Everyone has questions about the future of the MCU after Endgame
Im calling it now, that Disney will form the MCU with the same idea done with the Star Wars franchise.
>Phase 1-3: Barrage of large movies ending in concentrated melee battle
>Phase 4-5: Slow character movies with little to no team ups with prequels, small overlaps,etc...
>Phase 6-?: Another barrage of large movies built up on nostalgia and Phase 3 plot holes
Repeat until the end of the world
XMEN
F4
DR DOOM now
fuck everyone else
Give me Dark Avengers and Galactus
Endgame truly was an end of an era.
F4 = Showing that superteams can be family as well, and leading the phase 4.
X men = Showing that the weirdos have their space here as well.
F4 and Friends vs Galactus = Big Finale.
Shit isnt going to be interesting for a long time.
>Dark Avengers
Can they even use Venom?
Who will replace Daken?
Whatever comes after Endgame will likely be a slow buildup to an Avengers: Secret Invasion movie. BP is a King and therefore a potential target for infiltrators or there could be more minor characters that have been replaced secretly. Wong, Shuri, MJ etc. could all turn out to be Skrulls and then the New Avengers unite with Captain Marvel to stop the invasion/Super Skrulls or whatever.
They might even cross it over into the streaming shows since Feige said they'd be relevant. Vision and Wanda have Skrull refugee neighbors, Bucky and Falcon fight terrorists that are secretly Skrull etc. Things like Guardians 3, Eternals, Strange 2 and Loki might be building to some other kind of cosmic threat further down the line though, but I think the Skrull stuff will come first, the "trust no one" marketing campaign is too juicy too ignore. And they can even tease everyone by making them think Tony is alive again only to realize he's just a Skrull.
But we all know X-Men and F4 are a long way off from even being hinted at according to Feige, so I won't be expecting them anytime soon.
Yes, truly the MCU is finished THIS time, unlike the 15+ other times it has been called "finished".
Oh and that cape fatigue, let's not forget!
Sentry and Void is strong enough to be a major threat
>But we all know X-Men and F4 are a long way off from even being hinted at according to Feig
Expect them to change their tune real soon
Feige does usually have a plan B if needed. We all know how Iger demanded a new Star Wars movie by 2015 once the Lucasfilm deal was signed, if he puts down the hammer on the MCU, Fiege might not have any choice but to hurry things along.
But Disney seem to have more faith in the MCU than they do Star Wars. The only thing I could see happening is that Captain Marvel gets a crappy reception in her sequel so they speed up the Secret Invasion thing and replace her with Kamala.
A bit of a break would be nice. I'm a fan of the films but after Far from Home comes out I think it would be really nice to have a bit of a pause in releases to really cap off phase 3 and let things settle before starting phase 4.
I guess Disney is never going to do that as long as the competition is putting out films but one can dream.
I just want to know what is in store for Cosmic since Feige said he wanted to explore that area even more and keep it separate from the Earth stuff for the time being.
I guess for now there's Eternals, GotG vol. 3, and Captain Marvel 2 but what after?
F4 and Galactus
Annihilation
Shadow King
Thunderbolts/Dark Avengers.
>Thor, Cap and Tony out of the picture
>Some government types (maybe even Ross) decide the country needs its own Avengers in case shit hits the fan again and they can't fully rely on Spidey, Carol, Wanda, Rhodey and whoever else is left
>They have Justin Hammer running things, as he can easily fund/arm the team
>Ghost
>Abomination
>Introduce Karla and Songbird
>Atlas as their own Giant Man a la the Ultimates giantmen
>Mach IV as their answer to Iron Man
>Bring back the plot of the ten rings as a terrorist group, introduce the Serpent Society as a neo-Hydra terrorist organization or some shit like that
>They win, but end up causing too much collateral damage
>Hammer is demoted and sent back to prison
>Post-credits scene introduces Norman Osborne as the new potential leader OR has Ross talk with Zemo to lead the team
for a Storm movie or BP sequel?
