Marvel's Thanos Destroyer Could Help Fix The MCU's Infinity Saga Obsession
As the MCU's Phase 4 struggles to move past The Infinity Saga, the answer to the franchise could lie with Squirrel Girl, the one Marvel hero who single-handedly defeated Thanos. The Infinity Saga, which revolved around Thanos as the villain, played out over 11 years of movies. Now the specter of Kang the Conqueror and the introduction of the multiverse in Phase 4 feel like a retread of Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet, and just how much patience audiences have for another decade of interconnected Marvel movies, plus additional Disney+ MCU series, remains to be seen.
Meanwhile, the success of the series Moon Knight, with its limited MCU connections, proves that audiences are keen to watch something new and independent of the overarching franchise narrative. And Squirrel Girl is another obscure Marvel creation that could really freshen up the MCU. Since making her comic book debut as a keen young superhero wishing to become Iron Man's sidekick, she has defeated such major Marvel villains as Doctor Doom, MODOK, and Thanos. Squirrel Girl also saved the planet from Galactus with her powers of conflict resolution. She and her squirrel sidekick, Tippy Toe, simply talked the planet-eating god out of devouring the Earth by providing him with an uninhabited planet of nuts to eat instead.
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Introducing Squirrel Girl into the MCU, preferably with her own show capturing the same breezy tone of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl comics, would offer a goofy subversion of the doom-laden portent that has come to define the franchise post-Infinity Saga. An Unbeatable Squirrel Girl MCU series could be akin to Star Trek: Lower Decks. Both the Squirrel Girl comics and that
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