Rebooking the MCU
By Scott Keith on 13 July 2022
Hi Scott, during the “TV, instead of Wrestling” thread yesterday, there was an interesting chat some of us had about the MCU’s current state. One commenter said the MCU post-endgame reminded him of the Arrowverse post-crisis, where’s there’s sort of a “What now?” vibe after reaching the top of the mountain. So my question is, if Marvel had all of their characters, how would you have rebooked the MCU? I will contend to my dying day that Marvel should’ve overpaid to get the X-Men and Fantastic 4 from Fox, and Spider-Man from Sony. (Now, I understand that getting Spidey probably would’ve been really tough given the numbers he was drawing, but you probably could’ve talked them into it after Spider-Man 3.) I would’ve made Galactus the Big Bad, then we make the transition into Thanos.
Galactus would have been the perfect Big Bad for Phase 4 instead of multiverses and assorted gods. Now we got Egyptian gods and Norse gods and Celestials. Earth getting threatened by a big alien who eats planets is a much easier sell.