The MCU’s Perfect Multiverse Endgame Is Now Secret Wars
WARNING: Spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
The first 3 Phases of the MCU all built up to Avengers: Endgame, and the franchise is already setting up Secret Wars as its next Phase-ending event. There are two different runs of Secret Wars comic books from which the MCU could adapt their Multiverse endgame. The first is built on cameos, as a group of Marvel Comics’ most popular heroes are forced into a battle against a super-group of villains. Though this cameo-reliant approach appears to be the model the MCU’s Phase 4 is striving for, it is 2015’s Secret Wars comics that would instead provide the franchise with the perfect main event.
This edition of the Secret Wars storyline is built on character development and rounding-out certain heroes’ arcs. Until Disney acquired Fox, the chances of an MCU Secret Wars had been slim due to the narrative’s reliance on members of the Fantastic 4; but Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' Mr. Fantastic introduction hints at the potential of making this adaptation a reality. The story concerns an incursion event in which two universes are destroyed. A small group of heroes survive the destruction and awake on Battleworld – a constructed universe different from their own, ruled over by the renowned Fantastic 4 villain, Doctor Doom.
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Providing a reason for Phase 4’s cameos and allowing Marvel Studios to provide satisfying conclusions to many of their heroes at once, Secret Wars is the perfect way for the MCU to move on from Avengers: Endgame. There is still a lot of setting up to do before this storyline can become a reality – notably the introduction of the Fantastic 4 – but considering the
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