perceive him as yet another alien overlord.
Skrulls, because still no proper global alien invasion. Now that they are doing Shang chi and Cap britron it sounds more plausible.
Osborn as an evil Stark.
Doomy soon or later just because.

But then at the end it's shown that Galactus is manipulating her right? Can't have a main villainess without a man to blame.

just because some were portrayed as innocent doesn't mean everyone will behave that way

Annihilus so you can get Galactus and Thanos or just Kang since time travel is a big plot point for the next Avengers

>all skrulls are either good guys or bad guys

Proof Yea Forums doesn’t read comics.

Yeah Skrulls are primiarily portrayed as evil body snatchers but there are Skrulls who actually have a moral compass.

Eh? Was that the case for any of the female MCU villains so far?

Yes, it's disgusting kree propaganda.

By now in MCU they focused mostly on enemies from space.
Aside from space enemies there are underwater enemies, enemies from hells, enemies from dreams, enemies from parallel universes etc. They've got plenty of options

Strange and Carol will take care of the space enemies, focus more on the earth villains.

I think it should be Shuma Gorath. He's been in Marvel vs Capcom for years but most people don't know his true power level.

>Kang but people might perceive him as yet another alien overlord.
I don't see how, he's related to the Richards and comes from the very distant future. And either way, "alien threats" are pretty much commonplace if you want to go big, so there's no avoiding that.
Personally I'd like something like the Fourth Host arriving to Earth and other planets, forcing everyone to deal with the Abstracts in order to stop their onslaught or judgment.

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I'm really curious how they're going to handle the X-Men movies since they just seem to be continuing on as if nothing has happened even after the Disney announcement. I kind of hope they find some way to incorporate them into the MCU without having to retcon or recast the existing versions of the characters, since they're very recent, already (mostly) beloved, and it would save time having to introduce them again. Maybe it could be a multiversal thing like said and that would explain how Quicksilver is alive again.

I just want to see that Gambit movie happen, you know?

People were incredibly un-hype for Thanos actually and only after Infinity War Thanos got popular.
It'll be completely up to the writer to make the villain work. A bad writer can fuck even a good villain like Ultron up and a good writer can make an incredibly boring villain like Thanos compelling and exciting.

Kang, Annihilus, Galactus, Doom, Apocalypse, the Celestials, the Kree Empire, the list goes on. Thanos hasn’t even been the end all be all comics until recently

It's weird how little setup of Thanos we actually got prior to Infinity War. A couple post-credits scenes and a little bit more than usual in GotG1 (but surprisingly, jack shit in GotG2 other than them mentioning his name).

Like on one hand, this is the smart thing to do because there are inevitably going to be a lot of people who haven't seen every movie and they don't want to punish people for having missed the movies. It's important for a movie to be able to stand on its own and they seem to recognize that. But on the other it makes that "Marvel has accomplished a truly impressive thing by connecting all these movies over a decade!" feel like a whole crock of bullshit, because they're really not THAT connected. It's no more impressive than what James Bond did except I guess the films come out a little faster.

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>it makes that "Marvel has accomplished a truly impressive thing by connecting all these movies over a decade!" feel like a whole crock of bullshit
It IS a crock of bullshit. Marketing bullshit.

>Fox
>Fox
>Literally who
>Already turned into a bitch
>Literally who

Oh man, do I have some news for you.

Ejaculate buzzwords on me please user

Disney
Fox
Marvel
Bought

...Uh, no, I think I'll just tell you news instead.

>morons still don't know Disney got back all the stuff Sony and Fox had.

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To be fair they have not actually DONE anything with it yet so I'm not surprised if people who haven't been keeping up are unaware.

What is weird is seeing people who go out of their way to visit a comics board and are still unaware.

MCU Thanos is weak as shit, even Hela is stronger than him

yes, but its a secret invasion.

Jesus, Is this Yea Forums?

once again, proving half of Yea Forums don't know shit about comics.

Also, why didn't they give Carol this hairstyle in the movie? Can 3D women not pull it off? This perfection is only possible in 2D.

>Thanos is basically Marvel's biggest, most popular, most powerful villain
Not to start a shitposting spree, but there are regular constant threads about how Doom is that person and not Thanos.