BP 2 with Storm shadowking as the villain
Skrulls aren't some evil invading force. Skrulls are a race of peace. Open Earth's borders now.
Events of endgame are noncanon because Feige and the Russos fucked up.
Premise:
Thanos won in IW but got himself dusted, half of the cast is dead and the rest are mia. The camera cuts to the chaos of cities and Earth is fucked as people randomly die out, and cut back to chaotic screaming in Wakanda. Everyone is dead or MIA.
One year later and reintroduce a few of the characters whose contract was renewed, even they don’t know who lived and died because the battlefield against Thanos was fucked up. Have one character presumed dead but revealed to be kidnapped/in hiding/etc at the end of a phase 4 movie.
Phase 4 is all about new factions rising up in the chaos, either taking advantage of the snap or trying to restore order.
SHIELD rises once again, but is stretched thin and can only help so much.
The fantastic 4 are introduced as explorers trying to map out the galaxy as pockets of humanity begin reverse engineering Kree tech and designs salvaged fro other alien invasions.
(Insert F4 origin here)
Spider-Man survives, Defendeds didn’t, and has focused on rescue efforts as a super hero full time. Twist is that he has fully revealed his secret identity months after the snap and is going on a movie-specific arc without the BS from OMD.
Bucky survives and has been hunting Earth for any sign of Steve since the snap, but eventually finds Falcon kidnapped by AIM. Falcon reveals that in the moments before the snap Cap shielded Falcon and other heroes from a lethal blast, presumably disappearing moments later from the snap (Falcon and others were blinded from the blast, everyone just assumes Cap bit it)
Bucky and Falcon resolve to honor Cap by protecting a world gone to hell
Carol survives but is ties into GotG 3, rather than any Earth centric plot
The Kree return to Earth trying to reconquer it alongside their many failed experiments, leading to a Avengers 1 style battle with primarily new heroes and surviving heroes mostly in a support role
I would say that but for the Fox acquisition
Phase 4 should be:
Current slate
+
F4 movie
Doom movie
Ending in a cosmic cosmic crossover featuring either silversurfer/galactus or annihilus and building towards secret wars.
The one thing Captain Marvel did Right was have the Secret Wars/Skrullshit be a prequel.
I wouldn’t mind more soft prequels leading up to Iron Man 1, the TV shows have already begun filling out that timeline piece by piece
For F4 a central plot point is that in the post snap era, much of Eastern Europe collapsed and some of its former inhabitants banded together, forming the Latverian coalition.By the end of Fan4stick the Fantastic 4 and up royally pissing the Latverians off, and Victor becomes their champion/leader after bailing them out of an invasion by New Sokovia, lead by Zemo after he escaped custody following IW.
I know they're keeping things quiet until after Far From Home but I really hope they don't plan to lead us on for another 11 years worth of movies.
Endgame with all it's good and flaws was the end of an era and feels like the peak. It very well could be all downhill from here.
well if anything they will take on Dr. Strange and bring in Dormamuu but I really wanted to see shuma gorath. Fantastic 4 with doom, Xmen. you got a lot to work with but marvel seems hesitant to bring in villains that were done by other studios.
Lmao that's even worse that Endgame
I hope the next lot of movies when they come out focus on themselves and don't play into each other. More stand alone while sharing the same universe.
When the big team up movie inevitably comes round it would be cool if they went with a different team name.
F4 are a failure. Their movies bombed and their comics were discontinued. People doesn't like them.
Nova. Darkhawk. Ravagers (Stallone etc.). Star Jammers. Shi'Ar Imperial Guard. Super-Skrull. Quasar.
I'm running a little low, but considering how big the DnA Guardians cast got, you could just keep spinning new characters into that franchise, as long as the writing keeps up with it.
They added Mantis in 2, and supposedly Warlock is in 3. Add one more new character, and then start letting the older ones that want to quit, out.
Conquest. War of Kings. Realm of Kings. Cancerverse. Annihilators.