Avengers: Endgame (spoilers)

They can't use the characters for two years after the cancellation of the Netflix series. So they can't touch those properties until late 2020 or sometime in 2021. My bet is they bring some of them back on Hulu as soon as they can. They can put these other characters into production immediately if they want.

 

Guardians 3 had to wait for Gunn to finish Suicide Squad 2.

Also, did you mean the MCU's first gay hero? We've already had a regular human character who was gay in Endgame.

 

Yeah, I meant gay hero. Gay main character. The Russo cameo was kind of just a drop-in.

And Gunn wouldn't have been on SS2 if he hadn't gotten kicked off GotG3. Kinda funny how that worked out. Marvel guy gets booted, does a DC movie, then comes back to Marvel.

 

So what do the "power rankings" look like now with Stark and Steve "retired?" Who becomes the Alpha? Capt. Marvel? Thor? Panther? Spiderman?
Hulk seems semi-retired. Space heroes always seem second class in the MCU. Is there another "earth-bound" hero out there with the charisma of Stark or Rogers? Someone MCU has been waiting to bring out when Stark and Rogers were done?

 

My bet it's going to be Marvel and Panther. Those two seem to have their heads about them. It would also be a great power dynamic between microEarth perspective vs macroUniverse perspective. Dr. Strange has the charisma, but I doubt he has the desire. Spidy won't. Thor and the space crew won't. Scarlet Witch I doubt. Antman won't. Hawkeye/Ronan maybe.

 

Based on the comics, Captain Marvel and Black Panther have both been team leaders for the Avengers. Hawkeye, too, but I don't see them going that route. My bet would be Black Panther, with Captain Marvel mostly a cosmic force around the universe.

 

So is there a secondary Avengers squad, or some possible "team" to base movies around now? Or do you think they will they just do a bunch of solo movies with cameos?

 

Well, the suits (hi Fredrick!) did do a pretty good Thanos impression by wiping out half the employees.

 

They'll do more Avengers movie. The team has always had a rotating membership in the comics. Sometimes there were reserve members who would pop up for bigger stuff while a core team of active members were the primary response unit for other threats. Seemed like just about every Marvel character was an Avenger at some point in the '90s. They also had other teams -- West Coast Avengers, for example. Could be fun to see a movie or show based around that idea.

 

Real question though - doesn't the "universe" need a bonafide A-lister to head this crew? In the examples mentioned above - the characters made the actors rather than with the other way around with Robert Downey Jr..

You've got who - Gosling? Hardy? DiCaprio? Michael B. Jordan? Emma Stone? The Rock? Is Damon too old now?

 

When the Marvel movies started, Downey wasn't an A-lister any more. The Marvel films made him a hot commodity again. Evans never had been a superstar before he was Captain America. Hemsworth was a no one. Johannson was arguably the biggest star at the time. (Well, Sam Jackson, but he wasn't one of the main Avengers.)

And Matt Damon is 48. Yeah, he's too old now.

 

Also, the day they cast DiCaprio in a major role in a Marvel movie is the last day I go see a Marvel movie in the theaters.