MCU Phase 4 Continues To Waste Its Most Exciting Time Period

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Phase 4 of the MCU is still overlooking its most interesting period, which encompasses the time between the Snap from Avengers: Infinity War and the Blip from Avengers: Endgame. Barring certain changes in continuity and some jumps in time, most of the events of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been synchronous with real life. That is, until Avengers: Endgame pushed the timeline five years into the future. Ever since then, all Phase 4 movies and Disney+ series continue to take place during and after 2023. This allows Phase 4 to have a relatively stable continuity, but it ignores the exciting possibilities that come with the universal unrest brought on by Thanos' Snap.

Up until Spider-Man: No Way Home and Hawkeye, Phase 4 has touched upon the effects that Thanos' Snap had on certain characters and their respective arcs. For instance, WandaVision revealed that Monica Rambeau wasn't present for her mother during her last moments and that Vision was disassembled by SWORD. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier featured the Flag-Smashers' plan to revert society to its Snap-era status quo, and the Emergence in Eternals was shown to be delayed by the Snap, and then put back into motion by the Blip. However, the countless major events that must have happened between Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame remain untold.

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While it's true that the MCU would become far too bleak if the effects of Thanos' Snap were portrayed realistically, it's still difficult to believe that society has been pretty much the same by the time Phase 4 begins. The loss of half of all life in the universe impacts every single aspect of life imaginable. From economic collapse to mass panic and