Annihilation is the way to go.

Do you really want Annihilation starring Brie Larson?

Oh shut the fuck up

Make me

Dormammu was a higher ceiling than Thanos for MCU, he'll Strange alone is a higher ceiling for any earth or space bound hero because he deals with the mystical supernatural stuff that wipes out megaversal realities.

I'd like to see a Dark Reign type of thing, although not sure how soon they could use that after HYDRA.

Kang.
Mastermind
The leader if they are daring
The Mandarin
MODOK

>what is supernatural with the winchesters going against god's sister
>what is house going from asshole but limiting himself to crashing a car against cuddy's house
>what is homer getting dumber every season

All series do the escalation thing, it's the sign of a franchise going on for too long.

>because they're really not THAT connected
So you're admitting they are connected, just not the amount of connection you want?

Honestly while IW wasn't perfect by any means, it was a movie that could only exist thanks to all the movies that came before it. It didn't have to spend a lot of time on exposition or establishing things, and that's why it could kill the amount of people it did.

>That appears...
>...true.

>They've brought in Captain Marvel. They have to find something that can threaten her.
So male characters are obviously out of the question here. What female villins does Marvel have for MCU to shill then?..

MODAK would work great for a GOTG movie. He's just too absurd to be used for a larger ensemble movie. Nobody could take his tiny little legs seriously.
youtu.be/l5CmFTB_b_E

*cracks knuckles*
Alright...

Shuma Gorath please. I mean, half the universe just died. You can't tell me the people of Earth and the universe in general wouldn't be sweet-talked by an outer god pitching them the idea of a universe where that NEVER happens again.

I like Thanos Imperative too, but I don't think that's the way to do it for an adaptation.

I just love being an attention whore

I know there's a lot of weird stuff going on with Universal and Hulk, but it's so strange that they teased Leader in the very second MCU movie and then just... never did anything with it. Especially since they actually ended up bringing Thunderbolt back. I wonder if he'd still be Tim Blake Nelson or if they'd recast him. And like, would they even acknowledge the events of that movie?

The Beyonder, so we can get our secret wars movie.

Anime is deeper than you.

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Thanos wasn't popular for normies before the MCU made him popular, and you can say the same thing for all the Avengers. They'll be fine.

X men is getting the reboot treatment. Dark Phoenix will be the last one.

There are also sleeping Elder Gods or whatever they called, that Dormamu and all the dukes of hell affraid of.

Bummer. It'd still take all of phase 2 to get to Thanos Imperative.

Hi Yea Forums don't shit up our Simpsons threads while you are here

The reason I know you're making this up is because New Mutants is still coming.

I'll see your Galactus and raise you Galatea.

Dude tanked a full on blast from a fully assembled Infinity Gauntlet, not to mention he takes on the likes of Celestials and Beyonders without so much as a blink. It's rare he becomes a cosmic threat since he's content to play king in his castle in Latveria but he could easily stomp the MCU if he put his mind to it

Some other user ITT mentioned Osborn as evil Stark, and that's the way to go. You can have a president Osborn arc (world looks up to him now that Stark is dead/out of the picture) and he can have his own version of "founding the Avengers" in the Sinister Six. Plus would be a great villain for the New Avengers.

Hell Osborn can even prove his scientific and moral compass to the public by opening up a portal and rescuing the 1950s-era cosmonauts that went missing in another dimension aka Fantastic Four

Doom/Kang/Immortus. Get my Destiny war on.

Doctor Doom
Annihilus
Amatsu Mikaboshi
Galactus
Shuma Gorath
Stormin' Norman
Magus
The High Evolutionary

If they're smart they'll drop the build-up narrative for a while and focus on mostly self-contained movies; still connected universe and appereances from different heroes, but no more "oh shit we'll end up teaming up again to fight something bigger"

>a compelling story.
What kind of movies are these, though? There's very little room, if any, for an action series like this to start off with a cosmos-level threat and then follow that up with the invasion of one planet. If they were selling more personal stories that'd be different, but they're clearly not.

