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Keeping connected apical of the Marvel Cinematic Universe wasn't excessively analyzable backmost successful the day. There was a small spot of Iron Man successful Hulk, a small spot of Thor successful Iron Man, and truthful on. Each teaser arrived 1 astatine a time, but now, heavy into The Multiverse Saga, the MCU has expanded truthful overmuch that determination are tons of unresolved crippled threads that might be resolved successful upcoming films and TV shows... oregon mightiness not.
A lot's happed successful the MCU successful the past 3 years since this nonfiction was primitively posted. Even with Marvel Studios reining successful its contented and putting everything down the moneymakers for the clip being (see: the adjacent 3 movies being Spider-Man, Avengers, Avengers), we inactive got closure, oregon follow-ups astatine least, to immoderate of the MCU escaped ends that were dangling backmost successful 2022. And if they haven't been addressed yet, they mightiness beryllium successful the adjacent mates of films. So let's cheque successful connected The Council of Kangs, Hercules, White Vision, Blade, and different large names, portion besides circling backmost to the likes of Skaar, Xu Xialing, that Symbiote glob, and more...
Every Loose End successful the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Unsolved MCU Loose Ends
The Council of Kangs
Even though the Kang communicative (which originated successful Loki Season 1) was followed up connected successful Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania (and connected Loki Season 2), the Council of Kangs was a full new unresolved issue. And this peculiar cliffhanger stands a bully accidental of remaining a escaped extremity everlastingly fixed histrion Jonathan Majors' exile from the MCU. They could recast Kang, since we're conscionable dealing with variants now, but much likely, with the afloat pivot to Doctor Doom and the switching Avengers titles from The Kang Dynasty to Doomsday, this volition conscionable get swept nether the rug. Still, they could bash something to snip and clip this thread quickly.
In Quantumania, we spot Rama-Tut (the past Egyptian ruler), Immortus (who has cosmic powerfulness learned from the Timekeepers), and a funny instrumentality connected Scarlet Centurion conscionable up pursuing the decease of the "Exiled One." They notation however humans -- presumably the ones successful in the MCU world -- are conscionable present starting to interaction the multiverse (Loki, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness, etc.) and that they mightiness ruin everything this assembly has created.
What did the assembly create? Do they person their ain multiverse? Do they cognize that Loki is successful complaint of the multiverse now? "He Who Remains" and the TVA helium created fundamentally killed the multiverse to beforehand and nurture conscionable one timeline, successful bid to forestall cosmic mayhem. But present Loki's acting arsenic the Temporal Loom, truthful it's each okay. Anyhow, it's each precise unclear and there's a bully accidental we'll ne'er spot this 1 play out.
Dane Whitman Uncovers the Ebony Blade
Following his woman being kidnapped by a Prime Celestial, Dane Whitman decides helium can't conscionable beryllium and bash thing and truthful helium steps backmost into his family's acheronian past. Opening a thorax with the inscription "Death Is My Reward," helium reveals a sword wrapped successful bloody bandages that appears to respond to him. Before helium tin interaction the weapon, however, a mysterious dependable from down asks: "Sure you're acceptable for that, Mr. Whitman?"
The antheral down the ominous question is nary different than Mahershala Ali, who is slated to prima arsenic the famed vampire huntsman successful an upcoming MCU Blade movie. Dane becomes the cursed Black Knight successful the comics, and successful summation to seeing him suit up successful armor, we're present besides looking guardant to him teaming up with Blade, possibly for the MCU's mentation of the Midnight Sons.
Of the assorted escaped ends successful Eternals, erstwhile the movie was archetypal released this felt similar the easiest to travel backmost to since a Blade movie starring Mahershala Ali was already scheduled. But it's been successful improvement hellhole ever since being announced successful 2019. Wesley Snipes' enactment successful Deadpool & Wolverine astir being the lone histrion who volition ever play Blade was intended arsenic a joke, but it's feeling much and much similar a manifestation.
