Film Theory: Thor Will DESTROY The MCU! (Marvel Phase 5)

come out, thanos, i know you're hiding there, thanos was nothing more than a minor annoyance compared to me, kid, i'm the mcu's biggest enemy, galactus mephisto, the one beneath it all, no corporate expectations, hello internet, welcome to

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, the program that only vaguely deals with what's important. Movies since the global pandemic pushed Trolls World Tour to be a default Oscar nomination, but I have to say there's some good news in all this downtime. All the hours I used to spend in theaters each week looking for juicy theorizable details can now be spent going through the enormous backlog of comics that have been accumulating over the past few years, as loyal fans know that some of my best predictions come from the comics plots.

Marvel likes to test ideas for the MCU in their comics first and in Secret Empire number seven, Natasha makes the ultimate sacrifice, but the important thing here is that Black Widow has shown that she is

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ing to sacrifice herself to prevent the worst from unfolding. possible timelines, but today I'm going a lot deeper thanks to a reorganization. In Marvel leadership, Kevin Feige, previously the head of Marvel movies, is now just the head of Marvel, meaning he is now the creative director in charge of everything Marvel legally controls, ranging from the movies, to of course, but also television shows and also now.

With comics with unprecedented power comes unprecedented responsibility. Feige is taking over Marvel at its peak and with the most ambitious crossover event in history already behind him, many fans are wondering where everything

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go next. Well, loyal theorists, I'm here today to postulate that Feige is planning something absolutely massive in the future, a crossover event to make Endgame and the Spider-verse look like potato chips, just like the Infinity War saga was finally getting underway. turning into a climactic battle against Thanos. I'm now convinced that Kevin Feige is building this next story arc into a battle that will merge the Marvel multiverse.

First it is necessary to establish that Marvel has some kind of loosely connected multiverse. There is a long history of universe numbering in Marvel, especially in the comics with the universe numbered 616. This being the main Marvel universe, say what you want about the DC movies, but at least they have the common decency of starting with the universe 1. Also just to make things even more confusing instead of calling it the 616 universe, which would almost always make a lot of sense. It's designated by Earth numbers, which means that even if you're talking about activities in space, you still refer to everything as the continuity of Earth 616, but even more confusingly, Earth 616 is part of a multiverse that has been reborn several times. times.

In total, there have been seven multiverse renewals throughout the entire history of the Marvel multiverse, where an old multiverse becomes completely extinct only to be replaced by a new one; In other words, Marvel comics exist in a multiple multiverse, so Earth 616 is the main timeline, but there are plenty of other fun little offshoots, plenty of other Earth 90214 is Marvel Noir, where the daredevil Iron Man, Spider-Man and the X-Men dive into the 1920s for some old-fashioned hijinks. Earth 1010 is the universal identification of wonder. anime yes, the

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anime Earth92131 is where the 90's animated shows of by Peter Parker. and goes on to become spider woman while peter parker becomes the lizard in an attempt to be special like her and yes this is the same gwen stacy who is dragged through a portal to be part of the spider verse which in turn takes place on earth 1610 and now you can see first of all how confusing this is getting, but also how these things are starting to come together now in the official handbook of the

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universe from a to z, the mcu was given the designation one nine nine nine nine nine is apparently named after the year Kevin Feige started producing the X-Men movie and just a few more nines to sound cool, however, with the Avengers endgame, the MCU now canonically it no longer takes place in a single universe, as discussed by Hulk and the Ancient One.

Infinity stones create what you experience as the flow of time. Remove one of the stones and close the divisions. Now this may benefit your reality, but my new one not so much, wait, wait here, quick sidebar on the movie. Thanos admits

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ing the Infinity Stones. the things we just heard create the flow of time, they talk about your lines that no one remembered they had included in the script anyway, since that scene proves that we have at least witnessed multiple different realities in the mcu on screen great, that's how we get a dead loki in the main mcu but a very alive loki in the upcoming loki solo series on disney plus agents of shield is also canonized to take place in the mcu, it's been producing different timelines a At an alarming pace in Season 5, Shield Agents are sent through a time monolith that's like a poor man's sticky time stone to a reality where the Earth was

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ed at the same time Thanos was attacked by a completely unrelated event involving the villainous graviton, resulting in near-extinction. of all humanity, so they go back in time with the monolith stopping it and creating a second major timeline related to the mcu.