Trump

Galactus, Annihilus, Celestials, Onslaught, Secret Invasion Skrulls, Maestro

>Thanos is basically Marvel's biggest, most popular, most powerful villain.
Wrong on A L L accounts.
Think beyond that.

>Sony

Wait what? I thought they had Spider-man and SOME Spider-man characters?

Just do a secret wars movie based on the original comics plot and you can use beyondwr vullshit to explain X-men ambient there

He is. He had a movie in 2016, and I don’t blame you for not knowing about him, he’s pretty underwhelming as far as big buff omnicidal comic book villains go.

It's their turn.

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Lmao like it matters, they had escalation creep in the writting and now they are in a corner. Every single next villian must threaten the entire universe somehow or else audiences will feel it went backwards.
Gotta wonder how long this will be popular for. Will people still be paying to see Avengers 24

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House of M?
Maybe a proper Civil War?

So you dont read comics but post on a comic board. -ok-
You dont know disney bought out fox. -ok-

They get super meta and fight Kevin Feige himself.

Post-credits scene has a shareholders meeting about how the creations have gotten out of hand and that they won't tolerate failure again. Camera pans to Bob Iger who says that he'll take care of it.

Annihilus
Kang
Shuma Gorath
Galactus
Dormamu
Doctor Doom
Mephisto
Phoenix
Onslaught
And Norman Osborn if you want a less super duper guy(I think they might be doing him)

>The Beyonder, so we can get our secret wars movie.
That's what I think as well. It'll be an easy way to shake things up and replace actors who want to get out with new ones.

They have to fight Mickey himself.

Why do people always say this? Have you ever actually read a comic with Galactus as the villain?

Ishida didn't make it to that age.

Still hurts.

Based and waifu-pilled

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Why tf is she so thicc, holy hell

Carol is weak to magic yes? Then Adam Magus

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If they want to stay current, Red Skull comes back, and forms his own Avengers team.

Thinking bad guy from the increcidble hulk, iron man 2, Bullseye from DD season 3 (making that shit cannon), Ultron from a saved hard drive (why not?) and Scorpion from Homecoming.

Good genetics

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yeah instead of red skull use it to introduce Norman instead preferably on the new spiderman movie

Hollywood can barely do Lovecraftian horror as it is what makes you fucking think they can pull of a cosmic horror made by Robert E. Howard?

Thanos was basically a non-entity outside of the small circle of fans who either followed the niche of Marvel Cosmic Hero comics or who'd seen that crazy-ass 90s Silver Surfer cartoon.

Galactus, Apocalypse, Dr. Doom, Mr. Sinister, Magneto and the Green Goblin were all way better known and way more popular amongst the casual readers.

Gods, I fucking hate the way Doom-wanking has infested even Marvel's writers.

Shuma Gorath is a Lovecraftian entity that Dr. Strange often fights, basically a reality-warping planet-sized cyclopean octopus. No idea who Blackheart is.

FPBP

Rumour mill has it that the Celestials will be introduced. If they use the Earth X references, they could set up a Galactus vs Celestials war.

Could be kino - just as long as Captain Marvel doesn't oneshot everything.

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>Galactus
>Villain

Shuma gorath should be a solo Strange enemy, not a team one

>No idea who Blackheart is.
It's Noire after she transformed into her goddess form. Strange choice for a villain but I'll take it.

Does Norman even have the ambition to be an overarching villain?

>Avengers 5 is Doom/galactus
>Avengers 6 is Avengers vs X-MEN
>Avengers 7 is Maker

The Patriarchy.

My feeling is we will get two smaller avenger movies and then another big “event” 2 part

People usually team up when Shuma-Gorath is around, though.

We've already got a REAL magician being introduced to the MCU. His name is Mysterio.

Dr. Doom
I'm hoping we get to see Doom and T'challa clash over kingly ideology, would be fun to watch

Naruto crossover. Show the casuals the power of the Uchiha.

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Dormamu got punk'd by apprentice-level Doctor Strange, audiences won't respect him as an endgame villian

He'll lose to Strange. As powerful as he is he won't win against the power of time control

Easy to fix if they retcon that as not being the real Dormammu.

Just have Scarlet witch and Doom show up to help.