The Eternals Being Kidnapped
After managing to halt the commencement of a Celestial, things don't spell the Eternals' mode aft Arishem the Judge appears and abducts Sersi, Kingo, and Phastos. This leaves Makkari, Druig, and Thena to hunt for them among the stars erstwhile nary different than Thanos's member (in the comics astatine least) appears. Eros (played by Harry Styles), joined by his troll companion Pip (voiced by Patton Oswalt), declares helium knows however to get the different Eternals back.
We're inactive waiting connected immoderate benignant of Eternals follow-up. There's a bully accidental we whitethorn ne'er spot this squad again, unless they besides yet get confirmed for Avengers: Doomsday.
The Venom Symbiote
Eddie Brock, Venom's host, showed up (thanks to multiverse shenanigans) successful Spider-Man: Far From Home. While this appears to person been conscionable a amusive cameo successful a movie afloat of amusive cameos, Brock's quality really has immoderate beauteous important knock-on effects arsenic a portion of the Venom symbiote remains connected Earth.
As is the lawsuit with astir heroes and villains, determination has been a ton of antithetic versions of Venom passim the comics’ history. The MCU hasn’t confirmed immoderate plans to present it astatine the moment, truthful whether it becomes a consecutive villain by bonding with Eddie Brock, blends with Spider-Man akin to the archetypal live-action film, oregon does thing other entirely, we conscionable don’t know.
Spider-Man’s iconic achromatic suit was archetypal introduced successful Secret Wars -- a large lawsuit from the comics that sees immoderate of Marvel’s astir iconic characters look disconnected -- truthful possibly Avengers: Secret Wars would beryllium a sensible infinitesimal to reintroduce it and yet present the MCU's mentation of Spider-Man's achromatic suit.
Sharon Carter Infiltrating the U.S. Government
After a batch of backmost and forth, Sharon Carter seemingly gives up her relation arsenic the Power Broker astatine the extremity of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier arsenic she returns to the States and takes up her aged presumption arsenic a concealed agent. But successful the eventual double- (triple-?) cross, Carter makes a melodramatic exit and informs her transgression friends backmost successful Madripoor that they present person nonstop entree to the U.S. government.
Originally, we predicted Carter reappearing successful Captain America: Brave New World but, alas, she did not. Will we ever spot her again? Unclear.
The Ten Rings' Beacon
Wong appears to beryllium gathering his ain Avengers as, astatine the extremity of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, helium recruits Shang-Chi and Katy. He introduces the caller heroes to Captain Marvel and Bruce Banner, and the radical discovers that the Ten Rings are acting arsenic a beacon, "sending a message" to an chartless spot and person.
Yup, we're inactive waiting connected this and, basically, all-things Shang-Chi. (But we cognize he'll beryllium backmost successful Avengers: Doomsday astatine least!)
Xu Xialing Taking Over the Ten Rings Organization
With her begetter gone and member backmost successful the States, Xu Xialing takes implicit the Ten Rings enactment astatine the extremity of Shang-Chi. With Razor Fist and Jon Jon astatine her side, she declares they "have a batch of enactment to do" earlier the camera moves distant to uncover the modernized mentation of her base.
With Shang-Chi returning successful Avengers: Doomsday, volition we get a follow-up to immoderate of the leftover mysteries from his movie?
Moon Knight's Third Personality
Two's institution and three's a assemblage for Mark Spector and Steven Grant arsenic a 3rd divided personality, Jake Lockley, appears astatine the extremity of Moon Knight, having made different woody with the Egyptian deity Khonshu. Though the bid ended with Spector and Grant freeing themselves of Khonshu, it looks similar Lockley has brought them consecutive backmost into the chaos.
But volition we ever adjacent spot Moon Knight again, fto unsocial his Lockley persona?
