What's Marvel's endgame?

[Kolby Jack]

Well, Guardians of the Galaxy just came out and it is the first one to even talk about

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the Infinity gems, with one being featured prominently, so at least 4 more movies of that building up to Thanos and the Infinity gauntlet.

So we can have that at the very least for like, 5, maybe 6 more movies, and since it looks like the Avengers 2: Age of Ultron has nothing to do with that that's that many after it.
So yeah, many years of work still.

What? We're up to 3 infinity stones already. The Tesseract, the Ether, and the purple one from GotG. They even call the Ether an infinity stone at the end of Thor 2 after the credits. So really, we only have 2 more stones to reveal, which will be just in time for Avengers 3 which I'm pretty sure they've long since announced was going to have Thanos as the main villain.

EDIT: Actually, they refer to both the Tesseract and the Ether as Infinity stones in the post-credits scene of Thor 2. So yea.

 

[Flutterguy]

Marvel's endgame = money

I don't see future releases to be a problem. They have more then enough material already made to continue making them until they lose popularity, spiderman/hulk/avengers remakes become a viable option, but most probably they will become the major world religion of the electronic age and Stan Lee will drink the blood of toddlers to survive and become our the immortal emperor, forever putting Spiderman in different color suits.

I can't wait for the purple Spiderman suit.

 

[TristanBelmont]

Squirrel Girl. That is all they need to do. Fifteen SG movies and an eventual Star Wars crossover where she murders everyone.

 

[Super Cyborg]

Maybe they will do team up movies, with different things happening because of the third avengers movie. Maybe the gems are scattered, so different teams of heroes have to find them, but because of the power of the gems, there are lots of people who want them. This could lead to the civil war that people talked about, but maybe instead of choosing to show their identities, they have to swear loyalty to a country, or they will retaliate at the site of the hero. That's one way they could do it. Maybe the last Avengers will be different super powers at war because of them wanting power of the gems to have control and safety. I know almost nothing about the comics, so this is a guess of what I've seen of the movies (haven't seen GotG), as well as some of the big comic arcs that I've heard of.

 

[Xerosch]

I would really like to see Marvel's Civil War at some point. Pitting Iron Man against Captain America seems like an interesting idea (haven't read the respective comic). With Marvel introducing more and more heroes they could likely pull it off.

 

[Fappy]

Well, the comic book canon is practically never ending, so I would assume they'd just finish up their infinity gauntlet arc and keep going from there if the franchise still has steam and the actors keep signing on. If not, reboot time. Spider Man's proven you can reboot a series pretty quick without people getting tired of it.

My only question is how they intend to handle reboots when they do eventually have to resort to them. I doubt they will do individual reboots while the original movie continuity continues, so they'll either have to write the character(s) off until a full continuity reboot or just recast the characters when actors do inevitably leave their franchises. Kind of a tricky situation, really.

 

[Anachronism]

well tbh this seems a bit of a silly question given they've been going for decades with the comics without any sign of hitting any kind of brick wall narratively and at the end of the day these "superhero movies" are still "action movies" complete with comparatively "thin" plots and exposition.

That's true, but let's not forget that drawings on paper don't age. Actors do, and their contracts expire as well.

My best guess is that Avengers 3 will be the grand finale for the team as we currently know it, at which point they'll gradually replace people. Bucky will probably become Captain America, maybe we'll get Lady Thor in the movies as well as the comics, etc. It'll be interesting to see what happens with the story though, because the only way you can (arguably) go bigger than Thanos is to introduce Galactus, and Marvel Studios don't have the rights to him.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

I think they'll keep the MCU continuity going and phase out main characters as the actors age or contracts are over. There's plenty of other characters to swap in to keep their money train chugging along. Marvel will have to plan things well ahead of time, but they've been great at it so far so I don't think that'll be a problem. Heck after Avengers 2 they'll already have Vision, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Falcon, and another Cap to sub in when one of the 4 main Avengers drop out.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Hard to say really since when I think about it, who else is the biggest threat beside Thanos and still within their right to used. Galactus? While I know a thing or two on Marvel but it's to a certain extent.
The way I am seeing this is that the cinematic universe will be like the comic universe, it will be ongoing. Even taking out Thanos they probably make a new arc on a lesser scale if they want to keep making Marvel films.

 

[Evonisia]

It will never end. Pretty soon the entire movie industry will be Marvel-produced, using the endless energy and craziness from Stan Lee to fuel their domination. Soon all world economies will be based on making and advertising their only export, Marvel movies. The ensuing nuclear war from the creative stagnation will be won by Russians.

Of course, Stan Lee will survive the nuclear winter because he is in fact, immortal and probably not human.

When it is reported that Stan Lee has apparently "died", I believe it will be that he finally achieved his dream of becoming a Super Hero and Stan Lee is just the alter ego he left behind.

OT: I'm guessing two more Avengers films after the third one, and they have a near endless cast already to support The Avengers films in case one of the actors decides to stop bothering or refuse to renew their contract. Just keep replacing the "main" characters and you can keep the train going until you run out of popularity or you drop in quality significantly.

 

[Gatx]

well tbh this seems a bit of a silly question given they've been going for decades with the comics without any sign of hitting any kind of brick wall narratively and at the end of the day these "superhero movies" are still "action movies" complete with comparatively "thin" plots and exposition.

they'll get a new "big bad" for another story arc ?