I see a lot of people in here suggesting Kang but I feel like it would be very hard for people to take seriously a character named "Kang."

>Thanos is basically Marvel's biggest, most popular, most powerful villain
He is none of these

And his design does not help

It would also be funny to see all the white people thinking Latveria is a real place and saying they want to move there.

True, although that part is less of a barrier since they could always redesign him. They made Vulture of all people look badass.

Go for the Cabal by letting smaller villains establish themselves.

>Who the fuck can they even use next in the MCU?
Trump

This. Galactus was basically GOD when he appeared, but it's only due to the stupidity of comics that something bigger had to always be around the next corner.

Also, we need the Masters of Evil. A movie where the hero team has to fight an entire, equally powerful villain team, where every character is established beforehand.

Uh, Madara's EMS ability is time control

I don't think they've made anyone who is actually stronger than Galactus. More threatening maybe, but not stronger.

If they wanted to, they could play it off so that when the use the gauntlet to fix the universe, it doesn't go quite right and the Xmen get introduced or something.

They'll invent new villains and new stories if they run out of material.

Hm, didn't something like that happen in the comics? Like I think it was Reed who had to fix it and he didn't do it correctly?

An evil version of Reed.

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it's going to be doom and it's going to be secret wars

galactus will be the "civil war" of the next phases, big enough for a mini-crossover but not big enough for one big threat. he's always been a F4 character first

doom stealing beyonder's powers will be extreme kino

If they fuck with time in End Game the King should appear. Just like in Earths Mightiest Heroes.

Who is the King?

I don't mind too much, I like the idea of a human having such a strong will and ego that they eventually are able to top the Gods themselves... Not to mention Doom is a pretty good guy at heart...

readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Avengers-Emperor-Doom/Full?id=147582

Yeah I'm thinking that the MCU's next phase is Dark Reign

Imagine holding hands with Doom. Haha.

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>Who the fuck can they even use next in the MCU?

Doctor Doom
Shuma Gorath
MODOK
Dormammu
Super Skrull

>MCU's next phase is Dark Reign
yeah i dig it since mcu spidey is practically manlet mans protege and norman is arguably spideys nemesis so it makes sense

Autocorrect...Kang

Autocorrect added in a "the"? Or did you intend to call him "the Kang"?

No it split Kang into the King. I dunno, I meant Kang.

Anyone else think the next build-up is Avengers Vs. X-men? It's ripe of the taking, and it'll get butts in seats.

Hopefully girl butts, and then I can sniff the seats after.

I sure hope so.

Ehhh I get the feeling it won't happen

Anyone else think it's hilarious that Fox hanged on to Marvel IPs long enough for Disney to Buy both Marvel and Fox?

It's even funnier when you consider the fact that they're discontinuing the comics.

dr doom
ultron
annihilus
kree or skrulls

>Ultron

Um

>doing Avengers vs X-men without MCU's trinity

>not backing up your files

It'll be the Other Avengers: You got Pinwheel, uh, over here you got The Bronze Medal. Who's this? Oh. Hermaphrodite Horse. Uh, Dumb Bitch.

There was a fifth one wasn't there? Oh there he is! Captain Shitbox.

Ultron but this time it's Pyms fault.

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How is that still a law? Why hasn't Disney ended it yet? Do the other megacorps really still have enough power to keep that law in place?

I don't know the exact story behind Doom's creation as a character but overall his characterization comes off as some DM making a Lawful Evil campaign villain then getting so profusely attached to him that he ended the campaign before the party could defeat him, and then deciding to use him as a lvl 20 DMPC for every campaign afterwards.

uh dude.

Disney got Fox.

Kang.

Thanos is a threat to the now.

Kang is a threat to the all - past, present, future

Fuckkkk that, adaptation of strange tales v2 or nothing

Who should we cast as Kang?

No one, not like this anyways. There will be little plots here and there leading to the next Avengers movie or crossover event with some minor villain, but we'll never see this kind of dozen-film build up again in the MCU.

>now that Stark is dead Pym is the smartest man left in earth
>he recreates Ultron to protect earth
>but his time it works only in the early days

I just can't see them killing Tony. RDJ loves Marvel too much to want to leave it entirely. Cap is dead for sure though.