Doctor Strange and Clea
A batch happens astatine the extremity of Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness. The movie closes, archetypal of all, with Strange falling to his knees successful symptom earlier a 3rd oculus opens connected his forehead. During an end-credit scene, however, it seems that Doctor Strange has travel to presumption with it. The existent teaser comes arsenic the mysterious Clea (Charlize Theron) appears and tells Strange that he's caused a multiversal incursion and they request to spell and hole it. Opening a portal to the Dark Dimension, some Strange and Clea measurement in.
In the comics, Clea is simply a sorceress from the Dark Dimension and the niece of Dormammu, Strange’s archetypal large foe. The incursion is besides straight linked to the aforementioned Secret Wars, meaning this enactment could beryllium a imaginable tie-in aboriginal on, but regardless, volition the duo beryllium the absorption of a imaginable 3rd Doctor Strange film?
America Chavez Training astatine Kamar-Taj
Wong adds yet different superhero to his squad arsenic America Chavez decides to enactment connected the MCU's premier Earth pursuing the events of Dr Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness and begins grooming with the Masters of the Mystic Arts astatine Kamar-Taj. Chavez ne'er finds her mothers successful the film, a ngo which could beryllium pursued successful the aboriginal (perhaps successful the long-teased Young Avengers if it ever happens).
A sub-category of "America Chavez Training astatine Kamar-Taj" is Spider-Man's Ned Leeds being capable to marque magic portals, insinuating helium has earthy magical abilities. Of course, America Chavez was primitively successful No Way Home and was the 1 making portals, truthful erstwhile she was taken retired of the story, Ned was a last-minute replacement. So portion it would beryllium amusive to spot Ned besides grooming astatine Kamar-Taj, he'll astir apt conscionable instrumentality to MIT.
Hercules Versus Thor
Despite Thor piercing his thorax with a thunderbolt successful Thor: Love and Thunder, Zeus is inactive live and kicking, oregon astatine slightest live and barking orders. But helium doesn’t effort to hunt down Thor himself; instead, helium sends his lad Hercules (played by Ted Lasso's Brett Goldstein) successful his place, apt mounting up a caller antagonist for the God of Thunder.
Thor and Hercules person been long-time rivals successful the comics, with their narration ranging everyplace from mortal (or immortal maybe) enemies to teammates successful the Avengers, truthful astatine this signifier of the MCU erstwhile the beingness appears to beryllium expanding successful infinite directions, we’ll conscionable person to hold and spot which extremity of the spectrum Hercules settles on.
Ms. Marvel the Mutant
Though we were archetypal told that Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan was a djinn, and that her powerfulness came from within, it turns retired she’s adjacent much peculiar than that arsenic her bestie Bruno revealed she’s really a mutant. Technically helium says her genes incorporate thing “like a mutation,” but considering the X-Men animated bid taxable opus played implicit the apical of the scene, it’s beauteous wide this is measurement 1 connected a apt agelong travel to the MCU afloat introducing mutants.
It's hard to accidental however this revelation astir Kamala’s mutation volition yet pb to the instauration of iconic X-Men similar Wolverine and Cyclops—especially due to the fact that she was primitively introduced arsenic an Inhuman successful the comics—but astatine slightest we cognize they’re yet connected the mode to the MCU proper.
Three-Hulk
She-Hulk: Attorney astatine Law saw the expected summation of, well, She-Hulk to the MCU, but it besides threw a curveball by introducing a 3rd Hulk astatine the precise end. At a casual household barbecue, Bruce Banner shows up to present Skaar, his long-lost lad from the satellite Sakaar. There isn’t overmuch to spell disconnected since the caller quality didn’t adjacent person a enactment of dialogue, but arsenic ever there’s plentifulness of comic publication worldly to speculate on.
Skaar has a peculiarly tragic backstory that intertwines with the Planet Hulk and eventual World War Hulk comic publication arcs, successful which Hulk is (sort of) banished from Earth and sent to Sakaar earlier returning successful a rage to destruct it. The MCU has evidently gone successful a antithetic absorption with Banner, but the inclusion of Skaar opens up immoderate imaginable to instrumentality to these beloved comic publication storylines.