Since then, they've been excited about time travel because I can't believe I'm going to try to explain it. This plot, but here we go, an alien civilization of super-intelligent computers loses their homeworld, so they kidnap the shield scientists who they think solve time travel and ask them to build a new time travel machine. in order to save his home planet in the past. somehow they managed to build it, which the aliens then used to go back in time to prevent the shield from being made so they could invade Earth more easily, which actually works, but the shield scientists managed to take all the main characters to a good timeline by sacrificing the one. which season 7 takes place in, by the way, season 7 is hilarious and I'm at least sixty percent sure the writers are on board with the joke;

In any case, Agents of Shield has taken place in no less than three distinct timelines again canonically connected through the MCU so the MCU is itself a multiverse, you're saying there's also a multiverse while I think about it, who need a time stone or, for that matter, who needs to beg Tony Stark to invent time travel when your shield friends? They already had a time machine, they just said Captain America. If you had paid a little more attention to the little ones in your canonically related TV spin-off series, you would have saved yourself a lot of trouble, okay?

So why am I talking about all this? Well, it looks like the next big step for the MCU will be to combine all the different multiverses into one from the movies, of course, but also from the TV shows and also from the comics. In 2015, Marvel destroyed the comic book multiverse in its second Secret Wars event. Long story short, this plot had earths from different universes colliding, destroying their entire universe in the process, in an unusual turn of events, the heroes ultimately failed to save the multiverse. Pieces from different universes crashed into an area beyond time and space called battle world before.

Things were eventually rebooted in the eighth and current iteration, but this is what Marvel used in this massive event to not only reboot but massively rework Marvel continuity. Taking the opportunity to finish the definitive line of comics, but moving popular characters like Miles Morales into the main 616 continuity, the event helped clean up Marvel history without totally rewriting all the characters. The idea was that new readers wouldn't have to know the entire history of the Marvel universe just to read a new book, but long-time readers would. They don't have to abandon everything they knew and loved about their all-time favorites, and there are certainly some signs that the MCU is laying the pieces now for a final multiverse event of its own.

Remember that Marvel through the next

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s needs to find a way. until the end of the game, the most ambitious crossover in history where all the greatest heroes in the universe collide, so how do you do that by having all the greatest heroes in the multiverse collide or, to quote anthony russo talking about the next Avengers date, it would be the biggest movie you can imagine, so that's what really excites us about the story, its ambition is even greater than the ambition of the infinity saga before completely dismissing it as crazy, remember in the spiderverse introduce the world to the idea of ​​not just a multiversal superhero movie, but a multiverse where the characters could operate by wildly different rules and, based on its box office and critical success, you can bet Marvel is looking to take some notes from that movie, the latest rumors burning the internet seem to indicate that Toby Maguire from the 2000s Spider-Man trilogy and Andrew Garfield from the Amazing Spider-Man movies will appear as alternate universe spiders in the next appearance From MCU's Spider-Man, these casting decisions are definitely still rumors, but when asked directly about them they simply said that citing that those rumored castings weren't confirmed makes it seem a lot less like it's not happening and more like it's still happening. were in contract negotiations, plus you have shield agents creating teams of secret warriors preparing for some secret war.

On your own, some battles must be fought with secret warriors. I understand the need for these secret warriors, but it's the Thor comics that seem to hint the most at what's to come in the final two Thor stories. Thor has been worried about the end of his universe. in the comic king

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a future

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from earth 11412 worries about the coming of all black which is the end of his universe in the form of gore the butcher god and his necro sword to quote from that series but now the universe is a trembling invalid that collapses it in on itself and wheezing its last soon there will be only entropy, a lifeless sea of ​​nothingness that consumes it, these are but the last spasms of life, behold the death of the light, furthermore, the newest major comics of Thor have focused on a similar malicious force, the Black Winter, the star.