>It's no more impressive than what James Bond did
Bond never had individual M, Q, and Moneypenny movies leading up to all of them together to thwart Blofeld

>Thanos is basically Marvel's biggest, most popular, most powerful villain.
You're the biggest fucking casual on this board if you actually believe this.

>They have to find something that can threaten her.
Why? They seem to be fine with having no tension so far.

But he did have approximately the same number of movies over the same period of time, and about as much continuity between all of them. At least until Craig where they just fucking gave up on making movies. I mean I guess they're more expensive these days but come on.

I got to know Thanos from video games

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I think people like us make up a large number of MCU watchers. When Guardians of the Galaxy was announced I didn't really know anyone except Rocket because "Hey I know that dude, he was in MvC!"

Ironically though, there's still nobody who has any fucking clue who Spiral is. She is the most obscure Marvel character with a major video game appearance.

I once saw someone post that 'Magneto will always be a fighting game character before anything else, in their mind' and I genuinely don't have the words to describe the emotion I felt

Yep, same and same. I guess one of the perks of being a video game or movie exec is that you get to put some of your personal favourites in.
Magneto's a cool game character and all, but yeah, yeesh

I think Magneto is one of those characters that people should have known long before the fighting games because the X-Men cartoons were so prevalent back in the day. There are probably a lot of people who don't read comics but have watched a fair amount of cartoons. I for one probably would have had no idea what Shazam was if not for Captain Marvel's appearance in Justice League.

He got cucked by Strange, what makes you think he is a bigger threat than Thanos, his technical power level?

A demon made by mephesto

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He got tricked by Strange only because Strange had the power of an Infinity Stone and it's not as if he lost the battle, he just got bored and gave up because Strange is an autist and Dormammu had better things to do. He'll be ready next time.

Plus I hate his appearance in that film and I want to see Dormammu with the awesome fire head.

Smiling and frowning at the same time. A true nemesis to humanity.

Another character that people only know because he was in MvC2 for some reason. I mean he looks cool but what the fuck, was he prominently featured in some major arc at the time? You never hear anyone say "Oh yeah Blackheart, now there's a good Marvel villain."

Very interesting...

Seline
Madam Masque
Lady Octopud
Typhoid Mary
Madelyn Pryor
Red She Hulk
Hela

Theres rumours that they will send that straight to dvd now. Development hell is a real thing for that flick

If you think Captain Marvel punching Thanos' lights out will be awesome, wait'll you see Civil War 2!

I hope Justin Trudeau appears in it just like he appears in the comics.

mystical enemies.They could build up to the Inferno storyline during the next 10 or so years

Well in about a week they'll finally have access to the F4, Kang, Galactus, Super Skrull, X-Men, etc. Secret Invasion could be next or at least in the works.

In a week? What's happening then that hasn't already happened?

Also, if they have the Skrulls in Captain Marvel, shouldn't that mean they already have Super Skrull?

They already did the whole "Hero vs Hero" thing. People wouldn't like seeing it again.

I really don't think the MCU's going to keep doing as well like 5 movies from now. Not saying they'll flop but there's nothing they can do that'll recapture the interest Infinity War had.

DOOM

I think in another few years people will be open to it, people don't have very long memories.

People have been saying the MCU would stop making so much money any day now since like, Age of Ultron. Meanwhile Captain Marvel just had the sixth biggest opening of all time despite critics saying "it's not even that good" and it being a prequel with no real connection to Endgame. I know you're being pretty even-handed about this compared to most people but I just think the prediction that people are finally going to lose interest for real this time is going to fail yet again.

user...

>Biggest
Nope. Without the Gauntlet, he's just an A-tier Cosmic powerhouse

>Most popular
He barely showed up outside of comic before Avengers

>Most Powerful
Shuma-Gorath could take him even with a gauntlet.

>Shuma-Gorath could take him even with a gauntlet.
Shummy would have to enter out universe to even attempt to win, giving of a shit load of power in doing so and then losing. Shummy is definitely stronger than a Thanos with a gauntlet, but that doesnt mean he could beat him.

Uh, did you completely forget about this?