The Man-Thing Cinematic Universe
Werewolf by Night is arguably the astir unsocial Marvel Cinematic Universe introduction truthful far, and fans could beryllium forgiven for reasoning the achromatic and achromatic horror-esque abbreviated wasn’t related to the flashy warring seen successful films featuring Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and truthful on. It truthful whitethorn travel arsenic a astonishment to larn that Man-Thing, the giant, swampy, tentacle-covered, well, man-thing, has really appeared successful the MCU before, astatine slightest partly. Before Hulk took to the gladiator arena successful Sakaar, Man-Thing was seemingly a Champion there, and a statue commemorating his occurrence tin beryllium seen successful Thor: Ragnarok.
As for wherever helium oregon Werewolf by Night’s rubric quality volition amusement up adjacent successful the MCU, nary 1 truly knows! Werewolf by Night’s enforcement shaper Brian Gay has confirmed Man-Thing volition decidedly marque a return, but arsenic for erstwhile oregon where, adjacent helium says helium doesn’t know. The quality hasn’t appeared successful excessively galore comic publication crossovers either, but has featured successful the X-Men before, meaning it conscionable arsenic good could beryllium the MCU’s mutant epoch erstwhile we adjacent spot him.
Riri's Deal With Mephisto
After debuting successful Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) returned arsenic the prima of her precise ain series, Ironheart. And the archetypal play ended with Riri, successful a swerve, accepting Mephisto's deal, which past brings her BFF Natalie backmost to life, returned to the store wherever she was killed.
Yes, years aft everyone was adamant for weeks that Mephisto was controlling the events successful Westview successful WandaVision, Sacha Baron Cohen shows up arsenic Mephisto (after the amusement teased Dormammu) during a clip when... Marvels Studios is actively decreasing its peripheral content. So it's improbable present that we'll get a Season 2 of Ironheart and it's imaginable we'll ne'er ticker Riri effort to escaped herself from Mephisto's acheronian magic.
However, Mephisto's specified a large Marvel quality that Cohen could reprise the relation successful immoderate different project. It would astir apt conscionable beryllium un-Riri-related.
Samuel Sterns' Warning
Granted, this post-credit country successful Captain America: Brave New World felt tremendously tacked on. It's conscionable Sam Wilson confronting an imprisoned Samuel Sterns (Tim Blake Nelson) and Sterns seeing atrocious things ahead, utilizing his encephalon to tally done the probabilities. In fact, this felt a batch similar the Lex Luthor infinitesimal astatine the extremity of Batman v Superman erstwhile helium predicted the coming of the evil cosmic overlords due to the fact that Superman died.
"We'll spot what happens erstwhile you person to support this spot from the others"... Not the champion stinger, admittedly. Haven't our heroes already protected the Earth from "others"" The Chitauri? Ego? Thanos? The Celestials? This felt beauteous level truthful conscionable instrumentality it arsenic a broad informing about... things.
Soon to Be Solved MCU Questions (We Think)
Where's Namor?
One crippled thread teased successful Black Panther: Wakanda Forever didn’t absorption straight connected the Wakandans themselves but alternatively their underwater contemporaries. After Namor is defeated by Shuri and pledges loyalty to her rule, what appears to beryllium a no-strings-attached allegiance rapidly turns retired to beryllium different play for power. Facing complaints from Namora, Namor explains that helium plans to usage Wakanda’s unsavoury narration with the remainder of the satellite arsenic a catalyst for Talokan’s ain takeover.
Actor Tenoch Huerta is 1 of the many, many folks returning for Avengers: Doomsday, truthful stayed tuned connected this one...
Bucky's Rift With Sam Over the Avengers
Add to this the whopping 14 months successful betwixt the extremity of Thunderbolts and the post-credit country that introduces the Fantastic Four's ship.
So Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Valentina Allegra de Fontaine and the authorities person decreed that the New Avengers are the Avengers. Sam Wilson, who decided astatine the extremity of Captain America: Brave New World to betterment the Avengers (which was, astatine first, President Ross' idea), disagrees. So does the internet. Bucky tried to speech to Sam astir it and "it went poorly." Sam has present filed for copyright of the Avengers name. So wherefore is Sam truthful adamant astir keeping the sanction Avengers? Why can't helium conscionable springiness his caller squad a antithetic name? Does helium adjacent already person a caller squad assembled? Why is this the straw that breaks the Bucky/Sam back? Also, what adventures person the New Avengers been up to successful the year-plus pursuing Thunderbolts?
This has gotta travel up successful Avengers: Doomsday which, aft all, is an Avengers movie.
The "Huge Space Crisis" and the Arrival of the Fantastic Four
Thunderbolts ends with the accomplishment of the Fantastic Four's ship, presumably piloted by Reed and the pack (though we're not 100% connected that yet). But adjacent earlier this, Yelena mentions a "giant abstraction crisis" truthful thing is already going connected that others are dealing with, leaving the New Avengers hanging retired to dry. We presume the Fantastic Four person arrived due to the fact that of said crisis, with hopes of thwarting said crisis, but maybe... they're a byproduct of this crisis?
We tin conjecture that the situation involves the multiverse... and past besides extrapolate that it's Doom and young Franklin Richards astatine the halfway of it, but we'll request confirmation. How overmuch of the Doomsday movie volition beryllium spent showing america everything starring up to this infinitesimal -- with the missing 14 months connected Earth and past besides implicit successful the Fantastic Four's beingness -- and however overmuch volition beryllium spent after? We'll person to see!
The Extent of Franklin Richards' Powers (and Doom's Plan)
In the comics, Franklin Richards is arguably the astir almighty quality being successful immoderate and each universes, capable to conscionable deliberation thing into reality. The MCU's Franklin volition apt beryllium chopped from the aforesaid cloth, which has gotta beryllium wherefore Robert Downey, Jr.'s Victor von Doom breaks into the Baxter Building to greet him (and bargain him?). But what is Doom's plan? What does helium anticipation to summation and however overmuch does helium adjacent cognize bout Franklin's abilities?
Also, due to the fact that it wasn't mentioned successful The Fantastic Four: First Steps, what is Doom's narration to the Fantastic Four? Is helium already an arch-villain and idiosyncratic nemesis of Reed Richards, oregon is helium conscionable an isolationist despot who ne'er shows up to correspond Latveria successful summits?
Regardless, this is astir apt each astatine the basal of the "space crisis" from Thunderbolts.
How Will Deadpool Officially Join the MCU?
Deadpool & Wolverine was technically an MCU movie successful truthful acold that it acknowledged the MCU and progressive the TVA. Deadpool is fixed an connection to articulation the MCU but successful the extremity helium decides to prevention his ain world and enactment there. But Ryan Reynolds is successful Doomsday, and portion we don't cognize however large a portion helium has, we presume this means Deadpool volition really interact with existent MCU folks and not the remnants of Fox superhero movies from 2 decades ago.
How does helium get to the MCU? Is helium a Nexus being, susceptible of hopping universes, similar America Chavez? Is that wherefore helium tin interruption the 4th partition and person meta moments? He does really appear successful the MCU successful Deadpool & Wolverine due to the fact that helium has a occupation interrogation with Happy Hogan. How did helium get there? It's ne'er explained and it's conscionable utilized arsenic a mode to acceptable the country wrong Wade Wilson's caput and wherever he's astatine emotionally with Vanessa and his wide beingness goals.
In the end, the "how" of it each whitethorn not matter. Everyone's gonna upwind up successful the aforesaid stew truthful determination are dozens of ways to relationship for Deadpool shaking things up with the Avengers and Fantastic Four and the X-Men.
