SDCC 2022: Avengers: Secret Wars could give the MCU the power of a reboot

Marvel Studios always knows how to hold a Hall H party, and there was concern that the irregular nature of the face-to-face San Diego Comic-Con for the first time in three years would keep things silent, but the studio delivered. did. I know a lot of things I didn’t know before. And glimmering at the far end of Marvel’s new timeline is one of the ominous names. Avengers: Secret Wars..

Marvel Comics has published several infamous Secret War events, but only one is likely to have influenced Ark, such as exploring the Multiverse and introducing the Illuminati.And that’s Jonathan Hickman and Esad Rivic Secret WarsA natural disaster in the universe that ended with the complete destruction of the Marvel Multiverse and the unlikely recreation.

This is all to say: for the Marvel Cinematic Universe I wanted To make a drastic change in internal continuity Secret Wars Really one of the ways “Marvel Comics” was to do that.

Marvel method

This is because Marvel Comics has historically not restarted full continuity. Unlike DC Comics, whose settings are built on a 25-year cycle of character resets and reimaginations, you can follow the uninterrupted line from Tony Stark in 2022 to Tony Stark in 1963. ..

2015s Secret Wars It countered that trend, not in a way that broke the line between Tony in 2015 and Tony in 1963, but in a way that nevertheless had a significant editorial impact. in short, Secret Wars Killed the Marvel Universe.

Ultimate Marvel Universe

Marvel Ultimate LineFounded in 2000, is arguably the publisher’s greatest success in 10 years, an alternative Marvel Universe where contemporary writers and artists are free to pick up the company’s most famous characters and start over. was. And it has a great influence on the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Perhaps Samuel L. Jackson is best represented in playing Nick Fury — the ultimate cartoon was the first to portray Nick as a black man. Exactly Like Jackson, not a white man who can pass David Hasselhoff.

but, Secret Wars, Ultimate Marvel Universe has passed away. In fact, before the event, all the universes of Marvel’s Multiverse died, leaving only dozens of surreal variant fragments glued to the mashup, and all the mashups were finished. And when the good guys won, they restored the Multiverse, but killed the Ultimate Marvel Universe.

Marvel has decided to rescue some aspects of the Ultimate Universe that are still resonating with readers. Otherwise, we closed the editing line.It makes sense: by that time Secret Wars Rolling, the world of Ultimate Marvel was no longer a new start.It had its own 15-year continuity to catch up, and it wasn’t even Major Marvel’s continuity.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe will be 15 next year. Isn’t it interesting?

Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe heading for a reboot?

Image: Marvel Studios

I don’t know for a while — probably not until late 2025. Avengers: Secret Wars Hit the theater. But you can bet your last remaining universe in the decimated multiverse where Kevin Feige and all the other creative seniors at Marvel Studios would ever dodge the answer. And at least now you know why.

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