Also, as mentioned, there's Galactus, Annihilus, Kang, Secret Invasion (not all the Skrulls are good), AvX and of course Kang the Conqueror

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user you cant seriously think it'll forever. I'm a marvel fanboy and even I recognize eventually it'll dwindle and die off. Either the next big arc after Endgame will absolutely blow people away and rocket the MCU into legendary status, or people will lose interest now that the main story is over and it'll die off. It has to die eventually.

Feige himself clarified that not all Skrulls are good. Also Skrulls were originally not always evil body-snatchers

Ultimate Magneto.
Yeah, I'm talking about Ultimatum. Fight me. Irredeemable evil dictator Magneto is one of the scariest shit one could try to go against in the MCU.

Dont underestimate Strange. He has stalemated against an Adam Warlock when Adam had the gauntlet.

X-Men and F4 is going to keep interest in the MCU going for a while. Remember that Thanos just existing in the background kept the MCU going for 6 years.

Nothing lasts forever but there's nothing indicating things are slowing down either.

The MCU is only just started to get extremely popular worldwide, it's not going to die off any time soon. We still have the same cast whose contracts aren't up, so they aren't leaving anytime soon. Plus it hasn't even been confirmed that people are leaving. As Feige has the likes of the X-men and the FF, we can see ever more characters and stories in the MCU, and Feige won't let the MCU die off, they know what they're doing.

Robert Downey Jr.

>because they're really not THAT connected.
They can't afford to be "that" connected. Movies aren't comics. Outside of sequels and Infinity War, they have to treat these movies like they are going to be someone's first MCU movie

I would estimate a forecast that all movies that are currently announced or teased are going to be successful. Even if they're bad, people have enough trust that the MCU means good movies that they'll at least float. After that, when we're in the next big throughline story for the movies? When the main actors carrying the franchise have moved on, when the loose ends are all tied up? The MCU has to reinvent itself in a way that will keep people interested or it'll wither away. There are no signs of a failing MCU currently, but looking 5-10 years down the road, theres a speed bump coming and if its not handled well it'll cause a turn.

Out of curiosity, could Shuma-Gorath use the gauntlet? He doesn't have hands so he can't wear it.

He doesn't need to.

If he manifests in any universe, he basically owns it

The glove part of the gauntlet isnt the part that gives you powers, you retard.

>MCU actor retires one character
>immediately starts playing another
Not gonna lie, I'd actually like to see this.

Off the top of my head...

Far From Home: Mysterio

Doctor Strange 2: Nightmare

Black Widow: Taskmaster, Yelena Belova, Black Lotus, Red Guardian

Vision & Scarlet Witch: Chthon

Falcon & White Wolf: John Walker/Armin Zola

Guardians 3: High Evolutionary

Fantastic 4: Doctor Doom

I thought Mordo was going to be the villain in Strange 2.

>Vision & Scarlet Witch
>Falcon & White Wolf
I totally forgot about these. It's funny that anyone would think the MCU is winding down when they're going so far as to do full on limited series now, stuff that's actually connected to the cast of the movies and not stuff like Daredevil which was supposedly set in the same universe but can effectively be taken as non-canon. They're actually making more and more MCU content each year at this point.

Derickson wanted Nightmare in the first movie and is very eager to use him.

Mordo is definitely going to be in it, but I think he is more an anti-villain than straight villain.

DOOM

>most popular
He's the most popular because of the MCU. They'll just work that magic on someone else.

>"Hey I know that dude, he was in MvC!"
MvC3

Someone like Spiral getting in MvC2 really just goes to show how strong the X-Men brand was back then

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>there's still nobody who has any fucking clue who Spiral is

I do.

Not yet. Deal is supposed to be finalized next week, specifically the 20th. Just grabbing a quick article
cnn.com/2019/03/12/media/disney-fox-deal/index.html

Kang
Doom
Galactus
Annihilus
Vulcan
The Beyonders (next 3-4 Avengers movies can build to Hickman's arc)
Morgan le Fay (for a female)
Shuma Gorath

it's a cartoon board too, dipshit

Don't worry about villains so much. Just build up to 2015 Secret Wars and you got a great ending to the MCU right there

We're obviously switching to the universe where the main conflict is the Queen fighting the evil alt-right incel MODOK

Crossing the "t"s and dotting the "i"s

I know who I would pick.

