{"id":744383,"date":"2026-02-05T16:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/744383\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:41:15","slug":"where-does-marvel-go-after-avengers-secret-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/744383\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Does Marvel Go After Avengers: Secret Wars?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Steve<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s start this think piece with a question: Is the marketing for Avengers: Doomsday<\/a> getting you excited? Last year, Marvel held an online cast reveal featuring a timed distribution of chairs. Each chair had the name of an actor set to appear in Doomsday, with a new seat unveiled every 10-15 minutes (or so). As someone covering the event for JoBlo, the process was a slog. The wait for each reveal felt like an eternity, and the sweeping camera movements from chair to chair did little to add to the excitement. Speaking with others who are not part of the news-related trenches, they thought the event was fun, something they kept in the background as they went about their day. I envy them, because all the event did was make me question Marvel\u2019s approach to its next pairing of \u201cevent\u201d films.<\/p>\n

Chairs? Really, Marvel? Chairs?<\/p>\n

Things got quiet after the chair showcase, with Marvel keeping a relatively tight lid on any promotional materials. Well, until the teaser trailers started leaking. Unfortunately, it\u2019s the nature of the beast for things to eke out early, given so many people snooping online and wanting to be the first to spoil the surprise. Instead of Marvel revealing the return of Steve Rogers, Thor, and more, random online accounts lifted the curtain, confirming what many already knew. Still, if their goal was to make the teaser campaign as anticlimactic as possible, mission accomplished.<\/p>\n

For the life of me, I\u2019ve not been able to get excited about Avengers: Doomsday, or Avengers: Secret Wars<\/a>, for that matter. I say this as an MCU fan who roots for nearly every release and wants, more than anything, to once again feel that rush of collective enthusiasm that came with the Infinity Saga era. I don\u2019t know that we\u2019ll ever get back to that feeling again, but if not that, can we look forward to something new?<\/p>\n

\"Doctor<\/p>\n

A burst of inspiration<\/p>\n

I woke up two days ago, out of the blue, feeling optimistic about the MCU\u2019s future. What changed my mind? I\u2019m still trying to figure that out. While the thought of Marvel getting the band back together for a knock-down, drag-out fight with Doctor Doom intrigues me, I\u2019m more excited about what happens after the smoke clears. Doomsday introduces Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom, who in the comics is a close friend of the Fantastic Four\u2019s Reed Richards and Susan Storm, and leader of the Kingdom of Latveria. The movie will likely find Doom trying to rule the world with an iron fist, with the Avengers and their super-powered allies assembling to stop his rise. As we\u2019ve seen, the movie brings familiar heroes back to the MCU fold and reintroduces the X-Men, with several players from Fox\u2019s beloved franchise reprising their iconic roles as the Children of the Atom. But what of Secret Wars?<\/p>\n

With Secret Wars, Marvel has the potential to shake the MCU up considerably. Secret Wars introduces the concept of incursions. What are those? According to Fandom (and my reading of the Secret Wars event, however many years ago), incursions are \u201ccatastrophic events where two parallel universes collide and destroy each other, often leading to the collapse of reality.\u201d I won\u2019t get into too many specifics about how the Avengers solve the 616\u2019s incursion problem for two reasons: We\u2019ve not seen Avengers: Secret Wars yet, and there\u2019s no guarantee the film will follow the same plot as Marvel\u2019s comic book event series. However, the incursion presents Marvel Studios with an opportunity to reset the playing field. If you\u2019re Marvel, how do you leverage that?<\/p>\n

\"Iman<\/p>\n

Where are the Young Avengers?<\/p>\n

One way Marvel could capitalize on Avengers: Secret Wars is by establishing new teams and showing confidence in the growth and staying power of post-Infinity Saga characters (Shang-Chi, Ms. Marvel, etc.). As an example: Whatever happened to Kamala Khan leading a Young Avengers team? Do you remember when Kamala approached Kate Bishop about joining forces in the mid-credits scene from The Marvels? Let\u2019s do that! Marvel has already laid the groundwork for the team, with more than a handful of potential members already introduced. Who could join the team? Kamala would obviously lead the charge, with the light-bending, embiggening hero in a field-ready Nick Fury-like role. Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) could join the team, as well as Kathryn Newton\u2019s Cassie Lang (a.k.a. Stature), Will Deusner\u2019s Skaar, Joe Locke\u2019s Billy Maximoff from Agatha All Along, Xochitl Gomez\u2019s America Chavez, Jack Veal\u2019s Kid Loki, Dominique Thorne\u2019s Ironheart, Elijah Richardson\u2019s Eli Bradley (a.k.a. Patriot), and Indla Rose Hemsworth as Love from Thor: Love & Thunder. That\u2019s just who I can think of off the top of my head. If Marvel would get up off its ass and introduce live-action versions of Miles Morales and Spider-Gwen, we\u2019d be in even better shape.<\/p>\n

How does Marvel solve for X(-Men)?<\/p>\n

Placing the Young Avengers aside, what of the X-Men? Will the MCU opt for an all-or-nothing era of mutant mayhem? Do fans want a series of solo features reintroducing the Children of the Atom, or do you keep making one X-Men team-based movie after another? There are so many mutants in the Marvel Universe. Why limit ourselves to the X-Men? Give us a Strange Academy TV series, and steadily introduce its characters into the films. Remember the I Am Groot shorts on Disney+? Do that again, but instead of Groot, it\u2019s Doop! Don\u2019t look at me like that. You know you want it. For the love of everything holy, reintroduce Magick and the New Mutants. They deserved better! Put Professor Xavier out to pasture and give us Quentin Quire! Okay, maybe that\u2019s an unpopular opinion, but I stand by it.<\/p>\n

\"Strange<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to believe in the new guard<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the point I\u2019m trying to make? There is so much potential for the MCU to flourish after Secret Wars. There\u2019s little reason for Marvel to rely on legacy characters to put asses in seats. However, if they want people to show up, audiences need to feel that Marvel Studios believes in its characters as much as we do in wanting to see them succeed. Superhero fatigue is real, but it\u2019s mainly because Marvel appears to have lost confidence in people\u2019s ability to move beyond Steve Rogers, Thor Odinson, and other characters who helped lay the foundation of the MCU. Paying homage to the old guard is excellent, but at some point, we need to move on. Show audiences that you believe in new characters, and they will eventually get on board. Stop second-guessing yourself every time a film doesn\u2019t quadruple its budget, or trolls bomb the comments. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and The Marvels deserved better, dammit!<\/p>\n

Anyway, I\u2019m gonna watch some Agatha All Along, ponder the glowing reactions to Wonder Man, and hope that Marvel Studios rediscovers its love for its own characters in a post-Secret Wars world. Let us know what you want from Marvel Studios after Secret Wars in the comments.<\/p>\n

\"JoBlo<\/p>\n

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