Man Will Remain In The Marvel Cinematic Universe

Because the discourse surrounding Joker hasn't been exhausting enough, there's now a pissing match going on between Marvel and Martin Scorsese after the auteur derided the franchise as not cinema.” Naturally, the actors, writers, and directors who make the MCU were not entirely thrilled to get shit on by a filmmaker most of them looked up to, so it was only a matter of time until you had Samuel L. Jackson dropping bombs. Loki (Spring 2021)+ note Takes place (or at least starts) in an Alternate Timeline created in Avengers: Endgame instead of in the main continuity. The MCU is designated Earth-199999 in the overall Marvel Multiverse, though Mysterio refers to it as Earth-616 (which in the comics is assigned to the main universe there - a sign that Mysterio is making stuff up).

Its 22 films have grossed some $17 billion—more than any other movie franchise in history. At its best, Marvel Studios provokes an intense interest in characters, plotlines, and entirely new worlds. Infinity War also falls under this, being the Darkest Hour for the MCU at large.

Even with the general separation between the films and the different TV subdivisions, it's one of the few elements that's crept into every arm of the franchise; including the Iron Man films, Agent Carter, Daredevil, and Cloak and Dagger. Some of the more blatant toyetic costume changes include "Iron Patriot" in Iron Man 3, Hulkbuster Iron Man in Age of Ultron and Infinity War, "Iron Spider" in Infinity War, and the white "team suits" in Endgame.

Given that they were the team originally known as the Guardians of the Galaxy in Marvel Comics history, and that Gunn has indicated his desire to see more of them in future films, there's a distinct chance that they could have a bigger role in the MCU going forward.

For later movies, they changed their focus to the more comic-like and Fantasy Kitchen Sink 616 universe with increasingly fantastic themes, magic and the supernatural, talking animals and plants, over-the-top powers and super science, and tropes like Stupid Jetpack Hitler and Crystal Spires and Togas , among others, that gave us the MCU we know today.

Jeremy Renner is the last remaining OG Avengers to front his own project, but 10 years after an uncredited cameo in Thor, he will get a Disney+ event series, aptly titled Hawkeye, that will delve into the archer's time as the samurai sword-wielding mercenary Ronin and see Clint Barton train a protégé: Kate Bishop, a beloved comic character who inherits the Hawkeye mantle and goes on to become a central member MCU of The Young Avengers.

The Guardians of the Galaxy are likewise elevated from D-List heroes to a central pillar of the Cosmic side of the MCU, with their films providing important Canon Welding between different outer space factions (Celestials, Elders, Thanos, Nova, Ravagers) taking the role that the Fantastic Four would likely have played had Marvel still had their rights at the time.