Avengers 5 Announcement Explains So Many Phase 4 Issues
Marvel's announcement of its fifth major crossover movie event, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, finally explains the problem of why viewers have struggled to understand MCU Phase 4's overarching narrative. Marvel Studios certainly over-delivered at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, unveiling their entire Phase 5 slate and revealing some of MCU Phase 6 as well. The franchise is heading for not one Avengers movie in 2025, but two: Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars.
The scale of the announcements took viewers by surprise, in part because Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige had previously hinted that he considered the 2014 Phase 3 announcement to be a mistake; the relentless focus on Avengers: Infinity War meant audiences had viewed each movie as another step toward an exciting destination, rather than appreciating each release as an individual entity. Still, it's possible Marvel had been stung by constant criticism of Phase 4's disjointed narrative and realized the MCU is more appreciated when people have a sense of where it's going.
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Ironically, the title of Avengers 5 actually hints at the reason MCU Phase 4 has felt so disjointed and why it's not a problem. It's named The Kang Dynasty after a classic story by Kurt Busiek published in 2001-2002. This story saw Kang the Conqueror, Marvel's premier time-traveling supervillain, take advantage of the Avengers' distraction to launch an invasion on Earth. Marvel Studios could very well be taking the same approach, telling a story in which Earth's mightiest heroes are distracted by diverse threats and struggling to deal with an enemy who knows this is the exact moment to strike.
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