Plague, the great black winter is coming, yes the winter is coming for you Thor, don't worry if the story proves to be true, it's not as bad as they say, or do you see the black winter is the ultimate escalation of bad guys? the silver surfer says it quote black winter killed the universe before ours thor while galactus devours worlds winter comes to reality just to show exactly how bad black winter really is, they showed him literally destroying the dc universe which I must admit it's just top-notch trolling, it's revealed that the Black Winter destroyed the entire multiverse before bringing about the end of the sixth incarnation of the universe.

He's such a bad guy that even Galactus, who was the sole survivor of the last multiverse, is afraid of him. Galactus claims that to him the black winter looks like thor and wouldn't you know it, but in the king thor comic we learn that thor might actually be the one who causes the end of the universe, as they say, all hail thor, father Dolphin. Even Black Winter himself calls Thor the god of the end, but for me one of the most interesting parts of comics is this line also from King Thor, recently published, as the universe prepares for collapse.

Do you remember how this whole saga began? Jane Foster, the man. gog the war of the kingdoms the cosmic god police cases jane foster for those who don't remember is natalie portman's character from the first two thor movies and very briefly an endgame when

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four was announced at the year's comic con Past Natalie Portman took the stage and triumphantly raised Mjolnir above her head, clearly signaling the arrival of Jane Foster's Thor in the upcoming Thor Love and Thunder, so that's a pretty solid one off that list, The War of the Dead. kingdoms also happened in the mcu during the events of thor ii, bet you forgot this, the war of the kingdoms is actually a comic plot that arose immediately after thor 2, but it dealt with similar themes to that movie, such as the attempted malakath to destroy everything, so it's too much off that wish list before the End of the Universe cases, the cosmic god cops, haven't happened yet, but it's likely that the Loki series will actually deal with These, you see, God's policemen are exactly what they seem,Like they're a police force for the gods, let's not go much deeper than that.

Honestly, it sounds like the kind of thing that would fit nicely into a show about a renegade god, Loki, on the loose, playing with moments throughout the series. story, which is exactly how that Disney Plus series Loki is described and finally there's Mangog, a villain who isn't actually worth explaining in detail here, but he was trapped beneath Asgard in the comics, so he's probably still around. safely contained below, so there's a good chance that Mangog is on the loose and we'll soon see him giving us a four-by-four. checklist before the end of days comes to the Marvel multiverse, the most important thing is this: the comics are already preparing for another multiversal finale, they have introduced the black winter, a threat that destroyed the multiverse before and is beginning to threaten Marvel.

The biggest heroes alone, this would normally be the start of a big comic book crossover event, but given the recent events at Marvel, I think it's actually setting up for something even bigger. I know I'm not a comics theorist, but I think there are many. hints that Kevin Feige wants us to see or ideas that he wants to test before they hit the big screen in his brief tenure as cco. He's already had Thor address the end of the universe several times in the comics and sees Marvel Studios as acting. more like a comic book company today than ever, they have movies, they have Disney spin-offs more, they have animated spin-offs, hell Thor even crossed over into Fortnite in a canonical tie-in and no that's not just a

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according to the Marvel comics. quote from editor mark basso, we had a lot of great creative discussions between Marvel and Epic Games about where our story lines would naturally intersect and how to see what the main objective of the Fortnite island would be for Galactus, who Donnie Cates has already been exploring in his Thor series. everything is in motion, just like in the comics, some characters, some stories will stick and some won't, but after the next phases you'll need a way to put it all back together to keep the characters working to lose the ones that do.

It's not all in a timeline that the average moviegoer can still see and appreciate and that's why I believe a multiversal threat and final collapse is on the horizon, just as Thanos was throughout the entire Infinity Saga, not in this phase nor the next one, but simply like with thanos, this will be the next big arc that will collapse the universes and it all starts with Thor, but hey, that's just a theory, a cinematic theory and it cuts you off.