Scorpion's Revenge connected Peter Parker
Here's different thread we assumed mightiness ne'er return... a pre-Scorpion Mac Gargan confronting Adrian Toomes (Michael Keaton) successful situation astatine the extremity of Spider-Man: Homecoming. Especially aft Toomes got sucked into Sony's dumb Spider-villain-verse and coiled up chatting with Jared Leto's Dr. Michael Morbius (how did helium person Vulture gear? Why didn't helium attraction astir ne'er seeing his household again?).
Anyhow, Michael Mando's Gargan is officially successful Spider-Man: Brand New Day, truthful the character's coming backmost for more. What would marque this adjacent better? Bringing Toomes backmost excessively and wholly forgetting his stint successful Morbius entirely.
White Vision Taking Off
While this mentation of Vision was conscionable built to fundamentally beryllium a authorities weapon, his speech with Wanda's magical recreation of the archetypal Vision caused a implicit reboot. White Vision gained each of the original's memories and declared himself to beryllium the existent mentation earlier having an individuality situation and flying distant to parts unknown.
Though it happened done antithetic means, White Vision successful the comics was besides calved aft the archetypal was pulled to bits, and Marvel's got a full caller amusement called Vision Quest successful the works that's focused connected the character. The bid lands successful precocious 2026 connected Disney+, with Paul Bettany returning to the dormant Vision assemblage that was resurrected utilizing Wanda's chaos magic successful WandaVision -- the extremity effect of S.W.O.R.D. Director Tyler Hayward's Project: Cataract.
Vision Quest stars Bettany, James Spader arsenic Ultron, Emily Hampshire arsenic E.D.I.T.H, Orla Brady arsenic F.R.I.D.A.Y, Todd Stashwick arsenic Paladin, and Faran Tahir reprising his relation arsenic Raza from the archetypal Iron Man movie (guess helium wasn't killed by Obadiah Stane aft all!).
Forgetting Peter Parker
Following his multiversal escapade successful Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter Parker made the satellite a amended spot for everyone but himself. The satellite forgot him, meaning helium mislaid his antheral successful the seat Ned and his woman M.J. Though Parker astir goes to his champion friends with the afloat story, helium sees however blessed they are and decides not to. But surely it can't extremity there, right? That would beryllium excessively sad.
Yeah, this volition each beryllium straight dealt with successful Spider-Man: Brand New Day, releasing July 31, 2026.
Love and Thunder
As his latest escapade points out, Thor has mislaid a batch of people, but helium seemingly gains idiosyncratic arsenic helium adopts Gorr the God Butcher’s child, Love. While this astir apt isn’t her existent sanction (Thor evidently isn’t called Thunder either), the pair’s adventures volition seemingly signifier the aboriginal of the Norse god’s MCU adventures.
As for what these volition entail, cipher truly knows, arsenic Love is simply a wholly caller quality that doesn’t beryllium successful the comics. In the abbreviated magnitude of clip we spot the 2 bent out, we larn that Love has immoderate beauteous precocious ace powers, and she’ll seemingly usage them to articulation Thor successful conflict arsenic they question the beingness warring baddies. Maybe she could yet articulation America Chavez connected the Young Avengers.
Thor becoming an adoptive dada to Gorr's girl astatine the extremity of Thor: Love and Thunder was a fitting, amusive ending for the God of Thunder's MCU exploits. It doesn't truly request pursuing up on, though Chris Hemsworth is returning for Avengers: Doomsday, truthful it's imaginable we'll spot wherever Thor and "Love" are astatine successful their adventures. Of course, we don't adjacent cognize if Hemsworth is playing the MCU's Thor oregon immoderate different multiversal Thor. Or immoderate Thor, actually.
Note: This communicative was updated connected Oct. 15, 2025, with the latest accusation astir the MCU. It was primitively published connected July 12, 2022.
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