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Spoilers Marvel Cinematic Universe spoiler-heavy speculation thread

What grade would you give the Marvel Cinematic Universe? (Ever-Changing Question)


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They're going to be traveling through time and the multiverse.
Yeah, here's a thought: If that universe is a fraction of a millisecond of an instant younger than the Avengers universe, or even if their Earth is, there's no reason that the local Earth times should match exactly.
 
ComicBookMovie isn't a credible source of reporting.
Yes, but:
Avengers: Doomsday is expected to feature several unannounced characters, and as expected, Kamala Khan will likely be among them. Ms. Marvel star Iman Vellani and filmmaker Andy Serkis were recently paired up to promote Angel's Animal Farm, and the movie's director dropped a potential bombshell.


As Vellani expressed excitement for The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, Serkis chimed in to say, "I'm excited to see you in Doomsday." Seemingly taken aback, the actress replied, "No, you can't say that!"
 
Yeah, that's a verifiable quote. I'm not saying that that means she's in the movie, but that is a verifiable quote.

It would be different if they had claimed "unnamed sources" or something like that.

ETA: And speaking of unannounced characters, I can't believe that they'll be picking up with the X-Men without picking up with Monica Rambeau.
 
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Yeah, that's a verifiable quote. I'm not saying that that means she's in the movie, but that is a verifiable quote.

It would be different if they had claimed "unnamed sources" or something like that.

ETA: and speaking of unannounced characters, I can't believe that they'll be picking up with the X-Men without picking up with Monica Rambeau.

If ComicBookMovie is the only site reporting on something, even if said thing happened, I'm going to automatically be doubtful of said reporting.
 
If ComicBookMovie is the only site reporting on something, even if said thing happened, I'm going to automatically be doubtful of said reporting.
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A verifiable quote is a verifiable quote, and they were far, far from the only source reporting on it.

Next you'll be claiming it's AI.
 
@camdudetenger2018 -- not sure what the laughter emoji is all about as anyone who has read any Marvel comics whatsoever knows that Reed Richards (and Victor von Doom) make the likes of Tony Stark and Bruce Banner look like intellectual amateurs in comparison.

Even in the movies, he cracked FTL travel at relatively 60 years ago by timeline standards.
 
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As part of a long interview with Business Insider about his experience in making the first Thor film, Kenneth Brannagh said he would be open to returning and he has ideas of how he would end the film series:

Part of me would love to finish my relationship with that character. I'd always wanted to do more and indeed had a couple of ideas, more in the territory of James Mangold's brilliant "Logan." I would love to see Chris Hemsworth and the others have their own individual final story that takes Thor into a glorious twilight.​
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I have such a high regard for what Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston and all of them involved have done. And there's also this unique relationship with a large cinema audience that those characters now have that, for people who have grown up with them and their arc, I think it would be something very beautiful to take those characters into their own particular sunset. It could be a beautiful thing. I would love to see it, for sure.​
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That's a whole other question. They are so far deep into the future of the Marvel Universe that I'm sure whatever plans they have for it are already kind of set. All I know is there's something beautiful to be had out of arriving at a conclusion for that arc of those stories with those characters and those actors.​
 
Tony Stark figured out time travel and Reed Richards is smarter.

more like tony stark figured out the avengers style time travel where if you travel back in time to the past and change it only creates i guess a new alternate earth and does not change the present from where you are from

in other words in avengers 4 when war machine ant man hawkeye the hulk and amy pond were chit chating about time traveling war machine told the them that they should go back in time and kill thanos as a baby to prevent what will happen in the future aka the present but the hulk says time travel does not work that way and told them that if they change the past there present timeline will not be changed but create a new time stream which i guess means a new alternate earth and when they return to the present nothing will be changed then ant man and war machine named a list of time travel movies like terminator bill and ted hot tub time machine and back to the future

and as for reed richards well maybe he figured a different style of time travel
 
and as for reed richards well maybe he figured a different style of time travel

The universe doesn't work that way. The kind of time travel that Banner described in Endgame is the only way it could logically work. The idea of an event in time being "erased" is self-contradictory and impossible. After all, erasure is a process of change -- the existence of a thing followed by its nonexistence. That requires the passage of time, the moments before the erasure and the moments after it. But a single moment in time cannot come after itself, therefore it cannot be "changed" or "erased." If there are two different versions of the same moment in time, then by definition, they are simultaneous, coexisting in parallel rather than one replacing the other.

Most time-travel fiction presumes otherwise because the dramatic stakes are higher if your reality can be "erased." But it's logically nonsensical and impossible. The writers of Endgame chose to respect that reality, rather than going for the usual fantasy approach. If any later MCU writers break that rule (as the writers of Runaways season 3 already did, but its canonicity is questionable), then that's not "a different style of time travel," it's just a lower standard of plausibility in the writing.
 
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