The characters in the MCU are growing though. Captain America is adjusting to modern America, Tony Stark is learning not to be a dick and so on and so forth, plus you're going to have to deal with either replacing actors or having other characters take up their mantles when the original actors want to quit.

I think it'd be interesting if they kept it going, but they regularly change up the characters they focus on. They've shown with Guardians of the Galaxy that they can do their B-listers justice and people care enough now about Marvel that they'll see anything. As long as they never do a clean swap and always keep some overlap between "generations" I think they could keep it going for a while without running into the stagnation that actual comic books face.

 

[CommanderL]

They have no endgame. They are going to drive that sickeningly smug crap into the ground, till it stops making money.
And it will, because they'll probabely too lazy to make any more new superheroes. They'll just keep digging and digging, till they've got to the z listers, if desperately shoving the same old same old ones in everything does'nt work.

Of course, they'll not deal with the good ones well, on top of it.
Much as I love Dr Strange and really want to see a film of him, I think the film they are making will be atrocious.

And disney, they've completely lost the plot recently. The pathetic undermining of their own stuff. Sickeningly pretentious, horriblely contrived, completely illogical, reworkings of classic fairytales, FFS!

They fail to see the charm of disney is the fun, and happy endings. That the reason fairytales are good is they are simple, fun, stories, with happy endings.

If they get hold of it, they'll make the marvel stuff even worse.

We're in for a long, painful, parade, of driving marvels stuff so deep into the ground it'll be strapped to a rocket and extre fuel added.

I love superheroes. I have watched most superhero cartoons there were and I am starting to get into comics now.

But these horrible avengers/guardions of the glaxy,/linked together crap, films have zero interest for me. I'm sick and tired of hearing about them!

What they need to do is kill off the terrible xmen films, the appalling avengers crap, and delete the guardians of the galaxy crap out of existance!

The xmen needs killing off, and restarting with new everything, or not at all, with a proper, dressed, Mistique!
The avengers films are total and utter sh*te.
Spiderman needs a rest. But I think the new films probabely are better than the sh*te the films before turned into.

They need to make ONE OFF FILMS ONLY! No tied together crap, just one offs and their sequals!
Made years apart. Stop flooding the freaking market!

DC are better off staying out of it. They'll come out looking better in the long run.

nost of the marvel stuff is great fun the gaurdians is a great time full of laugh and joy

 

[Reiper]

I want to see a Nova (Richard Rider) movie. In fact, I was somewhat disappointed that he didn't have a cameo in guardians of the galaxy. I'm hopeful, but also concerned that green lantern may have killed the "space cop" genre lol.

Once you hear the UMvC3 nova theme with the lyrics some guy made up you will have it in your head forever!

A proper punisher movie would be good too

 

[Lilani]

Their endgame? Make all the monies and have all the babies of all the fangirls and fanboys, I suppose.

 

[prpshrt]

Their end game is more monies. I think they'll stop after the infinity gauntlet gets destroyed.

 

[vid87]

Here's some possible scenarios post Thanos:


-Expand on the Eternals, throw in Nova, Quasar, Adam Warlock

-I *think* Ghost Rider's rights have reverted, so either Mephisto or, with Dr. Strange, Dormammu in the demon realms

-Cassie Lang is rumored to appear in Ant-Man: set-up Young Avengers, especially if the likes of RDJ will be retiring soon.

-Asgard witnesses Ragnorok, ensuing chaos somehow creates The Wrecking Crew (as per their origins)

-The Worthy(?) show up - Black Widow, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, Maria Hill, whoever, is possessed by a hammer and becomes "Skirn, Breaker of Men" (among others though this is the only one I know about for sure)

-World War Hulk and Thundra, Beyonder and the Secret Wars (together?!)

-Inhumans (seemingly greenlit last I heard), Terrigen Mists, Kamala "Ms Marvel" Khan, everyone gets super powers, chaos ensues, possible new origins - and copyright loophole - for "X-Men who are also Avengers," maybe even Spiderman if his rights *somehow* revert during that period, if not Peter Parker than at least Miles Morales. Because Scarlet Witch exists, can potentially roll into modified "House of M"

-When the cast gets big enough - Civil War and/or Secret Invasion (assuming Skrulls aren't limited to FF4), works in GotG (which I've never actually understood how that could work: between rendering Groot and Rocket and paying RDJ's salary, the budget left over won't even cover a buffet lunch for the film crew).

-AIM, HYDRA, Maggia (assuming they appear in Netflix Defenders alongside Kingpin) have worldwide gang war, She-Hulk acts as defacto liaison between street justice Defenders (knows Matt Murdock personally through law) and Avengers through Banner, possible rollovers with different regions and heroes - Black Panther, Captain Britain and Betsy "Psylocke" Braddock and Excalibur (no Nightcrawler, sorry), West Coast Avengers, discovery of The Pride and The Runaways.

-Reboot the franchise as new continuity, unexpectedly crossover with current one, mash them together into new fused storyline

-Time travel creates new origins, creates new team dynamics (what if Cap goes back to WW2, finds Peggy, they have secret child/grandchild who becomes US Agent or a new "Bucky" or takes up mantle of Winter Soldier after original inevitably switches sides), brings back old characters: opening for Red Skull?


Oh I know I'm forgetting something - there's no way I'm not.