[Captain Nash]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

This is gonna sound sour...but absolutely nothing. Unless it says Excaliber/Fantastic 4/X-Men/Spider-Man in the title, I have very little interest in what lies ahead for Phase 4...or whatever phase the MCU is in at the moment.

Eternals might be a surprise like GotG, or it could be something middling that underperforms. They all can't be winners, and Marvel/Disney has to be careful going forward because with the Avengers taking some time off, casual fans might not be as engaged as they were with these very unfamiliar batch of characters they are bringing to the big screen...especially with the expectations and hype of getting muties in the very near future.

They will need to establish the next big baddie/arc going forward quickly, because I know a lot of people who were seeing the films just to see how they all fit into a part of the Infinity Gauntlet narrative and I'm sure many others out there were as well (myself included.) With the slate "snapped clean," it will become a tougher sell if the don't begin setting things up immediately after the credits roll on whatever the first film will be.

That doesn't sound sour at all, that's cautious which is not a bad thing in any way. I think a lot of people are wondering how the post-Endgame MCU is going to go. Spider-Man, BLack Panther and Captain Marvel are going to be sure hits, and perhaps Ant-Man and Dr. Strange. GOTG still has many issues to sort out.

I know they've got a Black Widow, Eternals and Shang-Chi movie in the works, but what seem to be on most everyone's mind is mutants. Unfortunately I read somewhere the Feige said it would be 5 years before the X-men have their movie - which of course wouldn't negate them showing up in other movies. I feel like Phase 4 will keep the universe afloat but only with the purpose of getting to Phase 5, where I'm sure the X-Men will come into prime focus. I'm really hoping we can get a Moon Knight movie but that doesn't seem to be on the radar really.

Of course, you also have Fantastic Four in there and they may come earlier than that. And they bring two very high profile villains that could easily be the next "big bad" of the MCU: Doom and Kang.