Let’s take a brief look back at how we got here and where we
go from here.
How’d we get here?
Iron-Man
Where do we go from here?
I dunno
Thank you, and have a wonderful evening… oh wait, what?! You
want more? Geez… Ok fine!
The concept for this ‘Universe’ of films was conceived a
long time ago, in a galax… no wait, it was probably the early 2000s. Spider-Man
was doing well at the box-office for Columbia Pictures, and Marvel (who foolishly sold away big
chunks of their movie rights to various studios,) figured ‘hey, we should cash
in on this whole ‘Superhero Movie’ business.’ Good thinking Marvel, DC has only been doing
it since the 60s, way to play ketchup (catch-up ((catsup.))
But wait… there’s more. Marvel did intend on a few new
variables and used their bread and butter for inspiration. No, not just their
famous and infamous characters (that they still owned the rights of,) the
entire concept of the comics themselves could be used in their films. Introduce
Characters, Introduce more characters, get fans excited about characters,
sprinkle characters from one movie into another movie, sprinkle a little more
into the next movie and then BOOM, all out cross-over events and team-up
movies! The concept was intriguing, potentially impossible, but intriguing.
Marvel figured, fuck it, and went about doing just this… they
did Iron-Man and then Incredible Hulk, then they did Thor, then they did Captain
America and to Cap it all off (get it??… Cap!?) they brought all these
characters together in The Avengers. This first ‘phase’ was the test phase, and
it worked. Audiences ate it up. The interconnectivity, the heroes themselves,
the team-ups, the universe of it all. A winning formula was born and there was
no stopping it now!
That was 2008 or 2009, and here we are 10 years later with
more than 20 movies under the belt. It has been a mostly positive ride… mostly
(Thor: Dark World, I’m looking at you!)
and it has been a great service to fans
who like the comics, fans who like Superheroes or just fans who like great
movies in general.
We are now closing in on what is expected to be the ending
of the first major chapter of the MCU, and the beginning of chapter
2. There are some characters that may not be returning, which will be
disappointing, but I imagine that there are protocols in place that will
alleviate the alienation of an entire fan base. Of course much of this is
speculation, we don’t know for sure about anything and instead are forced to
wait it out for another 2 months, desperately clinging to any kind of news and
leaks we can find, all the while hoping for the best.
Avengers: Endgame, what kind of heartbreak do you plan on
bringing us? What kind of joys and what kind of defeats? Are you going to kill
off Tony Stark? (probably.) Are you going to sink and re-freeze Captain America?
(something like that.) Will you be introducing the hard-to-tackle concept of
time travel by way of the quantum realm in order to acquire past versions of infinity stones to
counterattack the efforts of Thanos the Titan who’s only desire is to see the
universe’s population balanced by eradication of half it’s lifeforms or introduce the even more complicated multiverse structure? (huh?)
We shall see. Here's the the MCU. Cheers!
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