Why the Future of Marvel Worries Me
The Marvel Cinematic Universe might be the biggest movie franchise of all time. It’s made over 29 movies, only one of them has a rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes. All 29 movies combined have grossed over $25 billion at the world wide box office. But with phase 4 it seems like people are a lot more critical and split with their opinions on the movies and tv shows. And I’m one of those people, so here is why I’m worried about the Marvel’s future.
Quantity or Quality: As much as I love the MCU, and love that we are getting a lot of MCU content. I think it’s simply just way to much where last year we got FIVE tv shows through-out the year and FOUR movies over the course of 6 months. This year we are getting THREE movies with THREE-FOUR tv shows this year. And they have announced a million other tv shows for the future and million other movies coming out in the coming years. And when you start to do this you stretch yourself way to thin, and the quality will start to drop. Like as of now, we have thirteen projects with in phase 4 of the MCU. And I think that No Way Home is the only one that has knocked it out of the park, but even then that’s more special as a Spider-Man movie rather then a MCU movie. But as much as I’ve enjoyed all of the tv shows, we haven’t had that one that I loved. Loki was great, that’s still my favorite of the bunch but none of them are in my top 10 MCU.
Teasing but not delivering multiverse: So at San Diego Comic Con back in 2019, it was announced that multiverse was going to be the story for this next phase. And Spider-Man: No Way Home is really the only one that explores the multiverse, but yet again more so that Sony multiverse not the MCU multiverse. And I think they wasted the multiverse in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness where when you have that title and a lead character that can hop from multiverse to multiverse and you don’t really explore it, that’s disappointing. In that movie we spend a lot of time in another multiverse where you have to go on red, stop on green and you get served pizza in a bowl. That’s so disappointing for what you could do with the multiverse. Even with WandaVision they have Evan Peters appear, Evan Peter was Quicksilver in the Fox X-Men universe and they brought him into the MCU. So after he appeared in episode 5 millions upon millions of fans starting to speculate what does this mean? Is Michael Fassbender going to show-up in the finale? Nope, nope that’s not it at all it’s a boner joke. So at first it was “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me”. Well now it’s the fifth time so I don’t even know what it is now.
Where is this leading to?: So as of now, the day this drops we have seven tv shows and six movies, that means that in phase 4 we’ve gotten thirteen projects. And I still don’t know what we are building towards, I don’t know where the endgame of all of this is. It’s pretty obvious that multiverse is the big over arching story here but who is the villain? Is Kang the villain in all of this? Is Wanda the villain? Is Galactus going to be introduced soon? We just don’t know, and we should have that answer by now. And even then how does this all tie together. Because phase 4 starts off with WandaVision which is a sit-com in the MCU, then we get The Falcon and the Winter Soldier which is a spy show, then Loki is a multiverse adventure, Black Widow is a prequel, etc. And even more recently you have Moon Knight as a show that is much darker and gritty for the MCU and then Ms. Marvel is a tv show that is aimed towards kids and a younger age range, how do those two tie together? And in a couple of weeks we are getting San Diego Comic Con and maybe there more of these questions will be answered, and they will come out and say we are building towards Avengers: Secret Wars and Galactus is the main villain of that movie. If we get that, then this concern will go away.
Final Thoughts: I love the MCU, this franchise has meant so much to me. Part of where my love for movies came from, came from these movies. So the MCU will always have a special place in my heart. And writing this blog post about how nervous I am for the future of the MCU is kind of heartbreaking, because I don’t want to be writing this post. But it’s how I feel, and I’m not to down the hill to the point where I can’t be won back. If She-Hulk and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever are amazing, and we get a plan for the future of phase 4 I could be won back. I can easily be won back, but as now this is how I’m feeling and I’m gonna say…it’s not looking good for the MCU’s future.
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