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You sleepin on that man

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That's an exclamation point.

hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/captain-marvel-villain-could-be-next-thanos-1193969

Who's this?

Jack Skellington

Eternals? Who are their villains?

Daily Reminder:

Kevin Feige Does Nothing Wrong

Was Galactus strong enough to fight them or was it because he was actually Franklin?

This was a good read, thanks user

Blackheart has never done anything of note.

I think his last appearance was when he beat all of the avengers off panel and then got one-hit KOd by Miles. And before this he got plowed by Agent Venom and some palette swaps..

And yet they made him top tier in the game. You'd think Marvel would throw him a bone and at least have him kick some ass.

This sexy bastard right here.

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The Brood would be awesome to group heroes together against them

Themselves from alternate dimensions where they are the bad guys.

Disney got around the issue of Fox refusing to sell back those IPs by just buying the whole company.

Maybe thirty fucking years ago

Not every team-up needs to be fighting an "end of the universe" villain.

I cannot think of anyone that could possibly replace him as the next overarching villain without feeling massively underwhelming.
So, business as usual?

reminder that doc ock has never appeared in this version of spider-man so they might just use liv

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If the MCU was good I'd have wanted to see Mephisto as the next crossover antagonist.

...People actually like Mephisto?

Yeah, me too. When that Avengers post-credits scene happened my reaction was "holy shit, it's THAT guy!"

I didn't really know Thanos but i spent years with that game as a kid, i was used to a giant grape man kicking my ass

It's gonna be Galactus or the rest of the Celestials

It's more likely to be Doom.

This. We went from Strange saving our reality to Spiderman stopping a heist. Not everything has to be huge and galaxy changing

For the individual movies that's fine but for the overarching threat it would be weird if it's not something more powerful than Thanos. Unless it's meant to be a lead-up to something more powerful than Thanos, in which case I guess it would be okay if they went with a lower power overarching villain.

>FF
>1950s
I hate this place

Thanos is just a dangerous villain with a cosmic Mcguffin.
With Vision confirmed to contain a part of Ultron, and Vision kaput for the moment, and Fox purchased, we have a chance for a true Adamantium Ultron.
I want him working with Arnim Zola to create a Masters of Evil to dominate the world.

What the fuck. Did you guys know they actually have announced the dates for eight more MCU films, just not what they actually are?

EIGHT. That's literally a third of the amount of films we've had so far. The MCU really is not going away any time soon.

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Well, considering how spread out they are I'm assuming at least one of those is the next Avengers. Are these supposed to be completely new projects or do they include things like Eternals and the Black Widow movie, which have been announced but don't necessarily have a release date yet and things like that?

Anyway, it was obvious shit isn't over at all. Even ignoring the possibility of sequels to newer movies like CM and BP you have things like Spiderman building up to the Sinister Six, Ant-man seemingly setting up at least another sequel about the quantum realm and Janet's mysterious powers, and Strange setting up Mordo. And that's all ignoring that the studios are about to get their hands on the Xmen and F4. Aaaand while it's currently in an unfortunate limbo GotG3 will probably still happen eventually

>blackheart
>top tier in MvC2

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>#1 came out in '61
whoa sorry i didnt memorize the release year of every single #1. you should be sucking my dick that I even guessed that close

>Thanos is basically Marvel's biggest, most popular, most powerful villain.

You do realize he's only popular because the MCU used him, right?
He's no Doctor Doom.

Is Apocalypse connected to the Sentinels somehow? They have the same face.

If Norman is in the MCU, should he still become the Green Goblin later on?

>An evil version of Reed.
So 616 Reed?

Did you forget what they made Celestials in the sequel?

Lord Pumpkin, a magic construct made by a wizard that ended up conquering his entire dimension and now wants to take over others with his army if monsters. He's basically a really fucked up Jack Skellington.

That sounds pretty cool, and he looks cool too. I'm guessing he's not very popular though. Sounds like the kind of character a wacky director like Gunn or Waititi would pull out of their pocket for an unexpected one-off villain.